There's a taste of Gantz in this survival-action series, and that is not a good thing. Gantz was trash in the worst sense of the term: dumb, gory, exploitative; the kind of trash that isn't gonzo fun but rather leaves you feeling dirty and totally disinclined to continue.All of which is true of BTOOOM!. Just without Gantz’s visual panache, camp humor, orsci-fi weirdness. Woo hoo. Begin with a self-deluded, mother-abusing, unemployed loser. His name is Ryota. The only place where he's worth anything is in the virtual world of a combat game called BTOOM, where he's an ace at blowing fake people up. And then one day he wakes up on a deserted island. He has no memory of how he got there, and only a day's worth of food and eight bombs to keep him company.He's attacked by an obviously insane man also armed with bombs, during which time he realizes to his horror that he's now trapped in an all-too-real version of his favorite game.

Like Gantz, it isn't BTOOOM’s premise that kills it—though it is low-brow, high-concept crud of the first order—or its nasty violence and gratuitous sexuality (both of which it has in considerably less volume), but rather its utter contempt for its characters.It clearly has no respect or sympathy for Ryota, presenting him as a one-dimensional pile of deluded selfishness.And it isn't any kinder to the rest of humanity.Ryota's mom is nagging zombie, his game-friends are insensitive boors, and the only guy he meets on the island is a brain-dead psychopath. pisode two promises a damaged high-school girl and what look like sweaty otaku rapists. It's the kind of sneering unpleasantness that anime series often try to pawn off as realism but that mostly makes you wonder if the writers actually know any real people. If you must watch people on an island killing each other off, watch Battle Royale. It's crueler, smarter, and infinitely more nuanced. And superior as action to boot. It's hard to care about a showdown when you want everyone to die.

Because they totally Ga-Rei'd it and I looooove it. Sure seemed like this show was going to be some sort of Full Metal Panic done even worse with Mister Hard-Ass and Miss Totally-Replaceable-Stock-Female-Protagonist having adventures but mostly having high school drama. "Just like always, I'll eliminate her" and I'm sitting there thinking, "fat chance, that chick's either about to prove herself useful, discover her own bullpomegranate powers, or be kept around as eye candy for some even stupider reason." They even made her an aikido expert, that was well-played. Hand to face... "Burn." Bullpomegranate happens in 3... 2... she bursts into flame. Not in the ED, not in the preview, WHAT'S IT GOING TO BE?

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But no, I imagine she's alive and this show is the trite piece of forgettable blandness with its pretty magic boys and utterly unoriginal characters it seems to be. I want to be wrong. I want so desperately to be wrong. But they killed Inu. They killed him in cold-blood. Unforgivable.

Just when I thought the best girl had already appeared a few days ago, a challenger appears. Hyper chick is fine too, but, HOLY pomegranate, Mashiro is SO FUCKING CUTE, everything about her personality seems to be tailor-made to be perfect for my taste.

HAHA WE TROLL YOU, HE ISN'T REALLY HER BROTHER. He knows and she doesn't. The reason he is being a ball-less loser is because he promised her parents that "he would protect her", and he considers himself to be a threat to her too so he just decided to distance himself from her altogether...which begs the question, how the hell is he protecting her when he is nowhere near her? dohoho.

Also, to fund their schooling and rent, he writes incest doujinshi