Of the three points I gave this anime, one point would go to the opening and closing songs (hee); another point would go to the characters that I like (one guy with a green hat who trained the protagonist, the cool antagonist, the white haired boy); and the last point would go to the only episode that I appreciated out of the 45 episodes I watched - EPISODE 1. UUUUGH! What is wrong with this anime??? I mean really?! Such a waste of time! If I wasn't so bored, I wouldn't even - ehem. Sorry.
Moving on...
Episode 1 pretty much gives a summary of what the movie is all about: a guy who can see ghosts is given the powers of a Death God so that he could kill the bad spirits (called 'hollows') that kill good spirits. I thought that the anime was going to be interesting because the plot sounded new to me. I mean, "Death God?", "sixth sense?" Yeah, that pretty much persuaded me.
As the anime progressed, however, the story was starting to become typical and boring. Not to mention that there were SO MANY unnecessary flashbacks and SO MANY darned scenes that should have been removed (e.g. 30 seconds of watching a character roll on the ground after getting hit by an enemy, a minute of watching a character swish his sword). I mean come on!! I kept forwarding it 75% of the time. It was like a badly made indie indie (redundancy’s intentional) film.
What I hated the most about the anime was the protagonist. No it’s not the typical goody-goody, martyr, sweet antagonist girl that I hate. In fact, it's a guy with characteristics that are usually something I can stand. What I couldn't bear about him is how the he's supposed to be someone with SOOOO much talent and SOOOO much power that he's almost SOOOO perfect.
Don't get me wrong. I love fiction and I do day dream about impossible stuff AND I am a perfectionist. But, really now, a protagonist who can perfect a technique in three days when it's supposed to be perfected in a 100 years by "even the most talented" (quotation from the film)?? A protagonist who's never really been beaten by anybody?? It's SO annoying! And SO unrealistic! And SO urgh!! Wasn't Lelouche beaten by his brother at some point? Wasn't Naruto beaten by Sasuke at some point? Wasn't Ban sliced by some guy at some point? Weren't 4 of the 7 samurais killed? Whew. I really had to get that off my chest. X)
All in all, the anime sucks. No offense to whoever made it X) but I hardly ever stop midway when watching an anime. This was the first time that I really lost interest and didn't care about how much I spent on the DVD. I just feel so bad about having spent so much time watching it :(
