Tokyo Underground

i tried, i really tried, i always try to finish anime that i have downloaded before, but i just couldn't watched this... quiet frankly, it sucks i do not know what is it that makes this series so un-enjoyably for me... was it because the art was so bad? as well as the animation? or was it because its whole premise was cheesy, lame and unroriginal.

anyways don't waste your times i wish i could get my 10 episodes back

Tokyo Underground feels like a lot of other shonen action series from around this point in time. You have a guy with short hair, average height, decent fighter, spirited, and a good heart. You also have the sweet maiden character who is completely useless or the tough but not really tomboyish girl. This one has both.

Tokyo underground has all these things in common and more but it falls short in a few things making it actually lesser than a lot of the others. First of all in our main character. Even though he is supposed to be such a good fighter he never uses any ... of those skills after he gets his power. In fact the only thing he EVER does is an air slash. It's the only attack he knows or uses and besides the rare occasion that he uses the wind to cushion a fall or guard it's the only time he ever uses his wind. They act like he gets stronger by the end but because it's still the same attack you can't see this besides the fact that his wind can now apparently blow back stronger opponents. But at no point during the series does he show any growth or change in the slightest. The rest of the cast isn't much better. Chelsea has more variety in her attacks but she never changes or gets stronger either. The nerdy kid gets a gun but uses it maybe 4 or 5 times throughout the entire series. I could go on but we'd be here all day.

This leads to the second problem which is all the fights are fairly boring. Rumina just dodges attacks until he can launch his wind slash, Chealsea is a little cooler since she punches things but they aren't very impressive either, and the Nerd is just dead weight. Also none of the enemies put up a really impressive fight. The fights are done poorly and the enemies are almost all defeated with the heroes half trying. No one ever really seems to truly push them to their limit and thus there is no fear of them losing or excitement in watching it.

The third problem with this series is the pacing. The plot has a habit of slowing down at points for the sake of establishing characters, plot points, etc and that's good but then it seems to speed through to the next slow point making things feel rushed especially near the end. Leading up to the last few episodes is a talk of the Obligatory fight tournament arc of shonen. Well they spend a few episodes gathering members and preparing for the tournament....which we never really see. All but one or two matches are just glanced over and then the tournament doesn't even finish in the end for spoiler reasons. I swear they spent more time talking about and preparing for this thing than they spent actually doing it. Because of this the pacing just feels choppy and unfocused a lot.

Overall it's not a bad series exactly but it's only average at best and there are so many other shonen that at least do a better job with the characters, fighting, and pacing.

While this show put the elemental motif's usage to its full potential, that's where everything that's good about this show stopped for me.

I've never disliked an action anime before that accurately satisfies all the criteria and things I loved about anime until I watched this show.

There's nothing interesting or likeable going on in this show at all.

Everything in this show is just standard generic drivel.

You have a generic male lead, who's still in K-12 school, meets a girl, discovers his inner abilities, female lead gets captured, guy goes to save him.

But what makes that dislikeable is that the male lead saving the female lead ... is all that goes on FOR THE ENTIRE SHOW.

And it's just...idk. There's too much to say and I don't care enough to go on.

So yeah, if you're looking for an anime to rival the Big Three, protip: don't watch this one. You will be sorely disappointed.