Audience reviews
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shaden12
Levius was interesting to pick apart. At first glance, everything should work to pull in the viewer for a fun ride. The talent behind the show is apparent and the concept interesting enough to earn itself an anime adaptation. It makes people turn their head but not stop and truly interest them further.
Mild spoilers, existence of characters mentioned, nothing plot-related.
Animation: Very Good
This is an anime with strong art direction. Possibly the mangaka, whose beautiful artwork can be seen in the outro, helped a lot. They seem to have strong fundamentals and the high quality of art can be seen throughout. Character designs are simple but sharp. The light in some environment shots is lovely and gives an amazing atmosphere.
Of course, it brings us to the CGI. While it is often somethi…
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This review will be my first review on MAL, so please ignore the mistakes I am going to make. And I will try to keep the language I use, as straightforward as possible. And also, I am going to keep this review spoiler free. So, bear that in mind.
Animation
Oh, Polygon Pictures what you guys have achieved. When I saw Ajin series (also from the same studio) for the first time I wasn’t able to understand why they have used CGI in the anime. But after watching Levius I can tell why. The CGI and the way they have mastered it is just perfect. In some anime, probably because of budget problems, you will see some issues. Such as the way the characters move, the way characters speak and so on. In these “low budget series” nearly every scene will be just one frame (e.g., Saihate no Paladin). When th…
Read at the sourceNierAdam1
So what is Levius?
Levius is a cyber punk story,in which the handsome young protagonist Levius is a boxer.
The CGI is actually really good considered that japan usually sucks at it, not as good as disneys or pixars CGI.
The soundtrack is really good honestly, very fitting for the atmosphere.
OP and ED were ultimatly forgetable.
The characters are OK, nothing world shattering that hasn't been done before. My main crtisism is, that the anime doesn't have a clear message, like is capitalism bad? Is war bad? We are told that Levius searched something in fighting, this question is answered, however it isn't answered in satisfactory way. Besides this he does far more for essantially strangers then one can reasonably expect from a normal human being.
But all in all it was fun to watch,…
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General: (6.55 / 10)
I am not going to lie to you, if I end up watching this series until the end it was for the mere fact of being a fan of the "Deportivo" genre.
The reality is that this adaptation does not propose to be anything innovative within the genre. What's more, I see it as a "copy" or reference to Megalo Box, which is really very similar, although I really couldn't say which one was created first. Returning to this Anime, we must clarify that its Rhythm of history and development They were not very clear. First, I advanced relatively slowly until giving us more concepts of the plot and only then began to expand "the world of Levius" and why things happen. Let's add that his characters, although they have certain moments of development, for Moments leave to be desired and do no…
Read at the sourceST63LTH
PSA: Before people make an uninformed claim that this series is a knock-off of Megalo Box (I did thought it was at first); please realize that the manga of this series was made 6 years before Megalo Box's manga - It's just that it took 8 years for the anime adaptation to be released in comparison to nearly half a year for the anime adaptation of Megalo Box to be released. I did however, watch Megalo Box before watching this and I can confidently claim that I enjoyed this series a bit more than Megalo Box - Megalo Box was amazing in its own way but in terms of plot structure and character I found this series more interesting. Now let's get into the review!
Mild Spoilers
Plot:
MC is a first-hand victim of the wrath of war after witnessing a local individual being taken away, he then sees…
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I saw Baki and saw Kengan, but now after seeing Levius. I can only say that it has been a wonder, as much as the story as to the quality of everything. Just check it to the end, its going to my top fav Shows and this is not a joke, we need more animes like that, Megalobox is the same wonderful anime that we need.
Characters: 10/10
Audio: 10/10
CGI: 10/10
Overall: 10/10 The only bad thing its we can't enjoy more than 12 chapters.
A trully amazing show.
I hope we get a second season from the manga, i will be dreaming till this day.
Read at the sourceJust-H
This is one of those short anime that kept me glued to the screen.
The story made me feel for the characters, and whoever practiced any sort of combat sports knows about the feelings portrayed in the anime: comradery, the will to keep pushing and becoming better.
I see that a lot of reviewers disliked the CGI and the story.
The art was amazing and so was the story in my opinion.
Hating CGI anime solely for the sake of agreeing with the status quo, that's just snobbism, and a poor attempt of achieving elitism.
Mediocre anime? The reviews do not do it justice. If you like anime like Baki, or Kengan Ashura, this one is a nice touch, with steam-punk like cyborg boxing campaign, the premise is pretty wacky but then again, so are most anime.
I loved it, and I think you will love it too.
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Despite the CGI, the action of this show was actually interesting to watch, the fights were well build and had some basic to relentless strategy on it, although sometimes the scenes had some obvious low framerates and static/repetitive characters in the background, but no big deal.
As for the story, it seems decent, although it wont explore clearly the main characters intention and their reason to engage in fights from the beggining, which is kind good and bad at the same time, since it creates some environment of mistery while also kind of make hard to relate with them until later on, specifically Levius due to his silent archetype and lack of expression, although such character construction suits his tragic past/trauma.
The opponent characters were ok, but ironically kind falling behin…
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