Anime 23309 Rail Wars Reviews Filter Check 1

Rail Wars has much to offer anyone who is interested in the Japanese way of life surrounding Public Transportation Systems and as an added result can provide some history about the industrialization of the country. It is an average anime that is surprisingly entertaining with some flaws of course. Nevertheless here's my review, continue to read and see if this show is for you.

Story: 6/10

From what is clear by the synopsis, one can probably tell they're not going to get an epic or an incredibly heart throbbing romance out of this show. You do however get a satisfying slice-of-life feel from it as ... each episode takes you along a specific story arc, with an occasional arc spanning a couple of episodes. This being said a couple of cliffhangers may stand in your way, but not in the dramatic sort of sense. That being said there is no grand conclusion, it's a casual story for people who are looking for an anime to get them past a depressing Key based anime that left a gap in their soul. If this has happened, you know what I'm talking about.

Art: 7/10

As the title would suggest, there is a lot of trains in this show, and with a show that has so much emphasis on trains the animators and artist did a good job on providing extraordinary detail on all mechanical entities within this show. Along with this is near flawless integration of 2D and 3D animation. The show was also fond of creating some weird angles for character interaction, this is mainly due to the ecchi elements that are present within the show, which can be more distracting than pleasing.

Sound: 8/10

There is not too much that an anime can mess up with sound. As for this one I'm sure there are plenty of trains locally available to get good sound in for this show, and the malfunctions and action that comes with it plays well too. Some dialogue is not synced with animation. As for the soundtrack we see very good OP and ED, as well as fitting music to accompany the shows current mood.

Characters: 8/10

The protagonist of the show is a slightly fanatical foamer that clearly has a lot of knowledge about trains. Other from this fact his dreams and motives are normal, which are good for a viewer to relate to. For the more fanatical side of our protagonist, we have a group of fairly normal friends to accompany him, that react a way most 'normal' people would with a foamer. The slice-of-life elements of the show also provide good character development for most characters and springs some interesting romance as well. Likewise their are some very predictable characters that one may wish were more developed.

Personal Enjoyment: 9/10

I like this show! Although I imagine there are many people that would have a hard time trying to keep interested if they're not at all interested in Public Systems or Criminal Justice. Even if a viewer did hold such interests, it is still possible they would not be satisfied with what was offered.

When I first saw the name "Rail Wars", I was thinking some futuristic style anime with fighting, action, lasers, cyber space settings, and all that! Luckily I ended up half right. There is fighting, action, and a cyber space animation paired up with the ending theme. But overall, it's an anime about trains and the troubles that come with the job of working with them. No laser shooting, space ship having, mecha fights for my rather active imagination this time around.

Let's jump right in.


STORY:

The story's about following our main character, Takayama Naoto, who wants to be a train driver. He went through a boot camp ... setting of which was breezed through a bit but showed key points to the training, made three friends along the way, and with a stroke of luck after graduation is reunited with said three friends as trainees in the Public Security Force.
After that, we get episodes involving some back story on everyone, interesting knowledge about trains, and renegade policemen-national security situations!! That's right! There's catching purse snatchers, bomb disposal, saving your friend's friend from drug dealers, gunplay, self-defense and hand to hand combat, VIP transport and protection-
All of this, wrapped up in a competitive-harem bow.

As you can see, it's a pretty simple story. But the story's strong points is how they go about the elements I listed, all the way to an ending that will make all who liked the anime, expect another season.
Some anime tend to teach us, the viewers, about its underlying or main theme. Chemistry here, games there, but over here it's trains. And it's presented the knowledge in a nice, natural, and comfortable pace. I never really knew about trains and their history or the measures that are taken to make sure both the trains and the passengers safety paired with the training necessary to support both the trains and the order on and off the trains, until watching the anime. It gave me something I'll remember if I ever hear about trains or take an actual train ride. Granted it doesn't get you ready to help the crew if something's wrong, so don't expect to be some train savior after watching the anime; it wasn't meant to make you that. It just gave those who didn't know about trains a refreshing and new view of them and the things the people who work on the trains have to deal with.


ART:

The first thing I thought about the art is how the characters designs, especially the faces, reminds me of SAO (Sword Art Online). But it takes SAO's detail to the naughty bits of women that appeared in subtle ways in SAO, and exaggerates them a whole heap on most of the female characters in Rail Wars. You'll get big round breasts, butts, and legs that can reflect light depending on if the scenes in the anime wants to express fanservice, and sometimes flesh seemingly at bursting point through clothing.

You may also like the attention to the environment. Whether in the city, through Japan's mountainous areas or when going across bridges. All that you'd usually enjoy when looking out a window of a train, is all here for your viewing pleasure.

