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Garo: Vanishing Line is the third Garo TV series, with a modern setting with action happening in Russell City, it follows the story of Sword, a makai knight who dons the golden armor to protect human from the eternal threat called horror which comes to this world from Makai Realm using humans negative emotions, Gina, a makai priest who uses spells to destroy horrors, Luke, who uses guns to hunt horrors and Sophie, a girl who is searching for her brother.

Great unique story, well paced episodes having well choreographed battles, characters which whom you will instantly love and a ride that ... will make you beg for more is what Vanishing Line lacks.

Story 5/10
Let's talk about the story.
The story starts good, looking promising. After few episodes I found myself wanting more, after half of this aired I started to feel something was lacking, what this lacks is a good arc, with few exceptions this show follows the episodic rule meaning you won't find longer arcs, the episode starts and by the end the conflict is over, of course there is the long arc which is the sole purpose of this anime who in the end fails to deliver and it brings the old twist that even a 5 year old kid might've guessed.

Art 6/10
The animation here is better that it's predecessor which completely failed it. The 3DCG animation blends well with 2D .
The character design here is good, showing masculine males when it needs and normal looking females. A good depiction of reality with various types of the human body.
What I dislike here is the fact they didn't put enough effort in showing golden armor at it's full potential, the battles where short, you would catch a glimpse of the armor and everything is over in the next second.

Sound 6/10
The sound was okay, the voice acting was good and the songs where catchy. Nothing too memorable here.

Character 3/10
This is another bad thing about Vanishing Line. The characters are developed, but only in the case of good guys in the case of villains, the creator must thought something among these lines: "I want some villain who is strong and also some drama." "How about some one sided character, a traitor who is obsessed with power for no apparent reason?" "Great! Let's do that!". While others are just there with some brief explanations thrown in haste.
While the characters are developed up to some point they stop growing in more directions and when they grow unidirectional the attachment towards them won't change. In my case I was neutral to all because they lacked solid backstories. Heck, I might be attached more to a random character who appears for 2 minutes just to be killed for the sake of story, than the main characters.

Enjoyment 3/10 and Overall 4/10
A story that tries to be different but falls in the cliché category too many times, lack of solid twists, predicable developments, although I wasn't particularity displeased in every episode, there are several good episodes in this, I was left hoping for more and it seems it was just another Garo anime made to milk the original series with no intention of surpassing it.

This was too long for it's own sake, this could've ended in 12-13 episodes without significant content loss, this fails to bring out the full potential of Garo, the spotlight is more on horrors than the Golden Knight. As a movie this could've been much better,great even, but as a 24 episodes run this stretched for too long, leaving much potential unused and failing to bring in light what could've made this a better anime.

As a verdict and also a summary of everything above all I will say is: You might enjoy this if you are not looking for something outstanding, you don't look for too much in your characters, you are happy with action anime that shows little action. Or you are looking for a normal anime, not a part of Garo series, this is okay but as a Garo anime this is a disappointment.

For those who want to get into Garo series I'd recommend to watch the original anime or the live action, just stay away from this and the other Garo anime.

Long story short two unrelated stories ,first about two classmates and the second one about two siblings .
Tags : vanilla ( not pure vanilla ) , flat chest , big boobs, borderline rape , younger sister , incest ,tsundere .

Story
The first episode adapts chapter 5 ( Konna Mune Demo Aisaretai!! ) which tells the story of a girl with small boobs who used pads to make her chest look bigger and her classmate who discovers her secret .
The second episode adapts chapter 6 (I Know, I'll Practice with My Little Sister.) which tells the story of an elder brother who finally ... gets an offline date but being an inexperienced virgin has this "brilliant" idea to ask his sister for practice.
Chapters are faithfully adapted .

Art
The first episode is a bit weird because sometimes the coloring feels unnatural . The second episode gets art becomes generic but it gets better . The art is not bad but not outstanding is just fair .

Character
Funny , likeable characters .

Overall
The stories are short but are enjoyable because they are simple,sometimes humorous and have vanilla elements .
I recommend this to those who like vanilla and imoutos, also if you watched this and enjoyed it you might also want to check the manga since there are more good stories and the art is better.

