Sacred Seven Episode 1: At First Glance

Oh great, another geass user.

Sacred Seven is Sunrise's latest project, so the animation for this is pretty slick, though a little too reminiscent of Code Geass. Alma is a misunderstood high schooler who, upon entering his school, can part crowds like Moses could with the red sea. Then, a ditzy classmate of his, who believes that he's a lot more harmless than the rumors may suggest, invites him to go to a museum with her friends. Oh, and apparently, he collects rocks. And he's being stalked by some rich girl and her battle butler. Just when he thinks his day couldn't get any worst, he finds out that he is a mahou shounen possesses special powers...

That is a small motorcycle.

She reminds me of a less psychotic version of Kafuka from Zetsubou-sensei.

Looks like Sebastian is two-timing Ciel.

Oh snap, he's part unicorn!

As far as character designs go, (if my caps didn't already give it away) they're not very original. Alma looks like Lelouche and Rolo's illegitimate child, that useless talking statute thing gives off the feeling that it's trying to pull a Nyanko-sensei on us, and Ruri looks like every other ojou-same type character I've seen thus far. As far as the soundtrack goes, Yuki Kajiura composing the opening and ending themes were the only reason why I checked out this show. Okay, moving on to the actual show, ROBOTS ATTACK and MAIDS EVERYWHERE. Yeah, Ruri unleashes a maid army on us. Wut. And Alma decides to man up because he's worried about his ditzy classmate's safety. Then he TRANSFORMS.

Heeeenshiiiiinnnnn!!!

Open Heart!

He looks like a gundam.

After his transformation (which is nowhere near as flashy as Takuto's from Star Driver), he SAVES THE WORLD (and his ditzy classmate/potential love interest). The main plot for this series? Rocks. Yep. But like I said, the animation is pretty good, so I wouldn't put it down right away. Let's hope it gets better from here, though.

I definitely didn't see that coming./sarcasm

This episode gets:

1/2

I was going to use a rock gif, but for some reason, all the results that showed were either Rock Lee, The Rock, or Rock 'n Roll.