Black Bullet

Hey there you filthy weeb! Do you like seeing naked little girls who are only about ten years old fawning and craving for sexual activity from a much older guy while also having said little girls being covered with slime coupled with an Attack on Titan clone narrative that is rushed beyond belief? Well, then you'll love the hell out of this train wreck of a series. This anime is like your first sexual experience; it may seem great at first, much like the show's killer opening but much like the amine's fast pacing, it will be over in about ten seconds. Well, with that horrible analogy out of the way let's talk about all the problems with this show, and oh boy, there sure is a LOT. Let's start with the basics: the narrative. The story of Black Bullet is essentially another god damn plot in which humans are pushed to the brink of extinction by some kind of calamity or monster; and in this case, we have spider-like creatures called the Gastrea. Aside from these creatures being a rip off of the monsters from the anime Blue Gender, a show from sixteen years ago, the creatures hardly pose any threat whatsoever. They're not as creepy as the Titans from Attack on Titan nor as threatening as the Blue from Blue gender; they're forgetful and boring. Not only that, we're told by our main protagonist that the world is near destruction but everything seems to be as fine as an episode of My Little Pony. It's the same problem with the anime The Asterix war from last year. Both shows tell the audience that the characters are living in some kind of morally grey world that is nearing its destruction via an opening narration by the main character but never actually show what they're describing in the visuals. The world of Black Bullet doesn't feel like humanity struggling to stay alive like the narrator would suggest; instead it feels like a day out with Yogi Bear since no one in the show sees these monsters as any kind of threat, even more so as we see the main character quickly running to buy eggs which are on sale after easily defeating one of these beasts. As a result, there is no lingering sense of tension or uneasiness, which was one of the few things Attack on Titan got right at the very least. Here it feels weak and pathetic. The story is nothing to write home about and does a terrible job at immersing you into the world. Light novel guy (aka Rentarou - the main protagonist; I'm just going to be referring to every crappy light novel character as this now) is a guy who goes around stopping various incidents and attacks made by the Gastrea with his loli sidekick, Pedophile-chan, a girl who has the power of these creatures. There are many other little girls with these sort of powers which are referred to as the "cursed children" and are hated by all of society, frequently being beaten by the populace and shunned for who they are. This could have been an interesting theme if they had spent more time with it and got a component writer. But nope, it's awful. They use one of the cheapest tricks: shock factor, to try and make you feel bad for these girls in the tritest way possible. Not only are all of these girls about the age of ten and are made to appear as young as possible in order to pull at your heartstrings, but many of them also die in such terrible ways to manipulate you into feeling something. Some of them are killed in a bomb attack, another gauged out her own eyes; it's pathetic how hard they want you to sympathise with these girls without even trying to develop these characters in the slightest. Shock factor is the laziest way to try and make the audience feel for these little girls as it requires no actual effort; just make it as extreme as possible and the otakus will eat it up. The narrative tries way too hard to be dark and edgy but this is immediately ruined as it believes that it's fine to be dark and serious one moment and then silly and full of fan service in the immediate next moment. This whiplash is awful and it undercuts all of the dramatic moments of the show. When we end one scene with a little girl dying and we follow it up with a stupid joke featuring a naked loli in the next scene it breaks immersion and feels stupid. Do people have the attention span of a goldfish or something? Can we just stick with one tone and keep it consistent throughout? If you want to be dark and edgy then stick to just that, or at the very least, make the transitions between these two moods more natural otherwise it becomes a joke. Anyway, light novel guy is as generic and boring as you could imagine when it comes to a main male protagonist of a light novel adaptation. Most of the female cast fall in love with him by the end, he has no personality to speak of, never develops in the slightest and stays as equally generic as everything else in this production. He is full of stupid ass pulls and is also the strongest character in the show, making him nothing more than a bland self-insert for all of the thirteen-year-olds watching this crap. They try and present his character as being full of fear and anxieties, with the underlying idea that he believes he is useless but not nearly enough time is invested in this theme and it comes across as forced drama instead. His loli sidekick, Pedophile-chan is not much better either. She too barely changes and instead remains a loli who wants to have sex with the main protagonist just to show her appreciation. She does have a tragic back-story which could have been developed into an interesting subplot concerning her anxieties and discrimination for who she is but it's resolved in only a few minutes so any interest derived from this character is quickly shunted to the side. There is a villain who was a walking deus ex machina for a few episodes before being beaten by our god Light novel guy four times. FOUR FUCKING TIMES! The villain was pretty enjoyable the first time he was introduced, as he was more fun than anything but as the show went along, his motives became even more of a jumbled mess and his character arc went literally nowhere. There are other characters but they're so uninteresting and dull there is no point in even mentioning them since they hardly impact the story in the slightest. The only thing that develops in this show is light novel guy's loli collection. If everything I've listed thus far wasn't bad enough, the pacing for this anime is by far the worst I have ever seen before. We run through this show at breakneck speed, never allowing the audience a moment to drink in all of the visual stimuli that are being thrown at us every five god damn seconds and there is hardly any downtime between any of the major events in the story to allow for some character development and growth. This problem is made worse as we reach the finale, and here the writer threw every single stupid idea he had into a blender and just hoped for the best. Characters are randomly introduced, new power-ups are pulled out of thin air, characters die abruptly everywhere. It's a mess! The final scene in which Boobs Mcjiggy (light novel guy's boss, or whatever) killed a man in cold blood came out of goddamn nowhere and felt like such a cheap way to end the story on an edgy cliff-hanger that it was laughably pathetic. On top of all this bullshit, we have some of the worst cases of badly implemented exposition I have ever seen. No one in this horse vomit speaks like a normal person, explaining every single little detail to the audience as if we're idiots and we can't figure out anything for ourselves. It's boring to sit through and an insult to our intelligence levels. The animation and fight choreography was okay and it does a decent job but it's nothing special in the slightest and is definitely nothing substantial enough to raise the bar of this animation production. While I would say the animation is average at best, they had to mess it up by the usage of CG, and this is some of the worst cases of CG integration intermixed wit…

