Aug 28, 2015
So the reason I watched this Anime is because 2 friends of mine had a pretty heavy discussion about it.
On one side we had the offender friend 1 with his statement : "This Anime has one of the worst storywriting ever. It's so generic."
On the other side we had the defender friend 2 who said : "Yeah that might be true but it's still enjoyable so I like it."
Well to start off with of course both opinions aren't wrong but I was still intrigued to see for myself and confirm these statements. So after 3 episodes (which in my opinion is enough to judge
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a show) I reached the following conclusion :
Statement 1 - Owari No Seraph is generic :
Yes, in my opinion this holds very true. After seing 3 episodes of this Anime I just couldn't think of anything else to say about this show than : "A mashup of some popular shounen Anime (or Anime in general) such as Code Geass, Attack on Titan and many others, mixed together into an Anime with vampires in fastforward mode.
The Anime tries its best to just show as many cliches as possible in the fastest way it can.
OWARI NO SERAPH CLICHE CHECKLIST :
(x) Humanity at the brink of extinction desperately fighting back
(x) Main character looking for revenge after losing something precious
(x) Main character being naive and just trying everything way too hard
(x) Whimsy side character that also lost someone dear and also tries hard to be a badass
(x) People falling on other people in sexual ways
(x) Best friend / worst enemy
(x) MC having some kind of superpower exclusive to him
(x) Forced comedy that just looks cringy
Statement 2 - It's still enjoyable :
Well for me this one isn't true. I had a hard time watching this as (how I stated before) I thought it was just a fast forwarded version of trying to show as many cliches as possible appearing in Anime. It was more like a parody. Hell I think watching this Anime as parody of shounen Anime I'd even rate it higher since it was so funny. Too bad though.
At the end of the day it depends on the viewer to decide if this Anime is enjoyable for you or not. There's a chance you will like it anyway despite me saying bad things about it. I mean we all have our own opinion right?
To finish up my review I gotta say even though the story is kind of meh the artwork and OST are still somewhat above average.
So how would I describe OnS in one sentence?
A typical shounen Anime with vampire elements trying way too hard to be something good but ends up looking really weak and almost comedy-like but also having a somewhat good artstyle as well as a good music.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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