Good premise, bad presentation.

Written by Kuugeki on February 8, 2011 at 4:18 PM

This anime started out kinda like Yu Yu Hakusho. An interesting idea with a lot of potential to make a great anime. The animation is good and the dialogue and characters are, at the beginning, tolerable. Up until the soul society arc the anime is fairly engaging and seems to be setting the stage for a somewhat original action anime. Then it falls out from under itself.

It reverts to an arc based bad guy a la Dragonball Z. New villain shows up, main character fights and loses, gets stronger, fights again and wins. Rinse repeat for next arc. Eventually the Big Bad arc comes up, said Big Bad is on the verge of gaining so much power he cold destroy the universe by sneezing. Main character fights through minions, barely surviving, yet still manages to beat the Big Bad and save the day. Commence happy ending.

This anime is predictable, over the top action with no real ability to set itself apart from the rest of the action anime that have been around for 20-30 years. The potential it had at the beginning fizzled out in place one minute thrills. The characters have no real appeal, you could replace them and nobody would probably care as their personality's never really develop to the point they matter. The dialogue is cheesy and typical, "I must save everyone and never give up" hero speeches.

This is a decent modern starter anime for people who have never really seen much anime except for what is shown on Cartoon Network or Adult Swim but for veterans, watch up to the end of the SS arc and stop, or skip it entirely.