Potential New Anime - Sacred Seven (Episode 1)

Superhero-type anime seems to make it's way back lately in the anime industry. Heroman and the recent Tiger&Bunny is an example, and now this season, we have Sacred Seven.

Sacred Seven's first episode shows a modern Japan but with a more advanced technology. The vehicles and the giant mecha shows that. But what's more, it shows a hint of fantasy and magic, as the villains are large golem-like creatures that destroys the town.

Ruri Aiba, using her power

Our main character is Arma Tandoji, a cool and silent young man that bears a hidden power that makes him go berserk at times. Ruri Aiba is a rich girl who owns a special force, which in the first episode, seems to have the task to eliminate the monsters further dubbed as 'darkstones'. Ruri tries to recruit Arma throughout the first episode, as his power would make her job much easier and she possesses a stone that could help Arma control his power and the stone will transform into a high-tech battlesuit for Arma.

Arma with his newfound powers

The story looks fairly simple, but Sacred Seven's story always moves forward. The first episode is so intense and fast that one scene always moves to the next one in less than a minute. It keeps the viewer glued to their seats until the end of the episode. Also the story has not been fully revealed, so it might have a few twist that could further strengthen the story.

There are a couple of weird small details that bugged me while watching this, and that's the special force's uniform and members. They are all young woman dressed in a maid uniform. It feels a bit weird and reminds me a little of Star Driver, but doesn't reduce the enjoyment of watching this by much.

Battle is always intense and well-directed

The animation here is quite good. The art style is nothing special, but the action here is very intense, cool, and animated wonderfully by Sunrise. The opening animation is quite good, and the ending is yet to be seen.

The music is a good fit for the intense atmosphere, the timing were perfect and the transition looks smooth. What I need to note importantly is that the opening and ending song is courtesy of Yuki Kajiura, and is a good piece that matches this anime well. The opening song is 'Stone Cold' sung by Fiction Junction, and looks to be a piece that grows to be more enjoyable as I listened to it more than once.

Sacred Seven looks promising, and at the very least it is a very enjoyable action series with intense pace. The story so far looks simple but it might turn out to be better if an extra level of depth and some plot twist are added into it.