Introduction
When the gods would not answer in humanity's desperate hour of need, it turned to a demon instead. The supposed savior came wielding the sword Zsoltgewinn, but its uncontrollable lust for blood led it to kill those who summoned it too. Although the sword was sealed away long ago, it has been uncovered by the Shoshidai, an organization that collects such cursed artifacts. However, Zsoltgewinn proves to be too strong to be tamed by humans when its corruptive power influences the administrator, Takuma Miura, to flee with it in his grasp.
At the same time, Gai Ogata's family is torn apart due to the possession of another demonic sword, Shiryu, leading his father to be murdered and his mother to hang herself shortly after giving birth to him. Abandoned in the forest clutching the blade, he is discovered by the blacksmith Amon. Unnaturally transfixed by the sword, Gai works tirelessly for years to hone his smithing skills. However, when an accident costs him his arm, he gains a new one—in the form of a reforged Shiryu.
Now having a cursed sword for an arm, Gai must learn to control its violent urges. All the while, Zsoltgewinn continues its rampage, leaving a path of blood in its wake.
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Audience reviews
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TheAnimeDoggo
I want my time back. What was this mess? The story was crazy, and I don't remember half of it. In the first episode, there's this crazy sword and a massacre, and then the MC becomes one with the sword. It never makes sense, and it feels like some weird fever dream. Just watch something else. Most of the characters were one-dimensional, and it felt like they were trying to appeal to the edginess. The story isn't very unique. It mainly just feeds off pre-established tropes. It seemed similar to Akame ga Kill in that they hurt people just for the shock factor and never allowed you to get emotionally attached to characters.
Read at the sourcemackone
First things first, don't watch it, don't even bother it if you are looking for anything more than guilty pleasure. This anime is horribly bad, full of plot holes, irrational decisions and the most generic and unlikeable characters in human history. The art style is at best: average, a mix of 2D + 3D is horrible.
It's hard to find anything positive about this show but I'm going to try my best, fight scenes are okayish, the sound is ok, it is on Netflix (on the day of writing this review) and the most important thing, 1st season is WAY better than 2nd one. I rate it 5 outta 10, because in comparison to 2nd season, it's good.
Read at the sourceauuuuuuuuuuuuuu
Just to give you a feeling the lack of attention to detail. Whoever did the art for this anime. What's with the Lamborghini Gallardo with Lamborghini Huracan interior. As a Lambo owner, I feel offended. Story is underdeveloped and very boring. Characters are very basic stereotypical character setup as other anime.
I mean none of the characters are even smart. Even average person would question a lot of things these guys just take for granted.
Honestly the only reason I started watching this stuff is because in the cover the guy looked a bit like Lelouche from Code Geass. Disappointed.
Read at the sourceUserman
Finally, a good anime after endless bullshit.
The author actually takes a realistic approach instead of relying on the tired-ass “power of friendship” trope. For those who didn’t get it, the entire anime and its second season are an allegory for PTSD.
Plot: 7/10
I haven’t read the source material, so I don’t know how it compares, but the anime clearly sacrificed certain aspects to make sure the viewer properly understood the world. With only 12 episodes to deliver a ton of lore, it did a damn good job. That said, the fast pacing makes it rare to truly follow and connect with the protagonist. You get more of him through how others talk about him rather than seeing him directly, because in the present timeline, he’s no longer the person people remember. If the anime had spent more time fle…
Read at the sourceseabassuk
Well that was a waste of time. Episodes have horrible pacing, scenes are all over the place and will cut away to something with no good rhyme or reason. Action scenes are too short or just interrupted too many times to get invested and the storytelling is dull.
Characters are bland, stupid, shallow as hell or don't get enough time to develop. (You will get sick of the MC romantic interest. She comes across as two-faced, self-absorbed and doesn't give a damn about anyone but the MC.)
Animation is sub-par, with the CG transformations being way out of place and come across as cheap. Music is forgettable and all together it just comes across as mediocre. Sounds are okay, but there is no moment when one is memorable or noteworthy and just feels like they did the audio in as cheap as a manner…
Read at the sourcePandalic
This was one of the most boring animes i've ever had the misfortune of finding.
The story is complex and lame, the characters are weak and lame, the pace is unbelievably slow and makes you want to do something else, i can't even believe i've just waster 8 hours of my life watching this pile of garbage, i would rather gouge my eyes out than to watch another minute of this crap, how is someone even able to shit out such a horrific pile of dung? it would be better to just lock it up and let it burn in hell where it belongs.
