Shichisei no Subaru

Is this anime ever going to have a second season? The first one in my opinion was fine i kinda liked it. But letting the story unfinished makes me more confused than how author just disappeared from existence. I would recommend to watch this anime if you like animes like sword art online is a good rip off of it i would say.
And abt the magical powers this anime have they are kinda good to watch and story is good too. Animation i would give a 7 out of 10. Anyway if you cant wait for another season(well ods are low this is going ... to happend) i recommend you to not watch this anime, your choice.

Please note that I am writing this review as someone who hasn't read the light novel. This is purely coming from my experience as an anime-only watcher. BE WARNED! THERE ARE SPOILERS FOR THE ENDING OF THE SERIES AHEAD!

Shichisei no Subaru caught my attention first and foremost for one thing-- being an anime about an MMORPG and having a character who died in game and, as a result, also passed away in real life. My first thought was of my favourite anime, .hack, but I wasn't expecting a clone of it or anything. It's hard to come up with something original in this day and ... age. SnS managed to put an interesting twist on this now commonly used plot-device with the motives of the antagonist group-- to use the powers from the online games Union and RE:Union in the real world. Unfortunately, this isn't brought up until about mid-season and we go through too much drama to get to that point.

This brings me to my first score, the story, which I give a 5/10. There was an original enough spin on the stuck in an MMORPG to get me to finish the series and also hope for a localization of the light novels so I can see how things end. The bad part of things is the romantic drama. There isn't a love triangle in this anime-- it's much worse. There's five different characters and a lot of unrequited love and jealousy and it drags on and on. I'm not sure if this is true to the original LNs or if it was just to prolong the story enough to go through 12 episodes without making an original ending since the novels are still ongoing. There were too many fights and misunderstandings between the group of friends until they were all brought back together on the FINAL EPISODE. Yikes.

Next is the art. I rated it a 7/10 because it was decent. I think they kept up the production values and I don't remember any parts where I was brought out of the anime because the art had taken a sudden turn for the worse. The character designs are rather simple and generic, but they're nice on the eyes and they easy to tell apart.

I gave the sound a 6/10. It was nothing remarkable nor was it horrible. I don't recall anything sounding off. There's clashing of swords, casting of magic, etc. and it all sounded how I would expect it to sound.

Rating the characters in this anime was hard for me. I know that this isn't an original, but an adaption from a light novel, so I'm just grading from how the characters were presented here with a 7/10. Haruto, the main character, seems to be your generic self-insert character with next to no personality. The main girl, Asahi, was your typical happy-go-lucky young girl and didn't leave much of an impression on me. All of the characters seem to come from very common tropes. The only reason I'm not giving this anime a lower score is because of Takanori. He started off as a cold jerk who was constantly fighting with Haruto over Asahi because he also loved her. This was very irritating because it took up the majority of the time in the anime, but by the end his personality changed. He went from only thinking about his own feelings to being able to consider those of not only Asahi, but his other friends as well and became a better person for it.

Enjoyment for this series I gave a 6/10. There was enough action between the drama to keep me watching the series to the end. I think if things had been a little different, I would have enjoyed it a bit more.

Overall I think this anime is settling at a "fair" here on MAL with a 6/10. I don't think that this is something I'd go back to watch again, but if there was a second season I'd be more than willing to give it a shot. There were a lot of things left unexplained since things stopped, perhaps having caught up with the light novels, but I feel like this could be the start of something very interesting if it is written right.

This is one of those disasters that has incredible potential, sensational idea, but horribly executed. The characters are extremely bad, being weird + bad story behind each one, they didn't get it right once. This idea of ​​an SAO-type novel doesn't work, it's certainly the biggest IMBECIL thing to put in a script, especially when you don't know how to make one. The plot was humiliating, I don't know how I had the courage to keep watching, if you see someone giving a score higher than 3/4, you can be sure they are a fan of SAO and don't have a critical sense. If you ... don't have a basic criteria to choose what to watch, maybe it's better to waste your time watching it than doing nothing, but it's at your risk, the work is terrible, I think your time doesn't equal something so bad.