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Burn The Witch, the newest piece of fiction related to the well known Bleach series by Tite Kubo, It's been awhile since I've written a review, so apologies if it's not the best written review.

Story: The Story of Burn The Witch is an interesting one and very different from that of Bleach, in this case we're not talking Soul Reapers or Hollows, as this takes place in the London or rather Front London and Reverse London, and focuses on a pair of witches working for a organization called Wing Bind, who deal with dragons, and dragons cause roughly 72% of deaths in London are caused ... by dragons, Wing Bind will protect dragons if necessary even raising them, other times they have to kill dragons, but the story outside of that focuses Ninny and Noel, who have to do their job for Wing Bind but also protect Balgo a Dragonclad, as dragons are attracted to him due to being a Dragonclad.
I give the story an 8 (Very Good), it's interesting and distinct from others.

Art: The art and animation is really good in this anime and it nails down the art style of Tite Kubo, and that for me is enough to give it a 9 (Great).

Sound: The sound is good, voice acting and music were good, but I can't say it was amazing or bad, as such a 7 (Good) for the sound.

Character: The characters are interesting and largely do complement eachother Ninny is a driven character with her own goals with her job at Wind Bind, and being a celebrity infront london, Noel is a character who largely follows the book to some extent, but is willing to do two person jobs in order to get the rewards for herself. Balgo may be an annoying character to some, with his head over heels feelings for Noel, but he isn't super over the top and just avoids being that one annoying character that I hated. Other characters are given brief introductions, that give you a relative decent impression of what sort of characters they are, but you do not get bombarded with information about them, for example there are multiple characters who are high ranking members and you can fully guess the type of character they would be from their designs and the way they present themselves.
For the characters I give it an 8 (Very Good).

Enjoyment: This is something that is very much different to the other categories, as the enjoyment for each person that watches this anime will depend on not only the previous categories but also any prior knowledge and/or enjoyment of related works, I was very much a fan of Tite Kubo's Bleach and the Burn The Witch manga one shot and series so far as well as some of his other works, the fact that the characters are different from others in his other works, the fact the anime captures Tite Kubo's art style pretty well, it was truly a 10 (Outstanding) for me, but it may very well be anywhere from 1 to a 9 for others, but to me it was truly a 10.

Overall: so overall the way I do these written reviews where I go through the different things like story, art, sound, etc. I will give an average score, so summary here's the scores

> Story: 8
> Art: 9
> Sound: 7
> Character: 8
> Enjoyment: 10
> Overall: 8.4

I recommend it for general anime fans, any fans of magical/fantasy shows, but personally I would say if you're a fan of Bleach or any works by Tite Kubo, this is a must watch.

I'll start by saying this; This is not a Review for Kidou Senshi Gundam-san, but this is a review for Gundam Sousei, which in my opinion has been stupidly included and listed as part of this series.

The Story:
The story for Gundam Sousei dramatizes the origins of how the well known franchise of Gundam started. Naturally because this is the origin of Gundam the story focuses around a group of people pushing for the success of the series. The people included are; Yoshiyuki Tomino the Director of the series, Kunio Okawara the Mechanical Designer, Shūichi Ikeda the Voice Actor for Char Aznable, Yoshikazu Yasuhiko an Animator ... for the series, Tōru Furuya the Voice Actor for Amuro Ray and many more (Check the Gundam Wiki for the rest). This feels very true to what it is meant to be, it may be dramatized and exaggerated in some places, but it is all still routed in reality, and conveys the struggles of the creators. Additionally the story is the only other one I have seen to detail the anime & manga industry, the first one was Bakuman. Lastly this is one of the few series I actually wanted to read in silence, honestly most series I'll listen to music in the background when reading them, so the fact it was engrossing enough to read it in silence, makes it overly impressive to me.

Art:
As for the art for it, is really great and helps convey the story really well.

Characters:
The characters are 100% relate-able in at least one aspect or another, I won't go into detail, as I don't often write reviews, I'm not used to talking about characters personality. I can say for certain though that the characters being that they are the real people who worked on the original Mobile Suit Gundam, with some exaggeration here and there, it feels like you are getting an insight to what they're like or were like at the time.

Enjoyment:
If you couldn't tell already this series is fully enjoyable, and definitely worth a read if you're a Gundam fan or just want some insight into the industry.

Overall:
Just read the series, it's 24 Chapters long, if you can get physical copies do get them. Also to the admins please make Gundam Sousei a separate page.

Ok so i could bore you by going over each thing like story, art, sound and characters, but i won't, so instead i'm gonna give you a list of reasons why you should and should not watch this.

Why You Should Watch This:
(1) The Fate/Stay Night TV Reproduction should only be watched in the event that you have seen Fate/Stay Night and need a recap before you go on to watch Fate/Stay Night The Movie: Unlimited Blade Works or Fate/Stay Night Unlimited Blade Works TV Adaptation.

