Introduction
They're cute, adorable and three of the most powerful Espers the world has ever seen: Kaoru, the brash psychokinetic who can move objects with her mind; Shiho, the sarcastic and dark natured psychometric able to pick thoughts from people's minds and read the pasts of inanimate objects like a book; and Aoi, the most collected and rational of the three, who has the ability to teleport herself and the others at will. So what to do with these potential psychic monsters in the making? Enter B.A.B.E.L., the Base of Backing ESP Laboratory, where hopefully "The Children" and others like them can become part of the answer to an increasing wave of psychic evolution. It's a win-win solution... Unless you're Koichi Minamoto, the overworked young man stuck with the unenviable task of field commanding a team of three pre-teen girls!
(Source: Sentai Filmworks)
Audience reviews
6 · Sample from the first available page, separate from the total number of ratings.
Deyhtyi
This anime started badly from the very beginning. I thought I was just expecting something different, but that's not it. The first surprise is the style and graphics - but well, I can blame it on the fact that it is quite old. Another disadvantage is the weak soundtrack (for a long time they used a strange sound that hurt the ears). However, even this can be endured - so what's the problem? This anime presents a strange image of children. Ten-year-olds don't act like ten-year-olds at all, even apart from the main three girls who would have some reason to do so. Children are constantly shipped with older characters. Additionally, the main male character Minamoto is the love interest of literally every character despite being literally the most ordinary anime protagonist. Also, I find many o…
Read at the sourceAomiTatsuya
I am sure everyone who has watched this Anime would agree with me. Minamoto is a really irritating idealist who keeps on admonishing Hyoubu, saying he is the bane of all normals and some stupid stuff like that. He doesn't even try to understand Hyoubu's point of view.
Hyoubu is the SIGMA of the series. Other PANDRA members fall under the ALPHA category. Minamoto is a beta for sure. The other BABEL members are gamma's.
I have never seen such a bland characterization for a protagonist(Self-Proclaimed) Minamoto, who always spews idealist stuff and blames everything on Hyoubu and PANDRA. He doesn't even know the dark side of humans which is shown constantly in the series.
The main antagonist, is what they say but the true protagonist of the series Hyoubu is the most unique and most aweso…
Read at the sourceNG_Chloe
Let's start with my favorite parts of the show: The main Antagonist
Kyosuke for me is interesting, he's cool, he's likable, he's funny, and I have never wanted to join the villains organization more than I want to join PANDRA, Even the members are awesome.
Then there are the main characters in BABEL, now if I wasn't going to join PANDRA, and I was an Esper(#Esper_master_race), I would join BABEL maybe. That's because while I like most of the characters in BABEL, most of them should be fired or sent to prison. The chief is the the absolute worst character in the show, he wastes resources and harasses 10 year olds. Then there's Sakaki, who while actually being a very likable, would be arrested for some of the things he does in the office. Then Supervisor Tanizaki, who was extremely creepy…
Read at the sourceggultra2764
Zettai Karen Children is a shounen action-comedy focused on a government organization called BABEL tasked with serving as mediators in hostilities between espers and humans. Among the organization and main focus of the series are a trio of powerful esper 10-year old girls called "The Children" who are chaperoned by Koichi Minamoto. The series explores the developing bond that occurs with Minamoto and The Children, as well as the group and BABEL coming at odds with several enemy organizations who have differing views on the future that espers can bring to humans to the world.
Zettai Karen mixes around comedic and serious moments in exploring its world and characters. The comedy mostly comes in the form of parody and the eccentric quirks of the cast. It makes nods at points to other anime t…
Read at the sourceAlbelio
Currently this will be the 1st draft of this review. (I will make a better one after my Exam)
[Even though I gave it low grade, it comes from how hard I grade it and maybe it'll be bump up 1-2 points if graded by others]
To say it simple for simple understanding for simple people: Magical Girl
This show was really based on magical girls who were called ESPer instead and the main character of this show are the three Level 7 (highest level) children esper who luckily found someone who accepted them.
Story: (7/10)
I must say Zettai Karen Children really gives me high expectation at first sight. The story was about Esper, as known as people who have abnormal powers (e.g. psykic, mind reading, teleportation), which was obvious that they'll be hate by normal people. That's really the stronge…
Read at the sourceNV2301
A fairly enjoyable series which has either been watered down too much, or not enough.
Overall - 6/10
From the Animesuki thread, I read that the manga is more hardcore with blood and depth in comparison with the anime. While I have not read the source material, I can already sense in the anime that things have been watered down to an extent. This has all to do with the series airing at 10am on a Sunday. I feel things are still too hardcore (i.e. targeted at Japanese Otakus) with the constant perv/service/loli references, to be suitable for kids.
On the other hand, the general over-action of the BABEL boss, and the limiter de-activation scenes have certainly been created to make kids laugh and enjoy. While I thankfully do not know the tastes of a hardcore Japanese Otaku, I found my atten…
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