Without EXTENDED knowledge of the background this anime just happens. Scenes without connection, sentences without weight, action without deep motives. The worst of Berserk outclasses this in about every aspect. Have you seen extremely poor video game/manga adaptation before? No? Look no further this is it. Whom to recommend?
Kids? Cannot due to gore and nudity...
Young adults? Maybe, but even there, most anime contains far more weight, hype, character.
Perhaps with time it was tuned too well with later coming shows, but this anime itself today is unwatchable at best.
Do yourself a favor, there are plenty other anime out there. Do not let over the 7 score fool you~
I have not logged in for ages, did so now only to help others to avoid the mistake I did as a horror/anime/gore/mystical/vampire story fan by watching this.
I can understand if nothing like this happened before, it may motive others to have an edgy main character, but that's the best that can be said on my part. I am really sorry for having to write this, but it is an honest opinion.