Terra Formars

Both seasons are disappointing for different reasons.

Season 01: (4/10 Stars) Gore porn. I've seen reviews talking about how the brutality was key to the story and I'd buy that if they were consistent with it, the story was stronger and the brutality was logical.. Ripping someone spine out and then using it as a sword is just plain dumb. The one thing it did have going for it was killing off or crippling characters right as you "slightly" invested in them or they got interesting.

Season 02: (0/10 Stars) They took everything remotely good and flushed it down the drain. They strangely trying adding some Ecchi to the whole thing, cutesy word bubbles, blushing females flirting with the male characters, bad jokes and a complete lack of deaths (Other than random redshirts that have no names until after they die) Oh, and all the characters got insanely stupid, making criminally bad choices for what are supposed to be the elite of the elite..

I was extremely impressed with the anime. I've fully read the Manga and noticed very little to almost no changes in the anime. It is one of the few anime out there that follows 98% of the Manga to the letter. It's also delivered non-stop action in the uncensored version along with a spot on back story for everyone just like in the Manga. I highly recommend others to watch the anime and to read the Manga in hopes for more seasons to come. However I still have to state to only watch it uncensored due to extremely graphic content consistently happening in almost every episode. If you like GANTZ, or other violent/action sci- fi, this is the series for you.

Everything you loved from cheesy 80's movies, all the fighting and action of the JoJo series set in a world inhabited by mutant bug men from Mars, like in the old black and white horror movies people used to watch. If you don't like violence then this just isn't your show, not worth watching the censored version. But it isn't 'vile just to be vile' and it doesn't seek out fan service like other shows people watch that ruin the pacing with bad comedy or skin. SJW's will pull out certain scenes from the show to make it seem like there is an agenda, but it doesn't have one. It's a show meant for older teens who grew up watching Saturday mourning action shows in the early 90's, where the good guys go up against the bad guys. I like watching this more then DBZ super, naruto and bleach because those shows have gone on so long they're really just anime crap at this point, unlike shows like this or yu yu hakusho or Attack on Titan. The second season isn't bad either, again people just were pulling out scenes with no context and reading too deep into caricatures.

I love the first season. Very good animation, battle and pace, it's a good shonen. However, the second season is very bad, the animation studio is not the same and you can clearly see it.

This series gained notoriety when it came out in Japan due to the unbelievable amount of censorship that was applied to episodes. Massive black circles would cover huge parts of the screen to block almost anything what was violent. The feedback was that the show was literally unwatchable this way and the series was a complete disaster with this incarnation. The series would soon find its way to CrunchyRoll in a completely uncensored form and, while it does have some novel ways it uses the high level of ultra violence in the show, the writing is just awful and this really is one of the worst sci-fi shows I have ever seen.

The plot makes no sense. Bug people have taken over Mars and are now going to come to Earth to kill humans. No weapons can harm them so Earth merges high-level human fighters with various bugs that has a 50% chance of death when done. These bug fighters are now on the way to Mars to kill the Bug people before they come destroy earth.

The story makes no sense. If guns and other weapons do not work, why not create Terminator like robots to destroy these bug people? It makes no sense that the earth bug people would somehow be stronger than killer robots would be, it is physically impossible for any type of hybrid bug fighter to be more powerful than a fleet of killing machine robots.

Either way, lets remove that plot hole, the series writing is awful. No characters are likable, the weird announcer makes the series seem like some 1980's Ultraman drek, and it just fails to be anything than a gore-porn crapshow.

Strong recommendation to avoid, 3/10.