Ys イース Review Story (7/10) Good More Specifically (7.75/10) Good+ The story for this anime adaptation of the first installment of the Ys franchise widely known as Ys I: Ancient Ys Vanished is a good adaptation from a story standpoint. The progression and pacing all seemed on the money when it comes to everything important that needed to be covered in Ys 1. Obviously for anime purposes they couldn't make the authenticity of the video 100% accurate because certain scenes would probably have been more boring if that was the case. Example when Adol is venturing through the tower of Dahm he is accompanied by Dogi, LutherGemma and Goban. In the video game Adol is by himself going in as Goban never came, Gemma was already locked in there (which was kind of right in the anime) and Dogi who was in there and didn't know who Adol was until he freed Adol when he was imprisoned by breaking through the wall of the prison he and Gemma were in by accident in the anime but on purpose in the video game. Obvious changes that I can list on and on but majority of them didn't hinder the authenticity of the actual story so it is mostly forgiven. One episode in particular I have to give some points to is episode 5 which is the episode where Adol meets the Tree that gives him the silver armor the info dump in this episode was presented (imo) better than the actual video game making it more understanding when it came to the origin behind everything in the story.

Art and Animation (7/10) Good

The art and animation in this 1985 anime adaptation of a 1987 video game is not bad when you take into consideration of the time it came out. Majority of anime that came out in the 80s had this art style and animation which doesn't bother me, it's the art style and animation of the 80s and if you know that going in there you wouldn't be disappointed or disgusted unless you expected it to look like the cover picture on MAL or the don't like old style art style and animation.

Sound (9/10) Great

The sound for the anime is probably the best thing about this anime. I'm going through the Ys games and the only one I've completed is Ys 1 and another which isn't worth mentioning right now. All you need to know is as someone coming fresh out of Ys 1 and watching this anime I love the fact that majority if not all of the BGM that is played in the anime is remix BGM of music found in Ys 1. Every BGM that played during parts in the game plays during the exact parts in this anime and it's great from a adaptation quality stand point. The only reason I can't give this a 10 is the fact that I was watching the english dub version of the anime. And certain names aren't pronounced correctly as far as I know. Like Ahh-dol (As far as I know it's Aye-dol) and they go back and fourth between Dark Fact and Dark Factor those where the main two that threw me off and the voice acting is a bit dated but not bad when it take into consideration that this is from the 80s.

Characters (8/10) Good

Characters in the anime adaptation of Ys 1 is very good. Giving a personality to Adol a character which (if you only played the game) would never know how he is from a personality standpoint since he's presented to the player with a personality similar to a created character aka a personality that is hard to define. It is interesting to see how Adol acts since I personally didn't know until watching this anime and I felt they did a good job he isn't annoying, generic or boring which am grateful he isn't. Other characters since we know how they act in the video CAN be judged from a authenticity standpoint and everyone in the anime I felt was adapted perfectly except one character. This character is Dogi and I've only played Ys 1 (and Ys: Memories of Celceta which he's not in). And only going off of Ys 1 Dogi didn't really give off the same personality that he did in this anime. In the video I saw him has the muscle behind Adol sure but he never really gave off ANY signs of comedic relief in the video game. And in the anime he is obviously the comedic relief and this isn't a bad thing because at the end of the day it wasn't bad or annoying it was actually quite entertaining which I'm not TOO mad about it. BUT from an authenticity standpoint I felt it was incorrect characterization but it is what it is.

Enjoyment (7/10) Good

I enjoyed the 7 episode anime adaptation of Ys 1, especially the music that was played in the background. Nothing more to be said it wasn't dragged on longer than it should have been either which is good since the video itself isn't that long to begin with.

Overall (7/10) Good
More Specifically (7.75/10) Good+

I felt this 1989 adaption of the 1987 video game Ys is a good adaptation with a few changes to make it have that anime feel but not enough to straw it away from being considered a good adaption for when it comes to an anime made two years after it's video game in the 80s because back then and even today anime adaptations of video games aren't done well.