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I actually started doing reviews for this anime, but kinda got to busy.... Recently I heard the show was getting good, so I'll pick it up again to episode 3! For now here's my first review:

When I first saw this series on YouTube and other places on the internet, I pushed it off as another generic series. Personally, I am not a fan of series where the females' appearance seem to be a source of fan service with the exaggerated body parts with little personality. Another reason I didn't get too into it was because the animation budget seemed to be low from what I saw (and I was TOTALLY WRONG about THAT), and the main plot of legendary heroes forming together to beat some evil demon seemed a bit over used. It even started out like how I thought it was, with an introduction spelling out the "ancient legend" or tale that was to be the story.

   However, as it moved on, it was the stunning art that struck me first. The beautiful 2d style that contrasts the animes of this generation (that tend to use excessive 3d animation) really gives this series a plus. Along with the gorgeous details of people in the bustling market and those in the tournament arena. I'm really liking the culture by the way; the structures seem to be like Aztec temples, adding another plus to the uniqueness.

   Next, the characters also turned out differently from what I thought they'd be like.
The main, Adlet Mayer, is a cocky, fiery-headed, kick-butt fighter, though we still have yet to see his true strength as the "strongest guy in the world". He uses little tricks such as smoke bombs and tiny daggers to defeat the bigger champions of the tournament, yet he still claims himself the strongest... I'm predicting that either he hides his true strength, which would be a crazy powerful strength, OR he is actually a fraud or a trickster who uses small tricks to get away with everything. Anyhow, he has major confidence, and seems passive about going to prison and is the type to simply survive and go with the flow of whatever happens to him; like when he takes up the dagger in his cell to start counting days, and ate whatever he found and drank whatever fell through the bars. He kind of reminds me of Ryner Lute from Densetsu no Yuusha no Densetsu, another series I really like and recommend, despite being incomplete.
   The other character, Princess Nashetania (I ain't writing the whole name) of Piena, seems to have a nice personality. Very curious, intelligent, and apparently crazy strong, to be able to "smash" that gigantic champion. Though I was okay with the character design she had before, when she was posing as a maid, the fact that now her chest is revealing and how she had freaking BUNNY EARS is what irritates me the most. At least they didn't have weird camera shots and angles of her chest, so I can live with it.

   The Story is VERY engaging, especially with how fantastic this intro for a first episode was. Though a tad bit generic, it still really felt like I was watching a legendary story unfold before me, from beginning with a mysterious red-haired cocky guy bombing a tournament, and then explaining the background story later. The fact he went to prison for messing up a tournament was a nice realistic touch, unlike some shounen anime where the character waltz in and out of places with no consequences. I just hope this tempo doesn't slow down.

   The Animation is EPIC, especially after a totally awesome opening. I truly loved the 2d scenes and the red clouds that entered Adlet's prison, which I thought was ominously symbolic. I'm glad the hair strands and actions movements are animated well so I wouldn't keep noticing odd things when trying to concentrate on the story. The 3d animation is limited, and when used, doesn't bother me at all, because the rest of the episode and 2d unique drawing made up for it. I also love the art style, that also helped me enjoy the episode, with the character's detailed facial features (Adlet's mentors' face really had an impact) that really reminded me of Avatar: The Last Airbender.

   The Music is nice, even now, the opening is stuck in my head, playing over and over and over...

   All of  the elements of the first episode made me recognize this anime as a great start for a season of adventure! I am looking forward to possible twists, crazy revelations, and some good story telling in the future episodes! I don't like having high expectations, but this series may be qualified to be among the animes such as Densetsu no Yuusha no Densetsu (Legend of the Legendary Heroes) and even Full Metal Alchemist if it gets more seasons!

   Some other action/adventure animes I really love and recommend include: Fullmetal Alchemist (Brotherhood), Legend of the Legendary Heroes, Tears to Tiara, Yona of the Dawn, Darker than Black, and Yu-Gi-Oh! And some mangas: Legend of Basara, Shin Ongyo Onshi, Immortal Rain, and Black Cat!
(there might be more, but that's all that's at the top of my head right now)

   Alright see ya next time, on my next review of episode 2 of Rokka no Yuusha!

Peace! I knooow its been too long since I last came online-- but I do admit I'm not an active user, and life has been shoving homework and responsibilities at my face, and I've been experiencing many turns and twists these past few months...
Not that I regret it-- I actually think it was meant to be. Maybe God is telling me to get mature already and stop depending on other people at times.
I hope inshallah I could continue my hobbies once more and replenish my creative side, but for now, I simply want to greet my online friends after so long.

