This is the first episode of a series with potential and a cool concept, but executed quite poorly. First off the good stuff. The animation is smooth and pretty decent in posing and the effects are pretty good. The concept of magic being replace by technology in this world is a cool concept and I’d like to see some expansion upon that. But there’s some severe problems here which are gonna hurt future episodes likely. First off character designs are bland and lacking, colors are often oversaturated and hard on the eyes. Animation lacks the ingredient of weight, impact and force. Things look like styrofoam here instead of heavy objects with technology enhancing them. In terms of story this has some really big problems. Vlizzurd is an ordinary person as described in the intro. Then he wakes up and the city is being invaded. The sounds tell that and I will give credit there. He gets up after like a few seconds of dialogue and grabs a sword, then they are outside. There’s really bad pacing there. And if he’s an ordinary person, then why does he have a sword just sitting on the wall in the middle of a world of high tech items? That and he proceed to order people armed with light machine guns, assault rifles, ect to go to places but is just an ordinary person. Then he fights some random protagonist which has no buildup or development. He’s just there to die. Facial animations are largely lacking and present no emotion. There’s a lot lacking here and too much that makes no sense. You got a lot of work to do.
2/5