Review of Record of Grancrest War

Rather than going through the details and assessing all the different points with art, story etc. I will just start with WHY I AM GLAD I WATCHED THIS: 1. This is anime has a serious working romance subplot and it has more than one. I was quite shocked to see that. Normally, romance subplots are just pushed to the side and used as a seasoning. Some shows go as far as to just use the romance as a bait. It is fucking retarded and I am glad I watched this show to experience some good fucking romance. It reminded me of why I liked SAO's firsthalf of the first season. Even with the dumb cringe I still liked the fact that a shonen anime had a working couple. This time in GranCres, we do not even have the stupid harem too.

2. This anime has a generic MC dude but the guy is not that annoying this time. Again, I was quite shocked to see that too. Our heroine who is also an MC in this show; she is a really active character and pushes MC towards action. Rather than being too passive or spouting stupid idealistic bullshit all the time, our MC just acts on his beloved heroine's suggestions. He even does things despite our dominant heroine's wishes because sometimes a man has to do some things even if it is a shonen anime.

3. This anime has a lot of really likeable characters. I like myself some side characters with personality and power. I like that our MCs (the boy and the girl) are not somehow the most powerful or the most important. This rule is broken in the second half but overall the tone of the anime was set accordingly to prevent it becoming an issue in the second half.

Now onto something I just cannot ignore anymore.

This anime has a serious pacing issue. With the amount of content if the anime took the Bleach route they could easily go up to 72 episodes maybe more. I am glad they did not but I am also conflicted. Some parts are extremely rushed and this will bother some people, all the reviews besides a handful already shows that. I generally watch anime by skipping the trash filler in between the scenes. So this did not bother me that much however as I said, some arcs really went too fast and felt inorganic to the viewers. One does not start a rebellion in 5 minutes in any show with politics, it is especially bad when you do that twice in the same show.

SO all in all, this show became one of my favorites for doing something different. If an anime has at least something I really want to see then I will give it an 9+.