Review 30: Needless (is all this fanservice needless too)?

Review 30: Needless (is all this fanservice needless too)?

The world wide amazing action and fanservice packed anime adventure, but is all of this fanservice actually needed??

The world of needless is seriously weird; it's strange in ever way possible all of the way through this anime. In this stranger version of Japan there are weird stand out features that a lot of viewers cannot comprehend.

Basically world three started quite a while ago, as weapons where passed around and altered and then finally fired at Japan it created what many people including the authorities and government call the black spot. And it is what it's called, the skies black and it is a abandoned wasted land with nothing living, nothing inhabiting the area and nothing will ever change the black spot or change it any way.

When the bomb hit and created the black spot, anyone who was in the area or near the bomb site then they would of been turned into what everyone calls a needless or they would of been killed by the blast. Eventually people tried to inhabit the surrounding areas and attempted to live within the black spot. Until a company named Simeon built a ginormous building in the centre of the black spot with seriously high security and governments from all over the world coming to visit so they could finally learn and find out what a Needless is and why they exist. When rumours got out about everyone in the Simeon Company being a Needless there where riots and resistance groups that joined forces to go head on with Simeon..... All of which have ultimately failed at taking down the company.

This is when we start to meet our main characters, Cruz is the first. This series starts off with the Resistance attempting to ambush Simeon, which fails, and two members trying to flee the battle ground to find somewhere else to stay until the fights die down. Unfortunately though there is only one main character found from this particular scene. Unfortunately Cruz's older sister Nee-San is destroyed by a Testament robot (From Simeon). Cruz than has to find his way around the sewers in an attempt to get away from this robot before it appears again and takes his life too. Once he's in the sewers he manages to find the time to break down and cry over the loss of his dead sister, which then leads to the Testament breaking the concrete floor to get to Cruz in an attempt to take his life away too. Until a mysterious man wearing a choker and no shirt appears and takes down the Testament in front of Cruz.

This ladies and gentlemen is our next main character; he never goes by his normal name so everyone just calls him Blade. His real name is Adam and everyone knows him as the memorization Needless, he won't use his power a lot but will use it if he's in danger or someone else his, he doesn't abuse his powers and he hates Simeon. Others we meet later on in some other episodes; like eve and Blades scientist.

Cruz; As he has no powers at all he struggles quite a lot when it comes to surviving without his sister in this newly found world. He is a slightly awkward character, whenever someone upsets him he runs the other way to get away for a while.....It never works. He's a small character in the series as he has no powers or any special skills that he can use against Simeon; but he plays the most important role as our lead character who tries to come to terms with the newly found Simeon ruled Japan. He doesn't really like working for his new found friends but it's the only thing he can do as his sister and everyone else he ever knew was murdered in a matter of seconds; due to this he has to slave around for the new found friends until Cruz can stand on his own two feet..... Which will be never in this series as you cannot magically earn powers like the ones that the Needless have. For starts the fanservice in this brings out the slightly funnier side of Cruz; he's the stereotypical main boy in the series as his nose bleeds a considerable amount when a naked girl appears and he seems to turn Chibi for some reason. But all in all he is a good lead character, he may be lacking some characteristics which we would rather see than a weak boy; but i think doing this makes a bit of a change for the series and the story line within it. 

 Blade; As he has all of the power anyone can ask for he is the perfect character to be holding the spot light whenever Cruz hasn't run off or started crying for some unknown reason. But he hasn't got all of the powers in the world actually; his Needless power is the power of manipulation. In other words when he sees his opponent using a strong move than his brain automatically copies the move and uses it against them as he's more powerful than most of the people we see him fight. Which means that over this series of anime we see Blade using tons of elements to fight with against others and completely random moves like the godly string one that we see in some of the earlier episodes of Needless. Eventually there are tons of other weirdly wonderful whacky moves we see him possess but non of them apart from the fire element ones actually stood out to me; there is one thing that stands out though, it may only be small but it can indicate to the audience when the fight gets serious. We see a quick glimpse of Blades brain surrounded by multi-coloured waves of energy, afterwards it usually says manipulation complete or something along those lines, but this only happens when he's being seriously serious in a fight. 

