Story (8)
While the story moves very slowly, with slightly too much slice of live in the first third of the show, but still engaging. There isn't much action; if you are looking for gunfights, chase scenes or even stealthy action, this will dissapoint. It' dialolge driven. The- to me- best parts are the presentations of the different states, they not only help to expand the world and scale of the story, but also further and intensify the plot. The Royal Backstory we get was also quite enjoyable, interesting mostly due to the perspective it was told from, but a bit predictable. that sadly goes for the rest of the show too. Interesting, but kind of predictable. If you're familiar with the genre, non of it is really surprising. Still well executed tho.
Now, one big concern i still have, is weather this anime will go full facist or not. There have been very few indicators until now, exept for-you know- the ACTUAL SS UNIFORMS and the blond blue-eyed protagonist, + the choice of what appears to be the main villain. I really hope it wont go there, but with our MC having literally no opinion on anything, it's a bit hard to tell how well the show will fair in this regard.
Art (7)
Intersting style , with a good colour pallete, which both helps to connect the fantasy elemts to the modern ones. Funny enaugh, kind of similiar to Ouran high school host clubs style. Thou not in a bad way. The faces also don't look the same on every character, even the girls. That's nice. Not so nice is how stiff the movements seem. I suspect that they have a pretty tight budget; non detailed animation looks pretty bad, and they move very stiffly, if they move at all. They try to keep them as still aas possible. There are however no huge noticable quality drops. The style is still very refreching, managing to be dark and serious despite it's warm , nearly neon colours.
Sound (6)
The voice actors all do a pretty decent job, but the dialoge is often pretty slow with wierd pauses. Some Seem to also not fully mash with the characterdesign/ expression shown on screen. May seem like a nitpick, but i really couldn't get used to it , and i binged the 10 episodes currently out.
Character (4)
This shiw has many, though they are easy to categorize. Smart and serious persuing their goals (now in the flavours good and evil), dumb and/or naive while friendly and/or harmless (tend to be annoying, but generally ok) and quiet but competend.
The MC is one off the last group, though he is sadly the worst among them; he is just quiet and competend. No emotions whatsoever. Lukewarm on everything. Never angry or happy. Looks and acts as if he was about to fall asleep any second. I guess he's supposed to be cool. To me he only seems bored. It gets better as the show progresses, but it's still really off putting, and makes it difficult to get into the story. How is one supposed to connect to character, if they don't have any emotions.
Also many of the charcters are sterotypical for their role in the story, which in turn makes the story predictable. If they would have given some of them a better introduction or more actual character, it would have been more suspensefull.
Plus the german "names" are all exeptionally dumb. Nouns aren't names. But that's more of a nitpick.
Enjoyment (5)
Nice to look at, but the slow dialoge and sometimes obvious plot twists, combined with disconnect from the MC make it quit hard to chew.
Overall (6)
Slow with mediocre to boring charcters, but pretty neyt political worldbuilding. If that sounds good to you, it's worth a look. Still quite likely to turn into a facist propaganda thing sooooo.......yeah. have fun.
