Review of The Demon Sword Master of Excalibur Academy
If you look up the source material for this drek, you’ll see something that has become increasingly familiar in this Post Modern trash heap of a world we live in. A manga, or “Light novel” that looks suspiciously like every other light novel coming out these days. It’s a bunch of random-character-generator waifus created in a program like Manga Studio, with generic faces made by the program, dressed up in outfits that were picked from the program, colored by swatches in the program, arranged into manga panels with the program, by an author who probably couldn’t draw a stick figure if you asked him to.I’ve noticed nearly all the Current Day anime and manga media tends to look the same. It’s totally generic, looks like everything else, because it was made the same way as everything else. There’s no art here, no individual style, no creativity, because there doesn’t need to be. But something had to be put together- a story had to be told to justify smearing this crap across however many screens- and the story we have here sums up the author’s creative abilities perfectly: Confusing, directionless, random, juvenile, nonsensical, and stupid.
Oh boy here we go another “demon lord reincarnated” thing, and oh look- he threw the word Excalibur in there so people would actually look at it. It worked, and that’s right- Excalibur as you know it has absolutely zero to do with this entire story.
It started out as demon lord reincarnated into this shota boy, some buxom harem girls pop up around him, maybe one or two episodes took place at some generic magic school with some competition where MC can show off how overpowered he is… then it ditched the whole magic school thing and the story devolved into a monster taking over a ship, then a conspiracy involving a loli princess and these half-animal half human dudes, before it lost any concept of time or place or any story structure at all. One minute they’re fighting a monster thing that looks like tree roots with eyes, the next they’re RIDING IN A LIMOUSINE DRIVEN BY GHOST CHAUFFEURS. No joke. In another random scene the demon boy (Leonis) is at a table eating dinner with some orphan children and we have no idea who they are, and never find out. And I don't even know if they were orphans..
If you ask a twelve year old boy to write a story, the plot of this light novel is probably pretty close to what he’d come up with. A hero who looks like and is the same age as the author, surrounded by a bunch of pretty girls, and he’s OP, and fights monsters. Yup. The monsters range from big purple flying octopus looking things to leopard dudes and A GUY WITH A WOLF HEAD. By the end of episode 12, it didn’t even resemble what it had started out as.
What about the visuals- well, there isn’t much to say about it apart from don’t waste your time watching it. They’ve taken the different templates for “Futuristic looking city” (which has a white and blue hue) and “High Fantasy Country House” (with its orange and green hue) and mashed them together making completely off-kilter looking scenery. But it’s fun to pick out the parts where they didn’t have any template… because some things- like the monsters- look absolute cack against the rest of the CGI backdrop- precisely because of the fact that the guy who made this can’t draw and the staff couldn’t either.
If you take my advice and skip this anime you will have missed out on absolutely nothing. There are much better things to watch out there. Like literally anything.