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Kengan Ashura is not bad for a fighting anime. It has a far-fetched but interesting premise in which corporations use 1v1 fights to resolve disputes. The story itself is not much more than that. All the fighters want to be the strongest, and all the businessmen want to be the head of the Kengan organization that sanctions the fights. They introduce a lot of characters and give at least some backstory for each. It's not much and there are tons of tropes and cliches here, but it's passable since the focus is really on the fighting. They do a good job building up matches. Showing fights... See full review

I'm kind of lukewarm overall in reaction to Katanagatari. There are aspects of it that I actually really like, but I got bored midway through and was slogging through the rest just to see what the ending was like.

The story has zero substance and proves to be the shakiest possible foundation you could have to build two halfway decent characters on top of, with a dose of mediocre action mixed in. The main characters themselves are a trope: a tsundere girl and a dense guy find themselves on a journey together to find twelve legendary swords. There are twelve episodes, twelve enemies, twelve swords ... See full review

Story Karas has a story that I liked okay. Each city has a demon guardian called Karas that has supernatural powers granted by its demon master, a girl called Yurine. Otoha is an ex-mafia member who turns into one such Karas tasked to guard Shinjuku, however Shinjuku has another Karas, Lord Eko, who wants to destroy the city because humans have forgotten that demons exist (but dude, how can you blame them when demons are normally invisible?). My biggest complaint is that Karas feels very sporadic initially. Karas is an anime that prefers to show rather than tell. There is little dialogue, so viewers... See full review