La storia della Arcana Famiglia: Complete Collection

I love that this was dubbed and I didn't have to read then watch. It was hilarious and I just wish it had more episodes to go with it!

Loved it I wish there was more

The reason for the poor rating is the "dub". Could have gotten random folks off the street to give a better performance. If you do watch it, switch to subtitles w/Japanese.Pretty plain, poorly executed, and lots of flaws, but nowhere near as bas a "Flame of Recca".EDIT:I laughed, I cried, I kissed $45 goodbye.After WASTING an hour of my life, my advice is to skip it.

Nothing in this story makes sense. Subplots are unresolved, story progression is lumpy, and while it focuses on martial arts, somehow magic cards seem to be in control of the plot. A very cute girl who is going to have her seventeenth birthday-- okay. A pair of young and short boys about her age, just being hopeless in dealing with her-- or each other.At the end they cop out on any resolution of the story. This should have been really bad, but it somehow, in spite of the flaws, was entertaining. No fan service, no "oopsie" just "what" and "say that again" progression.A seven out of ten, or a low four out of five, just for being fun to watch, even if it does not make sense.

Having a love of both anime and the Italian language, I was pretty interested in an anime that had an obviously Italian title and wondered what take the anime could have, where it was based and whether it was based on an actual event, historical fiction.After watching a few of the dub episodes, I must warn you all. The voice actors and actresses obviously don't know the Italian language, or was a speaker of it even remotely involved in the dubbing process. I'm not sure if they based the pronunciation on the Japanese version or not. Either way, there were certain words that were not pronounced the way they were supposed to be pronounced.That bothered me.Other than that, the story and the concept of the first few episodes was really interesting. I liked the idea of powers based on tarot cards, as well as the story line revolving around a family who is essentially the mob. However, after the third or fourth episode, where Felicitia's father announces the duello, things start playing out like a reverse harem anime, and that bothered me as well.Besides that, the art of the series was very nice, the backgrounds very well fleshed out and the style pleasing to the eye.The voice acting, on the other hand left a lot to be desired. While the main characters and any named character usually had a decent voice actor, there were a few background characters that sounded like they were voiced by amateurs or a random person off the street.

This isn't a bad anime, but it's not a great one either. It's about a beautiful island where special young people have cards granting them special powers. The truth is that the anime has some interesting ideas and it's FAR better than a kiddy Yu-Gi-Oh type show. It had some interesting plot twists, but the ending was pretty bad. Ultimately the fighting and spell casting was for nothing.Would I recommend this anime? Yes, but there are others that are better.

The premise of the story basically is about a group of people who become part of this large "family" that uses cards that houses a unique power of various elements, abilities, etc. Apparently one of them will succeed Ill Mundo who is the boss of the group and head the family into a new direction. It wasn't a bad premise, but just executed pretty bad. I can't really fault the characters. In fact I thought they were decent, somewhat done over (like in many animes), but done well; likable at least. The fault really likes in the story telling and direction. After about 6 or 7 episodes it feels like the directors pretty much said well screw the story we are moving into this now!!! and completely compressed the entire thing in like 3 episodes. The quality of the direction really suffered. The ending was terrible. It was boring and just did not leave a last or satisfying impression. Every thing remained the same! I was extremely disappointed. In all it could have been pretty good, but just like the other reviewer said, it's like they stopped trying and it just to garbage. Too bad. I give a 2 out 5.

watching the first and last episode makes a decent short movie, otherwise it is a mediocre (3 star) at best series.

A fun series to watch.