Needless

At the onset of World War III, nobody could have predicted the effect it would have on Japan. While it had officially ended fifty years ago in 2150, its battles still persist. Large, mysterious areas known as "Blackspots" appeared across the country, filled with the contaminated ruins of cities and countrysides. Those inside were trapped to halt the spread of contamination, and their powers began to mutate—be they shapeshifters, pyromancers, or controllers of gravity itself—they all became known as the Needless.

Adam Blade is one such Needless, possessing remarkable regenerative abilities and incredible strength. In order to restore peace to a war-torn Japan, he and his allies must fight together to rise against a heinous research group by the name of Simeon.

Blade, Adam Main

Koyasu, Takehito Japanese

Neuschwanstein, Eve Main

Kitamura, Eri Japanese

Schild, Cruz Main

Endou, Aya Japanese

Saten Supporting

Taniyama, Kishou Japanese

Kuchinashi Supporting

Chihara, Minori Japanese

Setsuna Supporting

Gotou, Saori Japanese

Solva Supporting

Imai, Asami Japanese

Disk Supporting

Katou, Emiri Japanese

Mio Supporting

Makino, Yui Japanese

Arclight, Adam Supporting

Touchi, Hiroki Japanese

Taguchi, Ayuri Producer

Ogo, Hirotsugu Producer

Sakurai, Yuuka Producer

Kawamura, Hiroshi Producer

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Feb 19, 2024

Kcmichalson

Recommended

Needless has got to be some of the best slapstick and outright outrageous humor I've seen in an anime. Its animation is good, the voice acting is excellent and the plot is... well the plot is special which serves to accelerate the humor. A gang of misfits with supernatural powers of questionable usefulness trying to strike down a megacorporation. Half the cast has some of the worst morals possible and characters always remain true to their (questionable) origins and motives.

The anime follows the manga until about a third the way into the manga where it takes a deviating approach to end the series. The ... ending isn't terrible but having read the manga where it left off, it missed so many great arcs it could have covered. Regardless, the ending wasn't unsatisfying or crude, just missed potential.

Reviewer’s Rating: 9

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Jun 11, 2020

redkarnation

Mixed Feelings

Needless...How should I put it? It had a great start, felt pretty into it until the episodes later on. It went very downhill after the first half of the anime. had some smart moments of build up then total ass pulls that were not enjoyable. It's a bit of a mess really. It's a good laugh when talking about it with others, it's mediocre when watching it alone. The pacing is terrible, like, they drag stuff too much or go way too quickly with it. They explain the powers (fragments) well, but then when actually using them in fight is like "No no, it ... actually doesn't work that well." or the fights with them are boring. Bad timed jokes, doubtful quality jokes at that which are repeated over and over again. Overall? Mediocre, but I don't completely regret watching it.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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May 22, 2015

ratchet573

Not Recommended

Needless is, as the name implies, needless. Needlessly violent, needlessly stupid, and needlessly likeable for some reason. It’s replete with action, comedy, and enough fan service to make Kokonoe Rin blush, but it comes across as almost a parody half of the time instead of something really trying. At least, toward the beginning. The end tries to take a more serious route and while it does succeed, it succeeds in giving us a cliche story that could have been left out and still maintain the integrity of the show. If there were no back story it could have been a parody or a comedy but ... with that background it seems like it’s actually trying to be something real.

It’s hard to classify Needless as anything because of this. It’s shounen, but is it a comedy or an action story? While it can be both, it changes tone so fast you don’t know what hit you.

Story
There is a story to this series, which I found strange at first because the series starts with what appears to be a very basic plot of an evil corporation full of super-powerful people fighting a resistance of super powerful people. But later on we get a background plot of science experiments and creating god and all kinds of really biblical stuff that is trying to make the show sound smarter than it really is. And the problem with the story in the series is it follows the same basic plot as Trigun and Trinity Blood. Spoiler The good guy and bad guy are experiments, pretty much brothers. And they are both called Adam to go with Eve. Which is a lot like Cain and Abel from Trinity Blood.

While I can accept the biblical parts, it just seems needless (Ba-ba-ching). There’s also a thin plot about the main character, Cruz’s sister but none of it is really that great. The story is weak and there seems to be a bit too much of it toward the end when we’ve been exposed to fight scene after fight scene mixed with comedy, breaking the flow of things.

In other words, don’t come to Needless expecting quality story-telling.If it were to boil down to anything, Needless is the story of a bunch of people with powers in a post-apocalyptic world where they fight each other formulaicly for twenty-four episodes.

Animation
I had no problem with the animation. Characters looked a lot like those from Gurren Lagann which was a bit of a problem at first (Cruz=Simon)(Eve=Yoko)(Blade=Kamina). But it doesn’t matter, the animation is perfectly fine, though it isn’t amazing. It’s average.

Sound
I decided to watch the dubbed version and wasn’t surprised that there were quite a few voice actors who were god awful, including Cruz’s sister who had to have been played by a robot. I guess the main characters did competently but…you know. I don’t expect much from my dubs.

The first opening and ending song for the show is good, but the second opening and ending isn’t. Within the show, the heavy metal soundtrack is pretty good.

Characters
Believe it or not, the characters in this show are average! There are a lot of characters but very few actually stand out. Blade is a lolicon priest who is probably the funniest character in the show, Cruz is an emo kid, Eve is a ditzy girl with big boobs. There’s a scientist who states the obvious or reiterates what somebody has just said.There are the girls of the Beautiful Girl Squadron, all of whom have no substance, though I like the seemingly mute lesbian one, Kuchinashi. The bad guy, Adam Arclight, is generic.

So, not much to talk about in this department.

Overall
An anime that prides itself on violence, panty shots, and comedy? It has to be good right? Fight scenes are too damn long, and when you have a twenty-four episode anime, you don’t want to stretch out ten episodes as one fight scene in the same room. Seriously, from episode nine to nineteen or so the show takes place in a single room. It gets rather boring and so does the anime. It starts fast-paced and promising but ends rather dully. I heard that the fight scenes in this show were some of the best in anime and I would like to tell the person who said that to suck it because the fight scenes in this show were lame and basic. I was not impressed by this show at all, but it was a decent distraction. It had some good moments, a lot in fact, but it was just so trite and basic and as it continued it tried to inject story but failed.

Reviewer’s Rating: 4

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