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Finally got around to finishing Apocrypha yesterday.
Fuck ya'll, that was good. Not great, pretty bad as a story, but still a fuckton of fun. Great spectacle. Lot of fantastic fights towards the end, which is saying something for how little I cared about most of the people involved in them.
Astolfo was (somehow) fantastic from start to finish. No idea where that lack of self confidence came form, though. Mordred and Necromancer were the best part of the show and deserved to be the focus. Drac and Frank were fun. William was a late bloomer, but oh man was he great towards the end. Semiramis was pretty low-key great too, though that's probably those wonderful, WONDERFUL ears talking.
Everyone else was...pretty dull, but with a couple exceptions not outright bad. Seven hits and a bunch of B-listers makes for a pretty good cast, I'd say, especially when said B team is having these kick ass fights every other episode.

On those exceptions, though...
Jack sucked, Sieg was appallingly boring, and shockingly, Jeanne was...terrible. Like really, really bad, she was just completely worthless. What did she do? What did she accomplish? Blocked a big laser that one time, talked a lot of shit, started a few fights before passing them on to somewhat better characters, which all amounts to fucking nothing. Then in the grand finale she unleashes her super mode...and gets immediately crushed and dies. What the fuck. I still like her design, and the bits of her hitch-hiking and bussing around at the beginning were great, but...that's it, and it's ONLY those tiny bits that keep her being from the worst part of the entire show. Plus she has horrible taste in men. How the fuck do you make a heroine this bad?
At least she gave them an excuse to use Gilles again. Good for him, protecting his waifu at last, that was nice.