Tuesday, December 30, 2008

SEKIREI

SEKIREI

RATING: 4/5

CHAPTERS: 1 – 12 (END)

AUDIO: JAPANESE

SUBTITLE: CHINESE/ENGLISH

INTRODUCTIONS:

Minato Sahashi who is awkward around women and unemployed, has failed the college entrance exam twice, Growing up, he could never stand up to his mother or little sister, a trend that continues to this day. In reality, Minato is extremely intelligent, yet his inability to cope under pressure results in his constant failure. As a result he has been branded an idiot and loser by many. One day, Minato meets a girl named Musubi, who literally falls from the sky.

Minato soon learns that he is an 'Ashikabi', humans with special genes that allows them to partner with 'Sekirei'. The Sekirei are super-powered beings created by the mysterious MBI corporation. Made up of cute girls, buxom women, and bishōnen, the Sekirei fight in a dangerous and sometimes deadly competition called the 'Sekirei Plan'.

With the entire city of Tokyo as the battlefield, the Sekirei seek out those humans who are destined to become their Ashikabi partner. Minato soon learns that being the partner of a beautiful girl is not all fun and games, especially when he discovers that an Ashikabi can have more than one Sekirei partner, and that's where the real trouble starts.

Saturday, December 27, 2008

KOIHIME MUSOU

KOIHIME MUSOU

RATING: 4/5

CHAPTERS: 1 – 12 (END)

AUDIO: JAPANESE

SUBTITLE: CHINESE/ENGLISH

INTRODUCTIONS:

The storyline of this anime was based on a Japanese adult visual novel and the Chinese novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms. You would expect to get some “unexpected” scenes since all the characters (except one) are females. After losing a family to bandits during a night raid, Kanu swore that she will not let others share the pain she had experienced that night. She quickly became a well-known and feared by villain bandit hunter. During her journey she came across others, who wished to join her in her cause. One of them is a girl named Rin Rin, who had similar experience with bandits in the past.

Monday, October 6, 2008

SAILOR MOON R

SAILORMOON R

RATING: 4/5

CHAPTERS: 1 – 89 (END)

AUDIO: JAPANESE

SUBTITLE: CHINESE/ENGLISH

INTRODUCTIONS:

For those who would like watch Sailor Moon, it is good to purchase the complete Sailor Moon R as a collection as it is quite limited in the market. There are also many spinoffs, sequels and movies you might want to be in your collection such as Sailor Moon R Movie: Promise of the Rose (sequel), Make-Up! Sailor Senshi (movie), Sailor Moon S (TV) (sequel), Sailor Moon S Movie: Hearts in Ice (sequel), Sailor Moon SuperS (TV) (sequel), Sailor Moon Sailor Stars (TV) (sequel), Sailor Moon SuperS (special) (spinoff), Sailor Moon SuperS Movie: Black Dream Hole (sequel) and Sailor Moon SuperS Plus - Ami's First Love (special) (spinoff).

Sailor Moon R or Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon R is split into two different arcs. During episodes 47-59, space aliens Ail and An, disguised as normal students, arrive on the planet. During episodes 60-88, Sailor Moon and the senshi fight against the Black Moon family (Rubeus, Dimando, Saphir, Esmeraude, Wiseman, etc.). We find out that Dimando is in love with Princess Serenity, and he wants her for himself. Chibi-Usa also arrives.

Friday, October 3, 2008

YAMA NO MATSUEI (DESCENDANTS OF DARKNESS)

YAMI NO MATSUEI

RATING: 3/5

CHAPTERS: 1 – 13 (END)

AUDIO: JAPANESE/ENGLISH

SUBTITLE: CHINESE/ENGLISH

INTRODUCTIONS:

Shinigami are the gods of death, the beings who would guide the souls who have been recorded into the Register of Souls to Hades, the world of the dead. They are the employees of the Summons Division, which is an office directly under the control of Enma, the Emperor of the Underworld. The series focuses on one of these Shinigami named Asato Tsuzuki the most powerful, but loveable, laid-back and troubled of them all.

Even after death, life is full of paperwork and criminals. Tsuzuki Asato is a 26 year old, happy-go-lucky, and dorky Shinigami (god of death) whose job is to makes sure that those who are dead remain dead and stay in their proper realms. Even though he had the job for over 70 years, he is in the worst division with horrible pay. He also has a knack for not keeping partners although Shinigami always worked in pairs. He somehow managed to get acquainted with one stubborn, smart-mouthed, serious and defensive 16 years old by the name of Kurosaki Hisoka. Tsuzuki and Hisoka’s relationship grew stronger and closer as time passed by. With each case they investigate, they come closer to the conspiracies of the serial killer Dr. Muraki Kazutaka.

Many stories chronicle the mysterious cases they are called upon to deal with, when souls who have appeared on the Register have for some reason not yet died and are often serious and sad. Other stories deal with their off-time play, and these are sweet and funny. A strong focus of the story is the characters themselves and their feelings about work, and about each other.

Friday, August 8, 2008

MY-HIME

HIME

RATING: 3/5

CHAPTERS: 1- 26 (END)

AUDIO: JAPANESE

SUBTITLE: CHINESE/ENGLISH

INTRODUCTIONS:

My-HiME (舞-HiME) is an anime series, created by Sunrise, directed by Masakazu Obara and written by Hiroyuki Yoshino. The series originally premiered in Japan on TV Tokyo from September 2004 to March 2005. The show is a comedy-drama focusing on the lives of HiMEs - girls with the capacity to materialize photons - gathered at Fuka Academy for a secret purpose.

Tokiha Mai and her sickly brother, Takumi were awarded scholarships to attend the prestigious Fuka Gakuen high school. After an accident on a boat en route to the school, she finds herself against strange girls with strange powers. After an explosion that tears that boat in half, she finds herself awake at school grounds.

There, she learns about monsters roaming the ground, and the secrets about the powers of the Hime, as appointed by a special birthmark and the ability to see an evil star in the sky. She later found out that she herself possessed the power of a HiME.