User blog:DrDrelox/Campione! Anime Review

Today in this semi-inactive wiki, I'm going to do my review of the anime Campione! which is the adaptation of the light novel:

Plot
The plot is: Godou Kusanagi, a former middle school baseball player who had to retire due to injury, is asked by his grandfather to return a stone tablet to a friend in Sardinia named Lucretia Zola. After meeting the demonically manipulative sword-mistress Erica Blandelli, he encounters the god of war, Verethragna. After killing the god, Godou becomes a Campione, or god slayer. His duty is to fight heretical gods who start changing things to suit themselves, usually at the expense of the people in the area. One of the problems associated with being a Campione, is that his status keeps attracting attention and difficult girls.

Adherence to the light novel
In my own words, the anime was 32% faithful to the light novel, while they respected the backstory of how Godou became Campione, there were still many differences. What they respected was: the reason why Godou went to Sardinia, how he met Erica, how was his relationship with Erica (although it was not even 50% attached), how Godou met the heretic god who turned him into Campione, the other Campiones, the relationship between Erica and Liliana, among some other things, but not many.

As an example: how exactly Godou became Campione (although they showed it, it was not very faithful to the novel), the fight between Doni and Godou from volume 11 (which was not seen), which Liliana served Voban later of previous events mentioned (since in the anime it was seen in the first episode that was before), as was the relationship of Yuri and Liliana while the first was in the captivity of Voban, Godou's vacation with Yuri in Italy, the appearance by Genaro Gantz, not leaving everything in its precise moment, that almost all the characters had an almost different personality and almost the rest of everything.

But I appreciate that they have shown the volume 3 in chronological order, they showed it as the first episode that was more comfortable to watch. Even some designs look better than in the novel.

Characters Personalities
The only characters that I could say that kept his personality to the letter were: Godou, Shizuka, Amakasu, The Three Idiots, Lucretia, Voban, Ena and Athena.

While the others, well changed too much:
 * Liliana Kranjcar: At first, she is seen with a very cold personality as if that was her personality from the beginning, which is not true since because of the situation with Voban, which in the novel was more justifiable, it was because she acted like that, in the novel it little but in the anime before episode 7 it was a lot.


 * Yuri Mariya: Yuri certainly turns out to be obnoxious in the anime. While in the light novel Yuri gets to scold Godou, there they went from time to time, while in the anime they are like majority of the time. In episode 8 it was one of the most detestable moments of Yuri, although one can say that it was funny, it was actually cruel, Yuri came to say very hurtful things to Godou, and that chapter is located right after the events of Voban, and Yuri was under his captivity, and seeing that scolding made me think that if I were Godou, it would make me have the thought of: "I saved her and now because of a confusion she makes a tremendous scandal, she tells me that she can no longer trusting me and other cruel things, now that I think about it, I should have let Voban killed you."


 * Erica Blandelli: Here I got to like Erica, although she becomes arrogant and haughty, here she shows herself more sometimes than often as in the light novel (volume 3, 11, 1-4). Erica becomes more pleasant in the anime from the second episode, although something I did not like was the information that Amakasu gave Godou about it, which never happened in the novel. But it was still a good change.

Conclusion
Well with all this, what score do I give to the Campione anime? Well before I say it, I'm going to tell you that from 2016 to 2020, I liked anime, to the point of saying that it was better than DxD and Trinity Seven (well only the light novel surpasses those two, in my opinion), but looking at the light novel I give a this verdict:

Punctuation: 6.7/10

The truth is that the anime is not so bad, but it is not the best or a good one. But it's still enjoyable. But definitely I stay with the light novels.

Is this anime recommended?
Kinda. As I said is not bad, have good fanservice scenes, but some scenes are not so good in the context taking account that some of them weren't as the light novel.

That was my opinion on the anime Campione!