Monday, 17 February 2014

Winter 2014 Anime Review: Nobanagun


A winter anime series in 2014 where famous characters of the past such as Nobunaga, Isaac Newton and Gandhi are reborn into the world. Their purpose of their rebirth; to defeat monsters, invaders of earth.

The series actually started out pretty strong but weird at the same time. The main character is a girl named Shio Ogura who have this weird fetish over guns and weaponry. The first episode starts off with Shio Ogura and her classmates heading to Taiwan for a class trip but they were then attacked by monsters. Her memories of her past life as Nobunaga awakens and she equips herself with some orb and transform into an ultimate killing machine.

Action-wise, the series stands pretty strong with interesting abilities for each of the characters. Unfortunately, even with such strong action scenes, the series fail because of the lack of storyline. Even after 5 episodes in, no main theme or story seem to flow and it becomes a bore at that point. Another negative point behind the series is poor choice for opening and closing sequences which just sounds like just mere guitar and drums sounds stitched together.

Here are some links for the description of the series

AnimeNewsNetwork
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=15678