BLACK BULLET REVIEW: SYNOPSIS: Weirdly, in this future we have these parasites called Gastrea and the mankind is on full-scale war on them but because a loli in the cover had to be necessary, the Gastrea carry some virus that if infected on a little girl or a pregnant woman, the child will have external human attributes with there eyes able to glow red when they use such power. So we start of with a another generic main with a Lolicon as he's assistant for solving crimes and jazz. Soon he was chosen to be in Uber tiers and now we start of with an action oriented story badly unfolding itself. REVIEW: Immediately, I can't take a show seriously once I see flipping lolicons being uber bad asses killing insane monsters and trying to make it look all gritty and dramatic and jazz, sure, slap my majestic face if You said that “Its because of the virus that infected their genes!” But do I remember an Anime when the Lolita topic has ever been taken in a mature and serious manner? Like an NHK with Lolicons? EXCACTLY. The story does feel predictable because action, edginess, future dystopia and lolis doing most of the dirty work because the instant You notice the protagonist and he's loli waifu with the whole “Destopian and monsters” thing, I am reminded of how Eren Yeager is so well plot armoured, and because the show tried to portray itself as a dark and edgy show, it collapses in delivering that type of content since one scene shows how this Loli so lonely and other scenes showing the two having a sexual bath together! This shows the anime that it glorifies Lolita as a context to be fantasised yet trying to squeeze in those dark and predictable moments to make everyone sad. OK, ignoring the Loli aspect, the “Non-Loli” of the show are just lame. I can't remember a single persona change from those people right at the end of the series except for a few kewl power ups. The protagonist is absolutely generic as generic can get Eren Yeager style, the potential Waifus look more like sex objects than actual characters because “Archetpyes” sell and I stopped taking the show seriously when I saw the cover art in Crunchy Roll. The rest of the cast are the same thing like the tomboy, the quiet one, the feisty one, the stoner one and of course the c*nty one. The lolis can also fit in the same space with the rest of the absolutely generic cast. The only purpose for what may be a redeeming, would be the whole “Loli-Action” aspect if You're ever that curious to see how little girls fight to the death and to see some brain-dead action material, but, it is contradictory to how I review a show as a “Whole” by giving it a higher score through certain highlights, and we all know how bad Train Wrecks can be at times.... I quote Aristotle: “The whole is bigger than the sum of its parts”. Gastrea might as well be a weaker version of the Titans from AoT, but of course, for such monsters to be effective the audience must be more sucked into the situations of the characters, interactions, complexity, emotions etc. Though because the show flopped on that department because of reasons I don't need to re-explain, also, the Gastrea are meant to be an excused backdrop to make via characters be what they are, though this can be used for other creative stuff like symbolism, tension, deaths etc. This it show does not take a better advantage of it. Consequently it does have resemblance on what it could actually do, however it doesn’t help but to make all of that tension, drama, plot etc. to feel corny rather than genuine since You don't even care if any of these people were being tentacled! The story overall having this whole mystery is aspect feels more stupid than anything else like how they never explain this weaker Loli to be one of the most b*tches ever, and yes it does have its “Good Moments” of basic fundamentals on how to make a dystopia look dystopia, like how everyone has the courstousy to take apocalyptic situations seriously but because the protagonist is so much like an Eren Yeager clone with a horridly directed side cast and the ability to survive certain death situations with BS reason, or how he's the only guy who uses two loli's in battle, or how You can predict that Enju will most unlikly die in a year or two at the second season because of plot armour. The villain sucks, he's like this really cheesy guy who You never see he's identity and apparently smiling behind the mask or just trying to have unique vocal chords being full of SO much mystery and jazz is just stupid because there is no dimensionality within that! The mysteriy aspect is mediocrity at finest but if I try to weigh in everything else, it overall feels as if the writers forgotten all of that potential foreshadowing in later episodes and just throw in a bunch of arse pulls that is supposed to make us think, but I'm not bothered cuz the show is so bad! Overall, this show is just “Dum” sure, You can make a nice kick for Yourself to see a beta version of Loli-Death simulator You must cry at face value 2050, with a Kirito surrounded by little girls readying themselves to be he's whore, but it constantly contradicts itself from what’s fantasy and edginess... Animated by Orange being there first full time production instead of working in the shady background assisting the other companies, though CGI used at the end feels very cheap budgeted, but it overall keeps itself consistent and retains its quality. Though it is not something crazy like an Ufotable production, it is suffice to say that the backgrounds look well detailed, a larger portion of character designs don't feel completely cheap and the fight scenes involving lolis or someone using a metallic fist to kill some monsters can look great at times. The lighting also feels nice, though it doesn’t use a more creative colour scheme, it still feels crisp and clean. The Gastrea design is completely forgettable and it doesn't put emphasis on any level of scare factor at all. Anime doesn't do a huge deal of dubstep, but when its there its really damn good. The OP feels like generic J-Pop but its action themed so I suppose it will get you kind of hyped for future episodes, and the dubstep-like OST fits really well with the mood of the series for when it get serious, wanna see an epic battle? Are You crying from the dying lolis? Do You want bland comedic fun? It fits all that but the dubstep orchestral mix were always the selling point for me. Consequently it does feel rather repetitive repeating that same tune over and over again can feel rather boring, overall its good, but I'm not a person who would tolerate repetitive tunes. LEGACY: Just get a kick with Loli-Death simulator if You really want brain-dead action, since the show is most memorable for lolis fighting to the death. Its not epic, its not deep, its not dark but overall has pretentious writing on its throat like so many other train wrecks. I watch this show, and forget it. And everyone forgets it. SCORES: 3/10 – Utterly forgetful character cast. I didn’t hated them, their just boring! 4/10 – Tries to be cute yet edgy at the same time, so the show fails with an identity crisis, though it does manage to get there at the latter, the story is still stupid. 6.5/10 – Above average production I must say, and character designs are most valued on the Lolicons and to see how cool it is for them to death battle each other. 6./10 – OST has a bunch of techno music with orchestra and jazz, does the job in an above average manner. Consequently, such tunes feel quite repetitive... FINALE: 4/10 PERSONAL SCORE: I want to be fed by action scenes not edginess so I can't run around with emotions bro.

Overall, I believe Black Bullet was a great anime that although still did well in just 13 episodes, could have been better if they extended the series. Black Bullet has a lot of tragedy and an idea that could lead to a very good long term plot. Despite being only 13 episodes, the plot that we were presented with was still very well done and you are clearly presented with the problems that the characters attempt to fix. Overcoming obstacles and witnessing and experiencing pain, there is defined character development. However, I believe that certain events occurred too quickly leaving the audience little time to experience the emotional turmoil. The death of certain characters happened to quickly and when the main character mourned for her friends, it consisted of only about 1, perhaps 1 1/2 of an episode. While the plot was good, it was overall to rushed and I feel that the creators cut out scenes of character development to fit this into just 13 episodes. However, despite my critique of the plot, I believe that the art style was fantastic. Sound effects and voice acting too were also great.

