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| >>>>>F Fruits Basket Creator: Takaya Natsuki Total # Episodes: 26 Episode Runtime: 30 min. Rating: PG Brief Summary: Tohru Honda's mother recently died in a car accident one day. Tohru decides she should live alone and puts up a tent in the middle of the forest. While walking to school, Tohru sees a house and finds out that Yuki Sohma, her school prince, lives there. Yuki and his elder cousin, Shigure, hear her story and decides to let her stay with them. While moving in, a boy named Kyou Sohma breaks through her ceiling demanding to fight with Yuki. Trying to stop the fight, she runs toward Kyou, but slips and falls on him. Kyou suddenly turns into a cat! Tohru freaks out and falls on Yuki and Shigure whom also turn into animals. The adventure begins as Tohru learns more about the Sohma secret. Comments: Reviewed By: MaRy Episodes Watched: 1-26 Storyline: 5/5 : Only two words can describe this anime fully: cute and cuddly. Fruits Basket is a very heart-warming and comical story that I believe everybody can enjoy. Art Work: 4/5 : The art defintely matches the story. The cg coloring were very soft and gentle. Character designs were somewhat typical though. Music: 4/5 : The opening, For Fruits Basket and the ending, Chiisana Inori were both very soft and slow. Ritsuko Okazaki makes the songs sound like lullabies. I liked the bgm a lot though. They were very original, very different from the cutsy opening and ending. Extra: Although the series seems like a "shoujo" or "girl" anime, but many of the guys like it too. It is a really great series for everybody. Overall Score: 5/5 Full Metal Panic! Creator: Shoji Gatoh Total # Episodes: 24 Episode Runtime: 22 min. Rating: PG-13 Brief Summary: Sagara Sousuke is a soldier from the secret force, Mithril. He has been sent on a mission to protect Kaname Chidori because they believe that the KGB, a terrorist force, is after her. It is believed that Kaname is one the Whispered, which are people that know advanced military secrets since from before they were born. Along with his two partners, Melissa Mao and Kurz Weber, he starts his mission to protect Kaname and to slowly uncover the secrets of The Whispered ones. Comments: Reviewed By: MaRy Episodes Watched: 1-24 Storyline: 4/5 : From all the high-tech anime stories we have now, the basic story doesn't seem very original. But Shoji Gatoh presents a comical story with well-developed characters. Art Work: 4/5 : The original art was pretty good already but the characters designs seem unoriginal in the anime. Music: 5/5 : The music was really good. The opening, Tomorrow, and the ending, Karenai Hana both sung by Mikuni Shimokawa were very nice and upbeat. Extra: This is a good series to watch. But the series ended early, but the season 2 of FMP will be released soon. Overall Score: 4/5 Reviewed By: Kuruma Schezar Episodes Watched: 1-24 Storyline: 3/5 : The story changes too much lol. It starts off as a sort of love story with some comedy in it. This is because of Chidori's special power. Then it changes to this full blown war type story...where her power is sort of forgotten as her "boyfriend" goes away. Then they try and revive the whole beginning story again. I feel it's too little too late hehe. Art Work: 4/5 : The character's are pretty to look at lol. I didn't like the designs of the enemy mechs though. They seemed too "round" hehe...and that they would fall over of something. Nice colors for backgrounds. Nice appeal. Music: 3/5 I like the Intro and Ending Songs. I found myself humming them out of nowhere sometimes. However, that's it. There wasn't an in-anime song that caught my attention too well or didn't add to the mood. I felt they could have done more here. Extra: Overall, it's a decent series to watch. There isn't much motivation to keep watching....but you don't lose anything either. As the old saying goes "You get what you pay for."