Teenagers (May contain bloody violence, bad language, nudity)
Vintage:
July 4, 2001
Status:
Completed
Summary:
A strange environmental phenomenon 22 years ago in the Kanazawa prefecture caused the land to split and protrude upwards reaching unprecedented heights, creating the secluded area known as The Lost Ground. Kazuma is a young mercenary who lives in the Lost Ground, looking for any work he can find to sustain his livelihood within the harsh environment. He is one of the few people that are gifted with the Alter ability, which allows him to plaster his right arm and torso with a metallic alloy. When this mercenary encounters HOLY, an order whose purpose is to suppress and capture what they call Native Alter Users, and one of the elite members of HOLY, Ryuho, an epic rivalry begins.
Written by psyclone2009 on April 18, 2012 at 10:36 PM
Overall Rating
Excellent
Story: 4
Dialogue: 5
Animation: 5
Entertainment: 4
This is a conflict anime (battle with a storyline, think more Naruto, less Dragonball) with our two main characters who start off enemies and then become friends/comrades though still in conflict to see whose the best (so again typical anime theme). The side characters are above average and don't depend on some weird physical appearance to be unique they actually have a bit of 3D personality. Some of them do of course have unique psychic powers but most of the side characters are more than just their power.
Fun except for the ending, which was another big anime disappointment in my book. I watched this on Cartoon Network back in the day and again later from Netflix, so definitely worth watching, you just might want to skip the last episode and make up your own ending, you'd likely do better than the creators of this anime did.