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.

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.

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.

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.

As many know, this is based on a not so great comic book and had a terrible movie adaptation followed by a iffy live action show. This anime tops all the other attempts but its still a bit "meh," and there is too much whining. Oh my god the whining over the kid and over moms... One thing I will add is that this reminded me a lot of Go Nagai's Devilman. Sort of had similar opinions of all those. Could have been great, but just not well executed and some questionable artistic decisions that were largely superfluous.

My biggest gripe is that the entire show is dedicated to motherhood and everyone had some sort of mommy complex. There is nothing wrong with this plot and in some ways they tried to make sense of it, but it kept getting hammered over and over and over and I just got tired of it. I get it, everyone loves their momma but come on... its just not interesting and as a result the characters came off childish (though this was on purpose in some cases) and were also not interesting.

But on the upside, the battles were entertaining. The art is actually good. The art style was basically just fan service nudity, which adds absolutely nothing to the show and probably deters some viewers for no good reason. You even had bots with a penis which was just... lame. This is why it reminded me of old Go Nagai work.

Id say above average overall but nothing to write home about.