Review 52: One Punch Man (Cute, bold, potato man)

Another one that was suggested by my boyfriend, and many other people that I speak to on a chat site called Chatango. Just one thing... Is that training for real?

One punch man is an action, comedy, weird, cyborg, human testing, hero fighting naked thing of an anime...Seriously, some of the guys in this just either like being naked or just lose their clothes half way through a fight. It's very strange and something I had never expected because of the title, I thought it was going to be a super serious hero who fights for justice and the innocent!.. But no, he's a short bold man who fights as if he's a hero for the fun of it. Rather quite strange actually, as soon as he started fighting as One punch man... he lost all of his hair.

We meet this weird, small bald man who only fights and protects people because he enjoys it. In the series, three years before we meet him, he did basic fitness training?.. I know! How can a summer of basic fitness training magically give you the power to destroy anything with just one simple punch? He lives in a small trampy and old looking apartment and he lives all by himself, just a bold looking potato man really. In this world, the Hero association is what protects humanity. People who think that they are hero material register with them and then are placed into a category and a Rank, an example would be Rank C 283 or something along the lines of that, and the highest is the rank S. A lot of people are involved with the Hero association and many of them are just idiots who think that they can fight. But the whole reason for the Hero association is that the world is attacked by monsters constantly. So, the heroes are called in to keep everyone safe! The threats come in levels too so some heroes don't have to waste their time and some go because they are supposed to go.

His real name is Saitama, and he's got to be one of my few favourite but slightly odd looking, who has a strange personality kind of characters... if that even made any sense. When he started his basic fitness training, he had started to notice that his hair was falling out and ended up becoming completely bold by the end of it. So the training he does is that ridiculously basic that no one can take him seriously about it. he does 100 Push-ups, 100 Squats, 100 sit-ups and runs 10K every single day... Which is ridiculous, just the idea of it all is ridiculous really, how the hell can this sort of training allow one little man to destroy anything and everything with just one punch.
He's a really funny character, he wants to watch TV and do nothing all day, but then he wants to find something so strong that just One punch won't kill it. So he's always searching for something interesting to kill but he wants to go shopping and watch TV and then water the flowers on his balcony every now and then.

Quite early on in the story, he meets a Cyborg teenager who wants to become a hero and bring "justice" to the cyborg animal thing that destroyed his village.  Believe it or not, when these two become heroes together, the cyborg kid actually ends up being a higher rank than One Punch Man! Oh, and this creepy cyborg kid follows One Punch Man around everywhere as he is now his master and trainer... It's slightly odd, but you get used to seeing them together after a while.There isn't really much to say to be honest with you guys, he punches things and they die?.. That's about it really. All he wants to do is get fans, become the strongest, go up in the rankings (when he finally understands them) and find an enemy who will take more than one punch before dying. Not much to ask for really!

It's been a while since I found an art style that enjoyed, the transitions inbetweenn the smooth clueless potatoe man and the series fighter who needs to prove himself are flawless and enjoyable to watch. It's weird seeing such an innocent man destroy everything that challenges him. It's extremely funny to watch and I quite enjoyed the whole series, It's a shame that I don't have enough time to watch anymore because I would love to just sit down and watch it again really.
It's very a very enjoyable series, but the only problem that I have with the series as a whole is... How the hell can a monster come and destroy practically half of Japan and then in the next episode it's all just randomly re-spawned?

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Review 51: Gurren Laggan (Living underground).

Review 51: Gurren Laggan (Living underground).

SHE`S LIKE 12 YEARS OLD, WHAT THE HELL!

Another one that my boyfriend was bugging me to watch, and one that I had actually seen pictures of before but I never even knew what it was called... But there's fanservice...This is an odd series, where all humans live under ground in small towns. We start off in a town where practically everyone is a minor and live in small holes in the walls, they're trying to expand the town by digging into the walls even more... They don't believe in the surface. Well, they don't want to believe in the surface.

