Based on the manga by Okazaki Takeshi begun in 1990.
After a family tragedy, Kagura is left with only his beloved friend Asami for consolation. Meanwhile, there is a war beginning in the spiritual world. Beings known as "Elementalors" call upon power from spirits to maintain harmony in the world by balancing individual forces of nature. Lord Shiki, a water Elementalor, kidnaps Asami in order to use special powers she posesses to retrieve his daughter, who has been imprisioned for nearly destroying the Earth. Kagura discovers that he is also an Elementalor—a very powerful one. He must join forces with other Elementalors to save Asami and prevent Lord Shiki from causing a great imbalance by releasing his daughter.
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Tomah
Seirei Tsukai leads us to a nostalgia trip to the 1990's and its typical battle shounen series: corny, cheesy and flashy, but ultimately engaging, with charismatic characters and awesome battles. Unfortunately, Seirei Tsukai takes only the lame elements from the shounen formula and slams them all into a 48 minutes mess. The plot is very standard, as you can read in the synopsis: normal guy receives the "call to adventure" after his friend has been captured, and it turns out he is some kind of "chosen one". Thus, he needs to defeat the bad guy. The problem is not the lack of originality, specially since thereare some pretty interesting ideas, but the lazy storytelling. There's not enough time to actually care about what's going on, yet the movie insists on throwing plot element after plot element, until it simply ends, without even having a proper sense of closure. It's not an open ending, just a sub-par ending.
The animation itself is not bad, though obviously dated, and the battle sequences have some nice fluidity. However, none of this helps a lot when everything seems so bland. Have you ever seen the stereotypical shounen heroes that teen boys create when they are learning how to draw inspired by manga/anime? That's Seirei Tsukai's character designs for you. Odds are, you'll forget the characters' faces within 48 hours after watching it. As for the soundtrack, it's nothing spectacular, but decent enough.
It's possible that the lack of engagement is not because of the plot, but rather the characters. There are lots of examples of characters who are capable of stealing the spotlights and carrying the plot all by themselves due to their charisma, while some works choose to develop the main cast as a whole and offer meaningful relationships which the reader/viewer cares about. Similarly, poor characters can ruin the entire experience.
You'll probably not hate the characters, but you won't like them either. They are just actors fulfilling their roles on the stage, bi-dimensional figures moving around. This is supposed to be a sort of coming of age for Kagura, who sees himself completely alone in the world now that his sole emotional support has been gone and must awaken his inner powers to get the girl back, as a man. It could be charming, if it wasn't so literal. Kagura has no visible signs of actually maturing or coming to terms with his problems, he just pulls a magical power out of his ass and saves the day.
Yet, after all of this, Seirei Tsukai manages not keeping the viewer entirely bored. But don't give it much credit, as most of it derives from a feeling of nostalgia which summons the "inner kid" inside of people. It is, after all, an adventure filled with dangers, abilities and battles, such as Dragon Ball, Hokuto no Ken, Yu Yu Hakusho and other classics.
But the ultimate question for a battle shounen is: are the battles interesting? Well... they are nice to see, but hardly memorable or unique. And that's a shame, because the characters have such huge and almost unlimited abilities due to being able to manipulate elements. Compare this to JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, which can consistently deliver exciting battles with simple abilities used in extremely clever ways, and you'll see that there's no real competition. Still, you shouldn't be very disappointed if you want to see some powerful warriors kicking each others' butts.
So, who is Seirei Tsukai recommendable to? Mostly nostalgia fans from the 1990's, and even so with some caution. Ultimately, however, it's just a superficial journey to the past, without anything remarkable on its own.
(Reviewed for the club "Reviews for the unreviewed")
Y-MELLY
I honestly don’t even know where to begin with Elementalors. This anime could have been so good if it had just been given a better plot and storyline. The whole concept of power dynamics and elemental control had so much potential, you can tell that beneath everything, there was an idea that could’ve made this movie stand out. But somehow, AIC Production completely ruined it. I genuinely loved the power system and the elemental abilities displayed in the anime, that was the only thing that caught my attention. But outside of that, everything else just fell apart. No character development, no solid storytelling, and no properplot structure at all. As much as I wanted to enjoy it, I honestly feel like I wasted my time watching this anime 😭.
The pacing made it feel like a rushed project, and there were so many things left unexplained. One big example is the word “Deva.” The characters kept repeating it like it was the core of the story, yet they never bothered to explain what it truly meant. How do you build an entire plot around a word and then not tell the audience what it means? It’s lazy storytelling at its finest. So many scenes felt incomplete or unfinished, like the writers gave up halfway through.
Another thing that really threw me off was the design of the Phoenix wings. Like, who thought that was a good idea? 😂 They looked like planks of wood sticking out of the protagonist’s back! I actually laughed when I saw it. I saw no reason to keep exploring the protagonist’s powers after that moment, it completely broke the immersion. It looked more like a tree growing branches or a plank of wood put together to set up a fire wood 😂, than a Phoenix rising from the ashes.
I’ve watched many 90s OVAs, and honestly, this is one of the weakest ones I’ve seen. I honestly couldn’t believe this came from AIC Production, the same studio that has made some decent stuff before. But then again, this isn’t the first time AIC has dropped the ball. This anime was just another major flop for them.
As much as I love old-school OVAs, this one just wasted my time 😭.
My advice: don’t watch it 🧎♂️. Save your 48+ minutes and watch a better OVA from the same era instead. This one is nothing but a time-waster and a freaky mess from start to finish. Good concept, terrible execution.
