Sushi Police Anime Review

Sushi Police
Information:
Other Names: SUSHI POLICE（スシポリス）
Studio: KOO-KI
Writer: ?
Director: Tatsushi Momen
Music: ?
Type: Short TV Series, Orginal
Length: 3 min per episode approx.
Genres: Comedy, Police
Rating: PG-13
Air Dates: 7th January 2016 - 31st March 2016
Recommendations: "Ninja Slayer From Animation" &  "Ojisan to Marshmallow".

Synopsis:
With the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games around the corner, there's also a worldwide sushi boom!
But what to do with all the bastardized sushi out there?
The Japanese government's urgent response is to team up with other ruling powers around the world to establish the World Food-culture Conservation Organization (WFCO) to protect and promote authentic local cuisine. And so the WFCO deploys its 9th Division to oversee Japanese cuisine abroad. The 9th Division, a.k.a. Sushi Police, is notorious for their aggressive conduct and they hassle anyone serving unauthentic Japanese food in the U.S., Russia, France, China, etc. They will resort to any means necessary to eliminate bad sushi. Soon they are despised by restaurant proprietors around the world. (Source: MAL)

Review:

Sushi police can only be described as a mistake?
Why because it shows how you take any interesting premise and then butcher it over and over again until nothing is left but a poor excuse for a short television series.

The premise being that the world has taken a great interest in Japanese sushi, deciding to take it into their own cultures and make it their own, unfortunately though the sushi police are quick to find them out for breaking away from traditional Japanese sushi and subsequently shut down the restaurant they investigate and shoot everyone with wasbi guns; sounds simple and funny right. The show would have been fine if it was just this, but instead KOO-KI studio decided it would be best to add a story into the show and over complicate it turning it into a very cheesy, boring and cringy series, full of attempted character development, terrible sushi related puns/jokes and rushed pacing that is all over the place; that ultimately ends on a poor ending that doesn't even end probably nor satisfactory.

Though one of its saving graces is its character design, in particular the main characters, who look like very typical Japanese even to a stereotypical degree which I found made them memorable in their own way; which I felt lacking from the rest of the cast who while looking unique where easily forgettable, though none of their personalities I found memorable being easily described as boring. The art itself however was a nice change, having a very quirky style that made it less totureless to watch, which cannot be said for the animation; because this was 3D animation, not a very popular style in anime viewers eyes, though I did find it okay, maybe just about decent but not any better.

Finally on a side note the soundtrack was nothing to get up in arms about, it was decent at best, with opening following a similar suit and the ending song being only a little better but not by much.

In conclusion, don’t watch this. It’s not worth it, there are better things out there you can watch. 

Final Scores:
Story/Setting: 4.3
Characters: 4.6
Art/Animation: 5.4
Sound: 5.1

Final Verdict: 4.7/10 (Bad)

Saijaku Muhai no Bahamut Anime Review

Saijaku Muhai no Bahamut
Information:
Other Names: Undefeated Bahamut Chronicle, 最弱無敗の神装機竜《バハムート》. 
Studio: Lerche
Writer: Yuuko Kakihara
Director: Masaomi Ando
Music: Akito Matsuda
Type: TV Series, Light Novel Adaptation
Length: 12 Episodes, 24 min per episode approx. 
Genres: Action, Ecchi, Fantasy, Harem, Romance, School, Supernatural
Rating: PG-13
Air Dates: 11th January 2016 - 28th March 2016 
Alternate Recommendations: "IS: Infinite Stratos" & "Gakusen Toshi Asterisk".

Synopsis:
Lux, a former prince of an empire named Arcadia that was overthrown via a rebellion five years earlier. Lux accidentally trespasses in a female dormitory's bathing area, sees the kingdom's new princess Lisesharte naked, and incurs her wrath. Lisesharte then challenges Lux to a Drag-Ride duel. Drag-Rides are ancient armored mechanical weapons that have been excavated from ruins all around the world. Lux used to be called the strongest Drag-Knight, but now he's known as the "undefeated weakest" Drag-Knight because he will absolutely not attack in battle. After his duel with Lisesharte, Lux ends up attending the female-only academy that trains royals to be Drag-Knights. (Source: MAL)

Review:

Have you ever seen Infinite Stratos before? This is just like that but with a fantasy setting and worse, though even if you haven’t seen it, this show is still bad.

Let’s just start off with me saying this is one of the most cliché shows I have ever seen, since it has an extremely predictable storyline that doesn't even conclude, flat two dimensional characters and a unoriginal setting, like it just feels like tweaked versions of similar harem-ecchi shows. Starting with the setting as said before it’s just like Infinite Stratos, with the main character going to an all-girls high-school making him the only guy in town and resident harem king, though he can’t just be this as he truly overpowered winning ever fight he gets himself into, without any reason how except that “he is the main character” typical Shounen stuff and they fight using mecha exoskeletons in order to defeat the bad guys and monsters known as Abyss while exploring hidden dungeons around the world left by ancient civilization. (Steals from Magi as well)

If you haven’t seen at least some of those set ups, then good for you-you might actually enjoy this but for anyone else prepared to be bored  and disappointed though if you looked at the genres/tags you won’t have expected much to begin with. As said before the storyline is fairly predictable as it jumps though various arcs surrounding each main girl of the harem before reaching a final arc where the main villain is defeated and a harem ending, though as for the main villain there motive is never known as well as who they are, I wasn't even sure it was a women, it could have been a man as nothing is told about and they don’t really have a proper name that hints at their identity aside looking similar to the main character.

Speaking of characters, each designs looks like it was ripped out of every other anime, with main character Lux looking just like Bell (Dungeon ni Deai wo Motomeru noha Machigatteiru darouka) and all the girls looking like they were pulled from just about any harem anime made with their troupes to boot. Their personalities in general are poor with the main character being the “helper of all while not noticing the girls feeling with a dark past” and the harem cast being summed up as “the posh girl who never interacted with men, the mysterious one, the childhood friend, and the first one he met that will obviously be chosen if that conclusion was ever met” though there is no development what so ever during the show so this will never happen and if you count falling in love, for no reason by the way as development, well that just says it all. Not forgetting the random support characters and his little sister who have virtually no role aside from to add exposition because there totally not talking to you the viewer, no everyone else is just stupid.

The animation is no better as it is bland and boring to look at, with poor animation during fight, mediocre animations during normal scenes and terrible CGI (monsters and mechs) that made fight scenes boring and unexciting to watch. Which is not helped by the soundtrack, since it sounds boring with no interesting pieces to listen becoming overall forgettable by the end of the series. The only saving grace the show has is its opening song which is catchy, though the animation played during it is pointless, since it tells you nothing about the show except it’s a harem and there’s mechs in it. The ending on the other hand is nothing much to listen to and features no fun animations, just concept art with the credits slapped on next to it.

In conclusion just don’t watch it, there nothing here of value and it should just be swept under the rug and forgotten about. What, Saijaku Muhai no Bahamut never heard of it. 

Final scores: 

Story/Setting: 4.1

Characters: 3.9
Animation/Art: 4.6
Sound: 5.3

Final Verdict: 4.3/10 (Bad)