Ranked #3676

Mars of Destruction

Run. And run fast.

It doesn't matter what direction, it doesn't matter if you end up falling down a precipice 100 feet below. Hell, land on those jagged rocks. Why? Destroying your body would leave less damage than damaging your mind. And that's what Mars of Destruction will do.

I will be reviewing this abysmal, abysmal anime today. Why? Well, I consider it my civic duty to protect mankind and womankind alike from this total poop of an anime.

The story pretty launches into what is a completely weak, pointless tale of deflated proportions. There isn't much that happens otherwise than what is said in the synopsis. It is just pointless alien killing and mindless screaming for nearly twenty minutes. There are anime less than ten minutes long that manage to be amazing, but Mars of Destruction decided to ignore such things as 'good plot', 'good premise' and 'good story'. They pretty much put a lot of emphasis on ignoring the 'good' part, especially.

The art is pretty much mediocre. Generic-looking characters, bland backgrounds and weak animation. The only thing that even looks remotely decent are the random (often horribly bad) blood and gore scenes. But even that isn't very good either.

The sound is just as mediocre as the art. Nothing special, but I suppose we should be thankful for this, because the way the entire anime was panning out, they could have made the score sound as awful as nails in a blender or me singing. So thank the Lord for small mercies; the sound in this anime is not capable of making your ears bleed as much as it will make your eyes and brain haemorrhage.

Ha, characters! Apologies must be said for laughing, but it's rather humorous that anyone would have to associate the idea of 'character' with Mars of Destruction. What makes a character good? Being well-rounded, having at least two if not three dimensions, and actually developing as the story goes on. What we have in this anime are a bunch of cardboard cut-outs that can move and talk on their own. These "characters" are pathetic. They are stereotypes. They are annoying. They are BAD. They might as well have drawn walking, talking ducks with guns going "Quack!". It'd be about the same thing as what was presented, actually. Or perhaps better. Gun fighting ducks might have been eternally more interesting than the cast of this anime.

This anime does manage to merit itself quite a lot of hate, since a lot of love isn't going to be a viewer's initial reaction. It was seriously as waste of twenty minutes. I could have done the laundry or something infinitely more useful in the time it took away from my life. It just made me bored, and boring me, it made me irritable. Pretty much, it was a downwards spiral of ill sentiment.

Is it enjoyable? Think of stubbing your toe. Now think of falling down some stairs while trying to check out your damaged toe. And while you try to curse out loud because you have a throbbing toe and possibly a dislocated shoulder and mild concussion, you end up biting your tongue. Yeah. It's that much fun!

Don't watch this anime. If it's on your Plan To Watch list, immediately remove it. There isn't even laughing-at-its-badness factor in this. If you can laugh and watch it, well, obviously you did not go into this because you thought it would have been an interesting sci fi anime. For those who like me have seen this already... my condolences. read more

This anime is...not very good. In fact...it's sculpted out of shit. No point whatsoever in this anime. Only reason somebody could ever watch this show is because it is the most lowest rated peice of trash on MAL. Heck, that was actually the reason I watched it.

Story: Well, I've seen powerpoint presentations that had more plot than this anime...even a video of someone playing tetris may very well have more plot. Unfortunately for this anime, its "plot" was the best thing about it.

Art: Seems as though the developers took every single opportunity they had to NOT move the characters...not move anything in fact. The beginning credits seem good as they come in and then you realise that they just disappeared. No fade. No nothing. Complete crap. You'd think that the developers could have at least not screwed up the opening credits. But no...they did.

Sound: Classical music? Riiight...at least they could have picked the right music, but no, they picked music during the combat that made it seem like the main character (wait, there are characters in this?) was dancing with the alien. Completely out of place music, none of which was made by the developers of this anime. All free stuff that can be downloaded off the net. This anime brings shame to this music.

Characters: Lol.

Enjoyment: Well, no matter how sad of an excuse this is for an anime, it still has some good points, such as...wait, no it doesn't. Also, you'd think that this anime is worth watching just to laugh at how shit it is, but it's actually worse than that. There is nothing to laugh at except when some random girl gets her head blown off. In fact, that is the only reason I am giving this an enjoyment rating of 4.

Overall: Completely terrible anime. Only anime that is worse than this shit is Girls Bravo with english dub. read more