So, the animation received an obvious dip in the past two episodes. It’s unfortunate, but that earthquake also hit Madhouse hard. The good thing is however, that despite the less impressive animation, this show still knows how to deliver great action scenes. The battle scenes are all well choreographed and they’re all balance din terms of the characters involved. It doesn’t stick with one character for too long, and instead of endless talking the X-Men actually do something, and do this efficiently. It’s a stark difference with Wolverine, who without the X-Men was like a wild beast who just kept charging.
Now, I’m impressed that the creators actually revisited Hisako’s parents. what made less sense is how they just allowed her to become a member of the X-Men, which is far too dangerous for her. Overall though, I’d still say that the worst part about her is her voice actress. She neither turned into someone who hogs all of the attention nor someone who constantly has to be rescued, and yet remains a young girl without her powers.
And the biggest potential pitfall for this series has not changed: the villains. They hardly have any build-up, and so far the best they did was prove to be menacing villains as soon as they started fighting. This show does a good job of building up the bond between the different X-Men, but the villains are just completely ignored. This episode even didtched the U-Men for another different villain who has even less build-up.
Rating: ** (Excellent)
Villans yeah they may suck but imo X-men the comic had the best villain ever in history: Magneto now if they have him in this series? I dunno, the bad guy thats always smirking devilishly is not magneto…kinda looks like mastermind to me. . .who was a crappy villain in the comics too…I do see they put magneto in the ed though so I hope we get to see him and I hope he is as badass as he is in like every version of x-men (except for the movies..wtf hollywood.)
oh and yeah. . .hisako is annoying, its like they put her in there because the show is made by the Japanese so they have to put the Token Japanese girl there so appeal more to otaku. . .it irks the hell out of me too.
How can you say the villains have little build-up? The main villain – Mastermind – was introduced already in the first episode, and has shown up every now and then since.
We haven’t seen what makes him “tick” of course, but he’s been there.
I’m suprised you mentioned her voice actress becuase do you know what I find funny, Hisako’s voice actress is Takamachi Nanoha from Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha.