I kind of wanted to try this one, Seikoku no Dragonar [星刻の竜騎士 / Dragonar Academy] series with 12 eps by Studio C-Station. Almost a year passed, on Spring 2014 and I just tried this one. Originally, adapted from light novel it is enjoying enough. 【Download the theme songs here ♪♩♫♬】 |
[somewhat SPOILER] Unpredictably, Ash Blake's dragon awakened and in a form as human. Ash gives his dragon a name, she is Eco. A pink-haired sharp mouth loli there to accompany Ash in his dragon world. As the story goes, Eco's true identity reveals, even Eco herself doesn't know about it. She is the Avalon's Holy Dragon, let's make it simple, it means that Eco's ancestor is from royal family of dragon itself. . .
The story isn't special at all, I can't say I was fascinated by its plot nor animation when the poster appeared. Both the story and the animation are decent, stuffs that you can get in almost every anime series like the battling scenes, average detail for visualization, and so-so characters. It's apologetical since the character development is not approaching the characters deeply. It does, but only to the extent its needed, the rest is how to tame the dragon nor fighting the enemies with their pets—dragon.
Like when the first appearance of duo the-man-in-mask and his subordinate, mountain guerrilla terrorist known as Avdocha (She Who Condemns), who purposely visits the town to kill the strongest Dragonar or Princess Veronica during her observation in the town while the true purpose of Avdocha is actually... (well why don't you try to watch the show anyway? lol). The main hero and main heroine developments aren't too much, as long as the battle and new facts revealed they are there and connected, sadly wasn't the reason to be discussed.
The graphics itself wasn't give us any detailed view, like a rough peek and simple blended colouring. Mostly the show uses dense colours, it has its own disadvantages and advantages, like the clearer view but not too satisfying.
The music is good (unfortunately just good), OP theme is sung by Yui Sakakibara titled "Seiken nante Iranai (聖剣なんていらない)" and ED theme is "MOST Ijou no "MOSTEST" (MOST以上の“MOSTEST”)". For the ED theme, the song is the same but sung by various and different seiyuus for few episodes.
My time is spoiled by this show, eventho' the whole show wasn't leave any remarkable impression. I gave 6 for the rate.
Cons:
- The character development is not found
- The plot is not interesting enough
- Average animation, and not too satisfying colouring
増原 紀花