Zetman (Anime)

A secret organisation once created a new species of monstrous creatures known as players to fight in gladiatorial combat. But those players rebelled and escaped, hiding among the humans of society. During the rebellion, one scientist steals the creature Zet, a player who is more powerful than any other, but can become almost 100% human. The scientist wants to raise Zet as a human and names him Jin. Several years later, Jin realises his true powers and decides to fight against the players to protect humanity.

(Anime: 1 season, 13 episodes, Finished)

This is an exciting and full throttle anime, even if you have to use a flash light to look through all the dark to see it. It's a fantastic science fiction, with a good dose of mystery and action thrown in for good measure. The story is very good, leading to a lot of grim ideas that smell of real issues, but get thrown off by the overall fiction of the piece. I'm not going to lie, although there are a lot of exciting moments, these are put along side some very intense moments. There is a lot of blood, people getting ripped apart,  violence torture, and this can all get a bit too much at times, so Zetman may not be for everybody. The evil creatures are actually pretty well developed and designed, and they are given a good story line to match. Then there are the good characters: Jin is a bad ass guy and easily likeable as the main hero, but there is another hero Kouga who tries to fight using a scientifically developed super suit. He honestly gets pretty annoying and lame in places, not having any of the same flare of cool factor as Jin. There are lots of support characters and most of these are more likeable than Kouga but I don't want to give away too much so i won't go into all of them. There is plenty to offer from Zetman, especially if you are a fan of darker stuff like the new Batman trilogy. But as i said it will become a bit hard core so just brace yourself for that.

Rating - 

8/10