Zettai Karen Children

They're cute, adorable and three of the most powerful Espers the world has ever seen: Kaoru, the brash psychokinetic who can move objects with her mind; Shiho, the sarcastic and dark natured psychometric able to pick thoughts from people's minds and read the pasts of inanimate objects like a book; and Aoi, the most collected and rational of the three, who has the ability to teleport herself and the others at will. So what to do with these potential psychic monsters in the making? Enter B.A.B.E.L., the Base of Backing ESP Laboratory, where hopefully "The Children" and others like them can become part of the answer to an increasing wave of psychic evolution. It's a win-win solution... Unless you're Koichi Minamoto, the overworked young man stuck with the unenviable task of field commanding a team of three pre-teen girls!

(Source: Sentai Filmworks)

Akashi, Kaoru Main

Hirano, Aya Japanese

Sannomiya, Shiho Main

Tomatsu, Haruka Japanese

Nogami, Aoi Main

Shiraishi, Ryouko Japanese

Minamoto, Kouichi Main

Nakamura, Yuuichi Japanese

Hyoubu, Kyousuke Supporting

Yusa, Kouji Japanese

Sanzenin, Nagi Supporting

Kugimiya, Rie Japanese

Nakamoto, Suzuka Supporting

Nakamoto, Suzuka Japanese

Kumoi, Yuuri Supporting

Inoue, Marina Japanese

Asakaze, Risa Supporting

Asano, Masumi Japanese

Sakaki, Shuuji Supporting

Taniyama, Kishou Japanese

Furuichi, Naohiko Producer

Sakurai, Ryousuke Producer

Kawaguchi, Keiichirou Director, Episode Director, Storyboard

Matsuoka, Hiroki Sound Director

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Mar 19, 2022

AomiTatsuya

Recommended

I am sure everyone who has watched this Anime would agree with me. Minamoto is a really irritating idealist who keeps on admonishing Hyoubu, saying he is the bane of all normals and some stupid stuff like that. He doesn't even try to understand Hyoubu's point of view.

Hyoubu is the SIGMA of the series. Other PANDRA members fall under the ALPHA category. Minamoto is a beta for sure. The other BABEL members are gamma's.

I have never seen such a bland characterization for a protagonist(Self-Proclaimed) Minamoto, who always spews idealist stuff and blames everything on Hyoubu and PANDRA. He doesn't even know the dark ... side of humans which is shown constantly in the series.

The main antagonist, is what they say but the true protagonist of the series Hyoubu is the most unique and most awesome character to be ever made. He is funny, powerful, sarcastic, kind, caring. He is a whole package. But the idealist Minamoto who spews nonsense always trains his gun at Hyoubu,

I liked Minamoto at the beginning but he kinda does the same thing, Hyoubu would just be taking to Kaoru but Minamoto will arrive and be like, "don't go near him he is evil", after literally being saved by Hyoubu. In reality i liked Sakaki who had a unique character very much unlike Minamoto.

The Girls were cute and funny, but sometimes i just skipped the stuff they say since they are boring. The school parts were funny. Kaoru grows into an OK character but the initial episodes in which they appear, Kaoru behaving like a pervert, Shiho like a mature yet yandere type character both sucked very much. Aoi is a silent character which i enjoyed since she is humble and not a creep like the other two.

Some evil espers do some bad deed, but Minamoto being the tunnel visioned beta blames who? You have guessed it right : Hyoubu. Someone is hypnotized, someone is killed, someone is kidnapped : Hyoubu.
Someone is saved : BABEL. BABEL is the place where love beats power. Even in BABEL chief doesn't see the girls as girls but treasures. More like things that show the domination of their country. Good job BABEL. This is the propaganda they spread. Looking at it now, makes me laugh my ass off.

My only wish was Hyoubu to have been in all 52 episodes atleast for 10 mins per episode. He was so popular they made a spin-off with him as the protagonist. And it has much higher rating than the parent one. And also not seeing the spectacled beta everytime.

Everyone constantly berates Hyoubu to be a Lolicon, but Hyoubu only cares about the happiness of the Espers especially Kaoru's and their safety, but in reality the Chief, Minamoto, Tanizaki are the real Lolicons, all are from BABEL by the way.
I really get pissed off at Minamoto when he says Hyoubu to be a Lolicon when he constantly have these blushing shitty moments with the girls. "Think back on what you said about Hyoubu you beta", is what I want to tell to Minamoto.

Sorry for the long review but I just wanted to make sure everyone knows about "The beta, who keeps berating the SIGMA, just to be saved by him again and again and again." This actually sums up review.
"SIGMA rules."

Reviewer’s Rating: 9

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Jul 30, 2016

NG_Chloe

Recommended

Let's start with my favorite parts of the show: The main Antagonist

Kyosuke for me is interesting, he's cool, he's likable, he's funny, and I have never wanted to join the villains organization more than I want to join PANDRA, Even the members are awesome.

