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This manga turned out be a big disappointment even before I started to notice that.
So far the manga can be divided into 3 parts:

I. Chapters 1-43 (Four main battles): The story started off fast-paced, impressive and very promising with a cool lead character, who was reckless, decisive, and reliable in any situation. There were creative twists during the battles and many types of weapons were showcased.

II. Chapters 44-66 (Only one main battle): The pacing became slower, the chatting exhaustively longer, and the fights simpler, more predictable, effectively reduced to merely slashes and thrusts. Enemies died faster and in less splendid ways.

III. Chapters 67-last (Many ... mini-battles): By this point, the story became extremely slow. It's more talking and bragging than fighting. Characters' traits became inconsistent, and ultimately indistinguishable. Events became so absolutely mediocre that no one can expect to see anything new. In short, from this point the manga became even worse than that crappy Bleach.

This is trash. Another failed specimen of the survival-game genre.

1. The story is poor and cheap: spear-wielding girls on an island being slaughtered.

2. The art is fine but not as realistic as Battle-Royale so each character is virtually indistinguishable.

3. There are not too many characters but there's virtually zero development and they died so quickly in chain.

4. I skipped the dialogs to look for at least some decent ecchi, but there's none.

It's a total fail.

I swear I couldn't understand what the fuck was happening even after seeing this crapwork of a movie twice.

The stupid story is about two parallel worlds of completely different nature, in which there are two sets of female characters doing completely different things and having different looks except for hairstyles.

In one world, it's a typical slice-of-life between two schoolgirls, which led to no conclusion. In the other one, the two girls were fighting to death, and at last one of them died! There are supposed to be connections between the two worlds, but there's effectively none...

This kind of bullshit crap... I can make a ton ... in my lifetime if I want to, but no, because only idiots do.

I'm never a big fan of Naruto movies or anime, especially when the manga quality was going downhill too.

However, I have to admit that this is the best installment of the series. At least it brought me some emotion at the end.

The story is still straightforward as you may expect but not as stupid as other Naruto movies/fillers. At least the final doesn't appear to be super overpowered but finally get crushed completely by Naruto (he is still crushed by Naruto but after being nerfed by a third party).

This movie doesn't rely much on dazzling visual effects like the previous Shippuden movies so some brainless ... people may find that disappointing.

I would normally rate this 7 but just to encourage people to appreciate this more than other movies, I give an 8.

"The 12 animal rangers" is one of the best show for kids with a very unique story within an exotic world of fairy tales.

Summary:
The world Nobel is made of countless mini-worlds of fairy tales created by humankind. The evil who plans to destroy this world from within sends minions into each fairy world under disguise of the world's characters. Each episode, the Mouse and a select few among the rest are chosen to be sent into a different fairy tale on the Unicorn (Kirin) Ship to blow the disguise of these minions.

Story: 9/10
As summarized, the story is very creative and attractive to kids since ... it explores a lot of fairy tales with "improvisation" due to distortions by the evil minions.
In this story, that the Cat is made the evil general utilize the fact that Cat is excluded from the 12 Lunar animals in Japan and most Eastern countries. In the Chinese legend, the Cat finished too late to win the race for any place in the calendar and vowed to be the enemy of the rat forever.

Each animal has a special attack and special weapon, the Mouse a laser saber.
They are also gender balanced and have little romance happening among them or with characters in the fairy tales, which makes this story more enjoyable.

Even as show mainly geared toward kids, the last episodes are particular dramatic when most animal rangers sacrificed their lives in pursuit of the evil force, making way for Mouse to confront the evil mastermind behind the Cat. The ending relies on a miracle when all deceased animals were revived but it was enjoyable, and acceptable to kids shows of this kind.

Art: 8/10
The art is decent regarding the time this was made. The animation is repeating especially during special attacks but they are not too often.

Sound: 8/10
OP and ED are particularly memorable.

Character: 7/10
The 12 animals get relatively equal coverage but, as a show for kids, there's no deep personalities. However, they did a very good job in showing friendship and cooperating spirit.

Enjoyment: 10/10
As a twenty-something now after 15 years I still find this very enjoyable, absolutely.

First, if you read this manga, don't be an idiot and keep relating it to Death Note.

I'm a Death Note fan too. You want to compare? Let me compare for you. We all know that DN is distinctly good but as someone who has read it all over again in both English and Japanese three times over I found a good deal of loopholes in the story, which I will list them down in a future review, simply because the story is too long and complicated for the author Tsugumi Ohba to handle. On the other hand, in case of Lost+Brain, the story is very ... compact, right to the points, and virtually free of loophole.

