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Putting aside my endless amount of hate for scarf figures and other generic designs that are found in this first episode, it doesn’t have much going for it. Animation is insanely rough with characters being knocked back before they are even hit with the same attacks being regurgitated over and over again. It’s all the same stuff seen in every other SN series that attempts to create a DBZ knockoff in SN. The use of effect and fast pace fight is good though. But I still found myself zoning out, rushing to read through small bits of dialogue that don’t even matter. Music used in the background doesn’t sync well with what is going on as well as it’s low quality music. But it’s there. So there’s that. Character designs, backgrounds and effects are all rather bland and hold nothing special. The fact that 4/6 characters here have a scarf and 6/6 can be seen in almost every animation pulls it’s uniqueness and charm to 0. Storywise, theres nothing. All of these people that are beating the living hell out of each other don’t seem to hold personalities and this massive fight is the start. There’s no context of why their fighting, then it turns out that they are a team? Now at this point we are introduced to 6 characters in 1 minute 50. We see some of their names which end up going througn one ear and out the other cause this is just so cluttered and hectic. Not even mentioning part of the most ridiculous part, we see 5 of the characters, don’t even know who is who here and what they are about, then we are introduced to the main villian at a cliffhanger, I believe this is Raze from what I know about the series. But this first episode doesn’t give a good impression.

Story simply fails to exist, the animation is choppy and odd-looking, the fighting scenes are monotonous and the hits fail to deliver that “powerful” impact you expect to see, the characters have bland, generic names and boring designs. Our protagonists seem to be “fighting” but it looks more like they’re just lightly poking one another and ocasionally throwing balls of energy around.

2/5 just because this is old.

Oh boy, this critique is going to be controversial. So, let’s get started.

The visuals of Elements is easily its best quality. The fights are animated well and occasionally have interesting camera angles to help enhance the experience. Though, the fights suffer from being repetitive. However, the visuals are also hindered by the character designs, in my opinion. Now, don’t get me wrong, I have nothing against Base Figs, but when almost every single character looks like a recolor of one another, it makes the series less interesting. The only character who is visually interesting is Raze, but in the context of this series, that really isn’t saying much.

The plot is easily the worst part of Elements. It’s bare-bones, not very interesting, and the characters don’t help carry it. The “plot” (with HUGE quotation marks around it) seems more like an excuse to just have characters beat the living hell out of each other episode after episode. Along with this, the characters all have the same, painfully bland, boring-as-hell personality, which prevents them from making the plot any more interesting.

The humor in Elements is also painfully weak. Being an action series, I can’t exactly expect it to have A-class humor, but the occasional jokes that are placed throughout the episodes aren’t funny in the least.

Overall, I would give Elements a 3/10.