Audience reviews
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lamaraptor
I had a good time with this Monster Strike Christmas special. It was a departure from a lot of the original anime content their channel had produced in the past, a completely new story with new characters set in New York City of all places. I always love seeing anime depictions of American culture. I love that their idea of a stereotypical New York cop is a large, sassy, donut-loving black woman. Very progressive.
Likely unbeknownst to the citizens of New York, there's been a bit of a world changing phenomenon over in Japan where one of their mobile games has come to life and started opening portals to another world unleashing real ass monsters everywhere. You know, Japan stuff. One of these monsters decides to play an epic prank, bro on the people of New York by making all the Christmas…
Read at the sourceAnimecyupcyake
Well, I really liked that.
Story:
Christmas needs to be saved and apple's just the one to do it! Standard anime stuff. Giant monster about to destroy Christmas It has everything you expect: Contrived convience, sad backstory.
Art:
I really like the way apple and liberty's designs they looked really good. Everyone else looked OK, kind of fleshy which is how cgi typically looks.
Characters:
We've got akari, our every day police woman. Emma our *black* every day comic relief. I laughed out loud at 2 of her jokes. Liberty our magical girl and apple our superhero, it's the basic cast for a basic show. I Can't really say much without giving everything away for a 40 minute mini movie.
Sound:
Everything sounds fine
Enjoyment:
I really liked watching it and I'm not mad that I did, it was sim…
Read at the sourceWKDarkSide
This anime is available on YouTube and it is just 1 episode.
Every aspect of the story's progression is slow and generic. You will see pure 40 minutes of nothingness and boring backstory that no one cares about. No one is relevant to the plot unless the Girl Teddy Bear (?). They tried to mix anime's elements that are not compatible at all, and it looks and feels very strange as the story goes on. I can imagine why this is free to watch: to steal your time and to gain money with advertisements while you could be watching better anime, studying, working, etc. If you don't like 3D animations, then it gets even worse, because almost every character is 3D and animated very slowly and pathetically. Every minute you watch this is a minute you will beg for it to finish. Nonetheless, it could maybe…
Read at the sourceLancehot
Christmas just doesn't seem to hold the same place in anime that it used to. We still get our fair share of Christmas episodes, but the significance of hooking up or being alone on Xmas eve just doesn't seem to have the same importance that it used to. Which is why it's nice to see an ONA dedicated entirely to the holiday, even if it isn't anything to write home about.
Akari Kido is the new intern at the NYPD, having transferred from Tokyo just in time for Christmas. No sooner has she started walking the beat when a mischievous magical girl appears, bringing the toys to life so she can have a big party &/or wreak havoc. It's up to Akari, her partner Emma & somehow transformed into a hero teddy bear Apple to save Christmas & discover how everything links back to her kind hearted father, k…
Read at the sourceZerity
(I am not a reviewer and I suck at grammar and spelling so take it as you will)
I had so much fun watching this story so I wanted to write a review for it. Let's see.
I have no idea what this movie is about. Legit the story is a fucking mess but it great. One minute we have a some hot sorcerer turning toys such as snowman and nut crackers into fucking 10 feet+ versions of themselves that can't be destroyed with bullets then Akari bear saves her from a train trying to kill her and then apple (the bear) fights that sorcerer that I can't remembers name, next when their fighting they go into a museum and awaken a monster that drains the entire cities electricity and then the sorcerer lady and Apple fight together with Akari to defeat the monster.
That is the story in a nut shell but like i…
Read at the sourceNotSoDeadZombie
So, I wasn't sure what to expect when I saw this ONA. I thought it was going to be a weird kid's thing, but I couldn't pass up what I saw from the thumbnail and short description. The story had a lot going on in it, which I thought was the only downside, but to be fair it was all in a 40 minute block. I loved the art, especially the background (the CG characters took a little getting used to, though). I genuinely enjoyed this short little Christmas Special thing. I would recommend it for anyone who is open to the idea of a short story and some interesting characters.
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