Finished watching "Witchblade".
First, apologies to Havoc10k, as I said I was going to do something which I have ended up not doing concerning this review.
I'm going to use the mini-reviews I did in Notepad as notes to do the review, there is far too much info in them that would basically be spoilers.
Note also that the version I have is dual audio, English being the default.
So, on with the review.
Where are we at?
Tokyo.
When are we there?
Some time in the future, 6 years after a major earthquake devastated the Tokyo area. Cars still get around on four wheels and basically still look like cars.
Everything technology wise looks the same as it does today, more or less, but there are still differences, as you shall find out.
Our first scene shows us a lady on a boat, with a little girl, a man and a dog.
This is your first look at two of the main characters, Masame Ahana and her daughter Rihoko, who is 6 years old.
Masame plans to make Tokyo her new home, all she needs to do is find a place to live and a job.
In the process of doing this, we discover that she is on the run from the NSWF's Child welfare division.
Masame is separated from Rihoko by the Child Welfare Division, but changes her mind and steals a police car to chase them in.
She has an accident, but is ok and is put in prison.
It is here that the Witchblade first shows it's powers, transforming Masame into a powerful being after she is attacked by a mechanical creature in the prison.
As the anime moves forward, we discover that this mechanical creature is called an X-con and it is technology based on the Witchblade.
We also find out that the X-cons and Witchblade react to each other and that Masame, when she is in her Witchblade form, really loves a good fight.
Eventually Masame is offered a job with "Douji Industries", cleaning up the rogue X-cons that apparently escaped during the earthquake 6 years ago.
There are a number of other things we discover along the way.
The NSWF is run by a man they call 'Father' and he has been creating 'neo-genes', women who have been created from hand picked ladies whose genes have been taken and mixed with the genes of 'Father'.
The best of these ladies are then given a 'clone blade', technology that is based on and works in a similar fashion to the Witchblade.
However, mistakes have been made and not everything goes to plan.
Circumstances happen that cause various things to get more and more out of control, until everything comes to end in a final mighty battle at the still standing Tokyo Radio Tower.
Witchblade is an interesting anime in many ways.
Our heroine Masame, is a real woman. She has large breasts, but they aren't that big for her body and speaking of her body, that is quite well proportioned too.
Rihoko is totally a 6 year old girl....as far as anime goes anyway. Cute as a bug, responsible, a good cook and she looks after her mom.
There is a lot of action, mostly fights between Masume, X-cons and the Clone Blades.
There is also some slice of life happening from time to time and towards the end of the anime some rather heartbreaking scenes. I didn't cry, but I was definitely sad.
There is a lot to say about this anime, but not many ways to say it.
It seems to have a bit of everything, action, romance, slice of life, mystery, happy bits, funny bits, sad bits, all kinds of things wrapped into one anime.
Does it have a good story? YES! 1000 times YES!
Well, at least I think it has a good story.
I don't think there is going to be second season of Witchblade, the way it ends pretty much ties up all of the loose ends.
It's worth watching, not a must watch anime, but still a pretty good one.
Well, after watching Witchblade, some light viewing is in order, so I'm going to be watching "Mitsudomoe Zouryouchuu!", the second 'season' of "Mitsudomoe!" which I reviewed earlier in this thread.
