Needless

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this is my review for needless!!!!!!!
needless was for my opinion one of the best animes because it has some echhi and it has some action.
i liked the fact that blade cant resist cute girls hahahaha!
i hope there is a second season but i dont thinks so.
some girls in the anime were pretty cute so that was a plus for me XD
the attacks were also pretty cool and the story ofcourse.
my fav charachter in the anime was blade i liked his power and his stupidness.
it was the first anime i ever watched and it was pretty cool.

Well allready i find this show the best comedy show besides school rumble!
haven't laugh this hard since then! xD

still i'm at episode 7 but i don't care.
wanted to let YOU ALL know that this is a must watch show!

Hm, it's an anime.
compilation of Fight Game from playstation, Comedy, and Tragedy.
It's not so good compliation, it seems they could not decide if they make something serious or comedy.
The fight were OK, but why they say the name of the attact? (that's why I wrote about computer game).
Do real people say things like: "super punch!", "boy kick!", when fighting?
Not so much.

I have to say that this is the worst anime that I have seen in a while and I'm surprised I made it through the whole thing. The only redeeming quality of this series is the main character Adam Blade who is just entertaining to watch.

Story:
Cliche and predictable are how I would describe it. It tries to throw a few twists at you but I saw them coming far in advance. It tries very hard to be epic and over the top but lacks a well thought out story

Art:
Animation was pretty clean, but the fact that characters cloths would regenerate and wounds would be healed ... between episodes, or sometimes scenes just so it could be done again was just too much.

Characters:
I hated every single one of the except Blade! Every single one of them was retarded except the kid who had normal intelligence but was treated like genius.

Enjoyment:
will never watch this series again and would only recommend it to people that i don't like.

Needless without a shadow of a doubt has great potential: you have your action, ecchi, interesting storyline and typical anime comedy. However, I can't give it more than a 7, because it is all mashed together. Not a single genre is taken to its fullest, but simply left at the basic level. It leaves a lot to be desired and I'm under the impression that the original story, characters and action were supposed to be awesome and would have been, but there just wasn't time to develop any of it in mere 24 episodes. Also, there are a few ''aw, come on!'' moments.

Do you like priests? Do you like repetitiveness? Do you like panty shots all the time? If yes then this is the anime for you!!!

I am not going to tell you the plot since I am sure many other review probably already told you it. I am here to tell you what I think!

You may be asking, why is it repetitive? The jokes that is how. Some of the jokes lag through from beginning to the end. But other than those there are some really nice ones that keep things interesting. There is also a plot so there is an actual ending to the anime. ... The way they tie things together and really do not leave any whole left to fill was really nice to see. I did however get bored at the end was happy for it to end. But it still goes on the all time for it's creativeness and the panty shots and stuff because, well I am a guy so it has more effect on me. I would recommend this to any that read this but not to my parents, they would probably judge me on my choice of anime.

Review 30: Needless (is all this fanservice needless too)?

The world wide amazing action and fanservice packed anime adventure, but is all of this fanservice actually needed??

The world of needless is seriously weird; it's strange in ever way possible all of the way through this anime. In this stranger version of Japan there are weird stand out features that a lot of viewers cannot comprehend.

Basically world three started quite a while ago, as weapons where passed around and altered and then finally fired at Japan it created what many people including the authorities and goverment call the black spot. And it is what it's called, the ... skies black and it is a abandoned wasted land with nothing living, nothing inhabiting the area and nothing will ever change the black spot or change it any way.

When the bomb hit and created the black spot, anyone who was in the area or near the bomb site then the would of been turned into what everone calls a needless or they would of been killed by the blast. Eventually people tried to inhabit the surronding areas and attempted to live within the black spot. Until a company named Simeon built a ginormous building in the centre of the black spot with seriously high security and governers from all over the world coming to visit so they could finally learn and find out what a Needless is and why they exsist. When rumours got out about everyone in the Simeon Company being a Needless there where riots and resistance groups that joined forces to go head on with Simeon..... All of which have ultimately failed at taking down the company.

