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Blassreiter

Title:Blassreiter
ブラスレイター
Overall:Unevaluated
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In the near-future in a unnamed town in Germany, there have been incidences of dead bodies transforming into strange creatures and coming back to life to wreck havoc and kill innocent civilians. These mutant monsters have an ability to merge with cars and vehicles that makes them both very fast and dangerous. A secret SWAT team named XAT is specially equipped with armored cars and combat motorcycles to deal with these monsters. Then suddenly normal people begin transforming into monsters. With all these monsters and heavily armed soldiers running around, you know that a battle royal is brewing.

Animation by GONZO & Nitroplus.
New series first aired April '08
While not actually being a German term as such, the title of this series (Katakana sound pattern: "burasu reita") literally means "Pale Rider" in English.
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Unevaluated Stretch #
(One episode watched):

The excellent animation and artwork were the first things to catch my eye amid a furious motorcycle race--you almost fear that you'll be run over by the 'choppers hurtling at you. The action moves too fast at times to keep up, and I had to rewind--even when there weren't any subtitles playing. Zombies that can merge with fast vehicles--why didn't somebody think of this before now? Too crazy to disturb me, but still fun and exciting. It kind of reminds me of the 1987 movie "The Hidden". I detect a certain "coolness" to this show. It looks like protagonist Gerd will become some sort of superhuman anti-Demoniac vigilante, or maybe ally himself with the XAT. I remember reading somewhere that superheroes are rare in anime, so maybe that's why this intrigues me. As of episode one there's no explanation of Demoniacs/Amalgam--I almost felt as if I was expected to already be familiar wih them--but that's no big problem with a "cool" show. So far, so good--I'm into this.

Last updated Friday, April 11 2008.
Unevaluated Jan-Chan #

Great top-notch animation with soldiers swinging light-sabers on motorcycles, strange evil monsters merging with cars, and serious soldiers armed with sniper rifles and rocket-equipped armored cars.

Too bad this show comes off as another one of those ‘transformer’ & 'kill-the-monsters' series created to target the 12+ years-old-boy crowd and to sell the video game that is in works.

It is worth watching at least one episode of this series – just for the animation, but just don’t expect more.



Last updated Wednesday, April 09 2008.

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