Witchblade

They started quite a bit from the comic and it sort of worked. It does get old seeing the main character getting her ample butt kicked for most of the series. I felt they focused too much on form instead of substance. Its watchable but has some fairly repetitive episodes. With all the gushy reviews I guess I'm in the minority. If you havnt read the comic its probably easier to like.

This series is on par with HBO's Spawn:Animated series. The story is well told, the relationships of the characters are strong. The central mother/daughter theme is simple, powerful, and elegant. I enjoyed all the characters, and the changes they go through, because of a mother's love. For me, most anime is almost senseless, due to my ignorance of Asian culture. I don't care much for giant robots they crush cities and everybody seems to be fine with it. That silly mech. But the machines in this series are relevant, if cannon fodder. The fights were often anti- climatic, ending too soon in one way or another, but easily over-looked when taken into context. No sex, lots of bulbous bosoms (yay!), not much violence against humans and what little there is, is shown off screen or implied in some way. Anyway, worth watching.

This Japanese anime is loosely based on the American comic book of the same name. The setting is some time in the future in Tokyo, after a large disaster that has left the city in some disarray.

Presumably, Sarah Pezzini of the comic book, and American TV series is long gone, and the Witchblade has chosen a new bearer, Masane Amou. She's a young, scatter-brained, single mother trying to look after her daughter Rihoko. A governmental child welfare agency is after Masane because they claim she is an unfit parent and want to take Rihoko away. They may have more in mind than the welfare of the child, however.

Masane must also learn to control this new force whose origin is unknown to her.

This is an interesting addition to the Witchblade saga and should be well-liked by most fans of action animes.

It is a bit eccentric when comes to camera angle but otherwise story is in flow and as I'm watching (ep-13). I am not phasing out.

You can watch especially if you are shot on list of anime to watch.

I read the herione described as "very loving". What??? She is irresponsible and super neglectful. She was to busy getting drunk to notice her child is so sick she needed hospitalized. Her child spent the entire anime shouldering household duties and parenting her train wreck of a mother. If portraying a strong powerful female was the goal it was a miss. She came off as imature and annoying the majority of the time. Herione was a "Look at me! No one can tell me what to do!" cliche. This juvenile behavior is pretty consistent. Should read.

Witchblade: Fun loving semi-alcoholic mom raises young daughter in a homeless shelters 6 years. Mom gets possessed by sword/blade only to continue to neglect young daughter.