They say trains are a mans romance, and I found that to be true by watching this anime and playing a video game that involved a train segment. The drawback however, is that I felt they could have shown me the inner workings of the relevant trains more often. And so my immersion into the world of trains that the anime displayed suffered a little because the characters would often talk about the workings and make of the train but sometimes not have enough segments showing me these features the train has.

There were two drawbacks in the opening animation.
The first is that at some point the opening tried to display trains and scenes or segments of the characters in the anime at the same time. And that worked as well as some of you may have expected: the trains and the ground they occupied annoyingly blocked out or covered the scenes and segments that I think hinted the characters personalities in the background. You know how an opening theme is supposed to show you what you'll expect? Well thanks to the opening I expected trains; you can be sure of that, but barely anything else when the trains were showcased! And it's not like the trains over throw or outshine the characters, or gave off vibes like "at the end of the day,it's all about the trains". It was a just poor design choice of that part of the anime opening. They could have either eliminated the ground the trains ran along, or made both the ground and trains outlined or transparent until the scenes of the characters were finished.
The second drawback of the opening, is that they showed clips or pictures of random places on and off the train station. Some of the places they showed, weren't really visited anytime during the anime. I feel they could have toned down these, and made use of showing off the characters more. However it did give me a good sense of the environment of a train station, so it's got an up and a downside.But aside from those parts of the opening, the rest of the opening was very engaging and did great in displaying what the characters and environment were like most of the time.

Another part that I might consider a drawback is how sometimes the action and stunts (be it acrobatics and combat) were exaggerated too much and space where everything was happening seemed to expand or detach away from the characters. But I figured this was meant to show that the anime is"over the top", funny, makes room for the characters to do their action scenes, has fanservice, and to inform the viewer what the character(s) will be capable of during the anime.


It has some 3DCGi, but it's rarely shown with the animated characters, and is only saved for when looking at the train from the outside as it travels and such. So it didn't stop me from enjoying the animations.

Overall the art and animation will give you a lot to enjoy. Just know that quality for both varies to set the mood, show relevance, or to give the fan service an edge.


SOUND:

Aside from the man works the speakers of just about every single train or station in most episodes who sounds weird, out-of-place, and sometimes not even like he's speaking through a speaker: everyone's voice actors fit the characters well enough. I don't know whether the person who worked the speakers was one of those automated voices, but he sounded bad and could have been replaced by someone with a better voice or made him fix his voice. They could have added more sound effects before, during, and after he spoke to make it sound like man was part of the intercom system and not like he was a narrator or sitting in the same room as you.

I don't feel there was any concerning drawbacks in the voice acting, nor any praises to be sang. I would have liked if it could have had more realism based on what was happening or had happened to the bodies of characters (like falling down because of being jumped off of or fell upon and getting into fights), but no real issues. In the end I think that's always been up to preference, as I know not all anime will stop to make the sounds real people would make in similar situations and not everyone will criticize or even look for the realism in an anime.

The OP and ED theme really sets the anime's tone to me. Both are filled with a sense of preparation for battle, struggle and longing, all in a sense of "this is how the world is" and "it's up to us to keep everyone safe", and I love that! Especially in a modern-day time! It makes me feel like this anime could have been the mecha, futuristic, war and battle ridden world that I assumed it was by the name! But I never said I was disappointed by what it was or wasn't, and it's still a nice choice for the anime.


CHARACTERS:

What we have is our standard harem setup, a surprisingly tough and reliable bro, and a mentor who starts to favor the main character almost as much as the harem members. A drawback I want to bring up first, is that you may find some of the harem candidates falling for the main character too quickly or taking interest in him for the littlest things. But since it's 12 episodes long, I guess the anime had to be fit all this love for the main character in sooner before later, as to make for cute and valid scenes throughout the anime.

Now to get into what I thought about the main character:

The main character had a child like fondness of trains and that appealed to me because I felt I could relate to him in terms of the things I like. No matter how much certain characters thought he went overboard or told him to shut up, he would always have something nice to say about the trains as well as the characters who got annoyed by his honesty sometimes.
His drawback is you may dislike how often he comes off as weak, and yet powered up in certain situations with no reason except to look cool, get opinions of him improved, or with explanations like, "I have a friend who toughened me up and they will never forgive me if that's all I could take". Characters like this are made to seem like they're improving as people as the anime goes on, so I can put up with him being weak for a while. Other than the drawback, I still found him to be a great person, way ahead of his time mentally, as he would often put the public's safety and comfort before himself.