This is when we start to meet our main characters, Cruz is the first. This series starts off with the Resistance attempting to ambush Simeon, which fails, and two members trying to flee the battle ground to find somewhere else to stay until the fights die down. Unfortunetly though there is only one main character found from this particular scene. unfortunetly Cruz's older sister Nee-San is destroyed by a Testament robot (From Simeon). Cruz than has to find his way around the sewers in an attempt to get away from this robot before it appears again and takes his life too. Once he's in the sewers he manages to find the time to break down and cry over the lose of his dead sister, which then leads to the Testament breaking the concrete floor to get to Cruz in an attempt to take his life away too. Until a mysterious man wearing a choker and no shirt appears and takes down the Testament in front of Cruz.

This ladies and gentlemen is our next main character, he never goes by his normal name so everyone just calls him Blade. His real name is Adam and everyone knows him as the memorization Needless, he won't use his power a lot but will use it if he's in danger or someone else his, he doesn't abuse his powers and he hates Simeon. Others we meet later on in some other episodes; like eve and Blades scientist.

Cruz; As he has no powers at all he struggles quite a lot when it comes to survivng without his sister in this newly found world.He is a slightly awkward character, whenever someone upsets him he runs the other way to get away for a while.....It never works. He's a small character in the series as he has no powers or any special skills that he can use against Simeon; but he plays the most important role as our lead character who tries to come to terms with the newly found Simeon ruled Japan. He doesn't really like working for his new found friends but it's the only thing he can do as his sister and everyone else he ever knew was murdered in a matter of seconds; due to this he has to slave around for the new found friends until Cruz can stand on his own two feet..... Which will be never in this series as you can not magically earn powers like the ones that the Needless have. For starts the fanservice in this brings out the slightly funnier side of Cruz; he's the stereotypical main boy in the series as his nose bleeds a considerable amount when a naked girl appears and he seems to turn Chibi for some reason. But all in all he is a good lead character, he may be lacking some characteristics which we would rather see than a weak boy; but i think doing this makes a bit of a change for the series and the story line within it.

Blade; As he has all of the power anyone can ask for he is the perfect character to be holding the spot light whenever Cruz hasn't run off or started crying for some unknown reason. But he hasn't got all of the powers in the world actually; his Needless power is the power of manipulation. In other words when he sees his opponent using a strong move than his brain automatically copies the move and uses it against them as he's more powerfull than most of the people we see him fight. Which means that over this series of anime we see Blade using tons of elements to fight with against others and completely random moves like the godly string one that we see in some of the earlier episodes of Needless. Eventually there are tons of other weirdly wonderfull whacky moves we see him posess but non of them apart from the fire element ones actually stood out to me; there is one thing that stands out though, it may only be small but it can indicate to the audience when the fight gets serious. We see a quick glimpse of Blades brain surronded by multi-coloured waves of energy, afterwards it usually says manipulation complete or something along those lines, But this only happens when he's being seriously serious in a fight.

The anime is seriously good but i think the character designs and the story have to be the best thing out of the series. The fight scenes are usually short and not to violent; if they are long it's usually filled in by a lot of talking to the opponent. The graphics are ok i guess usually on high quality 3D moments; e.g. a car moving or a quick flash forward for the audience to show use where the next bad guy is. Even though i've done the review i think i'll still keep on watching the anime as i actually love the charcaters and their fighting styles.

Saturday 27th April, 2013. 11:44 Pm ~AmyXxx

Needless is a a fun ride, nothing to spectacular and a little bumpy when it comes to the pacing of the story, but its jam packed with action and humour that at most times over shines the low quality animation when there is to much going on, and the other mainstream anime issues like cliches,mediocre dubbing and the clothes that get almost completely destroyed at the slightest touch, that defy psychics and always end up covering the nipples.lol

Story wise needless is mediocre at best, the whole story goes by to slowly at the beginning and they jam in all of it in the last quarter ... of the anime.Needless knows what it is and at times tells you by breaking the fourth wall, this was honestly one of my favourite parts of the anime but after a couple episodes in they stop completely.The plot is one of the oldest in the the book, when i mean that I'm saying, an evil corporation lead buy an extremely powerful super villain, that everyone needs to band together to stop.THE POWER OF FRIENDSHIP!!.
You might say thats a little in spoiler territory but all of that is shown to you in the first episode.Needless holds itself together by making you laugh every episode.

