By TheBigN Sometimes, hate is all you need… to an extent. In the case of Kurogane no Linebarrels, it looks like one of the main reasons for people to watch the show. Three episodes in, the story hasn’t been compelling enough for me, with the brief information that we’ve gotten about the grand scheme of things. [...]
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The first episode of Kurogane no Linebarrels seemed to be some kind of lesson in how not to make a mecha-based anime - The mecha designs were uninspired and their animation extremely poor (and a waste of CG rendering time), and as for the main protagonist... Well, the less said about him the better. Indeed, said protagonist Kouichi somehow manages to take this incredibly average anime and make
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Wow, Gonzo, you managed to even insert some cliche’d love comedy routine in to the show? Dayam, you guys are awesome (at ruining stuff). While I’m sure a dojikko Kizaki is cute, but it’s not something we need from this series! I guess I don’t even need to add that Kouichi managed to be a [...]
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[ Episode 2: Runaway Justice ] Is it wrong that I’m enjoying this show? This episode was much better than the first! Now that the awkward power gain has passed by, Kouichi and the others are now trying to settle into the aftermath of the previous battle. Before that though, we’re shown more of JUDA and of [...]
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If you had to sum up Kouichi Hayase's life in one word, it would be "sucks". Despite his delusions of being a hero of justice, he's a weakling who gets bullied at school and even his friends only look out for him out of pity. Just when things seemingly can't get any worse... A giant mecha and a naked girl fall on his head. Of course, we already know from numerous anime series that only school
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Series Information ANN Encyclopedia | AniDB | AnimeNfo Genres: Action, Science Fiction, Mecha OP: [Kitei no Tsurugi] by ALI PROJECT ED: [Ame ga furu] by Maaya Sakamoto LINEBARRELS OF IRON Official Web Site [ Episode 1: Boy and Iron ] GONZO’s latest effort is their adaptation of Kurogane no Linebarrels, a manga penned by . I was originally attracted by this simply [...]
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Hey, look, it’s the first show of the new season I’ve seen that sucks. And it’s from Gonzo! I didn’t see that coming! EMO EMO EMO I’M SUCH A LOSER NOBODY LIKES ME LEAVE ME ALONE!!! There were so many ways for this to go wrong and the show somehow managed to accomplish over 80% of [...]
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All right. Everyone who reads this blog for the last two years will know that I have an intrinsic dislike for mecha shows in general. However, the belated coming of Macross Frontier made me find my old love of robots firing hyper beams of energy at monsters. I used to watch the first Macross with [...]
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Tales of the Abyss Short Synopsis: Our lead character is a prince and has special. Highlights: Bad first half, second half with promise. Overall Enjoyment Value: 6,5/10 I’m pretty much a fan of the Tales of-franchise, but I’ve never played Tales of the Abyss or Vesperia, so this was all new to me. At first, this promised to violently [...]
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In case anyone doesn’t know yet, it seems the show is being offered for free streaming from the usual suspects, Crunchyroll, BOST and Youtube. Unintentionally hillarious yet admittedly entertaining is all I can describe the first episode of Linebarrel. As I expected, they did change the story. Instead of starting with the EPIC ASSHOLE Kouichi, we [...]
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Decided to check the manga out after watching the promos and finding out some generous Anon scanlated volumes 1 till 4. Man, this manga is definitely kick-ass. I sure didn’t expect it to be this entertaining, since I thought it was another typical shounen-style manga. While it’s definitely falling square inside the shounen-manga story archetype, [...]
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Here’s the preview trailer of the upcoming GONZO anime this fall season, Kurogane no Linebarrel. I hope this one would turn out as good since their previous works are all MEH and a little were just fine.
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We first saw her announced back at the Shizuoka Hobby Show, and today Kotobukiya updated with color images of their Kizaki Emi PVC figure from manga and upcoming TV anime Kurogane no Linebarrels. She's scheduled for release in October at an undisclosed retail price (previously reported at 6,090 yen), and 1/8 scale (21 cm tall). The sculptor is currently uncredited. Figure images below:
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