Audience reviews
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Shiki278
Break Blade is a grounded mecha anime about a group of friends who end up on opposing sides of a war and must fight on despite their hesitation. Its most refreshing elements are its believable character dynamics and adult cast, but it also has tropes like a chosen hero and unrequited love that keep it from feeling unfamiliar or artsy. Its weighty, tactic-heavy mech combat, along with a clear pro-peace message, puts it closer to Gundam than more extravagant mechas, and that maturity is what ties the whole package together. There's flashes of fanservice and duels of destiny, along with a spirited protagonist who keeps the air light, but it's still a war story, just one that contrasts the warmth of connection with the coldness of conflict.
The pacing and progression from movie to movie is ne…
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*Note: This is a review of all six films.*
tl;dr: A mecha anime with great action and characters with a lot of depth but very slow development.
Break Blade is a mecha anime, though unlike most it’s fantasy rather than sci-fi. It’s set in a world where most everyone has the ability to magically manipulate quartz and bend it to their will using what is dubbed sorcery. This allows especially skilled sorcerers to pilot enormous mechs known as Golems. However, the protagonist Rygart is one of the exceptionally rare few who can’t use sorcery at all. This would normally mean that he has no place on the battlefield at all, but fate has different plans for him when, right in the middle of his home country Krisna being invaded, he discovers that he’s the only one that can pilot an ancient and espe…
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This review covers all six movies.
A long term key animator turned director by the name of Habara Nobuyoshi was the main guy heading up the mech adventure manga adaptation into a total of six movies up to chapter 50 of the manga. Break Blade or otherwise known as Broken Blade came from a joint effort by Production I.G. and Xebec. This is an anime about mech battles being a major focus for kingdoms and nations either to take over or protect their lands. There was a 12 episode anime tv series, but the adaptation was shortened and overall not very well received. The six movie adaptation here does follow the source material closely up until movie six as to have the story end at a good juncture within the plot.
Our setting is on a continent called Cruzon where war has broken out between two n…
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This is a review over the first 6 movies though I assume all the movies they will release.
To keep this short 100 people dead in a different country will have less of an impact on you than the death of one close person. Sadly no one told the writer of this. So many people die which is fine, but it is all like omg they are dying and the bad people are laughing manically. Sadly because at best I know one thing about them they are basically strangers and when they die as soldier I could not care less. We have all had those moments in something we watched where we were like fuck now, they better live. Sometimes they do not and when the good guys get revenge yous like yes tear them apart now we get to laugh like a maniac. Which this show tries to go after time after time but not once was I mov…
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First of all I want to clarify that I’m writing this review after watching Movie 1. I have no clue how the story will develop. Maybe I’ll throw my final conclusions at the page of the last one. Who knows.
Also, I apologize for every single spelling mistake I make in this post. I’m not really good at English.
So. I think an ideal word to describe this series is ‘simple’. But not in a negative way. If something is simple, yet catches your attention, it means there must be something good about it. I have a hard time paying attention to video’s that exceed 20 minutes, so I decided I would watch a part of this movie, to see if it was interesting or not. Before I knew it, it was over. It didn’t felt as if I watched such a long episode. The story was very interesting, imo. Yet, there are severa…
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This review will cover the all 6 films, thus meaning that this review will be an overall review of all the films, got it? :)
The very first moment I watched this series, I knew right away that I'd be in for a great ride, and if you're into the mecha, shounen and military action genreas, then Broken (Brake) Blade is the anime for you and you won't be disappointed.
I give the overall story a 7. Why? Here comes why.
The story had a great start, however, I think that it seriously lacked some elements that would make the story better. The story is pretty chronological, so the films don't jump between the past and present, besides some important flashbacks. We get some information about the main characters and their background, but I think the story would have scored higher if the viewer was f…
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Coming from common knowledge of mecha animes, Break Blade 1 doesn't go that far from reintroducing different viewers to what is really appreciated as a great genre of anime.
To start things off, I could say that BB1 is something very typical of an action/military that contains a hero. It's cliche, as some of the reviews had already said. However, I admired how it was implemented well. There's great character development which helps the movement of the story. Rygart, who I can describe as an unconventional hero since he lacks the ability that all of the people around him possess, shines out. His lack of power is what makes him that distinct from the other pilots, as well as his own Golem that only he can control. Given this foundation for the story, BB1 leaves us hanging for what Rygart ca…
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This is a review solely for the Break Blade movie series, as the movie veers off in it's own direction to wrap up the story.
Overall, it's a great movie series to watch. It's movie length allows you to take in a good amount of information without consuming too much time or dragging out. Unfortunately, the manga series goes on for quite a while, so the movie doesn't cover the entire manga. Which makes for an unexplained ending and shortcuts throughout the movies.
Nonetheless, the animation is great, and the voice acting fits the characters well. But like all superhero mecha anime's, the 'soldiers' are always meaningless in combat, and sometimes act as placeholders to simply push a character through a plot. (I.E. the character "Dan").
There are a lot of important characters in the series,…
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Note: My thoughts in this review cover the entirety of the Broken Blade movie series instead of one specific movie, just to give folks a heads up.
