Review of Hand Shakers

Warning: The review will contain spoilers Here's an update review in YouTube. Don't is still mine and sorry if my voice sound shaky I'm just a poor college student that have no money to buy a mic and used my earphone as a mic.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8ViiGfxiIc&t=198s If not then... Here's the script. Kinda I think.... Well… there’s one place I can put this anime. Anime that everybody hates but I don’t category. Story: Is a battle royal anime. The stories are inside the characters and the world itself of the show (For this case is the ziggurat, the world and the nimrod, the weapons). So for the characters stories I'mgoing to talk more about it as we go to the characters section. While the world itself, does leave us some mystery but it did explain as the series progress. Like, the changes of the ziggurat in episode 6 and in episode 8, where the ziggurat change and Kodama nimrod is in the ziggurat (Like literately), how did the characters enter the ziggurat?? Why does Koyori have the scar??

Now without more spoilers of the world. Let's move on to characters.
Characters: Like I say for story, a battle royal anime story comes from the world and the characters itself. So I'm going to organised from my least favourite pair to my favorite.

Break (Rei) and Bind: This got my least favourite because... Well... We don't barely know them...Like seriously... They fought Tazuna and Koyori in episode 1 and we didn't see them until episode 12. But give them some credit we do get some hints about why do they want to be a hand shakers in the last episode. But if I have to guess what is his story for the last episode. It have to be that they were in a band but they want to help others to get instrument but they are poor and do not have the money to help.

Mayumi and Koyori parents: I can understand that you don't want your kids to get hurt. But by god are they mean to their kids. Now the series did explain why and how they disappear. They are fighting with god and nobody knows what happen to them. Did they die?? Did they win?? Nobody knows... Why they got higher than Break and Bind?? Well... at least their motive make sense.

Nagaoka, Mayumi and Makihara: Hell, as we get some backstories not in the sense on why they are hand shakers but as to why the relationship between Makihara and Koyori. Mayumi and Koyori are twins and they were born as hand shakers. Not given by god but thye were born in the Ziggurat. While Nagaoka and Makihara act as a bodyguard for Mayumi and Koyori from other hand shakers. He still steal Mayumi in a comma because he wants to protect her and take good care of her.

Masaru and Lily: Those 2 are incest relationship?? Or not?? Like nobody knows... Either way I'm not that bother with incest that much. I just treat it as normal romances. But the story with them are pretty relatable for me. I mean a smart ass sister and a stupid (Well... in term of his study). Does remind me of me and my brother. He being a smart ass while I'm not...
Now their story is to be together?? Nah, they want brothers and sister relationship in the world to be treated as normal romance. A quote from Yosuga no sora "Who cares if we are related?? Let them think what they want."

Tazuna and Koyori: The main pair, which I really like in the end of the series. The relationship between those 2 could be interesting. Tazuna is still having withdrawing symptoms for his sister death when he saw Koyori and treated her as a replacement for his sister until Nagaoka knock to his brain and say "Ding Dong bitch she ain't your sister". While he didn't have a wish... In fact he was just thrown into the world without any warning. I'm pleased to see some development inside him as to she isn't his sister but a different person. While for Koyori, I'm glad that she has a different story than Mayumi and she is a balancing act for Tazuna. Take their relationship as to Kuro and Mahiru in Servamp. I like anime that have character relationship like those 2 called me a sucker for that. It's because of that character interaction is why I like Tazuna and Koyori as a character.

Chizuru and Hayate: Now those 2 have one of the easiest character story out of all the pairs in the series. They were bully and we finally get a legit reason as to why a loli is a loli and why a wimp is a wimp. Is because of those reason is why I felt for them when they lose the fight between Tazuna and Koyori. I don't really want to go through their backstory as it is straight to the point and simple.

Kodama and Hibiki *BEST PAIR!!!!*: Those 2 are easily my favorite pair of the series as the story in them are pretty understandable. Not too complex but not too simple. Kodama wants to be the best idol but with lives gig getting cancel one by one. Her dream of being an idol slowly slip out of her sight until Hibiki came. Hibiki legit quit his job so he could train and help Kodama to become an idol. Not to mention, he became Kodama first fan as a boost for her confidences in her that she can do it.

Now after that long ass talk about the characters let's look at the art/ animation. Is studio GoHand... You know the K and coppelion people. While the background art and the 2D looks gorgeous. The CG looks... How should I put this nicely?? Bad...
Not to mention how they do camera movement for some felt shaky. Now they could fix the camera movement (and in fact I do pray they do fix it) by adding more in-between motion to make it look smother. Beside that... There's not much to talk about art/ animation. So let's move on to music.

Music: For the opening is sang by OxT which is famous for the overload, prince of stride alternative and Gekkan shoujo Nozaki kun opening. Which start out with a kick ass opening and a stellar guitar and amazing beat which leads up to the chorus which is kick ass. While the opening did spoil the whole damn thing. I don't mind as majority of opening did that. While the ED is sang by Akino Arai which is Amanchu! ed and Aria op. While is just a chill and relaxing song the lyrics after an amazing episode after the next. While the OST is able to bring out the mood in some with it's beautiful piano music and the soft calming drumming in it. Also Hand Shakers probably have the best OST of the season and if I got an opportunity to buy it I would.

Enjoyment: This is probably the best work GoHand has put out in years. (well... beside seitokai Yakuindomo). I'll never enjoy K, while for coppelion I got some mix feeling about it. It didn't make me understand the world the characters are in and that's a problem. While for hand shakers the world of the Ziggurat, nimrod and the characters motive are clear as day light to me.

Recommendation: Well... with all being say I give hand shakers a score of 8.0 and a recommendation to watch it. If you want a fun and extincting world building anime for this winter season. I highly suggest hand shakers.

Other recommendation will be K (I don't really recommend it tho...) and there's guilty crown which have which have a similar vibe with hand shakers about high schoolers in war between each other and giant sword.