Review of La storia della Arcana Famiglia
Stumbling upon La Storia della Arcana Famiglia, the summary got my expectations a tad high there. It had a great potential but the moment I saw the rating I understood that the potential would disappear somewhere in between. Of course, this is just the start of it. Do bare with me. So, the rating as you may know is 13+. Now, this lowers the potential for realism and so, the whole anime itself is an experience of a girl who cannot choose who she loves and thus going for the middle option that she could accept them as friends, of course, presented in a much moreheroic way for the cause that's being chased. Also, since they have to make a decent footage for 13 year-olds, they bring in abit of unnecessary slice-of-life moments, halting the development of the plot; and the duration of the series IS 13 episodes. Another aspect of realism brought down are the fighting scenes but at the very least, do make it believable - there was a scene where one of the main characters hits a guy with the blade of his sword and the guy falls neither wounded nor dead but unconscious. So, as a summary of all of the above, I felt I was watching a really spoiled kids' show of which its plot and characters Do actually bare great potential for development and leaves you with the hope of the next episode being, okay, not gory, but presented well enough story-wise, so it feels completed with the actual great animation and art.
Moving on, although I believe everything comes from the rating of the show, is that the chracters are left undeveloped and brings you a really average show just to pass the time. Because the series do start really badassly-like announcing a tournament that you wait for about 7 or so episodes before it starts and in which the characters are supposed to be developed but somehow they are not. That is due to the fact that you see that there is a struggle to focus on the character (that is to be revealed of more) to be the main one for the episode, yet we always go back to actual Main protagonist (the afore mentioned girl) struggling with choosing between two boys just because she is entering puberty. Summary of this paragraph: watching the episodes, you feel there is some kind of chaos throughout of it that causes no satisfaction after you finish watching it.
As for the rest of the technical aspects, they were good. I regret that such a great art and plot went to waste. It doesn't even answer to the manga that much. So, my overall score is 5. Because of the potential it keeps, I have respect for it. Also because of the ending credits song!