Much like A New Hope or Avatar: The Last Airbender, if you connect with it at the right age you’ll probably think it’s one of the best things ever made for the rest of your life. The animation, cinematography, action sequences, worldbuilding and score (aside from its hideous opening title song, as well as some other tasteless needle drops) are all truly excellent, technically it’s easily one of my favorite things to come out of pop culture in recent times. However, when it comes to story and character, it honestly doesn’t bring much to the table. It uses all the familiar tropes for this kind of story without putting much of its own spin on it, so the end result is far too predictable for its own good. If you’re already familiar with stuff like Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, The Hunger Games and other YA material, you probably won’t get that much out of this. The characters (as well as their arcs) are all very typical, the story is (again) very plain, nor is there’s not a lot of interesting or challenging subtext. I can see future seasons improving on the story by adding more bells and whistles as its main target audience matures, but right now this is something I’d mostly recommend as a technical achievement.
Review by JordyVIP 8BlockedParent2023-08-28T19:07:01Z— updated 2023-08-29T22:20:30Z
Much like A New Hope or Avatar: The Last Airbender, if you connect with it at the right age you’ll probably think it’s one of the best things ever made for the rest of your life. The animation, cinematography, action sequences, worldbuilding and score (aside from its hideous opening title song, as well as some other tasteless needle drops) are all truly excellent, technically it’s easily one of my favorite things to come out of pop culture in recent times. However, when it comes to story and character, it honestly doesn’t bring much to the table. It uses all the familiar tropes for this kind of story without putting much of its own spin on it, so the end result is far too predictable for its own good. If you’re already familiar with stuff like Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, The Hunger Games and other YA material, you probably won’t get that much out of this. The characters (as well as their arcs) are all very typical, the story is (again) very plain, nor is there’s not a lot of interesting or challenging subtext. I can see future seasons improving on the story by adding more bells and whistles as its main target audience matures, but right now this is something I’d mostly recommend as a technical achievement.
6/10