Spoonixel Amateur movie with Big budget

FuzzyTagz If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

Twilightfa Watch something else. There are very few redeeming qualities to this film.

Micah Lloyd Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

Ingo Hoheisel Well, the animation is different but that OK. Most important is the story about the Ajin and then the main protagonist Nagai who just care about himself but still now what is logical wrong or good. On the another side, the always smiling Sato who play in his free time Gameboy ( Donkey Kong ) is the real evil who brings terror and death to the human kind. The story and characters are interesting and catch you straight away. The second season is even better when the hunted and hunters have to work together to stop Sato and his loyal fanatics.

kaimal This show is a complete mess. I started watching this show because I heard the protagonist is more or less a sociopath. I've watched Dexter, which had the same conceit, and I enjoyed it (for the first 4 seasons at least). This show doesn't really know what it wants to be. I had no problem with the show having no clear good guy, but the way it portrayed people being wishy washy and unclear in their motivations was absolutely infuriating. The only I guy i actually rooted for was Sato, who I think was supposed to be the true "bad guy" in a show full of bad guys. Nevertheless, I only liked him for being clear, concise, and true to his character.I was sick of the weaknesses of every character. Kei, the "hero", doesn't even follow the logical progression of his sociopathic character. I expected a big reveal of his selfishness at the end of the series, but the show didn't even give me that. There was so much potential for this series. I'm bummed because I was so close to loving this series considering its overall themes.

pittman-37133 I'm assuming if you're going out of your way to read this review, you've at least read the summary of the show. Watching the first couple minutes I recognized that the animation was the same as Knights of Sidonia, and I absolutely adored that show. KoS, although it seemed like an indie project with its unique animation, it felt like it had a dedicated production crew behind it from start to finish. Ajin on the other hand, did not give me that feeling. It felt like the producer okay'd the script without having it being proof read.Loved: Although we have two antagonists, one drastically stands out more than the other in every sense of the word bad. This man is the equivalent to Batman, in the sense that, given enough preparation, he could take down a whole army. He's written to behave like his (what we consider evil deeds) are just for entertainment and sport. One thing I really fell in love with was his explanation of how to "kill" an Ajin, that literally sent chills down my spine. The other thing I loved was his seemingly childlike obsession with testing his limits, by having a whole skyscraper fall on his opponents.Liked: I liked how Sato (the main antagonist I mentioned previously) just knew he'd need a new hat after we see it fly off when the building falls on a pharmaceutical company, and his accomplice just drops a drone off by him with a shotgun, ammo for the shotgun, and a hat. That was pretty funny.Didn't like: I didn't like how the writer unapologetically took an episode and a half of Tokyo Ghoul, and pasted it into their script. The main character in both shows is someone who can't die by conventional means, they get tortured to where their mental capacity is crushed, and then turn into a hollow fighting machine. Granted Tokyo Ghoul blended it in much better, but Ajin suddenly made this boy cold and calculating as soon as he was freed. They didn't really harp on how intellectual the main character was like Tokyo Ghoul did, but suddenly he knows how to fight and incapacitate people.I also didn't like how the superpower that everybody was scared of was this mysterious thing that they still don't know anything about at the conclusion of the first season. With superpowers the audience usually gets an explanation, even if the main character isn't apart of the equation. They can usually get away with just saying they were born with it, if they don't feel like an explanation is needed in the beginning but go into detail later. However, our main character "obtained" it, at like the age of 6 and then his sister mysteriously ends up in the hospital for most of her life, although she seems fine. At least she wasn't in a coma like the second antagonist's fiancé...or anything resembling a life threatening condition....Hated: I absolutely hated how sloppy the writing was in this. I'm assuming there's a season two, but there are too many clichés and plot holes for a second season to fix.1. The second antagonist has a storyline that's pretty generic. A man with a sick loved one that he needs treatment, turns evil. They try to give him a signature action which is okay if you explain it. You just randomly see this guy try to be the evil mastermind he claims to be and then randomly pops a couple mints in his mouth. Shows that have small little quips like that usually have them explained, instead, this man has minty fresh breath 24/7.2. The main character just ditches his friend, for like nothing. This is before the whole torture stage, and we NEVER see him again, and I don't see a reason for him to be brought back in the 2nd season. After he meets another Ajin (and after the phase where he locks him up for 3 episodes, because he's suspicious of everybody now) they magically become best friends in a matter of 5 minutes.3. The writer does a good job of the details behind 2 major events, but then everything leading up to those events is kind of washed over. It felt like it needed to be thrown in there because the main character needed some kind of path until the story gets to the 2nd Arc, which even then the main character wasn't even a part of.4. I feel like the sub reason (he needs money, the main reason being his fiancé is dying/coma and he wants to prevent it) the second antagonist is trying to throw in the writer wanting people to be reminded "money is the root of all evil", but people being bought out has been overcooked for years.5. The whole announcement to get the Ajin to gather for Sato's plan could only be seen and heard by the people who could use their IBMs. Yet everyone besides Sato's main accomplice couldn't use their IBMs. They ultimately turn into your average henchmen, who just so happen to be the best marksmen in Japan. I say that because there were supposedly 40+ Ajin in the world and only about 5 or 6 (I don't exactly remember) show up for Sato's full explanation and the plan roughly takes place during a two week period and out the 5 or 6 that showed up, 2 just happened to be trained gunman who literally shot shackles off of a man from a skyscraper...I give this a 46/100 overall. That's the equivalent to a math test being half multiple choice, and half work-shown problems, and getting most of the multiple choice right, while throwing in fluff answers for the rest of the test. The points this show got from me are mainly for: the idea, the two major arcs, and the main antagonist.

