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Angelic Layer (Jump to title)
- Overall: 10
- Violence Rating: 3
- Nudity Rating: 2
- Theological Themes: 2
- Other Negative Themes: 2
Review This anime was excellent. I am rating this title a ten because I cannot rate it 9.67, which it is to me. I love it how this anime shows how the little people really can do big things. This review is of the subbed version.

Violence: 3.25/10. Details: The most intense violence happens on the layer between the angels. This is typically just martial arts and occasionally some blasts. Outside the layer, Tamayo often uses martial arts on Kotaro, and Mr. Icchan is often giving penalty games, somewhat cruel and very unusual punishments, to his fellow worker Masaharu Ogata for every little bad thing he does. These include but are certainly not limited to: an octopus in his pants, eating a snow cone in three seconds, and eating spaghetti out of his nose. The penalties are not violence to me, but if anyone is sensitive to watching torture, even in the mildest of settings, YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!!!

Nudity/Negative Sexuality: 2.01/10. Details: The absolute worst the nudity gets is in a beach episode with bathing suits including some bikinis. And also, Mr. Icchan forces Mr. Ogata to lay down in the hot summer sun in his underpants as a penalty game. Other than that, some of the angels and in one episode, a human, wear midriff shirts. And Misaki, due to her expert cooking skills, is told by her own aunt and another girl that they want her to be her wife. But it is obvious that this is nothing more than a joke.

Negative Theological Elements: 1.85/10. Details: Only three contents I picked up are worthy of being implied as issues. The first is that the master of any angel is called a Deus (Latin for god), but this term is redefined to simply mean what it is in the anime. Second, one angel's name is Wizard, who supposedly has magic powers. But these powers are later discovered to be just static electricity based. Third, the greatest angel in the Angelic Layer game is named after the Greek goddess Athena.

Other Negative Elements: 2.15/10. Details: There is the use of d*** only a few times in all twenty-six episodes, and the Lord's name is taken in vain about ten times or less throughout the whole series.
Black Butler (Jump to title)
- Overall: 9
- Violence Rating: 7
- Nudity Rating: 7
- Theological Themes: 8
- Other Negative Themes: 6
Review To any viewers that would be offended by this, be warned the a demon is the main character and portrayed as loyal and good overall.
Death Note (Jump to title)
- Overall: 9
- Violence Rating: 5
- Nudity Rating: 3
- Theological Themes: 6
- Other Negative Themes: 3
Dragon Ball Z: Cell Games Saga (Jump to title)
- Overall: 9
- Violence Rating: 6
- Nudity Rating: 2
- Theological Themes: 2
- Other Negative Themes: 3
Review This season turned out to be excellent for one which contain high amounts of filler at the beginning. If it was not for the filler or Mister Satan, this season would likely be a ten for me.

Content details as in the uncut series:

Violence: Energy beams are launched and martial arts are used in each episode, sometimes moderate amounts of blood are shown. Two major protagonists are killed, one by an explosion, but another after being shot in the upper right of his body, and blood is clearly displayed from the small, gaping hole in his body. Another more minor protagonist (Spoiler: Android #16 ) is blown to pieces, and his head is lost from his body. He does not bleed because he is a machine.

Nudity: There are a few scenes were male characters fish in the water while just wearing undergarments, but there is nothing significant of the nudity category besides that.

Theological Themes: This is the season where fundamentalists believe they have all the valid evidence they need to justify their rash, negative conclusions about Dragon Ball Z, all due to Mister Hercule Satan. But he, as can be seen from his actions, is not like the Satan of the major monotheistic faiths, but rather is basically a complete narcissist. Another content in the anime that will seriously lead to great overreaction from the fundamentalists would be the fans of his, who have signs like "GO SATAN." But in my honest opinion, the "Satan" part of his name is merely a name.

Other Issues: There is a very infrequent amount of smoking in the season, plus Mister Satan's announcer points the finger at Cell once.
Dragon Ball Z: Frieza Saga (Jump to title)
- Overall: 10
- Violence Rating: 6
- Nudity Rating: 4
- Theological Themes: 2
- Other Negative Themes: 3
Review Out of the first three seasons of the entire anime, this one to me is the best, and the only one where Goku receives significant screen time in almost every episode. The following contents are of the uncut version:

Violence/Peril: 6.28. This is the season where

spoilerThe whole planet Namek explodes when Frieza blasts the planet to disintegrate its core. The common thought among the Namekians is that Goku perished due to his inability to breathe in space, which is disproven later by the dragon. Vegeta, Krillan, and Dende are all shown murdered by Frieza's blasts.

