Archive Of Armageddon: Magic Lords

Archive Of Armageddon: Magic Masters is Anime-Influenced CGI Action-Urban Fantasy Series based in the young adult book series of the same name, created by Pedleton Ward and the original author Arthur M. Maia.

Plot
Follow the story of Archie Kelley, a regular american teen boy who lives a totally normal life the fictional city of Calypso Falls in the Oregon state, until he finds a strange medallion and becomes a Magic Lord Candidate, a Mage who aspires to become a mighty champion and guardian of mankind in the World of Magic, a Magic Lord. Now Archie is going to have to live a double life fighting supernatural and evil enemies as a Magus and living his daily life normally like an average person in the world while makes powerful and trustworthy (or sometimes unlikely) allies and dark and terrifying foes.

Production
The show was made using other pseudo-anime shows like TMNT (2012) and RWBY and famous Chinese CGI Animated Movies as templates for its production, along with the creator’s experience in Battle Shounen Anime/Manga Series and classic fighting games like Street Fighter, Fatal Fury, The King Of Fighters, Killer Instinct and Mortal Kombat. The story itself has many basic elements of the Japanese Comics and Cartoons mixed with the classic storytelling structure of the Hero’s Journey. Despite that, the series is a true spectacle in terms of audiovisual aesthetic, in some terrifying thriller scenes, the mix of dark and dense colors along with tenebrous soundtracks help to create tense atmospheres and terrific presences for some villains, and in fight scenes, the fluid moves of the characters’ fighting choreographies, one-cut and slow-motion sequences along with color and sound effects of the used magic techniques create frenzy and breath-taking action scenes.

Episodes
Archive of Armageddon: Magic Lords/Episodes

Censorship
The show has two versions, one that was released on the HBO Max Streaming Service and the DVDs, and the one that aired in Cartoon Network's Schedule, the first version had a great fidelity to the original material from the books, but the second one of CN's Schedule was filled with a bunch of censorships.


 * Violence Restriction: Because most of the show's fighting scenes are bloody and sometimes gory, they were edited, removing all the blood from the scenes where a character is punched, shot, stabbed or sliced in half, or replaced by other substances like spittle or sweat.
 * Name Alterations: Some characters, places and abilities had their names altered to avoid the CN prescholar viewers to be influenced by cultures from other countries, for example, the Tree of Yggdrasil was renamed to Tree of Wisdom (that takes away the reference to the norse mythology replacing it by a extremely generic name for a tree that is one of the main plot elements), the Chronos Academy became Magi Magi Academy (taking away the reference of the King of Titans in Greek Mythology on the name of the magic school) and Makoriki (an self-enhancement technique of the protagonist) was changed to Might Up.
 * Scene Edits: Not only the fighting scenes were edited because of their high violence degree, many other scenes were also altered by showing things that CN