Broken Blade explores a young farmer named Rygalt Arrow who finds himself becoming entangled in a war between two kingdoms when he finds himself capable of piloting an ancient mecha named Delphine that others in the kingdom of Krisna are incapable of doing. Throughout the span of six movies, Broken Blade features Rygalt reuniting with the rulers of Krisna, Sigyn and Hodr, who were old friends of his from military school and adjusting to life as a soldier when he agrees to join the Krisna military. He comes to learn that another friend from military school, Zess, is fighting on the enemy's behalf.
Broken Blade has a nice number of the common cl…
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INTRO: Broken Blade was a bit of a let down for me. I broke one of my own cardinal rules for watching anime; I had expectations. I saw the nice art, I saw that it was from I.G., and that it was an OAV, saw some good-looking characters and therefore launched right into the assumption that it HAD to be great! And maybe it is, but it certainly wasn't my cuppa! I was kinda bored throughout this series....and I'm not sure why Broken Blade isn't classed as a series because you can't watch any of them independently or out of sequence, that's enough for it to be classed as a singular series. And that's how I've written this review...for the WHOLE series, So yes, bored and disappointed I was, as Broken Blade broke no moulds, the: same old mecha-driven plot complete with "unique" pilot, yet no true…
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Break Blade? I still think someone translated it wrong.
When the movie starts, the first thing anyone would notice is the mecha battle. Basically their way of saying, “Ya, that’s right, this is a mecha show.” Honestly, I tend not to expect too much from mechas, simply because most are not that good. At best I expect to give this show an 8 overall, but I hope it will give me a reason to give it more.
The first thing I want to talk about is the art, because it’s the first thing you see. Right away you will notice that the budget for this series is way higher than your normal anime, but not as high as 5 cm per second. The animation is very fluid and high def. The fluid animation becomes really prominent when they start throwing cool camera angles and pan overs across the screen. One visual…
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This will be a review about the whole 6 OVAS.
Story 7/10
Once again we are faced with a somewhat generic Story. In a world where everyone is able to control quartz (and they call it magic) there is a boy who was born without this ability, yet he comes across a special kind of golem (the mechas of this world) which only he can controll and will soon be a key piece in a war between two nations.
Despite beeing quite generic I found the story to be entretaining and at the end of every OVA I couldn't wait to see what was going to happen in the next one.
I'd recomment aproaching this as a "watch for fun" kind of story rather than something that will blow you away.
Art 9/10
Not bad though as far as characters design goes they are also on the generic side. I liked the design for the golems and…
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This is going to be a Fast and Dirty review for the whole six OVA series.
Break Blade is a mecha OVA series that doesn't really offer anything new to the veteran anime viewers. We have a medieval-fantasy setting with mecha-golems. Everyone has the ability to use magic except for one young man who can't. Their peaceful nation is attacked by a powerful foreign power. At the knick of time they find a mysterious ancient mecha-golem, and guess what, only the boy without the magic powers can pilot it. We have an unlikely hero, reluctant to participate in battle, who is forced to do so in order to protect the people he cares about.
However, even though everything seems like standard fare at first glance, the anime has some interesting ideas to offer. The mecha-golems look and fight more like st…
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Well I was pretty surprised to know that Break Blade got a movie! Talk about being out of date. I've read the manga and quite liked it, though in the manga, mecha battle scenes aren't drawn very well, it gets kinda confusing. So I was pretty excited to watch the movie, to see what the mecha battles will be. And this movie really doesn't disappoint me in anyway.
Story: 7
Kinda typical story, a boy who can't use any magic in world where everyone can use magic, but somehow can activated a Golem that no other person managed to activate. Even if it's typical, I think it's played quite well. This is only the first movie so I can't say much about the plot, but I've read the manga so basically I know the story further than what this movie has shown, and I'll say that if the next movies continue t…
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‘Break Blade’ is essentially a 50-minute teaser.
It starts with a rather chaotic scene featuring giant robots shooting at each other, only to shift focus to a young man fainting in the desert a couple of minutes later. It’s eventually made clear that conflict has broken out between 2 nations and that one of them has discovered a special weapon that could turn the tide in their favor if only they know how to use it. Enter our fainting young man in the desert who actually knows the ruler of said nation and, surprise, can use the weapon!
That’s the bare essentials of the main story. There are plenty more characters but none of them really develop in any way. Every character introduced gets a scene or 2 to establish his/her personality and maybe a few hints about their background and past re…
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Just finished watching it and I liked it.
Story-7,it's not uncommon,still in the Gundam form- a guy that appears incapable of doing something or common suddenly manages to fight a robot different from the others in order to protect his friends.-Despite that,the story is structurated well,though i still believe 50 minutes isn't enough,especially for the first part,in order to introduce us well to the characters.But for now we do have a presentation to the main character,Rygart Arrow,and a small idea about the other characters.
Art-10,because it is Production I.G. and XEBEC we are talking about,and it looks well for me,as a mecha-fighting anime.The surroundings,canyon and desert really seem to bring out that feeling of isolation and arid grounds.
Sound-10- because it is Kokia that does th…
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