Dragon Crisis!


posted by sooyup on , , ,

No comments

Oh what's this another anime review?  Yup it's been a while but lets see if I can remember how to do this.  Of course this review is about Dragon Crisis! an anime series that I hadn't originally planned on watching.  Thanks to MoNAC though I got hooked.  We started watching it at MoNAC and I enjoyed it so while MoNAC was on a sort of break for a while I finished it up on my own.

The basic premise is a teenage boy's easy going high school life is drastically changed one day when his older female cousin stops by his school and yanks him out of class to do a little job.  It turns out that Ryuji isn't just any ordinary teenage boy.  Ryuji is a level 10 breaker and is able to use "Lost Precious" items.  His cousin Eriko (my favorite character, by far) knows that and grabs him to help her steal a case containing a "Lost Precious" from another underground group called FANG.

They succeed in acquireing the case and discover inside the case a young blonde haired little girl with a secret.  She knows Ryuji and falls madly in love with him at first site.  She also loves ice cream, oh and she's a red dragon.  Ryuji calls her Rose because of the red jeweled design on her left hand.  From that point Ryuji's and Eriko's job is to protect Rose from others like FANG who wants her so that they're leader Onyx the Black Dragon who wants Rose to be his wife so he can become more powerful.  Ryuji fight's back using a powerful "lost precious" left to him by his parents (who are off hunting other 'lost precious"s).

Ryuji succeeds in rescuing Rose and injuring Onyx badly enough that he takes off for most of the rest of the series.  From there the story pretty much goes episodic as the group does some more "Lost Precious" hunting and running into interesting other people along the way.  Some help and some hinder the progression of Ryuji and Rose's budding relationship.  Infact Ryuji suddenly finds himself in a bit of a Harem situation with his classmate, Rose and a couple other characters along the way.  Ryuji's and Rose's past is explained and their relationship grows more powerful until Onyx and another Dragon Bride that he has acquired unravel it all making Ryuji and Rose believe that they are hurting each other and split them up.

Ryuji is consoled by his friends and is told the truth.  That makes him more determined than ever to win Rose back and rescue her from Onyx clutches once again.  Thankfully everything works out for them and Ryuji and Rose are reunited and Onyx is kicked in the ass once again.  And it ends there.

Honestly I though it ended way to soon.  Sort like an oh crap we need to wrap this up in an episode so blah blah blah there's a quick ending.  It's not by far the most epic of epic stories but you know it wasn't horrible.  Cute in a lot of ways.  Fun in others.  The action isn't bad either.  I definitely think it was worth watching and a good time waster.  It definitely could have been made better with a longer time frame or a better story structured to the episode limit. 

Made for a good sleeper hit of the season.  MoNAC even got permission to watch it at the club from Crunchyroll and that's were I finished watching it.  You can still even watch it there if you would like to check it out.

You can check out the trailer for the series here

Leave a Reply

Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...