Miracle☆Train: Oedo-sen e Youkoso

Actually, this story doesn't really have many interesting episodes, but it was still interesting enough to keep watching:

Story 7/10
The story is about 6 guys, a conductor and a guide. In each episode, they help a passenger with her problem. Every episode there's another girl, and every episode a different guy helps her. While they help the girl's with their problems, they show them around in their city. This is actually what most of the episodes are about. Personally, I didn't really thought that was very interesting, it was enough to keep me watching, but after a few episodes, I thought it became a little bit ... boring. To be honest, the only episodes that show a real storyline are episode 7, 12 and 13. These are the episodes I really enjoyed. Still, I have to admit, the ending could have been just a little bit deeper if you ask me.

Art 8/10
The art was pretty well done, a bit different from other anime's, especially the eyes of Roppongi were a bit different from what you see in most anime. At least, that's what I think.
I wished the opening was a bit different, it didn't really get my attention, it was all right.

Sound 7/10
The sound was good, and I liked the opening song.

Character 8/10
Well, the characters were not very original to be honest, but I didn't mind. Actually, I liked them. It's still a bit weird that the guys from the miracle train are actually train stations. Well, underground stations if you call it that. All the guys were nice and showed some personnality. One thing I really have to point out, because it annoyed me, was that you never see the eyes of the conductor. It was so frustrating! He was actually a bit of a mistery guy, but it's never really told in the whole anime who he is. What I also didn't really get was why we knew what the dog was thinking...

A short personnality discription:
Roppongi: the kind but silent guy, he knows things about technoligy.
Tocho: the serious guy who is called 'boss'.
Shinjuku: the cool guy who sometimes likes to toy around with people's feelings.
Tsukishima: the guy who really likes food. (especially Monja)
Shiodome: the youngest station of them all, you can see that through his actions.
Ryougoku: the guy who is a little bit short-tempered and likes historical drama's.
Akari: the guide, I'm still not really sure what her duty was on the train. Overall, she is pretty cheerfull.
And as I already said, the conductor is the mistery guy.


Enjoyment 7,5/10
I enjoyed the anime, but at some times, I got a bit bored. Yeah, all of the passengers have a different story but I missed a real storyline. I didn't really have a deep story and there's only a storyline at the very end. Putting that aside, it also brought a smile on my face sometimes. There were some funny moments and some sad moments in the stories of the passengers.

Overall 7/10
I enjoyed this anime at some points. Overall, I thought it was all right, I wished the real story line was a bit longer, because I really did enjoy that part of the anime. So, if you want to watch an anime that you will enjoy, but you're not expecting a masterpiece, this is a good anime to watch.

I liked the series well, it has a unique visual appearance, and the main characters were funny and unique. and I loved the facts about the Oedo-line.

The biggest problem I have with it is that the story is too short, but the story was still good.

Being a sucker for animes with bishies, I expected Miracle Train to be one of the best to be anticipated last Fall 2009. Unfortunately, it failed to meet my expectations. The sad part is I had to drop it after watching 5 episodes. I only watched it til its 5th since I thought it’ll have some developments, but again, no.

Oedo-sen e Youkoso or simply Welcome to the Oedo Line focuses on 6 guys who are actually Oedo train stations. They are some sort of a host club, in a train. They help ladies who are troubled and they’re the only ones who can see and ... get inside the train itself. In every episode they help at least one lady to clear away her worries.

The story and character progress is close to zero. It keeps repeating the same story every episode. A worried girl accidentally gets on the train, then one train station guy being focused in each episode, gets to help the girl, the girl thanks the guy then the train leaves. What can be more worse than that?

Well, enough of the trash. Aside the fact that Miracle Train is boring, there is at least one guy that kept me interested, Roppongi Fumi. Besides having good features and being random, I liked his choice of words in his episode. The other guys were just too dull. They were flat and not to mention, too predictable.

Miracle Train have the potentials to be a good anime. It just lacked development and thrill. The plot of guys helping girls is just so overused that they may want to give spice on it to give the viewers a different feel.