Fuuka was tough as nails and never smiled Rinne was sweetness and hope personified. The plot revolves around Fuuka Reventon and Rinne, who were best friends growing up in a church orphanage before the latter was adopted by a lovely wealthy family. But where the vulnerable girls of WEP are driven to suicide by their suffering, Rinne dies on the inside, crushing her true self as something weak and shameful. Fuuka caught in the downpour of Rinne’s inner turmoil, aka it starts raining.īeneath the candy sweet surface is a cruel tale of bullying, guilt and one girl’s desperate pursuit of the kind of violent strength that will make her feel safe again-the trauma of Rinne Berlinetta, a character more in keeping with the “eggs” of Wonder Egg Priority than, say, the plucky cast of Girls und Panzer.
#Vivid strike x combat series
The magical girl transformation sequences and blinding colour design signal the series as yet another lighthearted addition to the CGDCT (cute girls doing cute things) catalogue, but the profoundly emotive orchestrations of half of Yoichiro Yoshikawa’s soundtrack, ominously shaded freeze frame shots (think Attack on Titan), and most of all, Rinne Berlinetta’s cold, empty eyes cue another type of story. ViVid Strike! is set in the training gyms and rings of Under-15 Mixed Martial Arts fighting. And to my surprise, this odd series about friendship through fisticuffs actually has-buried deep in the kaleidoscopic swirl of its mish-mash of genres, artistic style and music score-a valuable little pearl about the kind of friendship God offers to us. I was not expecting to find God’s promise to Joshua and Israel in an anime tagline.Īnd so I watched, intrigued. All good reasons to avoid ViVid Strike! But the tagline piqued my interest: Thou shalt not be afraid I am with you The thumbnail looked a little too bubblegum bright, the animation a tad old-fashioned, and to top it all, it was apparently instalment sixty-two or thereabouts in a franchise I knew nothing about.
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