[Blu-ray] Needless Collection 2 Review

[Chris Beveridge]

Review by Chris Beveridge



Mania Grade: B

In Summary:
Needless started with a lot of potential and a great sense of style and power about it, but it felt like it got very distracted with what it wanted to do. In a way, it felt like certain manga series of old where it was just long extended series of actions that kept going and going, building on top of each other as it moved to the next set piece. This set spends about four episodes on back story, but even that has a good amount of action to it as well. The rest of it is action, action and more action, which certainly has its appeal but it's not enough to really carry it as a whole. There are a lot of elements to Needless that I liked, but the show didn't come together over the whole run and this set was nothing but fists and pounding going on. It may work on a week to week basis, but in an extended sitting it was an endurance viewing.