Introduction
When the "Sirens," an alien force with an arsenal far surpassing the limits of current technology, suddenly appeared, a divided humanity stood in complete solidarity for the first time. Four countries—Eagle Union, Royal Navy, Sakura Empire, and Iron Blood—formed Azur Lane, paving the way for the improvement of modern warfare, which led to an initial victory against the common threat. However, this tenuous union was threatened by opposing ideals, dividing the alliance into two. Sakura Empire and Iron Blood broke away and formed the Red Axis, and humanity became fragmented once again.
As a seasoned and experienced fighter, the "Grey Ghost" Enterprise shoulders Azur Lane's hope for ending the war. But behind her stoic persona hides a frail girl, afraid of the ocean. Even so, she continues to fight as she believes that it's the only purpose for her existence. Meanwhile, Javelin, Laffey, and Unicorn—three ships from the union—stumble upon Ayanami, a spy from the Red Axis. Strange as it may seem, they try to befriend her, but as enemies, their efforts are for naught. Still, they persevere in hopes of succeeding one day.
Amidst the neverending conflict within humankind, the keys that could unite a fragmented race might exist: a soldier coming to terms with her mysterious personality and camaraderie between those with different ideals.
[Written by MAL Rewrite]
Audience reviews
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lalaeda
I have never played the game and started watching the anime without prior knowledge of AL's universe. So I am rating it solely as an anime.
Overall, I would say I enjoyed the animation with a lot of beautiful scenes and the sound/OST are also great.
Due to a lot of characters, there are also a lot of seiyuu, and I really enjoyed watching the anime in its original language with subs.
The plot is not bad at all, despite what I have read in the reviews from others who are well-known with AL's universe. I may not realize how deep the overall plot and idea of AL's universe are, but the anime could be a good starting point to delve deeper into it. I believe it would be hard to pack everything into 12 episodes, so there's nothing to blame on the adaptation. Consider this as an advertisement o…
Read at the sourceKagashy
In general, I can say that I liked it. But if we look at it as a subject, warships may not attract everyone's attention. I had fun though. The visuals are brilliant and the story is manageable. I advise. If you have played Azur Lane before, you already know the events and characters. If you have some history knowledge, you can have a really fun time. It's an above average series. Recommended for anyone who is curious. The main character, Enterprise, unfortunately has not been kept in the foreground. This obviously upset. Although it is a classic subject choice in terms of subject, it is not bad enough to be watched.
Read at the sourceValkyriis
Alright, let's just keep it a $1.50 here. I love the game, I don't love the anime.
It's an anime adaptation of a popular mobile game. While the mobile game itself has been done splendidly, the anime adaptation was done in a less than splendid way (and that's an understatement to say the least). As an anime, it's alright. We get some characters to look at to form fanservice theories about, to find a "best girl" and to wonder who will experience the most development over the course of the show. Sadly, with Azur Lane being a mobile game, this anime was nowhere near to showing enough characters for fans and anime watchers alike. No one is able to really connect to the characters if they've never played the game. 12 episodes of random fights and nonsensical "feel-good" moments made it very har…
Read at the sourcemorfeene
Man, where do I start.
Azur Lane is a repulsive, boring, disgusting waste of anyone and everyone's time. So much so, that I have chosen to write my first review for the sole purpose of dogging on this terrible series.
Story 2/10: The only reason I didn't give this portion a 1/10 was because the story in this anime is somewhat conceivable. The characters actions as well as the world itself can be somewhat made out. However, just because a story can be seen, does not mean that it is a pretty one. I have never personally been too big a fan of Naval combat or sea based stories so when I was met with the raw amount of inconsistencies in the pacing and overall telling of this story I was appalled to say the least. To top this all off the overall message of "we aren't that different after all,"…
Read at the sourceRobberator
How are people sleeping on this show? I'm not out here claiming this is some masterpiece, but it is a straight up, action packed shounen that's hype as frick from episode one!
To be upfront, I'm writing this as an avid player of the mobile game, so my experience would differ completely from someone who's coming into this show blind. What that difference entails might be that just a simple throwaway line from a background character holds inherent value for me, because it's one of the girls I know from the game, and how cool is that!? Reference!
But take all that away, and the fundamentals of this show still remain: fun battle scenes and high drama! I especially enjoyed all the ways they realized the rig system from the game in this show. They had so much fun with it visually! And though th…
Read at the sourceVekyll
Garbage anime, don't waste your time bros. Budget cuts can be felt from 3rd episode. If this is supposed to sell Azur Lane as a mobile game - it does pretty bad job at it - I played Azur Lane before, but if I didn't I'd never download the game with garbage story and animation like that. Would not waste time on this if not for a bet. Would give 0/10 but it's not possible.
