Review

It's worth mentioning that the light novel series this is based on is still on-going. It's entirely possible the character development I was hoping for does happen after the point in the story that the anime adapts. But I do wish they'd pulled it forward. I've said it before... An adaptation should be able to stand alone.
(That said, doing some Googling after I finished the review... Apparently, this show was a lot more popular than I'd realized. It didn't strike me as the type of show that would get a second season, but there was quite a lot of buzz about a possible season two. This anime only came out about a year ago, so I guess that's not totally out of the realm of possibility... I would absolutely be on board to watch a second season, if it does get announced.)
I didn't talk about the animation either... Mostly because it's nothing to write home about. Overall, I'd say it looked... fine. The sword fights were... admittedly unimpressive.
There was only one scene where it was really bad enough that I kind of WANTED to rant about it in the video itself... (I restrained myself while recording, because it's such a small moment, overall.)
But the scene at the ball... Where she's supposed to be showing off her dancing skills with Sion... The slower, close-up shots were good. The entire dance should have been animated that way-- let the audience fill in the blanks themselves. Because the impressive, complicated dance step sequences kept shifting to this awful, awkward, wooden, jarring CG, and it looked SO BAD, you guys. Had the exact opposite effect than what they were going for. Like, I said, they would have been better off not animating it at all, and just giving us the gist of it through the audience reactions or something. But that's the one thing I just can't help but complain about. Generally speaking, this anime is nothing amazing, but it was cute and fun. A good time.

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I hope there will be season 2 soon for this anime. Though I doubt...