Read at the sourcerobert788
[Spoiler Warning]
Sword Gai The Animation (2018)
Well, here we have a show that for the first time has left me wondering if I can do the second season. The show has some positives but the main character just ruins the entire experience.
Story: Cursed weapons + humans with dark and/or sad emotions = possession. How quickly that possession takes over the person varies.
Art: The art when it is normal like the people, vehicles, surroundings are very good. What is not good and brings it down completely is the Busoma being the people who have given into darkness are absolutely awful. They are seriously out of place and clunky. They just do not fit right at all.
Sound: Is fair but nothing too special. Soundtracks are good enough.
Characters: Most of them are dull, boring and just give…
Read at the sourcenaSuo
Being honest this anime is kind of bad the animations are poor due to the bad CG that is sometimes implemented into the show and the characters are shallow there's really nothing to enjoy except the concept of why things happen the way they do. The story could be hard to follow for some people as it gets pretty confusing about midway through also many situations end a certain way that put a bad taste in your mouth and you sit there wishing that it had ended differently and with more of a bang than a crackle. With all that said this show is hard to sit through anyone who has a good taste in anime should avoid this.
Read at the sourceJaxTheWolfy
This Anime, just.. oh boy. After waiting through the first 4 episodes for anything more than some boring descriptions of demon swords I still found no reason to continue watching other than the fact that I sir, am no quitter. I have watched every anime that I have started fully, and I plan to keep my bragging rights.
There is little to no lore in the entire anime, and it severely lacks character development.
Props to Netflix for writing a tiny description that interested me enough to add it to my list. Though my dearest regrets for actually watching every episode.
(There are now spoilers after this point forward. You have been warned)
The main character, Gai, has absolutely no character development. Other than the fact that he's seen in every episode, there is no real reason to call him…
Read at the sourceFrisbeeDog
The main issue I see with this anime - one which could have easily been fixed - is the lack of a good protagonist. By the very nature of the premise, every protagonist is doomed to becoming unlikable and later an antagonist. As the anime goes on they become less and less sympathetic. No protagonist has a meaningful arc. Most side-characters were one-dimensional and boring. Some side-characters who were initially interesting were killed off or ruined by a newly introduced aspect of their personality. There were some genuinely likable side-characters, but they didn't get much screen time.
The message that this anime attempts to convey is muddled (I suspect it has something to do with having people who support you). However, due to the limited success of characters in the anime it's difficul…
Read at the sourceCriticalSmash
Lacks emotional depth as we didnt have enough time to connect with Shinryu. We do get introduced to the negative consequences of Shinryu being what he is. We see the despair that the person he loves has grown old e.g. Kei
Animation is typical of a modern day anime. Tries too hard as it only has 12 episodes and yet the story has just begun really.
There will be another season but I'm not going to watch it. This series was poorly written with poor pace and characters that fall flat despite trying to add depth. The creators of this anime could have done a much better job with the story as it is a nice concept.
Read at the sourcefuzzyjet
I thought the story was a good idea but they made a bunch of mistakes with how they developed the story. One that i noticed the most was the two Shiryu swords, the main character (Gai) has the lesser sword and since in the series they kept talking about the other one and about being possessed by two swords I thought or hoped Gai would get both swords and become the strongest but they didn't even come close to that. It was very disappointing for me. Since the two swords kind of resembled Yin and Yang i figured they could balance out each other's blood lust and Gai could be somewhat normal and be with that girl but that never happens, i'm also pretty sure it won't even in season 2 based off of the picture. Over all this series was very disappointing. They could have made a very good one with…
Read at the sourceAbhorrent
alright, I've been putting this review off for a while for the simple reason anything I could say has likely been said at this point, however that's a very weak reason not to do something. With that out of the way let's begin with the story
Story:
I honestly think the story is by far the weakest aspect of this anime. In it's essence, each episode has a focus character and the episodes tends to follow them and the events that unfold. Due to this Gai, being the titular character, does not actually take up a lot of screen time through out the series. Normally this would be fine if the cast is compelling or the side plot is relevant but neither is the case. Each character they try to develop is bland and their stories are either extremely underdeveloped or horribly clichéd. It gets the point…
Read at the sourceblueangel1986
I'm still not sure about what I just watched. I've been going through the anime's that Netflix is showing and so far this is the worst one.
The premise seems interesting, with the legendary weapons being inside a person and that said person fighting with the weapon and themselves for control. Once you lose control you go into Busoma state and that means you're finished, you are no longer human and the weapon took over completely.