Then there are the main characters in BABEL, now if I wasn't going to join PANDRA, and I was an Esper(#Esper_master_race), I would join BABEL maybe. That's because while I like most of the characters in BABEL, most of them should be fired or sent to prison. The chief is the the absolute worst character in the show, he wastes resources ... and harasses 10 year olds. Then there's Sakaki, who while actually being a very likable, would be arrested for some of the things he does in the office. Then Supervisor Tanizaki, who was extremely creepy in episode 4, Tanizaki is the other worst character in the show.

Then there's Director Fujiko, whose introduction could be edited out and it would change nothing, including her ability to drain other characters energy with physical touch, which was used in a pointless minute long seen that could be removed and change nothing. I actually do like Fujiko in some cases, but the first few episodes she's in are mediocre and in the grand scheme of things, pointless.

Next let's talk about my one of my favorite characters in the, Naomi! 2 out of her three episodes in the show were amazing, and they all have the same premise, Tanizaki(the creepy guy) is worried about her, and our main characters spy on her to figure out what's really going on. Other than episode 4, these episodes are really good.

Next let's talk about the main characters, Kaoru Akashi, Aoi Nogami, Shiho sannomiya, and Koichi Minamoto. These characters are really good, most of the time. The girls constant jealousy or attacks against Minamoto get annoying after a while. Minamoto himself, if you look had him individually, he is very bland. The girls themselves are likable in their individual characters are very likable, especially Kaoru, who has to be since she is probably the most important character in The Children. Aoi is cute, but annoying at times, and Shiho doesn't really have a lot to her in terms of character in the beginning, but gets better as time goes on.

There are also some some other characters who I really like, but we don't have time, we should move on to other parts. Let's talk about the music. I really love the music, even though I didn't like either of the opening themes at first but I grew to love opening 1, and like opening 2. I love all the endings, especially ending 3, I usually like female singers more than males, but I love the singing voice of Kouji Yusa(Hyoubu Kyousuke).

Next let's talk about the animation. The animation while outdated, looks really good to me. There is one episode in collection 3 when they have a really fast paced fight scene and they sacrifice a lot of detail fr the movement is what it feels like. There are also episodes that have good artistic direction, and bad artistic direction, where for some reason they make the screen sideways, like it's meant for some kind of Fanservice, but really just makes you dizzy.

Let's talk about the story, which the anime doesn't actually get to the main plot of the entire series till the end of collection 2. Now I'm not going to go too deep on spoilers, but there was a prediction of the future, and a select few characters are trying to prevent it in different ways, and realistically you know that it's going to happen because that would be anticlimactic. I like a lot of the events in the show that I personally like and though I really wish there was more of this show, because I really like a lot of the characters.

The ending we're given is serviceable, even though the manga is actually still continuing today. I really think that in few years we should get a remake that goes all the way to the more resent manga chapters, which in 2018 or 2019 the manga might be over. Now they could probably just remake the the whole series because not a lot of people have seen it, considering you can't really stream it anywhere legally, but I will say this show is worth buying, I rewatched several episodes in the show, but I would say that they should cut out some stuff in order to broaden its audience.

Like they could sensor a lot of the loli stuff, and though I'm kind of against the idea, they could do an FMAB and have a filler that tries to introduce us to the characters and stuff in order to skip some of the other stuff, I'm against the idea though, because you'd probably miss out on many amazing moments and a few hilarious moments too, but I would understand trying to get to when they're in middle school as fast as possible though.

I give this show my fullest recommendations to watch by any means necissary. I'd also like to have to possible remake to be licensed by funimation, becaused while they could never be as good as this Japanese cast, I would like it to be dubbed. The show is licensed by sentai filmworks and does not have a dub. It's also cheap to buy, which is another reason to buy it. I only spent 100 dollars on these four collection, and 25 on the spin off, The unlimted Hyobu Kyosuke. This show is known as Psychic squad on disc release

Reviewer’s Rating: 9

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Aug 4, 2024

Deyhtyi

Mixed Feelings

This anime started badly from the very beginning. I thought I was just expecting something different, but that's not it. The first surprise is the style and graphics - but well, I can blame it on the fact that it is quite old. Another disadvantage is the weak soundtrack (for a long time they used a strange sound that hurt the ears). However, even this can be endured - so what's the problem? This anime presents a strange image of children. Ten-year-olds don't act like ten-year-olds at all, even apart from the main three girls who would have some ... reason to do so. Children are constantly shipped with older characters. Additionally, the main male character Minamoto is the love interest of literally every character despite being literally the most ordinary anime protagonist. Also, I find many of the characters annoying and there are too many fillers. Ultimately, this anime is saved by a quite interesting and original plot and humor full of references. So, I think it can still appeal to people that like lolis, anime about people with special abilities or interesting villians.

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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