(L+CR) Saredo Tsumibito wa Ryuu to Odoru: Dances with the Dragon

[Stark700]

Plot Summary:

The series takes place in an alternate world, staged mostly in the city of Eridana, whose territory is half in the Tseberun Dragon Empire, and half in the Lapetodes Seven Cities Alliance. Each half is separated by the Orielal River. In this world, special abilities called spell formulas exist, which are essentially chemical reactions augmented through special weapons that cause a magic spell-like effect. These special weapons are called Magic Staff weapons, and are as varied as regular weapons are. Spell formulists use these spell formulas to fight with "Beasts of Abhorrent Form," natural creatures that use spell formulas and pose a threat to humans, such as Dragons, Aions, or Enormes.

The story focuses on the two main characters, Gaius Sorel and Gigina Ashley-Bufh, the only two employees of Spell Formulist dispatch office Ashley-Bufh & Sorel Co. They are met with a variety of requests from a variety of clients, all requiring the adept use of spell formulas.

Saredo Tsumibito wa Ryuu to Odoru: Dances with the Dragon is getting an anime adaptation.

Source
https://twitter.com/NoBookNoLife/sta...33520920956928
http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-new...th-the-dragons

[Stark700]

Preview:

[MisaoFan]

Originally Posted by Nachtwandler

Still no information about a studio?

The website says Seven Arcs will animate it.

[Golden Lily]

Cast
http://dengekionline.com/elem/000/001/594/1594871/

So Yokan won't be voiced by Toriumi after all...too bad.
Moldeen by Takaya Hashi is pretty good choice I think.

[Stark700]

Wow, this series is getting delayed to Spring 2018 next year

http://www.tbs.co.jp/anime/sareryu/n...170922_01.html
http://www.animenewsnetwork.cc/news/...l-2018/.121720

[Stark700]

Preview #2

[Stark700]

New key visual

[Stark700]

12 episodes.

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/dai...isodes/.129337

[Stark700]

Crunchyroll announced for stream

http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-new...he-third-plate

[CrowKenobi]

Funimation adds Dances With The Dragons to its Spring 2018 simuldub lineup:

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/new...lineup/.129423

[LG-MAX 2.o]

new trailer

[Stark700]

First episode....

I'm not going to lie, this was a confusing and strange start for me. Felt like too much happened at once including the characters' introduction.

The main guys (Gayus and Gigina) are strange....hopefully the series will show more about their past or at least make me care about them. The action feels underwhelming and story isn't appealing to me at the moment.

I hope it will be good but the first episode felt messy. At least the weapons looks kinda cool and premise has my interest still.

[Golden Lily]

Yep, this was rushed as hell. It felt like they were just summarizing traits of characters rather than officialy introducing them. Oh look, there's one scene where Gaius and Gigina are mean to each other, but there's another one where we see they trust each other. Point made. Let's move on.
Something like this.

Originally Posted by Stark700

The main guys (Gayus and Gigina) are strange....hopefully the series will show more about their past or at least make me care about them.

Don't hold your breath on that one. Their past (at least one of Gaius) is actually one of the biggest mysteries in the novel and so far still unknown.

The action feels underwhelming and story isn't appealing to me at the moment.

Which is a shame, because action scenes are among the most praised aspects of the LN. And these were just medicore.

When anime was announced for the first time, someone at 2ch said that Sareryu is one of the hardest LNs to animate and I couldn't agree more.
This's one of the fictions that works only on paper.

Science-oriented abilities that are prominent in the novel are completely abandoned here, because there's no narrator to explain them to us, nor there is time to describe them in such a detail.
Shock value in the form of erogore is absent because...obviously.
And from what I know only two volumes will be animated so there's no point to introduce any plot-related devices.

I can't say I'm surprised that this episode felt medicore to me, but at the same time I was expecting some great visuals and animation. They are meh.

Some other notes/complaints:
- Gaius and Gigina have too nice relationship
- Moldeen's voice doesn't fit him (a bit too deep imo)
- Jiv looks REALLY old or is it just me?
- Yokan is cute
- dragons look pretty generic, they don't stand out among other fantasy anime (I know it's pretty standard design for dragons, but come on)
- opening and ending are pretty average visually, but I like music
- as for ending

Spoiler:

was that Jiorg, Cuello and Stratos? At least smth to look forward too.

[Nivek von Beldo]

This is Chunibyuu as Hell...the issue are normal events, pretend to be something, why not give us pure action instead, that was at least decent, what a least a fun first chapter with te dragon battles but the rest just drag out. this so generic not stand up..

[Mistyclear]

Well I'll give it a few episodes before I judge whether to continue watching: to be honest this episode felt it was more just to introduce the characters than introducing the plot

[shmaster]

This... this is... even worse than Hoshin Engi I must say.

[Cosmic Eagle]

Originally Posted by Golden Lily

Yep, this was rushed as hell. It felt like they were just summarizing traits of characters rather than officialy introducing them. Oh look, there's one scene where Gaius and Gigina are mean to each other, but there's another one where we see they trust each other. Point made. Let's move on.
Something like this.

Don't hold your breath on that one. Their past (at least one of Gaius) is actually one of the biggest mysteries in the novel and so far still unknown.

Which is a shame, because action scenes are among the most praised aspects of the LN. And these were just medicore.

When anime was announced for the first time, someone at 2ch said that Sareryu is one of the hardest LNs to animate and I couldn't agree more.
This's one of the fictions that works only on paper.

Science-oriented abilities that are prominent in the novel are completely abandoned here, because there's no narrator to explain them to us, nor there is time to describe them in such a detail.
Shock value in the form of erogore is absent because...obviously.
And from what I know only two volumes will be animated so there's no point to introduce any plot-related devices.

I can't say I'm surprised that this episode felt medicore to me, but at the same time I was expecting some great visuals and animation. They are meh.

Some other notes/complaints:
- Gaius and Gigina have too nice relationship
- Moldeen's voice doesn't fit him (a bit too deep imo)
- Jiv looks REALLY old or is it just me?
- Yokan is cute
- dragons look pretty generic, they don't stand out among other fantasy anime (I know it's pretty standard design for dragons, but come on)
- opening and ending are pretty average visually, but I like music
- as for ending

Spoiler:

was that Jiorg, Cuello and Stratos? At least smth to look forward too.

At least the ED marks Kurosaki Maon's return in nearly a year +

[Nivek von Beldo]

Originally Posted by shmaster

This... this is... even worse than Hoshin Engi I must say.

And Honshin Engi(you refer the remake right?) got it right in pacing and characther, this one...dunno was boring

[Applehell]

Nonsensical techbabble aside the first episode was okay? Felt like it was trying do too much and nothing quote grabbed me, but there wasn't anything seriously outputting to immediately make me drop it. Could go eitherway, so I think it's a decent candidate for the 3-episode rule.

[LKK]

I started this show earlier this week. IMO, every successful season must have at least one mindless adventure show (preferably a fantasy) starring good looking guys. This qualifies. Maybe. I haven't fully decided yet. Which is not a good sign.