Audience reviews
20 · Sample from the first available page, separate from the total number of ratings.
KimuraTheHatoru
Reign of the Seven Spellblades was something i honestly didn't have that many expectations from ,so that's probably one of the factors of why i actually enjoyed this damn show so much.But that's hardly all there is to it.
What surprised me most about this show was the writing.It's a honest to god good story. It's nothing that would make you say "wow" with the depth and intricate plot or anything,but it's more then enough.Not every story has to be.Of course a good story would never be able to function without good characters.And they don't fail to deliver.One big bonus is that characters don't just have their arc where they are relevant and then they fall off the face of the Earth.This is a huge step above most stories.And they aren't usesless background characters either.Perfect example f…
Read at the sourceGalacticSaz
I honestly, in good conscience, can't recommend this to anyone. Even my enemies (if I HAD any..). I don't know if it's just me being an idiot or if it's actually the show itself destroying my poor brain cells one by one.
The art is ok, kinda generic but not horrible by any means. The world feels like it was ripped from a stale book. Some things they'll explain in a two minute segment like it's important for later but will never come back to, and others it'll just sorta be there and you're left wondering why it is the way it is, but not in a good "I wanna know more" sense. More like if you found an open, half eaten stick of butter in the fridge and must now sit through talking to your blandest roommate to figure out who bit a chunk outta that sucker.
The characters are your run of the mil…
Read at the sourceAvengers007
This was technically my last anime of 2025. I watched it on 29 to 30 December 2025. First, the rating is around 6.5 in many places and not many people have watched it. But in my opinion, it deserves 8 and your attention.
I am a big fan of the Harry Potter universe, and this anime is also set in a magic school world. Some students become friends on the first day. Each one has different abilities. One character is not good at magic but is very skilled with a blade.
You will see why he is in this world and how he fits into the group. Watching the group’s adventures is fun, especially if you like magic school settings.
Characters and Story: The protagonist Oliver Horn is calm and intelligent, but he hides a deep revenge plot. Nanao Hibiya is a samurai, and her chemistry with Oliver feels un…
Read at the sourceDashjeff
What I'm gonna say is it's a waste potential. You have a genius unrefined spellblader who wants to seek revenge and a young spellblader who fought in a war since she was young. If they focus solely in these two it could have been a great show. You can make him taking care of her since the teachers set on killing spellblader while seeking revenge at the same time but nope. Friendship power ah plot coming in.
What is this school for anyway? Why would you attend it if you are a normal person? You get to be someone important? Not sure. Even the rules are stupid. No fighting without magic defense but killing is normal? Even the identity of the school is inconsistent.
Is the mc powerful or not? I couldn't tell. At first he goes toe to toe with the samurai but later he seems weaker than he sh…
Read at the sourceAeroGunz
“Reign of the Seven Spellblades” is what happens when a mediocre idea is combined with incompetent writing.
This is one of the worst written shows I’ve ever seen. Not only it uses cliché ideas You’ve seen a million times before, but it butchers those ideas by not understanding why they could work. The plot is so basic that there is not a single unique point in it. Well, that is not true. There is one, ONE rather original sex based idea (at least I haven’t seen it in many anime, from the top of my head I can only think of 2, but if I say the title it would be spoiler territory), but it’s treated like background for most of the time. The one time it could have been made an important plot and even story point it’s just not. Like the writer forgot he created a situation and a character that s…
Read at the sourcedeadlyspawn
Simply awesome and divine. I enjoyed this anime from start to finish. Keep in mind I found out about it only recently and binged it right away. I'm fortunate for not caring about reviews/spoilers or what social media is chirping about until I finish the story. I don't allow "group think psychology" to get in the way of my personal taste and enjoyment of art - not before, during or after the show. That type of thinking belongs at work, at schools, in public because that's the purpose group think serves.
This show was great at showing the duality of each character. Whether good or bad as a medium of choice, you are presented with the dichotomy for every character they focused on, obviously not for certain one's because we didn't get there in the story yet. Also for some characters it's subt…
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My expectations for this anime certainly was not high so this may lead to a higher rating than I would if it was the opposite. So, yes I was pleasantly surprised how entertaining the show was and would recommend it. But be warned that the show is not without its issues so don't expect a masterpiece. While I would recommend watching up to episode 6 to see if you enjoy it, that is quite a bit of commitment. And quite frankly, what you will see in episode 6 is not going what this season focuses on. But perhaps you may want to give the LN or manga a try if your interests was piqued by that point.
