Reign of the Seven Spellblades (light novel)
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| I know they were establishing the characters this episode but I got nothing out of this episode other than it's another of many magical school series. I heard 'some' things about the series so I'm hoping the next couple episodes has something to make it stand out from every other of the same genre. |
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| That was an okay magic, fantasy anime start. A bit on the bland side too, nothing much interesting happened. The episode was just used to introduce the main characters. The main girl seems a bit too innocent and kinda dumb too. Anyway this is just the start so hopefully things will get better later on. |
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| Knowing JC Staff I know they gonna fumble going forward.. I mean that's just how they work. Though kind of a generic art and plain setting to be honest, so I wouldn't really care if this do get the short end of the stick later. Watchable for now, but that's just it. |
| Was a bit sceptical due to the cookie cutter character designs and art, but looks and feels pretty nice so far(me definitely not biased because of J.C. Staff) |
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| Okay yeah i think we need to watch atleast 3 episodes. This one felt underwhelming tbh. But i wait. |
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| boring and cheap. I thought this was a good LN? Why was this shit hyped up? That's barely watchable even for me (and I like trash shows) |
| seems alright. world building isn't bad but it kind of dumped a lot of information all at once. and the scene where the (i assume main cast) introduced themselves to eachother was kind of cringey. it was like the first day of a new school year in elementary school when the teacher makes everyone stand up and say their name, a fun fact about themselves, and what they did over the summer. just very awkward, lmao. main character seems to be an important person in the world considering his brother sent someone to keep watch over him. unless it's just an overprotective sibling thing. and i wonder what's up with that samurai girl. and that flashback when she was in the fountain caught my attention too. someone from the mc's past maybe? hoping it doesn't go downhill and at least stays at the same quality, or preferably, gets better. |
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| Samurai girl is already best girl of the season, no need to watch anything else lol i can't believe half the things she does, specially telling the principal about her headache tricks :D the book guy reminds me of Hermione, non magic parents and always reading |
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| Doesn't really have any substance nothing to pull the viewer in. Hopefully it'll get more interesting. |
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| Not a bad start for the series. I was a bit surprised to see Theresa so soon, did she really appear that early in the novels? I wasn't remembering that, wondering if they did it to start giving the idea that something's afoot right from the first episode; or if I just genuinely forgot she first spoke that early. Animation is good (no CGI for monsters is pretty rare nowadays and we saw several monsters so pretty fancy start), pacing seems fine too. Voice acting and music was on point. Characters were nicely introduced IMO? Though I found it pretty funny that the anime appearance for Kimberley is quite literally the Mt St Michel :  The reference is super clear, looks like Mt St Michel just moved on the other side of the channel to be in 'not-England' lol. I was like "wait a min, pretty I've seen that appearance somewhere before..." well at least this time it's not that stupid round city seen in so many fantasy anime lol x). ----------- BTW Some peoples here seem to forget that it's a novel adaptation, not a manga. Manga are published chapter per chapter so they need to catching the interest of the readers by the first chapter, which translates in anime adaptation often providing attention catching events from the first episode; meanwhile novels are published obviously per volume, so they only need to grab reader's interest by the end of the first volume (Web novels being excluded from this, being released by chapters as well). Hence why when you get a novel adaptation, you will often get a relatively slow paced start with no major event in potentially several episodes, as one volume is adapted in 3 to 12 episodes depending of the adaptation pacing (probably will be 5 eps per volume here since it's 15 episodes ?). ---- Oh and as for fanservice, don't expect especially, or at least, none of the regular kind. This was kind of the only regular ecchi scene in the whole novel after all. |
ZefyrisJul 7, 2023 11:55 AM
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| this went by so quickly, the cast seems really well balanced and thought out though im still a bit confused by the setting and where the story will go. |
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| Nothing new for the moment, i will wait max 3 ep before to really decide to drop it but it doesn’t worth a 8 for this first episode… |
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| Quite surprising how this is quite underrated. |
| Didn't really like it.... Acting all goody two shoes while the characters are saying it has some dark fantasy setup? Does it actually have dark story or they are just saying that to make the anime a little more appealing. And what's up with all those goody characters? The female lead came from a battlefield/warzone and acting like that, did they throw bunnies at her in that war and some of them scratched her body or some messed up screw loose girl she is! I don't like being deceived like this. Felt like it's one of those kids anime where nothing bad ever happens even with dark story, I don't know correct me if I'm wrong. And what's wrose they added a tsundere boy,,,,, a boy? Not a girl! (Could it be a reverse trap? Hardly) If it's all fake and the characters are faking it I will drop it. Edit: they are a bunch of magic users all of them with swords around their waist and the only one out of place is that Samurai girl? I am speechless. |