Since the day i have watched shingeki no kyojin, i started to become a slighty attached to animes with some apocalyptic themes, where humans are faced with something that would end their existence, and in the same time, we could see the despair and the feeling of less hope in their eyes. This Spring's year have launched a lot of good animes as No game no life, DBZ Kai 2014, Fairy tail 2014 and others animes aswell. Most of them have catch my attention like NGNL and this interesting anime called Black Bullet. After reading the sinopse, i had some high expectations, even if the idea is not so original, somehow, catches me because have a different setting and also a different enviroment and atmosphere. I Won't say that the series is a disappointment, unlikely, is a very good series, the problem is...the adaptation. Lets not waste time and start to the point uh? Story: 6/10 Let's go to the part that makes me a little disappointed and yet amazed, the story. The story focus near the future where humans are being exterminated by a parasital virus called Gastrea, while they live this hystorical terror moment, they are obligated to live in small territories living with the despair, horror and fear of the monsters. For at least increases a little the hope in the heart of the humanity, is created the "civil security", members of organization that fights against gastreas. The story starts with Satomi Rentaro, one member of the civil security aside his partner Enju Aihara, where they both have to take dangerous missions involving gastreas for fight for survive and save the humanity from the destruction. The story may be not so original yet...is extremelly amazing duo the events that happens on it principally with the cursed childrens(childrens like Enju that born with some gastrea blood for fight equal to equal with them) that constantly suffer racism and prejudice and more other factors in the anime, increasing the dark atmosphere and gripping events. I'm pretty sure you will ask "LoneNinja123, if the story is that much amazing and good, why you give it a 6?" - is simple, the adaptation. Black Bullet have a mediocre adaptation, by watching it, you can easy see that the animators skipped a lot of important things that caused some less impact in some scenes of the anime. Is very rushed and left a lot..and i mean A LOT of things unexplained. Duo this fact, a other problem appears, the anime itself have different arcs at 4 and 4 episodes. Duo the bad adaptation, it feels like in the first 4 episodes you are watching a arc, then in the others 4 episodes(4-8) you are watching a other arc, that don't have any ligation with the first one. Is very weird, i believe that because of the bad adapation and a lot of skipped inforation, every arc don't have a ligation one by one. I'm pretty sure if they adapt the anime just like the novel and manga, somehow would be something that would link every arc to make sense of why the events are going like that. Thats why i rate 6 in the story and also why i'm disappointed, the bad adaptation makes some parts very confused and they could have done better than it, explained everything but they end making this and left many things without explanation and also confused to understand. Art: 8/10 I really liked the art of Black bullet for most simple it is. It doesn't have full of details but yet the colors and designs are pretty good, i really enjoyed Hiruko, Satomi and Enju's designs, also i really loved every effects in the fights scenes on the anime. They did a very good job, but for a anime where humans are facing the fear and despair for being destroyed, more details in the facial expression would be pretty good aswell, incluing the eyes that could be better, they come out too simple. Sound: 9/10 One of the best things in the anime are the soundtracks. I really like OP and i really loved the ED(i prefer the ED more) also every track and OSTs fits the scene that the anime want to show. Its simple beautiful the beats on the fight themes, the orchestra, guitarl and piano themes are very well done. It helped a lot build the gripping dark atmosphere of the anime and also are memorable for many people that will hear. Characters: 5/10 This part will be mixed between positive and negative. I loved Most of Black bullet characters as Satomi, Enju, Tina, Hiruko, Kisara and etc. They all have different personalities: calm, insane, cute, violent, determinated and etc. For most stereotypical they be, they have something that differ from the characters of other animes, thats is how they react depending of a event they are in. It express a lot of reality, and somehow you can feel how they are feeling in a determinated scene, where most of the times you beg for them and other times you feel very sorry for what happens, it's really good. Now that we have heard the positive side, lets go to the negative, i really wanted to rate 9 in the characters, but i have already told you guys the problem of Black bullet having a bad adaptation, and duo the a lot of missing informations, most of the characters don't have a very well constructed backgroud story, in other words, in a scene where you could be sad for them....you will be like...for example...neutral. The lack of information creates some characters that could have been memorable somehow...but ends being left without causing any impact, of course there are exceptions but cmon, this really disappoints. All characters should have their respective attention, so we could have enjoyed them more. Other problem is...how i can put...the characters fast change of mood during some scenes....from sad...goes to determinated...happy to angry, etc. Is very unreal in this part but they are stil enjoyable somehow. Enjoyment: 7/10 I personally enjoyed Black Bullet very much but duo the lack of information and a great amount of a unexplained things, the anime come out with some confusing things, decreasing the excitement but yet, is still a very good anime to watch and you will personally enjoy. Overall: 7/10 Black Bullet had eveything for become a very good anime, with amazing sounds; characters and stories. but for a mediocre adaptation, it turned to be something inferior than what could have become, a memorable anime. Is still good to watch and enjoy. The Novel is still ongoing, so i hope if they make a second season, make a better adaptation than what the season one be, with a lot more of suprises and twists. Pros: +Great Atmosphere +Great Character Variety +Beautiful Memorable Soundtracks and OSTs +Gorgeous Animation and Stunning Visuals/Effects. Cons: -Its very rushed. Lack of Information and Many unexplained things that affected in many areas of the anime.

This is my first review and english isn’t my first language but bare with me Story(8/10): The story takes place in the future where a strange viral parasite has driven the human race almost at the edge of extinction. It creates monstrous bug like creatures known as Gastrea and is also responsible for giving superhuman powers to some of the female population (young girls) who are despised by others and are called the "cursed children". The story centers around Rentarou and his partner Enju (cursed child) who fight to push back the Gastrea threat. Art(10/10): The art was wonderful, action was fast and pretty. Character designs were everything one would hope for. Sound(9/10): The opening and outro music were both something you would freely listen to in your free time. The ost which recently came out is the perfect music when the action starts. As for voice acting it was as expected - good. Characters(10/10): Black bullets true strength lies with it’s characters! One wouldn’t expect a 13 ep anime to have such dept and character development right? Wrong! The two main characters Rentarou and Enju partnership is well developed with the short time given it doesn’t feel rushed at all like most manga promotional animes, what to me is amazing. As the story continues Rentarou and Enju’s bond deepens and they rally up a few friend along the way. Even most side characters have their little story and reasons for fighting. The main villain is mysteries masked badass who is strong and a bit out of it but looks cool and is a good match for the two mains. In the character development view point it feels like every second of the anime goes as it should nothing is slow or rushed it just feels natural. Overall(10/10): The story itself isn’t unique or astonishing BUT it’s the well developed characters what makes it one of the best animes i have watched. It also doesn’t hurt to have awesome art and glorious music along the way as you see the story unfold.

