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This show is basically like if blueballs was an anime. Enjoyable at times, but ultimately unsatisfying. A lot of things happen in this show where it seems like they're building up to something, but with little to no payoff. The story itself was okay, not amazing but not terrible. There were a lot of interesting ideas in this show, but the pacing was so rushed that those ideas didn't get to be explored in as much detail as they could have. In the end, it kinda just felt like they made this show as an excuse to include cameos of characters from the spin-offs.

The show is a lazily written, jumbled mess of plot points that go nowhere, details that end up being irrelevant, characters that are shallow, and graphic scenes that are just shoved in for shock value. The writing of Valvrave is just shallow in general. The writers tried to come up with all these deep thematic conflicts that are supposed to be super emotional, but they never actually flesh out any of these ideas, to the point where the just seem like they're just thrown in there for no particular reason, leaving the show as a cluttered mess of barely half-baked eye-candy.

One example of this ... shallowness surfaces in one of the causes of conflict in the show, which is the kids becoming nearly immortal from piloting the Valvraves. When you get right down to it, there was no actual reason why the Valvraves had to turn their pilots into basically vampires. The only reason this becomes relevant to the story at all is when the other governments to to kill them because of it, meaning that the only reason the writers made it this way was so that there would be something to fight about later. We're told that the other governments out there view this as becoming "inhuman" and decide to commit genocide on them, but we're never given any reason why they think this. This is a universe with all kinds of super advanced technology like Dyson spheres and advanced space travel, but suddenly superhuman regeneration is crossing the line. It's frustrating to watch because the people in this show just come to the stupidest conclusions and make the most braindead decisions every step of the way.

This show was all style and no substance, and I would never recommend it to anyone. The plot just gets more and more nonsensical as it went on, and some plot threads that are set up to be important early on just end up becoming pointless in the end. Preserved Roses is a killer opening though.

TLDR: The show looks good, but that's about where the positives end.