Kakumeiki Valvrave

Oh Valvrave the Liberator where to I even start, let's start from the before the utter stupidity started. The story setting is interesting enough to grip you for the whole ride and the art is one of the most outstanding I have ever seen,and even though the robots aren't anything special they are at least flashy. The characters range from jerks to fine beings mainly Saki Rukino, Akira R. as well as Shoko S. which seem to be give the best character development throughout with the former two having it a little bit more gripping in my opinion due to their sarker past. However the treatment of my favourite Saki was too harsh and we come to the famous scene in episode 10. A plot twist that was not needed and just seemed to be a cry for attention which is why my rating for both story and character dropped to a 7 and 6 respectively especially due to the lack of respect the main character, Haruto, shows to Saki after the act. I will simply continue to watch this anime in hopes the second season find the pacing the anime had at the beginning and does not involve any more of these creepy plot twists, or at least to some extent a reasonable plot twist like the one in episode 12 brought us. My enjoyment may have been slightly spoiled but this anime should be given a fair chance even though a lot of patience may be required while wathing it.

Reposting because I remembered that I once wrote a Valvrave review that was deleted for no reason. Alright people, I've completed my viewing of the Spring '13 Mecha Trifecta. This trifecta is made up of Valvrave the Liberator, Majestic Prince and Gargantia. It's been over a year since I've found anything watchable, so I have high hopes. The other two are great. Will they remain great? Who knows, but I can assure you that this show is awful and only makes the other two look much better by comparison, and it will stay that way. Valvrave is a mecha anime that follows the formula in all the laziest ways possible, and is bogged down with Sunrise's astounding incompetence. You can pretty much use shows like this and Sacred Seven next to things like 08th MS Team and Scryed and say with a definite that this studio has no goddamn clue what they're doing anymore. The show is about a teenage betamale who gets caught up in a war between space factions on his little neutral colony. He goes to school, has a crush on some genki girl, and is generally as uninteresting aesthetically and personality-wise as every peripheral character around him. When some albino walks up to him out of nowhere and calls him out on this, he later decides to jump in a big, ugly robot and resign his humanity to blow some shit up. And then he's a vampire, I guess. Valvrave has "please let me be mass market" all over it. Everyone is moe as fuck, the robots are over-designed, and it's following in the footsteps of shows like Geass and Guilty Crown by taking something that's been done dozens of times, and then making the main character a macguffin-powered wizard/vampire/molester. This dark twist that risks this two-dimensional goon's humanity will undoubtedly lead simpletons to think his character is deep, but I can only hope that after Guilty Crown people are getting sick of this garbage. The other characters range between a large spectrum of tropes that we've all seen before. Jock guy, otaku girl, energetic moron girl, group of psychotic, two-dimensional villainous teens, girl whose entire character is defined by her gigantic breasts, et cetera. None of them are introduced or delivered well. No one in this show acts like a normal human being, but are rather just "anime characters". They don't have any original or interesting quirks, either. Everyone's played pretty straight, and it's really easy to tell by the quality of writing this early that none of this will get better. So yes, if you like your anime with characters you don't have to think at all about or relate to, and just want a bunch of colorful 2-D cutouts spouting recycled lines and exceptionally dumb bullshit at each other, this is the show for you. If you like your anime casts completely identical to one another, this is the show for you. If your definition of good character interaction is making noises and spouting childish philosophies at each other within 10 seconds of meeting, this is the show for you. Otherwise, watch MJP or Gargantia. The directing, cinematography and animation in Valvrave are all incredibly "meh". There are tiny bits of good animation in completely inconsequential parts, like the hot dog eating contest at the very beginning, and the CGI moves around pretty okay, but the laser and explosion effects look terrible and there's a lot of "still thing panning on a flat background". There aren't any good or visually memorable shots in the whole affair, either, so it's not like the laziness can be forgiven like in Eva. Valvrave as a whole is just not really anything to look at. The music sucks. There's generic opera-ish stuff while the main character is blowing things up at the end of episode 1, and I can't even remember any other tracks being present. I hate the OP, because it's just TM Revolution but worse. The opening animation is just as boring and lazy as the rest of the show, too. I think that just about covers it. I'm not being presumptuous at all, because with the studio's recent track record and how everything was displayed in the first episode, it's not going to get any better. There's a very high chance it'll get hilariously stupid and entertaining in an ironic way, but if you're looking for any kind of legitimate quality in your show, skip this. Skip it, and go right into Majestic Prince. That show fucking rocks.

