Code:Breaker - Review

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Anime Name :-

Code:Breaker

 

Details :-

Type: TV

Episodes: 13

Genres: Action, Comedy, School, Shounen, Super Power, Supernatural

Duration: 24 min. per ep.

Aired: Oct 7, 2012 to Dec 23, 2012

Premiered: Fall 2012

Broadcast: Unknown

Producers: Bandai Visual, Lantis, Kodansha, Memory-Tech, Bushiroad

Licensors: Funimation

Studios: Kinema Citrus

Source: Manga

Introduction:-

Riding the bus one day, Sakura Sakurakōji looks out the window to see people being burned alive with a blue fire as a boy her age remains unharmed and stands over the people. When she goes back to the site the next day, there are no corpses or evidence of any kind of murder, just a small fire. When Sakura goes to class, she discovers the new transfer student is the same boy she saw the day before. Sakura soon learns that he is Rei Ōgami, the sixth "Code: Breaker," a special type of assassin with a strange ability and a member of a secret organization that serves the government.



Plot/Summary :-

Riding the bus one day, Sakurakouji Sakura looks out the window to see people being burned alive with a blue fire and a boy her age who's unharmed and standing over the people.

She comes back to the site the next day and there are no corpses or evidence of any kind of murder, just a small fire. She then goes to class to find there's a new transfer student, Oogami Rei, who looks exactly like the boy she saw before and wears a black glove only on his left hand.

Oogami is a Code Breaker, one who "does not exist". He is a seemingly cold-blooded killer who follows the principle of "an eye for an eye", to "use evil against evil". Convinced that killing is not right, Sakurakouji sets out to stop him and penetrate his icy heart.

Quotes :-

“An Eye for an Eye, a Tooth for a Tooth, and Evil for Evil”



Story :-

Rei Ogami: “An Eye for an Eye, a Tooth for a Tooth, and Evil for Evil”

Welcome to the world of Code:Breaker.

The series is written by Akimine Kamijyo based off the manga of the same name who is also known for her previous work, Samurai Deeper Kyo. It all begins one day when Sakura, a local high school student, witnesses some blue flames like she's never ever seen before. Likewise, from there on and out, her life is changed forever.

The hero or maybe better seen as the anti-hero of Code:Breaker is Rei Ogami. He is the local bad boy with a tough attitude who does what he wants, when he wants, how he wants as long as it gets the job done. In his mind, there is no justice for evil and as he quotes one more time, “an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, and evil for evil”. He expresses a darker side of "justice" similar to those more like a vengeance hero rather than some ally of justice like we see in pop culture.

Code:Breaker doesn't avoid most of the cliches we see in most of today's themes. The common gag of 'boy meets girl' is employed but it doesn't just end there. Sakura Sakurakouji is portrayed as a school beauty and idol that is admirable by many of the students. Then, there's the mysterious transfer student Rei Ogami. Things like this is very common for anime viewers to see these days in the industry. To add on to this topping of cliches, there's an assumption that the two have a “thing” going on by nearly everyone at the entire school. They misunderstand their relationship and often misinterprets it as if the duo are dating.



From there on and out, the two seems to have a strained relationship. In every way, Sakura tries to explain Ogami that killing others is “wrong” because it's the wrong thing to do. She strives to get her ideologies to Ogami in order to convince him to be a good hero and do the right thing. However, her words are often deaf to his ears as Ogami kills to protect others, at least in his point of view. At times, Ogami even expresses himself as evil and that in this world, in order to save lives, sacrifices are needed. He presents himself as not a hero in this case but rather as someone who is trying to do what he believes is “right”. The question here remains though:

Would you kill to protect someone you care about?

The characterization of the other characters from the series is explored to a lesser degree although a few of them does stand out in particular of those associated with the Code:Breaker organization. Most if all of the Code Breakers has their own standard code of conduct (or rather their signature Code of Hammurabi) and coupled with them some supernatural abilities that makes them fearful of others. In fact, Code Breaker itself has become a term of both fear and hatred.

The Code Breakers themselves all have different personalities as well. Some are fun to watch such as the playful Yuuki Tenpouin while others are more straightforward and serious such as Rui Hachiouji. The most mysterious of the bunch are Masaomi Heike and Hitomi, two individuals who are very difficult to read. In fact, throughout the series they seem to be playing mind games with the other characters in particular Ogami. In the world of evil, there is injustice but in their eyes, they seem to represent evil themselves.

Luckily for the ladies, this series presents some good bishonen sketch work. The characters' designs all possesses a sense of style by the way they dress, act, and presenting their ideas not through words but by their actions. Most of the time, they engage in what they do best and that's to deliver “justice” to evil. At other times, they seem to be chilling around like ordinary people despite their feared status.

The series' theme itself also becomes a sense of philosophy. What exactly is evil and how it is defined? More importantly, how do we take actions against it? These questions often become ambiguous and may never have a direct answer. Nonetheless, the blue flame executed by Ogami seems to serve itself as a metaphor in which criminals are terminated by being burned to actions. Similar to how an individual goes to hell for wrong deeds, the flame itself manifests as a tool to destroy those who are evil, or at least those who are considered so under the eyes of the Code Breakers.

The series consists of 13 episodes and aired during the Fall 2012 series (and was also noted for being one of the most popular anime series that season, lining up with such series as Tonari no Kaibutsu-kun, K and BTOOOM!). The series is animated by Kinema Citrus Studios, who have only done a few anime series apart from Code:Breaker, including Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 (co-produced with Bones Studios) and .hack//Quantum OVA.

The series contains some notable voice actors including Hisaka Yoko who voices Sakura (and is also known as the voices of Rias from High School DxD and Mio from K-ON!) and Nobuhiko Okamoto who voices Ogami Rei (and is also known as the voices of Io from Acchi Kocchi and Niizuma Eiji from Bakuman).


Conclusion :-

I guess I can even go as to say that this is another one of those fantasy/action, with a bit of romance and drama. If you say it like that, then I guess this series isn’t all that different to mainstream series like One Piece and Bleach. But there is something about this series that makes it so appealing and different to those mainstream anime’s. If you don’t believe me, then you have to go watch this series. If you’ve seen this series and still don’t believe me… then… well… shut up.

Recommendation :-

Of course -,  Its an -anime.

My rcommendation is8/10.

I strongly recommend it for Fight lover.

 

 

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