gwalter - 2017-06-03 02:41:29

The world is filled with something called malevolence. Through out time, a holy person called a shepherd has saved mankind from the malevolence. Sorey is a human who has lived with the seraphs. Whilst exploring some ruins with his best friend and seraph Mikelo. They stumble upon a lady called Alisha. What transpires is that she has come seeking for the shepherd and that she has found him – Sorey. And so begins the journey of Sorey and friends in finding a way to stop the malevolence and allow both human and seraph to co-exist in the world.

Positives:

The art & animation – for the most part they were on point and were just amazing. Not surprising; Ufotable at the helms. However..
OP & ED – they were the some of the best, I love Flows: innosense and Uta no kaze, and illuminate by Minami Kuribayashi
Anime follows the game. However up to a certain point.
Rose – I think she got some good screen time during the second season. And what motivated her
Mikelo and Edna – their interactions in the anime and in the skits were just funny Especially when Edna calls Mikelo ‘Mibo’ Mikelo boy for short
Dezel scarring Rose – before she became a squire for Sorey, she could hear him but not see him
Good fantasy story…although
The interactions between the main cast
Alisha is given a more prominent role in the anime – in the game she left pretty early
Nice to see Zavide or rather peckzavide making a cameo
Rose’ wedding to a prince getting the boot xDD
Rose & especially Alisha being able to armatise
Velvet having two episodes is nice

Negatives:

The art at times seemed out-of-place
Pacing of the story suffered greatly in the second cour
Lailah didn’t get as much screen time and her personality weren’t shown off as much in comparison to the game – the reason why is that the original VA for Lailah passed away in 2015
Sorey is bland – this with the colour scheme of his; white and blue (I didn’t mind Sorey)
Alisha has the typical lady like colour scheme; pink and white
Eizen and Edna have been given a completely different ending from the game – not only that it wasn’t even dealt with
Anime story at times deviated from the game story (as seen with Eizen and Edna)
Rose and Alisha being squires should have taken a greater toll on Sorey – in the game just up keeping Alisha alone, almost cost Sorey his health
Introduction of Velvet in the first cour is a promotion to Berseria (a prequel)