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Hello everyone. Its Ryosuke Forever (or Ryo for short)! My first review is going to be of a newer series, one that showed me some ultimate goodness but in the end...it was a FOUL FOUL FOUL piece of work. The title of this anime is Linebarrels of Iron (I always called it Linebarrels of Irony). Well here we go... Be expected to see fouls! all over the place (my trademark).
Linebarrels of Iron
Let me first show off the OP and ED for the song, which is the only good part of this anime.
The OP and ED songs
(sorry for the subs)
Ok well this series starts off like any other mech series. Boy is in middle school, boy is a wimp, boy is bullied, etc. Well he is on one of his little trips BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAM
Robot lands on him.
He wakes up. BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAM
Naked girl.
The heck O_o???????? FOUL! Hisashi Hirai is a HUGE fan of the female breasts. He got away with it in Gundam Seed, he won't get away with it now. Also, one of the character could be mistaken with something from Eiken (I won't explain). FOUL! The way Kouichi (main character) summons his mech is very dumb, and perverted *gropes his female partner*.
Well after that unfortunate turn of the events, the baddies come, the main hero jumps into the robot and kicks butt. The good guys (JUDA) see him doing all this goodness, so they want him to join them. Epic plot twist end of episode 1!
I forgave this series for a couple of episodes. It got really good at some points, the robot fighting was really good, I enjoyed the story (my weakness is mech series). The bad guys were quite amusing, I fell in love with the Cowboy Hat sporting baddie.
This series was good, until I reached Episode 6. It got so painful I had to drop it.
My score for it, although I won't say throw this series away, but do use extra caution when watching it. Don't be expecting something spectacular, if you do something stupid happens and it makes you irritated.
Linebarrels of Irony gets a D+