Okay, I strongly believe what makes most of you keep ranting about this manga, despite all the little interesting implications about hypnotism, is the very method the protagonist chooses to change the world - MEMORY ERASURE. Most of you may think it is unfounded, but no, it is exactly what had been happening in the world since the last half of the past century in the name of the neoliberalism crusade led by the U.S.'s economic mega-guru Milton Friedman, as described in details by Naomi Klein in "the Shock Doctrine." He craved for what he called blank slate of the society and the human mind, on which he can literally rewrite everything. Ewen Cameron was the world leading psychiatrist who share the same views and the two men's ideologies converged during regime changes throughout the world. In torture, human were made regress to infantile state, with their memory erased, mostly irreversible. Instead of hypnotism, which is more time consuming and requires extreme mastery, electroshock was used to erase memory and remake human.

I found a rather clear echo of the book in this manga. The bottom line is if you are good then you are more likely to do right more than wrong, so "as planned" is never a necessary phrase to blurt out any more and things should just go smoothly, even though it went all wrong in the end because of a single mistake. That's the narrative that Lost+Brain chooses, to let us follow a well-planned operation until its very end without inserting too much unnecessary twists to confuse readers. The ending might be kinda bad though.

You should read this manga if you are a disciple of LOGIC, not a disciple of some "death note cult."

*SPOILERS*

As the other reviews suggest, there might be many types of people watching this show, but I believe the outcome can only be the same. Let's take that you have neither watched the TV series nor played the game, because there are still too many loopholes in the context of this standalone movie to enjoy, regardless of any rules set up in the TV series or game.

As for the plot, you will not understand who is who doing what with whom unless you look it up on Wikipedia. Here I'm just going to make a list of unacceptable loopholes (which doesn't require knowledge from the ... TV series or game to acknowledge) that make me so sick:

- In the first fight of Berserker - the giant Servant, he proved invulnerable to both physical and energy attacks (Archer's first and second attacks) - in other words, iron skin - but he eventually died by Gilgamesh's rain of swords, being stabbed to death.

- Knowing that a Servant will perish if the Master dies, in the first fight, instead of just attacking Illyasviel the Master, Archer and Saber threw out a futile fight over Berserker the Servant. It's not like Illyasviel has any ability to hide at will at all, even though she "mysteriously" managed to make it to Berserker's shoulder in the midst of the fire started by Archer's AoE attack.

- The main male, Emiya, is just an i-want-to-save-em-all-but-can't-fucking-do-so-'coz-I-m-too-weak(-but-still-jump-out-to-die-like-a-dog-anyway) archetype. Even after he has discovered the evil barrier which drains life energy from school students, pursued Shinji, and even when he was on the verge of death, he still refrained from calling Saber, albeit knowing that she'd be gone anyway if he dies. Silly enough, this stupid main male proved to be invulnerable, taking countless fatal wounds from being a meat shield for others.

- Caster emerged as an almighty Servant who can even summon another Servant. She appeared to be even more dangerous when teamed up with her Master (based on Archer's statement that "Caster is too difficult to deal with now") but shortly after that both Caster and her Master got killed (while on guard, not off guard) in a single blow by Archer's rain of swords.

- Archer's "cool foolishness" really bugs me like hell whenever he belched his stupid phrase "I don't like to kill meaninglessly/without gain." Because in effect, both Caster and, in a later fight when Archer betrays Tohsaka, Emiya and Tohsaka combo did come back to mess with him after being spared by him. Archer just conveniently doesn't think ahead about the consequences so that he can blurt his stupid phrases and conveniently switched between saving and killing Emiya. Or more accurately, the author just conveniently prolongs this stupid movie with his stupid nonsensical twists.

- Another stupid and convenient twist: when Caster infiltrated Emiya house and attacked him, instead of drawing out her sword or just fists, Saber jumped out as a meat shield to be stabbed by the Rule Breaker and be forced to defect to Caster's side.

- After the fight between Archer and Lancer, when Archer surrendered, Lancer withdrew unconditionally, knowing that only killing Archer can fulfill either the order from his Master (to kill Archer) or his own aim - to protect Tohsaka, who was betrayed by Archer and would soon be kidnapped and stranded also by Archer, leading to Lancer's own death. The reason for why Lancer let Archer pass and was just waiting outside is conveniently left out.

- When Lancer came to the castle to rescue Tohsaka, Kirei emerged as the mastermind of his Holy Grail project but soon he got killed by Lancer who turned out to be miraculously and RIDICULOUSly tough that he could withstand a stab in the heart to both kill Kirei in one blow and wound Shinji. Kirei was also too stupid to notice that Lancer should have vanished into thin air if he really died.

- The last events in the movie are probably the most stupid of all: After clashing swords and swearing at each other, Gilgamesh and Emiya ended their battle as a mysterious black hole appeared and sucked Gilgamesh in. Soon after, Archer, who had already died and vanished, ridiculously turned out to survive and in effect helped kill both Gilgamesh and the Holy Grail.

- Finally, the "reality marble - Unlimited Sword Works," which makes the title, has completely nothing to do with the course of the movie. In all 3 times it was summoned, it did nothing particularly in favor of its summoner and those battles always ended abruptly.

