Triage X

"I wanted to see if all human beings had a conscience. When they realize that their evil deeds have brought them death, do they feel regret?" (This review, nor this series is nothing so pretentious) Preface: Ah, Triage X. Heralded as "that" anime that crops up every season, promising huge bra sizes and more swinging breasts and panty shots than you can shake a stick at- Triage X does that and more. In more than one way, it's the spiritual successor to the long pined after season 2 of High School of the Dead, and in its own way ends up being something else entirely. It's kindof the Rugrats: All Grown Up version of HOTD, if you will. Before I start reviewing, let it suffice to say that nobody went into Triage X looking for an emotionally moving, intellectual, character driven plot... No, it's just dumb fun. Let's get into it, shall we? (Note: I'm going to break out the fanservice scale again for this one.) Artwork and Animation: 7 {Fanservice: 10 Bouncing Boobs out of 10} I hadn't seen anything by Xebec before, but I have to say that it looked just fine. The bloody gunshots, dismemberments, stabs, rips, gouges, beatings, and many other wounds were appropriately juicy. There are currently censors on the versions that are available to watch now, but I assume it will be filled to the brim with giant breasts and butt shots when the home video release comes out. Truly bringing Shoji Sato's vision of the perfect look to life. I'm not really sure how low the budget is, but it doesn't bother me. The CGI bike actually looks decent too. (Maybe I've been watching some badly low budget stuff lately and am tainted.) Sound and Voice Acting: 8 {Fanservice: 8 Sexy Moans out of 10} Nothing really to complain about here. One standout though, and that's Fuyuka Ooura as Dr. Yuko Sagiri. Also the voice of Miyo Takano, she really brings the chilling, dangerous element to the voice part here. The opening and ending songs are solid J Rock stuff, and the insert songs are mostly hard rock that fit the action, and string sections for more serious parts. Characters and Story: 6 {Fanservice: 8 Hyped Up Set Pieces Involving Action Girls!} Okay, let's be real. These characters' backstories, aside from Hitsugi and Arashi, are NOT explored. In the grand scheme of the show, does it really matter? This show about action girls with implausibly large chests being super badass and not takin' no shit. It's not a character drama, it just needs some people in there that you can watch rip shit up. This is high action at its best. Ultraviolent at times (Execution style headshot with a crossbow into a burning warehouse, YEAH!). Ultrasexual at others (Bath scene while discussing torture methods- shout out to Higurashi!). They even got the Mad Max (and more recently 'cool' in Walking Dead) *cuffed to something, throws a hack saw* "You can saw through your arm faster than you can get through those handcuffs, if you want to get away". (Lampshaded, too- for good measure) Overall, full of cool action scenes taken straight out of famous movies- bike chases, crashing through windows, biological weapons, torture, huge shootouts, explosions, skyscrapers- it's a giant mashup of action cliché where everything is over exaggerated. This is the essence of Shoji Sato. Triage X does actually have a functional episodic plot, objectively speaking. I don't know if you've seen Dexter, the Showtime series, but Mr. Sato ripped the plot off, adding a medical theme and some hot chicks instead of a psychopath who shoots 3s (except for Yvonne Strahovski). It's that coupled with a late night titty movie with action girls, except in TV form. It's a 10 episode version of those lovably bad B movies that come on really late at night that you watch drunk or when you can't sleep. This isn't prime time TV, this isn't movie theater stuff. It's a bargain bin item in that sketchy, dark corner of the video store with the stained carpet under that blinky light. (If you don't know- Dexter is about a forensic investigator who moonlights as a serial killer of people he believes escaped justice). Enjoyment and Overall: 9, 7 {Fanservice: 10 Jiggly Pairs of Physics Breaking Boobs} I can't convince anyone else that it's lovable schlock and not utter ecchi harem garbage, but it's in fact the B movie kind of schlocky! (B is for "best"). However, if you fux with High School of the Dead, you probably like Shoji Sato's work, and it's the perfect schlock. I think Shoji Sato is a secret genius. I also think Triage X and HOTD are both great for what they are- giving these hardcore ecchi fans what they want, no matter how vehemently they deny it! People want ambiguously underage girls with huge boobs shooting stuff up, along with a blank slate main male character who gets all the Tang to project themselves onto. It's true. Look at the state of the anime industry today- As I said above, there's always that anime, (or several of them) that does nothing but pander to its sexually repressed audience. Shoji Sato knows his audience, and he is laughing all the way to the bank. Wrap-up and Recommendation: If you like High School of the Dead and are looking for even bigger action and boobs (Yuko has a 43.7 inch band size, holy impossible two headed cow!) you have come to the right place. There's just enough story to keep it moving onto bigger and badder set pieces, and is really the only anime this season I've been excited to watch every week. Call me a weirdo, masochist, whatever. As a friend once told me, "If you eat fancy steak every night, sometimes you just want to eat a greasy hamburger." Triage X is a big, greasy anime hamburger. Final Score: 7 {Fanservice: 9 Parts Sexy, 1 Part Rule of Cool}