warnke-christoph Most of the Ajin-Manga fans hate the 3D-Style the new Ajin-anime has. Especially the younger fan base cant understand the importance of this type of animation. A Seinen-anime like Ajin doesn't need a child-comfortable animation, it needs the 3D to create his unique fight-scenes which are that great that the action of common-known anime like One Piece looks cheap and frumpy. Of course, the face expressions of the characters suffer because of the 3D, but it doesn't matter in an action-splatter anime. The action is not the only thing that sets this series on fire: The great idea and the well considered plot are hilarious. Its about Japan from where we stand with only one difference: Everyone knows about the existence of Ajin. Ajin are ordinary people from the outside, but they have some supernatural abilities, and the most important is that they are not able to die. If an Ajin gets killed, he will restore his life to full health. So only the humans, who die accidentally, by sickness or by murder and revive immediately, get to know what they really are. Exactly this is what happens to the protagonist, an ordinary high-school student who gets in a deadly accident in front of his friends and a lot of strangers. He revives before their eyes and needs to run away after; because there is a bounty of hundred millions yen for reporting an Ajin that leads to his arrest. So the big hunt begins, police officers, special forces, bounty hunters and other Ajin appears during the plot fighting each other, without the scheme of good and evil, in this anime every party has some good points to fight for. This plot is also really into details, so it doesn't let space for any plot holes and all explanations for supernatural stuff doesn't appeal appropriate at any point. The characters are like the plot: Special and well thought out. The protagonist looks in the first place like the anime stereotype: a regular student who gets some abilities and turn into a hero. The first two things match, the third point is argueable, because he gets more and more selfish and helps only himself. He is smart at some points and he learns from his mistakes which makes him to an understandable, real character. But the protagonist is not an exception, all of the leading characters are extraordinary, but to describe them would spoil a lot. For all those fans of action and splatter and good plots, especially for fans from Parasyte, Tokyo Ghoul or God Eater is Ajin a big MUST. Same as the mentioned anime Ajin takes u on a trip you cant stop until the series is over, a trip where u will go on a ride through action, blood, drama and some cool patter without losing its speed, so u don't get the time to feel bored at any episode.The only bad thing about this series is, that there is only a small chance of getting a second season, because 3D-animation are not that popular and gets a lot of hate from the community. It is sad that these people will never appreciate this masterpiece without even watching it. I can just say that u better don't judge an anime by its unusual type of animation, being different is not equal with being bad.