When I found this anime I saw lots of people saying it was a guilty pleasure type of anime so I didn't really think too much about it and just left it but what brought me to this anime was the "I am atomic" scene and I thought it looked pretty good so I decided to pick it up however I quickly found out why people thought it was a "guilty pleasure" anime.
1- Story
Its story isn't bad though it isn't all that amazing as we have the protagonist who made up a story that turned out to be true and from that lie came his
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loyal subordinates who went on to create shadow garden. Problem with the story for me is that shadow garden plays way too much of a role in it and there is little to know development and explanation on said group for example in episode 20 (the final episode of the season) We are told the protagonist Cid kagenou fought a mist dragon and after defeating it, it pretty much gave him its land that it watched over and this is where shadow garden decided to make their base. Then there are times like when cid fought in the sewers with the I am atomic scene destroyed a great chunk of the area and then by the next episode the hole that was in the middle of the city is never shown again and it just never feels like the world is ever changed or anything happens when cid or the others fight other people. The last thing I want to speak about here are its first few episodes the pacing on them were just ridiculous we went from being in the normal world for the entire episode then the next episode cid is a baby mid episode he is like 9 and we are introduced to the first girl he recruits then by the end of the episode we have all of the girls appear deal with the bad guys then say they are leaving cid and we dont see them again until episode 5 or 6
2-Fights
The fights are completely boring for me whenever it comes to cid fighting someone its clear that he is going to win and there is never any close struggle between him and his opponent and at that point i just want the fight to finish so the episode can continue
3-Characters
Now this is a very weird topic when it comes to this anime because all of the main characters that being the major players of shadow garden(Cid, alpha, beta etc) are just very poorly fleshed out characters as you know next to nothing about them whereas the side characters like the princess, alexia and her sister have pretty well fleshed out characters that i personally like but it all just doesnt feel right since it is only really like 3 or so characters that I can actually enjoy seeing on screen. Now the last character I want to talk about is Sherry, This character I think is just completely bad even though they are fleshed out pretty well I cant for the life of me believe that they are so unfathomably bad at at seeing her surroundings like i get it is a gag but it just seem so dumb to me like for example their mother gets killed and probably not even a good 7ft away is the killer standing with the murder weapon she comes out of the closet she was in after her mother gets killed and yes this is just about at the exact time her mother gets stabbed and sliced up she WALKS OUT of the closest( I have no clue what the point of hiding in the closest was for anymore) then just looks at her mother i shock i mean she doesnt even look around to try and get anyone she doesnt scream she doesnt do anything other than look at the body in complete shock.
4- Animation-
Its animation is nothing special it is your typical anime animation, Stiff/still shots every so often with the audio playing with fights that aren't are just your run of the mill fights
5- Power system
It has nothing special about it, its pretty much just use magic to boost your stats there are very few occurrences where it is used differently for example to walk on water but these never really take place more than 3 times and happens outside of fights or dont have much impact on said fight
Overall It is basically a show where you are just watching for your next overpowered mc who has a few screws loose
Feb 18, 2023 Not Recommended Funny 
When I found this anime I saw lots of people saying it was a guilty pleasure type of anime so I didn't really think too much about it and just left it but what brought me to this anime was the "I am atomic" scene and I thought it looked pretty good so I decided to pick it up however I quickly found out why people thought it was a "guilty pleasure" anime.
1- Story Its story isn't bad though it isn't all that amazing as we have the protagonist who made up a story that turned out to be true and from that lie came his ... 
Sep 17, 2022
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This is coming from a manga reader who already knows what is going to happen and has kept up to date with the anime in both dub and sub(Not going into manga details). I definitely recommend it however I know that there will be quite a few people who might not like it the same way I do.
I like this arc as it really shows you what it takes for one of the 4 great kishin to be taken out not only that but it also introduces you to the power system and the cool things that can be done in this anime, I also ... |
