The Outcast Season 1

People are giving this show much more credit than it deserves. The title of the anime is spot on tho, Hitori no shit. I don't usually get triggered by anime, but this is a new low. We follow in the footsteps of a "virgin" Chou Soran a heir to some powerful family. One sudden day the grave of his grandfather is pillaged and he has to find out why. On his way to his dear grandfathers grave, he finds goku, no wait i mean Fuu Houhou. Fuu just like Soran, are supernatural humans who can freely control their Ki and use Martial arts as their weapons,called outsiders. In a world filled with people like them Soran is extremely special and is headhunted by many evil organizations, but fret not, during the story you will find out why, but not really :) This anime is trying to be something original and to follow the whole martial arts ki-superpower thing to an extent that it's just horrid. What could have been key-parts of this anime ended up as dull battles with zero progress(not even one good battle at the end of the anime), a main character that is your typical young "i want justice, i have this awesome superpower, i am stronger than you think" attitude with no character progression. The other characters except our Fuu "GOKU" Houhou are so miniscule you won't even bother thinking about them as none even leave a single trace of impression. Oh did i mention that there is comedy in this anime and most of it is about Soran being a virgin? I also feel that the mix the anime is trying to do between comedy and action, just can't be taken seriously, the comedy is slapstick and dry humor about being a virgin. Now the worst part is, this anime tries so hard to reach a Shounen level that is just dosen't know how to deal with the story, because there literally is none. This is the new generation of anime, thats so horrible i can't even imagine why this got produced at all. With each episode you keep expeting, "wow when is an amazing battle gonna start with our main character doing something really cool?". Well don't bother. If a fight starts, it's 30 seconds long and in the end goku comes, kicks everyone and it's over. No fights last longer than 3min. There is just nothing, this anime lacks soul. Nothing to captivate it's audience and being so damn slow paced, it even ended in a way so that they can get a season 2, if they sell well... Let's be honest, that will never happen. Or you will have to read the manga for the rest, but at this point if' the anime is this dissapointing, the manga will be as well. I Give it a solid 2! I would have given it a 1, but damn I just had to give it +1 for this crap to even leave the studio and reach the tv. Hurray, for Hitori no Shit. I honestly recommend this if you are on the verge of quitting anime, as this will definitevly seal the deal.

Finally, china blessed us with another Zombie stuff. There's no secret to the success of animes like this,either you need to have tons of fan service like "high school of the dead" or such hype that will make it widely popular even before it start airing,like what happen to "Kabaneri of the iron fortress" and having a logical plot is irrelevant for such genre. But unfortunately "Hitori no Shita: The Outcast" got none of it but still there're few surprising element in it,at least I thought so at the beginning. PLOT- (BIT SPOILERS) It's a tale about chou the strongest of all outsider (People with supernatural power but aregood for nothing),a man who can defeat dozen of fierce warriors in expense of few scratches using some ancient style but he's long death and a corpse now so the plot focuses on his legacy,his only grandson chou soran who inherited the same power and can turn himself into "CHINESE SUPER SAIYAN" as well and now different evil organization are after him and sending zombies,psychopath,lolis to track him down, but as the anime equation goes,for every bunch of bad people there'll be same numbers of good people and here's no different,there's an express delivery organization which is keeping him safe and helping him to develop his skills. Literally, there isn't anything to the plot but the anime tried hard to depict the matters in such manner as if it's one of those mystery thrillers but tbh, it made the stuff more confusing for the viewers. Characters- Each character is like creation of the saitan himself,you can never find them in any other " animu" First of all lets hail 'Fu hoho" the ultimate reincarnation of the ghost from poltergeist, she's the main female lead as well,an invincible killer machine with little to no emotion and such gorgeous noodles like hairs. WOW Cho Soran is the main male lead and focus of the plot, the unluckiest virgin,I don't know what else to say. There are other cringy characters as well but their names are so complicated,no reason remembering them. ART- Sometimes it's hard for me to figure out if a character is really thinking or talking as the mouth rarely moves and even if it does move,it make the face looks so awkward. Basically,one of the poorest animation I've seen in recent times. Overall- Another below average show of this season to cover up the list.

First off, if by reading the synopsis you thought this was a show about zombies (a la Highschool of the Dead)...it's not. It's about "Outsiders"--seemingly ordinary people with extraordinary abilities. One of those Outsiders is a girl who can control zombies, but she is NOT the main character. Secondly, if you haven't started watching, I must pre-warn you of this part in the 1st episode which caused a fair number of people to give up in disgust. It's the scene where Houhou is trying to bury the MC, Soran, and he just sits there like an idiot. Why doesn't he just get up and runaway? See, in the original webcomic (which I checked out), that pit is supposed to be much deeper than shown in the anime (it's over Soran's height even when he's standing up and he likely had to jump to get over its edge--at which point he was easily kicked backed down by Houhou.) For some reason, the anime depicts the pit as being really shallow, which makes this particular scene not credible...but I'd put this down to bad art, rather than bad writing. ***Ratings*** -- Plot/Pacing: B At first, the mystery behind Soran's background and the Outsider world in general made me anticipate each new episode, as I found myself wanting to know more about the Outsiders and the different organisations and to see the development of the various characters and their relationships. However, after the whole Outsiders thing was explained (episode 5), I felt it wasn't that big of a deal/reveal at all. Worse, the pace slowed considerably (around episode 7 onwards)--and it was already quite slow before. The comedy bits are also a bit overdone and can be quite jarring, but you kind of get used to them after awhile. -- Seiyu/Sound: B+ I'm watching the Japanese dub (with sub-par English subs.) I think the voice actors did a fairly decent job, giving the characters enough of their own life and personality, such as the indifferent Houhou, the slutty Natsuka, the cunning Lo Ryu, etc. The soundtrack is pretty much standard J-rock, but the OP managed to get stuck inside my head after awhile. -- Art/Animation: B The character designs are nothing out of the ordinary, and the quality of the art is inconsistent (from "not bad" to "ugly/lazy.") I don't know if it's just me but I felt there was a noticeable drop in the quality from episode 7 onwards. -- Bonus/Bias: +10% I'm giving bonus points solely for the character of Fuu Houhou. Normally I detest those "stoic", emotionless-girl type of characters, but Houhou just seems different somehow...her messy hair, poor fashion sense, ignorance of societal norms and conventions, and her insane skill with kitchen knives and choppers all combine to give her a very unique appeal (read: "moe.") Her character significantly helped to sustain my interest in the series--and I know there are a number of people out there who feel the same way. ***Additional info*** The original source is a Chinese webcomic and the anime is a collaboration between Chinese and Japanese producers. I watched the Japanese dub and a bit of the Chinese dub (just to compare), and I think the Japanese dub was produced first, the reason being that the animation matches the Japanese voices better, while it is a bit out-of-sync for the Chinese voices. In terms of differences in script, the Chinese one is more crude. For example, in one scene, a female character in the Japanese script says something like, "it would be better if we were on a date", while the Chinese script has her saying, "it would be better if we were in bed". The Chinese script also has more cussing. As for English subtitles, unfortunately the fan-made one is very far from perfect. Some terms weren't translated at all. For example, the following terms: (1) Kinkou - literally "golden light". It's a visible aura manifested from one's inner energy. Soran's kinkou is supposed to protect him from harm. (2) Xiangxi ganshi - "Xiangxi" is the name of a place in China (where the practice of animating corpses to transport them was popular in the past), and "ganshi" literally means "corpse-driver". Ryu Kenken is referred to as a xiangxi ganshi--a person who knows how to manipulate corpses.