Tsue to Tsurugi no Wistoria

This anime is a pleasant surprise.

The 2024 year has been FILLED with great fantasy anime with famous manga/novel background; Mushoku Tensei, Tensura, Konosuba, Dungeon Meshi etc. Wistoria in other hand as far as i know, is not that famous. This anime surprise is that not so famous novel/manga has animation quality that rival those with a famous manga/novel background.



The bad:
-The premise of this anime is really cliche; "the seemingly useless guy is actually really strong and he wants 'the strongest people' tittle." (but this time they add "so he can be together with his girl" but that doesn't really matter). It's not very interesting.


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The good:

-The direction. This anime has a cliche premise but the way they wrap it, makes it 'good' to watch. The direction also helped the world building by not explaining it in a long scene, but rather chopped it and spread it between episodes and with argueably short sentences plus great visual and animation and effect and the object they decide to pan or animate is very good and make it fun to watch. But it doesn't end there. those things i just said also apply to the fight sequence.

-The Fight. The fighting/action also uses good; visual, animation, effect, sound plus the direction to create amazing fight sequence.

-The Animation. The first thing you prolly gonna realize is that the animation is absurdly good. They picked the correct color to animate this and the minor detail of the world get a lot of care and attention, and the most surprising is how the keep that quality through out the episode and it makes you feels like you are watching a sakuga the whole episode.

conclusion:
This anime is really worth the watch if you are not an elitist who really only care about story and physically can't watch anime with cliche story.
even though you consider yourself as an elitist, i still recommend you to watch at least a single episode.

Last words:
this is an early review and im really wondering if they can manage this kind of quality the whole anime and not just the first three episode.

even tho i put this as 9/10, i really think this anime is as for now 8/10. But just because this anime is really enjoyable for me, i put it as 9/10

Laid out masterpiece in the making.
Yes, this anime have potential to be the masterpiece classics level in the making. With very high quality and passionate staff, good laid out story, and very strong world building. This anime got everything good throwing at it.

Recommend for: World building, Directing, Production Quality, Character, Story
Not Recommend for: If you don't like the bullied but secretly OP character troupe.

Full review:
First of all, let me praise it world building, because since the first episode has aired, it got me thinking every time I watch this show of how incredible the world is. It's not a reach for me to say that ... in 1 ep it's event (in my bias opinion) better than Frieren for the whole season. Coming from the writer of Danmachi, I knew this will be a good world building, and it is. If you like mixed mythology, un-answered lore, and classist social system and history to strive for, this is the world for you. [10+/10]

Next, the directing and production quality of this show is STUNNING. I do not say this lightly when I tell you that this show got some of the best directing, pacing, framing, camera work, and lighting of this season. Sure this might not got the most flashiest of scenes, or animation so fluid that Archimedes would be jealous of. But every single second of this show is beautiful in its own unique way. The moving fabric of character cloth details, the sky, the architecture, and the scenery, is breath taking. [10/10]

Lastly, the story and the character. Right now, it's pretty average. I can see people don't like this story and character styling, because it's the same ol secretly OP got bullied in a classist society where some arbitrary skills define your worth (aware). But this feels different, and that's wholly because of the cast. The Protagonist is the main reason of this, he's not some overlly dumbo, nor overyly good, he just, himself. This make many character in this anime shines through in its own way. The close friend are just there cuz the writer want them to be their, there's some reason to it as well (se ep 2), so overall feels very natural writing and story development.
For the future of the story, I can see this expand into a truly wonderful one, because there's an established "end goal", foreshadow big event and lore, and established characters for it to take places. [9/10]

There's not really a con in this show, other than if you don't like the troupe, or you walk in expecting something you shouldn't, like comedy or something. So Overall, this is a very enjoyable show to watch, great potentials, great visual, and impactful story.

My rating as a fantasy anime: 10/10
My rating as overall anime: 9.2/10

First of all, out of all the "New" fantasy genre anime of the current season, summer 2024, this is by far the best anime.

As soon as the first episode starts, the "Crisp" animation tells us what's in store for this anime. To me personally, there is no better dungeon anime than DanMachi, however, in just 3 episodes, this anime has surpassed most of the dungeon anime there are. One of the biggest difficulties anime face is when animating fight scenes involving large enemies or monsters, and only few anime can make these good, and yes this anime is one of them (It is simply beautiful).

People ... immediately started saying, "it's just another anime with an overpowered mc", however, personally I do not agree with this. First of all, Magia Vander are all stronger than him; Secondly, he is shown as a growing character that has the aim he strives to achieve, and that is to ascend the tower. He is shown as someone who is slowly but surely becoming stronger. The emotions, the confidence, the uptake, the strategy, and last but not least, the action are all perfect.

The suspense and expressions really makes us feel like we are actually watching a boss fight and it gets our heart pounding. It isn't like those anime where the mc comes and one shots their opponent and calls it a day, it properly executes all the elements needed for a good battle. Every episode felt like it had a little surprise waiting for us.

Why you should give this anime a try?
A: This anime contains a lot of overused and cliché anime elements such as magic, dungeon, fighting for love, crush on mc, school/academy theme, however, when you watch this anime, it will all feel new and fresh, like it will not bore you at all (Heck, even the Season 3 of Reincarnated as a Slime makes me smash my head due to it's development type story arc). It's story progression actually makes every single episode quite enjoyable.

Enjoyability Level: 10
Music/Sound effects Level: 8
Emotion Level: 9
Suspense Level: 9
Action Level: 10

It was not long before with the success that Mashle had, other animation studios would look for similar stories to make an anime and with this we have Tsue to Tsurugi no Wistoria

presents another boy without magical gifts in a magic academy that must prevail with his strength and magic items since this world has a certain degree of technology created by magicians and craftsmen, it could be said that it is the Batman of his world

the plot really has its thing showing the motivations of the protagonists are simple mixed with the conflict that happens in the world it is not boring, the construction ... of the management of the dungeons is similar to DanMachi and the personalities of the characters may be that you have seen them thousands of times but none are annoying they are well balanced

In the work of the Actas studios, Bandai Namco Pictures the collaboration gave its fruits a classic artistic style with CGI in the monsters, the powers and certain movements in the characters in battles

I haven't decided on their score yet, but for now it's a 7

Quick review here;
Are you looking for a pure action anime, with no CGI and don't really care about anything else? Don you like the fantasy setting but every single show set in a fantasy world is just the basic isekai? Well, this is your lucky day, since this animes strongest point is the animation, which is gorgeus. Nothing else to say, it's just pure beauty. The only problem with is the design of the monsters, and this might change later, but right now every single enemy just looks stupid and not cool neither scary. The world, the story and the characters are nothing special to ... talk about. Really generic and basic, but not bad or boring. They made it a lot better than that! The world has a it's own history (if you listen closely) the streets are full of people, which makes it feel like and actual town. The characters aren't anything special, but they act like a normal human being and there is no fanservice (so far)! This feels so refreshing in my opinion. These two makes up the basicly copy&paste story, so this shouldn't bother anyone watching this show!
Overall: This anime is worth your time! It may take four or five years to be forgotten forever, since there isn't anything new, but the animation and the fact, how unexpectedly realistic each episode is great and it's been a long time, since I saw anything similar to this.