Eien no Aseria – Episode 1
If you judge anime shows by their first episode about 90% are crap. Eien no Aseria’s first is rather good and makes me willing to watch more of it. Nice animation and I’m pretty fond of soundtrack and character design. Also the story is a good mixture of classical fantasy elements and some new aspects.
You can recognize in some tiny details the show wants to be more than average, I’m thinking of the fight at the grave when you can hear fight sounds but you only see two umbrellas…gives a feeling like the good old Robin Hood movies with Erol Flynn where you could only see the shadows when Robin and the Sheriff were fighting ^^.