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Imagine title in a oversaturated and cliche market, with a Sword Art clone MC, who is a victim of the same plot device as "Get this Greving Soul Retire" (also bad) - and opens to nearly a carbon copy scene premise of monsters = jewel drops as "Is it Wrong to pick up...".

From there, the Rabbit Guild Headquarters is also a near identical copy of the a rival guild in the same title.

The voice actors are typical shrill girls and bland males, the art and music is unnotable in any regard. There is not reason to watch more than the first three episodes to ... know this is it.

The premise is already lukewarm, which should say enough at face value, but this is a case of the book being as bad as its cover. There is no reason to watch this when compared to the somewhat better titles this series scalped it concepts from.

The plot is more something slapped together to make story, rather than a story being told through a plot. The MC, Raizou, is a emotionally bland samurai, who is duped into killing his own people out of loyalty. Despite being committed to loyalty, it only goes as far a murdering on orders, but falls short of applying the remainder of the Bushido apparently.

The Revengers group takes him on for some unknown reason despite having no reason to trust him, and seeming fully capable of its own tasks without him. Even those among the group flat out reject him, and question it. Rather than giving ... some better agency to this issue, the story quickly loses its own focus by stumbling around on different B-plots rather than driving the story about Raizou.

The story also does a awful job remaining committed to the time setting - frequently using concepts and vocabulary that are alien to the setting.

Combat scenes are also haphazard, where characters pull techniques out of thier ass with no explanation as to thier unusual skillsets. One character literally has a version of AoT ODM gear, and another has massive compund bow (which wasn't invented for another 400 years). Explanation? Nope. Why does Raizou scream like a banshee before attacking people? Beats me.

Overall the art is the best part of it - the colors are good, the scenery is surprisingly pleasant, and the character models are solid work. The art team is definitely the backbone of this sickly project. It is also one of the driving reasons I started this to begin with, but it is not itself a reason to keep watching it.

Overall, you aren't missing much by skipping on this. It seems more like a series meant to fill airing space rather than something derived from inspiration or compelling narration.

Originally there was the argument that "hnng well in the story settings, its normal that kids..." yeah whatever you need to say for cope - but a this point, it is undeniable that the mangaka is a pervert for loli, and has no shame about inserting it into this series.

Originally, it was some odd things like a bondage punishment, or reg's reaction in a bath. Okay... maybe this is innocence at work? Well as far as the writing goes now, talking about how a kid played with her nipples until they popped, or "papa's rod" - is really pretty hard to make excuses for. ... And what a shame that an otherwise great concept is polluted by this corruption.

The premise of descending a hellish dungeon until reality begins to fray is pretty interesting, and the narrative and creative depth is actually impressive. That said, the initial concept was good, until the nerahate village and afterwards, where the story only becomes increasingly bizarre, abstract, and weirdly paced.

And the artwork and style are uniquely great, and often cute. The shading, shapes, quality - all top tier, but again - the abstractness becomes a problem. You have these foggy over rendered panels that you just have to squint at to make sense of sometimes. Earlier, this was not a problem.

So, for me, I am dropping it because I find the mangaka's perversion problem to break the back of a already declining concept. I read enough about the infestation of pedophiles in my country, I really resent the premise of turning a blind eye to another person who inserts it into a manga that capitalizing on a coming of age story. Gross. Seriously, just go make hentai if you really need to do it, stop ruining your own series.

Clevatess presents itself with a doomsday tier entity confronting humanity, and subsequently gauging the right for humanity to exist. In premise, the idea is intersting. In execution, however, the series repeatedly undermines itself through shallow antagonism, obviously flawed animation, and narrative contradictions that feel like symptoms of a rushed production.

1. Characters

The series leans heavily on some of the most exhausted villain tropes in anime:

Bandits licking blades, deranged laughter shorthand for “evil”, 'ugly-bastard' designs solely to provoke disgust, mad wizards with little grounding beyond insanity. These characters are threatening only because the audience has been conditioned to recognize their theatrical tropes.

This is especially disappointing when ... placed beside Clevatess himself, a creature who demonstrated an interesting amount of reflection and internal logic. The contrast only highlights how shallow the human antagonists are written.

2. Animation

The animation issues are glaring beyond a rather standard-level of quality. Throughout the series, there are repeated examples of corner-cutting that betray a stressed pipeline: Overreliance on still frames with minimal movement. Stiff combat animation with no sense of weight, timing, or spatial continuity. Nonsensical weapon handling that ignores basic physics and form

The duel between Dorel and Royes on the frozen river is particularly an eye-sore. The choreography lacks coherence. One of the most glaring examples occurs during Royes’ introduction — in one frame, his spear rests over his shoulder; in the very next, it is inexplicably positioned beneath it. Moments later, the two are wildly swinging at eachother in almost static poses.

The combat itself feels less inspired by real sword or spear technique and more reminiscent of low-grade animation memes from 40-year-old productions — wide, empty swings without intention, posture, or follow-through.

