Audience reviews
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B2Reviews
Wow, I was a goober when I was young. Oh who am I kidding, I ain't grown up enough.
A serious contender for guilty pleasure, Burst Angel is far from the best series out there, not even the best Gonzo ever made. A quick glance at the cast tells you NOBODY WATCHED THIS FOR THE STORY. It's the DOA Beach Volleyball of scifi anime.
I've heard it's a thing with the studio that their projects start out okay and kinda fall off the rails about halfway through. Burst certainly does (where the heck the samurai episodes come from I have no idea) but it all boils down to armed cuties kick some ass. It's Borderlands with just the female characters and they have a Gundam in the truck.
The mecha fights are pretty cool, I love JANGO's design. The rest of the action is alright, and on occasion there's e…
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Positives:
-Good main characters with good designs
-well done mech animation
-Fanservice isnt driving force of the anime (despite the promotional material)
Negatives:
-Overly long, with random filler episodes that do not develop a character, nor involve the majority of the main cast -An MC is set up in the first few episodes to be established as the grounded character to view the events of the show through; subsequently ignored and or physically removed from the events of the anime. Ends the show without changing as a person at all, and being oblivious to almost every major plot point that transpired.
-Big bad has unclear motives that seemingly contradict their earlier plots
-Art sometimes drops in quality without warning
-Final scene is completely ambiguous and showcases a character…
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Be patient with me please, this will be my first review!
Burst Angel, as it is known in English to me, was a good well developed anime in my opinion. Sometimes the anime will go off the rails, however I found this more entertaining as it helped to develop more of the characters and show you what they did as a job.
I found overall that the story was great and it gave you what you wanted to see although fan-service did take over it. If you love girls-with-guns then this is a great anime to get into and you can get into the mood and mind of the characters. The characters are well developed and to me it felt like there was a lot to the characters, especially with the way that it would portray each one during the anime.
The plot of this anime was really up and down, it made you watch fill…
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Burst Angel Review
by Voss Ausviss
(To be posted on my own website eventually)
Burst angel, from the box cover, looked promising. It had artistic merit (meaning caught a warm blooded post American males attention), technology and some violence to boot. ‘What could go wrong’ I thought to myself as I was scrounging about the HMV’s in the midst of its close out sale. Oh how wrong I was.
Synopsis: A bunch of teenage female bounty hunters and their one male cook live in a world where everyone is allowed to own a gun. As such there is a huge spike in crime. There are a group of robots called cybots which are just robots with human brains and the all-female bounty hunters fight them too. At the centre of this group is Jo, a cold hearted and emotionless super-solder/gun wielder. She is to an exte…
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Burst Angel Review
There a no spoilers in this review
I just completed Burst Angel and the OVA Burst Angel: Infinity. I have to say I really enjoyed it, but it won't win any prizes for story telling. But it's an interesting show.
Story
The story consisted of several side stories linked to the finale. I think they were all important to learn more about the story but I found I was a bit confused on how it all linked up at some points.
Their are some minor filler episodes but I think they did link up to the story enough not to take away from it. I found it was very much like western animation in this regard for younger audiences.
I do think it relied on the characters being good to much.
But I found it really interesting and the world they built was quite good to. I liked the whole f…
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Unfortunately Burst Angel is best known for its over the top and consistent fan-service which without doubt was deliberately injected into every episode sometimes in a rather jarring and obvious manner such as the swimming pool scene in the "Wash this Flower Garden with Blood!" episode however if you’re prepared to look past that then there is a decent series here underneath all the titillation.
To start with the anime looks and sounds wonderful with a gritty cyberpunk aesthetic running throughout the series which conveys the dystopian world the action takes place in with aplomb, special mention must go to the soundtrack which is great in its own right. The English dub is one of the better ones I have seen in recent times and it is available in subbed form depending on your preference for…
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Burst Angel (Bakuretsu Tenshi) is a series that attempted to mix a bunch of different genres together. You have action, horror, drama, a little ecchi, as well as a sorta lesbian love thing going on. While this may not be a perfect anime I did enjoy it thoroughly.
The pacing of the episodes was a little wonky, some arcs ended way to fast and others dragged on way to long. Though I still think 24 episodes was a good decision, they could have tightened the plot up a bit more. I am after all a sucker for anime with strong female leads and while Meg may not be that Jo and Sei are enough to satisfy me.