Also, during the very extended fight with Frieza, plenty of little flows of blood are shown being coughed out, and whenever Krillan and Vegeta had major holes in their upper bodies. Frieza stabs Krillan with his horn in order to pierce through his body like that, but Krillan fulfills Vegeta's request to mortally wound him so he could become stronger upon healing. Also, the four Ginyu Force members fall into the ogre's pool of blood in the otherworld. Besides this, the violence is of martial arts, energy beams that could easily vaporize a normal human, and characters being thrown thousands of yards with mere punches, kicks, or even tail swats.

Nudity/Sexual: 3.87. The only real significant nudity was a brief sight of an dead alien's rear end. As for sexual content, Master Roshi is once again being perverted with women like Chi Chi on Earth.

Theological Themes: 1.67. The ogres have torsos reading "HELL" backwards in the otherworld. That is the only questionable theological area of the season (which is very brief), though some may be disturbed by the Dragon Balls wishing for the resurrection of dozens of Nameks as well as six main characters, along with the titles Goku gave himself as a Super Saiyen.

Other Questionable Themes: 2.84. Dr. Briefs is commonly having a cigarette in his mouth that does not get smoked. Language is more intense and frequent at the beginning, but dies down more towards the end. There is a single use of "my g**" by Vegeta and perhaps the word b*****d, but the words d*** and h*** are used very infrequently.

Dragon Ball Z: Garlic Jr., Trunks, and Android Saga (Jump to title)
- Overall: 9
- Violence Rating: 6
- Nudity Rating: 6
- Theological Themes: 2
- Other Negative Themes: 1
Review This fourth season was a very good one, and made the courage of Goku's son Gohan even more clear when he was able to fight the immortal Garlic Jr. with the absence of his father. This review is of the uncut version.

Here are the contents of concern:

Violence/Tragedy: The violence on a typical level is martial arts and energy blasts, but the violence can and does get worse. Frieza is sliced in half with a sword to prevent him from terrorizing Earth, and his father King Cold is also killed. Garlic Jr. was hit by a blast that put a decently sized hole in him, which does not kill him because he is immortal. The Adroids #19 and #20 have special abilities in their programing that makes them able to painfully absorb the power of their victims, which they use on the Z-fighters pretty much whenever possible. Blood is also present much of the time when it would be in real life, except the amount is a good bit lower. Along with that, Spoiler: Trunks tells Goku about the androids killing of all the Z-fighters except Gohan and himself, and in addition they murder a great number of pedestrians. He also predicts that Goku will die by a deadly virus, but thanks to his intervention in the past, the deaths of the Z-fighters and many pedestrians do not occur.

Nudity/Sexuality: This is the season where Maron is introduced, who at times wears a yellow bathing suit exposing her buttocks. Since she spends much of the season with Master Roshi, she ends up being looked at constantly by Master Roshi in a very perverted way. Also, a baby (Trunks) is in need of a diaper change, and before the change happens, his genital is exposed for a very brief period.

Theological Elements: Any traces of religion are generally absent. There were some spirits of former guardians of the Earth who attacked Kami for what Kami saw as just bullying if that really bothers anyone. Also, there was use of time travel that radically changed the ways of the past, which is unlikely to bother even conservative viewers.

Other Negatives: Nothing in this catagory is significant enough to be worthy of anything higher than a one. Language is either extremely rare or absent.
Dragon Ball Z: Imperfect Cell and Perfect Cell Sagas (Jump to title)
- Overall: 10
- Violence Rating: 5
- Nudity Rating: 2
- Theological Themes: 2
- Other Negative Themes: 1
Review Out of the first five seasons of the original Dragon Ball Z, this one clearly is the one that the youngest viewing audience can handle. In addition, this season also displays what catastrophic costs can often come from pride and ambition. This season is being rated a ten by me because I cannot give it a 9.75. This review is of the uncut version.

Possibly questionable contents:

Violence: The violence in this season is the lightest of the first five. There is fairly infrequent blood shown, but even where there is blood, it is several times less than what is actually seen in real life from similar wounds. Cell, the primary antagonist, has his own special ability he uses throughout the season where he aggressively stabs his tail into humans and literally absorbs them through the same tail. Cell absorbs an entire city's human population with his ability, and later moves on to consume thousands of pedestrians. Piccolo's right arm was almost completely absorbed by the tail, but after Piccolo yanked it off, he could regenerate the arm within seconds. The common violence that occurs in the season is martial arts and a variety of high powered energy beams.

The following describes the violence at its peak:

Spoiler: There comes a point in the season where Android #16, in order to defend his fellow Android, challenges Cell. He manages to yank off Cell's tail in the fight, which results in Cell bleeding unusually colored blood until his tail regenerates. Eventually, Cell dominates over Android #16 and damages him highly, especially to the head, which does not make him bleed.