I gave it a list score of 7, but if I were to be critical, it is more a high 6 for me.
Characters:
The first thing the anime introduces to you is its main cast. While some anime series slowly build u…
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A rather decent anime with a good budget. Enjoyable to watch, but ratings seem to be rather conflicted due to many upset novel readers. Overall, as someone who never read the source material, the show did fine in terms of storytelling even if bits felt rather fast. Ultimately, one of the downfalls of this story came down to pacing issues which was much to do with covering too much too quickly.
It was fun to watch and made me invested enough to start reading the light novel.
I wouldn't consider the negative reviews too heavily when deciding upon this as the animation quality is rather high and seems to have been completely ignored.
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Nanatsu no Maken ga Shihai suru is not great. It could have been a lot better than it is, but it doesn't explain its world well enough nor give itself time enough to cook through. What it is though is compulsive viewing, it has a soap-opera quality to it where you want to see what happens next, even if you know it's not going to be good.
So don't think too hard about it and just slide on through.
If you want to think about where it falls down (and I wouldn't bother...), then it sets up a dark fantasy world with elements of the tedious "don't trust anyone murder your classmates" type shows with an Attack on Titan or Lost fixation on adding new mysteries into the mix... Then it tries to power of friendship its way through the setting with the central cast trying to show the world a new pat…
Read at the sourceThe_Walker
Verisimilitude: The "lifelikeness" or believability of a work of fiction.
Well, in Seven Spellblades, this is not the case. Something just feels "off". Character interactions feel forced and cliche. The script is boring, idiotic, and campy. Character expressions fall flat. And thus the show fails the believability test. This is sad, because on paper this should have been a fantastic show. But the people who put it together just didn't know what the flying f**k they were doing.
The worst part of the writing is the transitions. Switching from grimdark to happy-go-lucky friendship slice of life time is entirely possible to do well, the caveat is that to do this there needs to be something in the plot that logically ties the two together giving each more suspense. Things that hint at s…
Read at the sourcemrfried
This series is a bit of a mess as it lacks focus and isn't sure what it wants to be
The Harry Potter comparisons are apt, but clearly in an attempt to avoid those comparisons the series tried to add in all these extra elements and became an even bigger mess than Harry Potter is.
It's a magical high school romp, except they are either skipping class a lot or the school just doesn't do more than two classes a week.
It's a revenge story, except the MC doesn't seem to have much interest in carrying out his revenge
In an overall story premise that makes little sense
The school is dangerous because magic is dangerous and can consume the person, but its also made even more dangerous because the teachers and other students are actively out to harm all the students for no real reason other than '…
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"Reign of the Seven Spellblades" ventures into the mystical realm of magic and intrigue, but unfortunately, it struggles to break free from the shadows of its more iconic magical predecessor, Harry Potter. The echoes of J.K. Rowling's world are too apparent, making it challenging for the series to establish its unique identity.
The animation quality, while acceptable, falls short of achieving exceptional heights. The visuals lack the innovative flair that could have elevated the series to a higher standard within the anime genre. Though serviceable, the animation fails to leave a lasting impression.
The central theme of a dangerous school promises a dark and gritty narrative, but the execution falters, leaving viewers yearning for a more profound and immersive experience. The show fails…
Read at the sourceHisashe
The Story was less than average and confusing we spend 5+ episodes still learning new charcters that hardly matter to the story
Also the focus on Katie and Nanao is not needed and same could be said for almost all of the charcters its to much to focus on and remember, the main focus should be on Oliver instead of these other background characters who play slight roles in the show
Back to Katie who if couldnt handle the treatment of the magic fauna should have been removed from school and with Nanao who just wants to be unalived
there is just points where it cuts from one moment to another with hardly no context adding to the confusing story
all in all its just meh compared to what other shows you could watch
Read at the sourceDubh
There are three things to say about it to summarize my thoughts. Firstly, the anime had a fairly good opener, first couple episodes were solid, giving it a good hook that definitely piqued my interest. Second, the revenge plotline is what caught my interest, and many other peoples interests too, however, it dropped that storyline almost too suddenly, making it almost feel rushed for the plot you're there for, and steadily becoming mildly boring, following a story that almost feels forced, even after showing another side of the main character, which isn't seen again afterwards. Finally, it feels like an anime version of Harry Potter, which you will find no shortage of people also expressing this. Overall, 6/10, art was great, world building is good, music was good, action scenes were almost…
Read at the sourceSenpaika
Anime that will get you hooked from the very first episode.