Now for the main and extra harem members:
First up is Aoi Sakurai. She's the very aggressive type of tsundere who has a very bad and close-minded view of just about all men, and constantly hits and yells at the main character over accidents and the smallest of things. I cannot stand these kinds of tsundere characters! Even if her aggression, mean streak, and hitting of the main character tones down the more she hears his thoughts about certain matters or sees him in action during certain situations(casual and serious). Ultimately replacing this hate and poor opinion of the main character with teasing to get his attention or embarrassed love taps. She was so annoying at the beginning of the anime that her good looks and fanservice wouldn't have been enough to keep my opinion of her dropping for the rest of the anime.
But like I said, it gets toned down to acceptable levels. She gets a lot less annoying and a lot hotter and cuter, just in time to pay attention to her back story and withheld feelings for the main character. I began to like her and think better of her, so don't peg me as someone who hates tsundere characters in the reviews I make. It's just I can only take so much of a harem member whooping the main character's butt, until it gets played out and annoying.

Next is Haruka Kōmi, the big breasted intellectual who's very gentle and can be competitive in the harem sometimes. She can also be take-charge in regard to serious situations or when she's the most helpful. I'm not going to dig too deep into her as it'll spoil how she became a member of the harem. So I'll just say that it might annoy you(the viewer) at how frail she comes off sometimes and less likely to say what's on her mind. Especially when compared to the other members. She's the real "damsel in distress" type who's both resourceful and needs saving.

Next two characters bring the "standard harem" bit i said before, home.
First is the childhood friend who not only has a normal frame compared to EVERY member in the harem, but also has an edge over everyone else since she knows the most about the main character. She had a bit of a noble, "I'm not too worried about how I measure up to the other girls", demeanor to her. And I liked that about her.
Second is the pop idol who is revealed to be the most predatory and bold of all the harem members. She would have a tone that challenged the other members to make her stop clinging to the main character, and it would be a pleasant surprise to see her pop in after her introductory episode.

Now that I got the harem out of the way, the last character I'll talk to you about is the muscle headed character that had a great sense of honor, impressive strength and reliability (except for that one time...), and who ate a lot. He also appeared to be smart and have insight on certain things, for some reason was spared from Aoi Sakurai's hatred of men early in the anime, and was a fun guy to watch. You may find me a smudge forgettable, passing him off as the ox character who was there to round out and support the main cast, but I found him to be a great addition.

Everyone else, you should watch the anime to get to know about.


ENJOYMENT:

The parts I enjoyed about the anime, was the fanservice, action, over the top climaxes of action movies, learning about trains, and the harem.
While development and relationships of characters seem rushed, I felt it was because everyone needed to get closer to each other to make the rest of the episodes that followed more valid and possibly setup for a season two. That's just how I feel though. I don't know if there will be another season, but here's hoping.
It's highly rewatchable, and is a worth while experience.

If you don't like over-the-top and exaggerated action, acrobatics, and fanservice, you probably won't like the anime as much as I did. So keep this mind.
For the rest of us, we'll rewatch and probably even talk among ourselves as fans expecting more to come. Because we're suckers for action, butts and boobies, and the usual harem setup with fun interactions among both the characters and harem members.


OVERALL:

Now to close the review so you can see the anime for yourself.

I give Rail Wars!:

An 7 out of 10.

It is a good anime. A good buy and worthy of support for either more anime like it, or to show that you're a hopeful for a sequel.

It started out as a light novel that now has 9 books, a manga adaptation, and it almost had a game for the PSP Vita. I don't know about you but a game of this anime sounds like it would have been refreshing and fun to look into, had it not been delayed for some reason . So be sure to let the makers of the anime know that they made a good anime, and be on the look out for a possible video game.

Until then, let's meet up at a review of another anime!

Rail Wars! is a series which says would mainly discuss about train. As I thought it's quite interesting to see a series with unique main theme, I took this series. It turned out quite wrong if you want to come and see a train in this series.

As I previously mentioned above, it's a train series. It came with a good premise but deviating plot. The series follows Takayama Naoto, a boy who wants to be a train driver. But, he couldn't do that and instead, he entered as a trainee in the Railways Security Force. There he met some of his harem.

The story is quite ... amusing, but it's boring. It's amusing because of the offer of the girls' action there in resolving problem on train security. It's boring because repetitive usage of same plot in every arc/episode. In almost every episodes, we got some problem. Then as the main character, Takayama used what his best to solved the problem, but it didn't help. Then the harem came to rescue. It always used the same recipe.

One of the reason why I took this series other than the deviating theme is the character design. I really love the character design, the budget really comes in a good way. It is probably the best character design in Summer 2014. But, it's a let down to see the animation didn't come as great as the design. Sometime, you might find a silence and staring character without doing anything for one or two seconds. It's quite disappointing. Otherwise, I love the 3D animation to be used on the train movement.

The OP and ED is quite nice, I like them especially ED. Probably they're the outstanding parts on this series. The soundtrack they are used isn't that good but it's not bad either. At least, it sounds quite matched with the story flow.

Character is another good part in this series, as it's harem series. The girls side are really good, you might find yourself in one of their fans. The boys, too bad they didn't come out as good as the girls. Sometimes, you might find the boys are annoying, as they (or maybe only Takayama) wouldn't do anything notable other than charmed the girls in unnatural way and the girls somehow fell for it. Another note is there is almost no character development, especially on the main characters.

