Weiß Kreuz (Knight Hunters)

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Synonyms: Weiss Kreuz, White Cross

Japanese: Weiß kreuz　ヴァイス　クロイツ

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Type: TV

Episodes: 25

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Apr 9, 1998 to Oct 1, 1998

Premiered: Spring 1998

Broadcast: Unknown

Producers: animate Film, Polygram Japan

Licensors: Media Blasters

Studios: Plum, Magic Bus

Source: Original

Genres: Action, Drama

Duration: 23 min. per ep.

Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

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Score: 6.69¹ (scored by 7,446 users)

¹ indicates a weighted score.

Ranked: #5915²

² based on the top anime page. Please note that 'Not yet aired' and 'R18+' titles are excluded.

Popularity: #4963

Members: 19,092

Favorites: 144

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Aya, Youji, Ken, and Omi are the four young men who comprise Weiss Kreuz (WK), an assassin group that eliminates certain menaces to society. Each member has his own trademark fighting style. Aya is adept at fighting with a katana, Youji has mastered the art of strangulation via strings, Ken is lethal with his metal claws, while Omi specializes in a wide array of projectiles. Under the command of a mysterious man known only as "Persia", the WK is dispatched to take care of drug rings, terrorist factions, and the like. But as things go along, they discover that most, if not all, the bad elements they have dealt with are somehow connected to the Takatori family. The Takatori family is rich, powerful, and influential. It seems if the problem is to be nipped in the bud, the WK would have to put an end to one of Japan's most prominent clans.

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Adaptation:	Weiß: An Assassin and White Shaman
Sequel:	Weiß Kreuz Glühen, Weiß Kreuz OVA

Kasahara, Hiroko
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Egami, Kiyoshi

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Oobari, Masami

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Hiiro, Yukina

Episode Director, Storyboard

Yamaguchi, Mihiro

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Opening Theme

	1: "Velvet Underworld" by Weiß (eps 1-15)
	2: "Piece of Heaven" by Weiß (eps 16-25)

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Ending Theme

	1: "Beautiful Alone" by Weiß (eps 1-15)
	2: "It's too Late" by Weiß (eps 16-25)

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Jul 14, 2021

jasdevinoah

Recommended

First of all, Weiss Kreuz is a completely terrible anime. It's a passion project created by the VA's, and it clearly shows every step of the way. That being said, this anime is so bad it's completely hilarious, like The Room.

Everything that happens in this anime is completely ridiculous. Nothing makes sense, emotions are muted when they don't need to be, people just casually die.

If you are watching the first episode and expecting a serious anime then you are sadly mistaken. This anime is absolutely ridiculous in every way. I watched it with a friend and as we watched we constantly tore this anime ... apart like a Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode.

Story:
Constantly ridiculous, and hilarious at every corner. The first episode a man dies from a van falling on him. Things get supernatural on occasion just because. People just die because the plot calls for it. It turns into an end of the world situation at one point.

Characters
Aya is supposed to be the cool guy but he just comes across as a sociopath half the time. Omi is supposed to be the ladies man at 17 years old, but all his relationships end in the worst ways and it makes me laugh really hard because it escalates. Yoji is supposed to seem like a cool ladies man but he's a disaster. He also is supposed to be 21 when he looks at least 30. Ken is a character in this show I guess sometimes.

Brad Crawford is my friends favorite and he's basically a mary sue with huge shoulders and he can predict this ridiculous plot with ease. Schuldig is a telepath but also he has "powers" that are not explained like ever. Farfarello doesn't even have a power he's just crazy. Nagi is a baby and like 15 and they have him kiss a 27 year old woman at a point because they forgot that she wasn't a fellow teen.

Sound:
So all of the voice actors are seasoned professionals, but this was a passion project, especially for Koyasu (Dio Brando's voice actor). Koyasu specifically who voices Aya and he's so serious about it, but again. Aya comes off as a ridiculous psycho. They also sing the ending songs because again, this is based off a boy band.

