Element Hunters

I'm one of those people who doesn't judge a show by a slow start. This is because it is not unusual for shows that start slow to become better and more interesting as the story becomes deeper, the characters grow on you and become interesting, and specific features of the show, like action or drama, become more intense. Unfortunately, Element Hunters is not this kind of show. It starts off slow and stays slow. The entire time I watched the show I never felt much in terms of interest. The main reason I kept watching it was because of myearlier statement about slow starting shows and I don't like quitting things I started. Something that always bugged me about this show is that it feels like it was made for a younger audience, but the conversations can become so complicated and detailed that it would remind me a little bit of the overcomplicated conversations in shows like Ghost in the Shell. I suppose this is due to the fact that the show revolves around a complicated science, but it just doesn't feel like it mixes well with the show in general. Now even though it sounds like I hate this show, the thing is that I don't hate it, but I don't like it either. It falls into that weird middle ground where you can't figure out how you feel about it. Story - 5 The story is unique, Elements being sent to another world and kids trying to retrieve them is something I have never heard of in a show before. As mentioned earlier though, the story telling felt slow to me though. A lot of episodes deal with characters mostly talking, which I don't mind, but only if the conversations are interesting. The show tends to revolve around characters speaking long winded conversations about the pseudo science dealing with the elemental dematerialization, or talking about how to combine elements in a fashion that feels like you are supposed to be watching the show in a science class. Art - 6 Art was pretty good, the characters looked pretty normal, the environments were OK, and the design for some of the creatures stood out to me as cool. Sound - 4 This gets a 4 because a lot of the character's voices would often get on my nerve. Character - 5 Characters are fleshed out throughout the series, but I found myself not caring when they did. These episodes didn't feel that deep, so that even though I came to understand the characters better, I didn't feel like it actually mattered really. Enjoyment - 4 Just didn't get much enjoyment from this show. Too many annoyances kept getting in the way. Overall - 5 Despite all my gripes about the show. I still found myself interested when a new episode came out. To me this means that I liked the show to a degree, but just not enough for me to give it praise.

I took Element Hunters as a kid's show, and with that in mind I thoroughly enjoyed the show. It is a cut above kid's shows today and I even learned some things, with amusing characters and compelling friendships along the way. You would enjoy this show if you want one that is mostly light, but with an important goal in the end - the first episodes are quite light-hearted and stand alone, while later the show culminates without getting too heavy. Anyway, I thought Element Hunters was adorable and I would definitely want kids to watch it.

I first found this when I was browsing for Anime to watch. I found the cover fairly appealing and quite liked the overview summary. This series has a very SLOW start, so unless you're a patient and tolerant individual as myself, then I suggest finding a more fast paced, more mature anime, but it's worth the wait in my case. Even though it's basically a children's anime, I guess I can't really judge it too harshly. I mean, if I showed this to my 5 year old cousin, she would have fallen in love as I did with Pokemon when I was younger. It's basically dependingon your age, if you're younger/very childish, I guess this anime can appeal to you, but if you're a young adult seeking more fierce battling, I suggest watching Naruto or something else. It's rated for kids, so not a lot of blood. Anyways, I liked the peaceful ending and I watched the credits peacefully before reluctantly closing the tab where I was watching it. I really liked the series and I recommend this series to a younger audience. If you have a young sibling or young friend that wants to watch an adventure anime, show them this! It's easy going and has a peaceful nature. It also teaches partially about chemistry and I loved watching the little Chemistry signs because they looked so cute! I enjoyed this series and was a bit sad when it ended, but I'll remember the Earth Gang. Like how I remember all my shows that made me cry. [8/10] :D Note to CHRISTIAN (Religion) Also a warning, one thing that bugged me also is that as a Christian, I was a bit surprised to find the Illuminati Pyramid (Pyramid with an eye on it, basically a symbol used in cults or something) incorporated into the story. Don't worry, there's no demon summoning/possession or anything like that, but I just found it kind of funny. Why did they put it there? It only appears in full form in the last 10 episodes, but disappears before the end of the series, probably for a duration of 2-3 episodes, so it's not that big of a deal. So if you're a very devoted Christian, I recommend not showing this to your kids if you don't want them to be influenced (some people are like that). You don't have to listen to me, but I warned you. **SPOILER REVIEW** Story's pretty good, although it's pretty generic. It's a similar plot to many other anime, but it's very enjoyable for me to see them action adventure-y all the time. The Art style is pretty old, so I can't really blame it for having semi-bad graphics compared to today anime (2014). I have to say, I was REALLY annoyed by Ren's voice acting. I ended watching the ENTIRE series with no volume and with subtitles. As of now, I don't really know how any of the characters sound like, but it irritates me when Ren speaks. Characters are awesome! I feel in love with Ren (though I curse his voice), he's not the average "I lost my parents/siblings/friends/mentor/anythingelseimportant so I'm going to be really awesome and mysterious" type of hero, which is something unusual. I liked that, I think they mixed the plot with dealing with the parents pretty well. Also when Ally apparently died, I was appalled because I liked her and I totally shipped Ren and Ally. I was relieved to find out that she was alive when I sped to the wikipedia and spoiled that she was alive and that Juno was going to die too (Oops :P). Despite knowing that Juno was going to die, I actually cried when Juno died, and I'm 17 years old (I'm really emotionally childish btw). That android grew on me and I rarely shed tears for a child's show. The way that Ally "died" to protect Ren reacted kind of hurt me because I had a friend close to me who died too (although my dead friend was not really heroic in that sense, but it still stings). I was kind of shocked that they were willing to kill Juno off though, something that differs from the other Children Anime like Pokemon and Digimon. Digimon does have allies dying and stuff, but I haven't cried it. I haven't really seen anyone *important* from the Pokemon series dying, other than Lucario [Movie] and Latios [Movie] (and technically Ash in the first film, but he generically came back to life). Romantic wise, I really wanted Ren and Ally to be a couple, I mean he even said that she smelled nice and hugged her. I think maybe in the future, they might :P Chiara and Rodney was also pretty cute couple (now official as of the ending of the season), but I ship Ren and Ally even more :D It's funny though, how Ren didn't really have a main love interest like in most anime or shows as the main character, I support that! There should be more like Ren. There really should **SPOILER END**