Witch Hunter Robin Review

A blast from the past? I know.

Alright, if you’re looking for an action packed fan-service filled anime, then Robin is not for you. Robin is a 15 year old Italian nun, with the “Craft” ability of pyrokenises. So now you’re asking: Is she a witch or isn’t she? Technically she’s a “Craft-user”. But you can just call her “The-good-witch-that-isn’t-actually-a-witch-cause-she’s-good”. Our dear Robin is employed by the covert STN-J to hunt witches. Hence the title, Witch Hunter Robin.

 Robin is slow mystery anime that draws the audience in with the promise of a relatively interesting plot. It’s not until episode 11 that you can scream, “I’ve found the plot!” at four o’clock in the morning like I did. Then you can continue on with the series almost happy that the ever-elusive plot has finally risen. But then, you find yourself at the end of the series screaming “WTF!?” seven hours later. Yup, the ending is a huge disappointment and open to too many broad interpretations of what had happened.

This mystery anime was seriously lacking in suspense and, besides the main plot, any mystery at all. Another beef many people have with Robin, is the lack of an interesting soundtrack. Come on, we “Otaku’s” love to fill or ipods and mp3s with the awesome beat of Japanese music! 

What I loved about Robin was Robin herself, I fell in love with that 15 year old Italian nun on the first episode. And I constantly rooted for her and the main male character, Amon to get it on. But sadly this never happens, but then again, she is a nun.

So who would like Robin?

• Any new comer to the Anime world 
• Any one who wants to take that trip down the memory-lane of 2004 Adult swim.
• Those who are looking for a non-suspenseful mystery.