Alternative Titles
English: Chaos;Head
Japanese: カオスヘッド
Information
Type: TV
Episodes: 12
Status: Finished Airing
Aired: Oct 9, 2008 to Dec 25, 2008
Duration: 27 min. per episode
Rating: R - 17+ (violence & profanity)
My own review:
STORY: 6/10
You got to be a real loser if you are capable of being given such a great premise and then f*ing so bad. Based on a novel, the general story is very interesting actually, concerning delusions, memory losses, occult and secret apocalyptic experiments along with gruesome murder cases and mystical invisible swords. The first two episodes are great to watch, despite the poor visuals and atmosphere.
And after that, everything turns to BS. The lead wastes half the series having erotic illusions around six pretty girls that have nothing better to do than interact with this loser. Ok, they are not really in love with him and just want to exploit his special power. Still, by the time some actual development occurs in the second half, you are left to believe this series is a light school comedy with a few poor horror overtones. And then the revelations come and the second half of the series becomes a standard action mystery title… which still has poor atmosphere, boring action and revelations that happen fast through monologues. Man, they really screwed up…
In all, the pacing of the story is slow and ridiculous for the most part, going fast only when it has to explain the complicating story. WHY ON EARTH would they fast forward the important stuff and focus on nonsense? The story itself is great but the presentation was done by people not familiar with storytelling. Not to mention the really corny ending. So predictable and uninspired you could see it coming two episodes before. Bad, bad, bad…
CHARACTERS: 5/10
Ok, so what to say about the characters. I already introduced Takumi to you, but ill just rant a little more about him anyway. So as I said he is a looser otaku with delusions bla bla, and he is perhaps, the best characters in the whole show. To be more exact, I think that he is the best character. His life situation is pictured pretty well, he is an otaku that doesn’t know that much about life, have a hard time socializing with people etc. it all makes him feel alive. This said its not like I think that he’s a VERY good characters, he’s fine, that’s all. All the other characters are stereotypes you’ll hate as soon as you see them, or else you’ll learn to hate them as the show progresses. There really isn’t anything to say about them, they are just uninteresting and have no real personality nor feel to them. I was a little unsure if I should give it a 5 or a 6 as a score, but in the end it got a 5. Takumi just wasn’t enough to cover the fact that all the other characters sucked.
ANIMATION: 6/10
First of all, I got trolled when I saw the first entry picture. I thought “an action anime with chicks and magic swords”. Well, it isn’t. Action takes place from episode 8 and on and it is still silly for the most part. Random clashes and magic gismos making stuff appear and disappear are hardly realistic and the speed of the battles was so slow and simple that I was not interested one bit. So, as an action anime, this series is terrible.
I got trolled again when they switched the picture to a guy surrounded by happy go lucky girls. I thought “a generic harem”. Well, it’s not that either. There is hardly any nude or fan service in it beyond the erotic illusions of the protagonist. Just lots of pretty faces and “zettai ryouiki” (upskirt but no pantsu). Although it does feel like a harem half the time it is still far from one as any hits of romance or ero stuff it has in it are short and have little to no purpose in the series.
Then there is the horror aspect of it. So amateurish. Although the animators tried to insert cinematics in order to make things look creepy, everything was done so poorly and lifelessly it didn’t help in building atmosphere. There are lots of great horror anime and this is not remotely scary. Heck, they even censored most of the gore as blood and severe injuries are almost never shown. How do you hope of making a gore story by taking out the gore?
There is also the character figure issue. There are lots of kawai girls surrounding an antisocial male who wastes his life in the otaku life (the bad type of otaku life; shut in a container playing games and gathering female figurines all day long while bashing away all real girls). Too ideal for a setting that is supposed to criticize otaku life. Where are the ugly women; The girls were as pretty as the plastic ones.
What I did like was the attention given to those fancy square patterned school uniforms and some occasional visual effects that were indeed interesting and scary. But beyond all that, the artwork feels poor for the time the series was made and lifeless to the most part.
