Comments on: Tokyo Majin Gakuen Kenpuchou Tou Review - 72,5/100

by: Stripey

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 18:54:04 +0000

I felt a little disappointed with the ending and the overall buildup of the characters/plot too. That said, ep 1 remains one of the most awesome first episodes I’ve seen.

Mei: I hope you’re not watching Ga-rei for the action since it’s really not very good. It’s the story that’s compelling and personally I think they’re doing a fantastic job of deepening our curiosity as how Yomi and Kagura turned out the way they were in ep 2. GR-Z one of the most well-paced and well-told tale I’ll seen in a while (up to ep 5 that is).

by: mei

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 02:52:49 +0000

“What we have here is a typical series that blew away all its budget in its first episode, and then doesn’t have anything left to fill the rest of its airtime with.”

hmmm, this sounds suspiciously like the current Ga-rei zero. relatively exciting first 2 episodes, then it’s going downhill from there

by: PhuzyBuny

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 04:59:14 +0000

I actually finished this series as well. Didn’t bother looking into the second season (”Dai ni maku” or something along those lines) because I was so disappointed with the first season. I guess sometimes things don’t live up to their potential; no surprise huh?

by: Cody

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 16:39:52 +0000

Agreed pretty much. I think the thing to watch out for in this series is that you never really know what the hell is going on. That’s the charm of it. Because of this, everything moves in a kind of rushed way so you never really get any development, you just get a series of rushed events that’s charming in its own way.

I’m surprised by how high the score is you gave it. My sis recommended this to me and when if first watched it I was like WTF. This is pure garbage with a pretty fight or 2, but after a bit of watching I kind of enjoyed it because of just how wtf it was.

by: mulligan

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 14:42:22 +0000

Wow a surprisingly high score for this one. I was expecting your review to be a lot harsher :P

by: kuromitsu

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 13:52:17 +0000

I actually liked this show. It wasn’t Gungrave, but IMO it’s one of the better game-to-anime adaptations out there.

True, it’s not particularly outstanding, but I felt it didn’t even try to be anything special. It had good fight scenes (it was nice to see a fight anime where the fights were actually animated and coreographed instead of the usual “flash-pan-flash” routine), a mostly competent cast (I actually liked Aoi, she’s the type of character whom everybody hates except for me), a story that was nothing to write home about but did its job nevertheless, and even some nice music (at least I liked the video game feel to it). The direction was also pretty good. My only problem with the climax was that the fights were disappointing. Everything else was pretty much what I expected.

(The second season on the other hand…)