Review of Seraph of the End: Battle in Nagoya

I give Owari No Seraph as a whole a total rating of 6/10 Owari no Seraph: Nagoya Kessen-Hen or better Owari no Seraph: "Battle of the Cliches" is an anime literally about vampire's vs humans in this post-apocalyptic world where all adults above the age of 13 have died. This anime could have been something really special but it has so many flaws that I wouldn't recommend this anime. Let's start with the good points about this anime (so we can get them out of the way): - The art in the anime wasn't really bad. I liked it as it gave us this classical but a modernvibe which I was really impressed from. I liked how the settings were shown as well as how the art showed the characters.
- The action scenes were good...well most of them. I really enjoyed when they had team fights and I was really impressed by the art that was done within these fights.

Now, the bad points about this anime:
- THE BIGGEST PROBLEM with this anime is character development. Literally, I feel like the makers of this anime hardly put any emotions or screen time from the secondary characters such as Kimizuki, Yoichi and Mitsu. Sure they got like an episode dedicated to them each, but after that we hardly EVER saw them, especially Mitsu. Now i'm not a die-hard Mitsu fan, but she hardly appeared when the characters had a dialogue to speak. All she was there for was the combat. I feel this should have been improved to get a better feeling of other characters, and to be much more immersive. Other loved characters such as Krul and Yu's demon hardly got screentime as well.

- Another problem about the character development and some people may get mad at me for this is they put in some romance and then poof, it disappeared? I love romance, and when Guren asked Shinoa if she had feelings for Yu, after she said she didn't know IT JUST DISSAPEARED. Where did the slight chance of romance go? I'm not going to lie but I was hoping for a couple to develop and it looks like it never did. They tried to put in "Romance" but it didn't work.

- Yu's and Mika's relationship was nothing more that fan service. It first started of as brotherly love and then turned into some gay "I want you with me always" relationship. I have nothing against gay people or gay animes but the way the creators produces these characters relationships was way over the top. Every "love" story has it's limits.

- The story was full of cliches. The story wasn't really original, its pretty much like every other action anime out there. Do this, do that, save the world blah blah blah nothing unique in this anime. I didn't hate the story myself, it just could have been developed into something better.

- The Crowly fights were always boring in my opinion. Everytime they gained "power" they always got stopped on, and it became really repetitive and got boring. The ending wasn't really good either as the epic fight lasted only a total of 20 seconds.

- The soundtrack wasn't really amazing either. It didn't really pump me up or made me feel sad. Neither was it immersive.

Overall I did like this anime but it needs ALOT of improving. Especially on the characters.

Rating:
Story - 7
Art - 7
Sound - 6
Character - 6
Enjoyment - 6
Overall - 6.4

TL;DR - Watch this anime if you're up for a story you probably have seen before with some differences.