 The anime is seriously good but i think the character designs and the story have to be the best thing out of the series. The fight scenes are usually short and not to violent; if they are long it's usually filled in by a lot of talking to the opponent. The graphics are ok i guess usually on high quality 3D moments; e.g. a car moving or a quick flash forward for the audience to show use where the next bad guy is. Even though I’ve done the review i think I’ll still keep on watching the anime as i actually love the characters and their fighting styles.

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Review 29: One Piece (Yay Gum Gum fruit)!!!!

Review 29: One Piece (Yay Gum Gum fruit)!!!!

A Worldwide favourite, but i only have one question, is there actually an anime out there that can take this one off of the shelves in over 1000 different countries?? I think not.

Meet the clinically insane straw hated pirates, that always seem to get their own way..... One Piece is a worldwide famous anime and manga series to little five year olds, too 60 year olds who still remember the series from a while back. The series is packed with food, fighting, rather confusing moments and really (and i emphasis really) weird looking pirate maniacs that will do anything to get the one piece and the devil (gum gum) fruit.

The main story in the series... well when i say main story i mean the overall series.... is supposed to about a young high pitched, squeaky voiced boy named Monket D.Luffy finding the one Piece to eventually become the King of Pirates like in ancient myths and legends. One problem though, he doesn't even have a ship, never mind a crew. And due to his young age no other pirates take him seriously even though he's trying to do them all a favour by helping them get to the One Piece and becoming the new King of the Pirates with them in his crew.

The only time people or pirates usually take him serious, this keeps up throughout the whole series of One Piece, is when he shows his what he calls his "Gum, Gum Abilities"... So to us this will be the devil fruit powers. When a devil fruit is consumed and depending on which type you have consumed then special unrealistic powers are released that you may or may not be able to control depending on how mature and smart you are. In this case Luffy has consumed a rare Devil Fruit that gives the consumer to extend parts of his of hers bodies to unbelievable lengths, and when punched the punches fly right off of his body or when shot at the rubber sends them flying back at the opponent. So basically we have a weird boy with an even weirder rubber body.....

The series is based in another and slightly older fashioned world where pirates, thieves, bounty hunters and other strange people all exist mainly to defeat pirates but also to keep order in the world, stop wars between other countries and are also mainly here to stop pirates from over taking other towns and cities like they have done in the past and when we watch the series we get to see the overtaking of many cities and towns happening right before our straw hated and clinically insane pirates.

The main character (as we have already established) is Luffy, his main goal in life is to be like Gol D. Roger. He was in fact the previous Pirate king and created the One Piece, a treasure that most normal people think is fake and is a disgrace to their world. Others like Luffy (and some others) Who have realised that if they obtain the One Piece they will be the next Pirate King, and as soon as news about a new pirate king starts to spread many more people will believe in the legend, which then means more fights and violence for Luffy and his soon to be crew. Everyone in the crew is human, well to an extent anyways..........

Monkey D. Luffy; Our main and insane character for the One Piece series. He is the leader of the straw hat pirates and has an extremely strange fighting style that stands out to the younger generation of anime watchers and lovers. His fighting style is unique but funny, this adds to the genre of the show which is of course a comedy. As his body stretches to these unbelievable lengths and his body can also deflect damage from opponents it adds humour to any fight that he's in which means that if your reading the manga the reader can relax as they know that he'll never be in any real danger, when watching the anime we can sense some danger in a few situations but nothing too serious to make the watcher hang on to the edge of their seat as they are worried for him. He's a fun loving boy who doesn't really see the seriousness of fighting or being a pirate until other members start joining the crew. He doesn't really care what other people think of him or what other pirates think of him and his crew, the only time he will care is when a pirate or human hurts one of his crew members or damages his ship. He isn't the type of person to start a fight for no particular reason and usually thinks things through when it comes to fighting, when it comes to his friends and everyday life he turns a little bit stupid, the stereo typical type of person for an anime like this and as he is in fact the lead character it means all other characters are also laid back, relaxed and at times can be as stupid as him.

