Confused? Don't watch unless you played the game

EinTheVariance said:
It seems clear to me based on the conversations happening in the anime and some input from people who have tried the game that this anime is not an adaptation of the game but is rather a companion series to be enjoyed alongside the game, which is where the main story is.  

The segments on the knights are supposed to clue you in on the time the scenes are taking place relative to the main story, which is why we never get the full story on the knights. 

We can also tell that the story of the girls between episodes are not directly continuous but are rather separate intermissions taking place at different points of the main story from the game.  From the girls conversations, we can see that there's progress that we never see such as them not being strong enough to even face the knights early on to them talking about apparently having fought them a few times to a draw later on near the end of the anime.

It makes sense then that if you're not following the game story, you wouldn't make sense of the anime either.  The show is also not teasing us about things that never happen.  The things do happen, in game!  What were seeing are the in betweens 

-BL0SS0M- said:
My personal experience watching this was essentially waiting the whole anime for that action genre tag to show up but instead sitting through cute girls sipping tea and wandering around being moe blobs of fluff. And mind you I like moe shows, if I know that’s what I’m getting in to. What killed this was how poorly it was marketed. For all intents and purposes it seemed like a magical slice of life show with a dark action twist, but never got anywhere. I even tried to look up the original game this was based off of and literally couldn’t even find that. Just too little information, frankly.

Titadou said:
You shouldn't need to play the game to enjoy the anime, so using that as an excuse is a no no.

Revillo_Phoenix said:
What I don't get is, if the game is doing so poorly that it's getting shut down very soon, how did they have the budget to make an anime. O_o

I mean, if it was an attempt to revive the game, then the direction is horrible considering what you say, that it's not aimed at newcomers.

EinTheVariance said:
Of course you have to keep in mind that the anime must've been planned and worked on for quite some time, surely before they had planned to shut down.  It is highly likely that the low reception of the anime greatly contributed to this decision as well given how close they were to each other.  The anime aired Jul 6, 2022 to Sep 21, 2022 and the notice of shutdown came shortly after that on Oct 31, 2022
https://www.arsnotoria.jp/news/2022-10-31-50564/

My guess is that it was bleeding core players and the anime was an attempt to keep existing players rather than entice new players, but who knows.

KanekiKen523 said:
It's not that bad. Where did the low reception part come from? Watching anime like this makes me feel lucky, cuz based on the members this anime has, I feel lucky to have watched it. Makes me feel grateful watching anime like this over all the mainstream crap. Say what you want, but it's story pulled me in. The rating sounds cruel, but why even bother anyway? It feels like a solid magical girl show if you treat it as an original show.  Why would it shut down from a low reception anyway? Look at all those other games that shut down not because of an anime. I swear to god that people need to stop being harsh on anime based on games. 

EinTheVariance said:
Not sure what you want me to say man.  It's true that it wasn't received well and the game did in fact shut down very shortly after the anime finished airing.  I'm not really trying to diss the game or the anime. 

KanekiKen523 said:
Very shortly? It only shutted down six months after it aired. Read about it yourself before jumping to a conclusion.