This one hooks you with a mood, not a plot: a barely speaking swordswoman walking into another doomed town, and you already know somebody there isn't making it to the credits. Alka's whole personality is the vengeance she's carrying for her murdered master, and the show trusts her silence enough to let entire episodes play out in glances and drawn steel. Gonzo pours the budget into the pretty stuff, the four continents' landscapes, the costume design, the Wind Empire and Stratus Empire pageantry, and when the fights land they genuinely land. Be honest about the rest: the structure is town-of-the-week, half the episodes barely talk to each other, and the Darksiders plot with Jin Seoyeon stays fuzzy right up until it needs to matter. Watch it the way you'd watch a Queen's Blade era fantasy, for the art, the atmosphere, and one woman's refusal to let a grudge go.

Two empires collide as ancient forces return. After a thousand years of peace, the young Wind Empire moves to topple the fading Stratus Empire and bring the four continents together under an equality backed by military force. Amid this strife come the ancient Darksiders, with the sinister Jin Seoyeon heralding their return, while the divided peoples seem unable to stand against them. Alka, an assassin for the Clan of the Sword, travels in search of Jin Valel, a demon-like woman wielding the Energy of Chaos who killed her master Hon without remorse. Along the way Alka meets three unusual women, each a formidable warrior, and struggles with her late master's wish that she abandon the assassin's life. Based on NCsoft's Korean MMORPG, this action fantasy adventure runs thirteen episodes.