Art:
So like it's not the anime's fault that it's a 90's anime. Sometimes the art can be pretty but other times it can be a huge oof moment. For instance Yoji can be very cute sometimes, but other times his eyes are so spaced apart and his hair is super puffy. If you like these designs don't get used to them, legal disputes happened so the second season they look different. Yoji becomes a cowboy for instance

Enjoyment:
It's really funny if again you like anime that are really dumb like this. It's like really ridiculous and I would watch it for the sake of being bad. 10/10

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Aug 17, 2016

atKatlin

Mixed Feelings

Did you have an anime that stuck in your head when you was a child? You watched an episode and it picks your curiosity? To me, the answer is yes.

I was, maybe in grade school when I watch one of the episodes in this anime and when I was growing up I always wondering what anime it was. At first, I post the question on the anime and recommendation well, it was my fault (tee-hee) and someone said that I should post it in the Help Identifying This Anime/Character' Thread (v7).

When I ask this in the The 'Help Identifying This Anime/Character' Thread (v7), ...

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Jul 22, 2008

Ranivus

Not Recommended

::QUICK REVIEW::
Story: 4 (Go go Weis Kreuz Rangers!)
Art: 2 (Even Dragon Ball looks better than this)
Sound: 5 (people screaming & tires screeching makes me RAGE)
Character: 3 (The boy band heroes and ignorant girls)
Enjoyment: 2 (KEN... RAAAAAAAAAAAAAGE!!!)
Overall: 16/50 = 3.2 (Funny for the wrong reasons)

... :::FULL REVIEW::
Weiss Kreuz is one of those anime shows that you've feel you've seen before. And you're mostly right, the overall story has been done by every box-office smash, b-movie, independent movie, anime, TV show, and even children's programming. But what this resembles most of all is some "mature-ish" version of Power Rangers. Four main characters that specialize in their own fighting style working for one mysterious entity. Out fighting one conglomerate trying to find the truth all while unleashing some justice in the world. Sounds like something you've seen before right?

Well if things are pretty much rehashed iterations of other shows, how does this one fare? Horribly. The little missions they take on every episode are all cookie cutter and VERY cheesy. Something you would expect from an 80's anime, not an anime that aired in 1998. Even the dramatic scenes are completely predictable and laughable as well. Well if theres any reward for this story it would probably be for "the most use of vehicular manslaughter in an anime series." When you expect the story is getting weak or going no where, a revving engine followed by screeching tires and people screaming will soon be behind. It's pretty funny how they manage to throw so many cars into crowds or people getting run over.

The art is something to be believed. Aura Battler Dunbine and DBZ did a better job getting animated than this show did. While I was watching this show I could have sworn this was made in the 80's but for a show to look this bad so late in the 90's is just embarrassing. Especially when theres so many vehicles in this show, none of them resemble any car and they're animated in like 4 frames or less. It doesn't even look like they tried to make this show look good. Don't be fooled by the art on the anime profile, it looks ten times worse in animation form.

I gave the sound a "Mediocre" rating because it sounded like this is where most of the effort was put in. They tried to portray a chaos during their fights and for what it's worth it wasn't that terrible. But its hard to rely on the sound effects when the corresponding artwork is so disgustingly poor. I was even surprised by some of the voice actors of the show which played their parts pretty well. I'm sure you'll be able to spot some popular seiyus in this show if you manage to give this show a try.

The seiyus did their job on getting their character across to the audience, but unfortunately the characters came off cookie cutter and predictable. I mean, their base of operations is a flower shop *~* Their character specialties are pretty hilarious too. I mean how can one persons specialty be choking people? I understand the feeling of want to choke people every now and then, but using that as a form of killing is kind of counter productive don't you think? The other three members use a gun, sword, and claws pretty standard for an anime. You'll laugh at the "RAGE" when you see it. If you'll remember anything from this show, it'll definitely be "RAAAAAAAAGEEE!!" ^_^

Overall, it was so bad, it was VERY hard to keep watching all the way through. I was hoping something was going to make it better but all i got was RAGE. I was definitely laughing more than anything else. If you love poorly made action flicks or enjoy laughing at points where you're not supposed to laugh, give it a go. This show is worth a few laughs if you can stomach everything else.

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