Chrome Shelled Regios Episode 1
The City with a Conscious

After a quick flashback of a giant Osenjuu (Polluted Beast) attacking a city, we arrive at the Academic City of Zuellni where a member was just quitting the Seventeenth Platoon. Nina tries to convince him to stay until after the upcoming rivalry match but is held back by Harley who reminds her it was fresher's day. She will have plenty of chances to find a new member to fill in the position.

They rush out and Nina scans the crowds desperately for potential candidates but fail to find any who hasn't been recruited. Sharnid even wonders if there would be anyone stupid enough to join their weak little team but, if they didn't find another member then their team will have to be disbanded. Not long afterwards, a fight between two of the new students break out and as their fight grows more intense by the moment, they start to damage the main school building. As part of the front building crumbles, a voice reaches Leyfon who was also another new student but was still in his native clothes. He manages to save Meishen just in time and his agility caught the attention of many, breaking up the fight.

Leyfon was soon summoned by the student council chairman, Kalian Loss' office where his profile was being examined. Judging by his job and his scholarship level was low. He was going to have a hard time during his six years at the academy but, Kalian has decided to give him a chance and transfer him over to the Martial Arts Department which will raise his scholarship.

They needed the extra talent because the academy had consecutive losses in the martial arts tournaments for the past two years. They only had one Zelnium mine left so they must win the next tournament to keep the academy going. Before Leyfon could protest to say that he came here to live a normal life, a group of girls rushes in, stripping him of his clothes and into uniform. At that moment, Nina bursts into the office and demands Leyfon is granted to her.

Dropping off at the station, a happy Nina points Leyfon to the boy's dormitory before heading off on her own. Leyfon was confused but he starts to make his way to the dorm. Along the way he comes across the girl Ferri Loss who was the one that warned him of Meishen in trouble. She appeared to be letting out a lot of stress shouting into a funnel because the bugs in her stomach wouldn't settle down. Seeing him, she suddenly calms down to a very cold looking girl and walks on pass him. Leyfon notices her badge which showed she was also a member of the Seventeenth Platoon.

That night, Leyfon dreamt of the time he was just a kid, fighting out in the desert against a regenerating Osenjuu. Back in the city of Regios, Lilin was thinking about Leyfon respecting the fact he wanted to start all over and prays that one day he will reach the lands of Grendan.

Thoughts

What's with the music in Chrome Shelled Regios? It sounds like it's from an RPG or something. It's looking like another action filled Anime and again I'm not all that impressed. Not a lot of details that pique my interest. The whole school setting and people fighting monsters is getting tiring. All I see so far are a bunch of young students with some alchemy related powers and your generic cast of characters. Ferri's looking like the one that will gain the most fans from this show.