I'm quite enjoyed with this series as this series come in a amazing design. But, sometimes I'm annoyed with the bad reaction to the situation ahead of characters and how the girls fall for Takayama's action. Well, it's a harem series after all.

Rail Wars! come as a quite fair series with outstanding art and good character, but too bad the story didn't come as good as the other parts. This series is for the one who come for the story, but stay for the girls. For the closing, a great quote to follow this series is maybe the one from Bill Gates, "If you can't make it good, at least make it look good."

Thanks for your time to read this review.

Have you ever just randomly stumbled upon a great anime without expecting it to be any good at all before watching it. This was my case with Rail Wars.

At first look I thought "a anime about trains? No thank you" ,but I gave it a shot at least. And after three episodes I was surprised. The anime wasn't just about trains but about the main character and side characters trying to make their dreams come true and thus I binge watched it.

The art at first look amazed me. There was a lot of detail in the surroundings as well as the characters.

The soundtrack matched ... perfectly and was nicely conducted. The opening and end songs were catchy and matched the scenes.

There was some clear character development throughout the anime. The main character is a pretty relaxed guy who can think clearly throughout a tough situation and keep his cool and this really appealed to me. The some what romantic sub plot was also refreshing.

I finished this shortish anime in a day and I was not disappointed. I really liked it because it kept me entertained and made me laugh and it wasn't once overwhelmed with fan service.

Certainly a unique theme on this anime, and that was the draw for me. Trains is not a theme you would often think to use as a central plot device outside of Thomas the Tank Engine. And that this most certainly is not.

Story: There is very little, to no overarching plot. If you had to pin one down, it would simply be 'Life Working for the Japan National Railway's Public Safety Force'. Each episode has its own plot, with a few two episode Min-arcs. There is not much in the way of progression for the story, but enough happens each episode to usually be at ... least a little engaging. The worst part about the stpry is that the jumps that it takes at points, sometimes skipping frankly important or interesting parts that you think would be a focus, can be jarring.

Art: Art is par for the course. The way the trains look certainly is quite nice on the eyes, having some unique designs and interesting color themes, my favorite certainly being the 'Mini-train Engine' that you see in the opening title, shown in more detail later in the series. However I did notice a few hiccups in the animation, with some objects and people appearing and disappearing in a few scenes. Not super noticeable or immersion breaking though

Sound: Not much to say on sound. They er...have lots of train sounds like chugging engines, horns and the whistle of steam. Can't vouch on the authenticity, but it was certainly interesting.

Character: Not much is done on building the characters up at the start. The personalities of the Characters are not very deep, each with at most one or two notes to them. The females in the story feel a tad too fan-servicy at times in both design and personalities. You can tell that the character designs for the main females were made for sex appeal. It can get a tad distracting when a tense moment is ruined by the camera briefly panning past a character like the busty Haruka at Chest level just to give you a nice clear look at her 'bounce'.

Enjoyment: It was by far not the best I've ever watched, but it was certainly enjoyable, and much better than I was initially thinking. Not warranting a re-watch in my opinion, but I'm glad I took the time to watch it through in its entirety and did not simply drop it after an episode or two.

Overall: Worth your while if you find that your current anime-watching well has run dry. Out of the 12, only maybe....1 or 2 episodes dragged for me. Just be sure you are not watching this one with your parents, small children, or someone who is sensitive about seeing a lot of skin bared. There are not tons of scenes that include the nudity, (with 'naughty bits' always just barely covered up by artistic convenience), but if like me, that stuff has little bother to you, give it a watch.

Many say this anime was a bad one, but frankly, it was pretty good in my opinion.

Sure, it's kind of generic in anime terms (high school kid aims for something, gets a harem, typical harem anime) which is why it isn't perfect, but the story is a nice change of pace, so is the plot, ecchi scenes are pretty good (wish there were nipples, but that's my only complaint) action scenes were badass, especially Aoi's scenes, comedy's decent, characters were pretty good, and overall, it isn't as bad as people say it is.

I think it deserves more praise, a lot of people watch ... it once, judge, and never return. At least watch it again in the future, and see if you really hate this anime or not, because really, it isn't that bad, compared to other anime out there.

Overall, this anime was good, it deserves more praise.

Whenever I finish an anime I always ask myself, "do I want to watch this again?" or "did I enjoy this?", and the answer for me is ABSOLUTELY. LOVED the train/railway info drops, majority of characters were cool, REALLY nice fan service, cute ladies, LOVED the romance feel in the show, and the overall feel of the anime was chill and fun to me. Story was simple, literally about jobs at the JNR (Japanese National Railways). I thoroughly enjoyed this anime, even though the story isn't super crazy and intricate or anything and that there were tiny hiccups in the art/animation every once-in-a-while. I would ... definitely put this on to watch or to do things around the house while it's being played in the background. Just a simple clear-cut type of anime to not be taken too seriously.

