Chrno Crusade

“Chrno Crusade” is the anime and video game industry’s lame attempt at tricking people who legitimately liked “Chrono Trigger” to give up their hard earned cash in return for satisfying the apparently growing nun fetish in Japan and the West. Considering that this anime has a huge following it seems to illustrate either the appeal of nun T&A to the general anime audience or Chrono Trigger fans not giving two shits about whether the show is related at all to the video game. Though both seem to share the common indifference over the misspelling of “Chrono” in the title (though I hear that it was ... intentional I still think it’s stupid).

It’s the roaring 1920s and in this supposedly kick-ass anime the jail-bait-D-cup nun Rosette with her younger demon assistant Chrono (hey second time’s the charm I guess) are on a quest to hunt down demons that are causing pain and suffering because of the general lack of morality in the world or some such BS.

Rosette who operates on two settings: 5-year-old and full-blown Fran Drescher is the theoretical comic relief to the series. Though she comes off as more annoying, as the writers no doubt deluded themselves into thinking they had channeled Rosette to the character of Auska Langley Soryu, but forgot to carry over the catharsis.

Chrono, the demon, who carries a laughably huge rotary phone on his back seems slightly more competent than his female counterpart but, always seems to suffer constant verbal abuse from Rosette. I can’t help but think that the only reason he sticks with her besides the contract that binds them is the hope that he’ll be able to eat her out before the series ends. However, she’ll have to start taking her crazy pills and shut up for five-fucking-seconds to make that happen.

Though there is a story-line to this show, there is a possible ninety-percent chance that you’re motivation to watch this is for the hot nuns. Yeah, they all have suspiciously huge breasts which can only mean that the Vatican is fronting the cash for the boob jobs. It kind of makes sense since the church is always hurting for more money and followers. Not that those breasts do the poor nuns any good since they’ve sworn a life of celibacy and can only wait for the return of Jesus to give him a nice tit-fuck (which gives the phrase “second coming” a whole new meaning).

In conclusion, skip this anime, watch Full Metal Alchemist instead.

I thought I was lucky to find the complete set for $30 at movie trading company the other day. I have never been more wrong. In a nut shell this series had lame comedy, lame fan service, a lame story loosely based on Christianity and various mythologies and lame animation.

Animation - You can clearly see the cheapness of the animation from the start. The action uses a lot of choppy fighting (still frame action or a few cells of animation) and the character/monster models are clearly reused with just minor differences. This is ok if its 20 years old. Not for something made ... in 2003.

Sound - It's just not memorable at all.

Story - I have one word to describe the story. Lame. The way it blends christianity with mythology and mixes contradiction along side factual history is ludicrous. It's not even interesting.

Characters - Chrno becomes Super Saiyan, screaming and all, when he gets mad but will lose it immediately if someone says "dont please."

Enjoyment - I started to fall asleep during episode 7. Thats never a good sign. I wouldnt recommend this to anyone.

I can't fathom why this is rated so high. The first 12 episode were decent. They're an okay comedy action thingy. But once the plot starts to move, it just becomes stupid.

The main story was really bad. Aion makes this extremely convoluted and unnecessary complicated plan to do something, and just ends up dying anticlimactically at the end. After watching the entire series, i honestly can't tell you what Aion was trying to do, or why he was doing it.

The last 12 episodes are so bad it brings this down to a 3. Characters do things for no reason. Nothing is explained. By the ... end, i didn't care the slightest bit about any of the characters. I didn't care it they lived or died, or what happened to them. The last episode had more characters doing inexplicable and random things that make more sense, but there is one scene where Rose and Chrono die. It's actually the only decent scene that makes sense in the last half of the show. It's actually a great scene, one might say beautiful, but I didn't care about the characters so i felt absolutely no emotion in that scene. What a waste. I felt this scene was good enough to raise my rating to a 4.

I didn't really like the art. It wasn't bad, it just didn't fit the series. It seems too cartoony and happy for something trying(and failing) to be deep and dark. Chrono in his true form looks goofy and stupid.

It should also be noted that the author of this has no understanding of christianity. I don't understand why animes keep doing this. If you're going to butcher chistianity, just make up a fake religion instead of trying to be clever.

4/10
(I'm trying to keep this spoiler free)
This anime I felt started out back and got better and better for the most part. Then the last 4 episodes hit. They seemed to destroy the characters that they had built up. Then show ends with you know who is still alive just cause and the end of the main characters story felt rushed, forced and just odd all around. This thing have so many holes in the the plot it looks like Swiss cheese. I thought I was liking this anime (even with the plot holes) to just it all ripped away in the last 4 episodes.
I ... can see how some people might like this but it for me just destroyed a good story and had me give it a 4/10
I'd like people to watch it cause I do think some can enjoy it but this was sadly a horrible end to a great anime and destroyed it for me

To be honest it's hard to write a good review on this anime cause of the fact I loved and hated it. But I do encourage people to watch it I just feel as if it didn't click for me.

I really wish there was a way people could commit on this review cause for sure I know some will hate me for this.

So let's first get some things out of the way. I do NOT recommend you watch this. I personally dropped it 2-3 times before episode 12 and decided to come back and finish it out of the blue one day.
Animation: Holds up really well if you excuse the 4:3 aspect ratio.
Characters: They're actually pretty good and likable.

Story: The story is pretty good for the first 8-10 episodes and maybe a few more in the middle. Sadly though around episode 16-19 the story begins to drag heavily feeling similar to One Piece. The last episodes get worse becoming even slower and more drawn out but if ... you manage to hold out until the last episode you'll realize it was 100% NOT worth it in the slightest.
Many of the fights are very anticlimactic and poorly paced, and the ending feels very shoe-horned and odd (in a bad way) leaving you with a very bitter taste in your mouth knowing so much could have been done and that this probably wasn't the intended ending.

This sentence is now obsolete due to very strict spoiler criteria: Due to the ending, explaining why it's so bad without spoiling it is incredibly difficult (for me at least) so you'll either have to watch it or trust me (one of the few who didn't like it). So in a twist this review might actually get you to watch it and be extremely disappointed.