Its a shame that this never got a sequel as for me the end of the last episode showed how they could have turned Meg into a strong female lead. Though what we had been left with was a lacklustr…
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Bakuretsu Tenshi is a good anime. Well that was easy.
The end...
In all seriousness, it is a good anime but it has some problems. The fan service level is insanely high. I've already talked about why that's a pet peeve of mine so it seems silly to go into it again, but I'm going to anyway. The problem with it isn't so much that it happens, it's that it happens all the time and there's almost never a good story or character reason for it. Seriously, why do women fighters tend to wear skimpy impractical outfits in media while men generally wear things that make sense?
The only other major problem with this anime is the pacing. The plot moves along very slowly until the last four episodes. Up until that point most of the episodes contain little pieces of plot but are mostly stand alone epi…
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Overall, I didn’t care for this show. To me, it’s like junk food in anime form: if it’s your thing, you may enjoy it as a ‘guilty pleasure’. As other people have noted, the story is paper-thin, the characters are two dimensional, and there are too many filler episodes for a show this short. I don’t care for fan service in anime, and there was too much of it here in my opinion. I’d really only recommend the show to someone who likes the visuals of girls, guns, and giant robots. Anyone looking for any depth to a show should steer clear.
Sei was about the only interesting character, but her backstory never really went anywhere. Jo – tough girl with guns; seen it before, nothing new here. Meg – whiny, useless eye-candy. Other than serving as a focal point for hostage situations, she does noth…
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I purchased this because someone had given me a Burst Angel wall scroll that looked pretty cool. Unfortunately Burst Angel turned out to be another one of those animes that took me several months to finally find the interest to finish.
One good thing about this was that the mecha battles were kinda cool, and i dont usually like mecha at all. The story, however, was a snoozefest. And I mean I actually fell asleep several times through this series, and didnt even bother rewatching the episodes I missed.
This starts off by focusing on a young man who is hired as a cook for a group of girls. It seems as if this boy is the main character but he kinda just fades out and plays no part in the story. Burst Angel is mostly just a series of fillers, there is a very thin story line lightly painted…
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SUMMARY:
The combination of the crazy characters and the kind of absurd story give the anime the potential to be very enjoyable or just kind of a drag. It really depends on what sort of mood you are in. If you are willing to suspend your disbelief and just go along with things, you will probably appreciate the action and humorous highlights provided by the colorful cast.
STORY:
Every few episodes you start settling in to what you think are the themes that have been set for the show, and then something COMPLETELY RANDOM comes along and blows away your expectations. Occasionally there are giant robot battles and super soldiers (like a gundam plot), occasionally there are alien-like super creatures reminiscent of an 80s capcom game, and occasionally there is police drama like style. I a…
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When I first heard of Bakuretsu Tenshi I believed it to be a similar anime to a personal favorite anime of mine, Black Lagoon, and us such I had high expectations. In the end Burst Angel turned out to be a totally different show then I had first though it would be, yet in quite a good way…
The series is normally split in to story arcs made of two or more episodes (There is the odd one of episode) and they normally have a common theme or item that connects the story in the final few episodes. The main story itself and the arcs are fun and interesting enough, they range impressible from blood hungry monster plots to the quite bizarre samurai and cyberspace roaming that you would not expect to find in this type of anime and while it normally works well the plot sometimes try’s to be a bit de…
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A huge HUGE disappointment. Despite not doing anything that's obviously wrong, in the end "Bakuretsu Tenshi" couldn't even get as far as a 7/10 in my book.
From the offset, I thought this was going to be a harem anime. The tellings signs are all there: we have a classic harem hero: a nice guy who's a total loser (any guy coming from the "Love and Happy Cook School" surely deserves to be labelled an Uber Loser), and it looked like he was gonna end up living in a big house (or in this case, a big... uh... armoured truck) full of girls. But, for some reason, I was slightly intrigued. Maybe it was the lush, colourful animation and the kick ass action sequences that really wowed me. Maybe it was because I found the character designs to be appealing. Or maybe it was the lack of slapstick comedy…
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Bakuretsu Tenshi is a action, comedy, and science fiction Theme.
At first this seems like the average "life" anime but dont bee fooled. This anime is a really rough gem which is polished almost to perfection by the skilled designers.