The story is set in the future, a long time ago humans where run underground by beast men and their king, also known as the spiral king. They own machines called Gunmen and roam the surface attacking whoever remains or wonders up there. People who live underground live in fear of earthquakes which collapse parts of their towns, who are actually the gunmen above them. Simon is our main character, he's one of the towns diggers and he comes across a strange key in shape of a tiny drill, then later comes across a small Gunman. No other villages underground have contact with each other, so no one even knows about these gunman or what is actually on the surface and as to why they live in constant fear of it. It starts off with a gunman falling through the ceiling of their village, and our two main protagonists trying to prove themselves to everyone else and trying to fight it off; but then one of our other main characters appears from the surface, then the real story begins.

Here's a short list of the characters and what their personalities are like:

Simon: In the beginning, he's extremely quiet and weak but later grows to become the strong main character that the series should of started off with. He's one of the villages diggers and he helps to expand and help the village grow bigger. He's introduced to us when he is only 14 years old, and has no parents; unfortunately one of the earthquakes had killed them as a part of the village had collapsed. He is supposed to be the main character, but his brotherly role model seems to stand out a lot more. His discovery of the small gunman and the core drill (the weird drill shaped key) are what start off the whole story, and stay with him throughout the series.

Kamina: To me, he seemed like he was supposed to be the main character of the series, as his personality and attitude stand out so much more than Simon. He's his older brotherly figure, since Simon hasn't got any family members and not a lot of friends in the village, he looks up to Kamina as his only friend and only family member. He's one of the only inspirational characters in the series, but sometimes you just want him to shut about how his "drill will break through the heavens". Like seriously, just calm down a little bit? He's the only person in his village who believes in the surface, as his dad went to the surface and left him behind so he could one day join him; from then on he's believed so strongly in the surface that he tried to break through the ceiling before the gunman came and crashed through the ceiling. He forms a random team with Simon, called Dai-Gurren and nominated himself as the team leader. Later on, he hijacks a gunman and combines with Simon's smaller gunman which is then famously called Gurren Laggan.

Yoko: God I hate fanservice, but I love this character... Even though I would appreciate some sort of clothing on her. She appears in the beginning as the Gunman falls through the ceiling and into simons village, even though she's about the same age as Simon, she carries a high powered gun with her and jumps around like an athlete all of the time... She's also practically naked the whole time. Her whole village had to be evacuated as a dangerous gas had leaked out and they had to leave before they suffocated and died, basically. They now have to live on the surface, and now they are all fighting for their lives on a day to day basis; they're the only ones that we know of that have to live on the surface and they all use guns to fight off the gunman, at the moment, they just live in a crack in between two cliffs that they've had to live in since.

I won't say anymore because you meet most of the other important characters further on, these are just the first basic ones. Even though it's kind of an old anime and you can tell from some scenes and animations during the fights, the storyline is good and I loved the characters in it... even though some of them need to learn how to keep quite.

Just a little further on there's a few plot twists, and around about episode 8 I wanted to cry.. Yeah. There's loads of other characters who hijack gunmans and join the fight with the other main protagonists, and I thought that was such a positive thing to do during the series since I thought that it would just be the same few through the whole thing, but we get to see a lot more people and a lot more personalities and attitudes towards the main characters as they are practically completely opposite people. I was surprised when I realized that the whole series was panned out over the course of 7 years and in the end you get to see Simon all grown up and looking completely badass! The storyline gets a tiny bit confusing, and I got lost at some points, but I still enjoyed. There is a slight twist that made me feel really smart too, we get to meet the spiral kings daughter and then she tags along throughout the story and helps out the main characters all the way; further on in the story, the reason it gets so active and filled with fights is because this girl appears.

To be honest with everyone, I was seriously put off by the fact that Gunmen are giant robots, I really don't like robots and cyborgs and I'm a big fan of supernatural beings or natural powers. So the fact that I enjoyed the anime was even a surprise to me! Even though it was made in 2007, and even though it doesn't seem that long animation and graphics has come a long way, I was surprised that I would be impressed with a slightly bad animation, fighting robot, fanservice kind of anime. However, it did feel like their might of been something missing throughout the anime and I still can't figure out what it was; it wasn't characters, storyline, the plot twists or the anime as a general piece... But throughout the anime there was something missing, and I'm starting to think that it was the script for the characters, everything felt a little bit repetitive as if you've heard the same thing before but in another situation or another time period. Just one of the small downfalls for me, and it wasn't that hard to notice actually, it took me a while to figure out what was bugging me and I'm not even sure if it was this! (I'll figure it out soon).