OP_RiderJul 7, 2023 1:00 PM
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Shinoa____Hiragi said: just another typical fantasy really very dissapointed I was thinking like some kind of the eminence in shadow plot lmaoo my bad Me too, what a disappointment. And the troll fight scene they had, Oh my god talk about cringe. But can't even compare it to a cringe, lol. Ps: if it just gave me one good reason, I would've watched the rest of the episodes. |
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| Well they certainly covered a lot of ground. Too bad all of it was poorly done. |
Tachi27 said: KennaIsANerd said: i preferably more ecchi/fanservice in this anime serieseems alright. world building isn't bad but it kind of dumped a lot of information all at once. and the scene where the (i assume main cast) introduced themselves to eachother was kind of cringey. it was like the first day of a new school year in elementary school when the teacher makes everyone stand up and say their name, a fun fact about themselves, and what they did over the summer. just very awkward, lmao. main character seems to be an important person in the world considering his brother sent someone to keep watch over him. unless it's just an overprotective sibling thing. and i wonder what's up with that samurai girl. and that flashback when she was in the fountain caught my attention too. someone from the mc's past maybe? hoping it doesn't go downhill and at least stays at the same quality, or preferably, gets better. aren't they highschoolers?... also shows don't need fan service to be good. imo fan service actually makes shows worse, but to each their own i guess |
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| Finally, something without the ISEKAI tag and just plain FANTASY. After watching this first episode, this looks like a fun and interesting series. They didn't just focus on one character but 7 of them all at once in just a single episode. However, I am perplexed to see another trope of a cool-beauty samurai girl being an airheaded-idiot for this series. I guess this will be something to look forward to. I think I'd rather have Katie to be the main girl but it is obviously plain as day that Nanao will be the main girl... a bit disappointed but whatever. |
ASinfulPersonageJul 7, 2023 1:13 PM
| It's not that I dislike this genre but... to add unnecessary fan services to/in/for heroines and ultimately destroys her character and personality; their purity tarnished because of it, is the only thing I hope to not happen to them. For that sole purity is my fan service. |
OP_Rider said: Didn't really like it.... Felt like it's one of those kids anime where nothing bad ever happens even with dark story, I don't know correct me if I'm wrong. I 'll try to not spoil anything on the current anime and just point out that this is an author who has shown through his previous works that he doesn't hesitate to kill his main characters at all. Not even the most popular ones, if it serves the story on the long run. So you can rest assured that the "nothing bad ever happen" is not going to be a thing when the first thing the main characters are told is that 20% of the student body dies before graduation. Obviously though, that doesn't mean that any of the main characters are going to die in the first few years and therefore in the anime since it's probably going to cover only the first year and maybe a part of the second year, while they'll be studying there for 7 years, so can't promise anything on that part. But you can trust the author for not writing a story that promise tragedy and death and doesn't deliver on it afterwards, that's all I can say x). As for them being surprised of seeing a samurai despite having sword themselves, they're spellcasters that can fence as part of their magic manipulation, rather than pure swordsmen. If we were talking with Final Fantasy traditional jobs, it'd be pretty much like like a school for Red Mages seeing a Samurai joining their school. You can bet they'd be intrigued. Now, is it satisfying to you or not, it's up to you; but maybe it'd be better to stop aggressing every single person in the thread that enjoyed the episode lol ^^" |
ZefyrisJul 7, 2023 2:05 PM
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| Don't usually watch stuff like this cause it's usually trash lmao but the LN had enough positive reviews so I thought I'd give it a shot. Yeah it's kinda cringe. Especially the samurai girl who speaks like she's from fucking 1015 Japan (don't fact check that year). Kinda edgy but I was expecting that so I'm not too surprised there. The intro sequence is kinda dumb tho. It's like how is this school supposed to operate this big ass parade with deadly creatures if there's no staff/teachers to keep everything under control. But oooooo this school is so deadly because 20% of students die, so they're doing this on purpose. Yeah sure whatever LN author. |
| Seems pretty meh so far, but I will give it a fair shot. |
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| Best boy and best girl relationship instantly reduced to younglings misunderstanding with the fountain scene. Bless them. The people in the green uniform give me an oniums vibe. Lets see what happens next! |
