聖剣学院の魔剣使い

SEIKEN GAKUIN NO MAKEN TSUKAI

ONA

STATUS
COMPLETE
EPISODES
12
RELEASE
December 12, 2023
LENGTH
24 min

DESCRIPTION

One thousand years ago, Leonis Death Magnus, undead sorcerer and the greatest of the Dark Lords, entered magical stasis during a climactic battle. When he awakens, he finds a beautiful silver-haired young woman named Riselia standing before him. More shockingly, Leonis has been transformed into a ten-year-old boy! Now he'll have to adapt to this strange era and deal with the twisted monsters called Voids—all while keeping his true powers a secret from his lovely new guardian.

(Source: Yen Press)

Note: Each episode streamed 1 week early on ABEMA. The original TV broadcast started on October 3rd, 2023.

CAST

Riselia Crystalia
Yui Ishikawa
Leonis Magnus
Marina Inoue
Shary Shadow Assassin
Arisa Nakada
Regina Mercedes
Aya Suzaki
Elfiné Phillet
Hiromi Igarashi
Sakuya Sieglinde
Honoka Kuroki
Blackas Shadow Prince
Tomofumi Ikezoe
Altiria O’ltriese
Hina Kino
Arakael Degradios
Takayuki Sugou
Muselle Rhodes
Mitsuhiro Ichiki

EPISODES

Dubbed

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Not available on crunchyroll

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REVIEWS

Kurohime242
45/100
Not an anime worth watching due to unclear plot and thousands of questions unanswered
To be fair, I was not really paying attention to the anime when I was watching it. And, in all honesty, if Anilist's review requirements does not have a minimum number of characters, I probably would be writing a few liners since that is all I could think of in this anime. But here I am, deciding to take up the challenge to try and meet the minimum requirement and give a proper review to this anime that I half-paid attention to.

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First of all, the synopsis of the series is pretty much what this anime is all about since there is no clear direction to where this story is going. Yes, sure, the protagonist woke up 1000 years later and tries to fulfill his promise to a dark goddess that he would find her after he woke up. But that doesn't seem to happen in this anime.

It has been established from the start that Leonis, the protagonist, has a mission to fulfill after his slumber for 1000 years. But due to the change of the world, it is understandable that he has to adapt to the evolved world while fulfilling his mission of finding the dark goddess. While the first couple episodes were understandably about him trying to make sense of the new world, the rest of the series is just... gibberish. Like it was just battle after battle with no clear reason as to why they are happening.

Of course, I am not saying that monsters, or Voids as they call them in this world, has to be intelligent and give a clear reason to why they are attacking, but the battles that ensued in this anime just doesn't make sense. The only one that seems to be clear is the last battle of this season.

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Another reason I feel this anime is not going to be worth a watch is that the series failed at one thing. That is, they failed to make good use of the school setting.

Sure, your only sanctuary is within this man made floating island and you got to be alert at any possible incoming attacks. Yet, the world is set in an era where technology far surpassed what they had during Leonis' time 1000 years ago. Don't tell me they are incapable of predicting when an attack could possibly happen?

And anybody who watched anime with a school setting, there is always going to be a festival of sorts. Be it a cultural festival, or a fantasy festival created solely for the series. Many of the other anime that has a similar setting as Seiken Gakuin has a festival that involves friendly competitions of sword fights or magical fights.

One example would be from The Eminence in Shadow, Bushin Festival Student Preliminaries.

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Another example would be from a much lesser known anime, Kuusen Madoushi Kouhosei no Kyoukan, the Mistgun Tournament.

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Yet, in Seiken Gaukin, it seems non-existent. Another point to make is that the studies of the student doesn't seem to be existent as well. It feels as though the students in this school are free to do whatever they want except attend classes, which is quite unrealistic if they are trying to make a school setting.

Overall, the story line of this anime needs to be clearer and the creators has to look into making good use of the school to make the storyline interesting. Moreover, certain things needs to be addressed such as why were the heroes of the past are now the enemies? There are possibly a lot of issues in this anime that needs to be addressed to give a clearer picture of the series but it failed to do so. All I see the creators doing is trying to, as usual with modern anime, unnecessarily sexualise the female characters.
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