Before taking on Sacred Seven, I’ve read of many critiques about it. Though there were a minority number of people who liked/loved the anime, there was a majority of those who did not. Even on YouTube, when I took a glance at their opening song by FictionJunction, comments stated that the Stone Cold awesomeness didn’t complement the awful plot Sacred Seven had.
Well, that was what I heard, but decided to take it on anyway.
I must say that the anime wasn’t that bad. Certainly, it wasn’t those kind that will make one go WOW! or OMG! type of anime. In fact, it was a pretty average type of anime. Those type that will have a new different bad-guy minion every episode sort-of thing. This was a wait-and-see-what-happens anime. Honestly, there was never anything that stood out and it didn’t leave me dying to see what happens next.
What I pretty much like was the artwork, animation and the character interactions the characters had. Makoto Kagami is totally a combination of Sebastian from Kuroshitsuji (butler-like figure and hair colour) and Sugata from Star Driver (hairstyle). When they first introduced Kenmi, it was kinda obvious that he was the main antagonist, no less. I thought Knight was pretty sweet with that smexy body that the show keeps emphasizing on. Personally, I loved Alma’s and Knight’s outfit, both light and dark. I thought that was very cool.
Now for the plot. It was pretty confusing for me at first, but I guess, once i’ve watched more episodes, more pieces fit the puzzle. The Sacred Seven’s cores reside within Alma, Ruri, Knight, Fei, Aoi, Hon, (assuming that it’s Sacred Seven, shouldn’t there be one more character with the core?), regardless of whether they possess the light or dark core. On their own, they can transform into cool body-mech suits that gives them some kind of power. Alma, being a dark core, loses control when transforms into his original form. This leads him to require Ruri’s assistance in merging lightstones into him whenever he needs to transform to let him fight. In the finale, my guess is that Alma’s core turned from dark to light, Knight’s core was absorbed by stupid Kenmi, and Fei turned into the almost-gonna-destroy-the-world antagonist.
Actually, I thought the finale’s twist from Kenmi to Fei was a good try to make the story different, but I felt that the story lacked the proper build-up going into the finale.
Overall, the anime series was rather alright. Personally, I’d give it a 6/10. I feel that if you have absolutely nothing to do, and you wanna waste your time watching some anime after you’ve watched all the awesome cool anime series in the world already, then i recommend Sacred Seven. Honestly, I feel that calling this anime ‘horrible’, ‘awful’, ‘bad’, ‘mediocre’, etc, is a bit too much. It wasn’t SOOOO bad, the show had it’s plus points too. ^^ I enjoyed the series even though it didn’t have that X-factor in the plot. :)
Side-note: The series reminded me of Bones Studio’s Star Driver Kagayaki no Takuto. The main guy character, the main girl character, the other main guy character who is supposed to be with the girl before the other came along. Takuto-Wako-Sugata much? XD Star Driver was actually something like Sacred Seven, with the every-episode-new-bad-guy-minion-to-destroy. The major difference is that Star Driver was unique in many aspects of their plot that was original and outstanding. There was the X-factor, the element of intense suspense in every episode and this quote “Expect the Unexpected” certainly describes Star Driver. I feel that if Sacred Seven had continued with more episodes with a deeper breathtaking plot baseline, I feel that it will pull it off.
Fav male character: Makoto Kagami
Fav female character: == none == but if i need to say, it’ll be Wakana
Best character in Sacred Seven: Hellbrick
~*【★】Chione Ice Dyrken【★】*~
