When I first saw this anime here, I thought that it would be just another shounen beat up anime, which I haven't really even watched, because I have always kinda shyed away from them. Well, I decided to give it a try and began watching this. The voice actors were for the most part pretty unknown ones to me, they haven't been in any other animes that I have seen, at least ,not in any positions from which I would remember them.
It soon became pretty clear, that the anime isn't your typical shounen beat up anime, because at least I have an image, that they usually have storylines that take themselves pretty seriously, and they don't really cultivate humor that much. This anime, however, seemed to be pretty humor based, and it wasn't trying to hide it's pure fan service either. As I watched the show, I noticed that I might actually like those shounen animes which I mentioned before, since I enjoyed all the fighting scenes and over the top charismas of the characters and muscles and everything that just screams "fuck yeah, I am the real man". That combined with the humor that I actually found to be pretty funny, it looked like this was going to be one really good anime to watch.
I also liked the art of this anime, although there wasn't anything special on it, it was just fit for this anime, that's pretty much all I can say about it, not bad and not anything special. The music however, was so goddamn good. The music fits perfectly in the background of the battles. The music is just full of testosterone and it fits perfectly in the speedy and epic fighting scenes, making them even more enjoyable. I also liked the first OP of the show, for the same reason as I liked the background music of the show. The metal music just fits here perfectly and that's why I highly disliked the other OP. I Liked some of the characters, but, as it is with many other animes, the main character (or one of the main ones, I am not really sure), Cruz, is pretty bland and boring character, but luckily the other characters make up for that. Adam is a bad ass character that I liked for the sole reason of him being an awesome ass kicker and really over the top confident character, which raises the testosterone count of this anime to the point that it's just so goddamn awesome that you can't hate it. The other characters also function well and they form a pretty good character roster, but Adam alone is one reason to watch this anime.
As I said in the beginning, this anime is pretty humor and fast action based anime, but the story is also pretty interesting. However, the anime doesn't really utilize it that well, and I personally think that it doesn't have to. I think it was the writer's plan to make this anime more action and humor based one, and not focus to the story that much. And I think that's fine, the reason why I enjoyed this anime is because of the fast paced action and all over the top fights, manliness and humor, not the story. Don't get me wrong though, the story is, at times, interesting, but it's wasn't the reason for me to watch this anime. That being said, in the end, the story of this anime gets much bigger role than in the beginning. This was expected: there were many things that were unexplained, so it was kind of a good thing, since those things are explained in the end, but at times, it kinda felt like a forced drama, not to the point of annoyance luckily, so it didn't really kill the feeling of this anime.
The fanservice also has a huge role in this anime. And in an anime like this, it doesn't really bother me, actually, I must say that some part of me might actually like it, I mean c'mon, who doesn't like pantsus? If this anime would be a serious one though, then it might kinda kill the feeling, but in this kinda anime, it's not a bad thing.
To summarize all this, I say that if you expect this to be an anime that has a deep and serious storyline, you probably won't like it, but if you just love all the action, over the top personalities, fighting and the humor, then you will enjoy this.
