I'll start from both the graphic or art and story I guess. Well, the story is not the typical one, many others series had amuse us with story within the times of war. Also, it's quite hard to remember all the names since it's not presented in our everyday lives. But bet me the story is as powerful as the Vanadis here. It gets its own theme for supranatural power and it is one of the charm that can be denied. Tho' I feel a bit unpleasant for the colouring because from my point of view it looks like a deep colouring of paintbrush, too deep, even the light colour seems weird when applies.
You can enjoy and guessing how the story will go and what kind of tactics are going to use by the main characters in war. And once again, the joy will be~somewhat~disturbed when the war scene begins, a scene to explain the tactics they use in war appears in form of chessboard-like. The usage of explaining tactics with that way both advantaging and disadvantaging the viewers. The advantage is, of course, we can understand clearly the moves, the plans, the tactics they use in war, while the disadvantage is this chessboard thingy will make the enjoyment of watching the war scenes bothered.
× 『rui@96yR』【butterflyuu】 × 増原 紀花 | The music, ummm, SOOO.. damn indicating war theme! (゜ν`(∋─━┌(`・ڡ・´ ┌) The opening theme lyric and choir are fantastic, meanwhile the ending theme is an average for me. The OP theme titled Ginsen no Kaze ( (銀閃の風) by Konomi Suzuki, Hitomi Harada sang the ED theme Schwarzer Bogen, and for 10th ep Ryuusei Chinkonka (竜星鎮魂歌) was sung by Konomi Suzuki. The character design seems unique but almost all of 'em~except men~has one quality, the sexual appeal. Since it's ecchi genre, no wonder why along the story, the ecchi-ness accompanies us to boost the enjoyment. Too bad the information for characters are lack and seems cut off for the duration sake. Overall the rate I gladly give for this series is 8.3! Pros:
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*) Vanadis: a war maiden, those who has power from the Black Dragon manifested on the weapon |