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1. ›BLACK BULLET: DEL CAJÓN DE LOS RECUERDOS HASTA SU MESA/FROM THE MEMORIES DRAWER TO YOUR TABLE [ESP-ENG]@melochacalie1537d

   Hola jóvenes ilustres ¿cómo están?, yo bien, esta semana quiero contarles que, revisando el baúl de los recuerdos, me encontré una serie que olvidé por completo, su existencia quedó hundida dentro del baúl y al encontrar su nombre en una carpeta empolvada, me recordó el por qué la refundí allí, esta semana les voy a hablar de la olvidada Black Bullet.

   Hello illustrious young people, how are you? I'm fine, this week I want to tell you that, reviewing the trunk of memories, I found a series that I completely forgot, its existence was sunk inside the trunk and when I found its name in a dusty folder, It reminded me why I recast it there, this week I'm going to talk about the forgotten Black Bullet.

   

   BLACK BULLET (Kinema Citrus y Orange, 2014)

   RECAPITULEMOS/LET'S RECAP…

   Hace 10 años, los humanos fueron casi aniquilados por la propagación de los seres parasitarios conocidos como Gastrea, al borde la extinción, la humanidad construyó imponentes barreras de valanium, un metal capaz de someter a los Gastrea, debido al gran número de mutantes, los humanos se acobardaron detrás de las barreras que construyeron, pero ahora, la humanidad tiene como objetivo reparar sus errores y luchar contra los Gastrea con métodos diferentes, el principal, es el uso de los “Initiators”, las niñas malditas, la seguridad de la zona detrás de las barreras está preservada por estas niñas que poseen las capacidades regenerativas y fuerza de los Gastrea. Mi nombre es Satomi Rentarou, y definitivamente encontraré una forma de eliminar su carga.

   10 years ago, humans were almost annihilated by the spread of parasitic beings known as Gastrea, on the verge of extinction, humanity built imposing barriers of valanium, a metal capable of subduing the Gastrea, due to the large number of mutants, the Humans cowered behind the barriers they built, but now, humanity aims to repair their mistakes and fight the Gastrea with different methods, the main one being the use of the "Initiators", the cursed girls, the safety of the The area behind the barriers is preserved by these girls who possess the regenerative abilities and strength of the Gastrea. My name is Satomi Rentarou, and I will definitely find a way to remove the burden from him.

   

   BLACK BULLET (Kinema Citrus y Orange, 2014)

   MI OPINIÓN/MY OPINION…

   A ver, Black Bullet no es en realidad un anime de lo más original, pero en medio de su muy acertada e inmersiva banda sonora, y su excelente animación con CGI decente, y más que decentes escenas de batalla, hay un anime muy bien ejecutado, con los tiempos correctos, combinados con la paleta de colores adaptada al estilo del anime detallado y pulido, hace que los capítulos sean sumamente fluidos y agradables a pesar de la temática que plantea.

   Let's see, Black Bullet is not really a very original anime, but in the midst of its very successful and immersive soundtrack, and its excellent animation with decent CGI, and more than decent battle scenes, there is a very well executed anime. , with the correct timing, combined with the detailed and polished anime-style color palette, makes the chapters extremely fluid and enjoyable despite the theme it raises.

   

   BLACK BULLET (Kinema Citrus y Orange, 2014)

   Siguiendo su historia (sin spoilers, ya saben, todo lo que diré aparece en el primer capítulo （￣▽￣）), hablamos de un mundo pos-apocalíptico, en el cual, una clase de insectos mutantes parasitarios (por describirlos de forma simple づ￣ 3￣)づ) a los que los humanos nombraron Gastreas, llevaron a la humanidad al borde la extinción, y la única esperanza aparente, son las “Initiator”, las llamadas niñas malditas, hablamos de una primicia interesante, pero que mal manejada puede salirse de control muy fácilmente, por ello, creo que Black Bullet está muy bien hecha, incluso la encuentras en plataformas oficiales como Crunchiroll (patrocíname （￣▽￣）～■) y les explico el motivo.