The crew eventually becomes huge, one of the first members to be the fearful Roronoa Zoro..... A three bladed samurai, he was born to kill and to assinate anyone who gets in his way. Luffy managed to get him to join as Zoro had already been captured by the authorities and was tidied up to a pole, he hadn't eaten in a while so Luffy had managed to taunt him with food and bribe him by setting him free on one condition....... He joined Luffy's crew, even though at this point he didn't even have a ship.

The recruitment for the other members also covers the same sort of method, Luffy makes a deal with them as long as they join his crew. As i said eventually there are quite a  few members that join the crew, some hate Luffy as he's way too hyper and some admire his dreams and goals in life to become the next king of the Pirates. we see new and old characters that Luffy has encountered through the series joining the Crew once they get to know him a bit better, like Nami we see her in the firs episode of One Piece and the audience expects her to join the crew straight away but it takes a while as she follows them around and then decides to join, and there are others who we only encounter a bit further on in the series like Brook, Sanji, Usopp, Nico  Robin, Franky..... And if you haven't even watched the series even once then you still might of heard of little Tony Tony Chopper!!

All in all the series is amazing, I’ve only seen parts of the series and little snippets but it's still an amazing series! Only there’s one little problem, the beginning of the series graphics seem out of date, and when we see the latest episodes the beginning ones don't quite fit in. But apart from this the series is amazing and is a must watch, it's famous worldwide and has captured the hearts and minds of millions of anime and manga lovers!

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Review 28: Angel Beats (is rebelling against god really necessary)?

Review 28: Angel Beats (is rebelling against god really necessary)?

Even though this anime has been out for a reasonable amount of time, will it disappear forever just Angel will make us all disappear??

In the world of Angel Beats everyone has passed on, they've all somehow died in the real world and have woken up in this strange new world to find themselves in a school full of normal children and a girl named Angel how may supposedly make them all disappear. Due to their innocent young lives being wasted away and a waste of time towards god, the decide to rebel against the almighty, rebel against angel and rebel against life in general.

In Angel Beats there are a whole host of characters that are completely unique, unique personalities and unique looks for example; some school girls walk around with guitars in hand whilst some of the boys will happily walk around the school with weapons and guns in hands. There are characters we immediately decide to hate and then we grow to love them as their true innocent nature starts to show as they warm up to the idea of rebelling against god and his army of angels and the series’ of tests he's set them.

 For some reason within this school there are what they call the NPC's, they are so called players in gods little game of survival. Interaction with these NPC's is strongly forbidden to the real people, it may result in you disappearing and than being reincarnated as something else of a lower level. You can get erased from your human life when already dead in anyway, acting as if school is important and paying attention in classes, interacting occasionally with NPC's and most of all accepting the fact that you are actually dead. 

There are plus sides to the school that you mysteriously find yourself in once dead, you don't have to learn anything, you get countless weapons to fight against angel with, you get to meet other dead people that you can share experiences with and you can die again countless times (you still feel the pain of it though). Most people that where already dead before our main character got there have all of their memories intact and remember exactly how they died, however a lot of them didn't have their memories to begin with, just like out main character who has no idea where he is or who he is..... In-fact he didn't even know that he was dead until a member of the elite battlefront (basically a dead people army rebelling against god) told him why he was there and asked to recruit him as a member of the battlefront.

At first we don't see that many members of the battlefront but in episodes following up we see that they have in fact a diversion band, whenever a mission or plan is undertaken and they want to distract Angel than the band will put on an amazing performance to distract her and take her attention away from the battlefront. Although it's not just the main battlefront and the diversion team, there's also the guild.... The guild is full of dead people (again) but this time they all have completely different roles and jobs that all members of the battlefront defiantly need, they are all in charge of creating more weapons and gadgets for the battlefront. The guild is actually based underground with tons of traps that should stop angel from getting all the way down there and erasing them all.