Rail wars is classed as a action and ecchi series which is not uncommon in the anime world. My first impression was that this was another school life anime with cliché characters, however when i watched the first few episodes i got really into it, as it had amazing plots every episode and also it shows how much the characters are devoted to railway security. The plots in every episode are moderately paced which is a good thing as you do not want rush over the entire plot with the audience confused (*cough*Tokyo Ghoul*cough*). Furthermore the backgrounds of the characters were quite interesting because it ... reflected their personalities, for example Aoi is quite defensive and violent as her father was a cop and Naoto is kind and always puts the pedestrians first because when he was little he was saved by a train conductor. Also, this particular anime caught my attention because of the opening sound track and also the ending sound track, both opening and ending soundtracks had different genres because it went well with the amazing art. The art style was quite modern and it made it look more appealing and also the art made the characters more distinguished throughout the series. However this anime also has its downfall which is that the anime turned into a harem half way through and they only started developing the relationship between the girls and Naoto. Also they discard out a main character Shō Iwaizumi, the writer does not develop his relationship with his team mates, however the writer does make him a active and optimistic person, so he isn't the perverted bestfriend cliche. I hope this gets a season two as i enjoyed watching it.

Rail wars is a type of anime where you shouldn't really expect much from. It CAN be enjoyable with the right expectations. Ive read many reviews and it seems peoples opinions are a little misplaced and ill get to why later.

Story:5/10

Cause you know this is a great story with a lot of "plot". Really it's about trains, not much plot there. The romance has no progression, and almost seems pointless. But what harem has romance progression? Because of no plot or direction in the story, the series had an episodic feeling that wasn't exactly terrible.

Characters: 7/10

First off i would like to ... say the MC is beyond boring as hell. I question how he got a harem in the first place. The girls aren't bad per say just, uninteresting. Some how i feel as though the feelings of the girls were forced.

Sound: 7/10

The OP wasn't to bad, but the ED sounded atrocious. As for the ost, nothing stuck out to me, however that doesn't mean it was bad.

Enjoyment: 8/10

Although the story was is mediocre, i found this to be enjoyable, meaning Rail Wars fulfilled its duty.

Overall/Final thoughts: 7/10

Honestly after reading multiple reviews, and all say the same thing. Yes we understand this anime doesn't have a story or plot however it's to be expected from a harem/ecchi anime. Really if you don't like tits and ass, or cliché ecchi moments, steer clear of this. You'll only annoy yourself...

NOTE : This anime is have 'ECCHI' genre, so you must found lots of 'FANSERVICE' here and 'ECCHI' genre is mosly have 'hidden romance' even they not listed on genre including this anime

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-Story & Plot(5/10)[5,3]
Rail Wars! take places in an alternate universe where the Japanese government remains in control of the nation's railway systems.

The good sides is:
[+] This anime have a good concept
[+] This anime looks like Detective Conan , each episode have own different problem and at ... one episode or two episode the problem have been solved.So Rail Wars! is not have any plot that connect each episode.
[+]the fanservices is mosly found on each episode
[+]can add our knowlegde about train

Meanwhile, the bad sides is:
[-]Very much Fanservice is relative for everyone,it may good or bad.Good if you enjoy the fanservices or bad if you think too much 'fanservices' is ruin this anime although is 'ecchi' anime
[-]As i told above, there a 'hidden romance' that accompany the 'fanservice'.You may feel boring with 'love triangle','jealous each other',etc..
[-]I told on the good sides Rail Wars! looks like Detective Conan, It may be boring for someone.


Summary: the story & plot is mediocre. It's depending from person who watch this anime,but honestly sometimes i may enjoy this anime and boring too.


-Art & animation(4/10) [4,3]
The art of this anime at least look lively,
so the good sides is :
[+]Rail Wars! is story about train,so it must have lot of train with different type.I liked the train look and design
[+]Characters drawing and colouring is fine (6/10)

Meanwhile the bad sides is :
[-]it have 'Police' genre,so Rail Wars! have fighting scene too.I think fighting animation is not impressed to me
[-]the background sometimes is bad,i think the colouring and drawing is bad especially on landscape background
[-]the 'oppai' drawing sometimes is not fit with female character
[-]The 'shadowing' is sometimes bad


Summary : Rail Wars! is have bad art,I liked this one but immediately hated the other one(more to be hated than liked).But i can accept that because the studio is unfamous IMO


-Sound(9/10)[8,6]
The sound on this anime is great.i feel on inside the anime.But i can't rate this aspect well.
The good sides is :
[+]train sound is very amazing
[+]VA played their roll well
[+]OP and ED is very good to hear


Meanwhile the bad side is:
[-]Effect sound(not train sound) is very common


Summary : Sound aspect is great


-Character(6/10)[6,1]
The character aspect is good.each character have their own skills and weakness,each characters fit out other character weakness and support strong aspect the other character.

