Nanantsu No Taizai 158: Powerful Warriors far and wide come to fight Hawk.

It has been a while, but I’m back to doing reviews for the Seven Deadly Sins! This time we catch back up to all the powerful warriors who have come to wish to fight the magnificent scrap clean up leader: Hawk!

Positives:

Always great to see new characters introduced in the series. I know the front picture I have pictured the Zoro looking swordsman, but I’m really actually more interested in the religous guy with the hammer. Nakaba is a really good writer when it comes to writing about characters with amazing abilities, and are throughout the world. Really compliments the world building for the series. The assassins too caught my eye, for I’m wondering how an Assassin will win a tournament when it comes to just fighting. Hawk always provides the entertainment, and Gil Thunder, and Hauser combinations look well developed the stronger they get. Nakaba adds so much detail to his art. Really makes me feel like I’m in the series when I see the minor details that are drawn throughout.

Negatives:

I can’t really say there was any negatives in this chapter, but I can’t say this chapter was perfect. I think one of the things that irk me is that Diane’s memory lost really is not a story line I’m interested in. I’m also more interested in Ban, and Mel’s story line, and the females of the character not named Elaine, or Merlin don’t interest me. So I think when a chapter has a large portion of it dedicated to them I get really annoyed, but I can’t really fault the chapter for my personal opinion.

All and all I give this chapter a 7/10. A good chapter, needed more substance in it to be a great chapter, despite not really having much faults.  For next chapter please give me more Ban please!

Dragon Ball Super 08: Space is VAAAAAAST

Welcome back guys to another awesome Dragon Ball Super review. This time we are finally out of the movies, and we are into a brand new saga for Dragon Ball. Let’s began.

Positives:

Really good chapter. It was a very informational chapter with excellent amount of world building. Planet Salad was good information, cause we see how the other Saiyans survive in universe 6. Also made hype for Chill the Frieza look alike. It seems he’s ten times more powerful than Piccolo, Goku, and Vegeta. Wait did Piccolo just hint that he himself got a power-up? It would be great to see a God-Mode Piccolo.  The humor in this chapter is classic Dragon Ball from the original series. Plus the tournaments in Dragon Ball are usually the best parts of the series, and this reminds me the class tournament in the original Dragon Ball with Roshi’s sister Baibini. I guess Buu needed to absorb an intelligent character. Surprised that Goku passed the test, I remember him back in the original learning basic elementary stuff.

Negatives:

While there isn’t much to complain about, I would like it better if the fighters on team Champa were not treated as jokes. Granted I don’t expect them all to be SSGSS, but at the same time I expect them to atleast be SSJ2 strong. It’s the top 5 warriors from each universe, and sitting here and watching Goku stomp him was the classic Dragon Ball that none of us liked. It also makes it hard to see Piccolo winning the next fights if he truly hasn’t gotten a powerup. For he’s not going to beat opponents that Vegeta, and Goku can’t beat.

Overall I give this chapter a 8/10. Really excited to see the next things that come out of this series. Hopefully some Piccolo stuff in the next chapter, and where the hell is Gohan?

 

Bleach 660: Yes let’s say are master plan out loud to omniscient people.

Welcome back to another Bleach review. In this chapter we learned that we’re going to announce our plans out loud to people who can see the future, and already know if it’s going to work or now.  I’m sorry but Yawch’s ability is too perfect in my honest opinion, and it’s making it harder for me to see the possibility in beating him in the series, but I’m sure Ichigo will find a way.

Positives: I always really like the interactions between Ishida, and Ichigo. I’ve always wanted the relationship to develop, and the rivalry to get better because I really believe that the two characters are really the same coin. That had similar backstories, and both really hated each other from the get go. It’s also nice to see how their friendship got this strong. Really makes it seem funny that Chad was just completely left out of this little rivalry because there is no way he can catch up. Really like how tense the series lately, it’s Bleach so we know how the series is going to end, but still I don’t even know how the Yawch will be defeated. Which is enjoyable because it keeps me interested in the series, which Bleach has a hard time doing.

Negatives- With that being said, it also makes some of the situations hard to digest. I don’t see their being a way that Ichigo or Ishida can conceivably win against Hashawalch. He see’s the future, and he knows what Ishida’s plans are with the sun bombs he planted. It makes me wonder what he doesn’t just kill them now instead of just playing with them. Makes most scenerios in this series hard to digest because I can’t see a way for the bad guys to lose without some serious PIS/CIS. This is Kubo so I expect him to come up with some equally ridiculous ways for the gang to win.

All and All I give this chapter a 7/10. It was a good chapter. I enjoyed the exchange between the two characters, and I really excited to see how this plays out, but please for the love of Kubo make it something believable.

Toriko 356: The pacing is just horrendous

Welcome back to another wonderful review of Toriko 356. Let me just say I’m hating the pacing of current Toriko. It’s really gotten to the point where it’s not fun that we off paneled the dream ingredients for the main characters of the series, just so we can get to some cool flashy fight scenes!

