I absolutely loved Seraph of the End (Owari no Seraph)! The relationship shown between Yuichiro and Mikaela was really meaningful to me and awoke a lot of emotions inside me. When I first saw the anime suggestion appear on Hulu while browsing for something to watch since I was really, really bored, I knew I had to watch Seraph of the End (Owari no Seraph) when I read that it was about the world being taken over by Vampires—a concept I’m a big fan of. Based off my past experience of watching High School of the Dead—an anime about high schoolers struggling to survive the zombie apocalypse, I thought that Seraph of the End (Owari no Seraph) would be pretty good too. The first two or three episodes were amazing and the writers did an amazing job of introducing fans to the anime’s dystopian vampire-run world. The openings were really good as well, especially the first one, X.U., which is my favorite of the two openings.
I’m still giving Seraph of the End (Owari no Seraph) a 100/100, even though there were a couple things in the anime that I wasn’t too fond of. For starters, the Four Horsemen of John. The Four Horsemen of John thingies were random and made no sense. I believe they were just meant to be filler enemies for Yuichiro & his squad to fight when there weren’t any vampires around. Second, the sun. Everybody knows that vampires DO NOT LIKE SUNLIGHT! Literally every vampire-themed show or movie ever made has made it pretty clear that vampires are deathly afraid of sunlight touching their skin, since the sun burns their skin. However, in Seraph of the End (Owari no Seraph), the vampires are totally chill in the sun! They can do whatever they want, whenever they want! I think this made them a little bit… for lack of a better word/phrase… overpowered or “OP.” Third, the weapons. The anime spent like two or three (I don’t remember for sure which number it was) episodes showing Yuichiro, Kimizuki, and Yoichi trying to earn/get Black Demon Series weapons capable of killing vampires. Now I like the idea of only weapons made with a special material being able to kill vampires, demons, zombies, etc. but the whole demons inhabiting those weapons was slightly odd to me at first. Also for the vampires’ weapons… I didn’t like them at all. The fact that they became more powerful/stronger or whatever when they drank their wielder's blood which also turned the sword’s blade red was kind of weird. First of all, vampires are mostly shown as stone-cold, bloodless and mindless monsters; and therefore, shouldn’t have any blood of their own to begin with! Like in the Twilight series, vampires were pale, didn’t have their own blood, and their bodies shattered apart like glass or ice when someone broke their neck or limb off. I just think the vampires could’ve been fixed a bit to make them better.
And on that note, I'm ending my review with a simple question: WHEN ARE WE GETTING SEASON 3?!?! I WANNA SEE MORE MIKACHIRO!!!
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