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I wouldn't recommend it to everyone, I would say that the target audience is definitely aimed at men, or young hormonal boys who needed some kickass, half naked, young woman to prance around on their screen. I enjoyed it still, but that isn't much evidence as to how good it is because I enjoy anything, simple minded! I would say to just go and watch it, maybe just the first episode or so to see if it's for you. I always feel like cyborg kind of animes aren't for everyone, but for once I enjoyed one!

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Review 50: Durarara (Anger-Management At A Completely Different Level)!

Review 50: Durarara (Anger-Management At A Completely Different Level)!

This has to be my boyfriend’s favorite anime (along with digimon, bleach, Pokémon, you get the idea), so he got me watching it... but did I love it as much as he did? Pretty much, f*ck yes; It was amazing to watch and I loved almost every single character. It made me laugh quite a bit, and I ended up getting confused with who the "dollars" are and who runs the dollars organization. But yeah... I did enjoy it a LOT, but I still haven't finished watching the series so I still need to get around to that eventually.

In the beginning, a young boy moves to a different town, a city; he wants to live a long and exciting life and decided to start over elsewhere. He moves away to Ikebukuro, their lives his childhood friend Masaomi. They meet at up at the train station, even though it’s been many years since they last met, they walk around the city and discuss life. However, there's many people in Ikebukoru that you don't want to have a run in with... Unfortunately, some of them have no become my favorite characters. The city of Ikebukuro used to be overrun with colored gangs, all of which wore clothing of their gang color. They eventually calmed down (from the amount that we see, they practically disbanded), and the dollars appeared. The dollars are a gang of no color, and no one knows who the other members are; they only recognition of each other that they have, is their online group chat username. Occasionally you'll run into one in the streets, but it's rare. You get to meet all of the side characters, in total there's about 10 different central characters. In each episode, the episode is told by a different character or a different group of characters. Because of the story being told by different people, you get to see the same story from a different perspective; the best part is that you get to see their involvement in this strange and twisted story.

Mikado Ryugamine: He's in his first year at high school, he originally lived in the small town of Saitama, surrounded by farming fields and forests of green; but in hope for a more exciting life, he moves away to the busy city of Ikebukuro where he expected the exciting life with his childhood friend. He no longer wants to live an ordinary life, which is why he moved away and in my opinion, is why he is such an unusual and strange character. Further on in the programme they drop small hints towards his connection to the Dollars gang. He's extremely quiet and doesn't speak his mind or express himself until further on in the anime, when he did start to be himself, he was much more interesting. 

Masaomi Kida: He's a strange one, very loud and the complete opposite to his childhood friend Mikado. There are quite a lot of juicy pieces of information about him, some of which my wonderful boyfriend ruined for me; I seriously don't want to ruin what happened to him or before Mikado moves to the same town as him... But he was extremely involved in the Yellow gang, also known as the Yellow Scarves. He's a complete ladies' man and hits on whoever he thinks is cute, however, he always fails.

Shizuo Heiwajima: Is one of my absolute favorite characters! He can be quite hot headed, but the majority of the time he can remain calm and collected; He's aggressive but relaxed at the same time and really is quite strange. He has bright blonde hair and wears sunglasses ALL of the time, he walks around in a bartenders uniform ALL of the time. There's quite an odd backstory to him, and mainly involves how he grew up with his brother; who is now very high up in the world of show business and performing. He has extraordinary skills and abnormal human strength that allows him to lift super heavy inanimate objects, but due to the strength that he had, when he was younger he would always injure himself or break a few bones. He's completely against violence... Which makes no sense since he gets so angry so quickly and ends up throwing things all over the streets. Also a member of the Dollars.

