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Welcome to my Kekkai Sensen aka Blood Blockade Battlefront review! Let's see what bones brought us this time :D
I am a good person! And I like my bones (especially collarbones)!
BUT there are bones that I do not like lately and it's that DAMN STUDIO BONES that can either bring you a masterpiece show such as FMA or Noragami, or they bring you coffin princesses with bad eyebrows or they force someone to spin off Soul Eater just so fans could shut up for a while... *sigh*
Now when it comes to this show, it definitely does give studio Bones vibes... from 2006...
However, despite the show starting off lousy, I really liked how it all turned out. The story is interesting and funny, decent visuals and sound, fun characters. Let's get into details :D
STORY
So the story focuses on Brock from Pokemon Leonardo Watch, a teenage boy who wants to find his sister who's in a wheelchair in the world filled with mutant humanoid creatures. And so, by a cruel twist of fate he meets a person who gets him into an organization called Libra (my horoscope sense is tingling). With Libra, and his special eyes which see everything, Leo and the people from the organization fight the forces of evil together.
The whole story is sort of episodic, each episode has a ''new event'' and they're all well connected and it all makes sense. I would even say the story is the best asset this show has.
What really amazed me is how interesting, funny and simply entertaining this show is. The comedy is nicely delivered and there's a lot of it, which I liked. The animation pretty much lives up to the comedy which is sort of important, but more about the animation later on.
What I really like is how unpredictable the story is, I would HATE if everything went on the way I expected it at first, since I had a bad first impression of the show.
I was very sceptical with this story, but it really surpised me that it turned out like this. In conclusion, nicely done story with a decent amount of comedy and episodic storytelling.
I liked the finale and the ending was decent.
8/10
ANIMATION
Not bad, Bones. But I know you can do better!
Was this show made in 2006? The animation does have a lot of details and I just can't say the whole animation is bad. However, judging on today's anime standards, this animation gives FMA and Soul Eater vibes which wouldn't be bad a few years ago. So the animation is good, but it ages back a few years.
Aside from that. I love the environment. How they made NYC look like a dystopian paradise. Very realistic approach when it comes to the environment and even the famous architecture of NYC.
I'd like to note how characters are animated. Very typical to the Bones studio (circa 2006). I kind of liked seeing that. This kind of character animation brings back memories when it comes to some Bones releases, and I can't say that's bad.
So on the good side it's well done, lots of details and greatly done environment, but on the bad side, it doesn't fit 2015 standards. So I'll give it a solid 7/10
SOUND
The overall sound is good.
When it comes to the music, it's not usual to see this kind of music in anime. The whole Jazz/Blues soundtrack really fits New York City (despite this being in a future). And that's what I like! It's not unusual for Bones to have a decent soundtrack.
When it comes to voice acting. Very professionally done. I hate to say, but my perfectionist side (basically 85% of me) noticed some bits and pieces that were wrong with the sound. First and third episode had some parts where the sound was off/out of sync, which REALLY ruined my first impression of the show. However, this didn't happen later on so I'm still content with the sound quality.
I love the music, I like the voice acting, so I will squint a bit and give it an 8/10.
CHARACTERS
Lots of characters, and although I feel like some characters deserved a better development, I do think that the characters they developed nicely (Leo, White, Black) kinda ''patch up'' that issue.
The main character has a superpower, the ''All seeing eye'' (ilumeneti confermd) ''Eyes of God'' that can see basically anything. Not very original, but I like the way they presented it. Usually main characters have superpowers that are either ''stupid looking but become powerful'' or ''gorgeous OP af lambo bambo magic sparkles $$$ kind of thing''. In this case his eyes look sort of... unattractive?... unusual? I don't know how to describe it, but in my opinion, it doesn't look good, but hey not everything can be pretty *shrug*... at least he's useful *shrug*
I really like Aligula (one of the antagonists), her personality is what this show needed even though she didn't get much air time. I also like the girl (White) and how they unexpectedly involved her in everything. I won't go in details because that would probably spoil your experience.
Another thing. Almost all of the characters from the Libra characters are likeable, but they lack development. I feel like there are too many characters to find out more about them (they could take notes from Durarara!!... just sayin'), and the fact that the story is sort of episodic doesn't help.
I'll give it a 7/10
OVERALL
Despite all the disappointment I had with this show on a first few episodes, this show is more than decent. I was almost convinced that I would drop this show on episode 3 or 4, but I'm so glad I gave it a chance.
It turned out great in the end, and the Bones studio is still healthy and it didn't get osteoporosis yet ^^
Thank you for reading this review! I'd recommend this anime to Misty, Ash and Pikachu to support Brock in his new adventures! anyone who is ready for some futuristic, steampunk (well... kinda), New York City Ghoul, action packed, organization, monsters, filled with blood, blockades and battlefronts, hamburger, pokemon, anime... just do it. Be ready. Pretend it's black friday and you're alone in a mall. Just get rekt with this anime.
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