Okay, in addition to a review this is also a response to the review that gives a 7 overall.

First I'll start with my review.

The characters, while their design is good there are some issues. The biggest being Puck. I'll try my best not to spoil things, but I'll just say that he had some uses at first such as looking into people's minds and giving us some information on world-building. Now he's literally just comic relief and occasional healing. And I'm pretty sure I'm using literally the correct way. Everyone else . . . they're good, although the fact that two girls are into Guts at the same time is a bit haremish. I don't really have anything else to complain about. The villains are good, they are certainly never cliche. Come on, who would think the Count was cliche?

Next, the art, goddamn the beautiful art. Describing it doesn't do it justice, just look at it.

The story does seem to have it's issues. Namely what I've heard of the long hiatuses that Miura has and that there were 9 years of being on the boat. And the Sea God arc was pretty unnecessary and so were the pirates, it was almost like I was reading filler. Everything else is amazing, I understand the strangeness of the Black Swordsman arc in the beginning then the long Golden Age arc, but honestly I think it shows how fate works in this world pretty well. Although I've heard that the real reason Miura chose to put that arc first was to get attention and start up.

Overall, it's a 9 to me. Great, so great, but not perfect.