I came back to watch Black Bullet since I have exams tomorrow and needed something dark, depressing and cute gals (its ironic but.. yea) You want a clingy teary-eyed loli call out the protagonist's name every episode? YOU GOT IT You want some kick ass action with lolis? RIGHT HERE You wanna fall into despair and watch lovable loli girls die? SHIT ITS HERE You want a busty gal since you're not into lolis? HELL ITS IN THE PACKAGE But really, I came back to watch my clingy Enju and tragedy for dem feels. Never have I seen so many lovable lolis die in a single anime series ;_;

This is one of my favorite animes since it got all i search in anime: a good story, good characters, some action and expecially feelings (and no, i am not talking about the usual "i love you"). If it is so good why 8? Because i love the mix of these elements but in truth they are just good, no more and no less: it's like when you try something good to eat but not exceptional, you'll remember only "it was good" without remember every single detail. But let me explain better. Story - It's not really an original one but more like an original mix of many things: a duo team, contagious virus and a discriminated superpowered race (surprise! they are loli). The story has "small arcs" and a very fast pace, often too fast (almost nothing of their past) and many scenes are "condensed" in few minutes (that's probably because it's an adapation and 13 episode were not enough) but it's easy to understand with small "surprises" occasionally. Character - I don't like loli, really i don't, but you can't possibly don't like good natured people fighting to protect even people who despise them. So, returning to the topic, even if i really don't like loli and these little girls don't have a "deep personality" (except Tina) i think they are more then fine; i want to remember to many of you that are thinking "they are just bland" that they are kids, so don't expect "death note"-like reasoning from them ! About MC (main character) i think it's a bit classic but he faces some interesting "moral choices" making him somewhat interesting. Action - This is the "weak point" for me. There is a lot of action but is often rushed and for most of the show not really "spectacular": fights here are usually done with bullet, blades and punches; nothing flashy. Feelings - Here the best point. I don't really think it's an "harem" because unless you are really a pedo you can't really want to marry a little girl so in this anime we are talking about the "true meaning of love". Hey what? Are you serious? I am. I am not kidding. Love is care about others, even enemies: sometimes you got hurt for your misplaced trust and sometimes your love make people better, letting them love other people and the circle continues. So if: -you are good guy (i don't think you can understand many things here if you are a selfish one) -you like action -you like the seinen you should watch it!

There are certain types of shows that I like to call “ones you know are bad but couldn't help but like anyway”. Basically what this means is that despite a series having some sort of massive flaw, depending on how you look at it you might (or might not) still be able to ignore that side for the most part and just have a good time watching it anyway. And at least in my opinion, Black Bullet is one of those shows. Let's start with the bad part then. As you'll find out by reading the comments for this anime essentially anywhere, what this show doesn't seem to understand is a little something called pacing. Like so many other series before it, Black Bullet is an anime that quite simply should have had a 2-cour airing instead of 1, without extending the amount of content it covers from the original light novels. The story moves on with an absolutely blistering speed, making every episode feel like it was actually two or three episodes compressed together into one. This results in the seemingly simplistic plot becoming somewhat incomprehensible at times, simply because the anime doesn't spare the time to take a breather and explain just what the hell is currently going on or why. The premise itself isn't that bad though, it's a classical setup of a post-apocalyptic world where the last remnants of humanity are trying to survive and eventually push back the invaders called Gastraea; a species of ginormous parasitic bugs that can look like anything spanning from insects to dinosaurs. Mindless, but it works, it's just that the plot moves along too fast for its own good most of the time. Well then, with all that out of the way, let's move on to the slightly less negative aspects shall we? The character cast of this show doesn't really have too much depth behind it, which again is an indirect consequence of the absurd pacing the anime has. However fear not, because as it happens, Black Bullet's choice of character tropes is aimed at an audience which doesn't care about such plebian details. I am of course talking about badass supernatural lolis with guns and swords! This is a total make or break factor varying from viewer to viewer I should say. If you are part of the loli hate train then I would say that this fact combined with the pacing should be enough for me to say that this anime is probably not for you. However if you're as much of a lolicon as I am, then it will instead be part of what saves the show, as the anime has countless of them and they deliver pretty much what you'd want them too. Especially the lead heroine Enju is incredibly moe and adorable, and just livens up the anime whenever she gets screen time. Love her character design. Other than that there really isn't too much to say about Black Bullet. It is a bit dark albeit nothing massive, and the plot kind of stumbles upon itself, however at the same time it also resulted in the anime constantly switching from exciting scenes to exciting scenes, as the hyperactive pacing at least assured that there was always something happening in the story. Ironically this might have actually increased the enjoyment value for me in a way, as it became an extremely marathonable show due to its constant action, however looking at the big picture then obviously the overarching story is suffering from it. As a final shoutout I also have to mention that out of all the anime I've seen this season (note, I have not seen all of them mind you), Black Bullet has by far and wide the best OP *and* ED songs at the same time, especially the opening reminded me a lot of the first OP from Shingeki no Kyojin. Of course that’s hardly enough to carry the show on its own, but it deserves an honorable mention at least. Final rundown: Story – 4/10: However I think this could have been like 7 or 8 had it been properly adapted Characters – 3/10: If you're not a lolicon, 8/10: If you are a lolicon Art – 6/10: Didn't even feel the need to comment on this, but it was pretty average/standard Sound – 10/10: Best of the season Enjoyment – 9/10: Despite its flaws, I had a ton of fun watching this show. This number would probably be lowered quite drastically if you, again, don't like lolis, or try to take the plot too seriously, as doing so would only make you focus on its shortcomings. You're better off just turning your brain off a bit and tagging along for the ride, because if you do so then it's actually a pretty fun ride.