   Following his story (no spoilers, you know, everything I will say appears in the first chapter （￣▽￣）), we are talking about a post-apocalyptic world, in which, a class of parasitic mutant insects (to describe them simply づ￣ 3￣)づ) whom humans named Gastreas, brought humanity to the brink of extinction, and the only apparent hope, are the "Initiator", the so-called cursed girls, we are talking about an interesting scoop, but how bad handled can get out of control very easily, so I think Black Bullet is very well done, you can even find it on official platforms like Crunchiroll (sponsor me （￣▽￣）～■) and I'll explain why.

   

   BLACK BULLET (Kinema Citrus y Orange, 2014)

   El planteamiento de la historia en sí, tiene una temática agresiva y pesada, lo que genera esta parte de sangre, muerte y destrucción, así como sus contrapartes positivas, y eso debería ser suficiente (desde mi perspectiva) para crear un gran anime serio, la cuestión, es que Black Bullet no se detiene ahí, hay capítulos, en los que se desea plasmar algo de paz en medio de toda esta temática oscura para aligerarla por la gran cantidad de sangre que hay en él, por lo que usan esos espacios para agregar comedia, comedia que, si bien no es de mi gusto (lolicon para ser más exactos ╮（￣﹏￣）╭), debo admitir que está bien usada, ya que se agrega de modo en el que puedas aprender a querer a estas niñas malditas que tienen un destino fatal, así que no me quejo demasiado ya que está justificado.

   The story approach itself has an aggressive and heavy theme, which generates this part of blood, death and destruction, as well as its positive counterparts, and that should be enough (from my perspective) to create a great serious anime, the point is that Black Bullet does not stop there, there are chapters, in which you want to capture some peace in the midst of all this dark theme to lighten it due to the large amount of blood that is in it, so they use those spaces to add comedy, comedy that, although it is not to my taste (lolicon to be exact ╮（￣﹏￣）╭), I must admit that it is well used, since it is added in a way where you can learn to love these cursed girls who have a fatal destiny, so I don't complain too much since it's justified.

   

   BLACK BULLET (Kinema Citrus y Orange, 2014)

   La estructura del mundo y la secuencia de sucesos fueron controlados para evitar el uso del “poder del guion” en la medida de lo posible, ¿cómo lo controlaron?, cada elemento de su estructura está pensado para ser de utilidad no solo en 1 o 2 capítulos según lo requiera la historia, es más como cuando en un videojuego haces un puzzle que a su vez forma parte de otro macro-puzzle, ¿si me explico?, me refiero al hecho de que no sobran explicaciones justificando la casualidad, ya que, lo que parece casualidad, tiene un motivo lógico para su trama y lo explota como parte de la secuencia de sucesos, es de esos animes en los que puedes ver la planeación detallada, y eso, se le agradece a los autores, aunque desafortunadamente, dado la corta duración del anime, sí deja muchas cosas a la deriva, motivo por el cual, lo enterré en las profundidades del baúl de los recuerdos, a pesar de haberla disfrutado tanto.

   The structure of the world and the sequence of events were controlled to avoid the use of the "power of the script" as much as possible, how did they control it, each element of its structure is intended to be useful not only in 1 or 2 chapters as required by the story, it's more like when in a video game you make a puzzle that in turn is part of another macro-puzzle, if I explain myself? I mean the fact that there are no explanations to justify the coincidence, already that, what seems like a coincidence, has a logical reason for its plot and exploits it as part of the sequence of events, it is one of those animes in which you can see the detailed planning, and that, the authors are thanked, although unfortunately , given the short duration of the anime, it does leave many things adrift, which is why I buried it in the depths of the trunk of memories, despite having enjoyed it so much.

