English Dub Review: Reign of the Seven Spellblades “Sword Arts”

 

Overview:

The new students settle into life at Kimberly, and Oliver has an intense duel with Nanao.

Our Take:
Sorry for the dumb Harry Potter joke but this is definitely anime Harry Potter and I don’t mean that in a bad way. It’s got all the things that remind me of my childhood discovering Hogwarts for the first time. But now I am a way bigger anime fan than I ever was before and seeing one of the cooler fictional universes get a similar anime is so fun.
Nanao and Oliver have a rocky start to their friendship but I am looking forward to finding out about these characters as the series goes on. They seemed like they would be best of friends and still could be, but there was some tension after their duel. Seems like Nanao wants to die and yes I read the first volume of the light novel but I don’t think it was explained there. This a series I think a lot of people are sleeping on and will deliver a lot of fun.
Two episodes in and it is a show I would definitely recommend to others. We have interesting characters and an interesting world. I don’t think I would attend this school because while Hogwarts was dangerous I don’t remember them having a 20% death rate for students.