*Note: If this review is tldr, then at least jump to the end and read my advice on how to approach this anime. Thanks for your patience. Two words sum up Black Bullet very well: Paradise Lost I began watching this series out of curiosity, since it had finished airing last week. The first episode blew me away in terms of art, sound, and story. I was deeply interested in the Black Bullet's world, and I wanted to find out more. I prematurely gave this anime a 9/10 rating after the first four episodes, but that rating slowly decreased into a 6/10. At the end of the series I was left with an opinion on what the show was and what it could have been. Black Bullet is a prime example of how a potentially great series can be ruined with sub-par pacing. It was imprudent to abridge such an enormous universe and story into a mere 13 episode show. The story of the anime is quite intriguing, and you will see many other viewers refer to Attack on Titan or other dystopian anime series for Black Bullet’s dark world of humans’ fight against alien parasite. The premise of the story is certainly strong, but it is dragged down to terrible rating due to the quick pacing of the series. The first four episodes is a very interesting arc, and has a mini climatic moment in itself. Quickly after this, the series slowly deteriorates and diverges from its main selling point: badass action and emotional feels. The story is very complex and deserves a bit more than what most critiques are willing to give. The internal conflict of the city and the cursed, the fight against an alien race, and the personal struggles of the characters are very intriguing and interesting. Yet the main problem results from inadequate screen time spent on those important conflicts and emotional triggers, and this restricts the series from becoming more than average. The art and sound of the show are very sharp and sleek. They really make the show shine and sparkle despite the many inherent flaws. The character designs are very well done, and the music (original soundtrack, not the OP and ED) sets the mood for both the serious and happy moments. The characters, while inherently interesting and strong, suffer from a lack of screen time and important development. The anime focuses strongly on a handful of characters, while ignoring the other very important side characters who play a pivotal role in the story. Many times, you are overwhelmed with random characters that explain the political aspect of the series, and you’re left scratching your head on who that character even is. Overall, I enjoyed the series. I don’t believe it was a waste of my time in anyway, and I’m sure that the light novels are really interesting (I have not read any of them prior to this review). If only this anime took its time and expanded the episodes from 13 to 26, then many of the problems could have been fixed. I’m sad to see it end on such a sour note, and I hope a second season can perhaps make amends. *Personal advice to those who do not want to watch the entire series due to overall negative reviews: Watch the first four episodes of the series, and leave it at that. This series is similar to the TV show Dexter – it becomes progressively worse, but the beginning is really amazing. First four episodes = 9/10 rating.

There's a lot of elements that go into creating a truly spectacular anime, at least from a critical standpoint. An interesting story, excellent writing, fluid pacing, an appealing art style, a good soundtrack, and character development just to name a few. This, as you can imagine, is really difficult to do; that's why there's not that many "great" anime titles out there. But even if a show isn't "great" by critical standards, that doesn't mean it can't be incredibly fun and satisfying to watch. Black Bullet is one of these shows - I'll be the first to admit that the writing isn't the best. Many of the plot points are hopelessly contrived and at times while watching you'll just kind of throw your hands up in the air while mouthing, "Really?" But… that doesn't mean I didn't enjoy the hell out of this series. Which I did. I laughed and I cried (the feels - oh did I cry), cheered, yelled, frowned and ultimately smiled. In that way I feel like Black Bullet is on the same level of (if not slightly higher than) shows like Strike the Blood, Tokyo Ravens and Guilty Crown: if you enjoyed those you'll probably enjoy this one. Black Bullet has a lot of things going for it - the music is amazing and the art is beautiful, especially the character designs. Just a word of warning though - you WILL shed some tears during the course of this series. Black Bullet is a decidedly dark show and the darkness is dealt with in a very real way. This isn't your typical loli fighting anime. Everyone will enjoy watching this anime

Black Bullet was a series I actually genuinely enjoyed watching. I'm not big on loli or any other such type of thing, but this series was actually really enjoyable almost the entire way through, but I'll go further into details with that later on. Animation: 7 The art direction and the overall animation for the series is very well done. It's fluid and the action sequences are fast-paced and get you pumped. However in comparison to other titles that have aired around the time this did it falls short. Music: 6 This section would have been higher if not for one reason. Instead of paying attention to the music during the sequences the art and animation took far more attention from me as did the events in the storyline. The music I did manage to hear though fit the situations quite nicely. Because of it not feeling all that important in comparison to the story and art it only gets a six though. Characters: 8 All the characters in the main cast were pretty enjoyable to be honest. The antagonists save for one specific character were just... frustrating. They got my blood boiling, soooo... well done! The one I enjoyed though was that guy who seemed to always find a way into the main character's head and mess with him which made him all the more likeable as an antagonist. Story: 5 Oh boy... This would have been a lot higher of a score if not for the season ended... The storyline up until episode thirteen was enjoyable. It didn't seem to have any plot holes and a lot of the time I was freaking out over Rentaro's actions and loving the series. However the story decides to try and pull a plot twist that while not feeling forced, felt like it lacked any form of logic the series had up until that point and making one character seem completely different from how she was the entire series only to leave us with a terrible cliffhanger and no season two in sight. The ending alone lowered the score for the story which could have easily been a seven or an eight possibly. Overall: 6 It was fine, but without a season two this series just seems to lack anything truly worthwhile. It's a fun ride, but don't watch this if you like conclusive endings. If a season two gets made then I'd definitely recommend watching it. However if you can't stand the type of cliffhanger ending I have previously mentioned then this is definitely not for you... less

Black bullet tries to be serious and still provide some fan service for the loli lovers. Neither of these work quite as well as it tries. The characters feel empty and the story isn't there to amaze you either. The last episode really sums this show up: one predictable plot twist after another and setting things up for the plausible season two. Not worth the time if you want a good story with good characters.