Bandai said that this anime would be over the top...and they sure did deliver. This anime meshes Code Geass and Gundam together so well that you think, "oh, this was in (insert series) too!" but the situation is so altered but still so similar. Story 9/10: While the plot centers around students making their own country, the valvraves show something much, much darker going on. This anime does go rather fast, but you will never get bored. Each episode has a plot twist, the characters have genuine emotions, and the voice acting + animations rile up emotions whether they be anger or happiness. If you cannot handle controversial issues, do not watch this The rating is NC-17+ rightly so. There are scenes that will make you feel uncomfortable, but I think that adds excitement to the series. At every single episode, something will happen you don't expect. I've tried to predict what will happen in episodes, but they always turn it around and around. The story in this anime is amazing, dramatic, and will surely rile you up. Art 9/10: The art is very bright and sharp in this anime. The valvraves are outlined with bright lights and the lasers are a splurge of neon colors. There are even almost-rainbow mechs. The mechs aren't my favorite designs from what I've seen of the other Bandai series, but they are still powerful and sleek. The art is very fun to look at. Space is more of a dark blue rather than black in here and the stars and galaxies in the background make such an impact on the setting. The mechas stand out against space and everything adds drama and bolder effects to the screen. Sound 9/10: Nana Mizuki and T.M. Revolution in one song. How much better could it get? This anime plays music at perfect times and does and phenomenal job at changing the mood quickly and drastically. You will get chills, you'll scream, maybe even cry. The music will even change the mood after someone has died. I thought I'd be devastated for the rest of an episode after someone died, but the music changed my mood so much , I didn't continuing mourning until after the episode. Character 10/10: You will have a character you love. There are so many different types of personalities in this anime and they work so well with each other. You have your heroes, meganes, shotas, crazies, jocks, introverts, idols, ideal boyfriends and girlfriends, schemers, and so much more. Even if you may not like a character, if something happens to them you'll probably be screaming from joy or grief. You'll be shipping pairs you didn't think you'd be shipping. Enjoyment 10/10: As seen above, I fully enjoy this anime. I thought an episode was boring...but then I got to the last 2 minutes and I was raving so much. Everything just changes so quickly! I have never been so excited for an episode of an anime to be released until this anime. Be prepared to yell over cliff hangers every episode and have raging thoughts while watching. Overall 10/10: This anime moves quickly and has controversial scenes. The art and sound are fantastic, and every character will be dear to you. I could re-watch this over and over again and not be bored. Everything is just mixed in so well - You can see the Code Geass and the Gundam in here, but at the same time you can't. You will never be bored and you will not be able to predict anything. This is the anime Bandai said was going to be over the top. Bandai went more than over the top, they went above and beyond.

"It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves." William Shakespeare Has anyone loved anime as much as i have? This anime stands to be a perfect 10/10. As you watch this anime, remember this quote as it will seem to be a fitting beginning to a fitting end. After you watch episode 9, you will truly understand why this anime is deemed, Valvrape The Penetrator and why this anime transcends over time itself.

This show is so bad it's good. I rewatched it recently with some friends and it was an absolute blast. The plot is utterly nonsensical. There are multiple seasons worth of plot points and content, the most ridiculous is the first episode feeling like an entire season of a regular anime condensed down. While it's going through the plot like a fire through a sawmill it's missing significant amounts of character arcs and development. Except, the show acts as if these arcs and development happened so you get baffling changes and laughable emotional beats. Most egregiously a character dies and the show nothing short of milks it for all it's worth, this character that died couldn't have had more than 25 lines of dialogue at this point and there is an actual "press F to pay respects" equivalent. Animation budget is saved by having characters just float around because "zero gravity" yet gravity mysteriously functions normally when needed, the actual art is pretty good though. Valvrave also is utterly tone deaf and seems to change it's genre at a flick of a switch. Slice of life, Mecha, Psychological, Thriller, Supernatural, Rom Com, even a little harem baiting. This train-wreck's got it all! Speaking of harem baiting, I am shocked this show didn't stoop to being a harem. Any such points are contrasted with some of the "antics" Saki gets up to in the middle of the season. Then a certain scene near the end of the show that happens during a speech blows any points gained straight to the bottom of the sea, but hey at least it ain't a harem. Valvrave has a single genuinely interesting character; Akira. She has a noticeable character arc that ended with her having a crisis of faith. This was the only time I was engaged with the show as anything more than trash. L-Elf is some Light ripoff that is a literal prophet, Haruto is boring and can't decide on what his character is supposed to be, Saki is kind of an absolute bitch that keeps pulling "just kidding"s everytime she almost has a character moment, and Shouko really doesn't have a character to even comment on as much as a collection of traits to groan at. The plot is light speed and nonsensical, most of the characters are at best boring, there's a bunch of cringe, and the show is tone deaf and tasteless if not legitimately offensive. Still was an absolute joy to watch with a couple of friends. I initially watched this as it aired and apparently rated it at an 8. I have no clue why but I can at least see a slew of interesting ideas in this garbage pile, far FAR more than you'd get in other bad shows. Solid 3/10 for an actual anime, 9/10 if you're looking for bad anime. Oh and the show has some pretty significant yaoi baiting and some yuri baiting for... some reason.

