Kurogane no Linebarrels
Fourteen-year-old Kouichi Hayase’s life has always been a mediocre one, if not dismal. However, those days of being bullied by classmates and escaping to a fantasy of being a hero are put to an end when a certain “accident” bestows on him a girl and a gigantic humanoid robot called “LINEBARREL”. The extraordinary power that Kouichi obtains puts him and everything around him on a sudden rollercoaster ride of battles, intrigues and friendship! During the course of his adventure, the boy starts to learn what life has to offer; he meets new friends, bids farewell to the old ones, but most of all he now has considerable responsibilities and is forced to confront the world around him.
Notes
Alternative Names: Linebarrels of Iron
Genre: Action, Drama, Mecha
Demographic: Seinen
Based on a shounen manga written by Shimizu Eiichi and illustrated by Shimoguchi Tomohiro, serialised in Champion RED.
Reviews
Zelman
Well if you can manage to not wish to be deaf before almost the halfway mark, you'll find this series could be something great. But as all great things, it could also fail miserably. Holding out for the small-teeny change this one will get fansubbed. That change is almost non-existent at this point. it's a mecha anime. Fukuyama Jun appears to play a bad guy. what more could you want? Although the character animation isn't to my liking, the mecha CG is nice.
Michael Eh?
As mecha shows goes, this show went south early. I must agree that Fukuyama Jun plays bad guy well. Still not enough to salvage this show. Even having a girl naked seems to drag the show. It has the plot JMS hates. Gear Fighter Dendoh did a better job of setting up the premise of the story better than this. For me, this doesn't get me pass to even look at the second episode.
Club Notes
Date Reviewed: Dec 14th 2008
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