Jan 3, 2015
Please be warned that this review may contain stuff that by some may be considered as spoilers even though no specific scenes of events of the show are described.
As far as the story goes, this anime has just another anti hero wannabe guided by fate and poorly developed emotions to save the girl and the world plot. It has no innovations whatsoever and in it's short 12 episodes it develops, in my opinion, even that poorly.
The main character is way outclassed by the world and the happenings around him, never really displaying either the physical strength or the strength of character one would expect a
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main character to have so that he may deal with the problems at hand. That being said i feel that his emotions and way of thinking are not developed enough on screen for us to see some actual change that would lead him from being just an average bounty hunting rogue to a man who would give his life for a girl or an even higher purpose at that. All in all i consider him to be one of the most boring, weak and underdeveloped main characters i've ever seen in an anime.
The girl of this story is even less developed, being a crybaby of epic proportions. She is unable to do anything or resist anything when it really counts even though she is considerably strong normally. As a matter of fact she is a lot stronger than the hero so the whole giving in thing just creates the sensation that it is done on purpose so that the story can move on and so that she needs rescuing when she normally could have just ended most problems very easily on her own.
The "team" has 2 more characters one of which is the former knight (also very weak) who doesn't actually do anything other that waste dialogue time from the start till the end of the show and a zombie girl who is the most interesting concept of a character in this show but we actually get to see too little of her.
The rest of the side characters have virtually no development and are just casually thrown in here and there so that the story may advance with the exception of Jean who gets a few more minutes of screen time. She is the only human capable of actually doing anything but ultimately gets shut down in a runabout way which also gives the sensation that it is done so that the main character may get the chance to step up and be the hero himself.
This leads us to the main problem of the show which is the bad guys. Personally I am one of those twisted guys that enjoy a good villain more than a good hero most of the time because he can spice things up and admittedly a hero's greatness can most times be measured by the greatness of his nemesis. I wasn't expecting to find an "Uchiha Madara" in this show but come on. It felt like the villain here didn't have any kind of end game other than the "watch the world burn" scenario and we are not even shown why or how he got there.It is not even clear weather he is a demon or a human and how it is exactly that he does what he does. Everything about him is shrouded in vagueness and he is taken down ridiculously easy, easier in fact than most of his so called pawns.
As far as the art goes its is the only feature that i find pretty good as it kind of combines western concepts of knights, armors, castles and so forth with purely anime based concepts of angels, demons and spells. The sound effects and music are also, to say the least, enjoyable.
Reviewer’s Rating: 4
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