Tiger & Bunny

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Name: Tiger & Bunny
Movie: Movie 1: The Beginning, Movie 2: The Rising

Status: Completed
Episode: 25
Release Date (for eng subs): -


Summary:

Sternbild City is home to people called "Next," who use their special abilities to protect the people as superheroes. These heroes solve cases and save lives so they can wear sponsor logos or acquire "hero points." Their activities are documented on the popular program "Hero TV," which picks the "King of Heroes" in a yearly ranking. The veteran hero Wild Tiger has always preferred to work alone, but now he's been assigned the rookie Barnaby Brooks Jr., who has a different perspective on being a superhero.

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Summary Source: ANN


Personal Ratings: 3.5

This anime is quite different from your typical super hero shows like power rangers and what not. I feel that this kind of give off the more realistic feel to it, if there are actually people out there that have powers.

The superheros are used for entertainment, while saving the city from all the bad deeds. to show this, I really liked how they make the battle gear with all the sponsors name on it. 

I loved the title for this anime. Honestly the title really makes people want to know what type of show this is, and when you start watching the show, it was quite clear who the 'tiger' was in this show, so it kind of makes you wonder who is the 'bunny'. Than this random guy with the name Barnaby shows up, and the moment you hear his name, I'm sure most people would be like "is that the 'bunny'? His name sounds like 'bunny'", which is kind of epic, especially then Kotetsu starts calling him bunny-chan. 

You may take a while to get use to this anime, because unlike most animes, they don't explain everything from the beginning (like what is NEXT and things like that). I actually like this kind because I like to get use to things and find out more about the anime this way. But of course, sometimes we wouldn't know in dept about some things that are left unexplained.

This whole show is on the this killing organization who actually killed Barnaby's parents. I really like this main story line, just that I thought that they should have actually dropped clues about Barnaby in the starting of the anime. It kind of felt like they suddenly added the thing about Barnaby's parents.

The thing about the new enemy, Lunatic also seemed kind of stupid, because he was having this special huge moment for 2 episodes, and suddenly he is forgotten off. I honestly thought that he would be the new enemy for the 2nd arc of the anime. But it turns out that he was so insignificant in the later part of the anime, and there wasn't really a 2nd arc in the anime, it was more like this whole thing strung together.

One thing I really didn't like was that at the end of the anime, it was not completed. Especially about the organization and about Lunatic. I'm not sure if the movie 2 would tell us anything more about Lunatic, but I'm hoping that they would, somehow, complete the anime. 

In the 2nd part of the anime, the part about Kotetsu being hunter by all the other heroes, I really didn't like how Barnaby wasn't there half the time, because I thought that he would be the main point in that whole commotion. 

The ending part of the 2nd part of the anime (about the H01 android robots thing), was also quite cliche and weird. The design of the 'prison' which the heroes were in, was also weird. why would there be a need for needles everywhere, it kind of made me thing the walls are gonna close up on all of them and kill them for a moment there. Some parts that kind of defied logic.

Recommended for:
Gender: Both
Age: 13 and above
My Ratings: PG-13