The main charaters is :
o Naoto Takayama,he aspires to become an employee for Japan National Railways,because something happen while he was child.Very liked train
o Aoi Sakura,she have an atlethic body.Also have ideal body and face to me and have great skill at shooting
o Haruma Koumi,she is genius that called human encyclopedia(only for theory)
o Sho Iwaizumi,he is always hungry and have great skill at fighting and power

Good sides is :
[+]it's interesting when we see the character teamwork to complete each problem that they faced
[+] it can teach us teamwork is most important at workplace(must apply in real life at our workplace)

Meanwhile,bad sides is :
[-]Sho Iwazumi is have lack attention by producer and studio(he's main character)
[-]Only Naoto has involved with 'fanservices' ,you may feel disliked
[-]if you see much anime,you may feel boring with all character trait that very easily to guess

Summary : the character trait is too mainstream especially on female character , but it still interesting to watch i think

Enjoyment(7/10)[7,1]
I like this anime because :
[+]this anime theme and concept itself
[+]There 'Ecchi' genre without something common anime 'Ecchi' genre with fantasy,supernatural,mahou,etc...(i try on this anime because of that)
[+]from unfamous studio
[+]want 'fanservices' itself

What i disliked this anime :
[-]Bad art
[-]Naoto is too innocent(like most common ecchi anime)
[-]Shou is have lack attention,must have more attention to him because he's a main character too

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My overall is same with enjoyment 7/10 [7,1] .I don't want to recommended this anime with people who easily feel boring and people looking for nice art .......

*it's my first review so it must have lot of weak point from my review
thank's for reading it

*SPOILERS ARE PRESENT BUT WE ALL KNOW YOU WATCH THIS ANIME FOR THE "PLOT"*
Okay, first I'd like to thank ITzRailWars for their lovely review for the best anime in the world, "Glasslip". Let's begin with the title, "Rail Wars"..Now you're probably thinking this is some shit about having wars on the train tracks maybe? Because that's what it's implying. But wait when you watch this anime what the fuck is happening? Where are the wars between trains? Instead this anime is about a retarded fuck trying to become a train driver? WHAT THE FUCK DOES THAT HAVE TO DO WITH THE TITLE "RAIL WARS"? The ... creator of this anime was just like "HEY, I'VE GOT AN IDEA. LET'S MAKE A SHIT ANIME ABOUT A FUCKHEAD WANTING TO BE A TRAIN DRIVER THAT HAS NO LINK TO THE TITLE LET"S JUST ADD FUCKING BOOBS AND PANTIES TO MAKE PEOPLE WATCH THIS SHIT LIKE EVERYONE ONLY WATCHES ANIME FOR THE BOOBS ANYWAY, FUCK YEAH GOING TO BE RICH WITH THEM DEFINITIONS ON BOOBS WOOOOOO CASH MONEY SWAG" and so on.

The characters are fucking amazing just look at these big boobed bastards showing off the chest. So I'd like to spend my time going thoroughly through what each character is about I will also provide nicknames to what they actually do in the anime.

First of all the "MAIN" Naoto Takayama also known as, "Weak Cunt needs help from girls"
THIS IS THE BEST LEAD EVER, He's one of the most dense fuckhead that has been introduced in ALL OF ANIME PRODUCTION. Who am I kidding pretty much every boy in every anime is dense as fuck. He wants to be a train driver? This anime show knows how to say "FUCK YOUR DREAM YOU LITTLE CUNT!" Look at him the idiot JUST CAN'T EVEN. Overall this is by far the best Male character in the anime.

Aoi Sakurai also known as, "Tomboy with a cunt"
Acts like a cunt, but is secretly in love with Naoto that fuckhead? Like what the fuck you TSUNDERE CUNT. She is by far the most fucked character I have ever seen in my life. In all the fucking episodes she hugs Naoto Takayama like a hentai cunt orgasming every fucking where. Overall she's just a red head retard that is stronger than the MAIN CHARACTER? And she likes to be called "NICE" in a fucking gay ass looking dress cloth thing.

Haruka Koumi also known as, "Big Cow Tits"
WHY THE FUCK DID YOUR DRAW HER WITH MASSIVE BOOBS? Overall it's just boobs, boobs, boobs and more boobs.

And last but the very least Sho Iwaizumi also known as, "I wish I had more lines"
THIS CUNT DOES NOTHING IN THE ANIME HE IS LIKE AN EXTRA IN THE BACKGROUND ALL HE EVER WANTS IS TO EAT WHAT A USELESS CUNT, WHAT THE FUCK DOES HE DO WHEN HE'S NOT IN THE SCENES? Probably jerking off to Haruka Koumi the big fat cow tits girl.Overall he should have gotten more lines if there are 4 main leads but he's like an excluded faggot.

