Nejimaki seirei senki: Tenkyô no Alderamin

The overall show was enjoyable. I enjoyed the personalities of all the characters and did become emotionally attached to many - if not all - of the main ones. I also enjoyed Ikta's ideal of how life should be: laziness all the way! What I did not enjoy was the overall theme of war. I only stuck with it because the main character himself did not enjoy war, in fact hated it, and many other characters did not either. I feel like this show encapsulated the corruptness and stupidity of war. Overall, if I overlook the disgust of warfare in general, in this anime, it wasn't too bad. However, even without the theme subtracting from my enjoyment of the plot, there wasn't as much comedy as I would have liked, and a lot of the knowledge was slow starting; you wouldn't find out certain things until midway through the show.

This show is amazing, if you can accept what it is. The strategy that the main character comes up with, will make you think that it was written by Eisenstein. The show has little comedy, almost zero romance, but it has great characters and , like said before, brilliant strategy.

Watch the first two episodes. They will give you the perfect idea of what this show is all about.

Alderamin on the Sky is based on a Japanese light novel, which was later adapted to manga and now an anime. I had read the manga and enjoyed it a lot so I decided to watch the anime when I stumbled upon it.

The setting is a Stem Punk Fantasy world with tactical warfare as the focus of the plot. It's the start of rifle age, with swords still playing a major part, air balloons are the next new thing. Also, everyone got some spirit companion who can do some neat tricks. The storytelling focuses on the journey of a recruit to becoming the highest military officer in the country using brains. We only cover the training of recruits and their first campaign before the anime ends just like the manga. I hope they spin out more seasons as this is one of the anime with some great characters and lot of potential.

I liked the animation, it was done up well all throughout.

Episodes 1-6 made sense, after that its all just battle battle battle, reckon, strategy and then some more battle until the very end of last 6 minutes in episode 13 when its finally over.

This is one of those bait anime's where you start watching with a promising story and end up watching repetitive 2D animation (at times) for last 6 episodes.

Strategy plot is very vague in this anime, as its mostly commentary and observation apart form a few unorthodox methods of battle.

It still good watch but I just wasn't prepared for that though, that's my opinion on the anime. If they had made 24 episodes with more expansion on the outcomes of the battle and circumstances, it may have been a more entertaining show.

After watching this anime I liked it pretty much. I even wanted a second season. But the sad thing is after knowing the story from LN I don't think it will get second season. Even I am pissed it had so much potential but made the ending trash broken heart of all the fans. But if you nonly watch anime then go for it. I recommend.