With a action packed story, amazing artwork, this anime steps up to my expectations. The story takes place in a crime-ridden future japan, at first the story is focused on a Pastry chef, Kyohei Tachibana, who is a 18 year old boy looking for work, Upon getting a flier for personal chef job, he rides his bike to a parking lot where a large truck was sitting. When he goes up to the truck he meets four girls, Sei, Meg, Jo and Amy.
Sei is the leader of the girls and takes command when times are needed.
Meg is the cults of the group, She is always getting kidnap…
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Well, this was actually the second time I watched this anime. Think I enjoyed it more this time. In any case, to the review:
STORY
Story is kinda over-the-top I think, but at the same time, something you might expect from an anime of this genre. Seems more than slightly random at points. I´d say that this anime is pretty episodic, not necessary a bad thing though. The ending was kinda meh, but when it hasn´t been? The story manages to get on the good side in my eyes, definitely.
ART
Looks good enough to me. Real looking guns gather some extra points from me. ;D Need to say though that some parts could look smoother, especially some scenes with lots of movement. For example cars could use some work at parts. (Aside from the show itself, the art of the characters is amazing.)
SOUND
Ha…
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Burst Angel is another clear example of a good anime being ruined by wanton fanservice and by being too long for its own good.
The story could have been summed up in 13 episodes, but it dragged on with so many pointless side stories and filler episodes that it took away drastically from its momentum.
The story is kinda weak, but interesting. They definitely took time out to create this intriguing future Japan. The art was great, but there was too much fanservice, but not as much as compared to other anime. Could you believe it when I say it was actually 'tasteful'? Like, sure, their boobs were huge and stuck out and they were half-naked all the time. But I didn't feel icky and disgusted by it.
The characters were good, Jo and Meg have an interesting relationship. The misfortune of Bur…
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A spaghetti western set in not quite post-apocalyptic Tokyo might be the easiest way to describe Burst Angel. The ideas of an outlaw gunslinger and the authorities' reliance on firearms to deal with criminals fit the genre well, and the series contains numerous homages, such as the design and name of the mech Jango, the episode titles, and the music used in the series.
A person's enjoyment of Burst Angel depends on what one thinks of girls in revealing clothing fighting freakish monsters with glowing brains and rampaging giant robots. If such things are to your liking, the series will surely please. However, if you don't appreciate the presence of such elements in your anime, there is little reason to watch.
The characters of Burst Angel don't bring any creative or new traits with the…
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Story:
Kyohei was looking for a job, and he found one as a cook for a family made up of Jo, Meg, Amy and Sei. Little did he know that this so-called "family" is actually a gruop of mercenaries and he gets taken along for the ride.
Believe me it ain't as interesting as it sounds BUT it ain't bad. I mean it's a good thing to have a main plot, but the series has more stand alone or filler episodes than the main story. Which is kind of a let down.
Art:
Studio Gonzo is known for their unique art style and character designs. The characters are eye candy but there are some flaws. For one thing, the setting is in a futuristic time zone, but the characters are pretty much traditional looking especially Meg who sports a cowgirl outfit. Pretty much all for fan service (you'll see what I mean if y…
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I\'ve started to watch this anime with great expectations - from AMVs and recommendation from my friends. But afterall it was a bad choice...
The story goes well - every episode has his own plotline, but the major plot is hard to define. That\'s a point down... Once in a while the mini-plotlines where good enough, but overall they were decent.
The Art is almost great - the 3d mechas are well designed and its enjoyable to watch them next to the \'anime\'. But that\'s the only good thing - poor design for the rest. A bad taste for \'ecchi\' clothings too -> in the not too distant future to see a cowboy girl is sexy ? Ohh please...
The sound have nothing special in it -> good machine-gun fire sounds and voice-acting.
The character development through the anime is so poor. There where som…
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Watching this was almost like getting on a roller coaster. It had a lot of high points, but there were also a lot of low points. Glad to say that there were more highs than lows.
Here's an example of the roller coaster I'm talking about. Every 2-3 episodes, there's a different storyline. Some were good, like the one when Meg and Jo went to this all girls school. Some I couldn't understand, like that time warp episode. In fact, most of the time I couldn't understand because of the many independent storylines.
I like most of the characters - Jo was cool. She was tough and kinda cold, but she is likeable. I liked the way she holds the guns (although her voice is a bit too deep). Amy was really adorable, and I like the idea of a kid whose really a well known cyber genius. Sei has a really gr…
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