Why You Shouldn't Watch This:
(1) The Fate/Stay Night TV Reproduction should not be watched if you have not watched Fate/Stay Night.
(2) ... The Fate/Stay Night TV Reproduction should not be watched if you have no need to recap on the series.

So yeah that sums that up, it's good as a recap of Fate/Stay Night but nothing else.

Edit: I've changed to a different way of working out the overall rating I give anime now, as I think it works better than just my hype from the moment of watching an anime.

As a sort of disclaimer I'm going to say this: At the time of watching this movie, all my knowledge of the Fate/ Universe is comprised of Fate/EXTRA (which I recently started playing and have yet to finish) and Fate/Stay Night (The 2006 Anime), as well as the fact that I am aware Fate/Stay Night (The Visual Novel) is split into three routes Fate, Unlimited Blade Works and Heaven's Feel. Additionally for ... this review until my conclusion I will pretend that Fate/Stay Night (The 2006 Anime) does not exist until I after my conclusion.

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Animation
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The animation is of good quality. That's all I have to say on this matter.

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Sound
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The soundtrack was certainly suited to when it was played in certain scenes at the right moment.

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Story
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Now for the story, on the overall the story is pretty good however at the start of the film it feels as though a person is required to have knowledge before watching it, meaning that if you wanted to know the specific details of what happens right in the beginning requires searching information up or playing the original Fate/Stay Night Visual Novel.

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Character
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The characters are almost all well developed within this film with the exception of a few who seemed like they would in fact have some form of relevance to the story, but instead they were introduced and then instantly killed a moment later. The ones that did get more screen time did seem rather well developed.

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Value/Enjoyment & Conclusion
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Time for the conclusion. This movie is something I would recommend to people to watch at this current point in time, but only if that person has any prior knowledge of the Fate/Stay Night Visual Novel, specifically of the Fate route of the game.

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Thoughts On This With Fate/Stay Night (The 2006 Anime)
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Ok so now to talk about this. I highly recommend that if you're not able to play the Fate/Stay Night Visual Novel, then go watch the 2006 adaptation of Fate/Stay Night Visual Novel's Fate route before watching this. Also it is to be noted the only reason this got a lower rating is due to the fact I believe this movie requires to have either played the Fate/Stay Night Visual Novel or watch the 2006 adaptation of the Fate route, this is primarily due to the fact that Unlimited Blade Works is a a parallel timeline that happens alongside the Fate route and as such it required to have been approached from the same point as the 2006 adaptation, so people without prior knowledge could fully understand all the points in the film.

Edit: I've changed to a different way of working out the overall rating I give anime now, as I think it works better than just my hype from the moment of watching an anime.

Just gonna say this I have no knowledge of the Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt Manga.

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Animation
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The animation for this show was brilliant.

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... Sound
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The sound was brilliant, the voice acting was perfect to me, and the various soundtracks were awesome, especially the Jazz soundtracks.

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Story
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The story was well laid out and gave good incite to all the characters backstories and was a primary driving force for the story.

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Character
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All the characters were well developed considering this was a 4 episode series.
Additionally we see more information on the soldiers fighting for Zeon than we really see in other series of the franchise.

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Value/Enjoyment & Conclusion
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This series was highly enjoyable and I would recommend it for those with no real knowledge of the Gundam franchise, as well as people who already have knowledge on the Gundam franchise.

Edit: I've changed to a different way of working out the overall rating I give anime now, as I think it works better than just my hype from the moment of watching an anime.

Ok so i've tried watching this and many other shows however something always got in my way such as studying, exams no internet because well the typical technical issues.

Well I finally found time to watch it after coming up with various ways I could start watching the Fate/ series again and I decided to watch the adaptation of the Fate route first, bare in mind I have no knowledge on the original ... visual novel and most of my knowledge in fact comes from the Fate/EXTRA psp game. Anyway I'll start going over each of the following Animation, Sound, Story, Characters and the show as an Overall.

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Animation
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Now due to my belief that the animation should be minuscule in deciding to watch something or not, I will not go into any real details and simply say the animation was very good.

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Sound
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As far as the sound goes, it was good quality and did not make my ears bleed. As for the openings and endings for this show they are good but they did not grab my attention as others have but that is more due to my own personal taste.

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Story
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The story now this is where people will disagree with me. Due to my lack of knowledge on the original Fate/Stay Night Visual Novel I believe that the story was awesome, whilst others would say "It doesn't flow well because it's not a pure adaptation of the Fate route", people like that are just "perfectionists".

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Character
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I love all of the characters in this series they all show their personalities clearly and the relationships between the characters are all pretty obvious with the exception of one where all we see is a small flash back, but even from that it is easy to guess the relationship from that.

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Value/Enjoyment & Conclusion
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For my conclusion I can simply say it was brilliant to watch and would recommend watching it.