Broken Blade: Fortress of Lamentation (2011)
Baldr and his men carries Delphine back to the kingdom after discovering Rygart. Borcuse orders the attack on the capital without waiting for the others to rejoin. Sigyn makes a weapon using Athenian's golem parts. Narvi finds her surviving men and return to protect the capital. Cleo decides to go back and hugs Sigyn good bye. Borcuse's army manage to break the Krisnan's first defense line and the battle moves into the streets. Sigyn's men manage to find Delphine and repairs it while its automatic cooling system is still operating. When the Delphine cools, Rygart leaps to defend the kingdom and fought Borcuse. Sigyn delivers the make shift weapon to Rygart and he initially unable to fight Borcuse because he is too fast but when Borcuse's Golen's leg cracks, Rygart damages it. Borcuse comes out of the cockpit and use his handgun to shoot at Rygart replaying Girghe's last moment. Rygart kills him and Borcuse's army lost. Zess upon hearing Cleo's escape decides to find her.
What people think about Broken Blade: Fortress of Lamentation
Broken Blade: Fortress of Lamentation earns its place in the mecha canon by making its battles feel weighty and intimate, as if every cracked plate of armor and every desperate maneuver carries a human cost. The animation and artwork don’t just look good—they build a tactile, slightly weathered world that feels like a post-apocalyptic dream rebuilt into a kingdom, with designs that are both elegant and bruised. When the action arrives, it’s staged with crisp, readable choreography that favors tension and momentum over noisy chaos, letting you savor the tactics as much as the spectacle. If you like your sci-fi action grounded in atmosphere and hard choices rather than nonstop quips, this one is easy to recommend—though viewers who want lighter, standalone mecha fun may find it more intense and serial in feel.
Broken Blade: Fortress of Lamentation is clearly aiming for a big, climactic mecha war chapter, with loyalty, sacrifice, and desperate last-stand energy at the center. The problem is it plays more like a mid-arc installment than a satisfying finale: key threads feel left hanging, subplots get sidelined, and the story doesn’t land with the closure the build-up promises. Even the battles, while serviceable, can feel oddly small and straightforward for something billed as a turning-point siege, which may leave action fans underfed. If you’re already invested in the characters and want more time in this world, there’s still some momentum and atmosphere to enjoy, but if you need tight payoff and punchy, large-scale combat, this one may test your patience.
Cast
Crew
- Directors
- Tetsuro AminoNobuyoshi Habara
- Producers
- Ken Okawara
Details
- Released
- March 25, 2011
- Language
- Japanese
- Studio
- Production I.G, XEBEC
- IMDb
- tt1865375