(L) Kimi to Boku no Saigo no Senjou, Aruiwa Sekai ga Hajimaru Seisen

[Stark700]

Light novel 'Kimi to Boku no Saigo no Senjou, Aruiwa Sekai ga Hajimaru Seisen' (Our Last Crusade or the Rise of a New World) is getting a TV anime adaptation.

Plot

The Empire endowed with an advanced level of knowledge, and the Nebulis Imperial Household Agency feared as the 'Country of Witches.' On the long-lasting battlefield between these two countries, a boy and girl met.

The ice witch princess praised as the strongest in all of the Imperial Household Agency―Aliceliese.

The swordsman who became the ultimate force on the battlefield at the youngest age throughout all the Empire's history―Iska.

"If you capture me, your dream may also be fulfilled."
"Likewise, if you defeat me, it will become a step in the unification of your world."

The two arch enemies were to kill each other. However, the boy had his heart stolen by the girl's beauty and nobility. And the girl was attracted to the boy's strength and way of living. Even if walking alongside one another would not be permitted and the only path before them was to defeat each other.

Source
https://twitter.com/fantasia_bunko/s...07602124353536

[Stark700]

Teaser/Key Visual for the upcoming anime series

[Frontier]

Originally Posted by Stark700

Teaser/Key Visual for the upcoming anime series

Nice Key Visual .

Studio is Silver Link.

Staff:

Shin Oonuma and Mirai Minato - Directors

Kento Shimoyama - Scripts

Kaori Sato - Character Designer/Chief Animation Director

[Stark700]

PV

[Stark700]

Funimation announced for streaming today

https://twitter.com/FUNimation/statu...84083893678086

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[MisaoFan]

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/new...emiere/.163492

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New PV:
https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/new...onists/.164377

[Frontier]

A military nation and the nation of powerful witches that they persecuted. Amidst the war between these forces, two powerful individuals and their strong ideals will meet and come together to start a crusade that will change the world .

Well, kind of sucks for Iska that he gets promoted to Saint Apostle status but then his one good deed of the day of freeing a cute witch girl from confinement ended up landing him in prison before he could do anything. But I guess it ended up leaving him as their secret weapon .

Iska's team is certainly quirky. We've got the sniper with a quick tongue in Jhin, a cute, busty, and affection redhead in a ponytail who knows her stuff in Nene, and a klutzy captain who despite her ample bosom looks like she's still in high school (and acts like it) and yet is somehow captain of a military operation in Mismiss .

Iska seemed to take dual-wielding tips from Alicization era Kirito with the way he ably swung those swords around and used their abilities to his advantage .

Yumiri Hanamori is playing a maid/loyal servant again? Is that her new typecast? I hope Alice isn't as much of a handful as Kaguya is

Speaking of the Ice Calamity Witch herself, who actually pretty much won the battle if only by completing their objective and getting out of there intact, she seems as beautiful as she is dangerous with her deadly ice Astral Magic that can surround an area and take any form she needs it to. She definitely has the beauty, grace, and strength befitting a purebred royal, but with a softer and romantic emotional core deep down inside .

I love how Alice is about to make a big speech before her own ice caves in on her and she lands in a perfect Princess Carry in Iska's arm, complete with them looking directly into each other eyes. Maybe not Love at First Sight (though she definitely seemed shaken up when he proclaimed his ideals while fighting her) but definitely a surprisingly intimate moment between two enemies. And then she huffs out of there like tsundere .

Alice is so beautiful they couldn't resist throwing in a bathing scene in the first episode .

Our two leads have a surprise second encounter while watching a play about two lovers on opposite sides? What a coincidence .

[Tenzen12]

Putting aside that all Romeo & Juliet stories suck by default. I have several other issues.

1) Like why would anyone fall for random witch, when there is redhead engineer that is several legues above nearby.

2)If you have enemy commander you are hunting for literaly in your hands and capturing her is basicaly means end of war. JUST DO YOUR FREAKING JOB.

3) What the heck is going on with that theatre?! Is there some neutral zone between both countries? And if there is, what stops people of mass destruction just infiltrate other country through it? It probably was explained in novel, but anime should have cover that too.

[Haak]

This is another one of those stories where despite having an interest, I'm increasingly finding hard to watch because it runs too much on cringe "teen-fic-logic". Tried the first episode, but I'll have to give this a pass.

[FlareKnight]

I suppose it will be interesting to see the girl he released at some point. All the more so since I'm curious to find out why he did it. Couldn't be that he only just realized the Empire were holding people captive because of their powers. And doesn't appear like she knew him personally either.

If nothing else it was mission accomplished by Alice. Heck if she could have just bailed out without fighting Iska at all it would have been a perfectly clean win. But understandable that she's pretty confident in her abilities. Did a decent job making the two seem rather even when it comes to a 1v1 fight.

