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It's shocking that there is a positive reception to this. The extent of content that can be drained from this bloated corpse of an animation is seeing your favorite cute girl be animated poorly.

There's an obvious shoestring budget. It's been a while since there's been an anime this clearly underfunded. It's hard to say the animation is bad, when it's barely even existent.

Voice acting is noticeably poor, especially for previously unvoiced characters. Mephisto especially misses the mark. I'm unaware as to if the casting was bad or the direction was. It would not be surprising were it ... both.

They're absolutely butchering chunks of the story out, yet leaving in scenarios the game used to tie in game mechanics to the story. What they've left in is lacking in emotional punch and it's absurd an animation wouldn't expand visually on scenarios from a visual novel type story. I am still in awe that they somehow ended up with even less of Ace's fight.

The more vibrant colors were a downgrade. More than likely this is biased, but pastel really doesn't work with Arknights setting and tone.

Finally, for all things an Arknights anime to be lacking in, it certainly shouldn't be the music. It's a long running community meme that Hypergryph is a music company, there is barely any noticeable music. Not barely any noteworthy tracks mind you, the music is nigh nonexistent.

The only thing positive so far is they showed the scale of Rhode's Island really well. Considering everything up until that, I was pleasantly surprised they bothered using the medium of animation to visually display something that might be more difficult to show in a different medium.

This should be an utter disappointment to any Arknights fan. Especially considering the 3d animations they attached to some previews blow anything done in this anime out of the water.

Frankly, I'm confused.

Clearly this adaptation is just that, adapting the story from the mobile game. The changes are clear to see, and they start off great. But. Then there's some frankly bizarre changes in the musical score. Ostensibly they seem to be going their own way much like they did with Babylonia, then the original score from the game will kick in. It's most certainly the original score, or with changes small enough I couldn't detect them in my viewing. The remixes of the stuff scored for the Babylonia anime were a treat at least.

I have absolutely no clue ... why they put Beast IV's speech in a text crawl leading the credits. And put some gorgeous animation with it. Behind a wall of credits. Instead of putting it where it'd be pertinent.

There's a bunch of little things sprinkled throughout the movie that feel off. Makes me think something went wrong on the direction side of the project. Overall still watchable but coming from Babylonia there's going to be some disappointments.

This show is so bad it's good. I rewatched it recently with some friends and it was an absolute blast.

The plot is utterly nonsensical. There are multiple seasons worth of plot points and content, the most ridiculous is the first episode feeling like an entire season of a regular anime condensed down. While it's going through the plot like a fire through a sawmill it's missing significant amounts of character arcs and development. Except, the show acts as if these arcs and development happened so you get baffling changes and laughable emotional beats. Most egregiously a character dies ... and the show nothing short of milks it for all it's worth, this character that died couldn't have had more than 25 lines of dialogue at this point and there is an actual "press F to pay respects" equivalent. Animation budget is saved by having characters just float around because "zero gravity" yet gravity mysteriously functions normally when needed, the actual art is pretty good though. Valvrave also is utterly tone deaf and seems to change it's genre at a flick of a switch. Slice of life, Mecha, Psychological, Thriller, Supernatural, Rom Com, even a little harem baiting. This train-wreck's got it all!

Speaking of harem baiting, I am shocked this show didn't stoop to being a harem. Any such points are contrasted with some of the "antics" Saki gets up to in the middle of the season. Then a certain scene near the end of the show that happens during a speech blows any points gained straight to the bottom of the sea, but hey at least it ain't a harem.

Valvrave has a single genuinely interesting character; Akira. She has a noticeable character arc that ended with her having a crisis of faith. This was the only time I was engaged with the show as anything more than trash. L-Elf is some Light ripoff that is a literal prophet, Haruto is boring and can't decide on what his character is supposed to be, Saki is kind of an absolute bitch that keeps pulling "just kidding"s everytime she almost has a character moment, and Shouko really doesn't have a character to even comment on as much as a collection of traits to groan at.

The plot is light speed and nonsensical, most of the characters are at best boring, there's a bunch of cringe, and the show is tone deaf and tasteless if not legitimately offensive. Still was an absolute joy to watch with a couple of friends. I initially watched this as it aired and apparently rated it at an 8. I have no clue why but I can at least see a slew of interesting ideas in this garbage pile, far FAR more than you'd get in other bad shows. Solid 3/10 for an actual anime, 9/10 if you're looking for bad anime.

Oh and the show has some pretty significant yaoi baiting and some yuri baiting for... some reason.