English dub is hilarious, watch it for the comedy.Ĭode Geass Exiled royalty chessmaster gains a magical superpower that lets him order people to do stuff. An adult child with a sweet tooth sets out to stop him. Note that this is a summary at its most basic, so keep in mind that the shows will often be much better then I make them sound.ĭeath Note: Student finds a magical notebook that lets him kill people and a ghost with an addiction for apples, goes insane, and tries to become god. His path is littered with confusing teenage emotions, aimless rage, needless crying and a sadistic anti-hero hailed as a hero called Scarface sending Gau Ban down a path or blood.įine, as no-one else is, I'll give a few in-a-nutshell recommendations. In the end, the story reveals itself as Gau Ban's struggle to keep up with his adopted sister and mentor in hopes of someday becoming a Sevaar like her someday. There is a strange form of romance between Elle and Gau Ban as well as demented and twisted history with Gau Ban and how he came under Elles's tutelage. The story follows the pair as they travel and cause trouble for anyone they meet, mostly due to Elle's childish and selfish nature. Shadow Skill is the style used by Elle and Gau Ban, one developed by female slaves in the past whose arms were often bound. Fighting styles here are elaborate and use a form of casting similar to magic.
This series takes place is a distant world composed of fighting kingdoms. I honestly watch this to see what the characters do rather than the fanservice and fanwank that comes with an anime made of a game that's extremely popular in Japan.Īctually, Elle may be presented as the main character, but the anime is more about Gau Ban, her adopted younger brother. However, it is surprisingly beyond the realms of a fanservice show as it places much more emphasis upon the interaction between characters and their development rather then the fanservice, meaning it's a lot less shallow then it could have been (early beach episode aside). If you don't like fanservice and a plot that isn't really much of a plot (become idols, become popular, achieve other ambitions) then don't watch this. The in a nutshell is watching cute girls doing cute things. The next day when he gets out of the hospital he runs into Hana Oshiroi who has an abnormal obsession with him, the class rep Umi Shiraume (resident raging lesbian) who loves beating the everlasting shit out of him, and Sen Yarizui - the girl who beat the shit out of him in the first place. The story concerns itself mainly on the actions that occur around You Satou (one of the many resident poorfags) who accidentally learns of the existence of these battles when on the first day of school he gets the crap beaten out of him with no warning whatsoever.
You know what, maybe I could help here, as sub-standard as it would be.īen-to in a nutshell is a group of high-school students fighting an a psudo-battle to the death for cut-price food.