Story :
This has a story is not full of sex scenes , the sex scenes are about 25% of this . For those interested this has monster rape, single female and vanilla , although the hentai should not be the main reason to watch it for.
Since the anime is so short things get rushed here and there , and some things seem to happen for the sake of the plot , but if you are not easily disturbed by that you'll enjoy it .

Character:
There is a lack of character development and sometimes characters make unexpected decisions .

Art :
Is good for an old anime, the ... character's design looks well and the shading is way better than in some anime which appeared 15 years after this moreover, there is no censorship .

Sound :
Since Karisu has the same voice actress as Pikachu and Lydia the same as Nami ( One Piece ) you won't be disappointed ,also one of the reasons you might want to try this .

Enjoyment and overall :
I enjoyed this not as a hentai but as a medieval adventure fantasy .
In some aspects it was slightly above average in others cliche ,but with medium to no expectations you can watch it and enjoy it , I know I did it since I've wanted to watch this on a whim.

If you are looking for a hentai then don't bother with this , it's barely a hentai because of a scene or two and I'm not sure if those scenes can get this anime into hentai category .

Story :
The starving hero finally finds a village but it's no one there , soon he gets captured by female warriors of the kingdom with no men and is sent to their queen where is revealed that he might be the warrior from the prophecy. He goes to defeat the demon lord ,take photos of damsels in distress and save the kingdom .
Compared to some recent anime this ... story sounds quite good , too bad is more like a summary of the rpg eroge with the same name .

Art and sound:
Since is from 1991 don't expect to have a great OST and great art , but the old animation has it's good points , the characters design is good and the VA did a good job while voicing the characters which makes this enjoyable .

Character:
Likeable characters even some of the demons .
I have to say the last boss is something different from what current anime pictures nowadays , he might be one of the most realistic certain type of demon lord in a "hentai" .

Enjoyment :
It was quite funny for a dark hentai fantasy .

Overall :
Don't mind the fact that this is a hentai , since I've seen enough ecchi anime and I can say some of those are more hentai than this .
While not expecting something huge from this , you can watch it and enjoy it , I know I did it.

Story:

Binkan athlete is about female athletes who are too busy with training to relax and here kicks in the male character and the "story" is born. If you want to find more about the story you should read the synopsis because you can find more about it than watching the anime.

Art/Sound:

The art is great and it makes this enjoyable, the characters are well designed it. Unfortunately this is censored. I can say there is nothing exaggerated, everything is balanced, so no giant breasts for you. The sound is great and the seiyuu are skilled.

Character:

This isn't a hentai with a story so there is no character ... development. Some characters that appear in this are : a masseur, 2 skaters (sisters) ,a tanned volley player.

This hentai is decent and it's not a romantic comedy or something psychological nor a disgusting netorare ,the only reason you could watch this is because of the "material" .

I decided to write this review because this manga doesn't have one and because I'm a fan of Muv Luv series . I hope this will be useful .

First of all I must say that the story in this manga isn't mind blowing but is still good, but as a part of Muv-Luv trilogy this manga is worth reading because it's focusing on characters development and getting the reader more into Muv-Luv universe also this is a must read if you want to play/read ML Alternative .

The story starts with Shirogane Takeru waking up in a parallel world where aliens invaded Earth and the humanity ... is on the brink of destruction . Being trapped in this apocalyptic world Shirogane is trying to adapt.

The characters are memorable and they are constantly evolving especially Shirogane from the boy who was brought in an insane world to a man.

The art is very good compared to the prequel and the "plot" is drawn well .

For those who expect mecha battles against aliens and gore fest well I'm glad to say that there aren't any of those things, instead you will get a chance to see a normal high school student trying to become a soldier.

Those who played the VN should try this because the difference is noticeable and it brings few small side-stories.

This borderline hentai picture drama is full of ecchi scenes and you will enjoy it if you like fan service .
For those who don't like ecchi scenes: don't waste your time watching this because there is nothing else here.

I've enjoyed to see Katja being the main character and also I liked how in this picture drama I got the chance to see most of her sides.

I must say the mix of humor and dirty pics made this very enjoyable.

Overall: if you watched Seikon no Qwaser for it's humor and dirty scenes you will love this.