Electric Barrier Reviews

So, I've been wanting to do this for a few weeks now, because that's when I watched all the episodes currently aired in like 3 days because that's how fucking into this thing I was. Unfortunately I was wracking my brain trying to figure out just what to say and how to explain it, but now I think I know just what to do: Just review it. I could go on and on for ages about certain things but I think that'd do the show a disservice, because by focusing on those elements I'd be doing exactly what I don't want people to be doing with this show: focusing on... you know, those elements. So instead I'll put a little pre-amble to my actual review and briefly address... some things. To start off I think it'd be best if we started with how I came to watch this show. Originally when this show aired I had absolutely no interest in it. It looked like one of those shitty lol so randum modern cartoons and just wasn't my thing at all. It seemed really fucking dum...

THE GOOD Runner Up Anime the Year: Initial D Movie 1(aside from lack of Eurobeat it's NEW AND IMPROVED) Kamisama Kiss 2 Baby Steps 2 Himouto! Umaru-chan Magical Somera-chan. I'm a slightly pervy eel man. Too bad this meteor's gonna hit me. Better spin this useless gear. Jitsu wa Watashi wa: funniest comedy aside gintama also   All 9/10 Best Amateur Attempt at a Short Film: Taifu no Noruda: Try again guys it wasn't bad! It also has this sweet key image. Best JoJo of the Year:  Stardust Crusaders Egypt-hen / ORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAAAA Best Anime Still Airing : Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron Blooded Orphans Best Anime of the Year:   One Punch Man.  ONE PAAAAAAAAAAAAAANCH. GET DA POOOOOOOOWAH. I WANNA BE A SAIKYOU HEROOOOOOOOOO. I had to make this my anime of the year not only cuz I couldn't think of anything beside the new Gundam that I was most excited for each time it aired, but just because this was the coolest a...

SO, HERE ARE ANIME OF THIS YEAR Things That Were GOOD: Tonari no Seki-kun Houzuki no Reitetsu Mikakunin de Shinkoukei Selector Infected & Spread WIXOSS Inugami-san to Nekoyama-san Kawai Complex Barakamon Monthly Girl's Nozaki-kun Yama no Susume second season YUUKI YUUNA WA YUUSHA DE ARU! Ookami Shoujo to Kuro Ouji Akatsuki no Yona Things That Were Okay: Nobunaga the Fool Nobunagun A Pilot's Love Song Sakura Trick Mushi-shi Zoku-Shou Sabagebu Ao Haru Ride Arise -Ghost in the Shell- 3 Gugure Kokkuri-san Shingatsu Kimi no Uso Space Dandy(yeah I saw like one ep it was fine I guess) THINGS THAT WERE SHIT: Mekakushitty Actors Kanzen Robo Dime-a-Dollar(I saw like a minute of this oh god) Probably that Mahouka show with the incest girl Knights of Shitdonia(Dunno if the plot's any good, it looks fucking horrible) Gaslip(terrible) Tokyo Ghoul("But I don't WANNA eat people!", and then someone is ripped apart graphically) I'm s...

Mekakucity Actors is an anime produced by SHAFT and directed by Akiyuki Shinbo. It is (I feel loosely) based on/part of the "Kagerou Project", by Jin AKA "Shinzen no Teki P", who I believe also wrote the screenplay. In addition to these things, it's an anime I wish I hadn't watched. I originally wanted to go in depth, but then I realized this would go on forever if I did that. Instead, I'm gonna do this like normal and hopefully that will get my point across. The plot is just terrible, with it's main problem being jack shit happens and few things are ever explained, and those that are, are explained poorly. The majority of the show takes place in backstory episodes, which are just kinda shoved in all over the place. Because of this the main storyline becomes something that's never there and you don't care about. Let me summarize the entire thing, it won't take long. Shintaro needs a new keyboard and goes to get one, getting caught in a ...

I'm gonna "review" some anime I dropped that I didn't like. I'll explain why I stopped watching it and why I got as far as I did. Basically, this is an overview of what I saw. Chaos;Head - 5/12 What is this even?! Neptune Anime - 5/12 Booooooooooooooooriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiing Coppelion - 5/13 It started off pretty good but eventually if devolved into complaining about nuclear power and how it's bad and will destroy the planet, melodramatic bullshit, and just an overall messiness to it. The characters were perfectly fine at first, but as time went on it was clear that while they may develop, they will not grow. This is a problem because of the fact that the only all that competent one is the main girl, Ibara. This is the kind of show in which characters need to have arcs, you can't rely on backstory and focusing on them for an episode or two to make them work. And there wasn't even much of that from what I saw. The characters thus end up ...

It's totally 2014 now, so let's do this. BEST ANIMU OF TEH YEER Toaru Kagaku no Railgun S: Because Madoka dammit, that was great. There is no doubt it's the anime of the year, it was the one I enjoyed the most. It was fucking fantastic and the best sequel/second season to an anime I've ever seen. SECOND BEST ANIMU OF TEH YEER Little Busters ~Refrain~: Best "Key's Super Cry-Cry Time" since Clannad: After Story THIRD BEST ANIMU OF TEH YEER Attack on Titan: Highly original, and it's really popular but also good somehow. Downside is it tries too hard to be dark and dramatic. When you got what AOT had, you don't need to have a guy shoot himself, for example. Still really great and a good watch. SOME OTHER GOOD STUFF Gintama Enchousen: Aw yeah. Kyousou Giga TV: Very imaginative. Suisei no Gargantia: I just started watching is actually, but it's really good. Rozen Maiden 2013: It's Rozen Maiden. Kyoukai no Kanata: It's been a w...

