Long ago, the king of Orvelia, Kyle, defeated the demon king Angmund and brought peace to the world. However, one hundred years later, demons have been sighted in the forests, threatening humanity once more. A scouting expedition is sent to verify the claim but only one member returns. Meanwhile, Riheet, the leader of a dark elf mercenary group, plots to take over Orvelia to exact revenge against the humans who forsook their race a century ago.
The knight apprentice Kasel, accompanied by the priestess Frey, sets out to rescue Clause, an old friend who went missing in the tragic mission. However, along the way, Kasel discovers that he is the son of the revered King Kyle and the only one who can wield the Holy Sword Aea—the same sword that slew the demon king. To fulfill this destiny, the young knight must embark on a perilous quest, unseal the sword, and end the fear instilled by demons. As Kasel's journey to bring hope to humanity and Riheet's vow for vengeance intertwine, what fate could possibly await them?
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Marinate1016
At this point, I think only a few of us actually got through all 26 episodes of King’s Raid. I for one, don’t regret a single moment of it. Yes, King’s Raid is a pretty generic fantasy gacha game adaptation that does absolutely nothing game changing or innovative. Yes, there’s plenty of better shows out there. No, that doesn’t mean I didn’t like it. In fact, I loved King’s Raid. It is a slow burn over the 2-cours span that it runs, but once it gets going, I found it to be very entertaining. For context, when I watch anime, I usually multi-task by farmingFGO or other gacha, KR was one of the only shows in the past two seasons that actually held my interest long enough for me to put my phone down and fully lock in.
Despite the generic set up of a chosen heir to the throne going on a quest with his standard JRPG party to defeat a demon lord, I thought Kasel and RIheeto’s juxtaposition as duel protagonists was well done. In fact, by the end of the show I was feeling much more sympathetic towards the secondary protag than the main guy. The dynamic between both of the MCs and their parties was really fun to compare and contrast over the course of the anime. The studio aids with that by alternating perspectives every episode. I also liked the mystery down the stretch with unravelling Kasel and RIheeto’s pasts. It seemed like the studio knew exactly when to end episodes to leave you on the edge of your seat wanting more.
Due to its nature as a gacha game adapdation, as you’d expect the animation is meh at best throughout much of the show. For the vast majority of the 26 episodes it’s pretty average. I’d put it above Hortensia Saga, but well below the likes of Priconne or even the Gran Blue anime. The art is REALLY nice and was actually one of the big reasons I liked this show. It has this really glossy look that makes the characters shine a lot and really makes the waifus in the show pop out.
I probably wouldn’t recommend King’s Raid to most people, not because it isn’t good to me, but because it probably would be boring and uninspiring to others. I think for most people, there’s more enjoyable ways to spend 8 hours. That said, I’ll never apologise for liking what I like and finding something to be entertaining. King’s Raid gets 8 holy swords out of 10.
AnimeEnjoyer420
Recommendation: You can probably skip this one unless you're desperate for a new fantasy series to watch. It's not that it's bad exactly, more that it's inessential, and everything that's good about it is done better by other shows. King's Raid is a series that is basically fine, but is absolutely crying out for something to make it unique. If you can imagine a completely generic and predictable fantasy anime in your head, this is basically that series. The main plot has basically two tracks, and the main one is as straightforward as it gets. Kasel is searching for the Holy Swordto defeat the Dark Lord. He has to journey to meet 3 different people and prove his worth to each one to unseal the sword before the Dark Lord is revived. If you weren't aware already that this was a video game adaptation, it's unmistakable once you start watching. The B plot, following the Black Edge mercenary company and their revenge conspiracy against the Kingdom of Orvelia, is considerably more interesting, but ultimately ends in disappointment when it merges with the main story a little past the halfway point of the series.
There are a couple of teases that the series will become more interesting or complex at times, but it never actually comes to fruition. It can be quite frustrating to watch because it feels like it could have been a much better series if there were more of a follow through on certain parts, character relationships and so on. There's a lot of wasted potential.