However the actual show does not deliver, there is no character development, the MC is a little ass and makes you hate him from the beginning. The other "weapons" just randomly appear with no context and no explanation. The rest of the characters are introduced in an episode to never be heard from again. Honestly I watched everything and I still don't know where…
Read at the sourceakirakishitani
My overall rating is a 6 for this anime.
Why did i go all the way till the end with this one? simple.
SEIYA ICHIJO
the art is beautiful but the graphics is poor. the MC is so bad that i cared little for him and that sayaka was as stupid as she looked like misa amane. The sword backstories were one other good thing in the story. As for character development, there was not any.
I expected a lot and got very little. The Mc resembles sasuke a little too much. And that was the downfall. To top it the somewhat interesting characters like that hairdresser or that hatsune miku look alike got sidelined and we ended up with the lame ass gai. Matoba who looks like a less insane and almost similar in respects kaneki and his speech is probably the worst space ever taken by a scene. Now that i have…
Read at the sourcemikeyanime
The story is complete garbage, I'm watching it at 4x speed and I still found it slow and dreadful. Some things don't even make sense, like a sword-smith reforging a sword into a mechanical arm for a boy? How in the world does a sword-smith have the skills to forge a mechanical arm and have the medical knowledge to attach it to a person? But whatever, I'll let that plot-hole slide to ask why the boy needs to have a mechanical arm in the first place. It actually doesn't seem to play a role in the story at all. I can tell that the anime wants to have a second season and was gearing the anime towards it with the introduction of new characters and developments towards the latter half of the series. The 'ancient and old' japanese folk music in the openings and endings were mediocre and I felt li…
Read at the sourceoldmansoup
I don't even know why I finished this anime. Probably because it was so easy to stream on Netflix.
The story was horrendous. It started off well enough and showed some sort of semblance of a story. However, a few episodes in, it just became character introduction gallore. There were no of story. They just kept introducing weapons halfway through the series.
Art was okay. Nothing great, nothing really
I put 1 for Character since there were pretty much no development. Some characters shown earlier in the series didnt appear for a giant chunk of the series.
Enjoyment was poor because I assume I must have enjoyed something about it. But with the series being so chaotic, I don't quite remember.
Overall, the series left me wanting more of everything possible from a series. I wanted a more…
Read at the sourceDomDomDraka
Ahhhh Let's do this spoiler-free. So.
Sword Gai: The Animation. I was actually really excited for this. Was. After the amazing (in my opinion) B: The Beginning, I thought that maybe, just maybe, one of my favourite mangas would get a decent, cool-looking anime adaptation. Again, thought. Past tense. So, Let's get onto the review, and why i thought it was how it was or just myy opinion on the aspects that made the manga so good and why i liked it, while i look at what the anime did... wrong.
Story: 3
While it wasn't really easy to adapt a manga which had a bit of psychological trauma and some inside-fights of what it meant to be a human etc. into an anime, it could've been done better. I mean, WAY better. For me the story, written as it is in the anime, wasn't as thrilling OR enjoyable as…
Read at the sourceChiisaiInu
Netflix has come up with yet another original Anime.. Or wait... was it? I will begin with the MC who is dull, lifeless, pessimistic, and self centered. We hardly know anything about him other then he is an ass. This is the shows biggest issue. The show focuses so little on the MC you almost wonder if he was the MC or yet another random character. The MC is followed by the loving Sayaka the daughter of the MC's master who seems to hold some emotional attachment to the MC. Yet for some reason the MC chooses to blow this off because his problems are more important then at least showing gratitude for the family that literally saved his life.
This show is a giant cluster. It's numerous characters introduced(almost never lasting more then an a full episodes worth) make none of the characters m…
Read at the sourceWillowspell
tl;dr
- ntr (sorta) and other unpleasant things - if you're looking for a badass kirito protagonist you're in the wrong place
- an extended PV with tones of (decent, imo) sub-plot
- you won't enjoy this unless you're ok with durararara!! style shows
- female audiences would perhaps enjoy this more
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Watched everything at a go and to be honest... it felt like a 12 episode PV to something way longer. I.e. it was a start to something really great, we've got the actors and premise all set up, but it had to end mid way leaving me hanging and... looking for the manga. First things first, I did not read the manga before finishing the show. Took a peek at the first chapter - a LOT of things are different (including how the MC is born, basic character design etc) so…
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