Mobile Suit Gundam 00 – 27

by psgels, posted in Mobile Suit Gundam 00



Short Synopsis: Setsuna recruits a new and an old Celestial Being.
Highlights: Good to see some build-up for the new setting.
Overall Enjoyment Value: 8/10
As for the shows I’m not blogging:
– Kannagi has excellent production-values, but at the same time the characters move like robots with weightless hair.
– To Aru Majutsu no Index… the freaking building was on fire, complete with fire alarm and sprinklers. Why the heck did nobody notice anything? Why was the building still in one piece?
– The sister in Kemeko Deluxe downright sucks. The second episode already shows that the inspiration (and budget) was running out. There are enough better comedies this season.

In any case, this series is quite refreshing after Code Geass and Macross Frontier of the past season. I like the 4-year time-skip a lot, and it has a lot of potential, but there still are a few questionable parts here and there. It’s great to see that Setsuna has grown up, but at the same time Saji is turning into the new Setsuna: the central immature character who questions everything and grows as the series continues. Ah well, at least he is just of the type that needs to calm down, but at the same time, I really don’t hope that he’s going to hijack a Gundam to kick Nena’s behind…

The different growth of the characters really differs from character to character: Soma didn’t change a bit, while Sumeragi lost all of her confidence in the past few years. Louise also surprised me that she turned into a soldier, but at the same time Tieria still feels pretty much the same as he did in the first season. I think a huge task of the first half of this season is going to be to establish the development for every single one of them, and make them feel more complete. Marina Ismael: what has she been doing for the past four years, really?

The OP and Ed are pretty much the same stuff. I really don’t get it: this series has a great soundtrack, which became even better with the second season, and yet it’s stuck with the OPs and EDs full of cheesy J-Rock. And to think that Gundam Wing had an such excellent OP. Ah well, at least the battles got some extra budget when compared to the first season, but I’d just wish that the creators would spend it on something other than flashy Solar Furnaces. The sparkles are nice and all, but they don’t really add anything.

Oh, and while it may seem that I’m criticizing a lot here, I actually really liked this episode. With a huge setting also come huge risks, and I appreciate this series to take a gamble and go with such a complex setting. It can fall apart very easily, but when it works, the results can turn out very interesting. And I guess that that’s the appeal of this series: it may make a few mistakes here and there, but it never forgets to remain solid and consistent. Really, the two mecha-epics this season promise to surpass the mecha-epics of previous season in every way, apart from perhaps Macross Frontier’s huge budget, but let’s not get too ahead of the facts.

Full Metal Alchemist Review – 85/100

by psgels, posted in Anime Reviews



Yeah, yeah. I’ve been blogging for nearly three years, I’ve written more than 300 reviews so far, and I still haven’t checked out the “big three” of anime: Cowboy Bebop, Ghost in the Shell SAC and Full Metal Alchemist. Well, at least I’ve got one of them down now. I finally managed to complete what could possibly be the most popular anime of the past decade.

Of course, I did try to watch this series at one time; twice, actually. But I kept getting stuck on that surprisingly boring first part. It didn’t make any sense. People were praising this series to heavens, and at the same time it was a pain to get through that first quarter of the series. It basically consists out of either flashbacks or a number of random stories, with the biggest problem being that the flashbacks were just boring, and the random stories never really worked. The creators just weren’t good at writing them.

The thing is, that this series played way too much with coincidences. Wherever Ed and Al came, there was some kind of Timmy who fell in some kind of Well, at exactly the right time for Ed to demonstrate his awesome child-prodigy powers. In whichever town they came, the creators would make sure that they’d coincidentally meet people who were related to some sort of gruesome secret behind this town. This especially returns ad nauseam in the first quarter, but the entire series is also plagued by this.

Thankfully, after that very dodgy start, the series picks back up when the big storyline starts for this series. Thankfully the creators prove that they’re good at writing a continuous storyline, and they slowly develop the story into a multi-layered mystery intrigue. You can see that a lot of thought was put behind it, and the series’ final quarter especially shines in the story-department. Much like Full Moon wo Sagashite, actually.

