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This review will be, for the most part, spoiler free. First off, this might not be your typical "this is what I liked this is what I disliked" review. This review is meant to just get you to watch the anime. This is coming from someone who watches action and psychological thrillers. This is from someone who has never played an instrument for more than a week. This is from someone who has avoided this anime due to there being no interest in anything that the show is about. If I liked it, so will you.

I, like most people who watch anime, was first ... obsessed with the first few anime I watched. Slowly but surely all other anime started to fall into categories of other anime I had already seen. Only few "gems" stick out now. You might know what I'm talking about. What Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso (Your Lie in April) does that no story has ever done for me is allowed itself to be predictable. There are time and time again I could picture everything that was going to happen. That didn't matter. In fact, it made it all the more enjoyable when I was right, because the show isn't about what comes next. It's about what's happening right now. You'll laugh at all the right times, you'll cry at all the right times, and you'll probably end up learning something you didn't know, or maybe something you did already know.

After righting this, I really hate what I wrote but I'm keeping it anyway. The thing is, you really can't capture this anime in any words. What I can say is that this struck me in a way I never expected. The best way to put what I think about this show into words is to just tell you to watch it, no matter what you like or don't like. Maybe you'll hate it, maybe you'll love it, and maybe you'll even write a review that will get lost in the hundreds of other reviews. But I guarantee that you won't say that giving it a shot is a waste of time.

This is my first review, so I'm sorry if it's not the best. In an effort to keep my self from spoiling anything, I'm going to try and stick to talking about the psychological aspect of the anime, and how the character's play such a vital role to it's success. First and foremost, for anyone who is squeamish about sexual abuse, violence, and sociopath's, this is probably not the anime to watch.

What I find most successful about the anime is how the plot revolves around the main characters lives. Each of the characters was put onto this island to play ... this game for a reason, and were elected by people they knew from their own lives. That's practically all I'm going to say about the plot itself, because I think it's the characters that really make this anime worth watching.

Most of the characters have extremely difficult to watch backstories, and personalities that match those backstories incredibly well. Not only that, but it shows human nature in a very real and disturbing way; it shows what happens when us as humans are cornered and forced to fight for our lives, and what happens to those of us who might be genuine at heart, but after being tested time and time again, break and turn into more of the "primitive nature" of kill or be killed.

If you enjoy anime that show both the best and the worst of human kind, in an exciting and thrilling action packed environment, I would definitely consider giving Btooom! a try.