Reviews

Every now and then, there is a series that stands out as being more passionate and involved in the effort it expends to develop it's characters and properly establish a setting. There are no copy-pasted demon kings, no expelled party members living slow lives, and no vanilla magic system. That makes it all the more disappointing to say, this adaptation doesn't live up to it.

Lord of the Mysteries manages to explain the damnedest things meticulously, yet breezes over the most important information that turns the character's logical leaps into non sequitur exclamations. Yes, even in Chinese this is still the case.

This isn't to say there is nothing good about this series, the 3D models are absolutely austere and should make all Japanese studios jealous, and the visual designs for the characters are some of the best this year has to offer. The series even has occasional moments of good storytelling that might surpass the original content, but after finishing Episode 7, I'm reminded again just how fleeting they are.

Ultimately, the inexperienced directing and storyboarding shines through. Events are rushed forward to meet expectations for the initial pilot episodes, and content squeezes turn into info dumps or unintuitive leaps.

At this point I'd consider the show passable, yet the music/sound direction is absolutely abysmal. The melodic pieces copy entire phrases from classical/romantic composers—fine—but everything else is rubbish that is bombastic, generic, and never fits the scene. It's the Michael Bay of soundtracks. It imbues a... *clown*-like feeling to epic moments and for that I will endure this show no further.