Where to begin.. Oh Man. I wanted to like it, i really did. This review is going to attempt to be fair, but as you can tell from me giving this a 5, i didn't truly enjoy it.
Well let's start
In the begging we have a hero who wants to be a part of the 6 heroes that will destroy the demon lord. I feel like i have seen this before. Anyways, these heroes all need to travel to the demon lords domain and defeat him! Except, not. As in the description these heroes get stuck at a temple. Except there is 7, so by good
...
assumption one of them is the fake. This is where I started to not enjoy myself.
Story:
3/10
The background for this show and the history of the charters are well thought out. As they explain their history you can nod in contempt and approve. The problem is.... the rest of the story. There is almost 0 plot development TO THE MAIN Premise of this show. As you can assume, we find out who the 7th brave is. How ever during that journey the world stops. I mean literally stops. They get so caught up with finding out who the 7th is, that the whole demon lord idea is tossed out the window until the last episode where they FINALLY get to continue their journey. No more Fiends, no more anything. They are just there for 8 episodes figuring out whodunit.
It turned from stopping the demon lord to a game of finding who stabbed whats his face with a knife in the kitchen. This story could be written many different ways, how ever the way it was written left me thinking "When are they going to progress into killing the demon lord?"
Art:
6/10
The artwork started off in the first episode as something eye catching. Looking at the stars thinking "wow, some of them are twinkling and growing" or "The detail to the movements of the people in the cell listening to the story is a nice touch" but as we went deeper.... the artwork started to fade. It remained acceptable throughout the series but, nothing like the first couple of episodes. There are moments when the artwork kicks back it but it just is not as constant.
Sound:
7/10
The sounds where nice. Nothing too noteworthy however. They tend to use the same unchanging sounds for some effects, while others change infrequently. Overall, nothing amazing, but it wasn't poor either.
Character:
6/10
Oh... man.
"I'm the strongest man in the world!" - if i had a nickle for every god damn time.... *flips table*
Anyways. This catch phrase isn't just used at good moments by the main character, it's said almost ever. damn. episode. Minor pet peeve but lets continue
I am going to break this down into 2 things.
1)
Character personalities:
Most of these personalities are very cut and dry with no real depth.
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We have the strong silent type with a bad history.
Speeddraw, Fremy.
Something bad happened in her history which drove her to need to kill the demon lord. You find out what it is later.
Overall 7/10
Some flashbacks into her past would have been nice. Alas we literally see nothing about her past, we only hear the stories.
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We have the main character with typical traumatizing event that made him who he is today.
Mayer, Adlet.
What usually drives someone to be the strongest in the world, when they had something happen to them in the past? You can most likely guess it without having to watch the show. Starting off the series with him facing two extremely strong opponents AT THE SAME TIME we start to assume "Man, this guy is a badass". Too bad the rest of the series he spends his time looking like he is at the end of his rope, the burst of energy is lost in the rest of the series as he basically turns helpless.
Overall 6/10
Normal protagonist style character. protect the girls, protect everyone, I'm going to be the best.
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We have the only interesting character (In my opinion) who talks like a cat and i couldn't peg his personality at all.
Humpty, Hans
This, this guy i loved. Spontaneous, random, interesting movements and quirks. His character blossoms in the series as your opinion about him changes almost every other episode. He helps our protagonist, he hurts him, he supports him, he attacks him, this guy is all over the place. however as the series goes on, you get to understand on connect more with him.
Overall 7.9/10
Not a normal character and very charismatic and memorable.
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We have the princess who doesn't know any better.
Piena Augustra, Nashetania Loei
Green behind the ears to fighting this girl willingly RUNS OFF with adlet to go fight but gets nervous before fighting ever happens.
With all the screen time she gets in the first 3 episodes it's not a surprise she disappears in the rest of the episodes. Quite honestly i feel like she had the potential to be a fantastic character, but it was wasted.
I cannot go into detail without spoilers, so i wont.
overall 6.5/10
Decent background, okay supporting roll. Nothing will strike you as memorable except for her BDSM style of clothing. What? Not like i am complaining about it.
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We have the murder happy loli.
Not much about this characters past is given. main supporting roll
Overall Na/10
Hard to rank a standard supporting roll, she does her job as a character fine and you wont forget about her attacks or powers. i can tell you that much.
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We have the manipulative Captain type.
basically the mis-understood antagonist of the series. You will spend most of your time wondering why she isn't dead yet, from your hate for her.
No real history of her past. Mainly a supporting roll, really want's to kill the lead character.
Overall 6.1/10
Slightly above average as she managed to piss me off with her actions. Which means something about the character was done well. Power is hugely demonstrated once but then never reaches those feats ever. The first time was just for the shock and awe factor. Sad...
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And we have the loyal guard.
this guy ... barely gets any screen time at all, and seems to have an interesting past with the princess.
That was never touched upon. Ever.
overall Na/10
Mainly useless supporting character. Unable to rank
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2)
Character or Relationship Development:
This touches more upon how our characters evolved from the start to the end of the show.
To be honest... there isn't much here to talk about.
Our protagonist advances on 1 front, love. However... this is kinda rammed down our throats. A direct quote from the series
"For a long time... Well, since yesterday anyway." ... "I love you"
REALLY?! REALLY?! *facedesk*
Other than that there is only 1 character who advances in her personality.
Enjoyment:
4/10
My enjoyment went from
"Wow, those two will make a great ship to sail"
to
"Wait, wtf happen to my ship"
From
"Yea let's stop the demon thingy!"
to
"Uh,... so we aren't stopping the demon thingy?"
If you rank the series on a per episode basis, then it would be different. Each episode left me happy. However walking away from the series i kinda felt.... like this series just left no mark. There wasn't anything special. I also felt like i didn't advance in the main story. I felt like i just watched a bunch of naruto filler episodes and at the last episode we finally continued the main story.
not to mention the kick in the nuts on ep 12. You'll notice it. Trust me.
overall 5/10
It's nothing to write home about. It's nothing all that amazing overall. Each episode will make you happy but in the end you will feel kinda disappointed.
Sep 24, 2015
Rokka no Yuusha
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Where to begin.. Oh Man. I wanted to like it, i really did. This review is going to attempt to be fair, but as you can tell from me giving this a 5, i didn't truly enjoy it.
Well let's start In the begging we have a hero who wants to be a part of the 6 heroes that will destroy the demon lord. I feel like i have seen this before. Anyways, these heroes all need to travel to the demon lords domain and defeat him! Except, not. As in the description these heroes get stuck at a temple. Except there is 7, so by good ... |
