Anime: Tokyo Underground

Hmm... Generally look at this anime I would say its an average series like many others like it. It has many elements of the typical adventure, fantasy anime genre. This must include crazy powers for the characters.... A big kidnapping and a huge rescue mission. Leading to some sort of saving of the world or to sorts of this. Basically the story is broken into the earth part which is fairly short and the underground part. Most of the time is spent on the main characters running around in the underground trying to save the princess girl "Ruri". To be honest this is as general as you can get for any anime....

Animation
The animation is alright not the best out there. Alot of the fighting scenes can be put in good and bad categories. I mean Alot of the coolest parts are when they use there explosive techniques... And then the hand to hand combat can be a little butchered.... Also little things like blood can be toned down as if they were aiming for a younger audience? Either way it is definitely not anything to be proud of but its watchable and not so bad.

Sound
The sound works fine in most situations. A few of the opening and endings were catchy. Some of them weren't.... The voices and background music is nothing to complain about. Either way just an average ok sound in all aspects.

Story
The story is very typical and geared just towards the main plot. There is little room in this for side stories and extra development. The main issues were dealt with and solved just as they wanted it to be. Having said that.... It WAS way too typical for me to say it was good in anyway. They didn't pull much of a surprise anywhere so it remained your average anime throughout the series.

Character
They really should of considered working a little hard on side characters and development. Yes they did put most of there effort on main characters. Although the change in them weren't soo major that I was moved or anything. I mean the main character pretty much went through the entire anime without ever having a second thought... This is a bad sign.... Every character should at least have one or two second thoughts somewhere. Either way it wasn't too bad soo w/e

Value and Enjoyment
Theres no special value put into this anime. As stated many times before it IS your average anime. They didn't make much of a big deal to give a heart warming lesson besides wanting to save your loved ones.... big surprise :P However I did enjoy this anime. It made for a good watch when I had nothing better to watch. Sometimes your everyday anime can hit the spot if thats what your looking for. I guess this anime is for people that like fantasy/fighting/adventure. It tries to be violent... but isn't really soo I'll warn you now its fairly cheesy at parts. Either way its a good mindless watch ;)

Tokyo Underground is a very decent anime, with elements of humour, a little action and of course a small love story thrown in. It is nothing over the top but far from average.

The animation is nice and detailed. As this show seems to be aimed at a somewhat younger audience the violence in fighting is very toned down and the story has some pretty big plot holes but the overall feel is right nevertheless.

The characters are just there. Not much of a development but some decent explanations of their pasts, but not for all of them.

One thing to stand out is the use of comic relief which often comes out of nowhere. Having watched a whole lot of anime I got used to the concept of breaking a tense (and in parts gritty) story development by something goofy happening. Tokyo Underground uses this a lot so be prepared.

The sound and music is not very outstanding, even if I liked the ending song very much.

In the end Tokyo Underground delivers a decent amount of fun and entertainment. More than you get from most series out there so you may consider it. If you do not watch it you will not miss a classic but to kill a little time this is perfect.

Tokyo Underground is a borderline of Children-anime, which means it's probably meant for kids, but adults can also watch it without feeling too annoyed.

The animation is nice, very nice. The story is okay - it has its good and bad points, but overall it's okay.
The characters are decent ... some are well developed, others are rushed and others are only sidekicks which don't do anything but being funny (or annoying)

If you want a welldeveloped storyline, don't watch this. It's more an inbetweener for when you don't know what to watch and you've already downloaded it.
The idea was good, an underground community which holds a grudge because they are considered outcasts by the people above. Some of them have also developed strange powers to influence water, fire or other things - until they encounter a boy from above who has the ability of influence the air...

Nice references to how the social community works in both the anime as the real world, opening your eyes for all the dirty tricks people use to get things going their way.
Too bad that they introduced some characters which are 'just evil', without a reason for being it.

The opening/ending music is very good though. Upbeat opening and the voice of the singer is very different from other songs, making the op/end very worth listening to.

Worth noticing is the sudden change in style around episode 21-23. The animation becomes different and also the amount of humor/comedy increases a lot, making it look more and more a childish series.