With this utter garbage story comes our kirito-wannabe Enterprise - ship known for lack of any character beyond "I will do this" or "This has to be done". Character development? Nonexistent just like anything else that should be in an anime - Budget = 0. Story = 0. Art = has it's moments (mostly still images, maybe few seconds total in entire season) that's why I gave art 2/10. The rest? Absolute trash beyond human capab…
Read at the sourceCycryllic
Alright, let's get this clear, this show was shit. Like, really shit. I already hated the game previously for reasons I won't get into but man, I didn't think it could get any worse.
First, the story/plot. Where did that go? As if the game itself lacked a story, this is an anime. It's meant to have a story regardless of how minor it is. And here's the thing, this show has so many different subplots, almost none of which make sense. This show carries absolutely nothing over from the game other than the character names. Oh by the way, what was up with Kaga and that random monster wolf spawn? where did that come from? No explaination for that I guess. Also, how about we talk about that absolute garbage BS rushed ending? So here's the scene. They have what they attempt to call a story. its t…
Read at the sourceaurora_aeterna
tl;dr Imagine KanColle anime with a dearth of likeable characters and an even less cohesive plot.
I suppose one cannot write this review without the inevitable comparison to KanColle, but I'll do my best to speak to this anime alone first.
For an anime that inherently focuses on its characters, there were really no likeable or even cute characters, as well as an almost complete lack of character development. No depth to the highly predictable plot or even hints of deeper tones, yet no slice-of-life content to replace the missing material.
Animations of characters were ok, but became almost laughable in battles, as did the sound.
I wasn't familiar with Azur Lane before, but I also wasn't familiar with KanColle and found the anime much more enjoyable than this, even though it doesn't ran…
Read at the sourceHikari-Kuro
Azur lane? More like Azur lame.
This series makes no sense.
Let me explain.
This series is supposed to be about aliens coming to conquer earth but instead we have the iron blood and Sakura empire at war with the Royal Navy and eagle union. So far I only see Sakura empire vs Royal Navy and eagle union. Iron blood is totally absent except for a few cameo. Alien evaders? What Alien evaders?
Ayanami should be branded a traitor. I mean she rather be with the enemy?
She rather not shoot at the enemy when they have no problem firing at her comrades? She enjoys her time as their prisoner of war. She says her Sakura empire friends are important to her but she makes no attempt to escape. She is not missed, no wonder her friends at the Sakura empire does not even bother to attempt to rescue her.…
Read at the sourcecurvedtree
I started watching the series without even knowing its premise nor that it was based on a mobile game. I was aware it involved ships, but girls that are actually ships didn't cross my mind.
Story 1/10: it has a story, but it feels lacking, with no clear purpose. The world has a number of nations which are divided in two factions: Azur Lane and Crimson Axis. On hindsight, we are shown the perspective of both sides, so it is not so easy to antagonise one side over the other, even though it is clear Azur Lane are more likely portrayed as the "good" ones and stand with humanity, meanwhile the Crimson Axis uses Siren's technologies to destroy the Azur Lane;
Art/Animation 6/10: I heard some people complaining about the animation on this show, I have watched it after it was over, and since they…
Read at the sourceentysupremacy
Ok, I've watched this show a few months ago and I've yet to write a review for this so...
Alright, I play Azur Lane, I love the game, I play it everyday, every time, do my dailies and stuff, the game is very enjoyable, now when I found out that this was getting an anime adaption I was VERY hyped. But...
The story is very meh, it feels like it was written by a middle school student, but sometimes, even those can be better. There's nothing particularly special about the story, seeing how there isn't really much of a plot going on in the game itself, for them to manage to write something for a game that has little to go with, quite impressive actually. But from a general POV, the story is indeed meh.
The art in this was very inconsistent, the animators copied the poses of the in-game art,…
Read at the sourceAlexPaulLEWZ
Before I start , I want to say that I would try my best in refraining to mention game material in this review so that I would avoid spoilers.
War never changes. Be it any era, wars have only done nothing but chaos towards the people participating it. That fact remains until today. People will always want to gain something other people have: territories, resources—anything. Once the dispute reaches between governments, a lack of communication will always ensue with WAR.
Soon, war moved on from the lands to the seas, and naval warfare became one of the most pivotal battles a side cannot afford to lose lest their disadvantage. In this series, however, an alien forces known as the "Sirens" with extremely powerful technology suddenly appeared, spreading threat to humanity.
To combat this sit…
Read at the sourcePyraXadon
will fully admit that while I was watching this entire show from beginning to end, I was also playing the game off to the side. PR ship farming takes a long time, so I gotta take whatever time I can to ease that burden.
Story:
Humanity has come under fire from a new threat called the Sirens. In order to combat this seemingly naval-only threat, humanity used the power of the Wisdom cubes to turn their own ships into humanoid ship girls that take on the mantra and characteristics of the vessels they come from. But a rift divides the four factions from fighting the Sirens to fighting amongst each other on how to save humanity instead, leading to the creation of two groups: Azur Lane (The Allies) consisting of the Eagle Union (America) and Royal Navy (Britain) and the Red Axis (Axis Power…
Read at the sourceAnimeWalke
Whoo boy. I had no idea what I was getting into but hey I figured cute waifus why not.