Otanashi; Our main character in the series who can't remember his past when he first arrives in this new world. He doesn't know what the battlefront is at first but joins anyway as he still dosen't know what’s going on right now. He hasn't a weapon in the battlefront but is still handy with a small pistol the leader gives him. He gets along with everyone in the battlefront, and even in the first episode we see him trying to reason with Angel(which doesn't work). He ends up dead for the first time, as he wakes up everything is explained to him and he is than recruited t the battlefront. Even though he's friendly and is handy with only a pistol he is slightly simple minded and not good whenever it comes to making quick decisions for the whole team. He does eventually figure out ho he died and what his life as like when he was actually human, it's a little upsetting but nothing to graphic or disturbing for the younger viewers.

Angel; Her real name is Tachibana but everyone still prefers to call her Angel, she is head of the student council and loves stopping and delaying all of the battlefronts plans. A lot of the NPC's don't like the decisions she makes like when she stops the band from performing, obviously for her own good as she knows their diversion plan. Her powers where created by her one her own software and computer in her room, she has powers like handsonic, harmonics and screech. Eventually her and the battlefront do get along but it takes time effort and a lot of bribing her into it, she may not be comfortable with it but she still does it to stop the fighting and the fact that she was human and so is everyone else in the battlefront. She only makes a few mistakes, but hen it comes to the battlefront interrupting her tests (which are important) she makes a few to many mistakes.....

The Battlefront&GirlsDeadMonster; The battlefront consists of a lot of un-dead humans working underground, in a band and the main mission group. They will do anything in their power to interrupt anything to do with Angel and will do anything to destroy her...... But killing her seems a bit hard because of her special powers. Girl’s dead monster is the name of the band that creates diversions for the others in the guild and the battlefront groups. Without these singing school girls they would have to waste time sending guild members up to finish pointless tasks to use as diversions, which would slow the missions down and put them all at the risk of being erased...

 The whole series is amazing, it's funny, it's got action, secret love (no fanservice for once) and the graphics are up to date so we don't miss even a second of the action within this anime. The character designs are amazing and are actually made so fit the story line..... It makes more sense if you watch it and then you'll realise what i mean by that.... So get online / get your apps running and get watching the in-famous rebelling series of fighting dead children!!!!!!

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Where Have I Been?

12th, August; Where have i been....?


So then, i haven`t been too busy but i`ve not been on here in some time now.
It`s just that this is my holiday too so it`s mainly been catch-up time with online friends, family, real friends and a tiny bit of over time at work. I feel as if the stress of sixth form has literally just gone right now and i`m loving it... But that doesn`t mean that i`ve stopped doing any work...

So just lately i`ve been doing the obvious work for my David, (boyfriend), with his manga characters and i`ve been trying to give him advice and help him along. It`s just mainly been small characters and practice for me on making the characters.

Then i`ve been trying to photoshop people and make cartoony looking people as practice for my control on photoshop, they are quite blocky and chunky at the moment but then again this is all just a ton of practice for me. So far i`m just working on other people and doing smaller ones of them and, as i`m typing this, I have a separate window open with photoshop and i`m currently doing one of me and David!

So far people have given me advice and improvements to make (So, thank you), but i`m still struggling quite a bit and i`m trying to save up so i can buy a scanner for my drawings aswell so i`m busy-ish at the moment trying to test out new things that i can use when i go back to Sixth form... But that`s if i get back in

(Re-enrollment is on the 13th... So tomorrow... crap...)




I`ve also been trying to do creepier looking faces for art aswell... But this is where i`ll need everyone else`s help and hopefully some of my follwers and friends too.

So, my new art project is basically about my mental health problems; Depression, Anxiety and Psychosis.
But I wanted to know if other people could send in a picture of themselves and a little bit about them or their personal struggle.

You will also obviously have the option to either let me use your images on my blog or use them in my art, and the option to stay anonymous or not. It`s completely up to you guys if you want to be part of this or not, it`ll be interesting to see what comes out of this and i`m kind of looking forward to seeing what may happen if you guys do take part.