   

   BLACK BULLET (Kinema Citrus y Orange, 2014)

   TERMINANDO/ENDING…

   Black Bullet es un anime casi puramente de acción, se clasifica como un seinen de corta duración, pero con solo 12 episodios, mostró una gran capacidad, es una pena que no fuera lo suficientemente aceptado como anime (anime que se estrenó en 2014 por cierto , así que ya tiene una buena cantidad de ayeres sumados（￣▽￣）), ya que eso detuvo los planes de una segunda temporada, siendo que tanto sus novelas como su manga tuvieron bastante aceptación, una pena ya que a mi me gustó mucho, el clásico enfrentamiento entre la luz y la oscuridad humana es algo que siempre se puede aprovechar muy bien en este tipo de animes.

   Black Bullet is an almost purely action anime, it is classified as a short-lived seinen, but with only 12 episodes, it showed great capacity, it's a shame that it wasn't accepted enough as an anime (anime that premiered in 2014 by the way , so he already has a good amount of yesterdays added（￣▽￣）), since that stopped the plans for a second season, since both his novels and his manga were quite popular, a shame since I liked it a lot , the classic confrontation between light and human darkness is something that can always be used very well in this type of anime.

   

   BLACK BULLET (Kinema Citrus y Orange, 2014)

   Bueno mis chacalillos, esto es todo por la recomendación de esta semana, espero que, si les gustan este tipo de animes lo disfruten mucho y si no, que al menos le den una oportunidad, creo que podría sorprenderte, me despido, pero no sin antes desearles como siempre, que muy buenas las tengan y que mejor las pasen.

   Well my kids, this is all for this week's recommendation, I hope that, if you like this type of anime, you enjoy it a lot and if not, that you at least give it a chance, I think it could surprise you, I say goodbye, but not without before wishing them as always, that they have very good and that they have a better time.

   

   BLACK BULLET (Kinema Citrus y Orange, 2014)

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2. ›Anime Review: Black Bullet@thatanimesnob3027d

   LIGHT NOVEL

   When I first encountered Black Bullet, I thought it was the adaptation of an action manga, so my expectations were not very low. But then I found out that the manga is just a different adaptation of the actual source material, which happens to be a light novel. That was enough to lower the bar a few thousand miles.

   HYPE

   Oh such joy, a story based on a light novel; what could possibly be worse? Why, pre-airing hype of course. There wasn’t nearly as much as there was for Mahouka, which aired along with it, but the ones who had something to say about it, described it as Attack On Titan (AOT for short) in the near future. Oh such joy; we are already comparing it to the most overrated title from the year before this one; what could possibly be worse?

   DICKRIDING

   The similarities don’t stop at the identical premise by the way; because if it did, it would be far closer to Blue Gender. But since that show is older than 2 years and thus almost nobody knows about it, let’s plagiarize as much as we can get away with, a recent overrated show everybody is dickriding, for the attention and not for the quality. And thus we get the same tune in the opening song, the same voice actor for the protagonist, and the same season it came out.

   PREMISE

   Let’s dig into the wonder that this anime is all about. First of all you are never given the impression that humanity is on the verge of extinction by huge bugs and that there is some sort of horror/survival going on in here. Nobody cares about it. In fact, we don’t even see the population having anything to say about the bugs, since the plot centers immediately on the protagonist trying to stop some masked dude who wants to destroy the world for some contrived reason.

   FIRST IMPRESSIONS

   Speaking of the protagonist, in his introduction, just minutes into the first episode, we get one of the most retarded one-liners ever: “If you don’t want to die, survive Rentaro.” Yeah, and if you don’t want to be hungry, eat Rentaro. Turns out it was a very bad fansub translation but whatever; it was more than enough for the cracks to start appearing. Because immediately after that we get a time skip, which automatically means shit happened out of screen and all character progression jumped over the cliff to its doom.

