Blazblue Alter Memory is a strange anime to me. The story starts by dropping you off in the middle of the story, which is fine. However, there are a lot of characters with vastly different backgrounds and the explanation as to what they are doing, what their motives for doing it and how they came to be doing it are extremely slow in coming out. This is a new release, so there are only 8 episodes out thus far, but I'm really hoping that this anime is going to be more that 12 episodes, because I can't see anything important to the story being concluded in only four more episodes. There are definitely some interesting ideas at work in the story, but right now it seems a little more like a jumbled mess. I'm really hoping that the concepts can get ironed out so these ideas can start to make an interesting tapestry.
As for artistic development, I find a number of the character silhouettes to be quite strong, as to be expected from an anime developed from a video game. However, there isn't a lot more that distinguishes the look of this anime.
My fingers are crossed that this anime is going to be longer than 12 episodes and that the story is going to come together. For now, I'm giving Blazblue Alter Memory a 3 out of 5.
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