The characters are a very mixed bag, actually. Characters like Rose and Archer are incredibly shallow, and feel a bit too much like underdeveloped plot-devices. Other side-characters, however, absolutely shine when they’re standing in the spotlight. People like Scar, Sensei, Armstrong and the Humonculi really made this series for me, and showed that behind their simple look, they’ve got a complex and interesting story lying. Unfortunately, Hughes was overrated. Based on the things I’ve heard about his… spoiler, I expected something much grander, which he never really delivered.

That’s not the biggest problem here, though. Unfortunately, I never really could care about the main characters in this series: Ed and Al. Every time this series was exploring an interesting side-character, they’d take over again. In a way, this series suffers from the “bad main character”-syndrome. The two of them are developed, they’ve got more back-story than any other character in this series, but they’re just nowhere near as interesting as some of the other characters in this series, and their teenaged whining can become annoying at times.

Overall, Full Metal Alchemist shines through some of its side-characters and the messages it tries to convey. While the series is without a doubt very much a Christian series, it asks some interesting questions from its viewers, and shows various different beliefs on these questions. That’s why I handed this series a 10 in the setting-department: despite the flaws of the series, it’s an excellent and complex world for this series to play in that also makes you think. And I agree, it’s a very good series because of these things. However, it just isn’t the best thing since sliced bread. I just can’t call this series as superior to for example Gilgamesh, Rescue Wings or Ooedo Rocket. I liked it overall, but at the same time I do consider this one to be overrated, and it had some major problem that held back its potential.

Storytelling: 8/10
Characters: 8/10
Production-Values: 8/10
Setting: 10/10

Jigoku Shoujo – 54

by psgels, posted in Jigoku Shoujo



Short Synopsis: A boy who has a crush on a female store owner calls Jigoku Shoujo.
Highlights: Nice ending.
Overall Enjoyment Value: 8,5/10
Am I glad to see this series back or what? In any case, as for the series I’m not going to blog this season:
– Akane-iro ni Somaru Saka… err… no.
– Every single new character of Kuroshitsuji’s second episode was dull and uninspired, the servants I liked so much in the first episode are turning into one character and the two main characters are also getting pretty dull. That shouldn’t be happening after just two episodes!
– I like Clannad, but I’m a fan of the climaxes. I don’t feel like writing about the lesser comedy-bits.
– I already had trouble following Noramimi during a light season, let alone a heavy season as this one.
– The drama in Yozakura Quartet’s second episode felt shallow and uninspired.
– Tentai Senshi Sunred already turned from hilarious to dull within two episodes. I knew that this was going to happen, but not THIS fast.

In any case, I’m getting really excited about this third season. I would already have been happy if this season would be more of the same, but the creators are really showing that they’re evolving this show. It now makes perfect sense that the second season was less extreme than the first season: it was basically one big season, meant to flesh out Ai’s three dolls, and flesh out the show’s premise by showing how people are getting more and more easily able to send someone to hell.

Now in this season, people are suddenly beginning to see themselves that sending someone to hell might not have been the best thing after all. The previous episode showed a high-school girl who banished her teacher (really, that’s something I can imagine that would happen a LOT if Jigoku Shoujo would exist for real), and this episode features an abused woman who doesn’t want to be rescued. It’s about a boy who tries to help her from her incredibly abusive boyfriend. It’s interesting how the first two seasons started with straightforward cases, but here in the third season, the creators have already started with a thought-provoking case, which goes beyond the usual good and bad.

The strange thing about this third season is… there doesn’t seem to be a director for the thing. According to ANN at least. Apart from that, there’s absolutely no change in staff, which really makes me wonder: was the missing director just a simple mistake, or did he really leave the project, so that the ones who are left opted to do the series with a more chaotic style of “direction”? I really expected when I first saw this episode that huge staff changes were made, but instead it’s the same animation directors who went with the new visual style, and both punishments in this and the previous episode were much more extreme than what we’ve seen in the previous seasons.

I also wonder what the exact role of the girl is going to be, but it’s still going to take 20 more episodes before we get to find that out. It makes sense to start her off with such an extreme case, so that we now get to see her initial stance on revenge (as in, she hates it). I think that she’s going to become the new Tsugumi: because Ai uses her to get back to her original job (the question of course is: why?), she can see exactly what’s going on. I think that she’s going to go against Ai, to try and stop the revenges.

