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Anime Review : Koutetsujou no Kabaneri

Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress

 

Koutetsujou no Kabaneri (2016) by Wit Studio. One thing about this anime, it certainly has hype. It definitely came wit a hype among otakus and cosplayers. Though it wasnt a big one, but whatever.

So I started watching this series like two months ago, and a few minutes into the first episode, I concluded the whole series... "It's fucking Attack on Titan."

Truthfully speaking though, the concept really close to the so hyped anime Attack on Titan. The first episode even basically just the exact same progress as AoT and that's really disappointing but hey, it's 2017, nobody has original idea anymore, they need source of inspiration, they need reference. Well at least don't freakin' copy it.

But real talk, after that AoT prolog, everything is different so DON'T WORRY, YOU'RE NOT WATCHING 'THAT' ANIME.

My personal favorite moment is during the first attack on kabane, everyone's panicking, running to safe place somewhere. There's a little girl, about to run away, her mother is waiting in front of the house, but she's busy picking toys to bring with her, that was cute. She was just picking toys to bring with her like normal kids and when she's done her mother got eaten by a titan--I mean kabane. Kinda like Eren's mom huh?

Anyway, aside from the first episode, the rest of the series is fine. I freakin love the concept of the deffensive survival thingies and transporting with basically train fortress, that is just freakin cool and they deliver it very well compared to AoT I think so I'm gonna give this series a score of 3.6/4 Thumbs. It was fine and good to watch, recommended for beginners aswell.

Now onto the characters review, what's good about this anime is that they don't give any surnames for their characters which a unique idea not implemented on every anime, especially AoT.

Character Review

Ikoma, voiced by Tasuku Hatanaka. I like his passion and Eren-like personality. I found it kinda annoying that he's relying more on his gun instead of his cool kabaneri power. But at least he's not Eren. I love how Ikoma's character progression from the beginning to the end, he got a lot of progression which is cool. So in my opinion, this guy worth an A in my book.

Mumei, voiced by Sayaka Senbongi. The cosbait, waifu bait, fap bait, etc, etc. Seriously I have lost count of how many cosplayers are cosplaying her, not counting those who don't watch the series at all. One thing about this girl is she's cute when she's not in her fighting uniform, it's like several seconds in the first episode and then she's done. What I don't like about Mumei is the fact that this character is having a degression. Like the first several episodes she looked really sure of what she's doing, really confident about everything until at some point she started to confuse everything. The reason I call it a degression is because she didn't get the confident she had in the beginning at the end of the series which is sucks. This girl desserves a B in my book.







So that was my Koutetsujou no Kabaneri review, let me know in the comment below if Mumei is your waifu and you feel offended cause your waifu is a trash.
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