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Let me tell you a solid bro, don't ever judge an anime with it's author (maybe do judge it but) judge it more as individually only the anime itself. A lot of guys like you new generations make this mistake I see. Bro as a Human being you are not omnipotential. As you are not good at every subject test you take or in every sports, authors are the same. They are also human and not good with every genre they make..... So don't judge it only with that alone. And I don't know Bokuto Uno, never heard of him (sorry). And it's probably better if the main characters died, they should've died in the 1st ep, then it would've been interesting. Before commenting on #42 I read all the previous ones thought I might be wrong for not Liking this anime but after reading them turns out I was right. Majority of them didn't like it. Thats 90 out of 100, only 10 enjoyd (maybe less). Liking the anime is totally up to you, you can like the LN or the anime, not judging your preferences. But telling people their individual opinions don't matter that is not right. You can't survive like that. Better believe it. Everybody matters bro. And who is Koala12345? Tell me the truth, it's your background 2nd account, isn't it? |
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Robot1carm said: Lmao took me a while to figure out wtf you were trying to say but you actually made me laugh here. Thanks lolProofByColor said: completely disregard this review folks this clown gave f/ubw a 6/10 and thought mugen train was a 9Don't usually watch stuff like this cause it's usually trash lmao but the LN had enough positive reviews so I thought I'd give it a shot. Yeah it's kinda cringe. Especially the samurai girl who speaks like she's from fucking 1015 Japan (don't fact check that year). Kinda edgy but I was expecting that so I'm not too surprised there. The intro sequence is kinda dumb tho. It's like how is this school supposed to operate this big ass parade with deadly creatures if there's no staff/teachers to keep everything under control. But oooooo this school is so deadly because 20% of students die, so they're doing this on purpose. Yeah sure whatever LN author. |
| Ehh it was okay, Nanao will likely hard carry this because the rest of the characters aren't that interesting. |
| I never thought i was gonna see a harry potter anime when i added this to my list. The visuals are great. If the author of alderamin did this, then it will have cool ideas i guess. |
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| Nanao's an interesting character ig. She did stand out in the first episode. |
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Marinate1016 said: Yeah for sure it's league above Maou Gakuin already, and the world budling definitely peaked my interest I might read first volume since I do own it physically.IzanaSolos said: Here we go again with the fantasy school anime, this one gives me Maou Gakuin no Futekigousha x Kage no Jitsuryokusha ni Naritakute vibes. This episode introduces us to a world where magic and these deadly irreversible techniques known as spellblades, most people that use this technique are cryptic people that don't reveal themselves in the public. The episode does an excellent job of balancing action while introducing us to this world. While there are several exhilarating battle sequences, there are also moments of quiet reflection and mystery. The end of the episode leaves me with numerous questions and an eagerness to continue watching for the coming weeks I have to say. The opening also gives me major Harry Potter vibes One minor flaw is that the episode occasionally introduces a few too many characters and concepts at once for the typical fan, which even had me slightly overwhelmed at times. However, this can be forgiven as the story gradually unfolds and provides a deeper understanding of the world and its inhabitants. Overall, with its average animation, intriguing characters, and a well-established fantasy world, it successfully hooks me and leaves them craving for more. If you're a fan of fantasy adventures with a touch of mystery and captivating magic systems, this is definitely a series to come to check out every week! It’s incredibly clear of Maou Gakuin. The world building in nanatsuma is on par with Harry Potter. |
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Robot1carm said: I wouldn't get too hung up on what people are saying about something you like after one episode. What I've said barely classifies as a review, and I certainly didn't rate it. It was a little cringe and I picked apart some nonsensical world-building but I'm still going to watch it for now.ProofByColor said: well i usually check out the rwting people gave some of the shows i like when i see them give a bad rating to a show, that just helps me kmow their tase better. Looking back on the episode it was a bit generic but by at lesst ep 4-6 it will get way better, sadly this series has a slow start. for some ressom they skipped the prologue to the og book though, idk how they’ll make up for thatLmao took me a while to figure out wtf you were trying to say but you actually made me laugh here. Thanks lol |
| Nice first episode, why all the negativity!? |
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| This has this 2014 harem fantasy vibes that has been quite rare recently thanks to isekai becoming a genre I'll prolly enjoy this quite a lot, for nostalgia factor at the very least |
| Run'n'hide! Seems like Taboo Tatoo division strikes back. How do I know? Overuse of 3D and cringe animation of course. Anyway. If you feel that story is any interesting please consider going for LN. Amount of world building omitted is roughly 90%. And though it is not something unheard of for animated series, the remaining 10% are not done well either. I also feel like Horn and Aalto voices were miscast or wrongly directed. Of course you are free to wait 1-2-3 episodes or just enjoy whole show as it is. But do not be surprised at the low scores at the end. P.S. I would be happy to be wrong. But I really feel waves of mediocrity here. |
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