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Story: 8 points
Did you know notice how she changed and cried after being given back her humanity in the form of clothing?

If we have nothing to start with then we have nothing to lose.

The dignity that her clothing represents is the truth that we run from.

“Humans are cruel, savage creatures. No matter how you wanna dress it up and disguise it...” Rorschach from the movie Watchmen.

You can call me out for quoting the obvious, but you can't deny the reality this hentai title displays; boldly, bravely, and uncensored in its attempt to depict the truth of our nature.
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You can sit and hide inside your vanilla world and ideals, but you can't hide for long.

Truth is like the sun. Lies bring darkness but that darkness only lasts so long before the sun rises again and clears the lies that we tell ourselves in order to hide from the reality that is man and woman.

We can point fingers at this anime all we want, but the feeling we have inside is 'truth' wanting to be freely spoken and not disguised with our false ideals.


Art: 10 points
Very clean art.


Sound: 8 points
The sound of her crying sounded very real.


Character: 8 points
The characters were very gritty and real.
The switch between slut and normal school girl is easy to do, but that fact that the makers of this anime go ti t right when other have go tit wrong is a case for a few extra points.


Enjoyment: 6 points
I would have enjoyed it more, but watching real rape is not my thing.


Overall: 8 points

Story: 4 points.
Split personalities ...really? if you're going to do that old routine in this day and age then you need to put an original twist on it, like maybe she transforms into a dog, a futanari, or a dominatrix.

Comedy + vanilla + nothing special = boring.


Art: 6 points.
The Art was good, but not great. The art was more 80's than it should have been since the anime was made in the late 90's


... Sound: 6 points
The sound was not bad but then there was nothing challenging about this anime to begin with.


Character: 1 point
The chars were nothing more than skin level development and were based totally on negative stereotypes

This anime displays a very negative stereotype of Japanese people, women in particular.

Seriously if, you have to transform into someone else (and become someone or something you are not) before you can have enough guts to stand up against three, weak-bodied, school girl bullies, you ARE pathetic.

"Oh no! Someone stole my underwear, oh boo hoo. What do I do?"

While the Japanese men do seem to breed their women to be weak and insecure I don't believe all Japanese women are pathetic.


Enjoyment: 2 points
In light of that belief, this anime did nothing but piss me off.
It is hard for me to enjoy something that harshly degrades and stereotypes people.


Overall: 3 points.

I felt that gantz had a weak plot which was an excuse to create a show that contained way too much unnecessary violence.

I felt the same way about elfen lied. However, I felt that elfen lied had a much better story line and the story was attmpting to teach us ideas such as forgiveness, love, tolerance of others, tolerance of what we don't understand or expereince, self-refelction, human rights, morality, and irony.

Aside from the fact that Gantz did not do any of those things to rectify itself, Gantz also displayed the idea that 'sometimes' murder is justifiable...I decided not to waste any more of my ... brain cells absorbing trash.
Like the saying goes: garbage in, garbage out.

This is Mobile Suit Gundam Wing and my review of its profound glory.

I have never been a big fan of mecha anime and Transformers (the original), Gundam Wing, and Neon Genesis Evangelion are the only three that I care to watch more than once. In fact I am rewatching Gundam Wing now.

Story: 8 points
The series has A LOT of redundant footage, a few episodes that only serve to rehash previous scenes and dialogue, a skin-deep plot and no subplots or back-stories, and several, impossibly invincible characters. However, this series also has A LOT of redeeming qualities. Gundam Wing is full of twisting storylines, paradoxical characters, ... philosophy, martial code, and military tactics. Any samurai fiction fan could be happy with Gundam Wing, as it follows suit with many samurai films. Heero Yuy’s philosophical introspection in episode 18 was phenomenal.

Art: 8 points
The artwork was pretty good and was reliable in quality throughout the series’ finale. Even the series was filmed in the mid 90’s, it certainly has an 80’s feel to it which is fine, because it’s a war film and you would expect the footage to not be perfect, but rough instead.

Sound: 8 points
The soundtrack isn’t great; it only has one awesome song in it (Rhythm Emotion), however the sound effects throughout the series were quite spectacular.


Character: 7 points
Though there was very little character buildup in Gundam Wing. The character designs are pretty unoriginal, but the characters themselves are easy to like, and in some cases easy to hate. This is expected in any good dramatization.
Lucrezia Noin and Heero Yuy are two of my favorite anime characters. But, their originality could be improved greatly, especially Heero’s first name. The word ‘Hero’ with an added “e”, need I say more? Another character I really liked was Relena Peacecraft. I am sure that my favoritism towards these characters is simply a reflection of my personal character and my desires of a woman, each personified.

Enjoyment: 8 points
The fact that I am rewatching this series even now as I write this is a testament to how much I enjoy it.


Overall: 8 points
8+8+8+7+8 = 39 out of 50. That’s 7.8 out of 10, but because I like to so much I will round that up to an '8'.

Well, I never thought my first anime review would be about a 'Panty-show'.
(When I say, ' Panty-show', I mean a show where the premise, video takes, sound, and artwork revolves around cute, half-naked girls and lots of fanservice.)

But, here it goes....
First let's confirm that this is in-fact a Panty-show:
Pantyshots in every scene? check!
Little or no plot? check!
Girls or young women running around in useless costums and lingerie? check!
Bad story? check!
Women doing things that aren't natural for women to do like being physically and emotionally strong, gutsy, doing stunts that are impossible even for a man, and showing 'male' traits? ... check!
Splashy action scenes? check!
Lots of weird or make-believe vehicles? check!
Lame humor? check!

Okay, now that we have concluded that this series is in fact a panty-show, let's go into the details...

Story: 2 points.
A bunch of underage girls doing things that they would not be doing in real life, even IF they could.

Artwork: 7 points.
Fanservice, fanservice, fanservice, fanservice, fanservice, fanservice, fanservice, fanservice, fanservice, and even more fanservice. IF you noticed that the artwok for everything other than girl's bodies and clothing was poor then obviously you weren't jerking off in your jeans while your mother is in the next room. The artwork in this series was SO off-balance that the ass-lines in the girl's panties were more defined than anything else. In-fact, the asslines were so well-done you know where their raspberries are ;)

Sound Quality: 7 points.
The sound quality was pretty clear and the voice work was decent, however they, too, revolved mainly around the girl's individual activities and very little was left to the natural environments that surrounded them.

Character: 5 points.
The girls were trying to act WAY older than they are. The characterizations of the villians were poorly drawnout. The adults were completely out of character as real adults would never let's kids run the show(mind the pun).

Enjoyment: 5 points.
I only give this show 5 poiints only because it is one of the few times you get to see naked highschool girls in something other than loli-hentai, in which they are all classified as being over '18' and we all know that is a load of bull.

Overall: 6 points.
2+7+7+5+5= 26 out of 50. That comes out to be 5.2, and I will round it out to a '5'.