First Impression-This show started off right up my alley when 4 people took on 1200 in an online game. When the battle ends, it cuts to the main characters, Sora and Shiro. Each of them was controlling two characters, yet they still outfought 1200 individual people (some of which were hackers). Sora, the older brother, is charismatic and is eerily good at reading people and shiro, the younger sister, is almost like a computer program. She speaks in monotone and can do complex calculations almost instantaneously. I love the way that they introduce the personalities of these two because they are apparently these gaming legends, and they're actually just two shut-ins with social disorders. However, the set up doesn't prepare you for what happens afterward.
Animation- The animation contains one of my main complaints about this show. Every single frame of this show is super-saturated, which made my eyes hurt until I could adjust. If you don't know what super-saturated means, basically, every color is extremely vivid and bright, which is not what I was ready for, considering I've been watching a lot of demon-hunter type shows. However, once my eyes adjusted (which was about half of the way through the first episode), I loved the animation, and actually came to appreciate the vivid colors and extremely bright landscapes.
Music- The soundtrack of this show is pretty solid, but like I usually do, I have a bone to pick with the opening and closing songs being related in the slightest. Just like with a lot of shounen anime, the closing song is a slow-paced, kind of ballad, which doesn't fit the show's mood or theme at all. The opening song is really good, but again, it could match the show a little better. The in-show music matches the mood so amazingly that I had to go back and listen to the songs because they just flowed with the show.
Content- The show throws a lot of crazy things at you out of the blue, like an extremely clueless heiress, and a girl who practically gets turned on by the thought of learning anything, as well as a little girl with cat ears and a tail. It's pretty wild, but when any kind of action starts, you won't be able to stop watching. (Since I was watching on crunchyroll, I had to wait one week to see the last two episodes. One thing that you should be aware of is that some time during the production of this show, the manga stopped releasing, so the manga is only up to about episode 2 or 3. Nonetheless, the show follows the manga dead-on until it reaches that point.
Final impression- After watching the last episode of season one, the only thing I could think about was season 2. After doing some research, I found out that season 2 is rumored to launch sometime in the fall or winter of this year, which would be awesome. After watching this show, I've definitely added it to the list of season 2's that I am waiting for. I loved every second of the show, and the action scenes were edge-of-your-seat intense. I loved how the show transitioned between episodes, but I could tell that watching it one episode at a time must have sucked for all of the people who watched the tv release. In the end, I was actually glad I caught it two months after release, because I would have exploded from the anticipation had I been watching one episode at a time.
Rating- This show is rated TV-MA just like every other anime on the internet, however I would give this an 8th grade and up rating (excluding special circumstances) there's mild nudity in this show and it also has hidden themes that you have to be at least a little mature to catch. Added to that, I would recommend that only seasoned anime watchers check out this show, because despite being extremely awesome, unless you know a lot about anime and dating sims, you won't be able to enjoy the jokes in this show to the fullest.
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I just want to remind you that my Dragon age 2 review will be coming as soon as I finish the campaign as a mage, (which might be a while because I'm gonna be playing Titanfall a lot when I get off of vacation), just kidding, but being truthful it will probably take me until next Friday to finish the game and write my review.
With all of that said, Thanks for Reading and come back in a few days for another video game top ten.
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