Audience reviews
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Cortex-
Have you ever just randomly stumbled upon a great anime without expecting it to be any good at all before watching it. This was my case with Rail Wars.
At first look I thought "a anime about trains? No thank you" ,but I gave it a shot at least. And after three episodes I was surprised. The anime wasn't just about trains but about the main character and side characters trying to make their dreams come true and thus I binge watched it.
The art at first look amazed me. There was a lot of detail in the surroundings as well as the characters.
The soundtrack matched perfectly and was nicely conducted. The opening and end songs were catchy and matched the scenes.
There was some clear character development throughout the anime. The main character is a pretty relaxed guy who can think clearly…
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Rail Wars! A show about trains! Or not.
I found Rail Wars through a gif of a model train running into a woman's breasts. No joke. And if I had to describe Rail Wars, that's the gist of what I would say. Rail Wars is, pun intended, a train wreck, with a ton of boobs (and butt and legs).
Overall: 2
Rail Wars! is bad. The only things decent about the anime is art and sound, and neither are all that great. Characters are just 2D cardboard cutouts. There was no creativity in story. While the short arc formula worked for the anime, it didn't help it. Rail Wars! is not interesting, cool, or funny. There is no way I could recommend this anime to anyone.
Story: 3
Rail Wars!, on the surface, is an anime about a boy who loves trains, and wants to be an engineer. Simple enough. But then once you…
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(At Studio Passione, a meeting between the director and the animators)
Director: Okay. Thank you for coming on such short notice. I just wanted to discuss some minor changes that I thought would be appropriate.
[Animator A and B both nodded their heads and said, “Okay.”]
Director [smiling]: Great! Okay. Animator A, you are charge of animating most scenes involving Haruka Koumi, right?
Animator A [nodding]: That is correct. Director: Okay. That’s good. [Glancing at his clipboard.] I noticed that her breast sizes were a size ‘D’. I don’t like it, could you increase it to a size ‘F’?
Animator A [looking shocked]: What? Why? isn’t that a bit too big?
Director: Hm. What do you mean? There’s no such thing as ‘too big’. Only ‘too small’. And, also, add more jiggle physics.
Animator A [stil…
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Rail Wars! is a confusing show. It is an ecchi harem with the primary gimmick being that it supplies the viewer with plenty of train facts.
There is no progression to this story. Although it is a harem, there are only two moments in the series that could be considered "plot development between characters" in which two different girls' announce to the screen that they have feelings for Naoto, our main character. However, while both of these girls may have revealed their feelings (to no one in the story), the only effect this has on the story is the addition of blushing throughout the otherwise ordinary moments this show is chock full of.
The only notable plot progression throughout the series is the very arbitrary promotion of Naoto from "kid who works for train station" to "kid who lea…
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Warning! following Review is wrote in sarcastic tone, although it quite accurately describes my feelings about that anime.
Rail Wars is yuri anime about, like name suggests, titties. Main heroin, named Takayama Naoto, is a girl, that always wanted to drive trains, so she didn't cared about anything else in her life and her education level stayed in kindergarten. Fortunately she passed high school and got admitted to Japan Rail School, where she met new friends:
Ojou-sama Titties, Police Titties, Boss Titties, Osananajimi Titties and Captain Titties. There was also Iwaizumi Shou, the only male character from main cast.
Unfortunately Naoto was born with powerful titties magnet instead of brain, which makes a lot of trouble for main cast as at least once per episode some titties flies towa…
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Rail Wars!
If you want something to watch while eating pizza or waiting for your gentoo kernel compile to finish, watch this.
It's without a question an original idea, an anime about teenagers working for a railway company, in this case, the fictional Japanese National Railways.
While the characters may really be pretty generic, I don't think they could've done much about that, given that this anime mainly wants to encourage the viewers interest in trains.
All in all, it didn't fail to entertain me, watching a bunch of kids trying to balance an old train at high velocity to keep it from derailing was fun, them battling terrorists, even more so, and you also learn some neat facts about trains, so why not.
The only thing you shouldn't be doing is going into this with high expectations,…
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***spoiler free***
So, I wrote this review with 6 episodes released, and after watching the other half of the anime, my opinion remained the same.
What started a sort of different anime, at least for me (trains!), fell to the ordinary and pointless screen time of forced ecchi.
