Dota: Dragon's Blood (2021)

Watchseries; I have never heard of Dota or knew about this video game in any shape and form previous to binging this series - to say I was pleasantly surprised is an understatement. Even as someone who doesn't tend to like anime, the execution of this series was extremely well done. Plot was well paced and thickened quite nicely. I was worried that the plot would be confusing for someone who's never played the game, but everything unraveled in a way that was easy to understand. The characters are intriguing, although not a whole lot of development yet. I assume this will be touched on more in season 2 (which I am desperately waiting for!)

I have never heard of Dota or knew about this video game in any shape and form previous to binging this series - to say I was pleasantly surprised is an understatement. Even as someone who doesn't tend to like anime, the execution of this series was extremely well done. Plot was well paced and thickened quite nicely. I was worried that the plot would be confusing for someone who's never played the game, but everything unraveled in a way that was easy to understand. The characters are intriguing, although not a whole lot of development yet. I assume this will be touched on more in season 2 (which I am desperately waiting for!)

Dota: Dragon's Blood watchseries. Really amazing work, every thing in it is good or close to perfection. It is exactly the thing i waited for, almost nothing unnecessary to the story. Only animation sometimes feels too cheap (mostly in 3d objects), but it's less than 1% of time, so i'll not blame series for this. I'll wait for new seasons, they are seem ambitious.

As someone who has probably put around 20k-30k hours into Dota 1 and 2 I must say the feeling of seeing all my heroes come to life in a show like this is amazing to say the least. It's an amazing world and it has so much potential. Now the show itself is entertaining alot of times, has great animations and some funny moments. Mostly, however, it's too hasty and you get the feeling they've had to cut out too much to fit it all into 8 episodes. I didn't quite get as emotionally involved in the characters as I hoped. The jumps from one place, both physically and emotionally between the characters, is way too hasty sadly. I do hope this show hits big so Netflix will want to invest more into coming seasons episode wise to delve deeper in the relationships and characters. Well worth the watch though.

I would give series solid 8.5 out of 10. There were couple of moments when i thought that story was kind of flat but after some scenes it would get me back on track, ending was especially good, it connected many dots. Athough ending summerized many things, during the episodes there were some unanswered things left but for me its a good thing for a animated series that could get another season in the future. Animations were well done and pleasing to watch, but in one fight scene frames per second looked a little too low. In conclusion not a masterpiece but an amazing animated series.

Tho im saying this is because im a dota player but this is still my take if i didnt know dota and just watched it i mean while watching it i really forgot im watching a game i played for 9 years the writer is really good he made me get absorbed in the storyline finished the whole thing in a matter of hours lmao theres so much potential this show has so much potential and the eng voice acting is really good too its my first time to finish an animated show in eng dub at first i tried watching it at japanese but the eng dub is much more fit great job and ofcourse the animation is top notch you can really see that they gave their all to do this 8 episodes its just like a drop of dota's lore for all of us and i already cant get enough of it in summary

Storyline: 10/10 Animation:10/10 Voice acting:10/10.

What we've seen is just a glimpse of Dota's lore. I like that the fundamental premises were already presented albeit they could be a vague especially for casual viewers. Hint: ep 1 intro and Terrorblade's statement towards the end of his scene after the fight with Selemene

For the newcomers, or perhaps, even for those Dota fans but unaware of the depths of its lore, this season will be too hazy or too fragmented. As a typical series taken as it is, this series looks bad. Rooting on someone is looking harder, everyone seems to be immoral or has other reasons for one not to be rooted for. Such element could be explained by the lore later on. As a Dota fan, I liked how fleshed out it is. The plot may become slow but this would mean there will be more focus on character story and development. For now, we only had a glimpse of Davion's, Mirana's, Luna's, and Invoker's. We have not really seen the deeper stories for these characters. Davion, Mirana, and Luna for their future and Invoker for his general role in their universe, past and future. All the while, Dota, as the game, has around 120 heroes to offer. I'm just excited of what's to come. The community has waited a long time for this. Before, we were just watching Slacks' Loregasm series in YT for that good 'ol Dota narrative. Now, we've got an actual series that is so far not too bad. Season 2 pleasee!