Nudity/Sexual Contents: There is one instance when Master Roshi receives a clear view of a woman's rear end, and takes it, only to later arouse her anger.

Theological Themes: There is a reality bending Time Chamber that four characters enter to greatly increase their strength. When a year passes in the chamber, a day passes in the real world.

Other Negatives: There really is not anything else that can be considered significantly questionable. Bad language is absent.
Dragon Ball Z: Namek and Captain Ginyu Sagas (Jump to title)
- Overall: 9
- Violence Rating: 6
- Nudity Rating: 5
- Theological Themes: 2
- Other Negative Themes: 3
Review Overall Rating: 9.43. Overall, this was a great season. This review here is of the uncut version. It was very surprising to me that despite his cruel and prideful nature, Spoiler: Vegeta allies himself with his foes from Earth, Gohan and Krillin, to fight the terrible Frieza.

Violence: 6.2. On the broad scale, there are various scenes of planets being annihilated. Frieza is able Spoiler: to kill nearly all of the remainder of the Namekian race . On top of that there is plenty of blood that comes out during many fight scenes. A stabbing by a sharp tree is almost completed, but a blast prevents that from happening. A Namekian's arm also falls off, but then is regenerated almost immediately. Other than that, the violence is simply skilled martial arts, various types of blasts, and many fighters being tossed hundreds of yards in battle.

Nudity/Sexual Content: 5.18. Master Roshi is being a pervert on on nurse in the hospital where Goku is spending time healing. One young male has an exposed genital for one or two seconds, and there are a few shots of male rear ends being exposed, one of them belonging to a member of the Ginyu force, who lost the covering of that particular area after he was brutally blasted. There is also a cover of a swimsuit magazine where a woman is in a bikini, and another one is in revealing clothing, all because she forgot to put pants on. The nudity is actually almost non-existant in the middle of the season, but present in the beginning and more frequent in the end.

Questionable Theological Themes: 1.94. There are none as long as the viewer does not mind the concept of the Dragon Balls being able to wish people back to life or the scenes where Vegeta blasts two of Frieza's agents and says "See you in Hell!", assuming he has killed both of them.

Other Negatives: 3.25. A few characters are shown smoking, usually cigarettes. The language is more on the mild level, and is very infrequent until the season is coming to a close. Plenty of d***s and h***s are heard, as well as at least two p***s and at least one b*****d. Also, the finger is pointed three times.
Dragon Ball Z: Saiyan Saga (Jump to title)
- Overall: 10
- Violence Rating: 6
- Nudity Rating: 6
- Theological Themes: 3
- Other Negative Themes: 3
Review I was very pleased with the quality of the anime as a whole. This review is of the uncut version.

Violence: The violence is not too graphic, but nonetheless very heavy. There are various episodes where characters bleed, all the blood being red. Piccolo ends up losing his arm in a fight with a Saiyan, which regenerates rather quickly. Also, five characters end up dying in fights with Saiyans, where one of them is wished back to life with the dragon balls, and the main characters are seeking to revive the other four by the end of the season. There are also a few episodes with machine gun shooting. Besides that, the violence is the typical martial arts/action type.

Nudity/Sexual Content: The nudity in this uncut version is infrequent, yet very severe in its few scenes. Gohan's tail makes it possible for him to turn into a giant ape, but whenever he changes back, he is naked. There are two very brief shots of his genital, in which one of them was replayed, after he transforms back. In fewer than ten episodes, there are under thirty seconds of rear end nudity. A few episodes display some women who have their midriffs exposed as well. Master Roshi acts like a big pervert as usual when he reaches for a female's breasts, rubs another female's rear end once, and nearly touches it again.

Negative Theological Themes: Only a few contents significant in this category. When the TV reception is down, characters are provided with service from Ba-Ba and her crystal ball. Also when Goku is in the otherworld and falls through the clouds, he meets two ogres with the word HELL spelled on their torsos backwards.

Other Negatives: One character appears with her head down on a bar counter, apparently after drinking a lot of alcohol. There is also use of a beer can in the thirty ninth and last episode of this season. There were only four or five uses of curse words, and they were only d***s and one or two h***s. Despite the mature content of the uncut version, the general plot still maintains a very positive message.
Full Metal Panic! (Jump to title)
- Overall: 9
- Violence Rating: 6
- Nudity Rating: 5
- Theological Themes: 2
- Other Negative Themes: 3
Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu (Jump to title)
- Overall: 8
- Violence Rating: 3
- Nudity Rating: 5
- Theological Themes: 1
- Other Negative Themes: 4
Review The violence is predominently comical, and death is non-existant, though Spoiler: there is a disease that infects the students, said to be lethal, but turns out not to be.
The profanity is mild in several episodes, though s**t, a**, b***h, and b*****d are all used. There are several stronger profantities, but they are blocked out.
There are a few instances which imply that male characters are seeking females to sexually abuse, but they are always unsucessful. There is a hot spring episode with towels or the water (at times barely) covering genitilia.
Fullmetal Alchemist (Jump to title)
- Overall: 10
- Violence Rating: 6
- Nudity Rating: 4
- Theological Themes: 5
- Other Negative Themes: 3
Review The following contents are of the subbed version at their peaks:

Violence: There is plenty of blood in a good number of the fifty-one episodes, and temporarily, in a small number of the episodes, significant amounts of blood slowly pour out of bodies which have been stabbed in such areas as the stomach.

