There is little to no lore in the entire anime, and it severely lacks character development.
Props to Netflix for writing a tiny description that interested me enough to add it to my list. Though my dearest regrets for actually watching every episode.
(There are now spoilers after this point forward. You have been warned)
The main character, Gai, has absolutely no character development. Other than the fact that he's seen in every episode, there is no real reason to call him the main character. The only background is that his family was troubled by the demon sword Shiryu, and Gai is just a complete jerk to everyone.
After watching episodes 1-3 and finding nothing intriguing at all, the only real reason I kept watching was because I had nothing better to do at the time.
I wish I could say that the anime picks up at a point and is worth watching: It's not.
Though if lacking on your knowledge of ancient fictional demon swords, definitely hit this anime up. You'll learn a lot of pointless information that takes up almost half of every episode.
I can't even get started on how Shin replaces Gai in season 2 after he supposedly kills himself.
Cliché after Cliché about everything.
Main character is an arrogant jerk-Check, A girl loves him that he does not love back-Check, He's completely overpowered and cannot die-Check, Oops he turned up dead but actually is still alive!-Check.
But also more proof as to the lack of lore here. When Shin replaced Gai, I actually cared for him more than Gai, and Gai is supposed to be the main character!
Part of me wished Gai would just disappear and let Shin have the spotlight because he had better background information and had a reason to be there. Though I still don't get the full idea of who everyone is? And yes, I finished the entire anime.
Point being, SwordGai begain its onslaught of disappointment at the title. Haha- puns aren't funny anymore, sorry to disappoint. I was actually angry at that.
Then I wanted to throw my laptop out the window for how rediculous everything else was. Nothing pleased me except the part where Shin's sister Rei survived.
She didn't deserve what she'd gone through, but frankly neither did I with this anime.
A disappointed viewer (Other than the art style, good job on that one)
-Jax