Black Bullet... Before I ever watched it, I thoroughly read through a lot of reviews, nearly all who proclaimed it to be an overall mediocre show. This drastically lowered my expectations and I almost never watched it, but i just couldn't get passed the idea of the whole promoter/initiator partners concept. So I gave it a shot. Looking back now I actually wonder if I saw the same show as everyone else. Not to say anyone's opinion was wrong, I was just so impressed with Black Bullet that I didn't see the drastic negatives many others did. The story takes place about 16 years or so in the future, in a world where humanity has been exiled into small safe territories by evil creatures called the Gastrea. The story focuses on Rentaro, a young civil officer who's job it is to fight and kill gastrea that manage to make their way into the Tokyo Area. His partner is a young girl named Enju, who is known as a "Cursed Child", which is a child born of a woman who was injected/impregnated with the venom of a gastrea. A new powerful Gastrea threat appears and both Rentaro and Enju, along with many others, must work together to prevent human extinction. Just to get it out of the way, Animation quality: I thought it was great. so yeah. the dark colors emphasized the dark intense atmosphere of the anime. Music: good (mostly in terms of its intense OP and beautiful ED) The plot as a whole, although some could argue it bears a resemblance to Attack on Titan, is actually very unique and interesting. I don't think this story can't be categorized as simply as "humans vs Gastrea" because one major conflict throughout the show is the relationship between normal people and the Cursed Children. Now even though along side human partners it's the cursed children who are risking their lives to kill gastrea, they aren't accepted by society because they have gastrea blood in them. The general public treat them cruelly, and don't allow them to be a part of normal society. This bodes the question for the viewer "who really are our main protagonists fighting for? Is this even worth it?" it provides emotional and mental conflict for both the characters and us viewers, and that makes the story that much better. Although the anime is very serious and... sad, it has it's light air of relief comedy in the relationship between Rentaro and Enju and other cursed children, who all want to marry him, which is adorable (because it's not meant to be taken seriously by the viewer, if you do, then you're watching the show wrong... it's not a loli harem). It's very enjoyable. One unfortunate negative thing to point out is the plot did feel a little rushed, which I wish wasn't the case. I think some things could have been more properly elaborated on and explained. What would have made this show better to me is if it had been say 22-24 episodes spanning this exact same plot line. Then the pacing at times wouldn't have felt so rushed and information you need to know wouldn't have felt sort of thrown in your face at times. Do I think that messed up the anime as a whole? nah. It just prevented us from being able to further appreciate the story. As a whole I genuinely thoroughly enjoyed this anime specifically due to it's interesting and heartbreaking action packed plot and it's plethora of unique and like-able characters (even the main antagonist is awesome.) Even if it was too short to have 100% accurately adapted itself from it's light novel, I still believe Black Bullet is worth a watch. It's highly entertaining, emotionally gripping, and full of good quality action. However if you read the LN and are an absolute stickler for adaptation accuracy, then steer clear because you'll just end up all upset.

Story: The first time I saw this anime was during an anime club meeting in high school. Anime club was supposed to be more than watching stuff, but because the original leaders graduated, things went downhill from there, but I don't have any regrets watching Black Bullet. I was obsessing over it for months afterwards because I forgot the title of it until I saw it on Crunchyroll (Heaven bless you). It may be true that the dystopian society obsessed with killing mysterious monsters who can turn human beings into monsters isn't so original, but if my friends know anything else about me, it's that I love anything dystopian (Except the Hunger Games, and they call it art?). Normally, the monster thing would creep me out, but the whole concept glued my eyes to the TV screen. Despite being grossed out sometimes, the whole concept gets a full score from me. Art: It's clear that Black Bullet has more of a male audience focus because of how techy and dark the anime can get. In fact, everything in atmosphere is just gigantic and bold. The characters may not have as bold of features, but you can tell at every moment exactly how each character is feeling just by looking at them. Plus, just how mechanical Rentaro's metal limbs are just amazes me and makes me remember how cool anime is. Plus, the fact people can tell who the Cursed Children are by their red eyes just reminds you that this is a sci-fi dystopian story. It does get bloody, and you can just know when it's going to happen, too, because the art actually foreshadows everything. But still, I'm in love with it, and I'm a female. I know girls who are obsessed with the show and want a season two of it already. This section gets a full voting score. Sound: This is the first anime that I've watched in which I love both opening and ending theme songs. The opening is catchy, but it's catchy to the point where it doesn't get so annoying compared to the Ouran opening theme. As the opening explains what goes on in the series, the ending just reminds you that the story is all about Enju in all honesty because the whole war with the monsters vs the humans affects her the most. Putting Enju clips at the end just makes people's hearts sink into their stomaches. I know my heart did that. Overall, this portion also deserves a 10. Character: There are four characters in the series who stand out to me most of all, two of them being the main characters of the show. When the monsters first attacked Rentaro's country, he was fatally injured and his mentor's doctoral skills saved his life. For those fifteen years, he was only focused on killing those who killed his family. His partner, Enju, is an orphaned Cursed Child and Rentaro was her only friend (and for some strange reason, not really lover. The crush thing? What the fuck is that? I mean I know little girls have crushes on older guys as a more fan base thing, but Enju wants to marry Rentaro and have his children, which is fucking scary to me). After learning of Enju's backstory, you tend to feel very sorry for her since she didn't do anything wrong. Cursed Children in Rentaro's society are the equivalent to the blacks before and during the civil rights movement, the majority just want them gone. Kisara was so badass. She knows what she wants, and no one is going to stand in her way, not even when Rentaro is so appealing. Ever since I saw those two together, I wanted them to get together. Then, realizing that this is a dystopia we are talking about, I found it very unlikely. The end proved me right (You will have to find that out for yourselves because I'm not telling you want happens). The end of the season just made me hate her, and with good reason, too. Though Tina Sprout is not considered a main character, I just felt guilty and hatred for her all at the same time. When I first met her, I thought she just wanted to destroy Rentaro and Kisara all together. No. The more she hung out with Rentaro and Enju, the more she wanted to do good in society, the more she wanted to keep Rentaro and Enju safe. Inside, Tina has a good heart. That's why I love her so much. Just because I don't like some characters, doesn't mean that this portion gets a lower score. To be fair, I drew a 9 out of 10. Enjoyment: I didn't want to stop watching this show when it was close to midnight. The gut-wrenching events and epic battle scenes just have you glued onto your computer screen. Do I want a second season? Yes, and I hope they make it because I want to see more of Rentaro so bad. Great characters, epic story, and brilliant effects just give this whole thing another perfect 10. Overall: This anime didn't get a perfect 10, but after doing the math, I had to round it up, so overall, it did by default. This is based off of my opinion. If you don't like it by the end of the day, fine. However, if you're tired of watching shojo or robots fighting each other, Black Bullet is a must see. You will get just as addicted as I did.

