Introduction
Aya, Youji, Ken, and Omi are the four young men who comprise Weiss Kreuz (WK), an assassin group that eliminates certain menaces to society. Each member has his own trademark fighting style. Aya is adept at fighting with a katana, Youji has mastered the art of strangulation via strings, Ken is lethal with his metal claws, while Omi specializes in a wide array of projectiles. Under the command of a mysterious man known only as "Persia", the WK is dispatched to take care of drug rings, terrorist factions, and the like. But as things go along, they discover that most, if not all, the bad elements they have dealt with are somehow connected to the Takatori family. The Takatori family is rich, powerful, and influential. It seems if the problem is to be nipped in the bud, the WK would have to put an end to one of Japan's most prominent clans.
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Audience reviews
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patkarunungan
The original Weiß Kreuz was one of those anime I watched in my childhood. In this rewatch, I revisited this anime for nostalgia's sake and to watch a few episodes I missed.
Would I recommend it? It depends. If you like pretty boys even if the story is bad, this may satisfy you. I'm not saying that the story is so bad that you would be utterly mad (well, the sequels are egregiously bad). But they are not as good as I remembered.
The first episodes are episodic and therefore boring. The episodes focus on each individual Weiß.
The overall plot is not apparent, only that Weiß Kreuz is a vigilante group and they are tasked to kill criminals.
Eventually, they will zero in on a particular target, a high-ranking political family, the back stories of each Weiß will be revealed, and what was pre…
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If you would have to summarize Weiß Kreuz very short, it would be: all style, no substance.
Weiß Kreuz suffers from a variety of things. And most can be traced to its origin. Being the thought-child of one of the Voice Actors, it clearly shows in the lack of quality in general. I don't want to lash out on him, but the writers didn't really know what they did with this. And the two biggest flaws, in my opinion, are the lack of direction and the lack of vision for the whole story.
The episodes follow a monster of the week style approach with an over-arcing narrative. In the first episodes everything is connected to a bad guy, but he didn't do much except committing crimes all the time. And not like petty crimes. This is full blown: hosting a death-match casino, kidnapping people for huntin…
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First of all, Weiss Kreuz is a completely terrible anime. It's a passion project created by the VA's, and it clearly shows every step of the way. That being said, this anime is so bad it's completely hilarious, like The Room.
Everything that happens in this anime is completely ridiculous. Nothing makes sense, emotions are muted when they don't need to be, people just casually die.
If you are watching the first episode and expecting a serious anime then you are sadly mistaken. This anime is absolutely ridiculous in every way. I watched it with a friend and as we watched we constantly tore this anime apart like a Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode.
Story:
Constantly ridiculous, and hilarious at every corner. The first episode a man dies from a van falling on him. Things get supernatura…
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Did you have an anime that stuck in your head when you was a child? You watched an episode and it picks your curiosity? To me, the answer is yes.
I was, maybe in grade school when I watch one of the episodes in this anime and when I was growing up I always wondering what anime it was. At first, I post the question on the anime and recommendation well, it was my fault (tee-hee) and someone said that I should post it in the Help Identifying This Anime/Character' Thread (v7).
When I ask this in the The 'Help Identifying This Anime/Character' Thread (v7), thanks to Sslacker I finally watch this. Moving on, when I finished watching this anime the mission of the story are intriguing for example, in Episode 5 the sports drink that cause women slowly poison or die. This anime kinda male versio…
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Story: 4/10
I gotta admit, I was intrigued by this anime because (like any girl) I'm a sucker for the pretty boys, but pretty boys don't make good plots. Too predictable, too "safe" and definately TOO stupid. I can't stand an anime I can easily predict and doesn't have enough substance to keep me interested. Sadly this anime lacked all of the above and more.
Art: 5/10
The art wasn't TERRIBLE but it wasn't the BEST either, it was more average than anything. The facial expression lacked emotion, the women were poorly drawn (how any of them fell for those women is beyond me) and it was just a boring style of art. Just too bland for my taste sadly and it wasn't balanced properly, meaning the men and women should be equally good looking or bad looking. This shows the artist has the ability to…
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::QUICK REVIEW::
Story: 4 (Go go Weis Kreuz Rangers!)
Art: 2 (Even Dragon Ball looks better than this)
Sound: 5 (people screaming & tires screeching makes me RAGE)
Character: 3 (The boy band heroes and ignorant girls)
Enjoyment: 2 (KEN... RAAAAAAAAAAAAAGE!!!)
Overall: 16/50 = 3.2 (Funny for the wrong reasons) :::FULL REVIEW::
Weiss Kreuz is one of those anime shows that you've feel you've seen before. And you're mostly right, the overall story has been done by every box-office smash, b-movie, independent movie, anime, TV show, and even children's programming. But what this resembles most of all is some "mature-ish" version of Power Rangers. Four main characters that specialize in their own fighting style working for one mysterious entity. Out fighting one conglomerate trying to find the tr…
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