![]() Just as quick and unexplained as Ikki’s abilities, Chivalry manages to grab onto a tiny semblance of competent story-telling and hang onto it for dear life. ![]() At least, where you think it’s going to go. What you get here is a fairly straight-forward plot, and from the first two episodes, it’s very easy to plot out in your head how it’s going to go. It’s something that bothered me throughout the entirety of this anime, but thankfully that’s the only part about this that is left unexplained. I can buy the fact that he can successfully deduce and counter someone’s sword style in the middle of battle, but the sensory thing is a bit off the end. Although a really cool concept, I have no idea how he acquired it. It also doesn’t help that the anime tries painting Ikki as having no talent, but his sensory selective ability seems to pop out of thin air. ![]() Their swords apparently come from a device that they carry, but how it works or how its activated is never really specified. ![]() First off, I have absolutely zero clue of how the Blazers actually work. Some of that sounds confusing, I know, but that’s because the story doesn’t do a very good job of explaining certain things. This is the basis of Ikki fighting through the ranks and Stella slowly coming to understand him. Although he has no talent or special sword ability, Ikki somehow managed to acquire the ability to both replicate someone’s sword style and to select one of his five senses to power up at the exchange of another. Enter Stella Vermillion, a princess of her country and now sudden roomate to Ikki in the school. Being everything Ikki isn’t, the two come to butting heads eventually ending up in a duel where Ikki somehow wins. Blackballed by his family for having almost no real talent as a Blazer, the school puts a vice on Ikki and tells him the only way to pass after flunking out of every class is to win the tournament. The main character Ikki Kurogane has the aspiration to win the coveted tournament, but not for simple reasons. The school is strictly for entertainment purposes, as Blazers take part in battle tournaments across the globe, the top of tournaments being the Seven Stars Festival. The whole anime takes place in a school that trains students to be Blazers, a modern type of Knight that can summon a blade to their side. Not only did the bullshit that happened in the first two episodes come to an immediate halt at the third, but it surprisingly had a couple twists and turns, and most shocking of all… character development.īefore explaining the hidden gems in this otherwise lackluster excuse for fanservice, I’ll give a short synopsis of the series. But the funny thing is…it actually kind of got better. And for some ungodly reason, I decided to keep watching it to see just how bad it would get. In fact the first two episodes of the anime had some of the most telegraphed and forced contrivances in this formula period. One anime that followed this formula to a T is Chivalry of a Failed Knight. Throw in a couple panty shots and the character falling on girls, and call it a day. Main character of massive strength and willpower has a well-endowed female companion and a harem of girls that want to get in his pants simply because he looked at them for a solid 2 seconds. Following the complete domination of Sword Art Online, more and more manga and novels that got adapted into anime followed the same formula. One of those things being anime that are clearly the stereotypical dreg that have been peddled out of studios for the last couple years. When it comes to anime reviewing and other nuances of the weeb world, it becomes second nature to detect things.
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