The Eminence in Shadow eh, might be the coolest anime title yet. First things first let’s give credit to the author Daisuke Aizawa; this anime is an adaptation of the light novel The Eminence in Shadow. Currently 20 episodes for the 1st season, Studio Nexas brings you this action, comedy, fantasy anime which is hilariously exciting and knows how to keep viewers' attention.
Within the first episode it gets dark fast, we see our mc Cid/Shadow as a normal human being saving a girl from trouble (pretty cool right). I mean the guy literally goes to Batman to Joker within the first episode because later we see him bashing his head with a rock wishing to get some kind of secret power to throwing himself into a truck. Luckily, he’s reborn with the powers he’s always wished for from there he creates his alter ego Shadow (think of Peter Parker/Spider man). From there he goes from saving girls and creating his own team Shadow Garden (also a cool ass name), but from there he tells the girls that he’s fighting an evil cult which is a total lie that turns out to be true so the girls who all become basically super spies start to recruit and make a multimillion organization and get this Cid doesn’t even know about it.
There are a number of characters but only one matter really Cid. He currently has multiple love interests which he doesn’t care for. I mean you would think it’s a harem series, but he can honestly care less about love. Now regarding the shadow garden there are also several cool badass girls within the anime but again you rarely see them not to mention remembering their name (outside of Alpha). With Cid we see him juggling with how to look like a complete side character and at night becoming this bad ass dark dr.strange guy. I mean let’s be honest he made an atomic bomb for absolutely no reason, yes he destroyed the city and killed some people and the worst part about it he wasn’t even fighting anyone with magic that is on his level. He’s a damn psychopath with power and I love it lol.
Besides Cid looks completely like the Kirito mold which half of anime main characters do look like. I would have to say I do love the character design for the majority of the characters. I love how shadow garden wears nothing but black (my favorite color). Nothing within the anime jumps out at you and says wow that is stunning but it’s not bad.
Music, wise I give it a thumbs up the opening was very good. I also loved the ending scene as well. Even with the music within the scenes of him charging up to do some ultimate move I felt it, so I initially enjoyed the music within this anime.
Oh, also it’s been announced that season 2 will drop this October... LETS GOOOOOO!!!!