The art and animation were also a bit disappointing. The character designs actually look fine for the most part, but some characters can be a bit dead-eyed. The really unfortunate part is the mediocre animation of the action scenes, which feel sluggish and lack smoothness.
While the series overall is fairly mediocre, it's not entirely without strong points. I would hesitate to call any of the characters "great", and the main character Kasel is almost totally without personality, but there are a lot of fun secondary characters in this series. Cleo is best girl and gets the most to do of any of the side characters except Frey, but there are plenty of others, including Maria, Scarlet and Reina, that make the show fun when they show up too.
Most importantly, the 2nd OP absolutely slaps. Eclipse by Dreamcatcher is the name, and it's worth looking up even if you don't watch the show. I am not generally a fan of anime music or K pop groups, and really don't even like rock/power ballads as a genre that much, but this one is great.
KANLen09
Ah...King's Raid, one of the most popular indie mobage games in South Korea, such a good game that's amassed with the huge popularity in its home country. The anime version which features a different story from the game's plot, frankly, I can sum in one word: TRASH. As with every other game adaptation, it's nothing more than the marketing ploy of tactics to get people to play the original game, and that by every aspect, has succeeded one way or another without going into the specifics of numbers. But the way that King's Raid was planned with the anime adaptation, I have no idea what theproduction committee was thinking to make it more than twice as long (as any typical 12-episode run), which in return makes it compoundingly twice as boring. And with twice the story plot (the hero and the villain), sadly, when the villain's story is more interesting than the hero...that's just one of many make-or-break moments that this show could've capitalized on, but went in the motive of DRAGGING the journey for "God knows how long the hero must play King Arthur to find the sword in the (magic realm) stone that slays evil".
The story...nah, heck it, I'll impose a question instead: Do you prefer to watch the typical cliche Hero and his mercenaries on a long-ass journey to find the Holy Sword, or focus more on the villain side with the Dark Elves and the reasons behind the usual kingdom tyranny that causes them to go berserk to the point of rebellion? I'm pretty sure you know the answer deep in your heart as to which is more compelling if you want to watch this needlessly 6-month long run that only increases boredom with the passing of time.
The characters...extremely cookie-cutter as per RPG standards. They're supposed to carve an identity of themselves, but to me, I can just sum them up as just being cardboard cut-outs in the skewed sense of genericness. You got the usual Hero who's dense and only strikes like a ferocious dog, the mercenaries of a beautiful magicians (one attuned to the Hero for "romance" eye-candy, another for childlike childishness) and the occasional warrior for extra strength (and seeking revenge from his past). The only consolation I'll give is the sympathy to the Dark Elves' side for much they've suffered and seeking their own justice for being the oppressed, and that's about it.
The animation...just undercuts the entire production run as a whole, because it's the same amount of mediocre as you'd expect from a decades-old studio that other than most modern-day mediocre-average kids' shows, doesn't know how to tackle a series that is vastly different from the pedigree of works before and after it. Even worse, with the surmise and acquisition of Xebec under Sunrise, and resurrection under a new name (Sunrise Beyond), I know that Xebec has done some great dark-esque shows, but the result of this is nowhere to be seen. So yeah, heck this one as well, because the animation and visuals are subpar.
Even the music is boring as well. This is one of those times that fripSide's song just somehow doesn't click well with the entire theme of the show, yes the song is somewhat listenable but nope, the mesh is just crude, and I don't care much for KOTOKO's ED...so a strike out for the ED, which makes the 1st half's OST sound palpitable. The 2nd half's OST sounded a lot better-suited to the show, and yeah, you can hear the difference in both OP and ED songs, so that's a tick.
Nope, anime adaptations from games are supposed to make you feel welcomed to the game itself, as if you're the MC who's playing the game and making decisions yourself, but to see an adaptation like this that serves no purpose other than clickbait for the actual game, why bothering making this show for the intention of the audience to suffer more than twice the length of a bad show? It all comes down to the saying of "Money as the root of all evil", and this is no different.
