Jun 23, 2020
This anime made me come back to this website after 5 years of inactivity.
I'm only writing this review because the first Half of the Anime was OK although completely blasted with Cliche's. After EP 6-8 everything just turns to complete bull.
I don't know what the creators thought they where doing, but I'm sure it was based on a story where they had to cut out like 75% of the content. And you can clearly feel that while watching.
This Anime goes from Adventure to Politics to Slice of Life to Apocalyptic Scenarios and Tragedy in the span of 1 Episode and not in a good way...
Animation
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is OK, they put in "some" effort. The fight scenes are meh too but it wasn't about the fight scenes anyways. Although there was a high emphasis on it, specially in the last EPs. It was definitely a low budged animation so I'm not going to complain more. This was really the least of the issues.
Premise: Blacks and Whites Kingdoms are at war since "always" (Yes this is the very, very, stupid name they have decided on....)
There is the King of Blacks, (King of Darkness) who tries to unify the world by covering it in Darkness >Of course he doesn't, he's planning to destroy everything, duh<
The Princess (Head of the White's Kingdom and the Queen of Light)
Also the MC who is the Prince and the next Ruler in line.
The Anime centres around the peace treaty the blacks and whites want to establish to stop the endless bloodshed and suffering. That's it. of course this goes to shit at some point in the story and "shit hits the fan, not just because a lot of stuff happens to incite tragedy, but because the story is also shit.
Now about the Characters
The 2 Main characters, the Black Prince and White Princess, are the embodiment of cliches and so turns out to be the story,
The Male MC's place of life gets destroyed by demons and through some situations decides to become the next ruler of the "kingdom". He becomes the next successor in line for the "black" Kingdom and goes on an envoy mission with another, a former successor candidate, to the "White's kingdom" together with best girl Groza.
The romance in this story is in my opinion very garbage, There was almost 0 reason for the MC to fall in love with the Princess, but he does this on first sight.
Minor Spoiler:
There was also 0 reason for the MC to suddenly get a Powerup in the last Episode. He just suddenly does. Most of the stuff the MC does makes usually 0 reason so it wasn't surprising at all.
The Princess, Iris: Super Cliche. Just another boring character who wants to protect her kingdom in a stupid and altruistic fashion. There is not much to this. Her family/friends are just as bad and cliche; "best female friend" who is the head priestess and "best male friend who has a crush on her" and is the head knight. The writing for them was just as boring as it was for the Princess, so I'm not even going to elaborate on it. Heck, the little ~10 year old brother of the Priestess and Knight has more character development than any other character in this series with his 5 minutes of total screen-time...)
The only character trait the princess has is that she likes gardening and self sacrifice, which she does from EP 01 to 12.
Groza (best girl): An executive of the "Darks" (more like a secretary). She basically carries the story in a lot of situations. from the first time she was introduced she fell for the MC (he saved her life on a whim... cliche I know.). She supports the MC in every situation and helps lighten the mood of this otherwise very boring show. I'm not going to elaborate a lot on her because as you may realise in the first 2-3 episodes: She was obviously only added to the story to get trashed aside by the MC later on for the princess, but this is something they always do in any trash-tier Anime nowadays, so I knew this immediately when I saw the first EP. (she stood no chance against the shitty writing of the creators). She of course doesn't get much screen time after a point and has no chance whatsoever to have her romantic desire bloom. (At least she gets rejected by the MC properly. Thinking about it, it was a lot better for her to not get together with this trash-tier MC.)
There is also the other messenger from the "blacks" who lost against MC in the battle for succession, but he's written just as bad as everyone and has a very stupid fate.
I was expecting it to end similar to what it did, but they somehow made it even worse than I thought.
The final scene also shows a kind of open end with chance of a continuation, but I really hope this doesn't get a 2nd season. (If you loved this series, I'm sorry but the story was just bad in my opinion)
TL;DR:
- Did I enjoy this series? __Yes__, from EP 1 to 8.
- Would I recommend it? No.
- Does it have good waifus? They are okay. If you somehow really like the princess the most I'm concerned about your mental health.
Don't forget that this is just my opinion. I watch about 5 - 10 Anime every season with my favourite tags being Adventure, Action or Comedy. I'm also a Waifu Hunter so this may or may not have influenced my review of this. English is my 3rd language.
Reviewer’s Rating: 2
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