You never know, i may get no messages from you guys or i could get a few which should hopefully encourage others to send messages in!
If you are interested in seriously helping me out; then message me on the facebook page or you can send me an e-mail at :-
marshyandthemelons@gmail.com

(The same rules apply with the cartoony block images and the creepy images, I`m just doing these for practice so i apologize if any of them come out terribly bad).

Thank once again to anyone who still reads my blogs and to anyone who has messaged me on Deviantart and the facebook page with your opinions. It`s always a big help...
(and thanks for being patient with me since I`m quite slow right now).


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Review 27: Another (Send the dead, back to death).
Yet again, another Japanese horror series, but will Another disappear as quickly as it appeared to us.
The brand new (slightly disturbing) Horror genre anime series. Even though this series has only just appeared, it has unexpectedly low ratings, views and votes.
I've noticed that people are put off straight away by the first episode as its apparently "weird" and "sketched out wrong" I disagree completely, this first episode is what creates the foundation for the rest of the series. If this episode was sketched out any differently from the way it is now than most of the episodes that follow wouldn't make sense and would have other pieces missing that are important.
So the story line comes across as confusing and irritating at times as characters don't reveal answers to the questions that have been on our minds, or we don't get to see the scenes that we thought we would, or some characters are remaining hidden for the time being and don't appear until another crisis is over.

So the story line is a little confusing and I don't understand some parts, but i'll do my best to explain it for you all. A young boy moves in with his grand parents due to his fathers new job once he transferred from Tokyo, his names Koichi. He's bedridden for the first two episodes as his lung collapsed.
So as he can't attend school for the first two days the class Representatives from class 3 show up and wish him well, the only difference is is that these three representatives act suspicious and think Kouchi is not human and actually dead. The don't tell him about the curse within the class and who is involved in the curse and the counter measurements within the curse. So when he turns up to school and their treating another young girl names Miaski Mei as if she doesn't even exists, things turn for the worst. 

Koichi: Even though at the beginning he is bedridden, he appears as a young healthy character throughout this horror series. The collapsed lung runs in the family from the fathers side so it isn't that dangerous in the end, this makes him feel relieved and gives him the energy and happiness to move around and walk. in the early episodes of the series we see him in an elevator(obviously going back to his room), when he turns round and sees a mysterious girl with an eye patch over her right eye. He doesn't know what to say or do as shes going to the morgue. He gets closer to misaki as the series goes on, also be-friending a lot of other people who aren't comfortable with it. Throughout this series hes seen as the center of attention and the cause of the curse returning to class 3.

Misaki; only a young girl, shes neglected by everyone in her class including the teacher and assistant teacher. The eye patch only serves one purpose to Misaki, that is to hide her eye. When she was younger the eye had to be removed due to a tuma inside, when the doctors decided to give her an artificial eye her mother refused, the only reason she did this as she is a doll maker, so her decision was to replace the eye with a green dolls eye, (Misakis eyes are actually red by the way). The class treat her like shes non-exsistant due to the curse, their theory is that shes the dead person in the class who will start the curse and therefore should be out casted by everyone else. Her families background is a bit hard to explain and is slightly confusing, but if we pay attention you'll soon realize that the curse did not start when everyone else thought it did, it started much much sooner than expected.

The curse itself is hard to explain. 26 years ago a young boy in class three passed away, and suddenly everyone started to say he was still there and still existed. On the graduation photo the young boy actually appeared on there. Ever since than the curse starts in either May or April, one person dies each , month in a terrible accident it can either be someone in the class (students, teachers), or someone you live with (mum, dad, sister, brother). Almost anyone in your family can be effected and the curse has only ever been stopped once in the past 26 years. The way to stop it is too send the dead back to death......The series itself is yet again amazing, really cool graphics, a story line that actually makes sense and strange but inventive deaths that are a little bit graphic for some viewers including my sisters. An amazing watch, you'll fall in love with characters and feel sorry for them when eventually their time comes to an end.

(This was originally uploaded on Friday the 5th of April 2013). 

(I`m currently learning Japanese,
A short update will be coming up in the
Next few days)! 

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