Few anime series even come close to being as relentlessly dreary as Texhnolyze, but the second half of Blassereiter certainly makes an honest effort. It almost seems to delight in giving its characters horrific backstories deeply ground in prejudice, abus more

Content: (please note that content portions of a review may contain spoilers) Watching the first half of Blassreiter brought about some very different views on the show in comparison to when I watched it in weekly form during its original broadcast. The s more

Hermann wanted to race motorcycles. Gerd, his mentor, cut him from the racing team - he knew Hermann wasn't cutthroat enough to take the kind of risks that could win races. Years later, Hermann is an officer of Xenogenesis Assault Team (XAT), a super more

Blassreiter will always have a certain amount of notoriety in the American anime community for being one of the first batch of series to be legally simulcast as streaming video on Crunchyroll back during the spring of 2008. It also represents yet another more