Alright, so this will be my first review, so bear with me, if you would. It is very likely that you've seen the other reviews on this particular anime, and how they might mention that the show is 'so bad it is good'. I would like to confirm this statement. The show is literally potato, and had I attempted to watch this and take it seriously, I'd have dropped it right off the bat. Lets start with the plot. The very shorted summary of the plot is that people developed a way to live in space and now a majority of the human population lives in cities built in space. There are two major factions, and one smaller one that is neutral. Suddenly, neutral-kun is attacked! Now, our MC-kun happened to be living his typical anime protag life inside neutral-kun's territory, so he gets involved. Now, this may seem like your average plot, but it's only after MC-kun signs away his humanity and obliterates a handful of canon-fodder that things get interesting. And when I say interesting, I mean that INTERESTING. Like, forming your own nation out of a space city by literally tearing it from the rest of the space station interesting. Like, becoming a space vampire interesting. Like, space Lelouch interesting. Like, Mecha space rape vampires interesting. Like, Mecha space rape vampires with Lelouch interesting. And that's not all, folks. You even get to watch as the antagonistic larger nation can't figure out how to beat one student with a mech that overheats and eats memories. (Granted, he gets allies later). If you like great art style, consensual space vampire rape, and a really really spineless MC-kun who doesn't get much better even into the second season, well, here's the perfect anime for you! But, you know, if you want a story that makes sense and characters you'll remember for good reasons, I'd honestly suggest you watch something else.

Valvrave the Liberator is an anime about students that must fight for their lives, freedom, and independence with newfound mechs and powers. There is a lot of good uses of tropes, and it makes great use of high-quality animations. The fights are really great and so is how the students try to manage themselves (very interesting and kind of hilarious) but it falls short in delivering elements that can stand alone as great parts of the anime. It all works together well but it doesn't have any exceptional parts. If you like fights against authority or powers, this is for you. A love or tolerance of mechs is also required if you hope to enjoy this.

It would be very hard for me to write a proper review and sum up all flaws Valvrave has, but instead I will write a transcript of what the executives at Sunrise discussed when making this anime. Or at least what I imagine went on in those studios. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Producer: Okay, we need to make a new mecha anime that is not a Gundam or Code Geass spin-off. It must become the new big thing, so we must attract as many people as we can. What do those pesky teenagers like nowadays? - Writer: Hmm, didn't those vampire Hollywood movies make a lot of money? Vampires are definitely trendy right now, we need one of those. But not one of those old, scary vampires mind you, but a sparkly, gay one. And lets have the vampire pilot the mecha, why not? - Producer: Sold! Any other pitches? - Writer: Girls! We need to introduce a bunch of girls who like our main character. We need several types of those: one has to be caring and lovable, another has to be strong and determined. We need to make those otaku waifufags happy. Oh, and one of them has to be an idol too. So, there's a harem of girls who all fantasize about our vampire. Also, everything needs to happen in a school. Kids love school. Let's have the characters declare their school and independent country and start a war or some shit! Kids will love it! - Producer: Yes, yes, I can see this becoming very popular definitely. I would definitely invest in this project. What about villains though? Who should these vampires fight? - Writer: NAZIS! - Producer: Nazis? - Writer: Yes, Nazis. Space Nazis. People love to hate Nazis. It's impossible to make a military anime unless one of the factions is Germanic. But that's not all. We also need a Char Aznable-like character with a hidden agenda who can think 10 episodes ahead. People definitely love this type of characters, I'm sure of it. - Producer: Great job! Now please write a detailed script of each episode so we can start production immediately. - Write: Nah, it's okay, we can start right now. We can make shit up as we go along with each episode. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- And that's it. I can't understand how a bunch of people got together and decided to make Kakumeiki Valvrave. It is a trainwreck of bad writing and bad ideas that actually got worse and worse as it went on. At first I started watching this because I hoped it would become some kind of "so bad that it's good" anime, but the bad writing became cringeworthy. It's as if the writers decided to take every possible cliché from every popular anime and mix them together to create this. Valvrave has every possible genre in it: it's a space harem vampire mecha war anime set in a school, with tints of horror and mystery every here and there. The only thing that saves this anime from being a 1/10 is the decent animation, since some studio heads decided to splash their budgets on this polished piece of turd. I can't wait for the inevitable fidget spinner mecha anime that Sunrise will probably decide to make a couple of years from now.

