Deadman Wonderland has an interesting premise. A young boy Ganta get sent down for a crime he didn’t commit and ends up in a jail where nothing is normal. It’s certainly not original but Deadman Wonderland sets it stall out early on with graphic violence and strong language in abundance. Deadman Wonderland is essentially a theme park with inmates taking park in various games to entertain the public.
Ganta is a normal school boy but one day his whole class are brutally murdered by the mysterious ‘redman’. One thing you realise from the start is how deeply flawed this show is right from the
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Mar 30, 2015
Btooom has been on my watch list for some time and finally got round to watching it. Its a story of a guy Ryouta who’s a bit of a looser in real life but excellent at the game Btooom. One day he wakes up and finds that he’s been left on an island and is actually stuck in a real life game. Unlike other anime’s where people are stuck in a virtual world, the island is very real as are those who want to kill you. It’s easy to see what’s influenced Btooom with elements of Lost, the Hunger games & lord of the
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Mar 20, 2015
Gosick was a show that came up on my recommendations after watching Spice & Wolf. I’d never seen a murder mystery anime before so it was a new experience. The story revolves around a mysterious girl called Victorique who spends much of her time shut up in a library at Saint Margueite Academy in the fictional country of Sauville. Kujo is a Japanese exchange student who one day while searching the library, meets Victorique and their adventure begin
Victorique is extremely intelligent and uses her ‘wellspring of wisdom’ to solve cases as the story progresses. Its easy to see where the influences for her character come ... Mar 20, 2015
Akame ga Kill!
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Akame Ga Kill is one of those anime’s that divide opinion. Much like SAO and Guilty Grown it draws equal praise and hatred on both sides. For that very reason I decided to see what all the fuss was about.
The story centres around Tatsumi, who is so good with a sword he dreams of joining the army in the capitol. As he soon finds out the Capital is not the place he would have hoped and after his childhood friends get murdered he ends up joining Night Raid a deadly team of assassins who want to take down the capitol and its twisted prime ... Mar 18, 2015
Seiken no Blacksmith
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I was actually looking forward to Sacred Blacksmith it seemed to have many elements I like in anime. The story centres around Cecily a female Knight who not particularly good at being a Knight. She is saved from certain death one day by Luke (the sacred blacksmith) who has the ability to forge magical Katana swords in the heat of battle.
Lets get one thing out of the way first, the English dub is awful. Cecily’s voice grated on me so much I switched straight to subtitles. Most of the voice cast sound like they have just walked off the set of high school musical. ... Mar 18, 2015
Ookami to Koushinryou
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Spice & Wolf is in essence, a fairly simple story. It’s about a travelling merchant called Lawrence who one day while visiting a town comes across a young girl sleeping in his cart. He soon finds out that this is no ordinary girl. This is Holo the wise wolf, a pagan god who ensures good harvest for the village. Due to the spread of the new church (very similar to the Catholic Church) pagan beliefs are dying out and Holo has found there is no longer any need for her to be there. Lawrence reluctantly agrees for her to travel with him as she heads
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Mar 18, 2015
I’m not really sure what attracted me Ben-to. I think I noticed an advert on my Facebook from Manga UK. The premise sounded pretty ridiculous but for some reason I was interested to see how it would turn out.
Ben-to is basically a group of high school students battle for half priced Ben-to. Driven by hunger and the desire to acquire the best Ben-to of the day they fight out every night in the supermarket. That's about as deep as it gets in terms of story. In fairness Ben-to never tries to be anything more that all out crazy action. We are introduced to the main ... |