Triage X

Well I finished it moments ago so let's do a review.

STORY 3/10

I think there was meant to be a story in there at some point... I didn't really catch it. So anyway, this is practically big tits fanservice the anime. If you like this kind of thing then go ahead and watch it. Let's see... I have little idea as to what they are even doing and the parts I do know I don't really care about at all. They didn't seem to be to emphasized. Something about childhood friend dying. I don't really know.

Around the 7th or so episode they began to insert ... some sort of story and then the season ends suddenly and I was kind of just thinking "Well... I don't understand... Why is this so important? What are you doing? Is your repeated action necessary?"

ART 7/10

The animation was fairly good though about 80% of what is animated is just breasts. I guess they did a good job...

SOUND 3/10

Sound? I can't remember any sound. All I remember is the girls breasts swaying back and forth as she rode her motorcycle.

CHARACTER 4/10

There was very little background given for a lot of the characters. I don't know, maybe the breasts have occupied all of my memories of this show. I can't remember any character names and I was looking at them recently before I began my review. I don't know I just don't think I care.

ENJOYMENT 5/10

I guess I enjoyed it. It was okay. It was also predominantly just breasts.

OVERALL 5/10

I honestly believe they were just trying to insert as many large breasts into every frame as they could. I just... I don't even.

Now Triage X is nothing more than adolescent misogyny that was typical of anime that first got anime marketed to the United States in the first place; so we can stifle all that. Let's explain why I initially gave it an eight despite all it's obvious "flaws". If the character designs, outfits, "nudity", etc. offends you, then this wasn't marketed towards you. Further if the violence, rape culture, and drug abuse offend then this is really not marketed towards you. AND I will take this moment to tell you to avoid Triage X.
However; if you want a more adult anime an anime that ... reminds us that not all anime (or any media for that matter) need to be intended for kids. Just look at the picture for this show, if you saw that and thought let me watch this what did you expect? A romantic comedy in a high school nurses office? Plot and story? Drama? Nope!
It's buxom women, guns, and motorcycles, period. Some bad people get killed, explosions happen, it's got all those bad things that some people don't like. Which is why I gave it a six; it has content that isn’t for everyone. If that's what you want, then it's gold and delivers! It makes me nostalgic for the OVA days that kept me into anime these decades.
It's like I said about Diabolik Lovers, if this is exactly what you're looking for then it's a treat. The difference is, I can imagine a target audience for Triage X.

Triage X was a interesting anime. Take out the numerous amounts of boob showing and it's a decent series.
The one thing that I didn't like was how the series ended...
I didn't even notice that the series ended properly until I checked how many episodes were left
True at the end it was kind of obvious what with a scene playing the ending song
BUT!
I hoped for more details on what happens afterwards
Overall the show was great; it was interesting to see what the backstory of the characters were however I wished they could have at least made 20 episodes to continue on with the story.....

Mainly for people ... who either like action/boobs (not trying to be offensive or anything but honestly the number of times boobs are shown is just..... a lot okay!) or have read the manga and wanted to see the animated version of the series

"Triage X" is an R+, hardcore echi series created by the character designer from "Highschool of the Dead", Satou Shouji, which stars a varied cast of buxom women (and a token guy they can fawn over), who live as doctors and nurses by day, but by night, don their hidden personas as Black Label: a vigilante group of super-spy, ninja-assassins that move under the command of a genius surgeon. Their mission – to purge the world of the many cancers that plague society (with bullets, swords, and explosives).

Let’s be blunt. You will watch this show for the medical theme, just as much as you ... watch "High School of the Dead" for the parts with the zombies. The veneer of hospital atmosphere around it plays out more like weird fetish cosplay than it works practically to set up plot, character backstory, or setting. The plot of the series is bad, no, it may actually be pretty terrible. Not only that, but by the end of the series, the story doesn’t actually give you any closure, instead setting up for a future OVA, or maybe a season 2 (lord knows if it’ll get one, but you never know). So not only is the story bad, it’s incomplete. That’s a major deal breaker for me when it comes to anime, even if the show is just an echi one.

The characters, and their backstories, were confused, and filled with the standard tired tropes. Several of them didn’t even get a backstory at all (maybe we’ll learn about them in the sequel). One of the characters doesn’t seem to have any tie-in to the rest of the team, from what I could tell, and works as an Idol and TV star by day. My best guess was that she was added to the cast by the series creator to fill a certain character archetype, and he thought, “Meh, why not, make her an idol, that’ll sell well with this demographic.”

Honestly, the plot behind the scenes for both the story and characters is pretty much garbage.

But honestly, you’re not watching this series for the plot, just like you’re not watching it for the medical drama. You’re watching it because you’re highly cultured and you’re interested in the PLOT i.e. the sexy ladies. In this case, the PLOT of the show is very attractive, mostly focused, in extreme close-up on the boobs (sasuga Satou-sensei). All the women have massive assets, which have been painstakingly animated with more care than some entire series will ever get (looking at some of the newer releases, it’s really quite painful). The series is presented in a fully uncensored version, as well as the “safe for TV” one, so of course I watched the home video release, because nobody needs weird beams of light, or dark black boxes all over their screen when they’re watching anime.

I saw someone comment the other day on twitter, “that show is entirely carried by the fan-service”, and generally people replied that yea, of course it is. “It’s an echi series, what do you expect?” At the time, they weren’t talking about Triage X, but I think the same argument applies here. If you’re watching this show, you’re watching it for the lewd jiggle physics, not the story, and not the action.

That being said, the action was actually really good. The guns were shooty, the swords were swingy, and the explosions possessed sufficient boom. The chase scenes on motorcycle, and fight scenes were all well-choreographed, taking into account the best way for each of the women to show off her character design. The male lead, was actually not a wet blanket. He was likable, in a serious, “let’s get down to business” kind of way.

At the end of the day, I don’t really recommend this show. It’s in the category of anime you probably watch when you’re horny, and alone, or bored and have nothing else to do, and that doesn’t really have much going for it other than the eye candy; the overly serious tone of it, combined with all the sexual abuse in the plot, just kinda kills the mood. If that doesn’t deter you though, the series is out legally on multiple streaming platforms such as Crunchyroll and Hidive.

Triage X arguably has the skeleton of what could be a really great series, but doesn't offer a lot to hold onto. The plot is fairly weak and it's difficult to feel any sort of connection to the characters or story because of how little background information seems to be given, and efforts to create "deeper" moments throughout the episodes fall extremely short. It almost feels watching like a summary of an anime rather than a brand new one. Additionally, as if to compensate for the weak storyline, there's an unsettling amount of nudity and overall fan service that quickly becomes quite irritating. There is ... little build up to dramatic moments that could otherwise be considered jaw-dropping, making the show quite underwhelming.

Despite all this, the visuals are nice and it's not completely unwatchable. The storyline is decent enough to hold your attention if you're looking for a quick and easy watch, but it's nothing remarkable overall.