The 3 first episodes had an interesting development and were really getting me into the wave of the anime. Interesting story, new topic, very nice art, characthers progressing fairly well, the right ammount and balance of a good story and seduction. Sadly, from episode 4 henceforth it was just pointless ecchi just to fill the episodes. Nothing new, the art was sloppy, linear and boring "story" and a waste of money to produce. If it were to have this end, might as well stopped releasing episodes like this.
Anothe…
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When I first saw the name "Rail Wars", I was thinking some futuristic style anime with fighting, action, lasers, cyber space settings, and all that! Luckily I ended up half right. There is fighting, action, and a cyber space animation paired up with the ending theme. But overall, it's an anime about trains and the troubles that come with the job of working with them. No laser shooting, space ship having, mecha fights for my rather active imagination this time around.
Let's jump right in.
STORY:
The story's about following our main character, Takayama Naoto, who wants to be a train driver. He went through a boot camp setting of which was breezed through a bit but showed key points to the training, made three friends along the way, and with a stroke of luck after graduation is reunited w…
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In reality, trains are actually fascinating inventions with great enterprise and a means of transportation. But put that into anime form under the title ‘Rail Wars’ and you’ll get a pseudo-harem anime where you wonder what this show is really about. Is it really about trains? Sort of. Are the characters completely devoid of interest? Somewhat. Is this show memorable for what ultimately tried to achieve? Hell no.
Based on the light novel of the same name, Rail Wars apparently takes place in some alternate version of Japan. The only difference is that the setting involves a railway system that has yet to be privatized. Then, enter main protagonist Naoto Takayama, a big fan of trains who originally wanted to be a driver. Now the kid is part of the Fourth Guard Squad. What he doesn’t know is…
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I was very excited when this anime was first announced, however I was very much let down by what I was expecting to be a seriously informative and respectful anime. Because this is the first anime that I've given a lower score to, I wanted to write a review as to why. So with that being said, here's my very first short and simple review on MAL.
First off, one of the major things that turned me away was the characters and the sheer amount of "fanservice". You never really get to know the characters, they're just supposed to be taken as is with their personalities. Fanservice, please don't get me wrong, is great when it's utilized in moderation and in animes that you want to watch for those things. Not so much in an anime about trains.
I'm not really a big train fangirl, but I thought it w…
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Rail Wars! is a series which says would mainly discuss about train. As I thought it's quite interesting to see a series with unique main theme, I took this series. It turned out quite wrong if you want to come and see a train in this series.
As I previously mentioned above, it's a train series. It came with a good premise but deviating plot. The series follows Takayama Naoto, a boy who wants to be a train driver. But, he couldn't do that and instead, he entered as a trainee in the Railways Security Force. There he met some of his harem.
The story is quite amusing, but it's boring. It's amusing because of the offer of the girls' action there in resolving problem on train security. It's boring because repetitive usage of same plot in every arc/episode. In almost every episodes, we got some…
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Rail Wars is quite the bizarre series indeed. Anyone who actually bothers to research something would have understood that this series was going to have harem influence and the lead designers of the characters, same as the one who handled Witchblade, should also have told most people that a focus on T&A would be fundamental.
Where things really came out of the left field though was execution. From what I hear, the light novels are significantly more action packed and actually...relevant to the plot. Apparently there was a bit of an argument between the anime director and the novelist and as such the anime is nothing like the novels, or so I've heard.
This makes a great deal of sense though because this anime has no point to it. It's not quite a harem comedy, because there really is not T…
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Not bad. Definitely is unique. I couldn't think of many related titles.
Story
Does not have a plotline that flows through the whole series. Individual arcs. Overall they're average. Arcs are straightforward with no complex side plots or whatever.
Kind of a harem, but not in the way a harem works. If you get over the fact that the protagonist meets a lot of pretty girls, then its not a harem at all.
However, I think it would be great as a romance with an good ending.
Art
Fluid characters, lots of still backgrounds. This is modern animation. It looks good by making the viewer's focus the best part. It looks good and that's what counts. But other than that it's nothing spectacular. OP and ED look nice but also have lots of still shots. They go well with the music though.
Sound
I don't rem…
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I'm not sure where to begin with this...show. I can't analyze it from the beginning so let's look at it from the end. SO IN OTHER WORDS, THIS SHOW IS NOW CALLED CABOOSE WARS!
On a more serious note, those looking for a serious show with a great story, interesting characters, and an overall good time, just stop right now...
