Holy Knight

hamletsmage Jul 2, 2016

4

Holy Knught had potential. Itcould have been a dark, slightly brooding version of Rosario to Vampire without falling into Vampire Knight levels of moping. But no, they left the anime as a teasing preview of the manga. Let me explain... Story: Main girl witnesses the death of her parents because they are vampires, and she swears revenge. Revenge means bedding the descendent of the enemy until she's pregnant. Sound convoluted enough, yet? Oh, it gets weirder. Said object of sexy-times already has a side chick, Boobs McFriendzone who is seeing green around MC. Then, MC's bodyguard is a werewolf, her former vampire caretaker is the school nurse, and there's a Werecat named for the animation studio. They all get showcased, meaning less time for the train wreck that is MC's attempts at sexy times.  Animation: it's a pretty pile of boring. Pretty, with a lot of colors, panties, and enough blood to remind you that there are vampires.  Sound: I watched the dubbed version. I wanted to punch whoever voiced the werewolf. Otherwise, it was ok. Nothing spectacular. Characters: Remember how I said the characters were all showcased? It was like the who's who of the manga. They are introduced, some of their abilities are shown, and then, they fade back into the background of MC and love-object. Truly, characters of the year, right here.  Should you watch this? Go read the manga first. You'll appreciate the anime more, I think. This review brought to you by DAMC

LeQr Jun 25, 2012

2

I usually don't write reviews, because I think it's really boring to write them and no one would read my reviews anyways lol. But I guess this is going to be first one. Someone might wonder why did I decide to write a review? Because the anime made me speechless. In a bad way.. Anyways about the anime. The plot. It's about some vampire girl who is being hunted by some kind of organisation( wasn't really explained why, maybe because she's a vampire) and she wants to have kids from guy-protagonist ( isn't explained either why she wants it). In the beginning plot doesn't make any sense, actually the plot doesn't make any sense at all. I understand that it's pretty hard to explain a decent plot in 60 minutes. I mean they could at least try to do it, but they didn't. The plot has so many holes in it. As an example, It's like you are watching an anime from 10th episode and there is only one episode left. After you have watched last one, everything doesn't make any sense. I guess they tried to make something out of nothing. The story is really corny. Briefly, plot sucks. That's pretty much expected from short ovas. Animation and Sound were ok I suppose. Nothing really special. The plot didn't bother me as much as characters did. Oh man the characters. I'm talking  about the main two characters in particular. Worst characters I've ever seen. I really don't have the words to describe them. Actually, all my hatred is towards the male lead. I mean, when he meets this girl for the first time, she wants him to come  for a talk and then she basically says that she wants kids from him. And then he goes like "Uhm.. okey let's do it'', excuse me WHAT???????? Are you shitting me? Who the fuck would accept that when he first meets a girl. He really stands out from all characters. The other characters were bad, half of characters didn't make any sense by this I mean their pressence in the story. The writers could as well not introduce the half of the characters. Conclusion. It's just simply terrible. Unless you want to see some naked tits or just willing to have another anime in your watched-list, dont watch it. If you're going to watch it, you will just completely waste your precious time. P.S. Sorry for my mistakes. P.P.S. What were the writers smoking?

tollie01 Aug 5, 2016

2

Right, it's confession time for me. If you have been reading my reviews than you may have noticed that I tend to rip the anime a new one. There is a reason for this though and it has to do with the fact that I can't turn my brain off when watching anime. I can't ignore the stupid shown in the anime and this is a problem as most anime are very stupid indeed. In this case I'm not talking about a 90 pound girl catching a multi-ton cruise missile and throwing it back. Yes, it is stupid but it is a stupid that I'll allow. It's anime. Things like this are normal here and I'm pretty much fine with it. It annoys me to be sure but I will not rant about it. So, having explained this lets rip into this anime shall we? Just a heads up: There will most probably be spoilers. The more I hate an anime the more spoilers there will be. ART: This looks pretty good actually. In terms of animation I can't really find anything at fault except that it looks much older than it actually is. If you had told me that it was made in 2012 I would have laughed in your face. SOUND: I very rarely notice the music in an anime and this is how it should be. When I do notice it then it is either very bad or very good. Nothing about the music stood out to me here. I certainly didn't like it very much but I didn't hate it and that is about the best I can say about it. Voice acting was about the same. Basically people showed up for a paycheck and left after doing some lines. CHARACTERS: Main character is Shinta. Recently transferred to a new school he is trying to find his place. Lilith is a half-human vampire trying to fulfill her destiny. For this she needs Shinta. STORY: Shinta has just transferred into his new school when he runs into the mysterious Lilith. She is a part vampire and needs Shinta to fulfill her destiny. RANT: Oh dear. When you can sum up the plot with only 2 sentences then you are in trouble. The main problem with the anime is that it is an OVA series of only 2 episodes when the story needs something in the order of 12 or 13 episodes. With 2 episodes there is barely time to explain story, let alone characters. Characters get introduced pretty much all at the same time and you are left wondering where they came from and what side they are on. After the series end you are still wondering about some of them. As for the story.... Let me tell you about the first 5 minutes of the anime. You see a couple walking through a city with their 5 year old daughter. Suddenly the churchbells start ringing and the couple look at each other. The man says that 'they' are coming and next scene the city is in flames. Who is attacking the city? Don't know. It is never explained further. Anyway, in the next scene the couple is outside the city where they split up. The woman runs off to a house on a hill while the man goes to the beach with the girl. He talks to the girl about how mama had to go away and gets interrupted by knights who swear to destroy 'them' all. A fight breaks out between the man and the unknown knights while the girl escapes with a small boat. Dad screams for her to life on while she screams for him to come. He doesn't and the scene ends again. Next we see the young girl alone in bed while a woman we've never seen before tells her that she must decide her own fate. To do this she must climb a hill to a certain spot where she must chose. She goes up the hill and suddenly she is a 16 year old girl who finds a grave stone with a sword in it. Mystic shit happens and she pulls out the sword. This is all in about 5 minutes and is supposed to set everything up. It fails but succeeds to leave you dazed and confused. The entire series is like this though with things being set up with lightning speed but fails completely to explain things properly. After watching the 2 episodes you still don't know anything about the knights that attacked the city. Lilith is a Strigoi, which is a different name for vampire, but she is not a real vampire yet. For this to happen she must find Shinta and have a child with him. This leads to an unintentional funny scene where Shinta meets Lilith for the first time. She basically walks up to him and orders him to have sex with her. He refuses, which shows you how well the writers know teenaged boys. If a gorgeous girl walks up to you and offers free sex you don't exactly refuse the offer. I'm 41 as I write this and I would have a very hard time saying no to this. A 16 year old boy would be very confused but he would certainly not refuse the offer the way he did. I would have bought it if he was in a dedicated relationship (which he isn't) or is he had a very strong moral code (which is not yet established as we just met the guy) or is he suspected that people were tricking him (again not established since we don't know anything about him yet). Add to this some annoying side characters with the ability to change into animals (also not explained) and you have a perfect shitstorm called 'Holy Knight'. Now I like vampires so I was initially exited when I found this anime. Maybe I will pick it up if they create a proper series of this but this OVA series is not worth your time. Not even as way to get a feel for the series. It simply fails at everything it tries. It would have worked much better to show the attack on the town up to the point she found her destiny on top of the hill. If they had limited themselves to only that part of the story they could have set things up at a much better pace.