Anime 54900 Wind Breaker Reviews Filter Check 3

Another Repackaged Normal Highschool Action Shonen with the same formula, purely carried by the fight choreography.

Recommend for: Animation, Fight Choreography
Not Recommend for: Character, Plot, Comedy

Let's get the good thing out of the way first. First of all, the fight choreography is a MASTERPIECE in itself to bare witness, for a normal hand to hand combat. The fight scene is so good its remind me of old Chinese fights movie, where you can see every move and its impact clearly [10+/10]. Reinforced by it's very BEAUTIFUL animation, with all aspect of production quality very good, even for action Shonen standards [10/10].

However, that's where all the good ... stuff ends. First, the plot is VERY formulaic of a normal high school action anime. Nothing of note, original, or unique so far [7/10]. The comedy is also very Shonen comedy, aim for kids, which if you like it then good for you [6/10].

The WORST thing by a mile with this show though, is its character writing. Even though character writing in Shonen anime is understandably not that good compared to other genre, this show take it another level lower. EVERY character, even the protagonist, is very 1 dimensional and stereotypical. The cool senior, the screaming sidekick, the emo side kick, the cool but chill friend, the calm cool and handsome antagonist, and ofc the all mighty good protagonist. While the protagonist is arguably unique, it's still very much 1 dimensional unique, and would need to see more improvement. They didn't even hide the basically copied Gojou Satoru (cool senior) into the show, with the same VA and character design! All the same stuff repackaged into a delinquent theme. Character development? BOOM a flashback, about to loose? BOOM a flashback. Overall the very same stuff is NOTHING innovative at all. [3/10]

The delinquents theme isn't even that good either. It's just a re-themed fantasy action Shonen show (namely Jujutsu Kaisen) with just the down to earth style and more cruelty. Can be refreshing for you if you haven't tried a delinquents show before, but overall very the same with other theme. [8/10]

In conclusion, the fight choreography and animation alone can be worth the watch, but honestly the other stuff really bring down this show potential a lot. With the bad character writing, lazy same ol plot, and the brain dead comedy where a character screaming is funny. For a new anime watcher, this can be fun for them and is worth a try! But for anyone who even watch some Action Shounen before, this is the same ol stuff, and there's many other Action Shounen show that worth more the time to watch than this one.
[Overall, as an Action Shonen Anime: 8/10]