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alright, I've been putting this review off for a while for the simple reason anything I could say has likely been said at this point, however that's a very weak reason not to do something. With that out of the way let's begin with the story

Story:
I honestly think the story is by far the weakest aspect of this anime. In it's essence, each episode has a focus character and the episodes tends to follow them and the events that unfold. Due to this Gai, being the titular character, does not actually take up a lot of screen time through out the series. Normally this would ... be fine if the cast is compelling or the side plot is relevant but neither is the case. Each character they try to develop is bland and their stories are either extremely underdeveloped or horribly clichéd. It gets the point where the story gives you no real reason to care about the cast or their motivations, just presents it and expects you to care. Not to mention the horribly unsatisfying ending that purely is meant to bait the sequel and doesn't do anything at all to actually tie things up.


Art: hmmmm, i'm torn, the character art isn't actually bad in any sense of the word but the horrible mismanagement of CGI completely pulls you away from fight scenes. Honestly if there was an animation section i'd just pull points from there but since I consider art and animation to be separate I decided to give it a 6. (although the reused transformation scene got tired really quick)

Sound: decent soundtrack, nothing out of this world, but it worked. honestly I can't remember any particular songs so great that I felt compelled to find them on youtube, nor did I find them to be off putting. probably the most average piece of the anime tbh.


Characters: wew, man, what can I say about these characters. I'd say two, two of them are potentially intereting, of those two, one has a slight backstory explained, and he never gets good screen time afterwards. The rest of the cast, laughably flat and horribly developed. Character motivations are never fully fleshed out, and you just see people doing shit but you never get why. And if you do get a why, it's a disgustingly basic why. It's like they expected the cursed weapon trope to give them a pass on mindless villians.

Enjoyment: I went in with the expectation it would be a decent seasonal, i was horribly wrong and despite my attempts to turn my brain off, little by little I became aware of the cracks in the show and by the time I reached the end I couldn't but ask myself "why am I watching this?". Should have cut my loses at episode 6 but whatever.


I highly recommend you don't watch this, honestly i was suprised how bad this was compared to the other show I.G worked on.


3/10