Skip this one and save your precious time, you would not want to watch more than a cour's worth of this gosh-darn slow-as-molasses bull-crap.
Balsamina
King's Raid is a show that starts off very much like your typical Game story adaptation that's as RPG as it can get. You have a hero with brown hair who is special in some way that makes him chosen for the role of saving the world. If I were playing a game, this might be a fine role. However, this is an anime. The show actually has a decent story to tell and a good amount of worldbuilding of the history and events leading up to the start of the plot. However, it's biggest problem is that its writers chose probably the most boring point ofview (the RPG hero) to tell the story from.
From the very start, we have shiny graphics, at least an okay budget, fairly pleasant character designs and decently detailed backgrounds. Visually, this show is shiny enough. At least a solid 8/10 here. Sound is more mediocre, about 5/10. There's not much to speak of in this category either good or bad. It's just meh.
So what was wrong with this show? Why is its choice of protagonist so... off?
Those of us who have been playing video games for a while, who are at least genre saavy with (J)RPGs, would probably be aware of that trope: That swordwielding dude who is some kind of chosen one who goes saving the world for the reason of protecting the world and everyone in it.
This character is everywhere in fiction, each iteration showing up with a different face, a different hairdo, a different set of clothes, and a different name. Yet, at their core, this character is the same each and every time. They are that swordwielding dude who is chosen to save the world from the big bad and protect everyone. By making this the main character again, we are effectively seeing the same story again.
Yet, the biggest disappointment with this show is that it didn't have to do this.
From the start, we see an interesting character - someone who has effectively lost his entire family and kin, save his sister. This character is not your typical swordwielder, he has a vendetta. He has a vision, a motive. Were this show to be his story, we would have a driven story from an interesting perspective with a decently built world to play in. It could have been a Lelouch type-revenge story where the vendetta transforms into a benevolent desire for salvation and a genuine growth in the form of new appreciation.
Unfortunately, though we were given the glimpses of what could be, we are ultimately left with a show that spends the majority of its time following the generic MC-kun and his entourage on their happy, save-the-world, "nakama" adventure.
Despite almost solid world-building and so much potential in that one character, this entry of anime ultimately falls flat.
Story: 6/10
Characters: 5/10 (Carried primarily by Riheet's characterization, but let's be real: he's not the MC, he just teases a good story that was haphazardly told between the happy "nakama" adventure.)
Thakamura
Do you want to waste time? Watch this anime. Game-based anime is often a long shot, in which they are either very good (which is difficult) or they are (most of the time) average. That typical disappointment at the end of everything that could be that story. And this is the anime "King's Raid: Ishi wo Tsugumono-tachi", a story that disappoints you in the end. Let's go to the findings: 1. Anime wastes too much time with subplots that don't add up in the story. It walks at a slow pace of development that is more still than a rock at times and this makes the plot partially boring. 2.Boring and reasoned characters, with the exception of the female protagonist "Frey" and "Riheet", all other characters tend to be boring. In the general context, some developments are justified, too repeated at other times and really meaningless at others. The characters' decisions are also stupid, unnecessary and really questionable.
3. Romance? What is that? What? Was there romance in this anime? -Someone reminds me of a scene... AH! Yeah! There is... THE ROMANCE OF THE FATHER OF THE PROTAGONIST WITH THE MOTHER OF THE PROTAGONIST. ONLY. ONLY THAT! Seriously... do not develop anything from Kasel (boring protagonist) with Frey (wait to read about the end of the anime that you will understand the reason).
4. Fights stop by... It's not for the animation, the animation is good even (better than some super famous animes). The fights are stopped sometimes because they are not so exciting, they are accelerated sometimes or very disappointing.