I want to love this anime so much. It has a lot of potential but I feel it could had been handled better. Despite that I really enjoyed it. STORY: People have compared this with Attack on Titan and its not hard to see why. Civilization has closed itself off from an outside threat which threatens to consume every person. That's the overall plot, each individual arc was interesting. My one problem is that it feels like it could had been so much more. I never read the LN so I don't know exactly how much story there was available to adapt from. Just by extending it to a 24 episode season could had helped so much. To gradually see the relationships and bonds grow would had made all the struggles and difficult choices each character had to make have more of an impact. It is still very enjoyable, I simply found myself thinking "I would had liked to have seen how they first met" often ART: Art style plays a major role for me. For the most part I really liked it in this series. The characters look great, fights are carried out well enough. I also like the imaginative enemies they come up with. Its nothing spectacular, but very few are. I'm normally not a fan of cg animation, but it was rarely used and well done when it was. CHARACTERS: This is where to me, the anime excelled at. The main protagonist is interesting, entertaining. His loli partner is cute and funny plus also quite the fighter. Every character plays a role. Towards they end they seemed to throw a couple characters into the mix. Not much of a backstory for them. That isnt really a bad thing since you'll mostly be caring about the main characters anyway. OVERALL: I enjoyed it a lot, though the end did feel a bit rushed. The small twist a certain character had in the end felt really forced and out of nowhere. Don't go in expecting a deep and detailed story. Just watch it for what it is, a interesting, funny when it can be, heartbreaking when it has to story. If you haven't read the LN definitely watch it. If you have read the ln.....maybe just stick with the story you have in your mind

I dont know how to start this review, so it might be the best to put a little disclaimer: Black Bullet is an anime, that requires your attention. It is an anime that you have to watch concentrated, else it will throw you of and you probably will tend not to like. Reasoning for that is the fast pacing, everything happens in a fast manner that it may throw you of if you werent watching carefully. Go in with an open mind at it will pay of. Black Bullet may be an overdone scenario, but it is yet more unique than you might think it to be. At the beginning you are greeted wiith a rather horrible scenario. Humanity in colonies, the sky is red and clouded while their surroundings are partly burning. They think they might be save but a giant monster crashes through the sky, inflicting panic and many death before it finally came to death as the scene stops on our main protagonist, Rentaro. It is unfortunately only later explained what actually was happening to them. Humanity was attacked by a terrible menace, an alien virus called ,,Gastrea''. The virus was sent in by monsters with animal-like behaviour and the most terryfing part is the one hit -certain death, penalty. The reason for the eradication is that we had no anti-bodies to fight the virus - once bitten or just a tiny bit entering our body and the virus would assimilate aggressively. When it has 50 % of the cells under control, the virus will destroy the human shell of a host and thus a new gastrea is born. Next in the plot we see Rentaro in New Tokyo or better the Tokyo District - as those who survived have hidden together in the rest what was left of their cities, these are protected by huge walls made of varanium - a metall that Gastrea despise and thus avoid. Rentaro had found the signs of an infection in the city, but is yet greeted by a misterious masked man - calling upon that he would bring destruction to the world. Rentaro was unfortunately defeated as his partner Enju arrives but likely they found the infested citizen. Here comes the tricky part then, which makes me kind of angry and confused everytime i come over it. Humanitys' last Hope are the cursed children. You hear that the gastrea virus was passed down over the mouth into pregnant women and instead of taking over the body it deeply hardened in the cells of the child. Those childs gain red eyes and superhuman abilitys to destroy the other gastrea. The fucked up thing i had with that is that those children are treated like trash. They live in slums and only the least citizen treat them like actual humans - except the promoter and even those have some a**holes in them. You get a really hard example, where a young girl had blinded herself by bleaching her eyes, just to be excepted by the other humans. What you deal with is no light anime, but one that deals with heavy questions like: - How can you survive? - How do you treat your friends? - What ideals will you stand for? - Can you accept one of them, or can you stand being one of them? As you see, the story can be really astonishing and confusing- if you want to watch it then you have to keep on. The art is quite fascinating, the gastrea are well made and terrifying to see, though i may have wished for some drawn versions instead of CGI ones here and there. Sound instead is very spot on, you will feel pumped and sometimes also scared. The op , sung by fripside is very fitting to the anime universe. It shows a dedication to a well thought out plot and invites you to let you immerse yourself. Unfortunately due to the fast paced plot, much of the information had to be squished in a thus much other characters have been left as cameos and are not even nearly explained, which is disappointing. Though it having a lot of flaws, i had great fun with it and kept on watching. Given the respective points, i have calculated the score based on story- sound , art and characters and my personal enjoyment which is why im am issuing the series a 7.6 which rounds up to 8. It is unfortunately opinionated, you can not definetly say ,,Watch it, you definetly are gonna like it.'' I personally advice you to at least give it a try.

*Note* This is my second review, so once again, any feedback you guys may have after reading would be much greatly appreciated :). I thought i'd start with the conclusion first to change things up abit. To conclude my thoughts on this anime, I thought that the premise was quite interesting and it had much potential but I felt the execution was rather weak. I went into Black Bullet with no prior expectations (since I had no idea of it's origins - manga/light novel etc.) and while I wasn't disappointed, I wasn't really addicted to it either. I rated it an 8/10 but in actuality it would probably be closer to a 7.5/10. Story (9/10): The story, in my opinion, was quite intriguing. The anime is set in a time where the humans have just been invaded by Gaustrea and is set showing the aftermath of the war. The story revolves around a civil officer named Rentaro and his partner Enju and their experiences as they live out their daily lives as survivors of the war. The background on the Gaustrea is that only objects (swords, bullets etc) made out of Vanadium can do any decent amount of damage to them. The only other 'weapon' humans can utilize are 'cursed' children who are born with Gaustrea-type powers (like insane strength). Art (9/10): I quite enjoyed the art-style in this anime, it was easy on the eyes to watch. Sound (7/10): The voice acting throughout the anime was rather average, there were only a few characters who really had their personalities emphasized through the voice acting were the masked man (Hiruko Kagetane) and Tina Sprout. The music used helped enhance the experience but there were no outstanding sound-tracks. Characters (8/10): While non of the main characters really struck me as 'interesting', some of the side ones had quite the impression. Most notably, the masked man caught my attention and had an mysterious personality. Also, some of the 'cursed' children you could sympathize with as they portrayed their emotions pretty well. Enjoyment (7/10): Like I said already in my conclusion, the story was cool but the execution wasn't as great. I felt as if I should've enjoyed it more then I had done. Overall (8/10): Neither unenjoyable nor 'The Void' worthy (see my explanation on my profile about how I rate my anime if you don't know what 'The Void' is), an equilibrium found somewhere between the 2.

