s.CRY.ed

Story The Lost Ground was created 22 years ago in the Kanazawa Prefecture when an unexplained geological / metaphysical phenomenon occurred which caused the ground to rise up into peaks accompanied by the release of a lot of energy. There were 2 effects of this. Firstly the Lost Ground split off from the Mainland. Secondly about 1% of the inhabitants of the Lost Ground gained special abilities to manipulate matter in various ways, they are called Alter Capabilists, with accompanying "Alter" abilities. If an Alter Capabilist's ability manifests in the form of a separate entity that separate entity is called an "Alter". Politics makes this anime veryinteresting. There is the Mainland who treats the Lost Grounds as a sort of beggar nation. The city part of the Lost Ground has trade concessions and AID from the Mainland, and is separated from the rest of the Lost Ground by a high wall. Those outside "The Wall" are called Natives, and alter users there are Native Alters. In order to combat the Lost Ground Native Alters, Lost Ground Admin sets up an institution called HOLD and a special division within that called HOLY which is basically Native Alters who have come to the Admin side in order to suppress other Native Alters from the other side of the wall. It's sort of like using mutants to fight other mutants. Also note that even within the Admin section of Lost Grounds, Alters are NOT accepted as equal citizens, but they are tolerated if they are members of HOLY. What a WONDERFUL premise. Special people with powers. Politics. Socio-economic ramifications where the rich live in the city and the rest eke out a beggarly but INDEPENDENT existence outside the wall. Organized government vs. anarchy. Dictatorship vs. Freedom. By the time it hit episode 10, I was thinking "this is GREAT". If all these wonderful possibilities had been taken to their conclusion I would have given story a 10, but it goes only part of the way there. I will say that the very last FRAME of the series brought the plot from a 8 to a solid 9. You'll understand when you see it. Character The main protagonist is Kazuma, the stereotypical rebel bad boy with a heart of gold. His alter is the ability to "harden" his right arm with metallic alloy which gives him the ability to smash through anything. At the beginning of the series he is a native alter living with his sweetheart, Kanami, who has masses of long red hair while keeping his identity as an alter "mercenary for hire" secret. Before long he encounters Ryuhou, rich spoiled scion of an important industrial conglomerate who has emotional baggage from watching his mother die to a mysterous alter capabilist when he was a child. He is the co-protagonist and is the strong, silent, lawful type. He is the most gifted member of HOLY and is charged with suppressing Native Alters, because as everyone quickly figures out, only alters can fight other alters, normal humans don't stand a chance. Ryohou is ridiculously good looking. In typical aloof hero fashion, he is oblivious to the TWO girls who are in love with him. Kazuma and Ryuhou start out as enemies but they don't stay that way as things progress. It all happens very naturally too. Sometimes I was not happy with the "one dimensional" nature of Kazuma as the competitive, I want to be the best/winner guy. It's too Dragonball Z. Ryuhou matured as the series progressed but even then there are some manly man man things that manly men can't change. The cast of supporting characters is very well fleshed out, every single one of them. Straight Cougar is the comic relief but he has a "deep" side and ended up being my favorite characters. Shiree had the most amazing alter. The mainland princess is idealistic and unrealistic. Melon man has his own principles and the rest of the smaller guys you either liked or hated but they weren't easily forgotten. All in all the characters were very well done except for Kazuma's character development which could have been done better. Art/Animation By 2008 standards, this is fairly dated with TONS of frame reuse. Like every episode there's frame reuse. However to give credit to the artists the transformation scenes are very well drawn with excellent artistic licence, flow, color and creativity. You don't get bored of seeing the "alters" of various people. If not for this I would have rated Art a lot lower. Sound The first strains of the opening sounds reminded me of Ricky Martin's "She Bangs"!! Serious!!! The alter sound effects were well done and voice acting was good. Not much else to say, nothing else jumped out at me as horrible or wonderful enough to give this more than a 7 rating. Enjoyment I didn't expect to enjoy this series as much as I did. Some parts of it were very predictable, characters fit into anime stereotypes but still with all the variety and interaction and plot driven devices this ended up being a very enjoyable watch. There's lots of fighting, cool alters, philosophical parts, drama, angst, love, what's not to like? Slightly better Art, a little more character development with Kazuma and pushing some other plot points to their conclusion would have made this a 10.

s-CRY-ed is one of my personal favorite animes. The wide set of characters is amazing, and the interaction between them is even better. In some way, all of them are connected through one another. The story in a nutshell is set a few years after "The Great Uprising" and this in return sets up the character plots. Alters vs. HOLY. Alters are people who gained certain abilities from the incident a few years back, and they live outside the inner city just trying to survive, but HOLY wishes to either eliminate them all, or bring them to their side. This show is very enjoyable. A lot ofchoice words thrown out here and there, nothing anyone hasn't heard before. If your a fan of DBZ, you'll most likely enjoy this one too. The story is great, the Animation is fantastic with awesome sound to go with it. As I said, the characters make the show even better, and it's just all around enjoyable. Emotion also runs high in this one. A lot of anger from Kazuma, Scheris and Mimori make love a real issue for Ryuhou, and Ryuhou is just one of those lost boys trying to figure out what's really going on in the world and what really happened in his past. Kanami makes this story enjoyable too. And those are just a few of the most important characters. Cougar is a pretty funny guy too ;] The two main guys are Kazuma and Ryuhou, which in every other episode they're pretty much punching each other's faces into the ground, or arguing about something or other. Overall, s-CRY-ed is one anime your not going to want to miss out on. The art is beautiful, the plot gets thicker and thicker as you get into further episodes, and you really have to pay attention in the beginning to understand everything to the fullest. This one isn't an anime you have to read the manga for either, so there's a plus. The manga goes into more details about the story, but oh well. s-CRY-ed gets a 10/10 overall from me. Make sure to watch it sometime.

