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OK. To start, I´m a reader of the manga and I didn´t see the anime of Soul Eater (except for the first 5 episodes) and I´l be focusing more in the adaptation (11 episodes of 24 seen) than in the story of the manga because I´ll do a review of that one. Also I´m not a native english so expect for many misspelings.

Story 6
I know that Fire Force isn´t a jewel in what talks about originality an cliches, but all the cliches are justified, not yet in the anime, but in the manga, so you don´t have to criticate the series only because is generic. ... If you´re expecting for something different don´t see FF. Seriously. But FF hasn´t exploated all its potential in the anime yet because they cutted some scenes from the manga

Art 6
If we talk about animation, i have to say that i´ll take it as good, but is poorly distribuited through the episodes. The battles and the flames see pretty good, but in the talking scenes, you have the charaters talking in the same frame for more than 30 seconds. But something I hate is the focus onthe FANSERVICE (for those who don´t know, the fanservice in the manga equally frequent than in the anime, but there you can see is just a parody of the fanservice of the other series)

Sound 8
Thsi is the best point of the FF anime until now because it fits for every moment. The only problem that I have is that isn´t used frequently. But oooh god, the openings and the ending are too god (I prefer the OP 2 because it fits better for the series that the one)

Character 6
Well, in the anime we a have a cast a little bit cliche, and we hasn´t saw the profundization yet soooooooo.. be patient. Cliche doesn´t means bad.

Enjoyment 5
The ponit that I hate the most is the poor direction the anime is having sooo I´ll give you some tips about how don´t fuck up an adaptation:

1° Do not cut the dark scenes if you know they´re the essence of the original media
2° Do never sell Bluerays of an ongoing anime, specially if you´re on hiatus
3° If you´re gonna have hiatus, you could, idk, make it worth it improving the scenes, making they´re not just images or DRAWING THE FUCKING FACES (in the manga the faces aren´t drawen only in the small vignetes for not deforming the draw, but it isn´t difficult to draw an anime face in an animation, specially if is a static image)
4° Making battles see good doesn´t mean the animation is. Please, is DP, the have lot of money. Could you please make the characters move in the screen, please?

MEDIOCRE DOESN´T MEANS BAD. But I´m pretty dissappointed with the bad decissions of Yuki Yase as director. I understand that you could not have the best impressions of the anime, but give a chance to the second cour. Let´s see if the animation improves, because the sotry does in this arcs

OVERALL: 6

OK. When I founded that Magi´s author realased a new manga i didn´t expected too much. Maybe because it reminds me of Edens Zero or Samurai 8, which taught me that the fact that a person makes a good manga doesn´t means that everythinh it does is good. But I had a big surprise reading Orient.

The story is about the Edo Japanese period dominated by Onis and Kishins (basucally, demons, samurais, swords, magic, that kind of stuff) and a guy called Musashi and his friend Kojiro (I still loving that references to characters of the context that Ohtaka works)

STORY: 6
This is the weakest point of ... Orient. The problem isn´t that is cliche, but is very simple. Is just, the kind of stuf you´ll find in every manga, and its SO SIMILLAR to Magi in factors like the use of magic and the adventures. In fact, the magic system is pretty similar to all the shonens. But, for the other side, Orient is a light and simple reading of a shonen manga, and is starting to getting better from chapter 40. The battles aren´t a masterpiece, but they´re not bad. They have a good balance between power and strategy for a shonen, and they are long and enjoyable (the battle from chapter one, which is supposed to have a duration of a few pages like in every shonen has a duration of 5 CHAPTERS OF 30 OR MORE PAGES). The battles are not easy to win, and, in the most of causes, Musashi and his friends lost important battles only for learn, earning experience and try again. This. added to a comedy that doesn´t feels forced and a NULL fanservice (seriously, in manga industries is hard, VERY HARD, to find a series without nude woman everywhere), makes Orient stands out in rhythm between the new shonen manga series.

ART: 8
I don´t mind some characters have the same design that others from Magi, because it only shows in the faces of some characters. But the facial expressions are so similar between them. In the other side, the weapons are pretty well drawed: you can see the light effects on the metal, and the extremely ornate and collored clothing and hair. The battles can be well done when the situation warrants. But another negative point is the simplicity of the design in Onis and Kishins, looking just like deformed joint masses.

CHARACTERS: 8
Simple but not annoying. Between the MCs is a relation it´s a fluid relationship that doesn´t consist in only repeating things like "the magic of friendship". I´d like to add the learning and evolution is having Musashi in the manga, learning about his mistakes and trying to correct them, thing you don´t often see in a shonen. For now, we have a pretty little cast for a modern manga, but I hope it gets bigger

ENJOYMENT: 8
If you´re searching an SHONEN GENERIC MANGA (generic doesn´t means bad, it means normal), you´ll enjoy it