Overall this anime is a piece of shit, Please just come watch Glasslip. Thanks for reading this review about Rail Wars hope you never watch this shit again.

Rail Wars! is an adaptation from popular series light novel shared the same name. I quite love this anime. Good artwork and i love the plot about Railways Security Force. But it have bad animation and lack of plot if you compared to LN which made me think this anime make you curios enough to buy the light novel.
But if you like an entertainment, ecchi and action anime, here is it. Very funny and dramatic sometimes.
To summarize: lack of plot, character's development, poor CGI but good inspiration, artwork (specially Sakurai), harem, ECCHI,... and i find OP and ED rap song is really good. Sound effect ... in some action scene blended in the situation.
This is an ecchi, harem, comedy, action with heroine has revolver anime you looking for and i think this anime is quite good in its genre. So, don't criticize it, just watch and enjoy. If you don't, just skip it.

Now this anime is supposed to be about trains and its security personnel. As I said supposed to be, somewhere it turned to be a harem, actually from the first episode. Now where the animators did good I have to give credit, the different trains are shown beautifully, the animation is good and the sound is also great. Now coming to the story its not that great, there is a lot of fan service, jiggle jiggle. Very typical heroines in the harem. Nothing great to remember as such.

There is no character background, absolutely zero, no complex plots, nothing noticeable in this. The episodes seem stretchy, ... infact after every episode I kept looking at the watch to see of its really only 30 mins, it felt like an hour. The series itself is a bit bored down in the first 2 episodes, the rest are watchable.

first of first, you must know that this is a promotion anime to pull the people attention for the railways industry so don't hope for something extraordinary from it.

if you love big/oversized oppai (Breast), heart beating from expected scenario (safe Ecchi -you know what I mean- ), triangle love, etc. then you might love this anime.

to be honest I have an interest for this anime. it's really hard to make a promotion story, because one wrong step you can make the story boring or you will make the story out of the track. for this anime I think they made it good even though it's ... on the dangers border, I mean they give an over spice to the story and they might get out of the track if they add more spice into the story.

this anime give some harem, romance, a lot of safe ecchi and a little action for the color, I think it's a nice option since it won't go anywhere without it. the story developed very well and it seem's they don't rush it, but unfortunately they didn't really explain all of the important character and how they are related to each other, and how they make it like this it's really give us a lot of question related to the story it self.

for the end I'll give you some advice before watching this anime, just don't watch it seriously, watch it as an entertainment.

Before reviewing this show, I want to go over the significance of the Japanese Railroad Transportation System to the lives of the Japanese. The train is the most commonly used means of transportation for commuting by Japanese students and company workers. In International comparison, the Japanese are generally heavy users of trains and public transportations. Train riders also tend to have the longest commute time. The survey also revealed that the Japanese spend more time commuting than either other East Asians, Europeans and North Americans. When comparing the happiness vs unhappiness of the different commuters, the train commuters are the only ones who have unhappiness ... outweigh happiness regarding the way they are commuting. Finally, the survey reveals that a majority of train commuters find the trains to always be very crowded.

The next thing I want to cover is the question: who cares about trains in Japan? Apart from otaku who focus on anime, Akihabara, and electronics, there are "Densha otaku" or "train nerds." There are currently 36 types of Densha otaku with interests ranging from walking around the station to the lunchboxes sold on the train. Another interesting fact brought up by the article is that there are female only carriages offered on the metro in many cities (keep this in mind for the review) to prevent gropers from having their way in packed trains.

I am finally going to go over what I liked and disliked about this anime. Based on what I mentioned previously, the show has so much material to make a potentially interesting story. However, it never seems to use all these materials. The author of the light novel that this anime is adapted from actually has experience with writing children books with stories revolving around trains before writing light novels for young adults. The author, Takumi Toyoda, is now currently working on an animated show called "Train Hero" and still publishing more volumes of his Rail Wars light novel series (currently there are 16 volumes). I never read the light novel series and so don't know how much of the story and ideas were lost in adaptation. After watching this show, I am still unsure what demographic the show is trying to target. The show's main character, Naoto Takayama, is a character who is already a big train fan instead of a character who becomes a train fan as the story progresses. This will make it more difficult for people who never thought much about trains to get interested in the story when it revolves on the technical aspects of the train. This also leads me to think that the show is intended for the Densha otaku since there's never any analogies or animated diagrams to help explain the technical aspects; thus leaving an audience unfamiliar with the technicality hanging. However, there is also the harem aspect of the show where the harem ecchi moments seem to always fall in the middle of the technical aspects to pull in the sexual interests of the audience; almost making it seem that it is trying to hold the attention of the non-Densha otaku audience and increase its viewership. Don't watch this show from start to end with the expectation that you will become more knowledgeable about trains without looking through information outside of the show. Also, don't expect to be constantly entertained from start to end. The harem aspects always seem to ruin the flow of the show and take up too much valuable time that can be used for character and plot development with train knowledge impartment to non-Densha otaku. In the end, the only reason why I consider this show to be good is that it made me fascinated with the Japanese Railway Transportation System and how it impacts the lives of the Japanese people in the real world. To me, the show wasn't totally a waste of time.

