SYNOPSIS:
A top secret military base who are super evil, experiments on females to make Super Aliens to do a bunch of random errands. One of the girls trying to escape some how ends up in our generic protagonists astronomy club, then he hunts more of them. Soon enough, poof! Harem happens- obvious fact. Now whose ready for SHOCK FACTOR!
REVIEW:
Lets start of with what most people flip there Kenichi's about... the gore factor... AKA- SHOCK FACTOR:
At least in Elfen Lied they show fully uncensored gore and nudity, it was special back then because the gore mixed with the portrayal of nudity and emotions of the characters with there harsh situations allowed us to at least sympathize with what there forced to do. Violence in present, have become mainstream of the years which looses it effect. In Brynhildr, they censored it because it was aiming for that mainstream garbage! It shows no respect of the audience as the characters have some crazy super powers to be used as plot armour, in fact, there completely one liner or worded and 100% archetype designed personalities is sufficient evidence that the show puts over there cool super powers over personalities which doesn't make anyone care! It maybe cool at first, but hear me out:
Don't know what’s going to happen next? See into the future! About to die? Regeneration! About to get killed? use Mind Control! All of this makes everything feel very forced and lack maturity. It lacks the realism and grey morality compared towards its older sister, at least the Horn Girls in Elfen kill people for survival as they are all being mistreated by man kind, which is totally understandable, but in here! The girls don't attack anyone because being captured means they're being tortured and experimented in this unethical manner if they come back to secret HQ laboratories. So they insist to runaway! As there only option, which limits a lot of interesting possibilities to make the show, “Better”
Comparing towards the show's fan service terminology:
At least in Elfen we had the girls stripped to show an excuse that they are in physical or psychological torture, girl gets sexually abused by step Dad, girl gets horribly experimented on scientists through torture to advance technology etc. In Brynhildr's mind, we had to throw Boob Jokes, Forced Bath Scenes, and girl wants to sleep with guy naked but no hentai. Because, harem, as this show is trying to make us sympathize from the harsh lives of the characters? Or trying to turn us on? Oh, wait, its both. (doesn't mix well btw)
At least our Harem lead in Elfen (though very generic) seems to be an incredibly kind person, nor he is the brightest or the most cunning; he's just this vanilla guy that all chicks are forced to live. The Murakami dude is a douche! He apparently seems to appear very smart and has well thought out plans but turns out that he's entire thought process was completely retarded as almost every plan fails, it feels as if he's actually getting dum! He also makes boob jokes and trying to always tries to look smarter than everyone else for every chance he gets. He is at first, calm, sophisticated and intellectual, but turns out to be rather pretentious. The first opening was good, having some refreshing dubstep, but then I listen to ear rape like ten episodes in which was completely unnecessary for a 12 episode series! Aesthetically, its just some action and nothing special.
VERDICT:
In a nutshell its just plain stupid logic... Unlike its older sister which had a decent amount of depth and respect towards audience, Brynhildr is STUPID, all the way through.
SCORES:
6/10 Nothing special at all... It gets the job done in an above average manner.
5/10 Completely forgettable OST except for the 2 openings which saves me for giving it a minus point.
2/10 For super stupid characters!
2/10 By via forced storytelling.
1.5/10 With absolutely no redeeming factor except for the slightest deviants...
2/10 For the obvious reasons!