And yet, when stepping back and acknowledging that this anime’s entire production cycle was barely over a year, it becomes difficult to blame the animators or QA staff themselves. These are the problems that emerge not from teams being forced to deliver broadcast-ready material under deadlines that leave no room for polish, pride, or creativity. This is the industry’s well-known grind culture at play.

And frankly, as a creative artist, my soul could not survive this sort of industrial oppression.

3. Narrative

From a plot perspective, Clevatess struggles with consistency of scale and logic. Early on, the series establishes a clear power dynamic:

Clevatess annihilates the hero’s party effortlessly and proceeds to erase a human capital with equal ease. This framing suggests a being operating far beyond human comprehension — one unconcerned with human machinations. Yet almost immediately afterward, the narrative begins undermining this premise.

Despite demonstrating total supremacy, Clevatess is portrayed as shockingly uninformed about the human world, such as the existence and function of magic. He talks about the way of life as if being well versed in it, but doesn't know that a female mammal wont produce breastmilk when she hasn't had a kid recently. Anyways, despite being to the point about annihilating the hero party and the subsequent capital, his story quickly becomes unfocused.

Second, is the contradicting use of mortality premises; the bug wizard fight for example, iterated that Alicia was mortal again at one point, and then was subsequently stabbed and launched by a scorpion the size of a small house. It did zero to her. What was mortal? The collar of her tunic, since her boobs were conspicuously visible after being swarmed by bugs, which didn't attack anything else... Okay... I can't fathom why they chose a female main character at this point, clearly the animation as mentioned earlier is the sell, right? /s. Then in the final fight, her hand is very obviously cut off in a full crowd of on-watchers, and reattaches, and no one questions why this isn't weird? Or that she is literally gutted in open in combat, says, "i'll be okay", and is up and walking - and again, no one finds this suspicious?

Summary

Clevatess is decent at best.

Its strongest ideas are evident early, but they are eroded by weak writing, naked animation problems, and narrative inconsistencies. Quite disappointing given that it has the potential to be excellent.

Good in its purest sense, and nothing more or less.

Typically stories are guided by the character, not the characters slaved to make the story - and this makes something that I think could be great, rank as just okay. People invest in character they identify with, or empathize with. This story, much of it consists of a montage of lineless scenery, about the artists doing art, but what about anything else in terms of agency? What about family, relationships, or hobbies outside of simply being artists?

The story to me feels so thin that you can surmise the plot themes in a few words. ... Introverts -> Artists -> Death -> Sadness. There is no build up, no reasons or story behind why the side character dies, aside from, "I asked her to go outside with me." That in itself is stretch, but its about the only obvious tie-in between the beginning and end of the story, wherein there isn't much else in between to pack the space. The murderer is simply a lazy plot devise, and the 4 pane comic from the beginning is a formula McGuffin.

Artwork: Excellent. A lot of the scenes are impressive, and especially love this aerial scene where the farmland water reflects the light.

I think Rizu to Aoi Tori is comparable as a movie about art with introverted characters - but it does virtually everything better in execution; better character development, better music, its art quality is more consistent, it has a MUCH stronger narrative.

Frustratingly predictable – The Federation pilots are wiped out like hapless fodder within moments of deployment, virtually annihilated without putting up any real fight. The ensuing battle between the newest veteran pilot and her Zeon counterpart ends in a stalemate. This might have worked if it led to a twist—but of course, it doesn’t.

As usual, the Gundam doesn’t just tip the balance—it flips the entire table. What could have been a tense skirmish between green Federation recruits and a handful of Zeon veterans turns into a one-sided slaughter, completely devoid of meaningful tactics. The Zeon, as always, seem hopelessly incapable of countering a Gundam that ... slices and blasts its way through any opposition. Character development is illusionary; it’s just a toilet paper-thin veil of investment time that gets shredded the moment the Gundam enters the scene. Pilot who's depressed that his family was killed? Nah, he'll die right away to a tacky and annoying main character.

Is that fun? No, it’s not.

The plot adds little to the previous storyline about the doctor, functioning mostly as a subplot of a subplot.

On the positive side, the art is gorgeous, the character designs are strong, and the voice acting and sound design are top-tier—just like the previous entry. Unfortunately, these strengths are like lip gloss for a pig. Wasted on things that structurally could have been easily better. Perhaps its just easier to write battle plots with a handful of one dimensional characters.

BLUF; Art is excellent, music is good, characters are interesting, plot could be better - and the series comes with its usual annoying flaws.