...and I feel like I didn't pay too much for this series hehe. Overall Score: 3/5 Fushigi Yuugi Creator: Yuu Watase Total # Episodes: 52 Episode Runtime: 22 min. Rating: PG-13 Brief Summary: Miaka Yuuki and Yui Hongo are two high school exam candidates. One day, they go to the library to study, when they come across a book called "The Universe of Four Gods ". As soon they begin to read the lines they are mysteriously transported into another world. They find that they are both priestesses of rivaling countries and their goal to find all 7 of the celestial warriors that will protect the priestess and then summon the country's beast-god. Miaka is now confronted with new feelings and she begins through life's greatest feelings such as love and friendship, but also goes through the most painful; betrayal, and hate. Comments: Reviewed By: MaRy Episodes Watched: 1-52 Storyline: 5/5 : The basic storyline is very good. Filled with romance, friendship, hate, and more romance. The ideal shoujo anime for any anime girl. Art Work: 4/5 : I thought the art work was okay in the anime. The people's body's was a little out of proportion or maybe it was just my DVD. Music: 4/5 : The soundtracks are pretty good. They're very upbeat and catchy. I don't particularly like any of the slow songs though. Extra: --- Overall Score: 4/5 >>>>>G >>>>>H Haibane Renmei Creator:Yoshitoshi Abe Total # Episodes: 13 Episode Runtime: ~20 min Rating: PG Brief Summary: Not to give anything away, haibane means gray feather or grey wing, and renmei means federation, or association. So, the anime is about the gray feather federation. No, its not allied with the earth federation or UN Spacy... A haibane is a person with gray wings who is born out of cocoons that mysteriously appear in the abandoned school called the Old Home. They pop out fully formed at a certain age. There are adult haibanes and chibi haibanes, but they all come out of the cocoons at their respective ages. The federation gives the haibane a halo and a handbook. They are not allowed to use new things, and their job is to reuse the old things in the walled in city that is their home. Besides that, each haibane has their own job in the city, and can't remember anything before being a haibane. The story revolves around a young (in time as a haibane) haibane named rakka, which, according to her dream of freefall, means falling. Each episode gives a glance into her life, and how she adjusts to being what she is now, in a city that she cannot escape. Comments: Reviewed By: Kur0Nek0Chan!! Episodes Watched: 13 Storyline: 4/5 : The whole of this anime has a gentle, fluffy (fuwa fuwa desu!!) feel to it. Characters are sweet, even the mysterious Toa ruling the haibanes. There are no epic struggles of good versus evil, only people trying to find themselves. I especially like Kuu, and Nemi =P. Art Work: 5/5 : I personally like this anime very much, because yoshitori aBe's artwork is incredible. Some of us might recognize the style from serial experiments lain, only without any mind-wrenching frames to wrap around. European architecture meets wide sprawling paint landscapes define the walled in city. Music: 4/5 : The music is a bit like the mood, gentle, sometimes a little bit scary or sad in the vocals. Extra: The DVD boxset includes aBe's original art for the anime, and you can see the beauty in the simple town settings. Compared to Lain, its noticiably less of a sugar rush, but theres still a lot of thinking that he makes you do, especially the dream scenes. His style is obvious in the anime, and I recommend it for fans of lain, or any or Clamp's work. Any otakus who dont happen to have too big an IQ, or would rather watch Trigun or something with just action and no thought involved, stay far away. Overall Score: 4.5/5 >>>>>I Initial D Creator: Shuichi Shigeno Total # Episodes: 41 Episode Runtime: Rating: PG-13 Brief Summary: Takumi Fujiwara is a normal 18-year-old boy who helps his father deliver tofu in Akina. One day the members of the Akagi Red Suns, an elite racing group, challenge Takumi's friends, who are members in Akina Speedstars. The Speedstars are apparently no match for the famous Akagi brothers, Keisuke and Ryousuke Takahashi. Keisuke is very disappointed from what he sees at Akina and goes for a late night drive. Suddenly an AE-86 Trueno speeds up and manages to beat Keisuke's Mazda RX-7! We find that Takumi is the actually the driver of the Trueno. This story revolves around Takumi and his road on becoming the best speed driver. Comments: Reviewed By: MaRy Episodes Watched: 1-41 Storyline: 3/5 : This show is more for the car lovers out there because the story is hard to understand if you don't know much about cars. But Initial D is more of a stay and watch series