| Title: | Kimi to Boku no Saigo no Senjou, Arui wa Sekai ga Hajimaru Seisen
Our Last Crusade or the Rise of a New World
キミと僕の最後の戦場、あるいは世界が始まる聖戦
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2020, Action, Adventure, Fan Service, Fantasy, Magic, War
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AMAMIYA Sora
Animation - SILVER LINK
KOBAYASHI Yusuke
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Within the 'Empire', Astral Power users (witches) are brutally suppressed whereas it is freely employed within the 'Nebulis Sovreignty'. An endless war drags on between the two nations. Iska was once an elite 'Saint Disciple', a sort of witch fighter within the Empire military. But for some reason he helped a witch escape from prison and as a result was sent there himself. He is offered a chance at redemption: if he will undertake a mission to take out the feared 'Ice Calamity Witch', and succeeds, he'll be pardoned and have his rank and privledges restored. Iska definitely wants to end the war by whatever means possible and accepts the offer. But he finds that the best way to achieve peace might be by working with his opponent rather than against her.
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Within the 'Empire', Astral Power users (witches) are brutally suppressed whereas it is freely employed within the 'Nebulis Sovreignty'. An endless war drags on between the two nations. Iska was once an elite 'Saint Disciple', a sort of witch fighter within the Empire military. But for some reason he helped a witch escape from prison and as a result was sent there himself. He is offered a chance at redemption: if he will undertake a mission to take out the feared 'Ice Calamity Witch', and succeeds, he'll be pardoned and have his rank and privledges restored. Iska definitely wants to end the war by whatever means possible and accepts the offer. But he finds that the best way to achieve peace might be by working with his opponent rather than against her.
12 episodes
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Kimi to Boku no Saigo no Senjou, Arui wa Sekai ga Hajimaru Seisen
(Part of one episode watched):
I had wondered why there seemed to be so many definitely good and possibly good new anime in the promising Fall 2020 season, and now I know the answer: it was because I hadn't yet watched shows like this one. The moment the narrator tells us of 'Astral Power, the strange energy that slumbers within this planet' was the moment the thought Uh-oh! occurred to me. Shows that talk of mystical, magical powers are dime-a-dozen and seldom have much to offer in the way of plot and characters. The well endowed female characters that Iska selects for his team (one of whom, 'Captain', can't even keep from falling flat on her face when running) didn't reassure me. This helium-voiced girl is an elite witch fighter? I don't believe it. The girls would rather hug Iska than display any sort of military discipline. I quickly got the sense that this show did not intend to expand any envelopes. It would need to get a lot more serious very soon in order to convince me that I could expect anything approaching a tale of danger and espionage. I had thought at first that the mission was to kill the Ice Witch, but it gradually became clear that for all the claims of an endless war, this was a conflict in which nobody actually dies. So much for the last vestiges of excitement on my part. Oh God! This show is actually so bad that more than once I burst out laughing at supposedly tense scenes. Lines like "He just cut through astral flames?" reveal how feeble the combat was. Yes, obviously 'endless wars' consist of magic-armed opponents confronting each other in plain sight and having the manners not to do anything until their opposite number has finished reading his/her lines. I decided that this show was so far gone that there was nothing anybody could do for it. We know almost nothing about the main characters and this war is totally unrealistic and impossible to take seriously. There's no danger, no motivation, no humor, no novelty--what am I supposed to watch for? Seriously, I bet that if I had been allowed to rewrite the script of this show I could have doubled the quality, and I'm a complete amateur. This show was painfully, laughably bad--it felt like the sort of manga someone in elementary school would write. I ultimately gave up and quit before the episode was complete. I normally don't assign ratings to series which I haven't watched in their entirety, but I think it is safe to say viewers should avoid this show.
Last updated Sunday, October 11 2020. Created Sunday, October 11 2020.
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