Review of Emma: A Victorian Romance

First things first. My "reviews" system is explained on a blog entry. Which can be found through my profile. ------ ✦Story What can I say. Victorian era London lovestory of clash between social classes. Workers and aristocrats. It was a sweet but tragic story, mainly as usual, because of a stupid cultural growth where Aristocrats think of themselves so much that worker class are disgrace. And thus the whole drama of this series. An aristocrat and maid fall in love with each other, but because of how world is built and how different classes relationships are frowned upon, their love story becomes challenged. This season felt somewhat of aintroduction and growth for characters. We learned about various characters, world and as well a little bit of their love story. It was a very sweet and classy path, but sadly enough in the end, didn't lead or branch as much as I hoped for.

✦Art & Sound
Art and animation was good enough, but gotta say faces did look a bit odd. But on the other hand, I really did enjoy soundtrack in this Anime, it has presence, weight on emotions and simply well put. It was quite good, but nothing too amazing.

✦Character
Main guy, the Aristocrat who is quite kind, but whipped to traditions and slowly struggles with them and attempts to change things. He is a kind character, but his kindness is also a bit of a problem at times.
Main girl, the Maid who is as well kind, caring and generally quite a good woman. But on the other side, she is a bit too caring about everyone good will and should be a bit more selfish for her own happiness.

Aside that, we have bunch of caring, supporting and in general quite nice characters. Including Hakim, who is oddly enough like some sort of a old wise sage that gives small push towards his friend.

As well we have bunch of more stoic stereotypes, selfish aristocrats, greedy people and so on. So in a sense most of the characters very pretty enjoyable, fitting and almost all of them gave you sense of emotions and eventually as plot progressed, weight of emotions.

✦Enjoyment & Overall
I did like it, sweet, sad, romantic and hopefully story will end well. Biggest complaint would probably be a bit odd art and a little bit annoying setting. Not been ever fan of selfish Aristocrats, but they are useful as plot device. As well I felt that a bit more romance and less slice-of-life would been much more enjoyable thing to have. But in the end, it was very good Anime, that I binge watched in one go with only 1 break inbetween.

I really struggled whenever give it 7 or 8, but as usual, I have weak spot for romance and Anime. Thus I gave it higher praise.

Point being, story is pretty emotional, calm, sad and sweet. It's a enjoyable ride of slice-of-life romance. Whereas touch of Victorian era is a nice thing to have.