Z/X Ignition files part three

So here we are with a belated and last edition of the anime files about Z/X Ignition. So what did I learn from this? Very little except for reaffirming my trepidation about watching anime shows based off of a card game (however even that lesson is lost on me as I am watching Wixross currently.)

You learn her name twice at the same time only to forget her after she leaves

Episode nine is focused on Ayase. You know how Ayase is an orphan that hates angels and is partners with Sieger? Much of the episode gives us her back-story in which we learn that Ayase is an orphan and hates angels and is partners with Sieger. That and a new character from the card game is introduced and then quickly dismissed with no real impact on the story.

Episode ten tells us that the people from the blue world (with the exception of Kazumi and Rigel) are huge jerks who want to tear Kazumi and Rigel apart. However this doesn't work and ends up with Rigel's replacement being destroyed.

Oh my god, look at the size of her ass

Episodes eleven and twelve focus around the fight with Audium, a giant Z/X who sucks girls into her and is murder on their midriff clothing. After the fight everyone goes their separate ways and the show ends.

Short review, this show is a tie in for a collectable card game and games without much of a story aren't fertile ground for good anime shows. I know there are exceptions to this statement but this show is not one of them. The plot to Z/X is rather meandering with little point to it and too many characters that are given too little time to be explored properly.

Sorry but no post saving me sex for you

Overall sometimes I think I am the only one that actually watched Z/X ignition. After watching it I think it should stay that way.

Rating the Tin Pikachu (Pokemon) for being a rather lackluster show made to work as a long toy commercial.

Z/X Ignition files part 2

 

 So it has been a few weeks since my last installment of Z/X Ignition files and given that there is a second article about this show you are probably guessing that this show isn't all that awful, after all Jeckyllgeek is still watching it. Sorry if you think I am the anime equivalent of Mikey from life cereal but my interest in this show is one of irony and the odd fact that no one else seems to be watching this show so I figure I might as well do so to cover some hole in the anime blogosphere.

 

I'm never going to get a rack like that

In episode five we turn out attention to Aina Mikage, the maid friend of the show's protagonist. If you can't tell who she is the show has decided to remind the viewer of the names of all the characters every episode as though it thinks the viewers have some form amnesia. But back to Aina, she is a member of a most tragic type of character, namely the would be normal girlfriend of the protagonist of a magical girlfriend show. However we soon learn that we shouldn't have any sympathy for her as she is quite bigoted toward the Z/x to the point of turning on the rest of the cast when they save her from a rogue Z/x ends up seemingly making some sort of pact with the monster that tried to kill her so she could kill the people who saved her and would be her friends. Let it never be said that revenge and bigotry are good fodder for logical thinking.

 

You wouldn't believe the cleaning costs

Episode 6 More formally introduces the the rest of the cast. They are Sera, Chitose and Mikado, as well as their Z/X partners. Sera and Chitose primarily exist to bring the loli count on this show to three and given how this show isn't targeted at little girls it is almost surprising that there isn't more hue and cry from the usual suspects for maybe they are just distracted by My sister is unusual. Mikage is supposedly some great general but looking at him he looks like he was created so the shows three fujoshi viewers could slash him with Asuka. The only Z/x of the group that is worth noting is Alexander who takes up the space of the powerful jerk looking for a fight from nearly every shonen fighting show but mostly closely in the vein of Zaraki or Vegeta.

 

Asuka, tank watching with the entire harem

Episode seven for the most part is a continuation of episode five with Aina continuing to be a racist jerk while some black world Z/X starts attacking everyone. Episode eight brings both halves of the cast together even though Mikado and company just invaded the place with the military everyone is just friends now (except Aina of course). There is also some focus on one of the little girls of the show but it mostly serves to make her pitiable but that is somewhat expect from your cute little girl types.

 

Minds out of the gutter yuri fans

So should you watch Z/X Ignition? probably not. The show seems to be living up to it's initial reputation as a soulless collectable card game ad and looks like it will be getting a tin rating from me if things don't improve.

z/x Ignition files part 1

 

One thing that I have realized about myself as an anime blogger is that there is a bit of me that is fascinated by truly naked displays of commercialism and pandering. With Z/X Ignition being a show that is based off of a collectable card game it is perhaps the most obvious display of marketing driven media since perhaps Fantasista Doll it is certainly a show that tickles this perverse urge.

 

Asuka, aka protagonist white and Fierte

The story behind the show boils down to one day a bunch of monsters from five colored worlds showed up one day and messed up most of the work except for the city of Kobe. These monsters are called Z/X or short for Zillions of Enemy X. That's right for some reason the people of the world officially decided to use the word zillions. Although most of the monsters hang around black points which are gates to their respective world but they can stray further if they team up with a human that has a card device.

 

Azumi, Aka loli blue and Rigel

The first episode of this show was something of a mess. I used to think that in media res was a trope that should be used quite a bit more often although this was the show that broke me of that illusion. Things pick up with a bit more identifiable protagonist in the form of a guy named Asuka who is kind of generic but overall not offensive or annoying. One night he runs across an angel fighting a panther wearing a crown and a blonde lady. After managing to rescue her from certain doom he takes her home and the show morphs into an episode of Ah my Goddess.

Ayase, Aka tsundere black and Sieger

Episode three centers around the introduction of Azumi, who in the show has the job of being cute as a button and being an ally to Asuka. Episode four adds a couple more wrinkles to the politics of the show's world and deepening Ayase, aka the antagonist lady from episode two and showing that she might be an ally to Asuka, even if she hates angels. Overall I find the show to be decent fun if intellectually lightweight. I will be continuing to watch this show.