   TIME SKIP

   And no, they didn’t use a time skip so they can remove all the boring parts. They skipped all the superpowers the protagonist got in that time period, just so they can fool the audience to think he is a normal teenager, everybody can identify with. Which is a very common trick light novels, and badly written stories in general, are using. The try to make you think the protagonist is an average person like yourself. He is not that strong and tries his best to climb the lower steps of the power level hierarchy. Who wouldn’t identify with such a normal person? And then they gradually keep revealing super amazing skills only he was possessing since the beginning to make the audience think he is amazing for being a Jesus figure they are already rooting for as an otherwise normal person.

   MOOD SWINGS

   As if that wasn’t enough of a problem, the story is written to be as inconsistent as possible. Suffering from the same syndrome most modern anime do, it thinks it is great to be dark and violent on one moment, followed by being light and comical in the immediate next moment. Because modern anime fans have such awful tastes that actually believe having people screaming in horror as they are butchered to pieces, at the same time as having naked little girls who want to have sex with the protagonist, is depth and maturity. As if investing time to make something only sad or only happy for more than five minutes will make the otakus to switch the damn channel. I mean, who give a shit about atmosphere or characterization anymore? Modern anime are all about naked little girls and senseless gore.

   APATHY

   The funny part is how there were a lot of people defending this bullshit while the show was airing. They were saying that if you live in a world where giant monsters attack daily and kill people, everybody will be considering that to be normal. This is why running to buy beans in discount right after you witness a guy killing your friends and almost yourself, is completely normal to them. It even makes it easier to explore the setting this way, since the characters will be reacting to everything in an apathetic way. Dear retarded defenders of this logic, hear me out. IF THE CHARACTERS DON’T CARE, NEITHER DO THE VIEWERS CARE.

   RUSHED PACING

   And this is not simply the result of this piece of crap anime being based on light novels, where shit happens and everybody forgets about it after five minutes. It’s also because the anime rushes to adapt multiple chapters per episode, to the point the pacing is ridiculously fast. Everything happens in seconds and we then move to the next thing with no downtime between events.

   BAD WRITING

   And don’t assume the anime would be fine if it had proper pacing, since the script is random bullshit. Especially the whole theme about the lolis being mistreated by evil adults because they have superpowers. Man, the people of this world are so retarded; they know the only thing that can kill the monsters comes from those girls, and yet they kick away their only chance for survival, without ever explaining why. This is not a cotton plantation in southern America, ok? The girls are not after your jobs and you don’t hate them because their skin has a different color. They are the only thing that keeps you alive. Hell, they are strong enough to kill you all at the age of ten. So why are you being such assholes for no reason? Talk about cartoony villains.

   DEVIANCE

   As you can probably guess, the only reason this stupid thing happens, is for victimizing the girls, and making the protagonist seem like a Good Samaritan, for being one of the few people who is NOT a stupid adult with a death wish. He loves these lolis and does his best to make a pedophile’s paradise out of them. And the show promotes that as funny instead of cringe worthy. Dammit Japan, if it’s not incest, it’s going to be pedophilia; it just has to be one or the other, doesn’t it?

   MEANINGLESS ELEMENTS

   So, anyways, he is a teenager and he goes to a Japanese high school. Why is there a high school in a post apocalyptic setting? Because light novel writers are incapable to write a story without one. Is he at least learning martial arts or something useful for surviving in that place? Nope, the school exists for no reason at all. And the person who gives him jobs to go around killing monsters while making sure not to be late for school every morning is a school girl with huge bouncing boobs who of course and is in love with him for no reason other than light novels. So, when he is not killing monsters or going to a school where he learns and does nothing, our heroic protagonist spends his time home, where he has endless excuses for hentai doujins to be made, since he is constantly being sexually assaulted by either horny little girls, or big breasted high school girls.

   PASSIVE PROTAGONIST

   By the way, do you know what his objective in the story is? He has none! He is just following orders by the very retarded adults who want to be exterminated, thus is in effect a boring public servant with no vision or goals in life. And the story is so badly written that he never explains why he doesn’t just join the masked dude and kill all those racist idiots. This way he can create a just nation of super lolis with him as the emperor. He is strong enough to do that, he obviously fights for justice, and really likes those super lolis, SO WHY DOESN’T HE DO IT? No reason given. Why is this guy even the protagonist?