Outside of review, this show poses an interesting challenge of developing a good story that blends train knowledge with advancing the plot while keeping the audience interested. I think the show can still be a Harem but with the harem-moments minimized or made subtle so that it doesn't affect the flow of the show and allow for more interesting ideas to be developed. Since Aoi Sakurai (one of the harem girls) is interested in punishing sexual harassers she can have a character arc leading to an interest in the female only carriages that I mentioned previously. Mari Sassho (Naoto's childhood friend and one of the harem girls) works as a train station waitress and so can have an arc revolving around the lunchboxes sold on the train. The show shouldn't have all the female main characters fall in love with the male main protagonist but instead should have at the most two females have subtle feelings for the character that only the audience can notice. The show should diversify the functionalities of the other characters so that most of their actions can teach the audience of the technicalities of the railway system as well as its influence on the commuters. The show should also include characters that are regular commuters and have no job function in the railway system to allow for the audience to relate to the characters with their experiences of being a train passenger. Finally, Noata can still have fundamental knowledge and interest in trains and being an engineer but the story should allow these fundamentals to be developed. All of this may have been accounted for in the light novel, so I am now interested in reading it.

Pros
- Big boobs that bounce like there is no tomorrow, super tight skirt, stocking, ripped clothes, and so many other things that you want from ecchi anime
- You get what you expect from harem and ecchi anime (Fan service, a lot of it)
- Great animation of train. It looks very real and detail
- Great character design. Even though the girls have boobs that defy gravity, it doesn't looks weird
- The train makes realistic sound
- You can learn a lot about train in Japan

Cons
- Cliche storyline. You can easily predict what happen next
- Not enough tension for action anime. The action is more like complementary to ... direct the story into fan service part

NOTE: Overall is calculated by adding up the other ratings and dividing by 5 (basically finding the average value)

If you are a train enthusiast looking to learn some facts about Japanese National Railway rolling stock and have a relatable MC who is also a train enthusiast and has an ambition to become a train driver (locomotive engineer in more professional terms here in the US), I recommend this anime.

I do wish though that Naoto immediately went to start training as an engineer though. Maybe it's just me who wants to see Naoto pursue his dream as a locomotive engineer, being a train enthusiast myself.

If you ... also want a bit of harem/ecchi element, give this a watch, although there isn't too much.

I like trains the animation!

Came to this anime for the ending song from Zaq (really nice song that you should listen to)
The story overall is good, lots of ecchi content (maybe a con if you don't like the genre) and suspense drama with a little extract of police issues.

The fightings are great such as the animation. It's obvious they put some money for this.

Characters are kinda... cliche. A very good tsundere, the common harem guy. But I have to remark the growing of some of the characters along the series.

A good anime overall. Will look for the novel if I can get it in english ... or spanish.

**some spoilers maybe?**

oh god i absolutely loved it?? all the reviews made it seem so bad but it wasnt bad? the plot wasnt super solid but there was definitely a story (though some subplots(?) i wish we had seen more of..)

the characters were lovable and had distinct personalities. the character development was alright! i wish we had seen naoto become an engineer or at least progress in becoming one, but thats alright that we didnt i guess :0

i really did enjoy this anime though. if there was a sequel or anything like that, i would definitely watch it!!

my only problem was some of the more ... "mature" type scenes? (ex: the huge boobs bouncing, the panty shots, the nude scenes, girls bending over too far and exposing everything, the skintight skirts, etc) like, i didnt have a serious problem with them, i just wasnt watching this anime thinking there would be that many scenes like that... they certainly didnt ruin the whole show for me though!

overall i liked this anime. not because its ecchi, not because it was a harem, but because of the story/character/etc.! naoto's love of trains was so pure, it made me smile so much -u-

Railfans quintessential anime

Let me preface this review by saying I am first and foremost a railfan, meaning I will stand out by the train tracks with a camera and film a train going by. That being said, I'm also an Anime fan, and Rail wars are one of the great anime centered around trains. While the Story and characters aren't as strong as other action anime, I believe they do the story justice supported by excellently accurate art and sound design.

Not for everyone

Trust me this entry isn't for everyone, the amount of Fanservice may make non-casuals uncomfortable but the amount of railway knowledge may make ... non-railfans confused; However, if you're a bit of both like me, then picking this show up is a must-watch. Thanks for reading my brief review