I would give this really poor work a 2, but since I don't want to make this a flamebait, I would give it a 3. Are you fine with that?

This was aired before I was born and, to me, was one of the masterpieces of the 80's. I can't expect people to hold high expectation for it nowadays though... I watched it around age 6 and, just today, the name Antoinette and the memorable tune of the old days popped up in my mind. I still remember how much I enjoyed and was moved by this show when I watched it again at age 7.

Story: 7/10
I think the story was still innovative around the time it was made - a female android who develops emotion and holds the key to world destruction.

Art: 8/10
I was ... deeply moved by the characters' expressions when I was small. I can't have the same feeling as then any more but it's still good. Antoinette is the most beautiful artwork in this show. The mechanic designer did a great job.

Sound: 10/10
This is exactly what brought my mind back 15 years to the past today. The theme songs are good and memorable. There's nothing to complain about the voices too.

Character: 8/10
Human moves by love, so does humanoid.

Enjoyment: 10/10
This was great enough for me or anyone as a kid .

About this show there are 2 things: 1. the main girl is hot (I love white one-piece) but 2. everything is RANDOM and UNIMPRESSIVE.

This show is a failed mix of supernatural, comedy, and slice of life, revolving an UN-CUTE (even though hot) girl Maya and a super-PATHETIC ex-esper time-traveling-by-force young man Bunmei (which literally means "modern") in their journey to search for the "Notradamus's key" to break the prophecy about the End Day in 2012 and solve the mystery behind the school principal's death.

The show is meant to explore occult mysteries which, in common knowledge, consist of objects, monsters, phenomena, and spells. A supporting character ... called Haruse develops an obsession of searching for occult things and she did nothing but spontaneously popping out and bringing up some random occult OBJECTs (e.g. OOPart) or phenomena (e.g. poltergeist) which had nothing to do with the story. So far unrelated MONSTERs appeared randomly without any reason. The only notable PHENOMENON in the storyline is 2012 apocalypse, which is alien invasion in this case. Finally, there was only one silly SPELL that turns the corpse into an undead. The spell book which Maya coincidentally discovered and inherited from her father was never used...

Story: 5
The foundation of the universe in this show is not consistent. Most objects and phenomena brought up by character Haruse are not real and based on her imagination and obsession, which implies that this universe is just a normal world where "occult" literally means "hidden secret." But then those MONSTERs just showed up like they should have always been there to show up...

Also, there is completely no flow because a lot of unnecessary details (some for comedic purpose) get in the way, e.g., vice-president's crust, Bunmei's affair with the landowner's daughter, Ami(Maya's close friend)'s dad's affection toward Maya and his silly occult prank.
Such slice of life scenes are too bleak and unnecessarily long.

Art: 8
Good anyway. Maya looks hot, white one-piece is hot...

Sound: 6
Voices and soundtrack score are good but the OP and ED are totally out of place with the show's content: OP is so-so and can be used for any anime. ED is a common piece about love while there's completely no romance in this show. I wouldn't regard Bunmei's affair with the landowner's daughter as a romance because when they were separated in a dark cave and even after the whole cave was detonated, he didn't give a darn about his girl and kept acting loony until he found her outside, mysteriously safe and sound.

Character: 6
No depth, little background. Main girl is uncute, main guy pathetic, the occult-obsessed Haruse shallow, and Ami the close friend unreasonable. Even the save-the-Earth committee in 2012 are a bunch of idiots because they picked Bunmei the beggar on the street to travel time and take on the mission of finding the "Notradamus's key."

Enjoyment: 6
Great disappointment.

Overall: 6
For one-time watching and cheap entertainment.

Calling this show's genre psychological is an overstatement. Increasingly, shows like this don't depend on the psychological nature of the story or detail any more but just try to disrupt our thought and senses by throwing loads of scattered scenes and psychologically make us think they are doing a psychological show...

The story is simple. An pop idol bounces to become an actress but she is dissatisfied and then a murder series happen. The evidences point to a minor, then to her, then at last someone close to her jumps out and claims all the sin.

The art is old-fashioned but that's no problem. The problem is ... an unimpressive soundtrack score. You can't hear any sound at most times because silence is needed. But when sound is needed it doesn't work either.

The thing that bugs me most that this show also use human's stupidity to create thriller. For example, the main character - the idol girl hysterically chases down her shadow to the middle of the street, and then in another scene, she turns her back to and runs away from some injured murderer who wants to take her life.

We all know it's rational to strike back rather then run away, especially when your first hits are successfully landed on the bastard. You would say maybe this is called the "dream factor" because it's more psychologically exciting to run away while you are in a dream because you can do unimaginable feats like leaping over houses. However, in the show, she did that while awake, and I wouldn't be that stupid even in my dream. Or it's the nature of women, except for policewomen, to be stupid at action.

Anyway, an unimpressive story won't make a psychological show unless you forcefully make it like this, so... go waste your time.