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Joe_Devaney
Note: This will be a review of both seasons.
Overview:
Anime have been adapted from various kinds of media over the years, to the point that there are far more anime that do have a source material than those that don't. But while most anime are adapted from manga, light novels or visual novels, "Senran Kagura" is a departure from the norm, being instead an adaptation of a series of hack-and-slash video games. Of course, the real question is "How well does it adapt the source material?", and the answer is "Not very well.", resulting in a series that, while enjoyable, feels rushed in a way that very few other anime I've seen do.
Story (6/10):
Set in an alternate version of modern-day Japan where a select few teenage girls are secretly trained in the arts of ninjutsu, "Senran Kagura" revolv…
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Senran Kagura: Ninja Flash! is a very fun adaptation for those wanting to get more into Senran Kagura without playing the games, and on its own, it's solid Turn-Your-Brain-Off entertainment.
The girls are fun, have humorous and cheesey scenes, and it makes you feel like a little kid watching a generic Good [Blank] VS Bad [Blank] show. They even avoid showing blood minus one single episode near the end, and there isn't a single real onscreen death. It really does feel like a kids anime minus one thing-- amazing fan service that actually can manage to get you in the mood. I'm serious, the fanservice here is good shit!
Not every anime has to be deep, philosophical, complicated or emotional. The emotions Senran Kagura: Ninja Flash! induces is the same feeling you got when you were a kid watc…
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"SENRAN KAGURA"
Genre- Action, Comedy, Ecchi, School.
The way of a 'shinobi' stands very different from our general lives. By risking their lives fighting in the shadows, shinobis have nothing but themselves to rely on. And as this is a path that takes your very own identity from you, being a shinobi isn't for everybody.
Operating from the shadows, the shinobi society is well spread around Japan. While carrying out missions that cost them their lives, these shinobis must maintain the peace of society by taking on the hard role of being a spy, saboteur, or assassin. Asuka, the granddaughter of the legendary shinobi "Hanzou-sama", is a sophomore at the light shinobi academy, where she must train and become the perfect shinobi able to carry out her lineage. But with the dark fraction of sh…
Read at the sourceOnyxSaiyan
This anime adaptation is quite a real disservice to the original source material for several reasons. First is that it doesn't give any time to develop the characters, why the original story of the game worked is because you got to see all of the girls' perspectives on the current matters of the game and each one's style of combat felt different for whomever you played as. As for Ninja Flash, things are kinda rushed around and we don't really get to know them enough. Although we are given their backgrounds which for the most part are respectful to the original game (except Hikage) but at the same time they just feel forced, as if the anime is desperate to get you to care about them.
The game also goes the long way in deconstructing the line between good and evil to show that perhaps there…
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I won’t use any arbitrary numbers for the duration of this review. Senran Kagura is a series I picked up from a trailer I watched for Senran Kagura: Burst and let me tell you, I was just so fascinated. A fighting game where we pit scantily clad high school girls against one another and fight to destroy the other girls’ clothing? Count me in. WHY AREN’T MORE DEVS DOING THIS!? Then I realized there was an anime and manga series that fleshes out the legend of this mysterious series’ origins. Then it donned on me that this is not something I’d enjoy. I’m really at a loss for words with this one, because it wasn’t anything I didn’t expect. In fact it was so within my expectations I can’t give it a bad rating (not that it matters), because, let’s be honest, people eat up ecchi material regardles…
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Senran Kagura is quite obviously a piece of fan service, and as a fan service it is great, but also underneath the fan service, is a good story that draws you in. The story comes across as an over simplified "good vs bad" story, and the English dubbing is very simplistic in the language it uses.
Look through the fan service, look through the simple top layer of the story, and Senran Kagura is a fair bit deeper with a story of good turned bad to pursue power and then has thoughts of returning to the good.
Story is a solid 7/10. Yes it's a bit simplified, yes its fan service, but its very approachable and doesn't get bogged down in unnecessary detail.
Art is 9/10. This maybe a bit bias by me being a bit of a perv, but take what you will, it looks good, scenery is enjoyable and it all work…
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This is a serious review for a serious matter.
Senran Kagura shows a five girl ninja school against another school (this one evil). You will learn a lot about ninjas.
Ninjas can defy physics: when they are hanging down, their breasts hang, but their skirts don't. Strange, as they like to show her underwear whenever possible. Also, when hanging with a water bucket on each hand they can still somehow shake hands with a companion. Uh?
Real ninjas resemble magical girls, and some armor transformations have even less cloth that the usual school uniform. I cannot stop staring at Katsuragi's... armor.
Even with magical girl transformations, there is no panty shots here, there is simply some scenes where panties are strangely not shown. Given the setting, this scenes can be dificult to underst…
Read at the sourceSonic-Speed17
So five busty girls is apparently what pulls people into this one. Each having their own small back story which is nicely explained by the narrator so I don't have to hear too many sob story about how their live was like before the actually series started. Don't get me wrong I'm ok with a little backstory, I just don't like when one is full of nothing but tears and sadness, only to find that the person we see now doesn't really connect with said backstory. Fairy Tail is a good example of good back story, telling the whole thing, both the good and the bad, The Whole Thing!
Speaking of which why is that is almost every fighting scene, clothes are being blasted off and everyone is fighting in their underwear? I don't care if people use the "magic" excuse (the idea that anything that you can'…
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Pure throw-away entertainment
garbage, trash
After watching the characters for 5 seconds you understand everything that is trying to be presented in their personality and they don't break from it over the course of the 12 or however many episodes. I've never been so uninterested in a show before... I pretty much had to watch it while hungover or doing something else because the idea of giving it my full attention was upsetting. The only reason I ended up seeing this anime through to the end was to validate the fact that this was the worst anime I've ever seen.