Sound is adrenaline pumping awesomeness, the opening and during the action scenes keep you on your toes bringing in the mad guitar solo's that totally fit into the vibe the show emits especially with the main characters personality.Although the closing music is totally the opposite and left me with a "holy fuck....whats this shit" being that the music is that stereotypical slice of life crap.

Characters in needless are all stupid except for the powerless old and young people and even with their smarts they only have a measly intelligence of a 10 year old. Most of the characters have a unique feel to them especially the main who is awesome and literally steals the spotlight, they are a few cliches but not as overwhelming as some animes.character development is almost none existent except for a special few.all characters have their funny moments that will leave you laughing.

Like i said the animation is okay except for the overwhelming scenes where they have to turn the characters into little scribbles, just to show you that the person has so much power the he somewhat turned the animation into something i might have drawn when i was in kindergarten, i might be over doing it but you get what i mean.the background in needless is rather boring being the colours generally stay with light blue,grey,brown and the reds and oranges for the many explosions that occur.

Needless is nothing unique but i highly recommend it because its fun and never gets boring
And you're bound to get a couple laughs from it.

I actually made it more than halfway through this, but I left it and came back the next day. When I tried watching again, I found I had had all the stupid I could handle. It's basically comedy by making all the usual shounen comic stuff even more extreme.

Sometimes, you just need to turn your brain off and simply enjoy something that wants to be fun.

Needless, is that very thing.

To appreciate Needless you need to understand that it is not trying to be overly complex or showcasing moral high grounds or anything like that.

Needless is, at is core, a show that simply wants to entertain. It gives you character banter, plenty of cool over the top fights and striking visuals. Really, the visuals are amazing in this show, despite using mainly basic, flat colors.

It doesn't try to be clever with its writing, it's very self-aware of what it wants to be and ... it does it with a god damn big flare.

If you ever just want a show simple in its story and giving you tons of fights with a ton of different super powers, this show is just the thing. And it's pretty damn hard to find something like it out there, trust me I've looked.

Our main character, Adam Blade, is a supposed priest with a terrible attitude and personality. He pretty much hounds and bosses his friends, is an open lolicon and is greedy to boot. But despite all his character flaws he is the closest to a good guy we're gonna get in this show, which already sets the mood of what to expect.
Luckily his "friends" somehow endures his terrible personality and make sure he stays in line, most of the time. Really, we don't get to see main characters so borderline villainous as Blade here in animes.

So if you wanna watch some people bash robots apart with their bare hands or bash each other with fire coated fists or supersonic speed, get going and watch Needless already!

Unlike some stupid shounens i like this one.Adam Blade is best kick-ass character i've ever seen in any anime.I didn't like this brat Cruz,because he's a whiny bitch.But overall i enjoyed this anime's comedy the most.

this looks like tenga toppa gurren langanfrom art but mixed special attacks every half minute, 2sec of emotions,there is an old guy that looks like from nintendo as a scientist, a stupid baka yelling hoe that screams arround, is annoying and a wanna be half naked god loving priest senpai guy that never dies.
A kid that lost his sister and acts like he is sad for 10secs, but then completly forgets that 399 of his friends died in a sec.
Basicly the story quality is on a hentai level but without the hentai part

If you want a shonen that has a somewhat deeper story, ... stick to the very old ones

tldr: just don't watch it as your first anime experience

Needless is, as the name implies, needless. Needlessly violent, needlessly stupid, and needlessly likeable for some reason. It’s replete with action, comedy, and enough fan service to make Kokonoe Rin blush, but it comes across as almost a parody half of the time instead of something really trying. At least, toward the beginning. The end tries to take a more serious route and while it does succeed, it succeeds in giving us a cliche story that could have been left out and still maintain the integrity of the show. If there were no back story it could have been a parody or a comedy but ... with that background it seems like it’s actually trying to be something real.

