{Story} - The idea behind Vanadis is probably one of its strongest areas and it could have been developed into something great. Unfortunately being only a one cour anime, everything was extremely rushed and the story felt disjointed and very shallow. There were many references to characters in the story that never appear due to time constraints or are given extremely limited (literally one scene) appearances. Ultimately while the story had promise it failed to deliver a show that had you craving for the next episode due to its rushed pace.
{Art} - The art in Vanadis was pretty mediocre. With the quality of anime coming out these days, the bar is set pretty high and Vanadis didn't meet that expectation. There are a lot of clipped scenes, poor animation, and repeated scenes. The show only gave each war maiden one or two abilities and seeing those abilities repeated over and over every episode really draws away from the visual effect.
{Sound} - As with the art, the sound and music in the anime were pretty mediocre. Nothing stood out as a wow moment and the things that first caught your ear on their first use became very repetitive as the show made use of the same abilities and tactics time after time.
{Character} - As with the story, the characters in Vanadis had a lot of promise but they were severely hampered by the rushed pace and short anime length. Some characters that were introduced were given zero time to show any character progression and others were introduced but the never followed up on. The anime supposedly has seven different war maidens but we're only introduced to six and only three are given any meangingful screen time. Even within those three, only two are really fleshed out as characters while the other one's reason for helping the main character's group is rather vague. Unfortunately what could have been a great story with great characters fell flat due to the extremely rushed pace.
{Enjoyment} - The anime left a lot to be desired. Unlike many great anime that I have watched, I didn't feel the need to watch the next episode right away. I even forgot I was watching the anime for a few days before seeing a picture of the main character online. Again, the anime had a lot of potential but ultimately fell flat and the enjoyment level really suffered from this. I still did enjoy it while I was watching it but it never left me wanting more.
{Overall} - Overall I gave this anime a 5/10 - one of the lowest scores I've given out on my animelist and in a review. The pacing and rushed feeling in Vanadis was such a huge detractor from the anime that I could never really enjoy it. There were a few bright spots in the anime but even those were rushed and pushed aside to hurry to the next plot point of the anime.
