2014年5月8日星期四

Anime to Look Out For This Season



No Game, No Life

No Game, No Life (#NogeNora) is a comedic fantasy anime that I've enjoyed much more than I thought I would. Long story short, Nogenora is about Sora and Shiro, a set of NEET siblings who are transferred to a world where everything is decided by games but don't be fooled by that premise. Surprisingly, Nogenora contains no incest and it is not the same kind of game world as SAO or Log Horizon. These siblings use their unique intellect to save humanity from being taken over by the various other species that inhabit this world of games.


The comedy gets a little repetitive from time to time but the references to other anime are almost always hilarious. Sora and Shiro are obviously OP but Sora's confidence and Shiro loyalty/moe-ness makes their obviously insane power level entertaining.

Brynhildr in The Darkness
A Science Fiction drama that tends to transition from suspense filled drama to comedy in a blink of eye has an interesting plot. Bynhildr in the Darkness tells the story of a teen named Ryouta Murakami who had lost his childhood friend nicknamed Kuroneko in an accident years ago. One day a transfer student arrives at his school resembling his childhood friend and even bears the name Kuroha Neko. This girl refers to herself as a witch and even has super strength to prove it. Her and other witches are currently on the run, attempting to escape the laboratory that created them and Murakami has been thrown into the midst.

Brynhildr in the Darkness (#Gokukoku) was written by Lynn Okamoto, the writer of Elfen Lied. Similar to Elfen Lied, Bynhildr in the Darkness gets a little darker with each passing episode but still retains the comedy. This series makes heavy use of dramatic irony but I will admit, for those who prefer to know as much as the MC, Brynhildr in the Darkness may not be for you.

Black Bullet
Black Bullet is a fast paced, action packed, monster, loli themed anime that I just can't seem to look away from. In the year 2021, mankind was defeated by Gastrea, a parasitical virus, and was forced to live within a wall made of Varanuim monoliths, a metal that is able to subdue Gastrea. Soon, the "Cursed Children" were discovered: children born infected with the Gastrea virus who possess superhuman abilities. Due to the Gastrea virus' intervention, the Cursed Children could only be female. Civil Securities are formed to specialize fighting against Gastrea, operating with the pair of an Initiator, who are cursed children, and a Promoter, serving to lead the cursed children. Ten years after the war, Rentarou Satomi, a high school student and Civil Security member, and his Initiator Enju Aihara, receive a secret mission to prevent Tokyo's destruction.

I never thought that an anime could juggle monsters and loli and still be entertaining without resorting to constant fanservice. Then again does the very existence of loli count as fanservice? I am enjoying Black Bullet at the moment but the death of the first antagonist who was definitely my second favorite character of the series knocked off some points. Only four episodes in, the antagonist is introduced and defeated, a monster who threatens to destroy the entire city is gone, major rival killed, a close friend is killed and a dark secret involving the MC's loli is revealed to the viewer. Black Bullet is very fast paced but for those who would rather see an anime that gets right down to business and moves on, I would recommend Black Bullet.

Akuma no Riddle
Haru Ichinose is a student at a private girls' boarding school, Myoujou Academy, who is being targeted by 12 assassins disguised as students. Tokaku Azuma is a transfer student and an assassin who also initially targets Haru, but develops feeling for her and decides to protect her from the other assassins.

Akuma no Riddle is quite frankly, for lack of a better term a series about lesbian assassins. Tokaku spends her days protecting Haru from a group of other assassins while also attempting to find out why there is even a target on her head. At the end of the day, Haru is more than she appears and it is difficult to tell whether she is truly an innocent victim in all of this or she is a manipulative sociopath. Figuring that out is half the joy of this series with the other half being the fights between assassins.
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