Anime: Ragnarok The Animation

CONTAINS SPOILERS!!!

I played the game before I found this anime and I love RO, play it very often.
This anime was a big suprise to me, I was like: "OMG An Anime about RO?!?!?!"
And as excited as I was I saw it as fast as I could and I loved it like hell even after the first 5 seconds of it.

To see every class, skill, headgear and prontera in an Anime was just wonderful! And I loved it extremly much!

Animation: 8/10

The animation was great, the skills and magic that's being used are well made. Most of them are just like the game itself (Execpt "Soul Strike" which was called "Soul Storm" here)

Sound: 9/10

The music was very very good and some songs even made me cry in some moments. There's a song that plays sometimes which is my favorite song in the Anime but one thing makes me very angry and sad... It's NOT in the OST :/ It's the piano song that played when Zephyr dies and when Yufa and Roan kiss. If someone finds it then PLEASE let me know!

Story 9/10

At first I didn't care shit about the story. I was so excited about it being RO in Anime. In the start you get to know everyone and the story build's up. It all starts off with Keough and Iruga going on a mission to investigate Glast Heim. Roan and Yufa want to join and they do.

This text here is taken from Wikipedia:

The ruins proved to be too much for the group and forced them to flee. However, their escape route was blocked by an Abysmal Knight. Despite Iruga's protests, Keough distracted the knight as Iruga got Roan and Yufa out. However, before Iruga could make it back Keough was stabbed and the doors of Glast Heim closed. In the beginning it is assumed he died, but the group later learns that he was brainwashed and corrupted by the Dark Lord. Keough's stab wound was made by a "Blade Lost in Darkness," which would become symbolic to what he had become. His main purpose would be to lure Yufa to join the dark side, for she was holding a soul crystal vital for Dark Lord's revival. Merely seconds from death, Keough reforms and apologizes to Iruga for everything. His soul later appears in Yufa's dream sequence telling her not to choose the path he had taken, and to follow Roan for he would protect her. Iruga nicknames him Haze after he turns to the dark side.

Keough talks to Roan several times in the anime and tell him that he's not strong enough to protect his sister Yufa. Roan goes on a quest to become even stronger and later becomes a Crusader in order to protect Yufa who becomes a Priest.

Characters: 10/10

I love everyone in this Anime (Even the evil ones)
You got a character of every kind here, from Childish and Stubborn to Big Evil Scary dudes and monsters.
My personal favorite is Zephyr

Enjoyment: 9/10

The enjoyment was there 99% of the time for me. There are some minutes in total that were slightly boring.
But other than that it was both:

Fun as all hell.

And

Sad as heaven's tears.

Value: 9/10
If you havn't played the game then give it a chance.
If you have played the game then see it FFS :thumbup:

I'll make it short:

Animation: Bad, not terrible though but still, could've been waaaaaaaay better. Only the main characters were about right, everyone else was... uggh (Specially that "team rocket")
Sound: Nothing special, the op was likable but still, nothing worth mentioning.
Story: Sorry, but that seemed like the standard "group of people" saves the world fantasy anime and a poorly done one btw.
Character: Lame guy who wants to protect his loved one is kind of overused. The only good characters were Maya, Alice, and Poi Poi(lol) IMHO. Maya + Alice story was actually quite moving.
Value: Don't waste your time unless you really like RO, but even then.. go lvl your char.
Enjoyment: When I saw this I kind of enjoyed it but it still was a huge let down, the only part I really enjoyed was the sader fight. The only reason I finished watching this was because I play RO though.

Watched all the episodes, and definitely it was geared to RO fans. However, as it goes along it does grow on you. Usual start of young hero's to be with the twist of usual teen angst between friends of opposite sex. Find a person and save the world.

The animation was smooth with some gangly characters. The background and music are well synced and mesh well to the story line.

Sit back enjoy the series, just ignore the RO inserts when they pop up in the story line. Though as a D&D player from Ancient times, wish I had some of those powers. I may have lost fewer characters :-)

Well i have seen all the episodes of this animation, and it was really good...

In the first episodes, the story was kindy of confusing, and the characters were stupid, but as you keep watching more episodes you start to understand the story and everything gets interesting. Also the characters stop being stupid, change their jobs, and start acting like real heroes (most of them -_-).

Im pretty sure that RO fans will enjoy this anime, because you will recognize the jobs, abilities, city, dungeons, spells, enemies, emoticons, and almost everything that you can see inside the game.

The music and animation are ok. Don´t be dissapointed if you don´t like the first episodes, it gets really better in the last episodes, especially the last 3.

RO fans this is something you must watch, and everyone else too =D

This was pretty bad in my book. As an avid Ragnarok player, I expected something good, but I suffered through the first few episodes and didn't bother continuing through the series.

Animation - Not bad, it's smooth and proffesionaly done. Good coloring and action, no frame skips or anything horrible like that.

Sound - The music wasn't memorable and neither were the special effects, but they weren't bad either.

Story - What story? The entire plot seemed to consist of a bunch of hairbrained antics.

Character - My least favorite part of the anime. Every character is dislikeable. They are all very childish, and pretty stupid. I like more serious anime, so maybe if you are into mindless stupidity this is a good anime for you.

Value - This will be the first to get wiped when I need room for more anime.

Enjoyment - None, nada, nil.

Animation:
Nothing Spectacular but it isn't TOO bad either. The character designs are decent but some characters are kinda... gangly. It's also one of those only a few characters move and everyone else is as still as a statue in the background anime. At least they have those faces in bubbles thing that shows the character's mood/emotion ^_^

Sound:
Also nothing spectacular, it's not exactly something you would want to get the osts of and listen to over and over. The seiyuu (voice actors) are ok except for Hisakawa Aya (known for Maya Natsume from tenjo tenge, Haruka Shitou from Rahxephon, etc...), who plays Takius; she does an awesome job as usual ^_^

Story:
At this point that I'm writing this review, there are 9 episodes that I've seen and fansubbed. Basic save the world, get people to join your party, getting items, kill these guys controlling monsters, do random killing monster quests, blah, blah, blah. Maybe it gets better later on but right now, it's... -_-;;;.

Characters:
The characters start out alright but there is a major lack of development for SOME of them... like the cool people will always remain cool and the losers and cowards remain losers and cowards. The main character is always being saved by other people *sigh*. This might change later on but it hasn't changed much for now...

Value:
It would differ... for people who have never played the game, this anime would totally suck. For people who've spent like 1/10 of their life on this game, it's kinda entertaining.

Enjoyment:
IMO, if you have time to watch this anime, you should just go and play the game. Level your character, get those thousand carrots for your merchant char to trade em in for something else, etc... This anime tries to make it too much like the game sometimes, especially in getting and using items and some of the properties of certain items and monsters, but sometimes, it really deviates from the game. ESPECIALLY in battles where weak characters managed to defeat monsters which is pretty impossible to do in the game. Hell, they shouldn't have even survived 2 hits but somehow... *shrugs* Of course, they can't show them spending days of killing things to level up so they can actually gain the abilities to kill some of these monsters but sometimes, the battle scenes are just ridiculous. At least some of the spell effects are nice. And I don't like the main character. Enough said.