Introduction
The Kingdom of Arandas alliance and the Countries Unification of Ingelmia have been at war for many years. The fortress of the Great Wall has remained firmly closed, but when it creaks open, the complexion of the war starts to change dramatically.
A new recruit, Susumu Tokimune, is waiting for his first battle. He takes the lead without thinking of the possibility of being trapped, and has a fatal encounter with engineer Jamie Hazaford and the Silver Trailkrieger, Argevollen.
The encounter takes place in a corner of the world where fighting has become the norm. This small coincidence is going to change the future of Tokimune's Independent 8th platoon, as well as the course of the war.
(Source: Showgate)
Audience reviews
8 · Sample from the first available page, separate from the total number of ratings.
ThatAnimeSnobRE
The mecha genre is separated into giant robots which are rule of cool and real robots which are more about the war drama. Argevollen belongs to neither type, since its action is not cool and the war is boring. The cast is bland archetypes, the robots are all CGI, and you are never given any reason to care about who wins or who dies. And by the way, nobody important dies, not even amongst the secondary ones. What kind of a war is this?
A pretty dull one, that’s the kind it is. It’s just done for natural resources with no political aspect to it. Why would the audience care about such a trivial thing? Super robot series would have some megalomaniac bad guy who wants to take over the world. It’s cheesy but it’s fun. Real robots would expand to religion or humanism or something other than “we…
Read at the sourceWHITE_Vahit
Overall:
For Mecha, it is a fair(6/10) one, but for general speaking (4-5/10). If the story was told in more depth(the big picture) and had more reasonable character reactions and progression, I would like it more.
Story:
There was good potential in the story, but in the end, it kind of disappoints you. I like the idea of having small and big pictures and they manage to put together these pieces in the story. However, it lacks the impact or necessary details in the story. The story is enough for you to keep watching, but through the ending, it did not satisfy you.
Art:
It has classic mecha art and is fine. The overall art design is standard.
Sound:
Standart. (nothing outstanding)
Character:
There was good potential. Some characters have nice thoughts backgrounds and motives. For the main…
Read at the sourceRauLeCreuset
This anime was really interesting, as I love mech anime because I am super obsessed with Gundams I found this to be absolutely amazing, I found that the rookie pilot used his fear of death, to initiate the Argevollen mech, he was rusty at first but he clearly understood the concept of the U-link system in order to survive, all of the characters were unique & had all of their own personality traits, even though I think in my opinion it had a little to much comedy for my liking, but it was still a great mech anime, it is too bad that it was short, it seems the ending made it seem it would be another season, in which I am very interested in seeing if it will or will not have one.
Read at the sourceS_Yellow
Some notable complaints about this show in other reviews are: it's one dimensional characters, paper thin story, lack of character development, by numbers, mediocre, run of the mill. You get the ideal. All these issues do exist and I'm aware of them. So by now you're wondering about the nine. It's because I DON'T CARE! This is exactly what I want! Hot mech on mech action without whiny teenagers! Following the curved line to the hot mech on mech action! First of all, the enemy is other humans, not monsters, or robots, or aliens, or demons, or lucifer hawks etc. but other people piloting the enemy mecha. There's not enough of this in anime. Characters are one dimensional, so much so that they only fill their roles with no deviation. And it's fine because they are a well oiled military machin…
Read at the sourceTheEarlofBronze
Argevollen. Honestly this show just made me sad. I absolutely loved it, the neat little combinations of military slice-of-life were well done and entertaining to watch. The numerous characters all had excellent proportions of screen time and were simply enjoyable to see how they interacted. The various emotions caused by war, fear and love were very well portrayed throughout the show in my opinion.
Of course the art was incredible, and the fight scenes were very fun to watch, especially the Arge/Strum duels.
And then the anime made a fatal mistake.
The clincher, the reason this show wasn't a very fun 8/10 mecha anime (or possibly higher) was that the producers fell for what I think is a plot destroying, but very tempting, trap. They swapped main characters. Unintentionally. Tokimune i…
Read at the sourceRenegatz
Argevollen isn't as bad as people made it out to be after the first episodes rolled out. It was a rare and appealing experience to a military history fan in that the plot structure is often focused around the political and military dynamics of the conflict. Unlike in a lot of other anime, we're simultaneously privy to the strategic momentum of the war from both sides' perspectives, their internal divisions and agendas, as well as progress on the field involving a whole array of tactics and plans. This means that there's more to it than a screaming protagonist smashing bad guys. Unfortunately he just has to be there in the first place.
Indeed, to be blunt, none of the characters in this show were good. They had so much time in the quieter filler episodes to make things interesting, but the…
Read at the sourceNamelessKing
Allow me to preface this by saying that I find the concept of reviewing anime to be laughable. If you do not like the anime by the summary enough to pick it up, chances are a person will not be able to sell the idea to you. Furthermore, there is always the 1/4 rule, where you watch the first quarter of an anime before deciding to drop it.
The fact that I am making a review is a testament to how much this show caught my interest and became one of my favorite shows of the year.
This show has often been accused of being 'generic,' while it is anything but. While by all means a show that could be called a 'Real Robot' anime, it is best to not even consider it a mecha-- rather a military drama, that features giant robots. More than anything, we are watching the daily life of a platoon of troo…
Read at the sourceStark700
It doesn’t take a genius to understand Argevollen. First thought that comes to mind is a generic mecha show with warfare and military concepts adapted into a struggle between nations in a world of dominance. The first episode doesn’t stride far from that as we learn the current state of affairs between the two nations – Arandas and Ingelmia. During on brief struggle, we find out that the main protagonist of the series, a young man from Arandas’ 8th unit named Tokimune Susumu is able to pilot a mysterious mecha suit. It’s known as the Argevollen and its potentials can change the course of this war forever.
Essentially, Argevollen rides on the war theme quite a bit with its introductory episodes. As an original anime though, this show has a lot of unoriginal clichés. The military warfare be…
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