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As someone who read the manga first and then watched the anime, I have quite mixed feelings over it. Some bits are amazingly good and some bits are amazingly bad.

In this first season the story is good. The first episode is thrilling, then episodes 2-7 feel rather slow and fillery but it gets exciting again from episodes 8 onwards. The plot in itself is quite interesting and although a lot of it is cliche, it's still enjoyable enough to get into. The anime team did a superb job in their attention to details in the way the opening/ending is full of plot details and ... character portrayal (especially when you read the lyrics).

The biggest downfall of this anime is its art and sound. It's understandable that it's impossible for every frame of an anime to be high quality animation, but it gets worrying when whole episodes were badly animated (cough episode 5 cough). You'd get jerky, low quality, quite frankly weird scenes and then a detailed close up of scenery/background which made you wonder who on earth was in charge of this budget.

And the soundtrack was weird. I mean a lot of it was quite good by itself, but it often felt like the music didn't quite match the scenes it was used for (but this was more of a problem in the first half and the final 10 mins of the show, not in the second half).

Having said all of that Owari no Seraph was hugely enjoyable once you get into it. The first half of the season felt cliche but the second half got much more interesting. The character development of the main character is also quite touching, so if you're put off by his angry shounen personality at the start then don't drop it! Trust me he mellows out.

At the end of the day the key major scenes were pulled off perfectly and I'm interested in how season 2 will turn out. Would recommend this anime not as a perfect amazing masterpiece, but still fun enough to watch if you're interested

This is a manga which is okayish. A lot of it is very cliche, the characters lack a great deal of originality, the female portrayal is poor- the list goes on and on.

The main character starts off painful to watch in their angry shouneness, but one good thing about this manga is its portrayal of the main character Yuu and his counterpart Mika. Yuu starts off painful to look at with his horribly cliche shounen angriness, but his character development is admirable and touching in the way he becomes more emotionally balanced. Mika in himself is an amazingly well written character and the chemistry ... between those two is worth sitting through all the downsides and cliches.

In terms of plot/story the first 13ish chapters build up the pace well and it gets gripping. But after that points it starts to fall- it's the type of manga which builds up too many mysteries and questions without resolving them which leaves you feeling strung and unsatisfied. The drawing out of when Yuu and Mika will meet is one huge fanbaiting which feels frustrating and unecessary.

If the manga would pull itself together and start revealing its main plot already I would have given this a much better review. Otherwise I would put it as a good and fun read if you don't have anything else better to read, and if you don't mind being pulled into a blackhole of no return of emotional feels and wanting to yell at your screen