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| >>>>>P Paralell Adventure Trouble Dual Creator: Kuroda Yosuke Total # Episodes: 13 Episode Runtime: 25 min. Rating: PG-13 Brief Summary: Kazuki Yotsuga has visions of robots. Though the visions may seem very real, he knows that they are fake. And they are, aren't they? One day Kazuki is invited by Mitsuki Sanada, the most popular and beautiful girl in his school, to go to her house. Upon his arrival, he is greeted by Mitsuki's scientist father, Ken Sanada. His father is very interested in Kazuki's visions. He hypothesizes that Kazuki has visions of the parallel world and plans to send him there. Very impatiently, Ken Sanada is about to send Kazuki to the parallel world when Mitsuki reminds that they were only supposed to do a body scan. But Mitsuki accidentally sits on the transport switch and Kazuki is sent to the parallel world. On this new world, the world is at war with the RaRa [ LaLa ] army. Though he really wants to return his world, he needs to end this war first. So he becomes a core robot pilot, hoping that he will one day return home. Comments: Reviewed By: MaRy Episodes Watched: 1-13 Storyline: 3/5 : This would definitely be a parallel universe to Evangelion. You got your whole main boy character, his girl sidekicks, and the scientist father too! And not to mention the mechas too. But ther series is not as gloomy and insane as Evangelion so the lighter happy mood may make it more enjoyable. Art Work: 4/5 : The art was okay. As you come and go you see a lot like it. I liked D's character design though. Music: 4/5 : The opening wasn't fantastic but acceptable. Listening to it too many times gave me a headache. The ending was very soft and light, kinda like a lullaby. Extra: --- Overall Score: 3.5/5 >>>>>Q >>>>>R >>>>>S Saishyuu Heiki Kanojo Creator: Shin Takahashi Total # of Episodes: 13 Episode Runtime: ~25 min Rating: R Brief Summary: Ever feel like your girlfriend would suddenly yank a gun from somewhere and start pumping holes in your head? Its a bit more complicated than that for Shuji, the male lead of Saikano. Caught in the middle of a war, he finds himself climbing the devilishly high hill to school everyday instead of taking the bus, and tagging along behind him a cute, gasping girlfriend Chise. To cut a long story short, he and his friends are caught in a bombing of their Hokkaido town, and one of them ::gasp:: is crushed by the rubble. While his other friends sob over it, he sees a point of light fly by in true Gonzo style and wipe out the enemy fighters. It drops nearby, and for some unexplicable reason he runs over, only to find Chise sporting a gatling gun and wings, she, the ultimate weapon. Comments: Reviewed By: Kur0Nek0Chan!! Episodes Watched: 1-13 Storyline: 5/5 :Its.. freaking amazing... the depth of each character, mostly focusing on the two main, but encompassing a world of emotion that leaves one breathless and crying. I'm still crying. If you took a generous helping of eva action, grave of the fireflies sadness and your favorite bishoujo and/or hentai, mixed it all up in a blender, you sort of get the idea. wah...AKEMI!!!!! Art: 5/5 :I have to say Takahashi's sketchy manga style is only made prettier with Gonzo's own animation. Those who have seen Gundam Seed, or FMP, know Gonzo's solid color block and flaky shading style. Coupled with the sheer cuteness of Saikano's rounded characters, it makes a very pleasing and easy to relate to palate or people. The backgrounds are very well rendered, standard Gonzo quality townscapes. Explosions, very pretty. Music: 5/5 :It suits the mood very well, but you just dont have time to notice it, there's too much other stuff to absorb. What sticks are the ending song Sayonara, which is very nice, sadder than puppy roadkill, and Chise and Shuji's love song which plays from the radio every now and then, fitting the japanese northern town they live in. Extra: This.. is a landmark. Made from Shin Takahashi's 7-volume manga, it still sports the original sketches sandwiching the commercial breaks, and more important, it still has the memorable sadness and pain of a wartime lovers story. Youll see..wah..Akemi...WAH!!!! this baby is right up there with eva. Memorable quotes: "Aho!"-Shuji | "Gomenasai!"