Before the anime was announced I had read my first 3 chapters of light novel. Then dropped it because I don't read light novels.
But just to see what is popular nowadays. And then the announcement came, "Haha I knew they would make anime from this 🤣". Opened Discord and wrote to my friends "I won this bet 👍".
What is good about this anime:
I loved peacing from the start, not slow nor fast.
The action scenes are looking nice and are quite engaging.
The art and animation style is quite good and enjoyable.
It's not the "Let's not kill anyone" type of anime. Which is always a good thing.
Mc has a good backstory. No spoilers here.
What would be better?
I want to see more things like the redo of healer or Isekai Meikyuu de Harem wo i…
Read at the sourceTangyAbleOrange
At first I thought it was a mid magic school thing which is not great but not terrible, then it took a turn with a revenge plot that was very engaging and promising, and then it went backwards to not even mid but worse; it was disjointed, underwhelming, and overwhelming all at once. I really don't know what to say about the latter episodes other than they were bad. All else was, again, mid or above average. I guess to sort of break it down, the animation was so-so, the soundtrack was eh, the characters were eh (minus Oliver, but he was fairly sidelined), the plot was too all over the place to get a bead on, and the pacing was eh... Yeah, in general I wouldn't recommend this since it shows promise and then disappoints, which can be worse than just a bad show that doesn't fluctuate or forget…
Read at the sourceShinkuo
"Reign of the Seven Spellblades"
But the main cast is six characters.
This is how I knew what to expect from this story.
In all seriousness, it was an interesting enough show for about the first four episodes. You had all of the interesting and exciting world building and character/relationship establishments occurring. Lots of seemingly nuanced combat and power systems that would later be explored or explained. And more!
What caught my attention was how they described their swordplay in tempos since only people who have actually done sword sports will have probably ever heard the terms before. I was waiting for them to start describing the difference between probing actions and committing actions, and utilizing multi-tempo or chained actions into dynamic distance situations in off-t…
Read at the sourceBora-kun
I think Nanatsu no Maken ga Shihai suru has everything that a magic school anime needs. Interesting characters, mysterious world, duel scenes... Most characters are unique in their personalities and abilities, developing relationships with each other. We can say the character development is dynamic. All characters are grey, there is no such thing as a villain or ally character.
Every season they publish dozens of magic school animes, everybody likes them excluding me. This time, it's the opposite. I can't guarantee whether you'll like Nanatsu no Maken or not, but I'm pretty sure that it's better than most magic school animes. If you like others, you probably will like this one too. I'm not a fan of magic school animes, but it was nice.
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Harry Potter and the Magical School That Might Kill You.
Suppose you’ve grown into an adult and crave a Harry Potter-esque story with a wizarding world that isn’t completely vapid, a story that hasn’t aged poorly over time due to retcons and sometimes thoughtless writing and wasn’t written by a Terf fascist who fully fell down the right-wing nut job hole due to being unable to take Twitter criticism over the many things she's says and does. In that case, I can’t say that Reign of the Seven Spellblades will fully check off all those criteria. Still, it absolutely does a better job of creating a more intricate, whimsical yet dangerous magical world inhabited by a likeable group of friends who aren't just three Brits being assholes towards each other, and I say that as a Brit.
Reign of the…
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Another cliche magic school anime with boring characters and the cliche of the power of friendship that resolves any problem, the premise had potential, "a school that is possible die inside while trying graduate", no one died, if died I can't remember because the characters are boring and irrelevant to have any memorable moment.
Art syle is good and was the thing catch me, definite above medium, it can sustain the quality in moments of fights, some episodes with a lot dialogues looks like a good PowerPoint, animation doesn't disappoint much when necessary and music was tasteless to be noted.
Story was very predictable as always are in cliche animes, lack of trying new things, lack of killing important characters to make it more intense, verry irrelevant.
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