Every time I thought of doing a review of Index, I kept thinking "Nah, I'll just endlessly compare it to Railgun.". It really would have been me being all like "Index sucks because Railgun did all this shit better 3/5 because it was still pretty enjoyable for the most part." So, rather than do that, why don't I just talk about why I feel this way and cut out the middle man? 1. Better Setting: Index is also set in Academy City, but it also goes into the "Magic Side" of things. The magic side of things doesn't get interesting in the least until that whole "New Testament" series, where the intricacies of it get explained better. Even then, the Science Side is just way more interesting. Until later on, the Magic Side wasn't anywhere near as compelling or fleshed out as the Science Side. We got a cool pseudo-science explanation for how esper powers work(it's basically Spiral Energy), but none for how magic works beyond the generi...

Now, let's take a look at an anime I don't feel ashamed of liking and giving the score I gave it. Yes, I finished watching Toaru Kagaku no Railgun S(for sisters and also second season), and it was glorious. For all intents and purposes, it's better than the first season. Better story, better action, better music, better character development, and also better animation. It was this show that allowed the Railgun series to become my #1 anime. Allow me to tell you why! The story goes like this: During the second half of Misaka Mikoto(our Main Character)'s summer vacation, she gets dragged into yet another mystery. Judgement has been getting tons of reports of cash cards in envelopes lying around in alleyways. Mikoto doesn't think much of this, but when she overhears some punks talking about the culprit, she follows them to said culprit's hideout. The culprit, a very odd girl in a lab coat, mentions something about her being "The Original"(she's a ...

To Aru Pantsu no Railgun, which I guess translates out to "A Certain Pants of Railgun"(?), is a fun little action game created by Werk. It's basically a megaman clone. You play as the heroine of A Certain Scientific Railgun, Misaka Mikoto, as she attempts to reclaim what has been taken from her. There are 4 levels, each consisting of a 2 stage boss fight, with 4 Railgun characters. You can jump and shoot, just like megaman, When you beat a level, a new skill is unlocked. After Level 1, you can do a Lv. 1 Charge Shot, and after Level 2 you can do a Lv. 2 Charge Shot and a Dash, etc. The only problem is, since it's all boss fights, once you get the full Railgun attack you only have one more level to use it on. It's really awesome, so it's a shame. Everything pauses for a second while Mikoto flicks a coin in the air and shoots her mutha-fuckin' Wave Motion Cannon at whatever is in it's path. All in all, the game is fun and worth playing. It's also p...

So, let's review BMW. I have never owned a BMW so I can't really comment on them. Review over. Okay, but seriously, Battle Moon Wars. BMW is a Super Robot Wars style game based in the Nasuverse(I.E. The works of TYPE-MOON author, Kinoko Nasu, who is one of my favourite authors).  Cutscenes are done in Visual Novel style format, with characters portraits next to dialogue boxes, and backgrounds for locations. After a scene is done, a battle will occur. In battle you have a bunch of enemies to fight and specific battle parameters, such as not letting a certain character die, otherwise Game Over. Sometimes you need to kill all enemies, or just one big tough one. Other times, the conditions might change mid battle, with a new enemy appearing. Most of the time, the main enemy is a villain from the previous stories, others a former ally. You move around the field on a grid each turn, and attack enemies. Each character has a few attacks they can do which have different ranges, and ...

Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuggggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrgggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Hhhhhhhhhhhhhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh. What was this? Why does it exist? It serves no purpose, really. All it was, was how Yuno got to the universe Yukiteru was in. Wait, no, it doesn't actually explain that part, it just shows how she got to that point. And everything in between was meaningless filler. Some of it was kind of funny, but that clashed really badly against the serious bits. There's a good way to do mood whiplash, and there is a bad way. This was the bad way. Let me run this down for you. First we get almost the entire last scene of the TV series(so they could reuse animation), with an added bit where Evil Murmur eats some crystal made from Yuno's body and then Other Murmur(#2 I think), and then we proceed to the OP. Now, let me just say the OP is fucking epic as always, and is one of the few good things about thi...

Alright, it's now time for me to review K-on! Army Version. K-on! of Duty is a piece of crap that tried to be a War is Bad story, a slice of life comedy, and a moe anime but failed at all three and was totally mediocre. Er... wait what? Oh, I'm sorry, I was momentarily possessed by some jackoff who doesn't understand how two or more genres can come together and support a story's theme. Okay, well, maybe that is a little harsh, but I will get to that. Sora no Woto, or "The Sound of the Sky", is an episodic anime series about girls in the military in a world that seems to have early 20th century technology. I say seems to because there is more to the setting than that. The setting combines several different cultures, and it may seem silly that people with Japanese and German names are in a Spanish town full of French people who speak Japanese, but it'll make at least a little sense once you're done, I swear. The story follows Kanata Sorami(MEANIN...