Needless

So the other day I started the anime Needless after many months of it being on my 'Want to Watch' list. It got bumped to the top of the list upon hearing that the main character is extremely GAR. Now not that I particularly like GAR characters, but soon I'll be doing a Top 10 List: GAR Characters, and if this character was supposedly so GAR, I wanted to see it prior to making the list. I honestly didn't expect much of this series seeing it tagged 'ecchi' (oh lovely -.-) but I gave it a try and much to my surprise, thus far it's AWESOME!! (By thus far I mean I'm up to episode 6 at this point).

Now I'm watching the dub of this so for anyone who has that in common, is it just me or does Blade sound a bit like Kenpachi of Bleach? I know they're not the same VA, but that was my first thought. The ecchi honestly isn't too bad, it makes sense in the fight scenes (which there are a lot of, I'll get to that in a minute) and it's not all BOOBS AND PANTY-SHOTS IN YOUR FACE BLOCKING THE SCREEN!!! There's some torn/skimpy clothing and bouncing boobs, but nothing that's obnoxiously contrived or out of place like a lot of fighting anime with ecchi. Along with that the female lead, Eve, isn't a sickeningly-busty, ecchi shot whore, she's actually a respectable character with some decent comedy scenes as well and boy does she kick some ass. Finally a good, action-packed, high-octane fighting anime without disgustingly obnoxious ecchi all over the place mucking it up.

With that in mind, the fight scenes are plentiful and I have yet to see a bad one, they're all completely over-the-top and insane, especially those involving the oh-so-GAR Adam Blade. For those who don't know, the ones fighting are the 'Needless', people who have various powers such as elements, transformation, copying, making things invisible or visible, etc. What I like about the supernatural powers in Needless as opposed to the norm, or something like say Tokyo Underground (a cookie to whoever's actually seen that one) is that the characters use their powers in ways you generally wouldn't expect. For example a needless that Eve and Cruz fought once seemingly  had several different powers because he was creating things out of thin air, floating, throwing weapons at high speeds and altering the battlefield. Needless can only have one power so naturally this confused them, once they figured out the kids power it made sense, it was all just one power used in several different ways, none of which being the expected for such a power. For those who don't mind minor SPOILERS!! the power was toggling the transparency of objects, making them visible and invisible at will. END SPOILER!! And that fight was highly strategic as well, which I enjoyed a lot. Bottom line, the fight scenes are awesome, and none of them are drawn out for episode upon episode like Bleach, Fairy Tail and especially Naruto so they never get boring to watch.

Last but not least is the colorful (literally) array of characters, pretty much all of which are likable. My personal favorites are Eve and Blade because yes even though they do get on my nerves on occasion (Eve with her nicknames, Blade with his pathetic womanizing) they're completely and utterly bad-ass.  Eve is probably one of the best female fighters in anime that I've seen. The only character that's unbearably annoying is Cruz because not only is he completely powerless, but he's a wimpy little bitch. He's constantly worrying about Blade screaming "Mr.Priest!!" like a little pansy and always like "No, we can't beat them, they're too strong, Mr.Priest is gonna die" I mean just shut up already! -.- Jeez he's like a male Orihime except probably more useless because at least Orihime has powers, this kids got nothing -.-

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Mmkay, nice, semi-off-the-cuff post right there. Just cuz I figured it's rare I post on an individual anime itself so yeah, and I'm honestly really enjoying this one. Also, two updates to the blog as a whole: 1. I now added a better email subscribe button, so if you don't have Google Friend Connect or whatever that thing is to follow, you can simply put in your email adress and get email updates whenever I post! =D 2. See that nice poll on the top of the side bar to the right? If you'd be so kind to cast your vote it'd be much appreciated! Thanks a lot, see you guys next time...should be the  second Summer 2011 post which'll wind up VERY short.