As mentioned, the bad guys are your standard pantomime supervillains, in this particular instance they are dressed up like the goth kid who listened to too much Visual kei. the characters. Blade and Soul has them in a vague sense, but none of them are particularly interesting. Generally, not much to comment on.Ĭharacters: Ahh yes. The accompanying soundtrack is decent, but slightly generic. The show is light on fan service, but you get the impression that the creators wanted more given the bounteous bosoms featured on most female characters. It tends to excel in darker scenes, whereas in brighter settings the animation quality drops a bit. The animation isn't revolutionary, but it's probably the best point of the show. heat shimmers around fire and some particle effects here and there. They also use some CGI effects to create e.g. Characters are fluid and it has a nice range of colors. The main villains, who are nominally part of the Big Darkbad Empire of Evilness don't really seem to care about any larger motivations and are primarily occupied with being as evil as possible, so it hardly matters.Īnimation: It's decent, probably the highlight of the show. There's even a generic evil empire-type thing that gets mentioned, but we only really hear about how they're big and evil etc. This show attempts to have a fairly violent and dark tone, but it utterly fails by delivering a setting that is bland and insubstantial. At least, I'm pretty sure that's what the creators intended, but I really found it hard to give a damn because everything is so dull and uninteresting. Along the way, she supposedly learns to regret all the people she killed and comes to terms with her own sense of self, primarily by either killing more people or crying about all the dead people. Story: Blade and Soul follows the adventures of the female assassin and sociopath Alka as she goes on a journey to avenge her mentor, who was murdered by some generically evil villains with large breasts and spooky voodoo magic. Also I did watch all of this show, despite really not liking it after the first episode (which showed some potential).

That being said, I seriously doubt it makes any difference as it looks like the anime tries to be self-contained. I haven't ever played the game, so it's possible that somehow the game makes the anime make sense.

Tl dr: Bland crap that would have a hard time keeping a house plant interested.īefore we get started, I want to make the disclaimer that Blade and Soul is based on a MMORPG by Korean studio NCsoft.

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