Legend says, when the Majin awakens from the deepest of darkness, the goddess of fate will summon Six Braves and grant them with the power to save the world. Adlet, who proclaims himself to be the strongest man in the world, is chosen as one of the “Braves of the Six Flowers,” and sets out to prevent the resurrection of the Majin with his fellow Braves. However, Seven Braves gather at the rendezvous...

The Seven Braves notice there must be an enemy among themselves. As suspicion spreads throughout the group, Adlet is the first suspected to be the Seventh Brave.

Thus begins an overwhelming fantasy adventure that brings upon mystery after mystery!

Amazing show although a bit slow the mystery draws you in

Lazy animating outside key fight scenes.
80% fanservice, 10% battles, 9% cinematography, 1% story
Art is alright, just a common style done well.
Character designs are cute but uncoordinated.

I'm sorry, it's just kind of terribad.

The middle is actually really great. The mystery aspects are the focus and fun and so far it's not retconning anything it presented (one of my big worries). The fanservice goes away by the time all 7 show up at the temple. But yeah, the start is slow and longwinded and I'm worried about where it will end with only 4 episodes remaining.

Obviously still not a highlight of the season for me, but when it's good, it's pretty great. More in-depth analysis will be on my portion of the FGJ article we'll publish later this week.

Rokka no Yuusha is awesome !

>>4 It's been announced that season one will end with the seventh being revealed. I think that's a good place to stop tbh because it leaves plenty of room for season two's journey to the Majin.

>>3 Sorry you feel that way but there isn't as much fan service as you'd think. It follows the light novel very closely which is great.

Overall I think the story progression is paced very well. If it were any faster we would miss out on too many details and it would consist of mostly fights rather than the mysteries. The combination of the two is the reason why Rokka no Yuusha's story is so good.

>>6 >>4 Maybe it's not much to your standards, but as someone who actively avoids shounen series for this very reason, it's still too much for me. There's a constant undertone of fanservice from the personality tropes to the fetishized costumes to the cinematography and opening credits.

Also, despite industry assumptions, making the main character pretty and throwing a couple bondage-inspired male characters into the mix doesn't suddenly make it appeasing to all demographics. Which sucks.

I was hoping Rokka would break away from the illustrations of its awkward source material to bring the story to a more gender-neutral demographic in the anime, not... whatever this is. I'm sure the story is still there, but, I certainly can't find it, at least not without sticking my fist in these ladies' cleavage and digging around for it.


Oh well.

As of episode 9 the suspects have been narrowed quite a bit. I was wondering who everyone thinks the seventh brave is.

If anyone has read the light novel please don't reveal any spoilers.

On a side note. I can't wait to see episode 10, finally get to see Mora's fight.

>>8 you took the words right out of my mouth! the scenes are too pointlessly long, too much pointless dialogue, all the characters are basically fanservice 100% of the time, no gender equality here, etc etc etc. But I still kinda wanna watch it though...for the sake of knowing the 7th.

I'm very much enjoying this one-- the plotline is mediocre at best and the characters (with a few exceptions) are pretty unremarkable at this point (although I do have notable hope for development down the line)... the animation is lovely, but that alone isn't enough to get me to watch something....
(Fanservice bothers me, but I don't find it intolerable... plus this one doesn't drive me completely up the wall...)

It's the search for the 7th that really has me hooked. I think that the suspense/mystery aspect is written and executed very well, and I'm looking forward to seeing it through. My money is on Nashetania-- that's actually been my hunch from the beginning, and I'm sticking to it. I am, however, expecting to be surprised by SOMETHING even if she is the 7th, since the series has done a good job of keeping me guessing as of yet.

Well,I have not enjoyed this anime to say, but the search of the seventh has had me curious, but for me it's quite obvious that it's Maura, she knew nothing about the famous barrier, but then was responding well everyone's questions, also to me she's the most suspect.

The search for the seventh have gotten me so curious that I looked up the novel, and let me tell you it's quite the plot twist. It will be unexpected and I kind of love that lol!

I paused at the anime to watch it till it's finished now that I know who's the 7th anyway, I think the anime's still worth a watch, I still like it, the main lead's quite cool too. :)

I have not seen the manga but i'm watching the anime and enjoying it a lot actually. The plot twist right at the beginning really got me hook up in the anime. The thing is i'm quite afraid of the outcome like where is this anime going after finding out who the seventh is there's not more they can work with like after that all they can do is go and defeat the demon lord and that makes me kinda sad because i feel the anime will lose power. They need to keep the anime powerful in the future episodes like it is now. And that is not easy.

>>14 The plot twist of who the seventh is will actually adds a lot of spice to the anime, I'm more worried about how far the anime will go to include all I want to see in.

When i first saw this i thought it was just going to be an action anime but they have added the great mystery element and i think this is my favorite new anime this season. Really good and super enjoyable

>>14 In the light novel, the story continues to uphold the fun of the mysteries as well as explore the path to defeating the Majin. So I'm sure if a second season is made or you decide to read the novel you'll really enjoy the rest.

I don't see how you could say this anime has a lot of fan service in it if we're talking about what people usually refer to when it comes to fan service. Although Nashetanya's costume (hopefully I spelled her name right) might be a little suggestive all of the characters look unique and memorable in their own way, which to me is most important when it comes to costume design.

I love this anime it is really cool!