Do you ever wish you could escape the repetitive scenes of Gundam's eviscerating helpless Zakus? I sure wish I could. Although this movie does a FAR better job than most Gundam series do, it still makes a point to show how one sided Gundam engagements are. Either the Feddies are meat fed to Zeon aces, or the Zeon get melted by the Gundam - as classic now as it was 50 years ago. 6/10

Character plots; there's a load of loose ends by ... end of the story, but otherwise, I really found the characters to be compelling, even the disposable ones are given character even with a few seconds in passing. I love it a lot. This is how stories should be - humanizing everyone with even seconds of screen time. 8/10

The art is equally as impressive - the eyes, the colors, the angles... just everything about it is great. 9/10

Music-wise - sometimes I felt like the sound scheme was a bit too edgy, like shouting if "IF YA HEAR MY JAZZ YA GONNA DIE". Cool your jets edge lord. Sometimes the BGM is distracting in bad ways, so I'd give that a 6/10.

Overall, I'd call this artwork worth your time, especially if you love gundam. 7/10!

So i dont bore you to death with the usual essay-typed review, here's my (probably unpopular) opinion.

The first sell of the story is that the character uniforms are reminiscent of german/british gets up in WWII, and the obvious Kettenkrad motor bike for another. So there's an obvious appeal to the wehraboo's community we all know exists. Yet not once do they address that back story of this. What happened to thier unit? What happened to thier home? None of this is looked at while they absently look through vacant cities. I'd obviously be a bit disturbed if literally everything just died and vanish around me.

The ... second glaring issue is that these cities lack any clear concept of thier destruction - theres no bones, there's no damage. The downed aircraft in the first episode lets you on to think there will be more to talk about, yet this totally abandoned. Where is the immersion?

Character wise, they're pretty standard minus a few quirks. Chito is an idiot and if i worked with her, i'd question is she's even a bit slow. She's like 16 years old if not older, and cant figure out why noise echos in a metal box. People say "trust", but in episode one, CHITO POINTS A GUN AT HER AND ROBS HER FRIEND FOR A CHOCOLATE BAR. At that point, i'd say no, I am done. Good-bye. This clings to the back of my mind for the rest of the story. How could you ever trust someone like that again?

So wrapping it up, the story feels numb, uninviting, and contradictory. Its not terrible, but in my opinion, its not that good.

After pondering on Dragon Dentist, i decided i try to share my mindset as to why this Anime could have been better. Beware of spoilers.

First, being in the military i found it interesting that the story had a strong basis for men of war, combat, and so forth yet it was WRONG on an epic scale.

The majority of soldiers in warfare do not have murderous intent, so the fact that entire military units where completely annihilated due to this idea that most soldiers harbor this intent is ridiculous. Most people have no wish to kill the enemy. Those troops cowering with tears in thier ... eyes are simply cowards and the fact that they survive over everyone else makes me wonder what the directors where trying to say.

Storywise - There is a lot unsaid. What are dragons? Why does the dragon favor one army over the other? What stops dentists from living normal lives on earth? Are dentists immortal aside from mortal death? There was a good hour and a half to elaborate more on this, or otherwise contribute more to the story. A huge contradiction i did notice within the story was that Bell didn't shoot in the end because he knew that Blanco who had killed him would shoot him, thus the cavity would kill him. Inaction is still an action, and Bell did something with the intent that Blanco
would die consequently. That is murderous intent on Bells behalf.

Artwork - I did enjoy the vivid animation and very clean artwork. It is top tier for modern anime. Full points in that category. The archetecture was beautiful and the warscenes and military applications where well done. The mushi where interesting and what they contributed in style lent towards the story notion of their detachment from conventional life.

That said, i feel this was more of a rant, but as a review and feedback i hope this was helpful and interesting to read. Thank you.

Story: Throughout the beginning of Inuyasha the plot was great with its constant fast pace and creativity but as it progressed it fell into a plain cycle. after reaching around episodes near the 70's the filler episodes take over. Naraku escapes repeatedly while the group loses just about every shard they collect. not until the end are the shards finally taken care of. Dont get me wrong though, the story really is enjoyable.

Art: the art was decent but didn't seem to have much flair to it. the forests scenes and medows where well done and had plenty of color along with the well done desolate ... landscapes and mountains. aside from that there was little deviation to mix it up. with 150+ episodes the same scenery, no matter how good, eventually becomes dull.

Sound: the sound was OK but not great. just as the episodes became duller, so did the music. with every scene, you could begin to predict that same repetitve music that played over and over. towards the last 60 episodes theres was little to no unique pieces of music added.

Character: the character development was good in the thought put into them but once again, the flaw that always hit was the lack of development. sango and mirokus romance never seemed to progress and inuyasha and kagome never seemed to get any closer. also despite the large group of protagonists, no significant characters ever died throughout the anime either, not counting the antagonists. kikyo was already dead with to start. to finish this part, that "sit boy" joke that was funny just became old as it went on, if i was inuyasha i wouldn't have put up with such a childish leash as kagome used it for.

Overall: 6/10 - after the original charm of a fresh and well designed anime started to wear off into a repetive and dull series where it became more of a chore to complete the series than actually to enjoy it. the beginning of the series i would give a 9/10 but the innability to further develop such as the amount of piontless fillers, lack of character development, and lack of new music really killed the story.