You ready boys and girls? You ready for men's talk? Sit the fuck down and strap the fuck up. You have just been diagnosed with fucking HIV. You wanna know why? Because this show just had sex with you. S-CRY-ED takes place on giant island, called The Lost Ground. Suddenly, the place justrose out of nowhere 22 years ago. People with special abilities are born sometimes called Alters. Most of the Lost ground is barren wasteland, With one exceptional city on it. We have 2 groups now. The city fuckers, and the natives surviving outside. In the city, a group exists called HOLD, within HOLD their is a group called HOLY. HOLY is made up of Altars organized to control other Altars outside the city, Native Altars. This story has such weak premises and devices, stuff we have all seen before. But the way it works with these is so astounding, its something i have never seen before. Here is were we get to the center of this cream puff of fucking manliness. Wait, eww that sounded gay. Sorry, that aside we have one tough mother fucker named Kazuma. No last name, he doesn't need one. He lives with a 8 year old girl named Kaname who wants him to be a slave on a farm all the time. Kazuma say's he will do anything for money, so him and his buddy, Kimishima, take on jobs using Kazuma's Altar power. He turns his fucking arm into... A tougher arm and uses things on his back to propel forward using attacks like SHOCKING FIRST BULLET! Anywho, tough guy Ryuhou is the second main character and he's working for HOLY. CAN YOU SAY JUSTICE?!?!?! Yeah hes the typical no evil good boy and all self righteous like Seto Kiba or maybe you could compare him to Suzaka from Code Geass. His altar is summoning his little doll to fight for him. Him and Kazuma, are EPIC rivals from beginning to end. At first hating each other guts in the first arc, to then teaming up in the second, but still wanting to kick each others ass, but with a respect. Personally, I like Ryuhou alot in the second half, just still not ass much as Kazuma. Arts all like 2004-2006 what do you expect? I don't care that much so i just gave it a 9. Sound is solid. Opening Reckless fire is sweet as hell and so is the ending. But one thing here. DUBBED fucking understand me subbed lovers? NO. YOU WATCH DUBBED. No exception. We have a bunch of characters. From the ones in holy to the ones outside it. Development is really awesome but it kind of only comes after the second arc. My personal favorites is Straight Cougar, i guess he was like a mentor to Kazuma, and he uses the moves Kazuma does in the 1st stage of his altar. His motto is go through it fast so you have more time for the next thing. His altar is speedy mc speedy fuck awesome. I like most of the characters from watermelon man, to the "Humpback whale"(Nyron) to Scheris who is Ryuhou's fanbase. One character i can NOT STAND is Mimori. Worst character ever. Give me a second to rant. She fucking love's Ryuhou, because she met him ONCE as a kid and has never seen him since and just follows him like fuck. Get a life. I hate this bitch. Whines and complains too. Perhaps she can cook? NO, probably not. Anyway s-CRY-ed is underrated and freaking Incredible. I believe it to be a 10, and it deserves to be in my favorites. Here a gave it a 9, just because i don't want to look like as a review, i overlooked its problems because i didn't. As a master procrastinator i believe to save the worst for last. ALOT of characters have some build up but NO follow and through and at one point become completely useless. Tachibana or Jigmar for example. Also it is incredible cheesy, which i love, but something like that is a required taste. I love this show. Do you? Find out, because this is something that you don' want to miss.

This anime is criminally OVERrated... Aesthetically it's a good looking anime with great music. Conceptually the themes are interesting on their own-but fall flat. While watching, I found myself asking "why?" many times; mostly due to the lack of explanations or reasons presented in the show itself. This anime is way too long, yet ironically 26 episodes isn't enough to present an idea, build on it, and flesh out a relatively small cast of characters. Interesting ideas and problems that characters face are forgotten by the next episode, and characters that do absolutely nothing to progress the story somehow get boat loads of screen time. There is no tensionin the show at all. The special abilities that characters posses are not explained at all and the "Alter ability" generally has no rules or limits. Characters use and gain special powers and abilities out of nowhere just because something has to progress the story. This became more noticeable during the mid-end portion of the show. The anime also suffers from not having a main antagonist. The show realizes this pretty deep in and tries to bumrush you with cannon-fodder villains to close it out. If you want to watch a simple anime with constant fighting then try s.CRY.ed, but in the end that's all it is.

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