Tales of Zestiria the X

Amazing anime if you are really into fantasy and beautiful animation! Sorey, Alisha Diphda, Rose, and the seraphs are amazing characters. The concept, the characters, the music, and the animation is what this anime is about! Highly underrated and unforgettable!

just a quick note to say that I am reviewing this anime after watching only 13 episodes. but usually I can tell if a show is going to capture my attention from at least episode 6. but sad to say this one hasn't really done that. saying that I still have faith in it and will continue to watch it until at least the end of the first season. I don't know if anyone else felt the same but I found the story a bit hard to follow at times. I thought the action was really good but the main thing this show has going for it is the visuals. The beautiful scenery, the uniforms and the buildings had a deep attention to detail. even though I still think the pace of the show didn't capture me I still appreciated it's beauty.

Now Tales of anime do not have a good track record if you're not talking about Tales of the Abyss. However this is among the stinkers of Tales anime. Now the main sin of most of these anime is being so short that an adaptation is made pointless, but this, this betrays a lot of the character archetypes and lore of not only Zestiria but Berseria as well all for giving Alisha more screen time after the flack Namco got for the marketing controversy around her, which in all honesty should've never happened. To elaborate on the betrayal with no spoilers there are far too many examples to list but an example is the alleged main character Sorey acting too much like Kirito instead of a cheerful nerd, and as for lore Berseria establishes that things that shouldn't or can't happen in Zestiria due to Berseria's epilogue or various sidequests happen anyway here. For instance the anime says that so and so will die if such happened while such happens in Berseria and no one dies. Also there is way too much Alisha that she comes to the detriment of several other characters including Sorey the main friggin character. As every episode gives her five minutes which should be devoted to developing other characters that ultimately contribute nothing to the story just to say 'oh look how cool Alisha is'. So I would recommend anything else and avoiding this anime.

Show not tell when characters talk about how painful it is to purify a dragon (which could not be done in the games, not sure why they changed that) they should have relied on animation to show their struggle. Also added the plots of Alicia and Berseria in it. Just one problem. Tales games are about character development/dept more so than the plot.

Now there will be some people who have watched Tales of Zesteria the X disagree with me,but still it's unique in it's own way.It has one of the best animation.The story takes time to understand but eventually you'll understand it.There will be times that you may wanna quit watching it because I did the same till 6 episodes.My brother watched it too and He didn't get what is happening till 12th episode.Still it has it's own plus points.And has a decent ending.

And one more thing it does not show any kind of Love relationship between characters.Its kind of friendship and support type based anime.It has some funny moments but it's less. I don't regret watching this anime.