Celty sturluson: She's a very difficult character who has no head. She's a member of the Dollars, and is very close to Shizuo. She always wears a tight black leather suit and rides around on a jet black motorbike. However, she isn't actually human, she's a Dullahan. A mythical monster with no head, they usual walk around with their head and they ride a horse; her story begins with someone stealing her head and then she travels to japan to try and seek it out, and the bike she rides? It's actually her headless horse in disguise as a bike, keeping up with the times and all that. Since she hasn't got a head, she has a motorcycle helmet that balances where her head should be; because of this, she can only communicate via PDA and online chatting. She has un-natural strength, a lot like Shizuo, except that she can also create objects out of this strange shadow, mainly weapons. She lives with a man, her only close friend and her only roommate, Shinra. She has a thing for punching him in the stomach whenever he talks about how much he loves her and his feelings for her, even without a head.

Izaya Orihara: Is just sh*it balls weird and confusing. At first I didn't know what to think of him really, I was just confused as to what his personality was really supposed to be like and I couldn't decide on my opinion on him. At one point, he convinces a girl to supposedly commit suicide with him and then he claims to love all human beings... Besides Shizuo... He hates him to such an extent, that he'll turn up out of the blue just so Shizuo can try and throw something at him. After years and years of fighting with Shizuo, he is now an absolute master in Parkour and trickery, I'm sure some of the things he does are just humanly impossible. Since he is a member of the Dollars, he often recruited new members and used his membership as an excuse to keep Celtys head a secret from her, he's a master in deceiving people, tricking the innocent, messing your mind and getting inside of your head. He knows everything about everyone and will use it to his advantage.

They are all of the characters I'm going to list for this review, there are a lot that the anime focuses on, but typing them all up would be pretty pointless as most of the characteristics and what they do are pretty self-explanatory. All of the characters link up to the same storyline, but we all get to see different parts of their lives and what they do outside of the Dollars. Most of the other supporting characters are really funny and quirky, some of them also tend to have random outburst of rage. Just like any other cliché group of anime friends that everyone else wants. There's so much that you have to try and piece together slowly as the programme goes, to be honest with you; I got the majority of it wrong and my boyfriend sat just pulling sarcastic faces at me as I shouted out random names.

I seriously enjoyed this anime, I think it has to be one of the few I've enjoyed in a while as I'm only just starting to get into these shows once more and I'm only just starting to feel more involved with characters, I think I just needed some time off from watching anime so I could really get into them again.I really enjoyed this one, I'll definitely be watching it through to the end. There are some strange and un-expected events throughout that make you think more about the character and what another character must be going through at the same time. It gives you stuff to think about and luckily, I was awake enough to be thinking about and processing the storyline. I'm really happy with how it's going so far, it’s the only anime where the characters that I've wanted to either succeed or fail actually have and it makes me feel so bloody smug.

It's definitely worth watching, at first I thought that it would be disappointing as my boyfriend (David) kept on bugging me to watch it week after week... So I thought it would suck, I will be watching it till the end and I would love to hear everyone else's opinion on the anime as a while as I'm still not that far into it.

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Review 49: Assassination Classroom (I wouldn`t mind him as a teacher)!

So 70% of the moon has gone, and there's a random Octopus that really... REALLY, likes teaching kids who have practically no chance at getting anywhere in life. So what the hell is that thing? 

I'm actually watching the anime as I'm writing this up right now, I'm quite enjoying it and it's quite amusing to watch. If anything, this would be quite boring if it wasn't for the personality of that weird Octopus thing that seems to love children.
I also have my boyfriend moaning at me and saying "I told you so!" Cause he said I would enjoy this but i disagreed at first... And now I'm wrong. 

So the first things first, 70% of the moon has been destroyed by an un-known life source; which then happens to be this weird alien teacher. The military then place the alien in a classroom and have to try to explain to the children as to what is happening. In a year the Earth will be destroyed, just like the moon that is now in a permanent crescent shape.
he really wants to get the kids grades up before he ends the world, he hasn't spoken about why he would like to blow up the Earth and nobody questioned it at the beginning.

