I start this review with one of the most retarded reasons that a character can have in an anime, not only the reason, but the anime as a whole is retarded. Okay, okay, they can not grow rice anymore, but they survive very well without them, so the only reason the protagonists have that goal is for them to have a reason to fight the kabanes, except to try to find the cure So I mumei back to being human, which they did not do and I do not think there is going to be 2nd season (I hope so).
Story 4/10: Kabaneri is basically Shingeki no Kyojin on a train, the story tells the journey of our "great" main protagonist Ikoma, he is an engineer who takes care of trains arriving from other cities, on business trips or expeditions, Ikoma also tries to create a weapon Able to pierce the hard body of the enemies called kabanes, of course this is not allowed so he makes the experiments hidden, at that time appeared the good for nothing princess called Ayame, after a good time the train called Koutetsujou arrives at the scene, Just after this appears two more characters, the faithful guardian of Ayame Kurusu and her father. On this train they bring two other characters: Mumei and Shimon. They are the ones not to be inspected by the samurai, guardians of the city, basically to him, they inspect each of the members of the train to see if they were not bitten by Kabaneris, they are like zombies but much more resistant. The samurai suspect one of the members of the train and try to kill him, but Ikoma is sure that he is not a kabane and with this everyone begins to suspect him, which results in his arrest, meanwhile, Mumei escapes from the castle To see Ikoma and talk to him, at that time a train totally dominated by Kabanes breaks the bridge and invades the city, which causes a killing and Mumei realizes it tries to espace of the city, Ikoma took advantage of that moment and fled from the "prison", He decides to go back to his house and picks up his personalized pressure weapon, a Kabane invades the house and at that moment Ikoma uses his weapon and kills the Kabane, but is bitten, after that comes the most impossible way to try to heal a bite, He tries to hold his arm with metal to stop the blood from circulating that which is not right and then Ikoma hangs himself to hold the blood and succeeds, because for some reason Kabane's blood simply stopped mixing with him and ended up transforming Ikoma In a Kabaneri, Half-Human, Half-Kabane. This was the 1st episode of the anime, I will not prophesy so much the rest, just tell more impressions about what happened in each one, from here would have many spoilers, so I do not recommend that you continue reading this review unless you have finished The anime.
Ikoma is "killed" by Kurusu because he suspects that Ikoma is a Kabane, but Mumei saves Ikoma and reveals that the Two are Kabaneris, after the two are locked in a room alone by the fear that the other refugees of the train feel for them, Ikoma tells his past that is very simple, sister bitten, he can not do anything, hatred for the Kabanes and promise that it never More will happen (Eren 2.0), the train refugees demand a funeral in respect to the dead and Ayame gives the permission, at that time Ikoma went mad and tries to bite Ayame to extract her blood, but is interrupted by Kurusu, he and Mumei are locked Again, soon after an invasion of Kabanes takes place and a different enemy appears called Wazatori, that Ikoma defeats with only half and a half of training with Mumei. The next episode Ikoma and the refugees aims to take out a surveillance tower that fell on the rails, making it impossible for the train to pass, they mount a plane and tries to execute it, but Mumei spoils everything because ... I do not know, she Changes personality in each episode, the writers did not know how to define her personality which caused a huge mess in the character, Mumei tries to solve everything alone that not very sure and she ends up falling into an abyss and Ikoma tries to rescue her, meanwhile Comes a new enemy, the black cloud that is nothing more, nothing less than a lot of Kabanes that formed a single being, how they did it I do not do the least idea, it's serious had to create something random to try to leave history interesting? Only made the plot more messy, more messy than it already was. They open the core of the monster for Mumei to destroy it, also shows a bit of Mumei's past, which is Mikasa 2.0, dead family, orfam adopted by another family. In Episode 07 there is nothing beyond the stupid promise and revelation of a new character: Biba. In the next episode also did not have much, it was only Ikoma trying to discover the real intentions of Biba, who proves to be Badass, cruel and how he influences Mumei, in addition to revealing that Mumei turned Kabaneri because of experiences, as she did not turn anyone Kabane You know, not even the screenwriter himself. In the following episode he shows the real intentions of Biba, to spread the Kabanes by the city where one of the subordinates of his father lived, besides him to inflict blood of Kabane in Horobi,
Who loses control and Biba kills her, In the 10th episode Ikoma and the others were made of refens and forced to give blood to be used in experiments, Ikoma plans a rebellion, steal the keys of the guard and go to Biba and his plan was A success, meanwhile, Biba tries to convince Mumei to kill Ikomi and her friends, but Mumei refuses, which Biba has already expected and forces Mumei using more blood Kabane on her, Ikoma is confused by his key not open the door, but Biba He thought of that as well and changed the key, Biba shoots Ikoma, but Takumi jumps ahead, takes the bullet and saves his seemingly immortal friend, GENIUS ... and then Mumei attacks Ikoma on Biba's orders, with that Ikoma loses his arm and "die".
In the 11th episode nothing happens except Biba's coup d'etat that kills his father and successively took control of the family, his father even died with the virus of a dagger he gave his son as a gift, and also the "Suicide" of Ikoma who bets everything to save Mumei, including his humanity, having the possibility to become a Kabane. The last episode shows Ikoma exploding a train with the power of the king-gun, only pointed finger, and the epic final battle between Ikoma and Biba that ends quickly without climax or any of that, the Ikoma uses a dirty switch and ends, it saves I mumbled and fainted in the process, after that, Biba returns to die a second later and who killed him this time went to Mumei. Kurusu meets with the 2 and they leave the city and meet with the others to escape, after that Ikoma that should die, simply come back and who saved him was BIBA THE FACE WHO DID NOT HAVE HUMANITY IN THE LAST MINUTE CREATED BECAUSE THE WRITER DID NOT HAVE IDEA OF WHAT TO DO.
Art 7/10: The animation is done by wit studio, so it's very beautiful and well made, fluid in both combat and in the simplest moments, always above average, the scenery is beautiful and very well done, the character design also lacks comments, but for me Is wit's weakest production, not that it has gone bad, but the wit studio made it better for sure.
Soundtrack 8/10: And OP is cool, but ED is very good and beautiful, the songs that play in the anime too, the emotion, the problem that the sad songs will not bring good things since the characters are horrible.
Characters 3/10: Horrible ... No personalities, No charisma, No nothing to make you call what they are fighting or protecting, characters poorly written, no characters practically, because they all fit I said here.
Overall: 4/10: Is fucking bad, The only good things about Kabaneri are the Animation and the Soundtrack, the rest is horrible.
Positive Points:
-Great Soundtrack
-Good Animation
Negative Points:
-Did not explain where the kabanes came from and did not try.
-Weak and totally meaningless story, many plot holes.
-Stupid characters who do not do anything in the whole anime besides depend on the main ones that are a shit too, lack of explanation of how Mumei managed to be Kabane, could at least try to show I know it ... HOW KABANE BLOOD STOPPED TO MIX WITH HUMAN BLOOD AND CREATE A MUTATION?
Kabaneri is horrible, simply that As I value more story and characters so the low note.
