Introduction
Fourteen-year-old Kouichi Hayase's life has always been a mediocre one, if not dismal. However, those days of being bullied by classmates and escaping to a fantasy of being a hero are put to an end when a certain "accident" bestows on him a girl and a gigantic humanoid robot called "LINEBARREL." The extraordinary power that Kouichi obtains puts him and everything around him on a sudden rollercoaster ride of battles, intrigues and friendship! During the course of his adventure, the boy starts to learn what life has to offer; he meets new friends, bids farewell to the old ones, but most of all he now has considerable responsibilities and is forced to confront the world around him.
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Audience reviews
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hexashadow13
tl;dr: A mech anime with a pretty great character arc for the protagonist but that is lacking in most everything else.
This anime is one that’s greatest strength, it’s protagonist, started out seeming like it’s greatest weakness. It starts with the standard premise of a random student suddenly gaining powers and becoming a hero, in this case with Hayase Kouichi becoming linked to the mech Linebarrel. What makes this anime unique is that unlike most anime with similar premises where the protagonist is just luckily inherently heroic and capable of acting as such, Kouichi is anything but. He starts off incredibly self-centered and immature, wherein even though he rants on and on about being a hero of justice, he’s clearly just doing whatever he makes him feel cool without any regard for the…
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Overall I'd rate Kurogane no Linebarrels 6 out of 10. There were numerous basic ideas lined out, but no major, developments occurred further on.
Review may contain minor spoilers, but nothing that will affect viewability of the show. (KnL = Kurogane no Linebarrels)
First off, the art used in this series was good. Nothing outstanding, but no shortcuts seemed to be taken. Every aspect from characters, through environments and special effects were easy to understand and I personally had no problems seeing what any of the displayed aspects were.
Next up were the filler episodes. No surprise here, seems like most of series tend to have some at one point or another. However thing I liked about filler in KnL is that it pinned very nicely into main arc of the series which is a rare phenomenon.…
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The overall feel of this anime is similar to “Code Geass” in the personel struggle with the main character bridging the line between good and evil, black and white. Now that being said Kurogane No Linebarrels is a much shorter series with less twists and turns, a more simplified plot, and a less complex lead character. Nonetheless the series had a good entertainment value and pretty good action sequences.
The plot though pretty simple does keep its interest through a twist or two, character growth, character relationships, and the looming battles between mechs (Machinas and Armas). I found myself looking forward to Hayase’s growth in particular as he grew through his relationships, and battles, though as a character he was on the dumb side his nature to never give up somehow keeps you roo…
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What appealed to me the most was the fact this picked on boy who by mishap, get amazing powers does not instantly start being a big hero and using his power for good. I guess I am just a fan of realism even in science fiction anime, but honestly he behaved realistically in my opinion and it was a nice change.
The story line for me was all about the growth of this character, how you take a picked on powerless middle school boy and slowly turn him to a mature yet fun savior of the world who accepts the burden of carrying all the lives depending on him on his shoulders.
I normally hate when the main character is leagues ahead of everyone else, sort of a goku effect. But for this show and what they were trying to do it works pretty well. The show can get very goofy and anti-climactic at tim…
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Linebarrels of Iron was something I was really looking forward to.
It, sadly doesn't meet these expectations. But overall, I enjoyed the show for what it's worth.
Story/Characters
The story starts off with the main character (Kouichi Hayase) being smashed by a giant mecha named "Linebarrel." He is brought back to life with super human abilities (Super strength, speed, etc.) by the power of Linebarrel called "D-Soil." With the mecha and new found abilities, he also finds a girl inside the robot named Emi Kizaki.
Linebarrel is in a special rank of mecha (called Armas) called Machinas. (C wut day did thar? Deus Ex Machina/god out of the machine). Hayase and Emi then join up with a top secret organization, masked on the outside as "JUDA," who also have Machinas. JUDA's main goal is to take d…
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Need a demonstration of the power a main character wields over a series? Watch Linebarrels. Kouichi is a vicious, self-absorbed prick with delusions of grandeur and nary a whit of empathy, and his very presence makes the first four episodes of the series nearly unwatchable. There is a train-wreck fascination to watching a series with such an utterly vile lead, and there's no denying that the poisoning of Kouichi's mind by constant humiliation and the consequent brutality of his reaction to empowerment ring a lot truer than happier takes on the same material do. But so repulsive is he that the series is intolerable so long as he holds sway. Not even the show's knowledge of exactly when to kick him in the balls can change that.
Only when Kouichi himself changes, thanks to a vicious little p…
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I would have to say that this anime was one of my favorites. I wasn’t a fan of mecha animes before, but after watching this I soon became a fan of mecha animes.
The fight scenes are really drawn out and the character designs are pretty good and bad since I didn’t like some of the character designs of some of the characters.
The plot was well written and the addition of twists was a plus. It was pretty well done but some of the characters are plain out ANNOYING. But instead of focusing on these “ANNOYING” characters, you should just watch this anime because it was just a good anime.
Some may agree and disagree with this review, but overall I give this anime a 8 because it was good yet it wasn’t that amazing.
Hope this review was usefull to all you anime watchers :) !
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Story: Well this whole show was one cliche after the next and most of it early on from the fillers to the stupid humor done by the president who never took anything seriously made it tough to watch this show early on, the story had some plot twists but they were decent and the last and final twist at the end just made me chuckle and go why did they even have to do that it didnt make a whole lot of sense, the ending though was decent and probably the best part of the story, give it a 6.
Art: My one pet peeve when it comes to anime has to be CG and for whatever reason gonzo is pretty well fixed on having it in most of there series and it was plentiful in here considering all the machina were done that way and it grows on you after awhile and you get use to it but in the begining it looked a…
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Alright, this anime finished recently, and I have to say I actually was anticipating for the last episode.
In brief I'll just say, I was on the verge of rage-quitting this anime after the first 3 episodes - and if it wasn't because I started late (so that I didn't have to wait in between weeks) I probably would have dropped this anime.
This is why I gave character the lowest scores, because the main character really annoyed me at first.
But despite that, I pulled through and the anime really is good.
I'm not a Mecha-anime fan, other than Full Metal Panic! I normally don't watch Mecha-anime (I haven't seen one episode of Gundam before). So despite that, it really was good and kept me looking forward to each week.
Although it's not GONZO's best work, the story was well done, and the art…
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"An anime whose overall excitement level can be mathematically modeled by the Gaussian distribution function."
As with many other GONZO production, Kurogane no Linebarrels is loosely based on its manga original. Readers from the manga will find the anime not exactly following the story and in some cases the anime is loaded with fan servicing fillers. Please note that this review will judge Kurogane no Linebarrels solely as seen from the anime perspective.
GONZO started the series with a very rare approach, to bastardize the main protagonist (aka Hayase). Countless people turned away from the show after the first few episodes simply because of how much everyone hated Hayase. I strongly advise viewer to not get irritated by the early episodes and push forward as the show will get infinitel…
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