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Well, this is my first review and my English is not that good, so please don`t be too harsh on me, okay guys?
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When I first heard about this anime I found it really interesting, because it is a new combination of different things;
Action, a huge amount of blood and a lot of pretty guys ( And like it is said in the discription even shonen-ai).
So, I don`t think that a lot of people would watch this series anyway.
Because for the male audience... well there are too many boys (and in fact only a single woman), and for the girls there is just too much ... blood and violince.
But I am one of the girls, who really love all this things, so I decided to give this anime a try.

And now after 12 episodes I am really disappointed.

Story 5/10:

In the beginning the story seems to be kind of interesting:

After the third world war, Japan is splited up in two different areas.
Toshima (Tokyo) is controled by a criminal organisation, called Vishio, who are holding a battle game known as Igura there. ( I wonder if this “Igura“ comes from the russian word for game: Igra)
And than we have a guy, who is arrested because of a crime (in which he isn`t even involved), and who have to win against the most strongest player in the Igura, if he wants get his freedom back.
So the story has got potential...but the producers failed.
In fact I think that they could put the whole story in 6 or 7 episodes, because there is really no need for more.
Some episodes wese so „empty“ that in the end, I couldn`t even tell something about the content, because there isn`t any.
Only in the last 3 or 4 episodes the whole anime became interesting and finally I have got the feeling, that something happens there and that it ins`t just about stupid dialogs (which are horrible in fact) an a lot of absurde violence.


Animation 6/10:

Nothing special at all.
Sometimes it was good, sometimes I just think: Holly shit what happend with the poor characters and backgrounds.
After all I have the feeling that the animation became better towards the end.
But what is really horrible...is the colour of the blood, I became every time so aggressive, when I see it.
Because it looks like some cheap acrylic colour, and not like blood at all.

Sound 6/10:

Well, the opening was really okay.
Also the whole endings, I suppose ( Altough I do not like so many different songs for a single anime)
The soundtracks couldn`t be good too nice, because even after 12 episodes I do not remeber a single one.

Characters 6/10:

Annoying, annoying and...yeah annoing.
It`s the same like the storyline.
They COULD be interesting.
They really Could.
But in the end they are just some pretty guys, who haven`t got any personality or depth.
They are just empty puppets, who are just acting like, the plot wants them to act, without any meaning behind it.
Only Kaisuke is discribed a little more, but his personality just going on my nerves, so I could not enjoy this.


This shonen-ai thing:

Where the hell is it?
Yeah I know the anime is based on a Yaoi game, but in anime there aren`t any scenes, which are near to this genre.
Yeah, you may say that Keisuke has a too depth connection to Akira, but I just think, that he has a kind of a complex.
So please, if somebody reads this and just does not want to watch this anime, because of this:
There is no shonen-ai, no boys love, no hints at all.


It is just a bloody anime with a lot of guys, a lot of fights and a lot of disguisting deaths.

So if you are a fan of all this things, you may like this anime.
If not, just forget about this series and search some new one.