I went in not knowing anything about this anime nor did I hear anybody talk about it, no hype about it whatsoever, which in my opinion is the best way to go in to anything. it originally aired in 2013 by studio Kyoto Animation ( the studio that brought you K-on! another great anime I’ll have to review). The first thing I would like to say is how incredible this anime looks the art, and the animation is top notch, the fight scenes are some of the best I have ever seen, the character designs are great too especially Kuriyama she is adorable.
the one thing about this anime is that it reminds me of a lot of other anime, I of course don’t know if they did it on purpose or if they were even aware of it, but there was a scene in one of the episodes that was very reminiscent of a scene from bleach, also the whole manipulation of blood like deadman wonderland, and i’m sure deadman wonderland wasn’t the first to do that there was other examples but I won’t go into them. I’m not putting down BYB for any of those reasons in fact I think that’s why I liked it so much because it was almost familiar.
I don’t even think I can tell you why I liked this anime so much? there was character development, but it wasn’t anything new and you could see the direction it was going in that normally turns me off to a show, but they did so well at making you care for these people. the most interesting character in the show was Akihito Kanbara’s mother they left this air of mystery to her that I liked.
Like I said earlier about the visual I could recommend this show just because of them. the fight scenes are great the animation is amazing anyone who knows me knows I’m a sucker for action, and I would say BYB has a great balance, not just a balance of action,and non-action, but romance, and comedy as well.
I said I didn’t think I could give you a good reason of why I liked this show, and I don’t think I did. I guess it was that familiar feeling it gave me, all I could tell you is please give it a try
score 9/10 Jared
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