

She managed to escape the lab with a few other witches like her and now they’re on the run and hiding. She’s a super powered girl able to break objects after a shady laboratory experimented on her. After preventing Ryouta’s death, the anime then revealed that the childhood friend is actually a witch. It just screams potential and I quite like how it was able to setup this complicated relationship on top of an exciting story of people preventing deaths. After telling Ryouta he’ll die if he rode the bus home, the guy is suddenly intrigued. For some reason, she is able to predict certain deaths and then finds a way to stop them. After this relationship was established, it was then revealed this girl is actually able to prevent certain deaths. He was a bit invasive in the way she approached her but she understands that the dude is a bit hung up about certain things. It opened with this story about Ryouta being obsessed with this girl that looks like his childhood friend. It definitely feels a bit crammed with a lot of things happening in short intervals. The plot was a bit confusing starting out though. This show is about Ryouta trying to save this girl that looked like his childhood friend. How much time are you willing to invest in something like that? Keep in mind though, this anime is both mishandled and retarded. Plus, the addition of harem does make it all the more intriguing. For what it’s worth, I do think the Elfen Lied elements do resound wonderfully in this show. Things turned retarded after the second half and the ending kind of wrinkles the whole experience. I did see the first few chapters and they had the same pace. The ideas of the manga are nicely presented but it’s pretty easy to tell that the whole thing is badly mishandled. Why, you might ask? Because they’ll screw it up and boy, did this one marvelously screw up. You do not give a compelling manga to an inadequate studio. That doesn’t mean much when they’re both thirty five notches lower than Production IG. In my honest opinion as someone who has seen a lot of what most studios have to offer, Studio Arms would be two notches higher than Gonzo. I guess for pure nostalgia and a nod to Elfen Lied’s success then having Studio Arms give us Brynhildr in the Darkness is the only way to go. Maybe trusting the same studio that handled Elfen Lied to adapt another Lynn Okamoto work is something sound and commendable. They’re an inept studio so dumb that their notable releases include Queen’s Blade and Ikkitousen. Don’t ever give such a glorious thing to Studio Arms. Just tell someone that it has gore, nudity and cute girls dying made by the same dude that gave us one of the most needlessly violent anime of its time then you’ll have people clawing to see it. It doesn’t really matter what it’s about. Naturally, anyone who enjoyed the mindf*ck that is Elfen Lied would immediately want to see this. It’s a show made by the creator of Elfen Lied with a lot of the same old gore, nudity and cute girls dying.

Here’s something to get some people overly excited. Ryouta then promised to protect her to compensate for that one time his life changed forever. He never would’ve believed though that this girl that looks like his dead friend is actually a witch running from a secret evil lab. Overcome with emotions, he then tried to be involved with her life. This girl looked exactly like his childhood friend. One day though, a transfer student joined Ryouta’s class. If only he hadn’t slipped then she wouldn’t have died. After a few years passed, he is still hung up on that event. After he got out, he was told his childhood friend died in the fall. Ryouta then woke up in a hospital bed after surviving the fall. Suddenly, Ryouta slipped while walking along the pipes and the girl tried to catch him. They crossed a narrow path on the side of dam to see the alien.

One day, she was convinced she saw one and asked Ryouta to see it as well. He once had a childhood friend that believes in aliens a lot. This anime is about a boy named Ryouta Murakami. That sounds like a fun time, right? Let’s read on. The girls also grope each other’s breasts and form a harem to service our main character.

It’s a thirteen episode anime about a bunch of super powered girls killing each other or something like that. The anime I’ll be reviewing is called Brynhildr in the Darkness or Gokukoku no Brynhildr. This anime is part of the Spring 2014 lineup.
