Needless impressions on Needless

Need­less has the rhytm of Sen­goku Bas­ara and Gur­ren Lagann and set­ting and optic of Marvel/DC Com­ics (Hence all the cap­tions after each action, and hence the feel­ing that the watcher is sup­posed to be a dummy not under­stand­ing any­thing without see­ing it written).

The first epis­ode was full of punches and cool “You thought you won but I’m bet­ter” poses. Both can be only cred­ited to two won­der­ful char­ac­ters. It are the battle priest and the dop­pel­gänger loli.

The Battle Priest

He reminds me of Aniki from Gur­ren Lagann with his atti­tude, though his body shape is far more clichéed “manly”. I won­der why he is a priest… His bible though is really a weapon against the infidels.

The Dop­pel­gänger Loli

She is, roughly expressed, quite bitchy. (In the end she shows some good side of hers though. Nah okay, her good side is vis­ible through all the epis­ode, and it’s not a sur­prise with that cloth­ing. Okay, “cloth­ing” is too over­rated here). She has the abil­ity to mis­speak all kind of names, just like my grand­father. (From his point of view, Google is pro­noun­sed [’go:o:‘gle..] and Skype [sku..pe..]). Regard­ing her appereance, with that her abil­ity “to take a shape of what she wants” it is no won­der why the “tsuru­pet­tan” song is not about her. My cur­rent reason to wait for the next epis­ode is she.

The end­ing deserves a ded­ic­ated para­graph. It has abso­lutely no rela­tion with the plot (so far), but has plenty of yuri. A mys­tery is, why so, but well, it can freely just stay that way. Here I’m not alone I think.

I did not have a feel­ing “the hell I like it”, but noth­ing bad too. Maybe I should state that usu­ally I’m tak­ing screen­shots after­wards — but this time I couldn’t stay calm, and saved everything right away. I decided to give it a first-lookish 7/10.