Hello Anime Adventures today i will be doing a review on an Anime series called "Chrome Shelled Regios".
This anime falls under the Naruto,Bleach,FMA category where there is a main Protagonist.
This is a relatively short anime it is a total of 24 EP's long.
You can watch this anime on Netflix.
This anime follows the story of Layfon Alseif and a world with Regios.
Click Here to see what a Regios is [img]http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb57524/csr/images/1/15/Regios.png[/img]
Large Mobile Cities created by humans to live after the earth atmosphere became too polluted to live, are called regios. Built with a circular foundation for its inhabitants, a city is also surrounded by numerous, huge legs for mobility. Atop of the legs is an air-filter, a membrane of air that covers the city to protect any invasion of contaminants. There is also the mention of Selenium, a special ore that needs to be replenished and has many Regios fight each other for its survivability. Each city is named after the Electronic Fairy that controls the Regios. Most Regios avoid Filth Monsters(aka Contaminoids) as much as possible but with the exception of one city, Glendan, which does the opposite as it constantly finds monsters.
The main enemy of this word are called Contaminoids or Filth Monsters
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Monsters roaming the polluted earth outside the cities are called Filth Monsters (or also otherwise known as Pollutant Beast or Contaminoids). In the novels, Layfon and Kalian encountered an enormous and extremely powerful one that speaks the human language. According to it, pollutant beasts are also a creation of human. Their main food sources are the pollutants they breathe into the atmosphere, humans and themselves if the former cannot be obtained. They come in many forms and sizes:
Larva: The first state of the Filth Monsters. As ravenous feeders, they will eat any living thing they can find. They are overwhelming in number although they are easily dispatched by skilled Kei users and expert Military Artists. They proved to be difficult for the students of Zuellni when they first encountered in the novel.
Queen: This is the second form of Filth monsters. A Filth monster that lays eggs that hatch into Larva.
Mature: This is the third form of filth monsters. A Filth Monster which has moved past its ability to procreate, the longer they live the more powerful they become. In their mature state, Filth Monsters are able to fly. In Glendan, there exists a tradition that if a Mature Level Filth Monster is engaged by the Heaven's Blade Receivers and manages to escape alive, then it is given a name. In the anime, one such example is Limbeekoon, though it was defeated by Lintence, Savaris and Layfon, it has a counterpart in the Light Novel called Behemoth.
The main weapon & source of power the characters use is called a DITE & KEI
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The DITE
(pronounced DIE-TE) are the Weapons used by Kei users. They are small transformable devices when unused but will morph into a weapon when its user activates it by commanding "Restoration". DITEs can take on the forms of various weapons, including crushing swords, spears, rifles, staves, katanas, and many more. Some are even capable to switch to many different types of weapons.
The color of the DITE ore is not random; different colors give different properties to the weapon. For example, Nina's iron whips uses black DITE ore, which has good density with a decreasing conductive rate. Green and white DITE ores are used for speed-based weapons, which was suggested for Layfon's use. People who work on the development of DITEs are called DITE Technicians in Glendan and DITE Mechanics in Zuellni.
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KEI
The source of power for Martial Artists. Kei users are special since they have an organ within their bodies that produces this energy and use it in many ways. There are different types of Kei, each with its own qualities. In the Anime, it is said that the "Heaven's Blade Receivers" have "monstrous" amount of Kei that makes even the strongest Kei users look weak (e.g. Layfon beat Haia and Gahard easily)
External Type Kei: Used for attack.
This Kei is used in the form of a blast to affect surrounding materials.
Internal Type Kei: Used for defense and regeneration.
This Kei is used to strengthen parts of the body during battle or to speed up regeneration. Layfon claim that it's bread and butter for Heaven Blade's Receivers to fight continuously for a period of days without getting tired or unfit for battle.
Psychokinetic Kei: Users of this Kei (who are also called Nen-I users) are able to communicate telepathically as well as move objects around telekinetically.
The downside of this, is that those who are able to use it cannot use External Type Kei or Internal Type Kei because their psychokinesis is a fusion of both Internal and External types. A person must be born with a special physical constitution to use this Kei, while the other two can be utilized by anyone with training and a certain level of Kei.
So the story is about Layfon Alseif's life as a Heaven's Blade
Click here to see what a heaven's blade is The Heaven's Blades are twelve DITEs given to the strongest twelve Military Artists in Glendan, who possess exceptional fighting skills and large amount of kei, by the Glendan Royal Family. So far, five of the Heaven's Blades have been revealed: a sword, a pair of gauntlets, a pair of glove controlling golden wires, a gun, and a lance. Considered the pride of Glendan, they are the strongest Military Artists and are referred to as Heaven's Blade wielders. Besides receiving a middle name to their title, they are also entitled to Platinum DITEs.
The Heaven's Blade:
The most powerful DITEs wielded by the "Heaven's Blade Wielders" who serve under the Royal Family of Glendan. There are twelve in existence at the maximum since there are only twelve dites. They do not have a fixed format, volume or weight as weapons, upon appointment of a new wielder they can be reformatted by Glendan's DITE Technicians to take on the shape and abilities of the weapon the wielder desires. Another instance was when Layfon's Psyharden Katana and Heaven's Blade (sword format) merged to take on a new format in the anime. In the novels, the dites themselves are passed down from generation to generation and can withstand the monstrous quantity of kei that a Heaven's Blade Wielder produce without breaking like a normal dite would. Since having used a Heaven's Blade previously, Layfon had problems wielding a normal dite after, as he had to restrict his flow of kei to prevent the dite from exploding.
The story continues as Layfon Alseif gets exiled from Glenden and stripped of his Heavens Blade for using the Heavens blade in underground tournaments for money. Soon after, He moved to the regios named Zuellni to find a new path for his life, however, his past caught up with him as he is forced to enlist into the 17th Platoon of Zuellni's military force due to his previous role as a heaven's blade.
And that's where the story of Chrome Shelled Regios Begins
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Final Thought's
I recently thought i would give this series a shot i saw it on netflix and it got some pretty good reviews. this anime is 24 Ep's long & to be truthfully honest it was a pretty slow moving anime in the beginning and the whole time you never really see the extent of Layfon's full power till the end.
But overall the story was pretty good and i enjoyed the series, So my recommendation is if you want to try something new give it a shot, Its the type of story that you'll like or just simply hate that's up for you to decide.
If i had to rate this series on a scale from 1 to 10 i would rate it an 7.5 out of 10 in my opinion, A good "filler" anime if your waiting for another show and want to watch something.
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