It’s hard to classify Needless as anything because of this. It’s shounen, but is it a comedy or an action story? While it can be both, it changes tone so fast you don’t know what hit you.

Story
There is a story to this series, which I found strange at first because the series starts with what appears to be a very basic plot of an evil corporation full of super-powerful people fighting a resistance of super powerful people. But later on we get a background plot of science experiments and creating god and all kinds of really biblical stuff that is trying to make the show sound smarter than it really is. And the problem with the story in the series is it follows the same basic plot as Trigun and Trinity Blood. Spoiler The good guy and bad guy are experiments, pretty much brothers. And they are both called Adam to go with Eve. Which is a lot like Cain and Abel from Trinity Blood.

While I can accept the biblical parts, it just seems needless (Ba-ba-ching). There’s also a thin plot about the main character, Cruz’s sister but none of it is really that great. The story is weak and there seems to be a bit too much of it toward the end when we’ve been exposed to fight scene after fight scene mixed with comedy, breaking the flow of things.

In other words, don’t come to Needless expecting quality story-telling.If it were to boil down to anything, Needless is the story of a bunch of people with powers in a post-apocalyptic world where they fight each other formulaicly for twenty-four episodes.

Animation
I had no problem with the animation. Characters looked a lot like those from Gurren Lagann which was a bit of a problem at first (Cruz=Simon)(Eve=Yoko)(Blade=Kamina). But it doesn’t matter, the animation is perfectly fine, though it isn’t amazing. It’s average.

Sound
I decided to watch the dubbed version and wasn’t surprised that there were quite a few voice actors who were god awful, including Cruz’s sister who had to have been played by a robot. I guess the main characters did competently but…you know. I don’t expect much from my dubs.

The first opening and ending song for the show is good, but the second opening and ending isn’t. Within the show, the heavy metal soundtrack is pretty good.

Characters
Believe it or not, the characters in this show are average! There are a lot of characters but very few actually stand out. Blade is a lolicon priest who is probably the funniest character in the show, Cruz is an emo kid, Eve is a ditzy girl with big boobs. There’s a scientist who states the obvious or reiterates what somebody has just said.There are the girls of the Beautiful Girl Squadron, all of whom have no substance, though I like the seemingly mute lesbian one, Kuchinashi. The bad guy, Adam Arclight, is generic.

So, not much to talk about in this department.

Overall
An anime that prides itself on violence, panty shots, and comedy? It has to be good right? Fight scenes are too damn long, and when you have a twenty-four episode anime, you don’t want to stretch out ten episodes as one fight scene in the same room. Seriously, from episode nine to nineteen or so the show takes place in a single room. It gets rather boring and so does the anime. It starts fast-paced and promising but ends rather dully. I heard that the fight scenes in this show were some of the best in anime and I would like to tell the person who said that to suck it because the fight scenes in this show were lame and basic. I was not impressed by this show at all, but it was a decent distraction. It had some good moments, a lot in fact, but it was just so trite and basic and as it continued it tried to inject story but failed.

I really enjoyed this anime for what it is and that's a comedy action anime with fan service. I found myself laughing pretty often and I enjoyed the action. While its nothing groundbreaking in any way. It gets what ist supposed to get done right.

The story is probably the weakest part of this anime. While its pretty simple its entertaining enough and interested me enough to where I could sit down and binge watch 6-10 episodes at a time even after seeing this Anime 5 or 6 times already.

The Humor is probably what I enjoy most about the series. The Characters are pretty ... one dimensional but since it is a comedy anime you cant really expect complex characters. I really enjoyed the Beautiful Girl Squadron. They made me chuckle the most probably. and really I found most of the characters to have a charm to them that made me really enjoy them despite that.

The Art style is pretty good as well as the animation. Certainly has its own unique look to it. The voice acting was mostly really good Some were just so-so. I also really enjoyed the music.

Its most likely going to be an anime that hit or a miss with most. f you dont like its brand of humor the action might be what saves it for you. Its a lot of over the top fighting which is enjoyable to watch.

If you are looking for a complex anime , well then this isn't it. Its made to be silly fun and for me it got that right. Hell I'd even love a sequel even though this anime doesnt need one. I recommend it if you like comedy/action anime.