Positives: For me the best part of Toriko is the world surrounding it. The wonderful ideas, and places that we get to see. The cave where time is 200,000 times faster than normal was a great idea, that I wanted to see how they over come it. Jirou’s face at the end was cool, and how the chapter ends makes me excited that I want to see the next chapter. However.

Negatives:

What is up with this pacing? Three cool potential small arcs, with world building was skipped so we can get to some cool flashy fight scenes? I know Toriko has great fights. However it has an even better world out there that I want to explore. The GW was hyped to be something wonderful to explore, but here we are skipping the major sections of the GW. It makes me as a reader who invested his time in the series disappointing because now it skipped places and events I wanted to see with the characters I invested my own time into.

I give this 5/10 because the pacing just really killed all enjoyment I could possibly have.

 

One Piece 814: Sanji Zoldyck

Welcome back to another wonderful review for One Piece chapter 814. This chapter we really learned how Zoro is secretly in love with Sanji, and misses him dearly. Plus we also learned that Sanji has assassin blood in him. Who know kicking people was a sure fire way to kill them secretly! Let’s begin!

Positives:

Chapter was basically a a recap on the situation at hand right now. However I must say Nekomumashi was my favorite thing about this chapter. The lasagna reminded me Garfield, and him chasing the cat nip, and opening up his wounds over a ball of yarn was classic One Piece humor that I love so much. Chopper developing a crush on the reindeer was pretty cute scene. Also I loved how the SH’s recap with one another over current events. Really like the reveal of Sanji’s family being assassins. I personally think it’s much better than being a son of a noble. Something we already seen play out with Doflamingo.

Negatives- Not too many negatives over this chapter, but Zoro really annoyed me. I know he has a rivalry with Sanji, but to see him treat Sanji like that despite having all the facts really made no sense to me. Everyone says its in Zoro’s nature, but honestly I really thought it was out of his nature. Luffy already waged war on Big Mom, and nothing Sanji did made that anyworse. If anything it made it better. I think this was just a misstep in direction for Zoro, or perhaps he’s hiding his inner love for Sanji, by pretending he doesn’t care.

 

All in all this chapter was really good, and this Zou arc is shaping up to be better, and better. I rate this chapter 8/10. Next week I predict that Brooke reveals what he knows about the Vinsmoke family. Hope you enjoyed the read have a wonderful day! 🙂

Toriko 355-EOS Toriko will have 700 million Demons.

Welcome back to the another exciting chapter of Toriko. Today we learned that the olfactory sense isn’t the most useless thing to surviving! Also that Toriko still hasn’t learned he can’t fight a king!

Positive:

As per usual the hype for Toriko is on point, and the continental splitting attack was on point. The abilities of the Wolf King continues to make it amazing. The Jirou hype was also really fun because anything with Jirou is just epic. Makes me miss Jirou, yes let’s go back to him please.

Negatives:

It seems like the fights in Toriko are all about, my attacks are bigger than yours! Really wish we would have more choreography in the fights. Hype attacks are cool, but it is really hard to appreciate them because it’s every chapter. Toriko having three demons is really stupid. Especially because we still haven’t gotten development for two of them.  Also never am I big fan of off paneling events. So not seeing the interactions of Zebra, and Buranch ticks me off because it was the one group I really wanted to see.

 

Overall I rate this chapter an 7/10. It was good, but it left several things to be desired to be a good chapter. I predict next chapter more flashbacks of small tidbits of information that was skipped over.

 

 

Bleach 659: I’m pretty sure doctors get paid more

Welcome to my first Bleach review! With the revival of Hitsuguya we learn that Gerald’s miracles don’t really work, because he’s the only character we really wanted dead! *Crickets* anyways time to get this started!

Positives:

I’m one of the rare people you see in this world that actually like Ishida, but his little past that was revealed in this chapter was really morbid, and made me respect him a little more as a character. Hitsuguya’s banter with Gerald was pretty fun to read, and I’m interested to see how, again, after losing to a bottom ranking member, he somehow beats a top ranking Sternritter. Is there enough quincy around to match up to all the possible people? I’m not sure everyone got a fight. The pacing was a bit better than normal Bleach chapters.

Negatives:

Really hoping we start moving on, because I don’t think there are enemies left, and I don’t think we really need to drag on the ending any longer than we have too. Chapters like these have good content, but we need to pick this up into high gear. The end of the chapter I didn’t really care about because I figure Ishida and Ichigo aren’t going to go at it. If anything from the looks of their face it looked like long lost lovers found each other. Also not a fan of characters who are supposed to be dead, are alive. Gerald also seems like a wannabe Yammy, which we know will never happen.