Telepathy Shoujo Ran – 16

by psgels, posted in Telepathy Shoujo Ran



Short Synopsis: While Rui continues to fake amnesia, Ran and Midori try to get him back.
Highlights: This is EXACTLY why Yoshihiro Ike is amongst my favourite composers!
Overall Enjoyment Value: 8,5/10
I must say, that Telepathy Shoujo Ran has been a delightfully consistent series so far. Really, my experience with most arc-based series is that some of their stories can differ significantly in quality when compared to the others, but the opposite is the case in Telepathy Shoujo Ran: no story has stood out for me as the best, and neither was there a story that clearly less in terms of quality. Every single story so far has had interesting mystery, engaging scriptwriting, nice production-values and awesome banter. No exceptions.

The bad part about this is that I’m not going to expect to be blown away by this series. It’s not of the kind to take huge risks. The good part is that with this set-up, I just know what I’m going to get with every single episode. While this is not as well-written as in a series as Kaze no Shoujo Emily, it’s definitely something to look forward to every week.

In this episode, it was the soundtrack that was exceptionally good. Ike Yoshihiro showed some of his new tracks, and they were excellent. The guy may not be exceptionally good at writing good standalone songs, but he’s a master when it comes to creating an atmosphere with his works. The animators were also on fire again for this episode. It wasn’t as noticeable as in the arc with the dead girl, but nonetheless the episode was full of nice poses and creative animation. It was just “fun” to watch everything that went on on the screen.

In a way, it’s very good that the creators decided to go for cheap Photoshop-effects for this series. In a way, it fits, and at the same time they didn’t end up blowing half their budget on flashy beams of the sort that you find in many other series. In this way, they could really add to the characters’ expressivity. I really never understood why creators have to make those CG-beams as flashy as possible. I mean, they don’t really add anything to the series.

I’m really hoping that in the autumn-season, another series will pop up that manages to choose where to focus its animation on so well. Obviously, after episode 1 it’s still too early to judge: you never know which series blow up their entire budget within one episode, and which ones instead decided to save most of their budget for later.

Yume de Aetara OVA Review – 82,5/100

by psgels, posted in Anime Reviews



I’m not really sure what the creators really intended by airing both an OVA and a TV-series for Yume de Aetara at the same time. Furthermore, while Hiroshi Watanabe merely supervised the TV-series, he took it upon himself to direct the OVA. The series already was a string of ridiculously overblown deus ex machina, so with the king of cheese now behind the director’s seat, my expectations definitely weren’t high.

But what a surprise: the OVA turns out to be much better than the TV-series; it’s a really sweet romance story, and it’s actually really well written. It’s basically an alternative retelling of the series: the basic set-up is still there, but the storyline’s entirely different. It both fills in the holes of the series’ background, and it also advances its own storyline.

Nearly all of the deus ex machina of the series don’t return in the OVA. You can still spot a few here and there, but it all falls within the limits. In exchange, it really feels like the creators know their characters. They’re able to create subtle nuances in their behaviour, and also succeed in creating an effective atmosphere for the story to work with.

But the best part: Hamaoka plays a much smaller role here. She’s still there as a potential love-rival, but her number of appearances has been greatly reduced. In the OVA, she really feels like a side-character, in comparison to the TV-series where she actually got more screentime than the girl who was SUPPOSED TO BE the lead female for the story. For the OVA, you can really feel that it’s a story about Fuguno and Nagisa, as it explores both of their doubts about going into a relationship.

So overall, I’ve been pleasantly surprised here. Nearly the entire OVA basically had the same feel as the final episode of the TV-series (as, the only part of that series that was really good). The romance worked really well, and it’s one of the few times where a series has a loser protagonist, and the creators can admit that he’s a loser, and use that in their storytelling, rather than using a loser to appeal to the otaku-crowd. It’s one of these stories where you’ll really want the main couple to come together (or that was the case with me, anyway). It’s a very subtle series. Yes, subtle; a word I thought I’d never mention when talking about a Hiroshi Watanabe-anime.

Storytelling: 8/10
Characters: 9/10
Production-Values: 8/10
Setting: 8/10

Bonen no Xamdou – 13

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Short Synopsis: Akiyuki and Nakiami return to Sentan Island.
Highlights: Akiyuki’s parents.
Overall Enjoyment Value: 8/10
Ah, so it seems that the creators are planning to enter the second half of the series with some development between Haru, Furuichi and Akiyuki, instead of going for an action-packed midway-climax. Makes sense. The next episode should either have the military intervene right before the three of them can make up, or they have enough time to say a proper goodbye to each other.

