Blade of Dawn · review
This anime, which we can liken to a "colony sim" game, at least differs from other Chinese anime in terms of subject matter. If we imagined that a game with fantasy, colony sim, rpg and open world tags was adapted to anime on the basis of a power struggle with dnd-like politics and the player was turned into the lead character in this anime, we would be pointing to this anime. A viewer who likes the aforementioned game tags will not regret giving this anime a chance. However, it should be noted that it is not a very high quality production, and it is possibleto see a very fast narrative in terms of story flow and fast progression that cannot normally be achieved in short periods of time.
Although we can overlook this negative aspect to some extent since the anime is set in a fantasy universe, it will be quite possible to say that some of the characters fail both in terms of dialog depth and uniqueness, especially the "evil" character, a character who has no depth, whose goals and reasons we do not know, and who seems to do evil just to do evil. It could be argued that the motives and ideological justifications of such a character could have been left to the audience, but the fact that the script as a whole lacks such depth makes us conclude that this idea can only lead to good. Until the final scene of the series, because in the very last scene we learn the purpose of our first villain. This is a minus for those who can't wait until the finale and like to understand the series as they the plot progress.
There is also a Kant sequence that follows, which I felt like I was watching a DnD adventure in my bones, and this sequence is much better rendered, backgrounded and conveyed to the audience to some extent than our first "bad" character. The characters that are not rendered deeply and the dialogues that lack emotion, as they are members of both the "good" and the "bad" sides as a whole, lose the effect of the fiction written in a black and white opposition, thus negatively affecting the progression of the story as a whole. So this series as a whole convinced me to read the novel. Not that bad, but bad enough to make me read the novel... or good enough, I don't know.