Death’s Notes and Thoughts

Based on a shounen manga by Takashi Shiina, serialised in Shounen Sunday. In the future, people with ESP are becoming more widespread. The Japanese government has hired three of the most powerful ESPers in Japan to work for B.A.B.E.L. (Base of Backing ESP Laboratory), but all three are ten year old girls with questionable attitudes. [taken from AniDB] Well, what should I say, it was kinda entertaining but the end sucked for me since it leaves pretty much all open like there should be a new season, but they didn’t got that far until now, so uguu~…. The chars are definitiv have potential for fun. Kaoru is our telekinesis specialist, and also make very often use of that power. Often to punish not only the bad guys but also Minamoto (their guardian and supervisor), pressing that poor fellow into the next wall or throwing him across the room. To add some funfactor to her already pretty much impulsive behavior she acts like an old man when it comes to girls/womans, means she is kinda perverted. Groping and pantsu watching is nothing unusual for her (poor Oboro-san). Next in line comes Aoi-chan (my favorite), she have a bit more refined behavior then Kaoru and has the ability to teleport herself and also things around her. She has a  kansai flavored way of speech which u can reconise from her characteristic habit of using -han instead of -san when she speaks of Minamoto, but that makes her just cuter. Dunno, but her voice is just wonderful and quite a good match for her character, its kinda outstanding thats why I write about it here. She thinks more then Kaoru and isn’t that impulsive like her, rather a bit cautious. But she let get herself often dragged along with the others. Yea, and there is our lil’ evil Shiho-chan. Her ability is named psychometry, means she can read thoughts from things human touched aswell as read your throughts when she touched you. She has that habit to dive into the dark of the human soul, and in some episodes she even tortures her opponent with that a bit. Also she always tend to have the most weird weapons like needles or a teaser at hand, through quite often she also makes use of a pistol to defend herself. Coming from her ability to read thoughts she can get quite forceful on others since “she have the knowlage”^^. Since the girls keep together like a team, you can imagine what comes out from that. What bugged me in the later  course of the series is that we first get one (evil?) organisation, named PANDORA. Ok, here we have our bad guys, lead by our major. So far so good, and they stay the bad guys (most the time, sometimes they also help The Children cause the major have a liking for some reason in Kaoru). But then around 12-14 episodes before we come to the end another even more evil organisation appears, named Black Phantom. What sucks about that is that cause of the 2nd evil organisation they never come far enough to make an end to the whole thing that makes sense. Thats whats bugging me, when the series end no of both organisations is destroyed. Ok, PANDORA is laying low at the end but still… also that idea that they age around 2(?) years at the end, or more specific in the last episode also was kinda fail. I mean first u get to know them when they’re around 10 years, and they keep more or less that look during the series. But then suddently in the last episodes they look at least 2 years older, and suddently graduate. It even more feels like a provoked preparation for a new season. And speaking of provokation, I can’t help myself but some of the jokes in the series are quite lame and very provoked. They lack the suprise moment and u can see them pretty well coming, which rob me of some funfactor. Still it’s a series dealing with a esper scenartio in a good way and providing some nice ideas about such, so its not that bad either. Thats why I said earlier I found it entertaining but it lacks some essential points to get a “good” rating from me. If you’re not sure if it suits your intrests, give it a try and watch at least 10 episodes, then u should know if u want to go on or not. Yea… and if you dont like the loli topic too much, u should let it be since they play with that at some ends quite much.

Zettai Karen Children Opening 1

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Zettai Karen Children Opening Live Version PV

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Since I didn’t found a version of the ED but came across a live variant of the OP I added this instead for the lulz. If u like the live version, digg a bit on youtube and u come across a full length pv.

-Death

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