   LOLI SIDEKICK

   His super loli on the other hand is a far better character. Cute, powerful, has a tragic life, and is even willing to be naked all the time and have sex with you just to show you her affection. Who wouldn’t like that? By the way, she is ten. But love knows no boundaries, right? Anyways, whatever drama they were trying to build around her being mistreated for being special is magically resolved after a few minutes, so all interest you could have about her as a character instead of a jailbait evaporates fast.

   VILLAIN

   The only other character who is barely worth to mention is the masked evil dude, and only because he was OP for 3 episodes. Seriously, this guy could brush off any fighter in the show and keep going on his quest to destroy the world because… err, discrimination shit and because he was made to destroy stuff. Yeah, not even his motives make any sense. But hey, he was awesome as a cartoony villain and it’s complete bullshit how he got defeated the fourth time he fought the protagonist. That’s right, the fourth. He had the chance to kill him three times in a row and didn’t because the script said so. He killed everybody else who stood in his way, but not our hero who is protected by the plot armor of bullshit.

   ASSPULLS

   And the way he got defeated was one of the biggest asspulls in history. The protagonist reveals out of nowhere that he was a cyborg or some shit, and kicks the crap out of him. Not only it was completely anti-climactic, it also made it seem like Rentaro was all-powerful since the very beginning and yet didn’t use his skills to trash the masked dude since episode one. By not doing so, hundreds of people were killed, and the city was almost destroyed. And of course his booby supervisor didn’t bother to tell anyone about it all this time. She just allowed hundreds of innocent people to go after their undeserved deaths.

   AUTISM

   And of course, nobody bothered to accuse the hero for doing such a horrible thing, which led to the easily avoidable loss of half their military defenses against the bugs. But it’s ok, since they also didn’t reward Rentaro for saving the city. Seriously, the next episode begins and everybody acts like there never was a masked dude or they were a step away from annihilation. Why is everybody ignoring this walking atomic bomb? Why is he going to a school where he does nothing, instead of being the elite protector of the city? Oh light novels, you are all so atrocious, and you come out by the dozens every season.

   RETARDED DRAMA

   Special mention to how despite all that bullshit, the author is still constantly trying to present Rentaro as some tragic figure who is insecure and afraid he is not capable enough. There is a scene where he is about to shoot a huge monster that is about to destroy the city. He is a proficient gunner, he has a clear shot, nobody is trying to throw his aiming off, and yet out of nowhere he is acting scared and doubts his overpowered skills. With him having shown no weaknesses, and with no time invested on his fears so far, that scene was trying to create drama out of nothing and came off as completely retarded.

   EXPOSITION

   Believe it or not, all this time I didn’t even mention the worst problem this show has, that completely eclipses all the other issues, and that is its terrible exposition. Everything is told, nothing is shown. And by everything, I mean even the most fundamental information is thrown at our faces. Everybody talks in a completely fake way, telling us things that normally would never be mentioned. A simple scene would play out like this:

   “Hello woman of the organization that gave me the bullets. What are you doing in my apartment, on the fourth floor, during the afternoon? You want me to cook you some fried fish because you are hungry? Ok, sit next to that sofa that was given to me by my uncle. In the meantime I will start cooking. Look, I am cooking. I cook the fish. See? Fish.”

   IN CONCLUSION

   Plain ridiculous. Black Bullet is a very good example of everything that could go wrong, goes wrong. There is nothing to like in it, unless you are not thinking while you are watching, and all you care for is to laugh at the harem lead trying to run away from horny naked ten year olds who want to have sex with him, before he pulls a magic trinket out of his ass and saves the day. Light novels in a nutshell.

