Review of Record of Grancrest War

This anime had a lot of potential, but it's squandered on what has to be some of the most frustrating pacing I have ever seen in an anime. Everything in this plot moves so ridiculously fast that the stakes never seem to stick, and without stakes that stick the entire premise just falls flat on its face. Art and sound quality is great, there is a lot of CG used in the battle sequences but it at least looked good and gave the feel of an actual battle instead of what we see in some other anime that have tried it so that's what gives it a5.

This could have been a 6 or a 7 anime if it was about 50 or 60 episodes, but the cramming an entire war into 24 episodes just makes it seem like everything is skimmed over. Missed opportunity.