I wanna start of by telling that this review will judge the anime and the anime only. I've read the manga, but i don't wanna compare them to each other. So here comes the review.
"You know what makes Ganta so amazing? He always gets up again."
Story: 7/10
Well the story centers around Ganta, a boy who's been falsely accused for murder. After seeing his friends get killed by a mystical red man, he's the only one left back alive and then gets sent to prison. In this special prison which holds the most dangerous of all criminals, Ganta finds himself in the middle of all this, without the power to protect himself.
But then he meets this girl Shiro. A sweet, clumsy, albino girl that nobody really knows who is, but one thing is for sure, she cares about her friends and most of all, she cares about Ganta, but why?
The longer Ganta is in this prison, weird things start to happen, and soon he discovers that he's received a strange power since his meeting with the red man, which gets him into even more trouble than before. And so the journey of Ganta and Shiro begins.
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With only 12 episodes, of course this anime will seem rushed. It's like you get on and a big big rollercoaster and then you ride up, high up and just get more and more exited. And now you stand on the top of this rollercoaster and look down... and then... the anime ends. I loved the story sooo much. I love everything about the plot, but it just ends. And yeah you can read the manga and yeah yeah it only covers the first 5 volumes, but come one, this was so great, don't just end it like that!
Art: 10/10
Well this is gonna be short because it's just AMAZING. If I wanna watch an anime I ALWAYS goes on youtube to watch an AMV or something like that, to check out the artwork. An in my opinion this was better than great. Well I don't think everyone agree because we all like different styles of art, but this was definitely my style so I enjoyed it very much.
Sound: 6/10
I seriosly didn't know how to rate this. I don't really listen to the bag ground music, I only notice it if i find it bad, and obviously i didn't. The opening didn't catch me, but it then again wasn't so bad. So yeah, don't know what to say about it. It was fine I guess.
Character: 5/10
Having read the manga I find it very hard to rate this category, because it is hard to separate the show and the manga from each other. But I'll try anyway.
Ganta:
Some people say that he doesn't develop at all, but I don't agree on that. At first glance he's this little, innocent and scared boy who don't know have to protect himself. But as the story goes on, he see's that the world he once knew and this world he now lives in, are totally different. His personality starts changing and instead of needing protection, he starts providing protection.
Shiro:
Let me put it like this. At first your like "whaaat, who is she, why is she white, why does she wear those gloves, what what". And the strange thing is, the anime let YOU know a little about her, but Ganta never learns about those things. Ganta is Shiros best friends, and at some points he start remembering some things. Like, he's known here when he where a child? But you don't find out what that has to do with anything really. That made me really disapointed.
But then again, looking at development, she is this girl who'ed been raised inside walls, away from the world, and therefor she doesn't know how to act. But the more she's with Ganta, the more "human" she becomes, and the more she matures.
I don't really wanna talk about the other chapters, they all have a GREAT bag ground story, and don't worry, you get to know it in the anime, but they don't really develop that much.
Enjoyment: 9/10
As said before, I LOVE IT. I love all the psychological twist and turns, I love all the crazy characters and their insane bag ground storys, and I love the fight scenes. So even though it disappointed my in many ways, I actually didn't regret watching it.
Overall: 7/10
I would definitely recommend it to someone who loves insane and psychological storys and doesn't mind scenes with fighting and blood. BUT I would tell them to read the manga first. I read the manga after seeing the anime, but I really think it would be better the other way around. Bravo to the anime for sticking so fine to the manga. Because of that I se the anime as a way of bringing the mangas first couple of volumes "to life" with colors and music and all that.
Thanks for reading, this was my first review, I'm hoping some of you finds it helpful ^_^
