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SUMMARY:

The combination of the crazy characters and the kind of absurd story give the anime the potential to be very enjoyable or just kind of a drag. It really depends on what sort of mood you are in. If you are willing to suspend your disbelief and just go along with things, you will probably appreciate the action and humorous highlights provided by the colorful cast.


STORY:

Every few episodes you start settling in to what you think are the themes that have been set for the show, and then something COMPLETELY RANDOM comes along and blows away your expectations. Occasionally there are giant robot ... battles and super soldiers (like a gundam plot), occasionally there are alien-like super creatures reminiscent of an 80s capcom game, and occasionally there is police drama like style. I am just hitting on a few themes that come up. There is plenty more strangeness.

ART:

Well there are a lot of scantily clad ladies with guns....

SOUND:

Kind of tacky jpop openings and closings. The theme song is pretty catchy.

CHARACTERS:

All of the characters are, well, characters. There's the super-human combat beast, Joe, the adorably helpless Meg, the brainy loli character Amy, the brainy plotting Sei, and the random slice-of-life bakery guy. The combinations of their personalities in the outrageous and overall dramatic situations the story puts them in make for a flavorful experience.

ENJOYMENT:

Depending on what state of mind you go into Bakuretsu Tenshi with, you will either love it or hate it. It comes off like it is attempting to have a serious plot, but the plot is just so unintentionally ridiculous that you will be disappointed if you try to take it seriously.

First, saying this anime has 15 episodes isn't really correct. Even though there were 15 airings, it took 3 or 4 airings to complete an episode. So there are really only 4-5 episodes. So don't expect a fully developed plot line. In fact, the anime ends when you feel like it should begin.

With that said, it is extremely funny. The main character is hilariously apathetic to everything except antique computer parts and his hormones.

The situations he is put in are equally entertaining, and his superhuman feats of programming to solve them make the concept have a tremendous amount of potential which battle programmer Shirase ... doesn't quite reach.

Definitely worth watching though, because it's so short. The biggest shortcoming is not having more time to have a real plot.

Samurai Champloo is certainly a consumate work of art.

The three main characters are an unlikely bunch who seem just as likely to kill each other as to be each other's only allies in a hostile world. Samurai Champloo is a beautiful story about an unlikely alliance between 3 very different people.

The show weaves music and history in to help keep the story solid and the episodes are usually 'seemingly' self-contained. What I mean by that is at the end of the episode there usually aren't cliff hanger or confusion about the immediate plot, but things that happen in the previous episodes come back ... to make a huge deal later in the show.

Certainly one of my favorites. Especially the music and the depictions of foreigners.

The story of friendship expressed is also really powerful.

Oh, and lest I forget, the action is superior.