Dragonar Academy

ManaDrain Jun 15, 2016

5

Seikoku no Dragonar is basically hentai with all the good bits cut out. That aside it's not what i would call horrible. I personally had a few laugh out loud moments. I've only seen it subbed, I tend to avoid the dubbed versions of works like this one because they tend to ruin the feel making any cute funny moment into a very annoying one. All in all i wouldn't recommend this anime to most people. only those who enjoy extreme ecchi will really like it. that being said if you enjoy boobs and dragons this ones for you

JohnnyVuArts Jan 15, 2015

6

While I would've like to see more of this anime, its not really all that good or amazing. Unfortunately this ended up being one of those TimeSlot filler anime.  Essentialy everything is generally safe and produce in a cookie-cutter fashion. While it does hold the potential to be something great it leaves itself fairly average with only ever really touching the surface of this series.  The characters are all what you'd expect and we unfortunately never get deeper into various relationships that are foreshadowed. A great many things are also teased but never truly discuss. Overall it doesn't do anything to really excite or envoke the imagination and instead play's it safe with things that have worked in the past creating an anime that you wish they'd spent more time on.

ShadowBlazer3000 Apr 11, 2015

1

Dragonar Academy is awful.  Unless you are already the type to enjoy shows like these then maybe it's for you but if you are looking for something even remotely entertaining stay away from this garbage.  Produced by C-Station and directed by Shunsuke Tada I must say I didn't exactly have high expectations going onto this.  I'm generally not even a fan of harem shows to begin with but much of my morbid curosity stemed from the fact C-Station was once apart of Bee Train, a studio that many have come to hate over the years but I still reamin a die hard fan today for their vast and highly imagintive works.  By 2012 however it seemd Bee Train made a quiet retreat from the business with it's aged founder and director likely retiring and this sub studio breaking out on their own.Anime is full of time honored clichés that never seem to die and Dragonar Academy is so packed full of them it shows just how void this show is of any shred of creativity or imagination. Giant bouncing breasts on all women characters, naked magic girls showing up from nowhere and mood swinging tsundere character clichés are ripe and abound in this series. As C-Station's first produced effort, it's a marginal failure on just about everything it sets out to do. Taking from probably equally lazy source material, the scripts written by Noboru Kimura are shoddy and thrown together with no thought or effort behind them. Many tropes from Mai-Hime which Kimura wrote the manga for are present in this it feels like deja vu all over again.  Basically this amounts to being a fantasy slapped into school setting for no good reason.  There's a large cast of cookie cutter characters that will bore you with just how uninspired they are. We have Ash Blake, typical do-gooder-main character, Silivia which feels like she might have some depth but in the end is a shallow attempt at depth, her loyal maid servant who clearly is supposed to be clever and in on some grand scheme.   This is barely forgivable from a group of first time creators but the fact this comes from several long time animators. Topping off this we're treated to many moments of soft core tentacle porn, a trope you thought would have died out in the 80s but somehow has found a modern revival.  There's so much fan service and tentcle action you'd swear that ARMS was animating this series.  And perhaps the light novel is just as trashy but that hardly excuses it.Animation and art is just as lazy with ugly looking dragons to top off the grossly exaggerated character designs. One would think with a show centered all around dragons it would be the one thing you could get right. Half the time you won't see any dragons and it will be mostly focused on whatever lame slice-of-life scenarios ripped from every other show of it's kind.  The dragons are oddly colored and look like they're stained in hard water spots you'd find on a mirror and the characters are stiff.  I'll admit I do like some of the deisngs of Anya and Siliva but that's about it. The music was about the only thing memorable about it, at least the score was, the theme songs were typical J-pop song that feels the need to shorehorn in the entire cast for some odd reason.  I can't imagine every seiyu in Japan has singing talent yet it seems every anime that features a pop opening has to use its cast for some reason.Dragonar Academy is uninspired, lazy and contrived. Beating down dead clichés that have saturated the market of the last couple years alone this would barely make the grade for a crappy one episode direct-to-video, forget a 12 episode season. Perhaps it's not fair to compare or expect C-Station to be the successor to a studio I adored which made most of its work with the very auteur director Koichi Mashimo but it goes even beyond Bee Train now as we are seeing the potential end of Studio Ghibli and in this era of remakes, reboots and horrid stuff like this we need these creative forces more than ever but as long as the otaku keep running things expect more of the upteenth light novel adaptation hopefully those will have a little less soft core and a little more plot.