What do you got when you combined, action, blood, guns, gore, big boobies and lots of eye-candy? You get something like this, a 10 episode anime whose theme, setting and plot are a complete oxymoron which is typical of studio Xebec, since most of it's genres are compose of popping eye-candy whose direction is complete head scratchier. Note: I haven't read the manga yet, so my review is only for the anime. Story The story is just your typical vigilantes kind of thing where there is the usual good guys who fight against them bad guys out side of the law, which to me is ok. But, theones who are doing the crime fighting that involves people in the health care industry is kinda of awkward, but nevertheless it's ok, but how they got into that kind of side business is a big plot hole to say the least. My verdict: A decent 4. Art Frankly it was typical of studio Xebec to always include eye candy in their genre, now let's face it the only thing that make this anime and manga sell is sex, which it the very mantra of every men's magazine where "sex sells." Here the main selling point was mostly on the boobies, where distinguishing the young girls from the older ones isn't much a priority of the illustrator , in fact the youngest character Oriha Nashida can pass as a twenty-something bimbo. Despite of my disgust, those big boobies and some panty flashes really did got me. My Verdict: a Very Good 8. Sound Basically the opening and closing isn't my cuppa tea, also the character voices regardless of age doesn't have that youthful tone, in fact Mikoto and Oriha doesn't have that teen age tone in it, were it that really doesn't impress me at all. My verdict: a Poor 3. Character For the most part the character's themselves are either an oxymoron or a plot hole. So who were the characters? Arashi Mikami, the main protagonist whom as a child and a victim of a terror attack he received a lot of organ transplant from his dead friend Ryu Mochizuki. Ok at first I find it hard as to how his body was able to cope up with multiple organ transplant in one operation, co'z in reality such operation would prove to be 100% fatal even with new drugs. The oxymoron about him was that he can ride a bike, so why does he have to ride shotgun along with Mikoto where both can shoot while riding? I was really unfortunate that he didn't even think about banging her while they were in the showers, which would have added more intensity to this anime and it was very obvious that the two don't mind being naked together. Mikoto Kiba, in the anime, it was never mentioned that she is of Yakuza royalty and her brother was murdered, but nevertheless, it was a big plot hole as to how she learned how to shoot and fight. Pretty much she just one of the eye candies in this anime. Oriha Nashida, the big plot hole about her was that she is this child prodigy / idol whom it was unknown as to how she got mixed up with being one of the members of "Black Label" who like things that goes BOOM! In fact that's what we the audience only knows about her. Sayo Hitsugi, about her, well at least we got know her beginnings, not much to say. Yuko Sagiri, so how does a well endowed doctor got to be a master swords woman is a mystery at least in this anime. Miki Tsurugi, being an anesthesiologist was pretty much an oxymoron for her character, since a specialist like that only deals with the prevention of pain and not concocting brews like date-rape drugs or PCP's where she uses it to interrogated suspect and afterwards they won't remember a thing, geez , Manga artist Shōji Satō really has no idea that such drug can be concocted by either a pharmacist or a drug dealer. My Verdict: Poor 3...blame it on Manga artist Shōji Satō. Enjoyment TBH, it was the eye candy that provides the true entertainment than anything else, one can simply forget the rest. My Verdict: Good 7 for the boobies and panties. Overall Welp, since it was obvious that this anime was rushed and poorly assembled there is no doubt that this anime should've be better off left as a manga. So my verdict: a Pathetic 1.

Well I finished it moments ago so let's do a review. STORY 3/10 I think there was meant to be a story in there at some point... I didn't really catch it. So anyway, this is practically big tits fanservice the anime. If you like this kind of thing then go ahead and watch it. Let's see... I have little idea as to what they are even doing and the parts I do know I don't really care about at all. They didn't seem to be to emphasized. Something about childhood friend dying. I don't really know. Around the 7th or so episode they began to insertsome sort of story and then the season ends suddenly and I was kind of just thinking "Well... I don't understand... Why is this so important? What are you doing? Is your repeated action necessary?" ART 7/10 The animation was fairly good though about 80% of what is animated is just breasts. I guess they did a good job... SOUND 3/10 Sound? I can't remember any sound. All I remember is the girls breasts swaying back and forth as she rode her motorcycle. CHARACTER 4/10 There was very little background given for a lot of the characters. I don't know, maybe the breasts have occupied all of my memories of this show. I can't remember any character names and I was looking at them recently before I began my review. I don't know I just don't think I care. ENJOYMENT 5/10 I guess I enjoyed it. It was okay. It was also predominantly just breasts. OVERALL 5/10 I honestly believe they were just trying to insert as many large breasts into every frame as they could. I just... I don't even.

A review of *Triage X, an anime by Shouji Satou, the creator of Highschool of the Dead.* Based on a manga by the creator the infamous *Highschool of the Dead*, *Triage X* is the latest anime about guns, explosions, and over-the-top fanservice that follows a group of assassins that eliminate the "cancers" of society. After the first few episodes, Triage X showed promise beyond its fanservice exterior thanks to its intriguing concept. The focus on an individual character for a two to three episode arc actually provided slight character development and fun action sequences. Unfortunately, after a decent start, the writing takes a turn for theworst to the point where it is not even that entertaining anymore. As with any work based on a manga by Shouji Satou, the characters have insanely oversized breasts. Fanservice in a fanservice series is not necessarily a bad thing. If that is the point of the anime, at least do the fanservice well, and that is not the case for *Triage X*. During the dramatic scenes, taking the series seriously is almost impossible with two large things that defy the laws of physics sticking out all the time. Even during the fanservice scenes, it is rarely “sexy.” Maybe it will appeal to a certain demographic, but not me. Even at a light 10 episodes, *Triage X* does little to make itself a worthwhile experience. Unless you are a fan of the manga, Highschool of the Dead, or offensively large breasts, do not waste your time with Triage X; it does not even manage to be a guilty pleasure. _Watch if you like:_ Action, Highschool of the Dead, Fanservice, *-3.5/10*