They don't do ecchi well. It's incredibly bland. Boob physics that don't make sense and poorly animated crotch shots are the brunt of it. Oh also the girls always eat uncut sushi so it looks like they are sucking dong at every meal…
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Senran Kagura drowns itself in it's own mediocrity. It has most of the basic elements in the series, but it falls short in most areas and never quite delivers. I held on through the story, but 12 episodes was more than enough, in fact, I wish it was halved. At times I enjoyed it, and others I couldn't wait for the episode to end.
I'll keep it short and sweet. It really had a volatile mix of ingredients. It had good artwork, but they focused too much on sex appeal and didn't put enough attention into anything else. The sound was tolerable, but I wish it had better music.The voice acting was mediocre, they didn't focus enough on character development, and I found that I didn't have enough invested in them to like the characters. I just kept waiting for it to get good but it didn't. It was…
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I don’t understand the hate behind this series. Let’s be fair, it’s an ecchi anime, so we should be watching for fun over substance. And if you don’t look too hard, this is actually a pretty good and fun series :)
Art – 9 points
The character designs are very well done. First, all the girls are very attractive (pretty, hot, sexy, cute, you name it…) each with unique appearances that match their personalities. Then each girl got individual ninja gears that are splendid top to bottom. From this wide selection of girls, the audience should be able to find a girl that suits their taste just by appearance. I personally found several. :) The major setback in the art is the boobs may have been a little too round and the lack of nipples, but that didn’t really bother me. :)
Story – 7 points
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Senran Kagura is one of those titles that doesn't pretend it is something high-quality; even the game it spawned from is all about clothing damage and huge jiggling breasts. Once you move past the unrealistic expectations, it becomes something you can, er, actually enjoy.
Titles like these banks almost entirely on the character designs. The huge success of the games proved their appeal somewhat (I even put up Hibari as one of the most likable characters of the season). Character like Yomi, Yagyu and Katsuragi are also pretty popular on the net. It's a pity one of the most well-received characters (and one of my favourites), Hikage, never really got a chance to shine.
It may be a good thing that no one expects any kind of story at all, because the anime actually managed to surprise us wit…
Read at the sourceLuckyKrystal
Senran Kagura is a an ecchi/action anime based on the video game series of the same name. Animation is handled by studio Artland (Mushishi, Gunslinger Girl, Hitman Reborn, etc). Senran Kagura shares the same director with similar ecchi anime such as the first season of Ikkitousen and Freezing, as well as the same scriptwriter as Ikkitousen, High School DxD, and Queen’s Blade. That information alone will give you a pretty good idea of what to expect of this anime. And that is: not much.
Senran Kagura is the story of five busty ninjas in training in modern Japan who strive to protect the secret technique scroll and become super special awesome overpowered ninjas. Later in the anime, they run into some trouble from “evil ninjas” of a rival school who just want to get in the way of the “good…
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Senran Kagura is an anime about female ninjas that go to a super secret school. It’s based on a 3DS game of the same name. It should be pretty obvious that this is an ecchi anime that is 85% fanservice and 15% actual plot, and it is. You have the Hanzou Academy, for the virtuous ninjas and there is another school for evil ninjas called the Serpent Academy. The anime is basically just these light and dark factions fighting against each other.
I generally don’t mind ecchi series, I happen to like a few (Jungle de Ikou, anyone?), but this one was just a little too cliche and boring for me. The story is trite, the character archetypes are overused, they pretty much cover every sort of fanservice possible… if you really don’t care about story or characters and are more interested in unrealisti…
Read at the sourceHectotane
So the video game franchise based on female ninjas with 3D tits gets an animu about female ninjas with 3D-esque tits. No argument there; except for the fact that Wapan wants to 1) turn everything into a female and 2) turn said females into lesbians.
The accompaning PSV game, Senran Kagura Shinovi Versus, sold vehemently well (as the lot of games that objectify women do). And yet I'm already seeing images of the ladies herein looking like NOBODY knows how to dress them properly. It already crossed the line with its lolies and guns.
The animu, saddeningly, doesn't have the upskirt panty shots when the ladies herein wear their school uniforms. But it did have some nice concepts going on:
* Light ninjas versus dark ninjas.
* Dark ninjas being "dark" because of dark pasts but otherwise good…
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The expression "don't judge a book by it's cover" is something you should always keep in mind, because occasionally, a show is a lot more than what it's cover suggests.
Senran Kagura is not one of those shows. What you see is what you get, you see ninja girls with big boobs in the cover picture? That's what you'll get. This is a quintessential ecchi action romp, plenty of fan service, serviceable action and characters that are for the most part likable. How well exactly does the show do what it does?
Let's start with an important aspect of the show, the art and animation. On the whole the animation strong, and surprisingly consistent, the faces and character models are rarely off model, and the action looks fluid, and there is a good use of colour which makes for an enjoyable viewing. Th…
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Senran Kagura. I just finished watching it, As it just finished Airing.
It's a good anime, a Shounen, With an Ecchi mind.
If you want to see big breasted ninja girls, with other big breasted ninja girls and get they're clothes rip off, Senran Kagura is an anime for you hehe.
It is more Male oriented considering the big Ecchi part, But Girls can like it aswell since it's not only based on that.
The Story was good, My note was 7.
The Art was good, Different from what I've seen before on the character sides, But it was nice to watch,alot of colors and yeah, It was pretty, I gave it a 8.
The Sound was okay, I liked the Theme Song it was pleasant, And quite good.
I give this, A 7.
The Characters was okay, I did not really get caught in them, I felt a lack of character development, But over…
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