mraz.derick - 2016-07-22 06:49:47

Shinichirou Asano is lucky to still have his life after saved by (at first sight looks like) an archer. He was targeted by unwanted creature in the lonely street of the night, and the creature was exorcised by this female archer. Later fateful encounter meets these two, Shinichirou finally knows who save him at that night, she is Shimazu Sakuya. The young girl from Shimazu Clan in his age is the head of the clan whose job to eliminate the creatures from endanger human.

       The main character, Sakuya Shimazu, is a short-tempered weak type of girl which makes every action looks terribly bad and goes to negative side. Whenever the action goes through our screen, that's also the time Sakuya bluntly goes freak or uncontrollable. The action itself isn't something so wow about, too average even the genre itself is mentioned action and supernatural. Sometimes I wished for the action but I was half-hearted myself to watch the battle scenes. Sadly, it's worsen by too much talking during fights (lovey-dovey between Sakuya and Shinichirou is damn fail ouch), and logic thinking to explain the fights plus strategy is poor.

    From what I can assume, the weak characterization is showed to lure our feelings like she needs to be caring of, weak enough to get attention and pity from viewers. I regretted it because it makes Shimazu as if she doesn't have the real feelings as core of the story and influential characters. The deepening characterization is faint by its forcing weak characters. It tried to boost the sense of loss Sakuya of her parents after all. The characterization focuses on this loss and unstable maturity.
        For a show with a little explanation of Specters, the family head, summoning and so on, it does really a slow one to come up with conclusion or strategic planning, like when the logic way to prevent attacks, logic way to explain cases, or even logic way to just elaborate how the enemy works (ex: a smoke spirit in the tunnel goes offense effectively in a small place and with its smoke to ambush them). Then, the gore I expect wasn't proven by the show, similar like other series which involve quite harsh battles where you can find slicing parts of body, splattering blood, so simple like that.

[somewhat SPOILER] The silly scene was in the first battle that involved appearance of western mage in their school, where their friends captured and Shimazu just focused on attacking the enemy without letting her heart answered. and when it answered and decided to help them, it was freaking too late. Their friends captured and sunk into a concrete wall, they died because of the attack Shimazu gave to the enemy's force, then the show told us about the absolute incident like this will occur if the enemy's force killed when captured humans, and showed how shock and trembled Shimazu. What the heck was with the feeling and poor rationality in the late time? duh

      The music aspect doesn't help either but the soundtracks aren't as bad as the show itself. The OP theme is sung by Afilia Saga titled "Never say Never" and for ED theme is sung by TWO-FORMULA "Somebody to love".
I can't agree for more with majority of reviewers, say this anime is bad, I would like to give it 2.
Cons:

• The animations
• Poor characterization, too out of focus
• Unworthy plot
• I feel the series has no meaning to be delivered except being weak will help you gain supporters.

tremblay.velva - 2015-02-01 01:51:12

The anime adaptation of the action manga ISUCA just reached it's second episode, and I thought I'd share my impressions so far.

Premise

Our male protagonist - financially challenged high school student Shinichiro Asano -  is walking home one night when he meets a female flasher who keeps giggling all the time (you know she's a badguy when she does that).

And yes - there is in fact full frontal nudity, but they pulled a Tokyo Ghoul on the viewers and censored the hell out of it. While I don't care much for fan-service nor find digi-boobs especially enticing, censorship is seriously annoying.

I mean, these are drawings! A cartoon! It is absurd to censor this stuff, considering that Donald Duck has walked around with no pants on since he was created.

But that's unfortunately how it is, so we gotta suck it up until the Bluray comes out...

Anyway she turns into a monster that is proceeding to suck out the life force of our brave protagonist while giving him "ultimate pleasure" - apparently the idea is to "orgasm him to death"...

...but he is saved in the nick of time by a small ponytailed figure on a nearby roof, who kills the fiend with a well-placed arrow. Bye bye ultimate pleasure...

The ponytail belongs to the female protagonist - Sakuya Shimazu - who is the 37th head of an ancient family of monster hunters and happens to also be a student at Shinichiro's high school (oh the coincidence!).

Without going into details Shinichiro ends up working as a house keeper for the hopelessly messy Sakuya, and at the same time assisting her in her monster hunting. They are joined by a benevolent "monster" - the over-sexed busty catgirl Tamako - and that is basically it. Sakuya has some family issues that we will probably hear about soon, and some kind of big baddie is lurking in the bushes. I expect him to come out as well in the following weeks and get defeated. This is only a 10 episode season, so they need to rush along soon.

Graphics and sound

Character design is excellent and everything looks good. Especially the monsters are detailed, imaginative and suitably dramatic looking, with a good blend of drawn art and CGI. Unfortunately the animation is not up to the same standard and can at best be called average. The same goes for the sound - nothing special here.

Though nothing is so bad that it ruins the anime. Therefore if this kinda stuff truly is your beef, the visuals and sound are good enough for you to enjoy watching the thing. Just don't expect to be awed.

The Verdict

Please bear in mind that this review is based on the two first episodes only. I do believe, however, that if a show hasn't grabbed you after two episodes it probably wont.

The problem is that there is nothing new in this story. Nothing stands out or appear special. The male protagonist who is calm, slightly submissive and an all-round nice guy has been seen before. The small pretty girl with the explosive temper and the tsundere disposition isn't new either, nor is the clingy catgirl. The graphics don't stand out either and even the comedy feels old.

The show is full of accidental gropes and situations where the guy just "happens" to fall into a set of boobs. Add to this the fact that the busty catgirl needs to recharge her life force regularly by kissing the protagonist, and that the monsters kill their victims with deadly orgasms. Yep - this is ecchi alright.

xxxxxxxxxxxxxx HALF-WAY UPDATE XXXXXXXXXXX

We have now reached the 5 episode mark, which is also half the season, and I feel it is time for an update.

The show has picked up it's pace and the aforementioned family issues have added a new depth to the story and caused the introduction of several new characters. These are still nether complex nor particularly memorable, but the interpersonal dynamics of the cast have definitely improved. So I have bumped the rating for the story up a notch.

Unfortunately the problem with the prominent fan-service (the girls ALWAY loose their clothing when fighting and the guys ALWAYS fall into a pair of boobs or legs when they stumble) remains... which is not at least annoying because of the ugly censorship that follows and ruins the graphics.

New Verdict

I will change my recommendation slightly, based on the fact that the story has evolved, and that the cast has been expanded to include more characters who - despite being tropes - have added to the show in a positive way. So I will now say "check it out with low expectations" rather than "don't bother".

If you aren't overly curious, you might want to wait for the BluRay release though because the censorship is really annoying in this show.

New new verdict

The uncensored BluRay release is now available and this actually raises the watchability of the show considerably.

As previously mentioned the show suffered from really bad censorship as it aired, but just how much it influenced the watching experience only becomes clear once you watch the uncensored version. The nudity is explicit and there is quite a bit of it - this is not an anime for kids (unless you want to send them in therapy afterwards) - but the boobage doesn't feel gratuitous. In most cases it actually fits the story and characters. You might say that the show simply doesn't do anything to hide it when it happens.

Anyway, if you get the uncensored BD version and aren't afraid of explicit nudity and a little blood you might want to check this show out. It is a lot better than you probably think.  But don't bother with the censored version under any circumstances - even if you don't care for boobs in your anime.