5. The Final... That was what you were wondering, right? Okay... I will summarize the ending in an expression: You spent 3 hours waiting for a cake in an expensive restaurant, when finally that cake arrived, it was a badly decorated and soled cake, without much taste and totally artificial. Although the cake would at least kill my hunger. The ending was open. Semi happy. Incomplete in my point of view. It is serious, it is not teasing, the end is that cliché in which the characters are friends. And because they are friends, don't you have what? ROMANCE! The Quartet of friends, has an open ending. With an inigmatic phrase from one of them about new problems... As if this boring thing was going to have a second season ... (Here I even stopped writing for 5 minutes because I really laughed at it, that I wasted time putting it at the end. ) The final fight was very fast, disappointment.
The creators of the anime are to be congratulated... They managed to speed up the parts that were supposed to be good and prolong the boring, this is an incredible gift... I don't think everyone would be able to ruin a story so much.
That's basically it. If you've read this far, know that I thank you and tell you, don't watch this anime.
blitzepidemic
If it's one thing i've learned about reviews it is that you should mostly ignore them. A lot of shows I really liked were rated poorly and had lots of scathing not recommended reviews. Anime is an escape, a visual novel, best to search out genres and themes that interest you. King's Raid: Successors of the Will is high fantasy, good vs evil, a group on a quest to save the world, exactly what many of us are looking for. Animation is great, comradery is great, the storyline is good (great if you like high fantasy), the characters are likeable and fleshed out so you getto know them and the protagonist is not OP from the get go.
There are no filler episodes, but episodes 13 To My Dear Friend and episode 24 Those Who Stand Firm are recaps with a couple of minutes of new content that will not affect the storyline if you skip them.
If you enjoy high fantasy I highly recommend this show, I give it a 9.
Der_Reichter
As a person who get through 26 Ep with recap included, Kings Raid is a quite jolly good show. As my Uncle once said "keep stupidly simple, but worked" fit perfectly within this show. YES, The show sometime gets boring because sometimes they bring the story in a slow-calm pace, but it still Action-packed tho. AND YES, this show is not Epic as others, But a relatively simple happy-end story is what make King's Raid shine the best. As for Art, well its not the best, But its considered good and well made tho (trust me, i have seen art dat even worse than anythingyou could imagine XD)
For sound, they done a gud decent job for bringing ambience to life in this show
Charaters, They created with simple quirks and developed as it should in RPG type of story (generic type). Nothing overlap with the plot bcuz every each one of them had Problems and Reasons just like human irl do. i meann, People make mistake and learn from it, sometime once twice or more. DAT is How Char Dev Works. Its Fine as long as his development synergize with the plot & story.
As you know im not very familiar with its game, music, colab and what-so-ever, but i tell you dat this one is gud damn fine Anime (yes , like i said "just fine" no less no more). I ENJOY king's raid as a fantasy anime with classic RPG style story.
Overal, Some would watch and gib neutral or gud review with critics, AND some drop half way and gib not just bad review but also a tantrum. but i tell you, sometimes ppl in MAL tend to give Harsh Number on a good or fine art without considering detailed Content Value.
AS a person who watch anime on a whim to pass time in his busy but boring life, i would say this show is quite FINE WITH GOOD AFTER TASTE.
I would give this series a 8, (normally its a 7 but considering harsh number dat ppl give.)
I WOULD recommend this show to people on this term :
1. there are nothing worthwhile to watch
2. Those who yearn a generic and simple RPG set
3. Fantasy theme
4. Easy to understand and slow pace
5. Something lightly to kill time
But to be honest i wouldn't Re-watching this show again EXCEPT if there's a Sequel toit
(Ex: like Shingeki no Bahamuts)
Zucchi
Definitely an underrated anime, in my opinion. I think this anime was good it had decent animation, although it could be better in some scenes, but it was acceptable for me. I liked the story, and I wasn't aware that a game existed for King's Raid, so I didn't have any preconceptions while watching this anime. It was a little boring in some episodes, but I still had a good experience watching it. I have mixed feelings about recommending this to others because it doesn't have top-tier animation like some other anime, but if you enjoy adventure or hero type anime, I say go forit!