Honestly I'm not sure how peace works out without Alice's side winning. Still early, but the Empire seems much more....evil empire than the other side. Not sure they'd accept any peace where the magic users weren't locked up or having their powers restrained.

Anyways, that was a solid start. Not the best first episode of the season, but it was fine.

[Chosen_Hero]

Ugh, it's literally just Kirito and Asuna all over again... I guess creativity really is dead in anime.

[Frontier]

Originally Posted by Tenzen12

Putting aside that all Romeo & Juliet stories suck by default. I have several other issues.

I enjoyed RomeoxJuliet .

1) Like why would anyone fall for random witch, when there is redhead engineer that is several legues above nearby.

What would an anime be without multiple Best Girls ?

2)If you have enemy commander you are hunting for literaly in your hands and capturing her is basicaly means end of war. JUST DO YOUR FREAKING JOB.

Maybe Iska realized they were too evenly matched and his priority was taking stock of his team and the situation after Alice's attack .

3) What the heck is going on with that theatre?! Is there some neutral zone between both countries? And if there is, what stops people of mass destruction just infiltrate other country through it? It probably was explained in novel, but anime should have cover that too.

They called it a neutral city, so I assume there is some kind of armistice that prevents the empire or the Witch's from doing anything overt in the city.

Originally Posted by Chosen_Hero

Ugh, it's literally just Kirito and Asuna all over again... I guess creativity really is dead in anime.

I mean, aside from Iska being a black-haired boy who wields two swords and Alice wearing a white dress, I don't see much else similar between the two. Personality wise they don't seem similar at all.

[serenade_beta]

Spoiler for ep1:

The good things:
It is a fantasy, a normal fantasy.

Bad:
-The sentence title
-Their chins
-The characters explaining everything to the audience
-The story (the attackers just stand around, the girl trips up and it takes her a while to realize she fell into the arms of her attacker because this clearly isn't a serious scene and she clearly doesn't need to take the current events seriously)
......
-I understand scrambling the voices of the mysterious people talking from across the screen...
...BUT can you at least keep them audible? Do you know that forcing the audience to strain their ears and brain just to understand an entire scene at the beginning of the first episode is NOT a smart decision, if ever smart to create an inaudible scene.

Originally Posted by Chosen_Hero

Ugh, it's literally just Kirito and Asuna all over again... I guess creativity really is dead in anime.

Quite a bit late realizing that.

[Tenzen12]

Originally Posted by Frontier

I enjoyed RomeoxJuliet .

That's the thing, as ironic as it sounds, Romeo x Julie isn't actually Romeo x Juliet kind of story. It's not story about transcending love that breaks barriers, but story about two hormone packed teenagers who refused use brain and gotthemselves killed over shallow crush. It's actually pretty educational. Sad that writers who later reused template didn't understand what is it about...

What would an anime be without multiple Best Girls ?

That doesn't sound that bad. Shame it obviously not the case here.

Maybe Iska realized they were too evenly matched and his priority was taking stock of his team and the situation after Alice's attack

Yes he looked super concerned and rational at that moment...NOT. It went from life-threatening battle to ull rom-com in instant.

They called it a neutral city, so I assume there is some kind of armistice that prevents the empire or the Witch's from doing anything overt in the city.

I am willing to accept that(to degree), but there is just too much issues with how it was handled. If MC doesn't get arrested again for espionage and collaboration with enemy in very next episode there will be no saving to this show.

[Blueknight78]

anime rushed stuffs a "bit and changed some stuffs from the manga

Spoiler for comparation:

the scene with him being released is different in manga, he was with "long hair" and he was the one which break off the chains he made clear which he only was "locked because he wanted" they were more "scared off him" then he release himself and also cut his hair with the swords.

the battle between him and the the girl was a bit longer than anime, and more epic, her outfit or at last her "hat was big in the manga and better at hidden her face,

he regrouping with his friends was rushed too and they "reduced the fanservice with the "tiny leader girl" in the manga when she appear you have the classic "boing boing scene of her breasts" which was cut here, her breasts was a little bigger in the manga, they encounter also had some cuts

it's seens which based on the first episode it gonna be another "rushed serie" to get at a good point for 12 episodes.

[Tenzen12]

You know that this is not adaptation of manga right? It's entirely possible nothing you mentioned was in actual source material...

[Blueknight78]

Originally Posted by Tenzen12

You know that this is not adaptation of manga right? It's entirely possible nothing you mentioned was in actual source material...

even with that for what i get still rushed and cut, the difference from the novel to manga are not that "big" to say which what happened in the manga don't happened in the novel, the point was to say which this episode was rushed a lot.

[Tenzen12]

Certainly wasn't great episode I agree on that. Still manga cannot be used as reference, because only those who actually read novel can say what is manga original. As unlikely as it is, manga may have better pacing then novel by adding lot of stuff and anime might be more accurate adaptation. Even such cases exist.

You can say manga is better, but not that anime changed something from it