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When seeing the title of this anime, I thought that watching a acrophobic moe girl trying to climb mountains could lead to some funny hijinks. Sadly I was kind of disappointed when more than half of the show was about moe girls doing cute things and "talking" about climbing. This made the story kind of generic and forgettable.

The art of the show is your standard moe style, with all the bright colors, cute girls and big shiny eyes that you expect from such a show. Other than that I can't really say much about it, except that it was okay i guess.

The sound is where ... the show really looses quite a lot of points according to me. Because I think that the soundtrack of a show can really lift it to new heights or drop it down a cliff of being really generic. The later is sadly true for this show as the soundtrack was nothing more than quiet tunes of guitar and piano, which you didn't really notice.

The characters are your standard moe fair with "the scared one", our main character, "the hyper one", "the klutzy one" and "the tall and mature one". The characters also barely develops or changes over the twelve three minute episodes.

The show had some funny moments, but they were sadly outshone by whole episodes of just talking about stuff and nothing happen. I can't really say that I would recommend this show, unless you like the whole "moe girls doing cute things and talking about stuff" kind of thing.

Ask yourself, What would you do if you woke up one day on a deserted island with nothing but your clothes, a pouch with eight Bombs in it, a weird green gem attached to your hand and now you are expected fight for your life to get off this island. This sums up the basic story of BTOOOM!

Our main character Ryouta Sakamoto is one of the best players in the world in the online game "BTOOOM!" where you are only allowed to fight with bombs. In real life Ryouta is a NEET who has a damage relationship with his family and has fled into the ... virtual world of "BTOOOM!" where he is a celebrity and even has a girl friend.

But his world is turned upside down when he wakes up stuck in a parachute in a tree on a deserted island having lost his memories. This soon turns into a deadly game where you can trust nobody and your best friend is yourself. During the series he meets other people who also has been dropped onto the island along with him in his quest to get of this god forsaken island and figure who is behind this sinister game.

The art of this series is really quite good and it reminded my a bit about the art style from Death Note. The series was produced by studio madhouse which makes sense in that case.

The acting is really standard from anime in general and the soundtrack isn't really much to write home about. I'd say that the sound is the shows weakest part.

Another thing that stood out about this show was the characters who were all really well developed and everyone had at least some change done to their personalities over this 12 episode series. I'd say that the most enjoyable thing about watching "BTOOOM!" is seeing the characters changing over time and interacting with each other.

Overall I really enjoyed this show and I would recommend it to you if you like psychological action series or movies like Battle Royal.