Tokyo Esp is another Kadokawa shoten animation that focus in the war
between the terrorist group of evil Esp user (human with supernatural power) against normal human
with the help of good Esp users. I was hesitated about deciding to review the series due to the high
amount of action oriented animes from this season. I had to decide which one of
the following titles I should review next:
Akame ga Kill, Sword Art On line, Argovallen, and Tokyo ESP, I pick this
anime since the amount of badassery was overwhelming even in one episode.
Seriously, you had a chick with katanas that could disappear and reappear
anytime, A scarred yet handsome main villain who could create illusion and made
the soldiers killed each other, and so many ESP users with different kind of
superhuman powers.
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| I bet someone will cosplay this in the real world ^o^ |
The first episode was already turned Tokyo into a war zone with the terrorist Esp hijacked
parliament house by making it floating in the sky. Not long after the
announcement of the hijacking, we see the Esp users literally obliterated the
parliaments guards. The short haired
girl with two katanas killed many guard using her teleport ability,
making them unable to see her until she reappeared and sliced them. The boss is even
cooler since he did not even lift a finger to kill the remaining guards. He
just create his imaginary self and let the guards shot each others. With the
power of their supernatural power, the villanous Esp had no trouble to take
control of the parliament house. It turned worse as the Esper accomplishes
create major explosions around Tokyo, which made the normal civilians cower in
despair. This was the first time the civilian mentioned about “ the white
girl”. She was an Esper who helped many
people before and her appearance might save the day. In short, She was like the
symbol of humanity last hope.
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| Shinkuu |
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| Hadoken!! |
After destroying the special operation unit's plane that about to
anchor to the floating parliament house, the short haired lady battle a special
operator member called agents 77. As he was about to lose the battle, another
agents, 55, rammed her motorcycle to the lady. Together they tried to take her
down but failed even after agent 77 shot the motorcycle and create large
explosion near the Lady, which later we knew as Minami. She teleport away from
both agents when the Esp leader called her mentioning that the “white girl”
would come to them later.
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| Humanity even have badass special agents to deal with Espers |
In another part of the city, Ayumu and Murasaki talked about their
friend Rinka. It seems both of them are also Esp users and the Rinka that they
had a conversation before is the rumored “white haired girl”. Just as they
talked one of the evil esper accomplishes, drove the truck to a little girl.
Ayumu saved the girl but the lady esper threatened to detonate the truck along
with the little girl mother. The evil lady created a barrier that stopped both
Ayumu and Murasaki to help the mother. At the crucial moment, another Esp girl
came and punch the barrier using her Esp
power that turn her fist into a giant green Fist (whoa). I thought so
many characters have their special talents and the war between the good and the
bad Esp have just began.
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| Ouch! even more character with a gigantic fist |
Forgive for my yapping of Tokyo Esp first episode. As I said before,
I was wondering about whether or not I will follow the story. However, the
actions from the first episode truly blow my expectation. Tokyo Esp definitely
owned it air time and it could fill many scenes in a single 24 minutes. It hit
harder by each minute and even the last scene when the white girl do the super
drop Kick to the opposing esp user was awesome. As if a main character suddenly
entered the scene using grandiose entrance. Wow, I am at lost of word now and
with the fun that I have after watching this episode, many ideas keep popping
inside my head, making it easier for me to write the review. At least I knew
what I will watch for the next week and I hope next episode will be even better
^-^d (thumbs up).
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