I must admit that I’m a bit disappointed that Furuichi returned back to the rival he was, but then again, there still is half a series left. There are a lot of things that can still happen, and it pretty much depends on the next episode of what the creators have in mind.

Still, the best moments in this episode were definitely from Akiyuki’s parents, who finally got to see their son again. They’re really so un-typical for such a series: most of the time, the father is gone and some sort of famous guy (acting as a rather cheap plot-device to explain why the lead character has better powers than other people) and the mother acts as a brave housewife. It doesn’t happen often when both the father and mother are left behind, and both parties will live their own life. Especially that scene between Akiyuki and his father was awesome: it never tried to be overdramatic, and instead it decided to go with subtle drama. Nice effect.

Some quick first impressions: Nodame Cantabile – Paris Chapter, Chaos;Head and Tytania

by psgels, posted in Some Quick First Impressions, Tytania

Nodame Cantabile – Paris Chapter

Short Synopsis: Our lead character moves into his new apartment in Paris.
Highlights: Just as awesome as the first season!
Overall Enjoyment Value: 8,5/10
Well, there you have it, just like expected from Noitamina and Nodame Cantabile: this season aired a LOT of romantic comedies, and this one definitely stood above all the others as the one with the best first episode. And okay, it benefits from being a sequel, unlike the others, but even then this episode brought a lot of new stuff to the table now that Chiaki and Nodame moved to Paris. Their quirks were just as awesome as they were in the first season, and even the new characters already show promise after only three quarters of an episode. The OP is a bit less than the original one, but it’s nonetheless a very good one, and exactly what you’d expect from the Noitamina-timeslot (which is really infamous for its strange, unconventional and incidentally awesome OPs). My French is just as good as my Japanese, but with the added Japanese accents, I may need to wait for the subs, as long as they’re not too slow. In either way, Nodame at the restaurant was probably the funniest thing about this episode.

Chaos;Head

Short Synopsis: Our lead character is a figure-collecting otaku who manages to score a date with a pretty girl.
Highlights: A LOT to like, a LOT to dislike, but in such a different way from Kurozuka.
Overall Enjoyment Value: 7,5/10
Really, after this episode, I’ve got absolutely no idea what to think of this series. It’s like what happens if you cross a generic harem with a gory horror-mystery. Some parts of this series screamed potential, while others were incredibly clichéd. The mysterious internet-guy was awesome. The corpse in this episode was also awesome. the inner-monologues also were nicely written, and the homeless guy also has nice potential for the future. So, why the heck centre this series around a bunch of pubescent males? Why make this into a potential harem? Why make all the females transform into cute battle outfits as the OP suggests? Why these uber-generic character-designs? The romance in this episode also felt a bit forced, but the most annoying character was definitely the guy’s sister. Really, this is one series that can go anywhere.

Tytania

Short Synopsis: Our lead characters… who were they again?
Highlights: Starts dull, but gets progressively better.
Overall Enjoyment Value: 7,5/10
Really, when this episode started, I kept wondering what all the buzz was about. The OP is underwhelming to say the least, the characters all looked like each other, it was too caught up in its own gloriousness, much in the way of Glass no Kantai. But as the episode went on, more and more hints of potential kept showing up. Of course, a series like this one needs some time to really catch some steam. So far, I really like that this is a show about adults, and not a bunch of teenagers who somehow have high positions. The battles are also going to focus on strategy and politics, and these things promise to be very refreshing after Macross Frontier and Code Geass. This episode wasn’t as good as some of the other new shows this season, but it did show that the creators know exactly how to build up tension. It’s going to be interesting to blog this.

Porfy no Nagai Tabi – 40

by psgels, posted in Porfy no Nagai Tabi



Short Synopsis: Porfy meets a bunch of idiots and grows as a character.
Highlights: You really don’t suspect this from the WMT!
Overall Enjoyment Value: 8,75/10
Whoa, Porfy! This isn’t something I saw coming. Bloody hell! With this episode, Porfy no Nagai Tabi really set itself apart from the other World Masterpiece Theatres, or at least the ones I’ve seen. The World Masterpiece Theatre may be an incredibly well written and versatile franchise, there’s one common theme that returns in every one of them I’ve seen so far: no matter how much they try to blend the borders between good and bad, the protagonist is always on the right side of justice. Whatever happens, the protagonist is a character who always tries the most noble of all solutions. And here Porfy comes.

