It's pretty simple, while the characters are simple and the plot is cliche, the anime wasn't able to grab me by the guts. I believe it lacks information about the world the story is occurring and some character background. The important thing I noticed from my experience is that I wasn't fired up by the story/plot which is why I am writing this now. Let's take some other anime example, Attack on titan, Naruto and umm erased yeah. In either of these 3 animes the story got my mind stuck on it, willing to know what would happen next, how would the story progress or how will a fight turn out ? Sure, Granblue Fantasy is no drama, it's more like a soft adventure medieval fantasy anime, kids could easily watch it and dream about how amazing the MC is strong. But me ? I'm 21 years old I can see the story is obvious and the lack of information/details just doesn't make me curious anymore.
Let's make some comparison (Spoiler alert)
In Naruto, or even attack on titan when we speak about fights we sure as hell ain't lacking information about combat techniques, even if it makes sense or not, they gave us a reason to reflect on these aspect of the anime and so we can be like « Oh, this is why...»
But in Granblue Fantasy ? Heck no. The MC gets half of the power of the blue haired girl to revive him and is somewhat a part of her but in no way they give us any explanations on how can he exploit/use that power, what is it's limit ? What can he do with it exactly ? Why can he kick soldiers's butt ? How did he learn to be better than them ? From who ? And first of all who the fuck is that blue haired girl except the fact that she's been jailed all this time and she's "special".
I'm repeating a bit myself but I guess you get the point.
Next part will speak about the fact that Granblue isn't making me intrigued/curious about what's going to happen. For this part I'll use Erased as example.
In Erased, the more I progressed in it, the more I wanted to know what would happen next ? There was a strong sens of mystery who would keep me on edge and make my brain heat trying to anticipate what would happen next. While I agree Erased is mainly about mystery and of course had characters I wanted to seek out for, drama, I simply believe that Granblue could have used a better shaped mystery rather than some old fucktard father who went to some Island who apparently had another specie, and of course left his son/wife alone behind like he doesn't give a fuck.
It sure sucks to be the MC when your father leaves you behind and simply leaves you a letter that says « Sup boi, I'm on that Island, come, I'm waitin' for ya'». At this point I wonder how desperate the MC is to track down that kind of father.
Putting the poor character and story development aside, I think the music was good ? I'll be honest I hardly pay attention to musics in any kind of anime I guess the musics aren't good nor bad because I didn't get to really notice them. (While watching Anime, my brain sort of turns off and I just absorb what's happening... and still..)
For the art, I'd say it's pretty good, I don't have complains about it, the choice fits very well the universe (At least of what we know and can see..)
So in the end, I simply believe I'm too old for this anime, maybe some kids or some people who don't especially like to be fed with complex background/lore could easily enjoy this, but not me.
Before ending everything, I just wanted to make you notice something about Granblue fantasy. If you've seen at least 7 episode or 6, you can see that the progression is linear like an adventure video game.
1. Go somewhere
2. Pass through an event
3. Get object and new location by entirely convenient events (wink wink)
4. Captain obvious
5. Repeat from step 1
Story: 3 (Poor)
Art: 8 (Very good)
Sound 5 (Mediocre)
Character: 3 (Poor)
Enjoyment: 2 (Dreadful)
Overall: 4,6 (Decent but I'm in no hype for the next episode)
Darkwhip out
