friesen.beau - 2016-07-22 05:50:38

Tokyo, Japan, is currently under a gang attack consisted of peculiar espers who wants to rule the nation based on their hatred and egoistical evil desires. These humans use their super power dedicatedly to eliminate those who oppose 'em, brute force everywhere to government and innocent citizens, while the government itself hasn't reach a good conclusion and categorize all esper to be overpowered. Thus appear a silver-haired girl that stand on normal humans side as an esper, well-known as "Shiroi Shoujo", after few of her actions helped citizens recognized by many. This Shiroi Shoujo itself has its own problems regarding this esper thingy.

    It tries to bring mysterious atmosphere but none of it works. The standout evident is about glowing fish phenomenon. The concept of glowing fishes which gives human super power ability is not superb too, It doesn't make any sense since the show appeared so plain even if the scenes shown dark colouring and horrible things occurred. The explanation of it wasn't satisfying enough as the slow emergence of boring fact—glowing fish phenomenon.
    Well, on the other hand, aside from such harsh battles of supranatural powers, it does have romantic essence as the complement, which is no need to ask, also unsuccessful and unnecessary aspect to add. The way the show tried to bring romantic side made the point of this story fade. In the middle of the show, I began to conclude that these vicious fights really got guts to mingle with childish story. The spirit of being the hero of justice, the simple logic way of characters thinking to be the saviors, and the doki-doki / romantic thingy to lure more and somewhat pitying the characters—looking at too many sad moments as the drawer. The mission of rescuing the captives marked the ending of problematic fight, after it's revealed the man who adopts major character—like a swirling around in a dot only—started his plan as the mastermind of all the fuss.

    From the explanation above, do not imagine that the fight would be damn good, because the graphic is so basic. I couldn't find any clue that the visualization here is the core of enjoyment, the graphic is not detailed even if the characters are on battle field.

    Sadly, the characterization part is the supporting aspect of worsen the story. Sometimes we can accept humanly if minor characters are a mess or pain in the ass, but if it's the main characters do, then it's a doom.

    Straight to the point, the OP is sung by Faylan "Tokyo Zero Hearts (東京ゼロハーツ)", and the ED theme is sooo gore errr metal (?) by Yousei Teikoku, "Kyuusei Argyros (救世Άργυρóϛ)". I would say these two theme songs are less than average.

I managed to watch the show til the very end, and wonder why. My rate itself is 5. It's somehow has meaning to strengthen friendship or relationship as the bond that ties our motivation to support each other. But this meaning itself vaguely seen as the main characters are too weak emotionally and often collapsed or mind destroyed by the unavoidable stressors.
Cons:

• Story is jumbled, sometimes so slow, sometimes so damn fast, with uncertain direction 'til it's almost at the end. Also too many unnecessary dramatic parts
• I found no single clue about the development of characterization
• Below average theme songs

pstreich - 2015-02-13 23:47:47

Overshadowed by many other anime series of the Summer 2014 Anime Season when in fact it was quite the series.

nwhite - 2015-01-06 23:49:02

Mysterious fishes appear in tokyo, granting people ESP powers if one of those fish passes through you.

The story follows Rinka Urushiba a high school girl with martial arts knowledge. She gains the power to pass through objects but her hair color changes to white. While the city is being terrorized by a mysterious organisation Rinka and her group use their powers to stop them.

When I heard Tokyo ESP was getting an anime version I was very surprised and happy since I've read the manga. The first  episode starts of capturing you, by being action packed. But this is soon crushed by its sometimes bad animations and slow paced or badly written episodes.

You are better of reading the Manga.

walton79 - 2014-10-20 00:31:37

carter22 - 2014-09-27 05:00:55

This is not a review, just a small little paragraph.

The most generic show ever. Get every cliche you can find, and it will be in this show. It was promising for the first 2 episodes, but was total garbage after that. If you still want to watch it, then go right ahead. No one's stopping you. Just note, 'the characters are the worst'. DONE.

xfahey - 2014-09-27 00:38:28

Holy SHIT!!!

One of my favorites. Beautiful animation, soundtrack, and Rinka.

10/10

fprosacco - 2014-07-12 23:59:16

The first episode looks promising. The animation looked great-I love Minami's teleporting animation, it's so cool! I am a fan of the manga for this series so I really hope the anime is up to standard. I've watched too many anime where everything starts to go to hell after the first few episodes (looking at you, Black Bullet). 
As a fan of Ga-Rei: Zero and the Ga-Rei manga, I was really happy to see Yomi and Kagura in the first episode (though I've no idea why they were there).

Overall, only time will tell if Tokyo ESP can deliver the goods. But I'm feeling pretty positive about it!