Speed Grapher - Complete Series S.A.V.E.

i got this lovely DVD set as my friend recommended me this show , as he told me that the english dub is well worth it and it damn sure didthis show starts out with a hard working war photographer named saiga as he is on the battlefield trying to capture the situations around him till he encountered a rebel and as he was about to shoot at saiga he pulled his cam to take a shoot and in an amazing clip in this episode solders behind him started shooting at the rebel and saiga captured every moment of when man got shot is its like the camera shoot bullets ( NOW THAT's INNOVATIVE!!!!!!! ) .then we move forward in modern time Tokyo as saiga appears to work as a newspaper photographer who likes to handle controversial and complicated scoops for the publication .so one day he decided to dive into some secret cult and there club of elites ( delusional hipsters & idiots ) that the wealthy and prime political candidates join and do there .... ... UM??? .. .. practices i should kindly say .on that night when saiga putting his life on the line to figure out the fuss about this club is the knight that changed his life as he is now going to protect the goddess that changed him in order to escape the boring and harsh life as being used under Suitengu as the club ( main feature ) to reward special members to be gifted by the goddess to unlock there deepest desire and have supernatural powers .now the poor ( adorable and innocent ) goddess in kagura part of a super wealthy family as seen by her mothers property skyscraper and influence to the whole city , for a beautiful girly girl she's not enjoying her life mostly of her brutal mother , and she will plea for saiga to take her away from this boring life full of madness ( the poor thing ...).well this show defiantly has a splendid cast of characters one of them is the enigmatic ( as well as crazy) Ginza as an undercover cop that likes to do things her way and she is all over saiga and she has a thing for him .this show has quite ALOT!!!!! of mature adult content and themes all around so please be careful , and on that note this show is really good and deserves the time to watch . as it has quite alot of surprises .for a 2005 show i think its still very good to watch and the english dub is really good also

My gf loves anime way more than me and wanted to watch this with me one day. I knew nothing about it, but to make her happy, I watched it with her. I am very picky about the anime I watch and like, I only like a handful of anime. I was hooked within the first 2 episodes! This is such a great show, I had to get it! More for the adult and mature crowd. Speed Grapher is intended to only be 1 season long, which can be good sometimes, even though you want more, it's good to know when to end it.Speed Grapher is about a former war photographer named Saiga who stumbles on a hidden, underground club during an investigation that is exclusively only for the most rich and powerful. This club, which is run by Suitengu, the main anti hero in this anime, pratices bizarre rituals that worship a 15 year old Goddess named Kagura. Kagura does not realise what goes on in this fetish club as it is a blur of a dream to her. During these rituals, in a hypnotize state, the Goddess kisses the chosen subject thus releasing their inner most desire. Saiga just so happens, crashes this ritual at the right time and during a scuffle, he finds himself in front of the Goddess and she gives him a kiss granting his inner most desire. Turns out his desire is to destroy anything he photographs. Saiga attempts to free Kagura as she awakens during the ritual confused and frightened. The two escape and it turns into a cat and mouse game between Saiga and Kagura and Suitengu and his club. The rituals have been going on for a while, thus many members have had their most secret desires come true, making quite a few interesting villians! Some such as a man who can stretch beyond human anatomy, a man whos tattoos come to life, a woman whos love for diamonds turns her into a moving mannequinn that is pure diamond and has claws that are just as sharp, and so on. Another thing why I like this anime so much is the way it ends, I wont say anything in order to not spoil anything, but trust me, this is an anime worth watching!

This was a pretty good series. I caught a few episodes years ago and it's always been in the back of my mind whenever I watched anime. Finally, I decided to buy this and watch the whole series.I do have some complaints though and I feel like these are the reasons this series will probably never get a blu ray release. For starters, there are heavy sexual themes, including a woman raping a man in one episode (though it gets entirely ignored). The writers tried to give her a redemption arc, but it wasn't really focused on anything regarding her or what she had done; just a means to make her go with the plot for the sake of plot. There's also the issue of a fifteen-year-old and a thirty-three year old as our main leads. At first, the relationship comes off as a father-daughter type of thing, which I was behind -- until it molded into something else as the series goes on which made me uncomfortable. They don't do anything beyond things like hugging or hand holding but...eh. It just felt weird, especially with the ending confession and all the hints leading up to it.Then we have the smaller problem of some questions that didn't get answered or things that ended abruptly and just left us hanging despite the story moving on.The audio is horrible. I watched this on my blu ray player and had to max out the volume. I genuinely thought there was something wrong with my headphones and blu ray player until I put something else in and realized it wasn't me at all but this series just having horrid audio quality.This isn't a bad series. If you can handle anything mentioned above or just want something to binge watch, I think this would be just fine. But I also think it could have been so much more than what it offered.

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it was good thx