Kodi1991
I didnt play the game just watched the show and it starts off kinda boring but when you get to ep 7-10 it started to get better for me anyway. The action starts to pick up but i dont see why theres so many bad reviews im pretty picky when it comes to anime i have over 100+ tabs open on my phone of shows i havent finished or started and this one caught my eye after a few episodes. If you get to episode 8 and dont like it then its not for you. Its your typical adventure, dark lord, hero party that hasto find a sword to save the world and its animated really well compared to ningen fushin a similar type of anime but compared to that kings raids animation is god tier and people have ningen fushin rated higher lmfao wtf is wrong with people ningen fushins action scenes are literally still images of the characters in a single pose with a knife in the air while png goblins are flying by thats every action scene in that show still png images with the background moving around the characters.
godxsyndrome
I'm only making this review since dreamcatcher did the ost for the second season, which i'm obsessed with and have been repeating the full ver. my thoughts on this anime is that its average for sure, i like the added characters but despite that the anime isnt super unique. its not bad, i was entertained but my excitement for the anime came from dreamcatcher. the character's are alright, my favorites are frey and ripine. the mc kasel is pretty basic but hes not unlikable. the male characters are kinda boring while the female characters have more design but im honestly not surprised. the anime hasa lot of potential, esp with the added elves. so parts i disliked were the storyline and the static characters but things i liked were the soundtracks and the dynamic characters. I really hope in the future dreamcatcher can do more openings for them, since their opening added alot to the anime and brought in more fans.
CheckingOut
We had a few generic fantasy adaptations this period so you know what to expect to a certain extent,the question is it good? Well the story actually had 2 protagonists which we switch around that have different goals that end up overlapping in the end,one of protagonists having the generic hero journey and the other is one of revenge.But both their paths do not take exactly the route one would mostly expect. Now thats interesting enough because while they take different paths we see(even a little)how their actions affects the path of the other while we switch perspectives. The animation is okay,nothing special but you get some decentanimation at the important parts while the art and character designs are amazing and makes each character stand out.Both opening and ending songs are really good as well.
The characters are again okay,the focus is more on each protagonist as to be expected so you are gonna get more on how their journey affects them and their groupd dynamic.
Overall it was a decent show,i would not reccomend it since its not something all would like but i would not say its a waste of time either since it has okaying twist and is a little different than other shows of this genre.
horhecoolz08
Review of kings raid anime episode 26: Its now the last episode, episode 26, and its good! a happy ending at least, even if the fight was fierce, tho begins another journey just right after they defeated the demon king.. and even if things have settled in that country, there is another place or country that needs saving, which is what the holy sword has let kasel sense.. and a hint for a season 2, if there may be one.. i think that the princess will have many things to sort, as well as riheet, since there are still others who bear so much hatetowards each other.. even tho many people are good at heart.. and yet another thing, is the revival of riheets sister?! Damn these cliffhangers.. haha.. the anime overall is good btw.. anyways, i rate the anime 4.5 out of 5, 4.5 for both story and art.. 🙂
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johnwill12
Overall a good series, the characters were satisfactory enough if not excellent. Kassel does become stronger as he and his companions continued on their journey to find the holy sword and to vanquish the dark lord Angmund. There’s also the added story of the dark elves, and the persecution they have faced at the hands of Kassel’s kingdom Orvelia. Riheet the dark elf leader has lost all of his comrades, yet in the end he chooses to help Princess Scarlet in her quest to help Kassel. I wish there was a little more romance in this series rather than just friendshipthough.
I have a few unanswered questions of my own, feel free to comment on them.
1.) Will Kassel and Frey ever become a romantic couple in the near future, and maybe start a family of their own?
2.). Kassel can’t wander around forever he’s gonna need to settle down someday, am I correct?
3.). Who will Princess Scarlet take as either her Prince or at least a Prince Consort I wonder?
4.). Scarlet is going to need to have heirs to carry on the Royal line, so who will she become romantically involved with someday, any thoughts?