Needless is a show where humanity is about to be distinguished by humans with Super Powers called Needless. Most of them are evil working under Adam Arclight who is basically a god.
Speaking of gods, the powers of the Needless are basically abilities from the Second who is basically Jesus. And a few characters are closest to him in ability because they were cloned by him as means to be used as weapons.
Basically the goal of the good guys which include one of the clones Adam Blade to defeat Adam Arclight and save the world.

Super powers in this series are standard but the characters use it ... in clever ways which make them unique. And fights involve characters to figure out how to counter said power and how various abilities are connected to 1. Unless they are clones of Jesus which basically allow him to use multiple abilities and copy those of their opponents. But even the broken main character has to figure out how to overcome the members of Simeon's Pretty Girl Squad which consist mainly of cute girls that experienced military training despite their looks.
Basically the fights are badass spectacle and strategic.

Characters are also amazing.

Blade might be a controversial character since he is into young girls... he suppose to be a priests and the show makes fun of priest stereo types. While that creates a lot of creepy but comical moments, it also serves as a weakness when fighting the far more experienced Simeon's Pretty Girl Squad.

Arclight is your average villain and has a mightier copy power to Blade. His goal is to become a real god pretty much.

Eva Neuschwanstein is Blade's closest friend has the ability Doppelganger that allows her to transform into different people. She is also insanely powerful with cool moves like a turning her arm into a drill. She is bad with names so she nicknames everyone. She needs a lot of calories to fight at full power which is why she drinks some weird soda with 5000 calories.

Schild Cruz is a child without Super Powers but he makes up for it with his analytic abilities which serve as crucial means to beat any Needless they encounter. He is often victim of comic relief jokes and punishment.

There are other amazing characters too with my favorite being Setsuna who has the Fragment (basically what the abilities of Needless are called) Speed who is basically the leader of the main Pretty Girl Squad the protagonists encounter. But there is also a mysterious character named Saten who's intentions aren't clear and some green haired masked woman.

The show is amazing but often it doesn't take itself serous. The tone shift can be bothersome and some images can be considered deviant. The anime artstyle is unique for the show and it has a lot of badass female characters in it.
Highly recommend giving it a watch.

Not bad for first half of the anime. Art is good, animation is not bad, comedy is decent. But when the second half of the anime comes, things went down hill. MC is totally useless, loud, annoying and just a waste of screen time. There is no character progression at all. Adam or Eve should have been the MC.

Subtle spoilers...

The enemy's base looks huge but yet, we have over 9 episodes stucked inside a room fighting with extremely little story progression. There were so many other girl squads shown in the earlier episodes, but none actually appeared in the fight even though it is situated ... at their headquaters! The fight lasted sooo much longer than it should have. I just gave up and start skipping through the remaining 9 to 10 episodes. Overall, it could have been great, but it became a great dissapointment for me...

Needless...How should I put it? It had a great start, felt pretty into it until the episodes later on. It went very downhill after the first half of the anime. had some smart moments of build up then total ass pulls that were not enjoyable. It's a bit of a mess really. It's a good laugh when talking about it with others, it's mediocre when watching it alone. The pacing is terrible, like, they drag stuff too much or go way too quickly with it. They explain the powers (fragments) well, but then when actually using them in fight is like "No no, it ... actually doesn't work that well." or the fights with them are boring. Bad timed jokes, doubtful quality jokes at that which are repeated over and over again. Overall? Mediocre, but I don't completely regret watching it.

Needless has got to be some of the best slapstick and outright outrageous humor I've seen in an anime. Its animation is good, the voice acting is excellent and the plot is... well the plot is special which serves to accelerate the humor. A gang of misfits with supernatural powers of questionable usefulness trying to strike down a megacorporation. Half the cast has some of the worst morals possible and characters always remain true to their (questionable) origins and motives.

The anime follows the manga until about a third the way into the manga where it takes a deviating approach to end the series. The ... ending isn't terrible but having read the manga where it left off, it missed so many great arcs it could have covered. Regardless, the ending wasn't unsatisfying or crude, just missed potential.