 

That’s all for this chapter. I predict next chapter has a little chit chat between our star crossed lovers, and then we go back to Gerald vs. Hits, and Hits making Gerald unlock his true form to end next chapter, but chapters rarely end like that in Bleach. I rate this chapter 6/10, decent.

(When it comes to Bleach, I’m very bad with spelling names!)

 

One Piece 813: Mr. Prince is back

Welcome back guys, and welcome to my review of One Piece chapter 813. This chapter is really great because we get to see how everything is shaping up for future events, and we get to see Sanji do something that’s not bleeding out of his nose!

 

Positives:

Really informative chapter that added suspense, and tension. Really felt like an old preskip One Piece chapter that we’ve been desperately wanting the feel for here in this post skip saga. Also loving the character interactions. The series is much better when we have characters we never knew would interact talk to each other. Capone’s devil fruit power continues to shine with creativity, and Vito has a great design for being a member of Capone’s design. A little hype to Big Mom comes in, and Nekomumashi has another epic moment. The ending left you with goosebumps, wondering what the hell is going to happen to Sanji.

 

Negatives- Not much negatives per-say but Oda is the king of foreplay, and never tells us anything, and makes us wait for answers, and it is very aggravating when you want answers now, and it seems almost everything is a secret these days. Really when we would have seen more competent men in Capone’s crew, and show us why his crew is too be feared since they do most of the fighting.

 

All and all I rate this chapter with a 8/10. A great chapter, and it hopefully brings us into another good year of One Piece that we haven’t had since the first year of Dressrosa. I’m predicting next chapter we hear the SH’s make plans on what they’re going to do next!

Toriko 354: The definition of a curb stomp

Hey welcome back guys, my first blog about the series Toriko, and the first chapter of 2016! Guiness really did put in some work today, and it reminds us all why we love the Toriko series, for it’s over the top feats!

Positives:

The 8 kings really are the driving force of the series, the top tiers along with the disciples, and Don Slime. The feat was crazy, and it brought the excitement that Toriko normally brings when it comes to feats. The panels were well drawn, and it still continues to make us believe that the Toriko has much more room to expand as a verse that we can continue to explore. The techniques were cool.

Negatives- Really hard to feel the tension in the series where it seems like the kings can just stomp everything in their path. Also not enjoying the inner gourmet demons acting like stands. (See JoJo’s Bizzare Adventure for the reference.) Not enjoying the one shots either. I want to see one of the fights be a slug fest similar to Tommyroad vs. Toriko. Really hard not to have a tension of state belief with so many of these fights going on, and the planet has been destroyed yet.

 

All and all I give this chapter 6/10. It was an okay chapter, but it didn’t have much depth to the chapter, and while it has some cool feats, the story is moving at a snails paste, or really fast for my liking. So simple and short that it doesn’t have much to talk about at the dinner table! Thank you, and please comment and subscribe!

 

 

 

One Piece 812: Marriage: Fate worse than Death

Welcome back, for the first chapter of the year for us One Piece fans! It’s the year of Sanji, and we start out the year learning about his birth families name. The Vinsmoke family is going to be the name we’ll be looking at for most of the year. For Sanji didn’t have a full name for the past 18 years of his character along with some of the other SH’s. It is time to start delving into his character, but before that lets look into this chapter!

 

Positives:

This chapter did an excellent job showcasing the standings of the supernovas. Especially a supernova like Capone, who didn’t have much of a fan-base before this chapter. Him backstabbing a yonkou crew member pretty much keeps supporting the fact that the supernovas are dangerous. They are the worse generation because they are openly not afraid to go against the higher ups. The power is unique, and it’ll be interesting how Capone can use it in one on one opponents.  Also got to give props to Pekoms for being an interesting character.  The chapter really gets a good rating because of Capone, and the tension gave but,

Negatives:

All the SH’s have show to be able to dodge bullets, and if anything Sanji is closer to the level of his peers who were dodging lightning back in preskip. So it doesn’t make much sense to me that he didn’t just blitz all of Capone’s men with guns. While it was cool for Capone’s character, it didn’t do much justice for the characters who with already established knowledge make guns a no go. It would make more sense in a Law and Doflamingo situation were Law was already beat up, or Whitebeard since he was already sick, but a healthy Sanji could take a bullet or two. Also a little Dehype for Pekoms, he was the one that humbled Caribou, yet he couldn’t use CoO to dodge some bullets? Hell casually he was dodging and reflecting them from Caribou. Even if it’s from behind, if he has at least a decent amount of Haki he should be able to dodge. CoO just makes it hard for this series sometimes.

 

Overrall I thought this chapter was a great way to start the year of Sanji. I predict next chapter Sanji tries to fight out of Capones castle, but can’t escape, and sheds a little light on his past. Also Capone needs to keep at it because because like the rest of the Nova’s he keeps giving the rookies a good name. Here is my rating. 7/10 great chapter. Could use some fix ups though.