For me, the first season was meh. It was okay I guess but the story was mediocre. The story line didn't wow me so I started taking a look a look at the characters. The main character was a whiny kid for the first half of the season. I wasn't surprised but I was hoping for some character improvement. Long story short: I didn't get what I wanted. Most characters are flat and when they start killing some people off, the music and everything makes you want to feel sad but in reality, you're left trying to remember who that character even was. All in all, it passed the time but that was it. In my opinion, the second season was better.

Kakumeiki Valvrave Valvrave the Liberator. Well, to start things off. I think this anime is truly amazing, as a huge gundam fan this anime really did hit the spot, despite it not being a gundam type anime at all. But, it sure does make up for it in this anime. The mechs or what is known as "Valvraves". Are the only weapsons the students have against the dictator type of military that they're up against. So, if you're a true lover of all things mech anime, like I am, then get ready to be in for a real exciting anime. I wish there was a game like this that would be just awesome.

I’ve heard for the longest time that this series had a "trash" script. After finally watching it in 2026, I found it surprisingly enjoyable—it’s far from the disaster people claimed. ### **The Narrative: Meticulous and Complete** The overall story is solid; every plot point is carefully laid out and fully resolved. In my opinion, the polarized reception stems from two main factors: 1. **Constant Narrative Hooks:** The show maintains engagement through drama and mysteries left in every episode. From a screenwriting perspective, this is effective storytelling. If you enjoy a plot that consistently leaves you with new hooks and points to follow, you will likely love it. 2. **Unflinching Realism:** The story moves in directions that are bound to make some uncomfortable. The Certain situations and character psychologies are so raw and realistic that they can be hard for some to stomach. If you can handle that intensity, the show is not a problem. ### **Atmosphere and Pacing** This mecha-survival series features a political plot that intensifies as it progresses. It blends this with a "student-life" vibe—not through school activities, but through characters who feel genuinely alive. Their romances and decisions reflect the impulsiveness of youth rather than rigid military archetypes. The pacing is flashy and dynamic with constant shifts, making it a poor fit for those who prefer "slow-burn" or conventional storytelling. --- From this point on, there will be spoilers. There’s no actual content, just certain story elements that can help you decide whether this series is suitable for you or not. If you’re serious about avoiding spoilers, don’t read below. . . . . The conclusion ------------ There is a heavy sense of loss that feels tragic and heartbreaking, yet it remains deeply moving and impressive. **In my view, that very loss often causes viewers to overlook the impressive message the show tries to convey, leading them to misinterpret the tragic nature of the script as "bad writing."**

Loved the series, One of the few Mecha anime where I was actually interested in the plot rather than the characters, Although the ending did seem a bit rushed, I just had to re-watch it multiple times today, And I noticed that some episodes left subtle details, That seemed like pointless conversations but were used later on in the episode, Which I loved! Some Spoilers down below The few things I disliked about this anime was mostly the election, And how the student body reacted to it The Whole election was an ass-pull how stupid could those students be? Voting for a girl because she promised fun, and a festival? seriously!? and the whole "I'm gonna confess my love" thing was just lazily put in there for us to feel sorry about her getting cucked right in the moment, And the festival wasn't ever shown! The whole watching her father die could've totally been removed as it was only ever mentioned again during the ending.