But first a summary of the first half of the episode. Porfy is walking, and he’s getting rather tired. He sees a farm, and decides to stay there. Nobody’s home, but he sees a bed and decides to rest there. He gets woken up by a guy who looks like he’s in his late twenties. Porfy immediately wants to leave, but before he does he asks about Mina, who the guy obviously hasn’t seen. He then notices that the guy’s a painter, who’s much into modern art. Porfy then shows him some of his sketches (apparently, he’s been sketching in his free time), and they’re of course hilariously bad, though they’re getting better.

Porfy then tells the guy that he’s going to France, to search for his sister. It then turns out that the guy has the same plans, and he plans to head to Paris and study there to become a famous painter. Then, however, it seems that there’s more going on, when his angry mother comes to bother him because he didn’t show up for dinner again. He acts really rude against his mother, and claims that he needs to work hard to study for the concourse he’s entering. When the woman leaves, though, he doesn’t go to study, but instead happily chats with Porfy and goes to sleep afterwards.

Porfy is not upset because the guy is a lazy bum, but more because of the way he acts against his mother (having lost his parents, this obviously is understandable). His mother is also really unhappy with him, how he keeps slacking off. The next morning, Porfy prepares to leave because of this, but before he does, the guy’s mother shows up to bother him again, and he again tells her that he doesn’t have the time, and that he plans to leave her. He tells her how he regrets being born from his mother, and how he’d be able to live the easy life if he was born in Paris. He then remembers Porfy again, and invites himself to go with Porfy to Paris. Porfy then loses it and starts yelling at him, how he still has his parents. After that he immediately leaves the house.

Next up, Porfy walks past a suspicious-looking guy, and indeed he invites Porfy to sleep in his car. And indeed, he’s just trying to lead Porfy to a desolate part of the forest to rob him. Porfy however, notices this in time by questioning him about the car he’s in, and asking some smart questions about it. He tries to run away, but gets caught, but in the end he manages to fend off the attacker with a big stick and a lot of effort.

Porfy then sees a vegetable salesman, who is sitting by the road with his goods. The salesman hasn’t seen Mina, since he came from France. He buys one tomato from him, and then gets an interesting idea. He moves a big branch onto the road. When the salesman arrives with his truck, he stops to move the branch and in the meantime Porfy sneaks under some of the bags of what I assume is flower of some sort. The truck then arrives at the border. The guy seems to be familiar at the border, and the border-guards seem to know him. That’s why they don’t make too much effort in checking his load, so Porfy managed to get away undiscovered.

Porfy screws up when he tries to get off the truck, though. The salesman stops for a bit and Porfy tries to sneak off, but he’s too infatuated with the strange substance called “snow” that he forgets that he’s not supposed to be seen. He gets caught and the episode ends.

Really, Porfy has taken some relatively huge gambles in this episode. He could have just asked the guy to hide him, or waited for another car, but instead risked being discovered, and so got the quickest way across the French border. I must say that I like that a lot: Porfy is no longer the goodie two-shoes, and instead is starting to see that there are times when you need to ignore rules. It’s interesting: I always expected Porfy to just grow in a straightforward line: in the beginning, he’d meet guys who were out to get him, which made him stronger and less naive (which he also displayed in this episode). And yet at the same time, he heads into an entirely different but at the same time realistic direction.

This begs the question: what the heck have the creators in store for Mina?

Shikabane Hime – 02

by psgels, posted in Shikabane Hime



Short Synopsis: Three dead children come back as corpses
Highlights: Male lead takes some getting used to, but is more than just a damsel in distress (or a male version anyways).
Overall Enjoyment Value: 7,5/10
Aaah! Why did this series’ second episode have to air so soon? Basically, at this point I’m still desperately trying to figure out which shows I’m going to blog, and in this case I’m doubting between three series: Shikabane Hime, Kurozuka and Chaos Head, and I’ve got two spots for the three of them. Shikabane Hime has a cast with potential and an excellent soundtrack; Kurozuka has the best production-values of the season but its characters need a bit more work, and Chaos;Head… well I don’t have a freakin’ idea about it yet, but it’s supposed to be mystery and I’m a mystery-fanboy.

