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A long time ago, during a battle between light and dark, seven heroes emerged who could wield their shadows as monstrous weapons that helped defeat the darkness before disappearing. Today, one man known as Nene has the ability to create artificial shadows, and has created an army in order to take control of the world. The story begins in a small village, with the soon-to-be hero
Shu, and his friend Kluke. A pair of orphans whose parents were killed by
soldiers of Gran Kingdom, Nene’s army. During one of Shu’s tours of the
village to try and find a Knight, he comes across Jiro and Zola, who are passing
through the village, but seem to know how to fight. When Gran Kingdom
soldiers suddenly attack the village, Jiro and Zola reveal that they are able to
wield their shadows as weapons, taking the forms of the Minotaur and Killer Bat.
Shu, wanting to help save his friends, is suddenly able to call on the power of
his own shadow, creating the mighty Blue Dragon, but while it easily defeats
their enemy, Shu cannot control the Dragon, and so Zola decides to take him
along with her and Jiro, so that he may become stronger. |
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During their travels they find themselves in a town that had been destroyed by Gran Kingdom, along with the small creature Marumaro, who can also control his shadow, Saber Tiger. Marumaro believes they were the ones to destroy the town and immediately starts fighting with them, until the real culprits are revealed, forcing him to help out in order to save the villagers. But waiting for them is one of Nene’s top-ranking warriors, General Logi, who has been given a power artificial shadow in order to take them down. In a stroke of luck though, Shu finally gathers the fortitude to control his shadow, and help save the day! |
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I have to be honest when I say I had trouble watching Blue Dragon. While I didn’t mind its story, or the fact that it seems to be aimed more towards kids, despite some material aimed at |
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the older teen, mainly Marumaro’s lechery and Bouquets obvious ‘fan-service assets’. My problem with the show was the fact that it has only taken the main characters and only the smallest of the plot from the game that it was based on. The lead characters themselves, apart from Zola, have all been changed somewhat in the transition to the anime. Kluke for example, was a level-headed girl who both Shu and Jiro would fight over for her attention, yet the anime portrays her more as the typical angry |
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female character, who’s about ready to beat someone up if they say the wrong thing to her, which most of the time happens to be MaruMaro, who has been turned into a breast-obsessed pervert as opposed to the gullible warrior trying to find a cure for his tribe. Some of the character designs have been swapped about too. In the anime, King Jibral is seen as an old man, but in the game, he is a young man preparing to fight against Nene. What’s strange is that they have taken how the original King Jibral looks and seem to have used it for General Logi instead. In all, Blue
Dragon is a decent anime, but after playing the game it’s
loosely based on, I can’t bring myself to truly enjoy it as much as
I’d have liked too. NBT – Nothing but Trailers. Ratings Feature:
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