Code:Breaker-Became Disappointing Towards the End

Written by RenjiWu09 on August 13, 2013 at 5:46 PM

I had high hopes for this series when it was first promoted. I looked forward to it and I enjoyed the first episode very much. I wanted to know more about this random guy that starts burning things in mysterious blue fires. I thought Sakura was going to be a cool female lead however things went down the drain. Not only did the anime decide to write its own ending different from the manga, it wrote a pretty bad ending. Things got really predictable for me. It seemed to blatantly obvious at this point that the villain of the story was an anti-hero and all the Code:Breakers had some reason to fight. I thought it was such a waste for Miki Shinichiro to voice Hitomi, the villain of the story because it was horribly executed (I mean the story horrible executed, not the voice acting). As I read the synopsis for the manga, I realize that many things were highly edited to the point the anime is only loosely based on the manga

Since so many things were edited out and new things were added, characters didn't develop fully and some characters weren't necessary to appear. The impression I get from just watching the anime is that EDEN, the organization that built the Code:breakers, is full of assholes that don't give a damn about anything. However in the manga, there's a little more to it and it goes in depth with characters. Sakura looked like a promising female lead, but she still falls into the damsel in distress category. She is in danger and unable to get out of it and Ogami Rei always has to save her. I see her character as a burden to other characters and even though she's in good spirits to provide moral support for others, it ends up being repetitive and boring dialogue that viewers do not want to hear. The end of the series dragged out and just didn't entertain. The climax wasn't that dramatic and it is assumed that things go back to normal for Sakura at least.

The animation's consistent and not too bad. They used some CG effects for special attacks. As I mentioned before, I thought it was a waste for Miki Shinichiro to voice in the series and the seiyuu cast was comprised of some well known voices. I only recommend this series to people that may have just started anime because there are a lot of similar stories out there.