The quality of the anime quickly dropped after episode 2 or 3. And when I say dropped, I mean it dropped so much that even I noticed it, and I don't watch that much anime. The plot line was confusing, with instant teleports in one part of the episode mid season and then a sudden shower fan service scene. I'm also told that the shipping (ha pun) between Enterprise and Belfast wasn't in the actual game, and I will say that that one episode with it did feel like it was trying to force shipping (ha).
Near the end of the season, the plot line was still going nowhere, and then they announced a 3 month break for the anime. Well it's been 3 months, and they have upgraded the quality of the anime, but then th…
Read at the sourcerobert788
Azur Lane (2019)
[Spoiler Warning]
Now, people can be upset by the delay and I totally appreciate that. But, overall the series was pretty damn great.
In terms of best girls, what can I say? I say girl's because there is not just one.
Cleveland since the bath scene is my overall best girl. Adorable reaction.
Nagato is second best because she is so cute. Akashi because her cat things are insanely cute and her hands like paws when she talks.
Z23 because she is a great character in a cute outfit.
Prinz Eugen is our sadistic waifu character.
Ayanami is just generally cute and when her sisters are with her it is insane.
Laffey in Japanese has the most adorable voice.
Unicorn is just generally cute and sweet.
Warspite because she looks cute and also because her role as the Knight.
She…
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Azur Lane is an anime original, adapted from the game with the same name. I love the game.
The game itself has sort of a story line and has many events with their own story line often not involved in the main quests. I feel like that the creators of the anime had a bit of struggle to write a good plot. Later on it become's clear there's a lot of plot armour if it wanted to fit the personality of the game.
The animation is sometimes good but most of the time it's trash. As a war/action anime it should have been dynamic and moving. Yet we get moving picutres (not good). The studio postpone the last 2 episodes to make the animation better, but there was no improvement compared to earlier episodes.
The plot is very weak/ non-existent. It had one cheesy catchphrase where the show should have…
Read at the sourceShinodaChan
As someone who loves Azur Lane, I'll be honest: This adaptation was terrible.
- Mediocre story featuring a generic plot, awful pacing, an OOC lead (Enterprise), forced yuribait, and an inconsistent setting. If the writers' goal was to sum up the in-game story so far, they failed spectacularly. No in-game events are mentioned or animated, and what context is presented is vague and never expanded upon. Enterprise is reduced to a one-note ration addict without common sense who can only be saved not by her sister (Hornet) or her dedicated repair ship (Vestal), but by Belfast because yuribait. One of the major factions in-game (Ironblood) is sidelined with their starter ship only getting ~3 minutes of screentime, and the minor factions are nowhere to be found. Episodes sporadically hop from s…
Read at the sourceslavemaster_1991
You know, I learned one thing about adaptation of video games: they are almost never good. Azur Lane had it even worse being a gacha game for phones, so it could not rely on having a good story that can be comfortably put into 12 episodes. So instead of a plot we are overflowed with fanservice (and I think people watching this anime came for it), wich is not bad on its own, the problem lies more in budget and amount of work invested into the title. And let me tell you - neither is really impressive. Yes, fanservice part is okayish, but it is not really a hard thing to do when you have an already massive amount of reference material of varying lewdness. However, animation showed itself worse in "action" scenes. Correct me if I am wrong, but the beauty of naval warfare comes from the scale:…
Read at the sourceKANLen09
AHHH...Azur Lane, how we missed ya then and back, and now out again. The promise that we'd have a decent game adaptation with an original storyline that subsequently went to shit as it progresses, not to mention the many warship waifus and the mediocre animation that accompanies this dreaded show.
Based on the gacha game of the same name (that was insanely popular at the time), Azur Lane features anthropomorphic World War 2 waifu ships that we have the joy of the love-hate relationships between its insanely big cast of allies and enemies to develop their growth overtime as we please and experience some of the very best mobile games have to offer. And of course, the anime adaptation was a sure-fire thing back when it got massively popular back in 2017. But what we got instead was a product…
Read at the sourceStark700
Perhaps the theme of ship girls isn’t an overly saturated idea in the anime medium. We’ve only had a handful of anime about ship girls in these recent years. Azur Lane does gleefully feel similar to Kantai Collection, a franchise that it drew influences from. Back in 2015, Kantai Collection presented itself as a love letter to fans of the game. Azur Lane follows a similar path and by that, it tries to please the fans.
But as an anime original viewer, Azur Lane presented itself to me as a fan disservice of naval storytelling. The plot deals with nations fighting against the mysterious alien force known as the “Sirens”. Azur Lane is a military alliance established to counter the threat that consist of the Eagle Union, Sakura Empire, Royal Navy, and Ironblood. However, these nations develop…
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