Opening songs
OP 1 - Break your world (Sayaka Sasaki)
Ending songs
ED 1 - Fighting dreamer (Hitomi Harada, Asami Imai, Yu Koboyashi, Kaori Mizuhashi, Yuka Iguchi)
ED 2 - Yamiya wa otomo wo Hana ni Suru (Eri Kitamura, Ai Kayano, Megumi Toyoguchi, Ryoko Shiraishi, Saori Goto)
Genre: Action, Drama
Episodes: 12
Every fanservice maniac's dream.....or so it would seem at first sight. "Senran Kagura" started off as a game that featured some erotic elements with simple side scrolling beat'em up. Most of the characters in the game have freaking D-E sized boobs and they get stripped as they do battle. Doesn't sound exaggerated enough? How about the fact that 95% of the characters are female, and they transform to their shinobi forms which somehow makes them even more revealing. Its just blatant fanservice, and its definitely only gearing towards a certain audience. Obviously, that's to guys, and guys ONLY (unless you're a lesbian or something). If you're a guy and want to watch something like this, don't feel too bad, as its not the levels of "Queen's Blade" for you to feel sorry about yourself. Just think of it as "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles", but instead of turtles you get sexy school girls with huge boobs.
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| See how they all cross their arms to showcase their "assets" |
For a fanservice anime, the songs used as the opening and ending themes aren't too bad overall. The opening song, "Break Your World" by Sayaka Sasaki sounds like something Faylan would sing. In other words, its a great song fitting for a shinobi anime, with the little "ancient Japan" feel added to it. Though we all know that its a fanservice anime, so the epicness is for naught...just like in "Hyakka Ryouran". There are 2 ending songs that are alternated from time to time, "Fighting dreamer", sang by the seiyuus of the good ninja, and "Yamiya wa otomo wo Hana ni Suru", sang by the seiyuus of the bad ninja. I like the bad girls' version more, just because it sounds catchier.
Rating: 7/10
I don't hate "Senran Kagura", no I don't, but there's not much to it, other than tits. Now don't get all flustered on me, I love tits as much as the next guy does (tits over ass bro), but if you're looking for a good story, some comedy, or endearing characters, "Senran Kagura" doesn't really excel at those areas. Its a big fanservice bomb in my opinion, and that may or may not be good in the eyes of others. I like fanservice, but I do feel that an anime with just fanservice alone and nothing else doesn't really do well. At least the fanservice is in good taste here, that's what I think. We've got tons of characters, but most of them don't come off as anything but stereotypes, and some even borderline annoying (looking at you Hibari). Animation is sub par, and the action isn't the best, though if you want to see girls getting stripped for some fanservice, there you have it!
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| What happens for the entire anime. |
Asuka is a ditsy ninja girl who got enrolled into Hanzo academy for the shinobi. She just passed her test to keep her status as a shinobi, and is ready to take on some real missions with her schoolmates, Ikaruga, Katsuragi, Yagyuu and Hibari. The 5 are closely knit, and make a good team of shinobi who help each other out when needed. However, things quickly go haywire when opposing shinobi from the Dark Snake academy work together to attack our ninja heroines. Finding themselves overwhelmed and lacking in terms of skill, our 5 heroines begin working harder than ever to reach a power level high enough to battle against the evil ninjas. With the shinobi instructor Kiriya and Asuka's grandfather Hanzo, they aim for the skies.
"Senran Kagura" works for you if you need your daily fix of anime tits. There's lots of fanservice here and the fact that they almost all have big boobs is already a sign saying "TITS LOVERS COME HERE". There are good moments sprinkled here and there, its not a total snooze fest. In fact, its actually not too bad of an anime overall if you actually don't mind the over-exaggerated fanservice at times. It may not be as great as other anime, but its not bad either.
Peace.
