Audience reviews
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ThatAnimeSnobRE
Sports are a boring genre for me and mechas that don’t blow things up look out of place. Surprisingly this series is not really just about sports or mechas. It is more about wacky characters, boob ecchi and awesome ShoesTM advertisement.
The setting: An Earth-like planet where the poor live in ghetto-like cities while the rich are on the ultra luxurious, full of neon glow and fireworks moon. The backgrounds look marvelous. The show is full of explosions, semi-transparent advertisements and fireworks. It’s like the circus came to town. A huge amount of detail is given to everything and the artwork style has a slight western feel to it. For a series that is supposed to be about sports and mechas, the animators gave a lot of detail to city buildings, visual aesthetics and perky movements tha…
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Skip to the end if you want the bottom line.
I initially passed over Basquash because “random sports anime? Bleh.” But going over my dropped anime looking for potential in anything I might’ve written off years ago, I came back to it and said, well, it actually doesn’t look so bad.
For the first third of the show, I wasn’t wrong. It definitely had some rough edges that I’ll get into, but for the most part, it was enjoyable. The world was amazing. It reminded me of Pokemon Colosseum or Final Fantasy XII. The locations were all inspired and beautiful, interesting places that I’d want to explore, to see explored. The moon was gorgeous, the cities all looked like places people actually inhabited, and they all served the action of the show well, too, by being a great playground for the Basqua…
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I find it difficult to explain why I loved Basquash!, but the point still stands that I enjoyed it from beginning to end.
The only way I can describe Basquash! is by comparing it to other popular anime. So... Basquash! is pretty much a mix of those kids anime like: Bakugan, Bayblade, Pokemon, Digimon... Those ecchi anime like: Highschool DxD, Highschool of the Dead, the ecchi parts of No Game No Life... Those bat shit insane anime like: Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, Kill la Kill, Fooly Cooly, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure ... Those regular shounen like: One Piece, Bleach, Fairy Tail... Those mecha anime that focus more on the story and character aspects rather then the mechas like: Code Geass, Neon Genesis Evangelion, the aforementioned Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, And those sports anime like: Ku…
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This won't be an extensive review but I'll just make some points that I want to mention.
The art and sound I had no real issues with. In fact, the last opening theme was my favorite and I could not stop singing along! Very wonderful and enjoyable.
The story and Dan's character is where critiques come in. SPOILER WARNING!!
At first, Dan starts off as this rowdy and loud character that is worried about his sister's future in an adorable way that makes him sorta cliche, but not entirely. He has moments where he is vulnerable and you see his true colors. One thing that kind of upsets me is that there was absolutely no talk of his sister's legs at all in the later episodes. He made no mention of it once he started playing Basquash and only said he had to "get to the moon". That's it? Of cour…
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SPOILERS UP AHEAD
“DESTROY! DESTROY! DESUTOROIIIIIIIIIIIII!”
Seriously, I began to lost count of just how much I heard that single word over and over the course of animation studio Satelight’s (which I have never heard of) 26 episode original anime – Basquash!
Hmmmm, yes. That’s actually quite a peculiar name. Just what does it mean? Surely it must have something to with bad boys playing squash. Ah, no. That’s wrong. Well, is it a fighting anime? ‘Basquash’ sure does sound like a sound effect for beating someone up – both sexually and non-sexually, of course. Nuh-uh, wrong again.
Then just what is Basquash! all about? It’s, uh, well about basketball being played by guys in semi-giant robots which eventually ends up saving the day. Yup.
Now you must be thinking why would any sane perso…
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Basquash is like that first date you have with an interesting person. You are not to sure what to expect and approach it with an open mind. A few minutes into the date and you hit things of and you tell yourself this could be the start of something special. Sadly, as the night progresses you realize you had the wrong impression all along as the date gets worse and worse till you feel like pretending to be sick so you can leave early.
Art: Pretty amazing for the first 10 episodes or so. Very nice blend using computer generated graphics for the bigfoot and regular 2d art for the characters. The backgrounds and environment all looks lively and the action scenes are very fluid. Sadly the quality starts to deteriorate past episode 10. Action scenes start having pieces of slideshows in them, co…
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The idea of the whole anime may sound ridiculous, but it is exactly the fact that they managed to recreate it in an interesting way that makes the series really intriguing. How many people would watch this after a describtion such as this one: "Guys playing basketball in giant robots; sometimes in THE SPACE." I doubt there would be many anticipating to watch something like that. But what never ceased to amaze me throughout the whole series was that I didn't even once feel like I was watching something dumb and not well-thought. An idea that seems stupid, stereotypical and clichè may actually surprise you by representing an overall satisfying story.
The whole plot was in general really nicely planned, I noticed they managed to squeeze in something like a mini-culmination in every single e…
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U GOTTA WATCH İT
really it'S a mecha,sport,ecchi,romance,action(kinda in a way)comedy anime but i really liked it and it was some of the best animes in 2009.
its story is uniqe never saw anything like it.it's a cool anime if u like basketball.
it got funny moments romance moments.but i really liked it's song and music that they play in episodes.
sooo
art:10 cool drawings what to say :D
story : 10 uniqe one indeed
characters: 10 godd planned characters sound: 10 loved it
enjoyment: 10
overall: 10 :P
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the enjoyment of watching Basquash depends on your taste for animes, some people get really disappointed and others enjoyed this series very much. i'm not really a fan of sports animes but this anime sure has some uniqueness to it.
as we know, most sports anime will start off in school and later compete with other school then to the nationals and so on... but this anime combines the theme of adventure together with sports, and the characters travel around the world and even to outer space. there's also a pinch of romance and harem which makes it even more interesting.
when i first read the synopsis, i was thinking, ''why did they need to make a story about robots playing basketballs?'' but later when i watch it, i understand that they were trying to make a story where there are obstacl…
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It usually takes me 1-2 days to finish a 24 episode anime. It took me 1 week to finish this anime. Ima give my opinion on what I thought of this anime.
I always like to begin with art first for my reviews since that is usually what I judge it on when I watch a series.
Art: It was GREAT until..........episode 10 and up. I don't know if it was just me or what, but the "basquash" and the ball bouncing got much slower and boring, the graphics got worse as it went on, and there were inconsistency in the drawings. I don't know if they got lazy or fed up with this anime and just threw a crap job at the end, but the art was painfully bad. It was painfully slow, their movements, and there were less ball bouncing. The character art was ok, but it got worse later on. The art was what caught my atte…
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This is my first review, and as much as I will try to stay biased for the reader, I can only write with the mood I am feeling at the time I was watching the episodes.
Basquash:
Well what can I say? What started as a brilliant roller-coaster formula to an inventive sports recipe of basketball, ended up collapsing midway and failing to meet the viewers expectation to what could have been a great shonén series.
Story: 5/10
I've given the story side of Basquash a 5 due to that, there is none. It's your typical shonén anime with sports and mecha(called Big Foots) combined to give you an unorthodox game of what's called Big Foot Basketball(BFB for short). Like all sports anime, there is a hint of romance but not enough for a follow through, and like every mecha, there's upgrades although in t…
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