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OZMA is your stereotypical apocalyptic-type story, where the world is pure desert and people must live in cities near an oasis. The conflict is centered on the titular OZMA figure that appear to be a beast that has terrorized the high sands for centuries. The majority of the action take place on the ship that the main characters reside on and centers on their interaction with the "Ideal Children" empire and their princess.

Story(6)-The story is okayish, I guess. While the overall plot is decent and such I would have loved to see more of the apocalyptic culture. Oh well, I guess there's Mad Max. ... The story centers on a young boy named Sam, whose older brother Dick(I am not making this up) mysteriously vanished years ago. Sam believes OZMA is the reason for his disappearance and tries to track OZMA's movement. While this story is great in concept I don't believe it actually works. The majority of the 6 episodes is someone being kidnapped and Sam's friends having to retrieve them. The ending is a bit lackluster as it does not provide valid closure to the audience as well.

Art(8)-Honestly, the art was pretty good. This art was very unique so to speak, as every character had their own facial structure. Even the throwaway's had no similarities among them even if they were only active for one scene.

Sound(5)-Aside from the opening and the closing no music came to my mind as special. I believe the opening was tailored for this anime as it fits the mood perfectly. The closing is extremely mellow as well, which is something I look for in my theme pieces. The only negative is the other music isn't really notable. If I was only judging based off of theme music alone, this would be a 8.

Character(5)-The character's were alright, the main character(Sam) pissed me off to no end. It's obviously not apparent that this character learns any lesson from his actions and does the same actions over and over to advance the plot. Other more interesting characters do the same type of thing and the most interesting characters are skipped over in the process of attempting to develop other characters

Enjoyment(4)-I didn't really enjoy the series because it had one key flaw to me, it did not worldbuild very well. The majority of the story happens on the barren desert while they had a beautiful intro city that I would have love to see more off. It also had battles in locations that we knew about in this world and did not attempt to be unique in a sense.

Overall(4)-This series does what it is intended to do, which is tell a story about the mysterious OZMA, but even then it barely does that. It skips over the notable thing in the post-apocalyptic genre in favor of horrible character development.

Would I recommend this series if your an very experienced anime viewer? : Yes.
Anyone else? :
No

Sword Art Online is a two pronged story divided into a very good arc and an okay arc. The first arc is the very good arc that is centered around 10000 players trying to escape a game where if they die then they die in real life. The second arc is about one of the players from the first arc trying to rescue his love. With that being said lets go into the review

Story: 6

I give the story a 6 and that is due to how different both parts are. The first part is very superior to the second part and builds up a better ... story and drives the plot more efficiently since every character introduces is trapped in the game, thus strives to return to reality. In the second part only one character is trapped in the game thus taking out a conflict which everyone can get behind. If I could I would give the first part a 9 and the second part a 3, but since I cannot I will stick with a 6.

Art-8

Art was pretty good. The landscapes and battle scenes were expected and typical but still had the ability to impress. So I'll give it an 8

Sound-10

Sound was where this series really took flight. The soundtrack was really only instrumental based but still set every scene perfectly. If you can you must buy this soundtrack. It deserves a 10

Character-4

The character's were below average, due to the series only really focusing on 3 character's while they had the possibility to expand on two entire worlds, and just chose three characters. Out of these three two felt rushed and only the main hero was fully developed. A 4 is being gracious.

Enjoyment-8 and Overall-6

I liked this series even with it's downfall's. It is not a hard series to sit through and something you can use to get your friends into anime. Overall I give it a 6. This to me says, you should try out 5 episodes and if you don't like it then drop it.

K was a very enjoyable series that kept me glued from start to finish. It is a very original show idea with a amazingly built world. Lets start with the story.

Story-8

The story was good, but the world building was even better. The reason I rated this category a 8 was based solely on the world setup. This a world I would want more series built upon due to it being so expansive. The actual story line was creative as it gave the viewpoint of a by-standing protagonist.

Art-10

Sweet Jesus, this anime was beautiful. The backdrops were incredible. The Fight scenes had me wanting more. I was ... honestly wishing anyone to fight so I could see the beautiful animation

Sound-10

This series doesn't have many songs, but all of the songs are perfect and fit the scene perfectly. From start to finish my ears were pleased.

Characters-7

This is obviously the series weakest point as many characters are not properly established throughout the series. I suppose this just comes from the story being picked up in the middle of a conflict.

Enjoyment-10

I really enjoyed this series and as I have said earlier I would like to see more stories about this world

Overall-8

Everything not relating to the story such as art and sound were on point. The story and characters were great, just not superb. I would definitely recommend this series. If you want the best experience, I recommend reading the prequel manga series before viewing the anime.