Le Chevalier D'Eon

In 18th century Paris, a coffin is found floating down the Seine River. It carries the corpse of noblewoman Lia de Beaumont: a spy of King Louis XV, and whose younger brother D'Eon has just been knighted. When several disappearances occur throughout Paris, the young knight believes that they are somehow connected to his sister's death. Hoping to find her killers, D'Eon joins the secret police to investigate the incidents.

Following the clues, they piece together that a conspiracy between members of the French and Russian nobility, spurred on by a cult, may be behind the disappearances. D'Eon concludes that Lia may have uncovered the truth while on a mission and was killed as a result.

That night, the secret police are to arrest the Duke of Orléans on suspicion of being the mastermind. One of their own transforms into a demon called a Gargoyle and massacres the group. D'Eon attempts to rescue the sole survivor, only to find that he too has been transformed. During the ensuing battle, D'Eon is possessed by Lia's vengeful soul, who takes command of his body and slays the Gargoyle herself. In the aftermath, D'Eon must gather allies to discover the depth of this supernatural conspiracy.

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de Beaumont, D'Eon Main

Tai, Yuuki Japanese

de Beaumont, Lia Main

Mizuno, Risa Japanese

Durand Main

Narita, Ken Japanese

Robin Main

Matsumoto, Megumi Japanese

Teillagory Main

Satou, Haruo Japanese

Robespierre, Maximilien Supporting

Sakurai, Takahiro Japanese

Saint-Germain Supporting

Matsumoto, Yasunori Japanese

Louis XV Supporting

Inada, Tetsu Japanese

Sandwich Supporting

Umezu, Hideyuki Japanese

Caron Supporting

Umezu, Hideyuki Japanese

Nakatake, Tetsuya Producer, Production Assistant

Morishita, Katsuji Producer

Katagiri, Daisuke Producer

Seto, Mariko Producer

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Feb 1, 2020

siddhass26

Recommended

(Warning Minor Spoilers Ahead)

Le chevalier d'eon isn't the most appealing or over-the-top battle royale type alternate history anime. It's a realistic depiction of the behaviour of the so called masters, for whom their loyal ones; though valued, were just a toy. We get to see one of the most accurate of human behaviour plausible to the viewers. The anime delves deep into topics like loyalty, betrayal and honor, and how somepeope were bound to them, no matter what happens- even if the masters had ill motives towards them, even if they knew it was bad- but they stil wouldn'tl break the knot of loyalty and ... alleigance to maintain their honor as a knight. This anime delves into the life of the hideous people for whom loyalty would've been just as bad as death. No one is good nor bad, you simply can't trust anyone in this age.

Again in the characters aren't developed or fleshed out that well, but they somehow represent their historical counterparts pretty well, like Robespierre is rebellious; D'eon and Lia are loyal no matter what. And even though the character development isn't best, the show does great job at hiding the real motives of its main characters (and their emotions) and springs them out are out really well towards the end when majority of the show's revelations are made.

The plot of this story is major thing of this series on paper, but as i said prior the real deal of this series is exploring things related to human behaviour and historical problems so the plot is there to carry the story to its revelation. The murder-mystery saga ends at episode 13, the real deal starts after that. The Magic in this story isn't necessary since removing it wouldn't have affected the plot a lot, but it was pretty well explained, except for a certain things.

This anime is a slow burner, and not for everyone. Quite a lot of episodes are elongated and later the climax is sorta rushed, but again its accurate to how it would've happened historically. In a blink of an eye.

The anime's historical accuracy is laughable at times, but its characters are as expected well portrayed, so now problem there from my side.

Animation, and Visuals are great, but the animation gets really sloppy at times, and it isn't moe or other "cute shit" in anyway. The backgrounds are low-key gorgeous to look at, and I feel like I'm in France so props for that.

Music and Soundtrack is great as well, and I love the OP its beautifully written and describes the emotions of our main character.

The only bad thing is that even though the show is accuarate, realistic and simply well made, it isn't the memorable like other shounen-type shows, so the strength's of this show are it's weaknesses.

All in all it was a great show, which gave great insights on how royalty and power would really work in the olden days, with a gripping supporting plot added to it. It was a great show, with just few squabbles along the way.

So I'll give this show a 9.2/10 or 92/100.

Reviewer’s Rating: 9

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Apr 7, 2019

DesolatePsyche

Mixed Feelings

First things first. My "reviews" system is explained on a blog entry. Which can be found through my profile.
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✦Story
Let's keep it short. Story is pseudo complicated. Giving you some political insight of the world that is presented and the role of various parties. Whilst the focus is on the "secret service" members who essentially search and research for various reasons around few countries.

Now... here comes the comical part. The plot or setting itself is fairy interesting and unique. Starting with rather unusual location for Anime to be placed at and an odd setting that mixes bible and zombies with some supernatural powers. Sounds interesting right?

No... ... truthfully the story tries to be convoluted, tragic and rather grand. But in fact it feels more like a a really bad stage play that attempts to be serious, but feels too much of a comedy to be a serious.

I simply got extremely bored almost the whole time I were watching this Anime, but because of the setting/plot I didn't want to drop it as were somewhat intrigued how it would end. And in short.. I felt I wasted my time.

If you want a bad stage play that takes place in France and few other countries that has zombies in it and bible verses. Then check it out. Otherwise, it was simply boring for me.

✦Art & Sound
Artstyle was unique I guess for the most part. Although the way characters looked, I did not like that much

As for OST, it was good enough. Few noticeable soundtracks.

✦Character
Sigh... bad actors? That is how I sum the up. Characters felt forced, boring and fairly disappointing. I were more interested in side characters than main ones. Only main one I somewhat enjoyed was the tip fedora old man.

As for side ones . Can't mention as the reason I somewhat liked them would be spoilers.

But anyhow... "meh".

✦Enjoyment & Overall
To sum it up. I don't like stage plays. And this Anime felt like one. As well lot of boredom and disappointment were also in the mix. Fairly unique setting/concept/story idea....but everything else was simply dead dull.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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Apr 16, 2020

Kreskon

Not Recommended

I never make reviews. But this anime is so shitty that I couldn't help it. This is just horrible.
First of all it is boring. It took me MONTH to watch all episodes when previous anime I chose, I watched in one day.
Characters are just pathetic, retarded, stupid etc. (I can write here whole vocabulary of negative adjectives). I don't want to write spoilers here but I will say that mainly it has to do with the so-called loyalty to their king. Come'on, who would be loyal to such pathetic retarded trash? Louis XV was shown here as the biggest trash ever. It is ... no longer called loyalty but stupidity (to know why watch it to the end by I advise you don't even try - I admire myself that I managed to finish such a shit and I started suspected if I am not masochist, the only reason I didn't drop this anime is that I never drop anything I watch).
Ending is plainly stupid and senseless.
Don't watch this shit - YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED :)

Reviewer’s Rating: 1

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