Nudity: There is one boy which has his entire nude backside exposed, and another scene depicts a character naked walking several steps as he gradually declines to infant size.

Language: The amount of language is at a rate of four or less expletives per episode, and at a PG level for that matter.

Religion: The two main characters are throughout the story trying to resurrect their deceased mother, and search for the Philosopher's stone to make the endeavor possible. Spoiler: However, after taking note of the ghastly effects of the Philosopher's stone after finding it, they choose not to put it into use.
Ghost Hunt (Jump to title)
- Overall: 9
- Violence Rating: 4
- Nudity Rating: 2
- Theological Themes: 5
- Other Negative Themes: 2
Gunslinger Girl (Jump to title)
- Overall: 9
- Violence Rating: 7
- Nudity Rating: 2
- Theological Themes: 1
- Other Negative Themes: 2
Review This anime is very good, I rate it as a 9.4, which is reduced to just 9 on this system. My personal favorite characters are Henrietta and Triela. I shall review the dub.

Contents of Concern Here:

Violence: 7.35/10: Violence in this series is strait-forward gun violence. Episode one is the most violent, with four men getting shot to death, and blood can be seen around the room. Truly, if any viewer had an easy time with this episode, he/she can handle the other twelve.

Nudity/Sexual Content: Episode 7 contains some amount of nude art displays from the Renaissance, which were really made for displaying the beauty if the human body. As for sexual content, Spoiler: it is revealed that Henrietta was raped by a killer before she had her memory wiped. And, Henrietta reveals that her uterus was removed. .

Bad Religion: None, but a Bible verse is actually adapted by one of the girls to apply to them.

Other Low-Points: In the typical episode, there are three or less curse words which are just d*** and h***. And in episode four, p*** is used once.
Gunslinger Girl: Il Teatrino (Jump to title)
- Overall: 8
- Violence Rating: 8
- Nudity Rating: 2
- Theological Themes: 1
- Other Negative Themes: 4
Review This was a pretty nice sequel to the original Gunslinger Girl, and the series did a very nice job displaying the story nearly equally on the sides of the protagonists and antagonists.

The following contents are of the subbed version:

Violence: 8.25. There is, as the title would suggest, a lot of bullets being shot, which cause lifelike amounts of blood to come out of their targets. Along with that, knifes are fairly commonly used, such as in the final episode, where there is a stabbing of the eye. Episode 7 of all the episodes is to me the most violent, with a woman being tazed, tied to a chair, and punched repeatedly in the face. Those punches bring out the amount of blood they would in real life.

Nudity: 2.05. The absolute worst the nudity in this series becomes is when the same woman who went through the abuse in episode 7 has her wounds on her back treated. While this happens, she is wearing no upper body clothing, but she fortunately covers her breasts while receiving the treatment.

Questionable Religious Content: N/A. Religion is pretty absent in this series, but if it makes anyone feel better, one of the more major characters wears a cross necklace.

Other Questionable Contents: 4.15. There is a scene where two adult characters sit and have a small glass of wine, and also, the language is very infrequent, but in episode 7, and possibly episode 6, there is the use of f***, and very few uses of s***.
Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit (Jump to title)
- Overall: 10
- Violence Rating: 4
- Nudity Rating: 2
- Theological Themes: 4
- Other Negative Themes: 2
Slayers (Jump to title)
- Overall: 10
- Violence Rating: 5
- Nudity Rating: 3
- Theological Themes: 5
- Other Negative Themes: 2
Slayers Next (Jump to title)
- Overall: 10
- Violence Rating: 5
- Nudity Rating: 3
- Theological Themes: 5
- Other Negative Themes: 2
Review The series is just excellent, especially in the last two episodes, which I refuse to spoil. Definitely the most disturbing part of the series for more concerned Christians would be the words which Lina recites to summon the Ragna Blade, which really sounds like pure poetry to me. Also there is a mass use of Spoiler: mind-control if anyone just so happens to find that hard to watch.
Soul Eater (Jump to title)
- Overall: 9
- Violence Rating: 6
- Nudity Rating: 5
- Theological Themes: 4
- Other Negative Themes: 3
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