Story:
If you look at the core of the story you'll see that its not that bad. Maybe not original but its not bad. One of the problems i find with the story is that their are too many fillers. I say about a third of this series is fillers. Another problem is they don't try to create much suspense or cliffhangers. If you watch just the first episode of the series and analyze it you can tell a lot about the characters and story. The makers of the anime really knows how to squeeze in 3 or more episode worth of story into just one. The first episode doesn't really hook you in and make you want more since you already know most of what you want to know. For example the reason why Kazuma was exiled is pretty much revealed in the first episode. I think if gonzo did a better job in execution by leaving cliff hangers and more mysteries that actually make us go crazy because we want to know than this series would be much much better. The story could also be stretch out a little more for us to soak it all in. Then they wont have to have all those fillers.
5/10
Art:
The art is good. It isn't bad but then it isn't absolutely gorgeous with little to no eye candy. There is some fan service in this. I personally don't mind it. The fan service isn't really over the top so it won't annoy a lot of people.
8/10 Art wasn't good yet it wasn't bad
Sound:
OP and ED not really special. Again it isn't bad. I haven't watch the dub before but for the sub the voice actors do a pretty good job. I think the voices represent the characters in a good way.
8/10
Character:
I love the characters. They are generic but i still love them. The main character Kazuma is pretty much a badass. The very reason why i watched this three times is because how much of a badass he is. I was getting tired of the repetitive formula most action anime main character goes through. Meet villain, Fight, Struggle, Win, Get stronger. I wanted to skip the struggle and get stronger part. The other characters like Ayano (Girl main character)
and Ren (little bro of kazuma) might annoy you and they might not. Ren though he is a boy he acts girlish. Well this is an anime so that is normal. Ayano is like a tsundere so if you can't stand a lot of yelling for no reason then she might annoy you. The other characters are pretty generic. I also loved the characters because you know a lot about them if you think about it. I thought we could've had better and more of a character development for each character though.
7/10 Characters are good might annoy some of you but their not bad
Enjoyment:
i loved it. I am a fan of the genre and it had everything i wanted. Fantasy, badass character, tsundere, assholes, pretty much everything i want in an anime. The little thing that bugged me was whenever Ayano pulled out her sword their would be this magical transformation like scene that gets played over and over throughout the series. Some people might enjoy this series like i did others might not.
9/10
Overall:
i loved it. They could've presented the story better and had better character development though.If gonzo did a better job with execution they could've stretch this anime into 4 seasons at most and made it way better.
6/10
i would recommend this to everyone since i loved it but if you love magic and fantasy and a badass character watch it.