-Chise | the last love song on this little planet Overall Score: 5/5 Wish I could go higher!! Shoujo Kakumei Utena Creator: Saito Chiho Total # Episodes: 39 Episode Runtime: ~25 minutes Rating: NC-17 Brief Summary: Tenjou Utena has made her life goal to become a prince after a mysterious prince gives her the drive for life after her parents die in a car accident. Her prince gives her a rose crested ring which leads her to her present day ar Ohtori Academy, where she is an 8th grader. At Ohtori Academy she falls upon a group of duelists that fight over the Rose Bride (Himemeya Anthy), in hopes of revolutionizing the world. Comments: Reviewed By: LilBabyPenguin Episodes Watched: 1-39 Story Line: 4/5 :Almost like Sailor Moon except less magic and more demented Art Work: 3/5 :The action sequences were good, but the "transformation" sequences get old pretty fast as well as some scenes that become tedious and over used. Music: 5/5 :It moved the series along nicely, letting it play on emotions. Extra: This series in the beginning was a pleasure to watch: action, drama, comfusion and bits and pieces of teenage angst which appeals to the teenaged female population. However, the series got extremely disturbing within the plot due to heavy ideas of incest, sex, and blended it all in with some light lesbianism. I would definately not recommend this for the younger audiences even though it was orignally aimed towards younger girls because of the magical girl scenario. Also the ending of the series will most likely leave some audience members wishing they could smash in their televisions no matter how sentimental and revealing it may seem. Overall Score: 3/5 >>>>>T Tiny Snow Fairy Sugar Creator: Aoi Haruka Total # Episodes: 24 Episode Runtime: ~20 min. Rating: G Brief Summary: Saga is the daughter of a brilliant pianist, Ingrid Bellmond.She frequently has dreams of a flying piano, in the snow, with something flying around over her. Like her mother, she wants to be a pianist as well, and incorporates sessions at her mother's piano into her well-ordered, friendly life. One day, after a strictly scheduled day of leisure, she finds herself caught in the rain next to an unconcious two-inch high little girl. Giving her a waffle, the little fairy chows down and promptly falls unconcious. Saga carries her home, where she finds that nobody can see Sugar except her! Sugar insists that she is a season fairy who makes seasons, and Saga denies the fairy's existance until Sugar pulls out her magic picolo and makes a snowflake with it. Comments: Reviewed By: Kur0Nek0Chan!! Episodes Watched: 1-24 Storyline: 4/5 :I liked the simple architecture of the plot, which mostly revolves around the friendship between Sugar and Saga. It befits a children's anime, but also gives you a deep impression about life itself. The story gives you laughter, sadness, loneliness, happiness, and basically expresses a lot with a relatively small cast of characters you get to know very deeply, given the length of the anime. I also liked the music element, binding everybody together. Art: 5/5 :What first attracted me to this anime were the character designs by Koge Donbo. She had a small part in its development, but the style is unmistakable, beautifully cute. Some people aren't able to stand kawaii characters, but it works, and is suitable for a G rated anime. The background is wonderfully rendered, painted, looks like. The story is set in a fictional small European town, and the architecture is something to look for while watching TSFS. A small note, the wild piano ride in the last two episodes lets you see practically the whole town and some outside, the ride itself animated action movie style, but it gives you a chance to look at the backgrounds. Music: 4/5:The music itself is very beautiful, classical instruments, but it repeats a lot for the scenes used, reminiscent of the game Okage, shadow king. Whats great is that they made separate instrument tracks of some of the same songs, so first you get to hear Saga on a solo piano, then with Sugar joining in on her picolo, then with the whole fairy gang working out Saga's favorite song. A lot of the music is essential to the plot, so watch with a good sound system. Extra: I have to say, I was sadder than I usually am when I finish an anime. Its a very small thing, but the last episode is a bit of a tear-jerker. TSFS isnt too far out of the extraordinary, but there are lots of original ideas in the presentation that make you want to keep watching, even if its just to see Sugar bury herself in a mountain of "Wa-ho?"'s. Overall Score: 4.5/5 |
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