This show...can be summarized by fan-service.
Let's start with breaking down the specifics.
Story: (3 of 10): Let's look at the synopsis above, now back to this. (wants to make an old spice reference, but holds it in). The synopsis is partially right. This is about the story of Takayama, who wishes to go and become an employee of the JNR system (a train driver to be exact). After that, we get to witness several episodes of nothing but fan-service and animated sequ…
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Ah, Rail Wars.... The trainwreck of this summer!
Okay, sorry, everybody already heard that pun but I just had to use it here. Now that this is out of the way, I think that I should start with my real review.
First of all, I think that I should mention that I'm quite interested in trains, so I actually had high hopes after I heard the title and the premise of this series. Sadly, all my hopes were crushed after the third episode.
Story: 2/10
If I'm really honest, this show is nothing for people who are interested in good stories. It's not even really good for people who are solely interested in “plot”, given that even the “plot” was ridiculously bad. Obviously the story consists mostly (at least 90%) of “cabooses”, which is why my rating has become so low, since I've obviously been expect…
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Rail Wars has much to offer anyone who is interested in the Japanese way of life surrounding Public Transportation Systems and as an added result can provide some history about the industrialization of the country. It is an average anime that is surprisingly entertaining with some flaws of course. Nevertheless here's my review, continue to read and see if this show is for you.
Story: 6/10
From what is clear by the synopsis, one can probably tell they're not going to get an epic or an incredibly heart throbbing romance out of this show. You do however get a satisfying slice-of-life feel from it as each episode takes you along a specific story arc, with an occasional arc spanning a couple of episodes. This being said a couple of cliffhangers may stand in your way, but not in the dramatic…
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Right first review so be gentle please though feedback is welcome.
Rail wars...so lets get one thing straight right of the bat this is a HAREM ECCHI anime if you don't like those genres stay the hell away from this show.
so moving on the lead characters are all pretty generic we have Naoto Takayama your typical dense harem lead and his co-workers Aoi Sakurai the typical tsundere heroine who has a particular fondness for guns Koumi Haruka the big breasted gentle character and lastly Shou Iwaizumi who serves as the stupid best friend as well as some other minor harem members.
story....well there wasn't much of a story with each episode mostly consisting of light hearted comedic moments some fan service and then an action scene before wrapping everything up in 20minutes and maybe throwing…
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Ok, so another summer anime has just ended, so no more fucking around and just present my ratings for each of this anime's category:
Pathetic 1.
Story- there isn't any, in spite of what its genre states, each of this anime genre applies each one of the characters, also the plot where it's an alternate world where Japan's railway system isn't privatize and was treated by people who would like to privatize it, didn't really fan out, rather this anime's story plot was pretty random to say the least. Also, the title "Rail Wars" was simply too misleading since one would expect that there where two entities who would be battling to control Japan's public railway system, now if I were Takumi Toyoda (the one who wrote this anime/novel/manga) such scenario where two entities who were battling to…
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The title should be called "Oppai Wars".
STORY (2):
The story takes place in a nationalized railway system in Japan that was not privatized. Naoto Takayama and the gang are trained to become securities by doing physical training and learning how to operate trains.
In going to see this anime, I have no expectations because from the first 3 episodes, they show us fanservice like skirt blown by the wind to reveal panties, man accidentally landing on a woman with his hands grabbing her boobs. If I see another of such thing happening, I would snap.
Basically my expectations will be determined by the trailer and the first few episodes. The anime studio Passione hasn't been making any good anime, so far from what I have researched, Passione made the anime "Haitai Nanafa" which was not well re…
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**SPOILER FREE REVIEW**
What a disgraceful, irredeemable, repulsive piece of trash this anime truly is. This show has thus-far been the most uninspired, lazy, and forgettable pulp I’ve ever had the misfortune of sitting through. Not a single OUNCE of effort was put into this butchering of a somewhat promising and unique concept, and while the show thinks it can distract the audience from its laughable “plot” (if you can even call it that) and its worthless, pathetic, cardboard-cutout characters with absurdly excessive fanservice, they aren’t fooling me. It's unbelievably stupid, it's misogynistic, it's cliche, it's rushed, it's... Y'know what? Let’s just go ahead and delve into what is likely hands-down the worst anime of the season, Rail Wars.
Synopsis: Four teenagers begin working for…
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