VALUE & ENJOYMENT: 4/10
It had the guts but missed the glory. If it gets a remake and some pros in the genre get involved, this will turn out to be a jewel. As it stands, it is uncut and unpolished.
You got to be a real loser if you are capable of being given such a great premise and then f*ing so bad. Based on a novel, the general story is very interesting actually, concerning delusions, memory losses, occult and secret apocalyptic experiments along with gruesome murder cases and mystical invisible swords. The first two episodes are great to watch, despite the poor visuals and atmosphere.
And after that, everything turns to BS. The lead wastes half the series having erotic illusions around six pretty girls that have nothing better to do than interact with this loser. Ok, they are not really in love with him and just want to exploit his special power. Still, by the time some actual development occurs in the second half, you are left to believe this series is a light school comedy with a few poor horror overtones. And then the revelations come and the second half of the series becomes a standard action mystery title… which still has poor atmosphere, boring action and revelations that happen fast through monologues. Man, they really screwed up…
In all, the pacing of the story is slow and ridiculous for the most part, going fast only when it has to explain the complicating story. WHY ON EARTH would they fast forward the important stuff and focus on nonsense? The story itself is great but the presentation was done by people not familiar with storytelling. Not to mention the really corny ending. So predictable and uninspired you could see it coming two episodes before. Bad, bad, bad…
CHARACTERS: 5/10
Ok, so what to say about the characters. I already introduced Takumi to you, but ill just rant a little more about him anyway. So as I said he is a looser otaku with delusions bla bla, and he is perhaps, the best characters in the whole show. To be more exact, I think that he is the best character. His life situation is pictured pretty well, he is an otaku that doesn’t know that much about life, have a hard time socializing with people etc. it all makes him feel alive. This said its not like I think that he’s a VERY good characters, he’s fine, that’s all. All the other characters are stereotypes you’ll hate as soon as you see them, or else you’ll learn to hate them as the show progresses. There really isn’t anything to say about them, they are just uninteresting and have no real personality nor feel to them. I was a little unsure if I should give it a 5 or a 6 as a score, but in the end it got a 5. Takumi just wasn’t enough to cover the fact that all the other characters sucked.
ANIMATION: 6/10
First of all, I got trolled when I saw the first entry picture. I thought “an action anime with chicks and magic swords”. Well, it isn’t. Action takes place from episode 8 and on and it is still silly for the most part. Random clashes and magic gismos making stuff appear and disappear are hardly realistic and the speed of the battles was so slow and simple that I was not interested one bit. So, as an action anime, this series is terrible.
I got trolled again when they switched the picture to a guy surrounded by happy go lucky girls. I thought “a generic harem”. Well, it’s not that either. There is hardly any nude or fan service in it beyond the erotic illusions of the protagonist. Just lots of pretty faces and “zettai ryouiki” (upskirt but no pantsu). Although it does feel like a harem half the time it is still far from one as any hits of romance or ero stuff it has in it are short and have little to no purpose in the series.
Then there is the horror aspect of it. So amateurish. Although the animators tried to insert cinematics in order to make things look creepy, everything was done so poorly and lifelessly it didn’t help in building atmosphere. There are lots of great horror anime and this is not remotely scary. Heck, they even censored most of the gore as blood and severe injuries are almost never shown. How do you hope of making a gore story by taking out the gore?
There is also the character figure issue. There are lots of kawai girls surrounding an antisocial male who wastes his life in the otaku life (the bad type of otaku life; shut in a container playing games and gathering female figurines all day long while bashing away all real girls). Too ideal for a setting that is supposed to criticize otaku life. Where are the ugly women; The girls were as pretty as the plastic ones.
What I did like was the attention given to those fancy square patterned school uniforms and some occasional visual effects that were indeed interesting and scary. But beyond all that, the artwork feels poor for the time the series was made and lifeless to the most part.
VALUE & ENJOYMENT: 4/10
It had the guts but missed the glory. If it gets a remake and some pros in the genre get involved, this will turn out to be a jewel. As it stands, it is uncut and unpolished.
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