Now this is only my opinion on how the anime was and everyone has different opinions but I least like people to give the show a chance. Story- 9 Well the story or synapse is already said in the page but I will try to give a summary in my own words. Basically is about these two partners Enju and Rentarou who are part of "Civil Service". the "Civil Service" are partners who are called when there is a Gastrea. Why do they focus on these specific partners? Well lets just say Rentarou is not your ordinary HS student. There is also the problem with the Cursed Children (which if you watch the anime you will find out what I mean). The story has many different mini stories within it (like with Tina, Midori, etc). The twist at the end is definitely something to look forward to as well. The story also consist of very dramatic sad scenes as well as action packed scenes and the usual comedy in between. the only flaw was that the story may have been a little rushed at times. Art- 9 Personally, I liked the art. However, it sometimes really depends on which type of animation you like. But they were really adorable at times. A character that's really known for cuteness is Tina Sprout. Sound- 9 I absolutely loved the ending and the opening was nice as well. The OST when fighting was amazing really suited the mood. The sad scenes I wouldn't say the OST was the best of all time but it was nice and it did go with the mood. The OST was well suited for the scenes chosen. Character-7 There were many different type of characters. Rentarou the badass, Enju always going after Rentarou, Tina the cute type, Hiruko and her "Papa" the crazy type, and many more. Each character was different from the other and it was enjoyable to see new characters with different personas each time. Never got tire of meeting them. Enjoyment-10 The anime was very enjoyable it had action as well as many surprises and sometimes comedy. It totally left a mark on me especially the ending. But the story you cold say was sometimes predictable but other time had your mind saying "What the heck did that really just happened". Each time the episode came out each week it always left me wanting more. Overall-9 I loved the anime, it left me wondering about of lot of things in the end but it also left such a strong impression on me that I can remember clearly remember what happens in the anime and many more minor details.

This fall anime season was just full of bad manga/LN adaptions and unfortunately Black Bullet was a causality of that force too. Well I'm not here to talk about the other crappy adaptions but here to talk about Black Bullet the anime so here we go. Story: Here we have the story of Satomi Rentarou a young promoter in a civil security agency headed by his childhood friend. A world over run by monsters called gastreas who threaten the world as they know it and want to just kill all the humans cause otherwise there wouldn't be a story. Also we have a bunch of bad ass lolis with super powers that help out our young hero and the other promoters that you sometimes see. Don't forget though that everyone but the civil security people despise the lolis because fuck them I don't care that they are constantly saving our world but they have some gastrea blood in them thats slowly melting them away so they are bad guys too so fuck them. The story all though very rushed in the anime is good but often gets held back and never really gets as dark as it does in the manga and LN possibly because the budget was low so only had 13 episodes which defiently wasn't enough for this story to shine and also is constantly over shadowed by the said lolis and all the other women that flock towards Satomi. Art: The art in the anime is to say the least is very bright and colorful and really displays the choas and depravity of humanties last stand and is also very moe-y. HAHA but in all seriousness it seems like the artists for this anime didn't even look at the art from the LN or manga and just decided to go with what they saw would make all the cute girls and lolis look good. Sound: I can say that the OP and ED were good but the sounds of the guns and everything else seemed like they just copied and pasted the same sounds and were like yes no one will notice how low this budget was and that we spent it all on the OP and ED. Character: I'm only going to talk about Satomi Rentarou here because he seems to be the only character that the staff really cared about in this anime and the only one who got in character put into them. So we have Satomi Rentarou who at the very beginning of this story as any typical shonen protag would have it had his parent killed by the gastrea and then shouts out that hes going to kill them all (not really was just poking fun because of same VA as SnK's Eren) then he sets of to become a promoter for this company that his childhood friend and sweet heart set up and teams up with very own loli who he tries not to touch throughout the series. He learns that the world isn't all that great as it used to be and that everyone seems to be an asshole and wants to kill his loli sidekick and all her friends and that the world his is protecting might not even be worth protecting and all that typical shonen stuff that protags seem to go through. All that said I find him to be interesting to say the least but just typical and but better than all the other characters in this anime. Also to say it here he and everyone else gets better development in the LN and manga so go read them. Enjoyment: I got some enjoyment out of watching this slaying of a favorite series of mine just cause I kind of forced myself not to hate it in case one day by the grace of the anime lords they decide to re boot it and do it correctly I would say that I stuck by it and enjoyed it. Overall I know it seems like I bashed it throughout this review but in all honesty I feel like as a fan of this series I was betrayed that the animators and staff just threw this half assed work at me and were like enjoy it and cut out a bunch of interesting characters and cut out major fight scenes and just expected everyone to roll with it. I'm giving it an 8 only because I feel like even though it was a pretty bad adaption it wasn't the worst and certainly wasn't terrible but could have been 20 times better if done correctly. In saying the least I would say watch this but don't expect anything ground breaking and if you read the LN and or manga then be prepared to be disapointed. Peace out and enjoy all the anime there is to watch.

Opening Words (NO spoilers in this review) This anime has had some rather negative views from people I however actually (My opinion) really like this anime. Main Discussion It seams that when ever an anime has loli's people seem to hate it (excluding NGNL) but I actually like anime that aren't afraid to show loli's. (In no way am I talking sexually (Note: At no point in this anime are loli's viewed in a sexual way)). Don't get me wrong I understand why some people don't like loli's. Just so people dont think that the only reason I wrote this review that that I'm a lolicon I have a few other things to say: - Action in this anime was pretty good - Was a little to fast paced - Had a thing for not explaining things well/or at all - Needed more time/episodes to explain the full story (skipped large parts of LN (or so i have heard)) - Had very impressive music/soundtrack (That OP doe) - Had Very impressive art (Enju doe) (as to be expected from kadokawa) - Story was pretty good (although not adapted well (from what I have heard)) - Had loli's (:P just for the haters) - Could get kinda goreie at times. - Had pretty good character development. To those Haters I like this anime and I don't like to see others disrespecting other peoples Beliefs/Likes/Interests (Be it their opinion (I respect that) there is no need to disrespect those who actually care about it) Final Words I give this anime a rating of: 9 / 10 Reason for this rating: The anime feels rushed. Sequel: If they make it I'll Definitely with out a doubt watch it (Unlikely to happen :( based on sales) Will I read the LN/Manga: If I can find paperback copy's (I dont like digital dont ask me why) definitely Story: 8 / 10 Art: 9.5 / 10 Music 9.5 / 10 I don't care if people call me a lolicon (maybe I am). Anime is for everyone not just you haters who can only accept naruto clones no matter how something is made people find ways to hate and spread said hate to others. Thanks for you time and I hope you agree with what I have to say (I know there is going to be haters) :D Martin, Hyland