This meaningful song is from Prince of Egypt, "Through Heaven's Eyes"
Not sure who the old man is (possibly another prophet), but he's explaining to Moses the true worth of man.
I highly recommend this movie to those of haven't seen it, even though the plot is different from the Quran's version of Musa(as), and it shows the image of a prophet, it is still worth watching the realistic graphics and human emotions of the characters that really touch the heart... This movie was my all time favorite since childhood...

ANYWAYS, here are the lyrics to "Through Heaven's Eyes"
***
A single thread in a tapestry
Through its color brightly shine
Can never see its purpose
In the pattern of the grand design

And the stone that sits on the very top
Of the mountain's mighty face
Does it think it's more important
Than the stones that form the base?

So how can you see what your life is worth
Or where your value lies?
You can never see through the eyes of man
You must look at your life

Look at your life through heaven's eyes

A lake of gold in the desert sand
Is less than a cool fresh spring
And to one lost sheep, a shepherd boy
Is greater than the richest king
If a man lose ev'rything he owns
Has he truly lost his worth?
Or is it the beginning
Of a new and brighter birth?

So how do you measure the worth of a man
In wealth or strength or size?
In how much he gained or how much he gave?
The answer will come
The answer will come to him who tries
To look at his life through heaven's eyes

And that's why we share all we have with you
Though there's little to be found
When all you've got is nothing
There's a lot to go around

No life can escape being blown about
By the winds of change and chance
And though you never know all the steps
You must learn to join the dance
You must learn to join the dance

So how do you judge what a man is worth
By what he builds or buys?
You can never see with your eyes on earth
Look through heaven's eyes
Look at your life
Look at your life
Look at your life through heaven's eyes
***
And here's the link to the song: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oG0a9W…

***I personally like how this song demonstrates how temptations of small powers could lead (step by step) from greediness to corruption; something many people are going through today***

I can ride my bike with no handlebars
No handlebars
No handlebars

I can ride my bike with no handlebars
No handlebars
No handlebars

Look at me, look at me
hands in the air like it's good to be
ALIVE
and I'm a famous rapper
even when the paths're all crookedy
I can show you how to do-si-do
I can show you how to scratch a record
I can take apart the remote control
And I can almost put it back together
I can tie a knot in a cherry stem
I can tell you about Leif Ericson
I know all the words to "De Colores"
And "I'm Proud to be an American"
Me and my friend saw a platypus
Me and my friend made a comic book
And guess how long it took
I can do anything that I want cuz, look:

I can keep rhythm with no metronome
No metronome
No metronome

I can see your face on the telephone
On the telephone
On the telephone

Look at me
Look at me
Just called to say that it's good to be
ALIVE
In such a small world
All curled up with a book to read
I can make money open up a thrift store
I can make a living off a magazine
I can design an engine sixty four
Miles to a gallon of gasoline
I can make new antibiotics
I can make computers survive aquatic conditions
I know how to run a business
And I can make you wanna buy a product
Movers shakers and producers
Me and my friends understand the future
I see the strings that control the systems
I can do anything with no assistance
I can lead a nation with a microphone
With a microphone
With a microphone
I can split the atoms of a molecule
Of a molecule
Of a molecule

Look at me
Look at me
Driving and I won't stop
And it feels so good to be
Alive and on top
My reach is global
My tower secure
My cause is noble
My power is pure
I can hand out a million vaccinations
Or let'em all die in exasperation
Have'em all healed of their lacerations
Have'em all killed by assassination
I can make anybody go to prison
Just because I don't like'em and
I can do anything with no permission
I have it all under my command
I can guide a missile by satellite
By satellite
By satellite
and I can hit a target through a telescope
Through a telescope
Through a telescope
and I can end the planet in a holocaust
In a holocaust
In a holocaust
In a holocaust
In a holocaust
In a holocaust

I can ride my bike with no handlebars
No handle bars
No handlebars

I can ride my bike with no handlebars
No handlebars
No handlebars

Music Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLUX0y…

If

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too:
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream---and not make dreams your master;
If you can think---and not make thoughts your aim,
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same:.
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build'em up with worn-out tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings,
And never breathe a word about your loss:
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings---nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much:
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And---which is more---you'll be a Man, my son!

Rudyard Kipling