Throne of Seal

Mfinnn★ 10

This show is amazing! Great fight scenes, interesting characters, and stunning art. Highly recommend if you like progression fantasy with magic and action. There are a lot of similarities to Soul Land too, so if you are looking for a show like Soul Land, Throne of Seal is a great choice. Plot overview (no spoilers): A boy, Haochen, becomes a magic knight to protect his loved ones from demons. There is a hard magic system with defined levels, and the higher the level, the stronger the knight. Haochen trains to become stronger to end the millennia-long fight against the demons. Characters: Haochen is a really likeable MC.He is very nice to his friends and family, and hardworking. Sometimes he has trouble controlling his emotions, though, and he can lose control. The female lead, Cai'er, is one of my favorite women. She has a tragic story that you need to watch! Other characters are also good, like Li Xin and Ye Hua. Art: 3D style, very similar to Soul Land. The fight scenes flow very nicely and use vivid colors, making for peak entertainment. Music: The opening is pretty good, and so is the rest of the soundtrack.

WhiteZet★ 7

Reasonably good, but probably created for a younger audience. Consistent visuals & a reasonably good artstyle. Very high contrast color scheme. Bright red / pink hairstyles. Pink/rainbow color horses. Everything pops out a lot. Environments are often very flat & lack details in textures & debris, furniture, trees etc. - Story revolves around a humans vs demons premise, where the war has been at a deadlock for 6000 years. It's overall well told, abilities, strength, character thoughts are all expressed well. And the show pacing is very good. However I personally find that often the show feels too contradictory between characters & world lore: There are several virtuesthat the knights are trying to uphold. "Compassion, honesty, bravery, fairness...", yet the people who receive screen time are always bickering and fighting like toddlers, adults included. There are moments where some bystanders even mentioned a knight freezing people around her during a fight. Another time some temple officials overlooked a murder attempt. They seemingly can also fight in the middle of busy towns for some reason. One of the central adult characters for this season was even willing to beat up a child in a fit of rage because the child gave him praise. The characters are all mentally unstable & it's never explained that the knights would be corrupt or anything. I can only assume it's a narrative conflict. - For the most part I enjoy fights & I actually could tell how most skills used between different disciplines were consistent with their class. It didn't feel like everyone had developed completely unique skills, it was consistent with lore. None of the fights thus far were that over the top, usually they were very simple trading of blows. You attack. I block. - Putting aside the conflict between how you'd expect this society to work & how it actually seems to work, I genuinely don't have anything negative to say. It's a pretty good show.