Blue Archive the Animation

Kivotos is a federal megalopolis comprising thousands of schools and is led by the General Student Council (GSC), which acts as its governing body. Ironically, despite being an academy city, Kivotos is rife with gun violence, and all students wield firearms as part of their everyday lives.

As if the crisis in Kivotos was not enough, the GSC president is nowhere to be found. Fortunately, before her sudden disappearance, the GSC president enlisted the help of Sensei—a teacher who is most likely the only one in Kivotos—to support students in their time of need. Sensei's first course of action is to assist Abydos High School, a once prestigious academy now with merely five students in attendance. These remaining students are doing everything they can to pay their academy's crippling debt of almost one billion yen.

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Sunaookami, Shiroko Main

Ogura, Yui Japanese

Takanashi, Hoshino Main

Hanamori, Yumiri Japanese

Sensei Main

Sakata, Shougo Japanese

Kuromi, Serika Main

Ohashi, Ayaka Japanese

Izayoi, Nonomi Main

Miura, Chiyuki Japanese

Okusora, Ayane Main

Harada, Sayaka Japanese

Sorasaki, Hina Supporting

Hirohashi, Ryou Japanese

Rikuhachima, Aru Supporting

Kondou, Reina Japanese

Onikata, Kayoko Supporting

Fujii, Yukiyo Japanese

Hayase, Yuuka Supporting

Yamagishi, Daigo Director, Series Composition

Naya, Ryousuke Sound Director

40mP Theme Song Lyrics, Theme Song Composition, Theme Song Arrangement, Music

Oonogi, Hiroshi Series Composition

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May 19, 2024

Peko-Virus

Recommended

Preliminary (7/12 eps)

Lovely, fun, wholesome. There aren't many anime out there I could describe as wholesome genuinely, the story and characters of Blue Archive is incredible for this. While there are many darker storylines and there is plenty of conflict between students and schools, at the end of the day it's beautiful how well the story manages to portray its world and how all of the students have their struggles within it, while always striving for their best and wanting to find their place in it.

In terms of the anime adaptation at hand, I couldn't be happier. The animation, sound design, voice acting is pretty much perfect. ... The students are lovely and fun, and quite incredibly well realized to their game counterparts. The action scenes have some great animation, though that is, not to take away from the detail and expressiveness of the calmer scenes. The opening and ending are absolute bangers, as is the soundtrack which, despite featuring a few too repetitive parts, manages to weave the games soundtrack really well.

As for a little constructive criticism: The pacing is a little on the slow side at the start, deliberately I should stress, as in-game as well as in the anime you spend some time acclimating to the world and learning how it works with the academies, and getting a sense of how daily life is for the students, which taken as a story, a fan-service letter to anime fans, or as the start of a hopefully long series, with many slice-of life moments in this first arc, is exactly what it should be. Though despite it, I would agree that not much happens in the first few episodes in terms of story-heavy events, which might be a positive for some, but could have been better handled to perhaps appeal to a larger audience.

On more of a personal note, seeing some of the discussions of the site it is baffling and frustrating, with people saying they find it hard to understand the world, or how the students are somewhat impervious to bullets or some such... It is not necessary to have knowledge of the games story beforehand. Obviously it helps to clear up some questions and expand on some aspects, but anyone without the prerequisite knowledge, and doing the bare minimum of actually watching the show and paying attention will understand everything just as well as any game player, or a normal person watching the anime. Suspension of disbelief is pretty subjective but being unable to understand what is a simple and well realized premise is quite something...

Objectively - 7
Subjectively and Game fan - 9

Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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May 27, 2024

PT_Videos

Mixed Feelings

Preliminary (8/12 eps)

This anime is made for people who already played this game and it bad for people who never knew about Blue Archive. From people who played this game's perspective it good, we can see our lovely character moving around being alive, we see every detail in anime based from the game story and how it look like. It is good.

But if the people who don't know anything about Blue Archive decide to watch I'm sure 80% they not going to like it. The problem is in anime they don't explain anything or everything they explain which makes people even more confuse, for example, why all ... characters using guns? Why character barely scratch from getting shot? Why has the town turned into desert? Who is Sensei? Who is the girl in Sensei's tablet called Arona? All of this is never explained and it is weird because in game some of this has been explained while in Anime it wasn't. And it is not like they don't have enough time to explain all of this, some scenes don't have in-game stories but have in anime so they could just cut some of those scenes off and spend more time on explanation stories.

But I hope and would like to see Blue Archive anime more in further and hope they learn from their mistakes and keep making better.

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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BetaSpark

Not Recommended

Preliminary (10/12 eps)

[Anime Only that I've played the game a little bit]

Pros - Animation is fair / Seiyuu and Character Design are well done (just like in the game). Hoshino's story / 68 is interesting.

Disadvantages - This is just a work that was made for people who came to see the service of the characters in the game only. But in terms of storytelling/story telling, it's pretty bad. There's nothing interesting about World Building that barely tells a story. It makes people who only watch the anime not understand it at all.
And what's frustrating is that Sensei's role is completely unnecessary. Sensei's presence in this story is ... equally important. It's not necessary or has any impact on the story. Many of the characters that are revealed are interesting. It ended simply.

Reviewer’s Rating: 4

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