Seraph of the End: Owari no Seraph

[shinta|hikari]

You are too used to bad action anime if you missed any of those 6. I was being generous when I listed them.

1) That's my point. If only black weapon users can kill a noble, then attack him with said weapon while he is skewered. Instead, they had a guy chant for 6 seconds (yeah, I checked) to tie up the enemy's hand. If Yuu could teleport to save Shinoa from friendly fire (13:49), he could slash the noble's chest in 6 friggin seconds.

4) But Yuu did stop moving. He was literally standing still when he said it, and THEN attacked (13:06), but I'll let that slide because it was the start of the fight. What really made me cringe was what happened after.

Shinoa attacked the enemy from behind while declaring her attack (13:33). WTF is the point? Then the leader of the other team did the exact same thing while saying "Checkmate," (13:43) AND THEN the vampire did the exact same thing to Yuu (13:53) but this time even going into lengthy explanation. Why the hell do they keep going behind the enemy if they are going to announce their attack before they actually do it?

5) Happened and is directly related to 6) (14:56 to 15:43). The group was talking about what they will do next (Yuu even sheathed his blade for crying out loud) and the vampire conveniently watched them, instead of you know, taking advantage of their discussion time by attacking, fleeing or retrieving his arm.

I bet vampires have enhanced hearing (like they have enhanced everything), but even if they didn't, the noble was close enough to hear the entire luring discussion. These guys were talking pretty loud while setting a trap for an enemy with pointy ears.

I'm not saying this fight was especially bad by anime standards (some are worse), but after reading my elaboration above, you have to admit those parts are pretty damn stupid.

My biggest problem with crap like this is that they are easily fixable. I can easily rewrite that entire fight to be more logical and believable.

A simple example for items 5 and 6 would be to have some of the members distract the noble while they come up with a strategy, and to discuss said strategy with hushed voices.

Another would be to skip the 6 second chant and go directly into the execution of the chain spell, thus eliminating the weird time lag where Yuu could've attacked the noble instead. A simple 2 second comment about the spell only being able to target the arm would've been a welcome addition too. They could do it when they were just standing around watching the vampire lop off his own arm, or right after that.

And STOP ANNOUNCING YOUR SNEAK ATTACKS.