AniWorthGiant Beasts of Ars
Introduction
In the world of Ars, humans lead a decades-long war against giant beasts that ravage the lands and feed on their resources. Those tasked with fighting them are Paladins, who utilize the destructive power of Clerics: beings gifted with uncontrollable magical powers.
While mourning the death of his war partner, former Paladin Jiiro crosses paths with Kuumi, a young woman who has just awakened her magical powers. After the pair form a contract to save the city from a giant beast attack, Jiiro learns that Kuumi has escaped a laboratory and is being hunted by the underlings of Mezami, the head of the research facility.
Reluctantly agreeing to help Kuumi flee from her pursuers, Jiiro starts traveling with his new partner and her friend Myaa, a young girl with a cat headdress. As the unlikely trio wanders the Arsian lands, top officials begin setting their plans into motion—and the group of adventurers soon discover that men are to be feared more than monsters.
[Written by MAL Rewrite]
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MyAnimeList / Tenrai : 6.05/10 · 15109
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Audience reviews
4 · Sample from the first available page, separate from the total number of ratings.
Unconfidence
This is a pretty darn enjoyable anime. The plotline felt fresh and the characters each seemed to have realistic motivations. The world is well-outlayed, and there's a healthy balance between seriousness and lightheartedness. It never felt like the shounen MC was too OP on his own, or that anyone was having too easy of a time. The ending felt a little rushed but it also left the door open for greater explanations. The politics and negotiation are well done, and I like that they don't under-write the character's plans and schemes. Also, the ero-fanservice is pretty minimal, with there being one self-sexualized character, and the rest portrayed without sexual overtones. This isn't a masterpiece of an anime or anything, but well worth a watch if you're into fantasy and like when characters act…
Read at the sourcegeekgirl42
Man what a letdown. It was a pretty decent original fantasy show; and I give a smidge more leeway to original projects since they are taking a bigger risk too.
Premise was suitably interesting to keep me going through the show. Cast was likeable enough and had some decent story beats in it. Could have focused a little more than it did but that would have been a nitpick had it not been for that last episode. I was thinking as the episode was wrapping up; it's okay, I've seen worse, then they piss me off in the last 30 seconds to make the mildly disappointing ending really disappointing. It's so unfortunate really, that the ending kills the show for me.
There's not much to talk about in terms of production value. It's pretty average across the board so I don't have much to say about it ot…
Read at the sourceJozuwa-_-
Beast of Ars felt like a JRPG consisting of colorful and visually attractive main characters, with a fairly interesting setting and lore, but with the gameplay being an afterthought, and having dungeons and bosses that are nerfed to "Baby Mode".
It's been tagged as Action, Adventure, Fantasy Anime. But it barely got any "ACTION" as it only had a few battle scenes which only lasted a few minutes, if not seconds when it does happen. It is also lacking in the "ADVENTURE" aspect since they barely struggled to get to their 'Main Story Quests' destinations. And the closest to "FANTASY" it got was making me fantasize about Jiro's "Giant Beast" spearing through Romana's "Ars". (Excuse the childishness. Been holding it in for 3 months.)
I genuinely wanted this Anime to be at least an overall fine…
Read at the sourceKANLen09
"Finally, a fantasy anime that goes: We don't need to copy every other fantasy Isekai world to ever be made...let's copy Attack on Titan instead!"
- Gigguk, Winter 2023 In A Nutshell
I'm always pumped for original shows that pleads its case to showcase something that is different to diversify the season that it came out on. And Ars no Kyojuu a.k.a Giant Beasts of Ars, made from the minds of studio Asahi Production and internet company DMM.com (from parent company-cum-producer DMM Pictures)...other than it being more Monster Hunter than AOT, is sadly yet another waste of opportunity for a rounded ringleader idea of sorts than it is to actually have some exeuction, which was mild to say the least.
The original head scriptwriter for this show being Norimitsu Kaiho, he was the brainchild of…
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