because as you watch on the races gets rather exciting and suspensful. Art Work: 2/5 : I have to say that the characters are fairly unattractive. But of course the main focus isn't on the people, it's the cars. The Second Stage has a lot better and more cg animations. In the first stage the cars are just drawn while in the Second Stage it's all cg. Music: 5/5: This has to be the best part of Initial D. The music is mostly Euro Trance and J-Rock. But it REALLY sets the mood for the series. They're all very upbeat and catchy too. Extra: --- Overall Score: 3/5 Initial D: Battle Stage Creator: Shuichi Shigeno Total # Episodes: 1 Episode Runtime: ~40 min. Rating: PG-13 Brief Summary: A OVA epsiodes basically reviewing most of the races from season 1 to the movie: Third Stage. Comments: Reviewed By: MaRy Storyline: 0/5 :What story? It was basically a showing of all of Takumi's races, and must I emphasize races, from season 1 to the movie, except the one vs. Seiji (EVO 4). There is very little dialouge, and it's just a small 2-5 minute recap of the each races. It shows the races in no particular order except for the ones from season 1. Art Work: 3/5 :Let me say that the CG makes up all 3 points. I have to say that they did improve the CG for the races for season 1 and 2. The environment and cars look really good, around the level of how it was in the movie. But for the races from the movie the race was straight from the movie but with different music in the background. The characters look exactly how they're supposed to look in that particular season of the series. Meaning during movie races, characters will look better than they did during season 1 races. Music: 4/5 : You might as well turn off your moniter and turn the volume up or you can consider this whole thing as a music video. The music is a lot more techno/rave/eurobeat-ish than the series and has the same qualities as music in the movie. But it kind of just plays and doesn't help the animation much after a while. It's a new song after every single race. Extra: It's just 40 minutes of crap, I couldn't stand it after the first 5 minutes. I see no reason to watch this, not even for an Initial D fan. Overall Score: 1 Inuyasha: Kagami no Naka no Mugenjou Creator: Rumiko Takahashi Total # Episodes: MOVIE Movie Runtime: ~1hr 40min. Rating: PG-13 Brief Summary: (Taken from Sengoku Jidai's movie page) Inu-Yasha's group has tracked down their enemy, Naraku. Kagome uses her bow and arrow, and Inu-Yasha his Tessaiga, to finally capture him! The strange thing is that after that night the full moon continues for days and strange things happen. At that time, a suspicious demon appeared before Inu-Yasha's group calling herself Kaguya, princess of the heavens! But really, what's the connection between Kaguya, the enemy who is manipulating time, and Naraku? Comments: Reviewed By: MaRy Storyline: 4/5 :The movie is basically same in essence as the first. From the way the movie opens to the way Inuyasha to Kagome's love just surpasses anything, the plot is basically the same in every aspect I can think of. The story basically revolves around the tennyo, Kaguya. And if you think the word sounds familiar, it's because it's the story of Ayashi no Ceres. Don't think for a second that this movie is like Ayashi no Ceres. The movie was just incorporating the tennyo legend (which is a real myth in many parts of the world, especially in Japan: i.e. The Bamboo Cutter's Tale) and adding an Inuyasha twist. Art Work: 5/5 :The art is a mix of Rumiko Takahashi's original designs and the art directors of the anime. It's a very nice mix because you get the feel of the manga being animated. Music: 5/5 : The movie theme songs, Ai no Uta and Yura Yura, are both song Every Little Thing. Ai no Uta, though I thought it was a useless scene in the movie, is a very nice song. Yura Yura is very upbeat and pretty song that plays during the ending. The bgms are all from the original OST. Extra: I thought it was a okay movie, but it was more for the fans. The InuyashaxKagome love scenes, the comical scenes in between, Houjou's ancestor, it's was all for the fans. I felt it lacked a little information on the Kuguya part but maybe it's because I just wanted to know more myself because it was an interesting topic. Overall Score: 4/5 >>>>>J |
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