Sea Slugs! Anime Blog

Souta frequently has this dream where his mother is telling him a story about a nerdy guy gaining magical powers. Unfortunately the dream always ends with his mom getting molested by tentacles and snatched away by monstrous spiders (before she can spoil the ending of the story). The only thing saving him in his dream is a cute, hooded, young girl with dual scissor blades; Sousei Seki, eat your heart out!

After getting woken up by Ringo, we see that Ringo and Souta seem to live alone, as their Oji-san doesn’t always return for the night. Souta has quite a green thumb, and likes to talk to the plants on the way to school. He also spends most of his time searching in libraries for the ending of the story his mom was telling him. While Souta is looking in an old book store, however, he hears a voice telling the story. It’s a young man with puppets, and it seems the king in the story was God, and God later split the arrogant man’s powers into two: magic and science. However, only one human in Elde could possibly know this story, meaning that Souta is actually Elde’s key!

Of course the puppeteer is actually a monstrous spider, and he’s joined by a biker-spider. The Nightmarian spiders work for the feline Randagio, who in turn works for the witch Cendrillon. Although Souta gets aid from the canine Baal, Baal was wounded in an earlier encounter. Fortunately, King Ferdinand of the Fandavale world has called for the Three Musketeers, the strongest of the Four Leaf Knights. One such knight, Akazukin, shows up and uses her Grim Tailor blades, and the harmful radiation from her Sweet Phone (the Shining Edge attack) to save the day. White-haired bishie, Hansel, takes over the evil operations, and then the ED kicks in.

I was looking forward to this series, but it was even cooler than I expected it to be! The action was excellent, and the fight scenes were very well choreographed. Sure the weapon summon scenes look like they will be overly used and abused, but since I was expecting to get the ole slash and dash lines of action, I was pleased with the compromise. Even better was the low amounts of blushing, which let me enjoy the cuteness without feeling like some kind of lolicon.

They sure packed in a lot of details into this episode, and while I’m sure the story won’t get too complicated, it looks like there will be a little mystery and intrigue. The production values were quite good, and I appreciated the little details like the biker mirror antennae, and the otaku taking pictures in town. I liked the OP a lot, since the synthesizer brought back pleasant SNES RPG nostalgia, and the ED was decent.

Did you know that if you sign up for a two year contract that you can get the Sweet Phone for free? I was getting major Chiyo-chan and Nanoha vibes from Akazukin.