ワールド・デストラクション ～世界撲滅の六人～/Sands of Destruction

Ah, Sands of Destruction. I'm not fond of the game, and this was still a bit of an insult. You see, I already know that video game adaptions tend to go horribly wrong. It was a promotion, essentially. Although, I don't know who they were promoting to, because not only is the anime bad, but it also is absolutely nothing like the game, except in terms of characters, which it still isn't exactly a success in, getting some personalities very wrong.

Let's start with the looks. Those are okay, the visuals are decent and the animation doesn't have too many errors, which is probably the best compliment this will be getting. It's unfortunate, I know. I will give the show some credit, it managed to make the characters look right. They're recognizable, at least.

As for the characters themselves...eeeeh...Well, they got Kyrie right in that he's timid, but he does still fight, which he does not...well, do in the anime. Morte's alright, although they messed with her backstory. Taupy randomly adds "kuma" to the ends of his sentences, Agan is barely in the show, Naja is okay...and then we get to Rhi'a. Poor, poor Rhi'a. In the game, she's calm and quiet. In the show...

My thoughts exactly...

She has serious anger issues, and an overall bad attitude that is nothing like how it was in the game. She almost seems unstable.

The soundtrack is average at best, nothing really special. It does manage to have a rather unfitting intro and outro, though.

The plot is absolutely different in pretty much every way that it can be from the game. It's actually worse than the game's plot, which is rather surprising considering the game's plot really wasn't that great. Basically, a scaredy-cat of a boy meets a girl who wants to destroy the world, and it all goes downhill from there. The show is a kind of filler version of the game, which is to say, it's bad.

I don't know, this whole show was just a mess. It's hard to gather my thoughts on it.