So, yeah. For now I’m going to blog this thing, but do expect it to disappear again if I get blown away by Chaos;Head and Kurozuka’s second episode. The thing that especially intrigues me about this series is its director: the director of Gilgamesh. This guy knows his subtlety, and he’s just been assigned to the most un-subtle production-studio you can imagine: Gainax. The result is pretty interesting: quiet moments that take their time in building up, and yet it’s got hitting action-scenes. I’m hoping for this series to take the best of both extremes. And yeah; because of the male lead and this series’ relations to Gilgamesh (and probably also because most people are expecting this to be the next Gurren Lagann), I’m expecting this series to not really become that popular.

Another reason why I decided to blog this series was that within only two episodes, we’ve already seen quite a few sides of the male lead, and he’s definitely not a stereotype, which has potential for this series’ second season. The guy will feel annoying in this episode, though, especially in the way that he stands in the way of Machina like that. It’s also quite rare for such a guy to actually be voiced by a voice-actor that still sounds young, who still has that nose-sound in his voice. It’s a shame that the children in this episode were obviously voiced by adults that tried to be overly squeaky, but I guess that that can’t be helped.

If I’m still blogging this series next week, then the creators need to pay attention to the ultimate villains of this series, and don’t make them stereotypical bad guys who are out to destroy the world. The children in this episode were a fine example of enemies that were neither good nor bad, so let’s hope it can keep things that way.

Casshern Sins – 02

by psgels, posted in Casshern Sins



Short Synopsis: Casshern ends up at a small refugee village of robots.
Highlights: Surprisingly solid.
Overall Enjoyment Value: 8/10
As for the shows I’m not blogging (as usual, this isn’t really about “is this good?”, but “do I feel like writing about it every single week?):
– I almost wanted to blog Tales of the Abyss, but then Mouryou no Hako and the 12-year-old girl who strangely was a guardian convinced me not to for now.
– Hearing “urusai urusai urusai” once was enough to convince me to never go near Toradora again.
– Hyakko is funny, but the characters feel a bit flat.

So, basically because of the large amount of series that are continuing from previous seasons, and Tytania (the one that won my little contest, a month ago), I only have the room to blog five new series. If Tales of the Abyss would have aired during a lighter season, I definitely would have ended up blogging it. There’s also the matter that three series that I’m planning to blog haven’t even aired yet (and because I’ve only heard a few very vague details of what they’re about, they still can utterly disappoint me), so who knows?

In any case, even though I didn’t like the first episode, I’m going to blog Casshern. Even though the main character is a bit emo, there’s a lot of good stuff in this series. It probably is one of the most solid series to have aired this season, and the slow pacing contributes to that. But what I especially like is the different variety of robots that Casshern runs into, and how they’re trying to live within the mess he caused them. The concept of robots is a bit strange here, and it’s almost like they’re stuck somewhere between humans and robots. They’re made of metal, and yet they can think, and be killed very easily. It seems that there’s either no mechanic left that can repair them, no cure against the rust, or no new metal to replace broken parts. There’s a story going around, that if you eat Casshern, you’ll be saved from the inner destruction. My guess is that that’s some sort of rumour, started by someone who wants to get rid of Casshern.

But really, seeing how everyone in this world is just waiting for destruction. It makes for a very appealing premise. And so far, I really like the side-characters. And about Casshern: he can grow enough, with 22 more episodes to go. Even though he’s emo, he’s not stupid. He wants to find out what the heck he’s done. Memory loss was very well done in Kaiba, so why not here?

Then there’s the matter of this show’s staff. I honestly got scared when I learned that the director of this series was the one behind several Dragonball Z movies. But then it got me thinking: I’ve spent so many seasons, preparing by looking at the staff list, and that only turns out to be reliable in 50% of the cases. There’s only a handful of directors that can really be consistent in their work, like Akiyuki Shinbou, or Koichi Masahino. In fact, quite a lot of my favourite series were directed by people who also directed more questionable series: the director of Toward the Terra screwed up with Itazura na Kiss, the director of The Third went on to direct Penguin no Mondai afterwards (what the heck!?), the director of Shion no Ou also did series as Dragon Drive, Beyblade and Tenjou Tenge. So, why not? At least I can say that Casshern doesn’t feel like anything Dragonball Z at all. Who knows?