Project K fails to reach higher because it succeeds in its purpose, it succeeds in a story driven anime although having the perfect environment to create such a masterpiece had it been more battle driven or atleast balanced in both terms.
I do promise it gets better with each episode tho.
Getting straight to the review:
Story: 6
(resuming) K tells the story of a young boy who got involved in a "war" between 7 kings with super powers. He discovers his identity not to be as his memories tell.
Standing amazing in terms of creativity and tasty twitsts, the main story doesnt fall too far behind. I see it mediocre in terms of both conclusion and beggining, understanding of course that it has both an open "start" and "end" to it, it really doesn't develop as much as it "promisses", having a slow almost "boring like" progression. It mainly falls from a given 9 due to its utmost disapointing lack of propper organization or explanation endwise and almost uninsteresting progression rate.
Art: 10
Absolutelly amazing environment, theme, colour and detail, not to forget the animations that simply leave you drolling, Everything seems alive.
GoHands did it's job, congratulations on a well deserved 10.
Sound: 9
The opening and ending themes are proper, contrary to what others have said i actually thought both songs fit it's videos; the soundtracks however where good and amazing. Sound effects are good, just not good enough for a 10.
Mikio Endō made a very good job with the sound, expecially the soundtracks.
Character: 5
Yashiro, the main character, is truly "introduced" and presented in a very intelligent and interesting way: first you will meet his true heart, held by a semi-untrue personality (unknown untill certain point) by following this character's daily life at school and even after entering the main story, as the story progresses, at a certain point, when met with his real past, you will meet the real characters personality and easily bond with him. The secondary characters however, having only around 1 or 2 actually being averagelly presented, the rest of them are actually left almost "unknown" where the author kind of makes you interested in the actually coolest and best characters but disapoints you in never actually meeting them.
In terms of depht and compexity most characters are actually average.
This is one of the things that hold the anime back... if you're goint to have a story driven anime, try not the have 2 or 3... or 4 guys have similar personalities... and please dont throw random "hints" if you're not actually going to either mention or show us more of it.
Enjoyment: 6
I had fun watching, though you wont really be THAT interested in watching the next episode, which is in my opinion, a necessity to every anime.
Overall: 7
Somehow disapointing on how such important details like powers, environment (i mean the whole world or perhaps the city itself) and characters are unexploited. You will see yourself wanting to see more of what isn't going to be shown throughout these 13 episodes.
Such adjective wouldn't be better, its "good". Its one of those simple animes that end up being "typical" and common, yet somehow stands out from most.
