Re: Anime Thread
Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2014 11:53 am
If someone's looking for a decent shonen action anime with a plot that actually gets finished during the series, I recommend Busou Renkin. It's taking the traditional shonen plot, and adding a few twists that don't change how it goes forward, only how we interpret the meaning behind the actions.
It's also got an interesting sense of humour. For example, one of the monsters is "Moonface". He's a man with moonface. As in, his face is like the moon. Kinda. Moonface also likes saying "MOOOOOON". Like so:
(the Type Moon stuff isn't part of the series, obviously).
The series is pretty funny, if you like that quirky sense of humour.
It also has fights with well-thought-out powers. Well, the concepts at least - the execution often tends to be of the "HIT IT HARDER" variety. It is one of those train train TRAIN HARDER series, where the protagonists learns fast until he outlearns everyone. I'm a sucker for that trope. It also uses that "all my friends are looking! I can't lose now! I feel powerful again, yaaaagh!" thing.
It's also got an interesting sense of humour. For example, one of the monsters is "Moonface". He's a man with moonface. As in, his face is like the moon. Kinda. Moonface also likes saying "MOOOOOON". Like so:
(the Type Moon stuff isn't part of the series, obviously).
The series is pretty funny, if you like that quirky sense of humour.
It also has fights with well-thought-out powers. Well, the concepts at least - the execution often tends to be of the "HIT IT HARDER" variety. It is one of those train train TRAIN HARDER series, where the protagonists learns fast until he outlearns everyone. I'm a sucker for that trope. It also uses that "all my friends are looking! I can't lose now! I feel powerful again, yaaaagh!" thing.