BLASSREITER

The animation and the sounds are really good, this anime is really enjoyable to watch, the only thing in the anime is the principal character its a totally idiot in the beginning so you star to hated it, but when the time pass you star to connect with the character, the ending is one of the best, the story have good twist. you will enjoy wacthing this anime is really good. Good job Gonzo.

Sorry if the review is a little mess up is my first review i ever made,,,, i hope you enjoy blassreiter as i do.

BLASSREITER good anime with a message for the future. This anime stuns in all categories leaving no doubt that it is of high quality. It also gives a chilling look into society. The message is obvious be nice for this world is cruel enough already.

This series was THE most confusing anime I have watched.Everytime I thought I had it figured out,they flipped it on me.Main characters dying left and right,characters showing up with little or no introduction,I barely kept up with the storyline.Then the heavy focus on religion-that creeped me out a lot,along with how they showed most,if not all,of real society's faults and prejudices.Complicated series and definately one you have to watch with all your attention.

With the first few episodes pulling you in, you are quickly disappointing with the absence of what you thought would be the main character of the anime. You are also greeted with a pointless very attractive girl who does basically nothing. She also has an adopted brother who is also pretty annoying. But the fighting sequences where pretty chill, interesting weapons and fighting styles. Not Bad. As a whole i was totally disappointing.

It's been a while since I've seen a story with such a good premise that failed so badly to capitalize on it.

It didn't help that the story seems to be advertised everywhere as being some kind of paranormal mystery bordering on vampires when it's pure technology. That seems to be something that some of the writers in Japan think is cute: the religious or magical or paranormal that turns out to be pure technology. Though that trend makes no sense, not even in Japan (the most technological country on the planet). If you wanted to make something more surprising, go the other way. Perhaps it's the age demographic of the viewers there (or the writers).

In spite of that, the basic premise is very strong. Runaway technology.

Add the fact that the general storyline is very realistic (assuming such a piece of runaway technology did occur). First, hide it, then confuse everybody over it, and end up with genocide and annihilation. Sounds familiar, huh? (And I'm not talking fiction). Pretty much normal (moronic) government thinking.

So, where did it go wrong?

Characters. Throughout the entire series you keep asking yourself, whose story is this anyway? For three episodes, this guy. Then he disappears. OK. The other guy. Nope. He disappears too. In the end, the last man standing, so to speak, wasn't even a significant character in the first half of the series. In addition, none of the characters have any depth. Some we find out next to nothing about; we never have any idea why they do what they do. We cannot feel with or for them. The three catalyst characters -- I cannot call them the principal characters even after watching the entire series -- do get nauseatingly detailed coverage of their background, but that part of the story completely fell apart. Aside from the portrayal of Germans as uniformly prejudiced and hateful, we heap so much crap on these three characters that it goes way beyond believability into farce.

Overall, the story plays like an encyclopedia entry as an example under "Runaway Technology: Example #2" because we never get close enough to anyone to want to feel for them.

And back to the technological premise. How, after rubbing our noses in the fact all of this is technology, do we start seeing people in their afterlife? Huh?

The music was boring. The animation was pretty good, but how many of the same fight do we really need to see when we know perfectly well who is going to win/lose each fight. The best scenes in the series were those that interrupted the repetitious fight scenes.

One last point on the interaction between the storyline and the character definitions: The "bad guy" wasn't. That's not criticism; that's a complement. The best bad guys are always the ones who could be good guys if the story was told from a different perspective. That was the strongest element in this story and, frankly, the reason I kept watching. I kept hoping for a Gilgamesh ending.

I watched Blassreiter quite a long time ago and just decided to write a review on a whim. I rewatched a few episodes just now so that I have good feel for the anime again. Now on to my review.

||Storyline|| - 3.5/5
Blassreiters storyline is very convoluted and detail oriented. To put it simply, if I tell anything of it I'm ruining plot, so I'll stick to very general points.
For one, this anime's storyline would have been a 4.5/5, maybe even 5/5, if not for the fact that the first 5 or so episodes are a waste of space.
The first 5 episodes are easily the worst in the series, and I have known many who have been turned off this anime by them. They could have easily taken all the plot for the first 5 episodes and shoved them into one, because it's all "staging". The first 5 set up a basis from which to build the rest of the anime on. A character barely related to the plot at all is focused on for most of it, and for the reason of explaining the current world and the issues of a new disease and how people are reacting to it. If this was done in 1 or 2 episodes, it would have been fine, but 5 episodes for staging is too long.
Now, if you can sit through the staging, come episode 6 and forward are some nice surprises. The anime takes whole new turn after turn, developing at a much more steady and enjoyable pace, all the way until the end. The story is mostly explained with only a few wholes left open by the end.

||Music|| - 4/5
Right off the bat, let me say this. The music for Blassreiter is not bad, not bad at all. The placing is fine, and it fits the situations pretty well. So why 4/5? Because although it's not bad, it's nothing special. The music throughout this anime is quite literally background music. It fits the term perfectly. And because of that, because the music isn't catchy at all (scratch a few themes, and even they are not too great), the rating is not 5/5.

||Characters|| - 4.5/5
Character development was good. Quite good. I can't describe it real well, but it's good enough to where most of the questions you find yourself asking about characters are answered, and to where you begin to feel for the characters as the anime progresses. And in the end, it means character development did what it was meant to do.

||Animation|| - 5/5
What this anime lacks in music, it makes up for in animation quality.
Quite simply amazing. It's as good an animation style as I've seen to date. The downtimes, the combat, the...everything. Oh, and did I mention combat animation? All of it, damn good. Smooth, yet not too smooth. A sort of....realism in this show's animation (Ya know, besides the glowing mutants.) Up there with Tegami Bachi: Letter Bee in my top 5 favorite animation styles.
Oh, and in case I didn't mention it, the combat. Seriously though, the combat animation on this anime was GODLY. Excellently done.

||Overall|| - 4/5
All in all, Blassreiter was a good watch. Sure, the first 5 episodes make you want to throw your monitor out the nearest window, but after that it's all visual and auditory appeal of great standards. Not one of my favorite animes, but that's only because the storyline and music weren't really my cup of tea, even if they were well made. If you're into heavily emotional combat, and characters persevering through the toughest of times, this anime is definitely one you should chance. However, as always, mileage will vary.

OK I got through the 3rd episode and I have to say it was like pulling teeth. As far as I can tell the story is about a disease that changes ordinary humans in to mutant ninja skeleton monsters and the motorcycle/bikers that fight them. None of the characters fell real in any way just a glossed over front with no real substance. The best friend that is hoping against hope for his friend to recover, the hard nosed boss, the sexy mysterious woman doling out drugs and dark brooding sword toting anti-hero are all represented here. They all come together and thrown in this toilet mixed in with a sleazy 80's B-movie cop drama sound track and you have Blassreiter. Oh I'm done...and flush!^_^ Blassreiter go down the hole!

The story is really unexpected.......the plot is kinda mixed up and down............really not expected the ending though.........but overall i give this anime 2 thumbs up....the story is about a small town in germany where an outbreak nicknamed "demoniac" is happening....

Germany has been infected with an outbreak of biochemical creatures called "Demoniacs". Its up the Goverment and the special force XAT to hunt and kill these monsters and save Germany. An A+ Show to c.