One Piece Anime Review

One piece is a very interesting anime/manga. Weirdly enough, it is also the anime/manga that most people know (with Naruto, and even Bleach a bit further behind) but unlike Naruto, which is treated as “for small children”, One Piece isn’t that much criticised. Sadly though, the story isn’t all THAT great. So the manga is about a brainless boy named luffy who sets out on an adventure to find One Piece (Hence the name) -a legendary treasure left by the previous pirate king- and to become pirate king himself. The story is composed of arcs, each of different lengths depending on the importance of the story (like all manga). Unfortunately, after 600 episodes, the anime starts to deteriorate and the writer started to come up with completely stupid ideas… for example, now when you watch an episode, you see some kind of transvestite gay dancing on a platform with drunk pirates looking at him as if he brought with him some kind of revelation… This is the moment when you say W.T.F. I mean, it’s only normal that after that much episodes, the story starts getting… weird. Look at Naruto, when you see it now, the story resumes to this: a good guy’s best friend who was supposed to be killed 20 years ago is actually the bad guy that’s been behind half the plotting and is now trying to turn all the inhabitants of ninja planet in walking veggies. Seriously? Anyways, One Piece has extended it’s life span and I think it’s time for it to go before it becomes completely ridiculous. Note that there are also serious likelihood problems: Luffy has special powers because he ate a RARE fruit. So why the hell is it that half the people he encounters ate fruits too? Also, depending on the episodes, his arm won’t be able to stretch as long, sometimes it’s only 2 or 3 meters, sometimes it’s up to 3 kilometres…

Art: 7/10 

OST: 8/10 (anime's original soundtrack) 

Storyline: 6/10

Emotionnal setting (is it gonna make you cry or laugh): 6/10 

Overall mark: 7/10

I recommend this to people who don’t know all the other good anime out there and want to embark on a journey they're -nearly- sure will never end.

Fairy Tail Anime Review

Fairy Tail is a manga written by Hiro Mashina (not that you know him) that relates the adventures of a magic guild (called Fairy Tail -.-') –an association of people who work together using magic powers to accomplish jobs- as they journey through sub plots in the story line… Most of them are: “it’s the end of the world if FairyTail doesn’t help” but there are also some fights between guilds and the “main” plot is the search of the lost dragons. The manga is fitted with hilarious scenes, sad moments and (mostly) a lot of good action which makes FairyTail one of the classics in action manga (alongside the famously hated Naruto and One Piece). It has been adapted in an anime (which isn’t half bad).

Rating:

Emotional Setting: 9/10

-Very few anime made me cry, Fairy Tail is one of them.

-Good sense of humor, and similarly to Naruto, the first chapters are much more focused on making you laugh than actually developing the plot.

Storyline: 6/10 

-The arcs aren't too long or too short but it doesn't stray too much from our expectations, so try to do something a bit more unexpected instead of following the same story path over and over again.

-Only two anime so far have completely messed up their "skip to the future" part, Bleach and Fairy Tail. In Fairy Tail's case, what they did was truly unbelievable, because the main characters couldn't change for 7 years, everything around them has changed, but they haven't. Which is exactly the opposite of what is supposed to happen after time jumps. It then tried to catch up by quickly changing the main character's clothes, but the main problem is that they're supposed to have had some kind of training for 7 years, but because they were immobilized, they couldn't train at all, so the writer realized that he'd made a mistake and made them train for a few days...-yes, to catch up 7 years-

-They also had the opportunity to change the villains a bit, but instead they re-used the same villains as before the 7 year gap. Thank you originality.

Art: 8/10 

-nothing to say, impeccable, smooth drawings and cool characters

O.S.T. : 9/10 

-note that it's the same guy that does Naruto's O.S.T., so expect good music.

Final rating: 8/10

I recommend this anime to people who love good old action anime with special powers and magic.

Stein's Gate Anime Review

Stein's Gate has, without a doubt, one of the best time travel stories. I mean anyway, what can you compare it to? Men In Black III? That movie has so much plain impossible parts that it doesn't hold a candle to Stein's  Gate. The anime isn't very long, but, once again, what matters is quality and not quantity. So you have a bit more than 20 episodes of pure epicness. Prepare to be amazed, not because this anime has particularly exceptional fighting scenes, but because this anime is just ...... *can't find words to describe*.

Also includes some pretty funny scenes (but he's a boy)

I recommend this anime to all those people who, like me, believe that a good anime isn't a 600 episode long one, but a short one that makes you beg for more.

Storyline: 9/10

-simply amazing

Art: 7/10

-Well, I think they could have done a better job on that but it's still good.

Emotional setting: 7/10

-it did make me laugh, however, the anime's objective is clearly not to make you laugh or cry, it's just to wow you with the story, so I think this part is a bit left out.

O.S.T.: 7/10

-Not much to say on this, only that it's not awful, but that it's not superb either, it's just music that comes and goes.

Overall: 8.5/10

If you want to watch Stein's gate, do not stop after the first 10 episodes, it's one of those  "everything cool happens at the end" animes.