The kids he want's to teach belong in a class called E-3, which is more commonly known as "The end class." It's basically the last chance class, teachers decide to throw them out if they aren't doing as good as the other students; they end up in this pathetic excuse for a class. They aren't aloud to the main school campus and have to live in the old one which is tiny and looks more like a wooden shack then a school building. Other students pick on them constantly and then try to get them into trouble if they ever retaliate, 

The military come into class and tell them what the kids need to do; they are given special guns, knives and bullets; the bullets are only BB bullets but they contain something inside that are deadly to the Alien. Every other day the children try to murder their teacher with different strange ways, in-between them... They will be given 10 Billion. So I really don't blame them for trying to kill him every other second of the day.
On the other hand... THIS TEACHER IS FREAKING AWESOME. I don't see why anyone would want to kill him, but then again, because of the circumstances and the hugeee pile of money involved. He's seriously funny, witty and pretty awesome, the kids even name him in since he doesn't even have one... It's quite a strange person/alien thing. 

So far I am enjoying this quite a lot, it's weird seeing the kids fall in love with him as he slowly tries different methods to teach them; he wants them to do the best that they can, slightly weird even though the world is going to be destroyed as soon as the year is up.
Here are some of the main characters:

Korosensei: The name that he was given to him means,  "un-killable" A name that they decided on in the beginning since no one has even landed a hit on him yet. The only one that does cause some sort of damage is, Karma; but since the alien can regenerate in a matter of seconds, it doesn't really matter. He doesn't tell the kids much about himself, if anything he just wants to help them with their grades. His face changes with his emotions too, which is creepy and it changes the mood of the kids too, since it's that visible; when he gets green stripes, he feels superior to others, when a student gets something wrong he'll get a large X on his face and when they get something right he'll get a large O on his face... there is also shock, sadness, anger and angry which have the colors dark blue, light blue, red and then black... We don't get to see the black face that much since that's when he really loses his temper and mainly happens when a student is in some sort of trouble, (We see it in one of the first episodes when a student turns into a suicide bomber). He's about 3 meters tall, he can travel at the speed of light and loves to casually fly around the world whenever he has the chance; but he mainly just picks up food. 

Nagisa Shiota: So at first I thought that he was actually a girl, He's quite small and has blue hair and a waistcoat. We see things from his perspective and hear the thoughts inside of his head; he's interesting and seems to be the latest arrival to the "end class." He seems to be the most logical out of the majority of the students; he takes notes on the aliens weaknesses and writes down anything that has failed against him. He also seems to be the only one who plans out how to attack correctly and at the right time; he takes notes on the Aliens mood changes and when he let's his guard down, for example, after lunch he gets tired and is a bit more vulnerable then usual. Strangely enough he is bullied by two students who are on the main campus of the school, who are both incredibly nerdy and used to be in his class. He lives at home with his abusive parents, which surprisingly helps with him becoming an assassin and judging the aliens moves; because he can tell his own mothers moods and moments apart, it helps him figure out what kind of actions to take around the alien before going in for the strike. 

Karma Akabane: When we first meet him, he seems to be an utter true psychopath. He is incredibly violent and very smart... He is thrown into "The End" class after beating up a teacher; The teacher was always on his side since he had amazing grades and is incredibly smart, but after beating up another student the teacher admits that it was only for his reputation that has now been damaged by him. Even though the reason for beating up this students was for bull lying an end class student, the teacher still puts him down for it; and in the end, Karma beats him up... Strange to think that a student could actually do that aswell, especially when the teacher was a grown man. 

The rest of the class are actually quite involved when you think about it; It's not like in other animes where they just sit and not interact with the main characters. So I really enjoy the involvement that the other characters, that would be considered as NPC's, have with the main characters. They talk quite a bit and have a decent amount of interaction with Korosensei too.

It is very funny, and I'm really enjoying it at the moment; I just don't want Korosensei to die! 

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