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3. ›BLACK BULLET@samehada3111d

   

   BLACK BULLET

   For those of you who like going to anime action genre with future theme settings, this anime fits into your watch list. Anime that was appointed this time titled Black Bullet which is adapted from light novel by Shiden Kanzaki. This anime series tells of the state of the earth in the future, where in 2021, humanity is attacked by a giant monster named Gastrea. 10 years passed after the attack, the surviving human beings, forced to live in a small territory behind monolith poles made of Varanium rock that Gastrea hates so much. One day, an agent from a civil security bureau named Satomi Rentarou received a call to eradicate Gastrea who attacked in one of the apartments. But once there, instead of meeting Gastrea, he meets a mysterious masked man determined to bring the world to ruin.

   As a Promoter, Rentarou is armed with a shotgun with a black bullet made of Varanium metal, as only Varanium can harm Gastrea. Rentarou's fight against Gastrea was not done alone, he was assisted by a partner named Aihara Enju as the Initiator. Although it looks like an ordinary 10-year-old girl, but Enju is different from other kids. He has the power to defeat Gastrea because he is one of the Cursed Children. In the attacks of Gastrea in 2021, there is a Gastrea virus that is transmitted to pregnant women and the virus eventually infects the fetus. All babies born to the women are girls with red eyes. They are different from other human beings because they have the regeneration ability and the power generated due to Gastrea virus infection while they are still in the womb. Together with Enju, Rentarou struggles to protect the earth and mankind from the threat of destruction.

   The anime series adaptation is done by Kinema Citrus, who previously has experience handling anime-anime such as .hack // Quantum, Code Breaker, and Yuyushiki. This anime series will air throughout 13 episodes with the duration of each episode along 23 minutes. Adaptation of the Black Bullet anime series is done quite nicely, in terms of graphics and animation, the audience is presented with character designs, coloring, and lighting are eye-catching. The action scenes and battles in this adaptation also look pretty stunning for those fond of the battle scenes. The background music presented by the anime is enough to build the tense atmosphere that exists in this anime. In addition, the opening song sung by fripSide also adds the attraction of this anime series. Accompanying an opening theme featuring orchestral tones, the cover of the anime series also has an orchestra-style tone also supporting the action and darkness of the anime series. For the aspect of the story, bringing the theme of virus attacks that bring extinction is able to build an atmosphere of action exciting and thrilling. In addition, amid elements of intense action and dark atmosphere of his, this anime series was still able to bring comedic elements as a refresher and his comedy was carried out fairly well.

   However, behind all the added value, this anime series did not escape some of the shortcomings. The main highlight in this anime series is the storyline that flows too fast. Because of this, it will be quite difficult to follow this anime adaptation storyline, and because of its impressive groove very quickly, many parts of its light novels are not featured in this anime series. In addition, the number of scenes full of blood and other violent scenes are also displayed with a bit of exaggeration so it feels disturbing and makes you nauseous to watch it.

   The moral value that can be drawn from this anime series is about tolerance and respect for those who are different. Because in this anime series also tells about how other humans despise the Cursed Children who are considered as the offspring of monsters, but they are the ones who maintain the survival of mankind. In this anime, it can be seen clearly Rentarou's attempt to make Enju live equally and equally with other human children and live a normal life. In addition, another value to be learned from this anime is about the courage to protect those who are weak. Because we have strength and strength, we must be able to use that strength and strength to protect others, not to bring harm to our surroundings.

   Thanks for read and please upvote & comments

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4. ›Black Bullet@bharathmp3175d

   The Gastrea virus spreads like wildfire, causing each infected host to rapidly mutate, gaining new powers and abilities with every stage of development, even while they continue to attack, kill and infect multiple new hosts. Unable to fight a pandemic enemy that turns defenders into adversaries, the shocked remnants of the human race are forced to retreat into cities surrounded by giant monoliths made of Varanium, one of the few materials that can stop the Gastrea. Now mankind's last hope lies in the Cursed Children: young girls infected with the virus who have managed to retain a hold on their humanity. Paired with a partner, they alone have the strength to take on a Gastrea in one-on-one combat. But the very thing that gives them power is a ticking time bomb, so even as they protect humanity, they are also feared and shunned.

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