Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Last Exile review ( one of the best steampunk anime )



  Year :2003 ( there is season 2 / 2011)
Episodes : 26 episodes
Genre : Adventure , Steampunk, Fantasy
Plot:

The story starts with two children Claus Valca and Lavie Head , they work as air deliverers with their old vanship they inherited from their deceased fathers.  All action develops in a fiction world where two nations Anatoray and Disith are engaged in an armed conflict . There is a Guild that provides  high technologies to this two nations in their war but it seems their intentions are not so neutral and good as they seem , instead they intend to dominate and capture both sides . The backgrounds , ships and clothes  are very much inspired by steampunk old books , here you can see a lot of interesting industrial and flight machines . During episodes  is shown that in this society people are very much constrained by army grades and nobility and sometimes do unreasonable actions because of it. Claus Valca and his navigator Lavie Head are one of the best sky couriers , even so since they are children and do own a very old vanship they take only low grade easy missions , once they  take a mission to transport  a girl and all their life turns in a wild adventure .  In this anime is very well related fear and emotions of personages , as an example in first episodes you can see how terrified was Mullin Shetland , a simple soldier on one of Anatoray ( Anatolya ) fleet flagship. In the anime they have to use old type weapons , it is pretty strange since they use pretty well developed  flying ships . 

The music in this anime is very nice , the strong characters and interesting plot make this anime  pleasant  to watch , there are some very touching moments , unshared love and amazing devotion.
  Main characters :

Claus Valca 

Lavie Head


Elfen Lied

Year: 2004
Episodes : 13 episodes
Genre : Horror , Science Fiction , Romance
Nyuu
This anime is about an experiment on human beings and the result is Lucy/ Nyuu .

Do not get fooled by the looks of the main characters , this is a true horror science fiction anime . Lucy the central protagonist of this anime commits a lot  of horrible things while she is in rage or out of  jealousy. This is a sad story how a beautiful , cute girl could end up like this after  human experiments . Even so she does have affection to other main protagonist Kouta  and she  holds on, not to harm him .
Kouta and his cousin Yuka take care of Lucy while she is in her Nyuu infantile personality, she is  kind and cute like a lovely child . This is not a light anime to watch , so think yourself.
 

Black Butler / Kuroshitsuji


Black Butler /Kuroshitsuji

Year: 3 October 2008 – 27 March 2009

Episodes : 24 +Ova

Black Butler II season

2 July2010 – 17 September2011

Genre: Supernatural , Dark fantasy, Demons, Action.

The story starts with young Ciel Phantomhive that makes a contract with a demon to revenge his family and find who killed them . The action takes place in Victorian times and all the background of the anime , manor and characters clothes are related to that time . Sebastian Michaelis is the mysterious butler that appears near Ciel and carry every request he has .

Not many know that this astonishing butler is not actually human and what was the price Ciel has to pay for his services.

Beside the comic and mystic moments this anime is a detective and main idea revolves around discovering the truth in different cases they have to solve , most of them are related to Queen requests or to figuring out who planed the murder of his parents.

Sebastian Michaelis is an exceptional butler it is true but in most cases Ciel himself solves the mystery behind the crimes and Sebastian has the role to fight against . Ciel is a good chess player so he is thinking his every move before his suspects would even consider that he is watching them, he is very good at intimidation and this is shown form the first episode, even he is just a little boy he can influence and terrorize others around him. Helped by his butler he usually makes different pranks and laugh about other people greed and stupidity , always very calm and confident in his butlers abilityto solve and save him from any situation . Ciel Phantomhive is very wealthy and as strange as it sounds his company has the first place on country toy market.

Manga was illustrated by Yano Toboso and started in 16 september 2006, since then this manga had been published in very many countries as France , Spain , Germany and even Finland .

The type of this anime and manga is mainly oriented to female readers , fans.

Due the popularity of this anime and manga it was made a musical “ That Butler , Friendship in 2009, a video game Kuroshitsuji Phantom and Ghost a book and soon a movie.

In every episode is demonstrated one or other amazing ability of Sebastian Michaelis , wich is one of the public favorite character of this anime , sometimes it shadows the main protagonist Ciel Phantomhive.

Black Butler characters / personages :

Ciel Phantomhive
The young head of a English noble family , he is only twelve old but he has a very grown up thinking due the tragic death of his parents. He is short and usually wears and eye patch that covers the eyes that he used to make contract with demon butler. He usually doesn’t manifest any emotions beside the times when he is with his potential bride , but they are not quite romantic, more like protective. His cold action portray him as much a demon as the butler that he has, but sometimes he shows good and protective sides of him , like the moment he sends toys to a pregnant women or the moments he protects him cousin and bride Elizabeth.


Sebastian Michaelis
He is the butler of Ciel Phantomhive and actis like his butler and bodyguard , always saves him from dangerous situations . He is completely devoted to Ciel and even he is a demon sometimes he shows subtile sparkles of affection toward him . He is very skilled , he can cook , fight , he is like an universal ideal butler that can accomplish anything , nothing seem impossible for him. He has red scary eyes when he wants to intimidate somebody but usually he acts very glamorous and seductive toward people around him , sometimes he tries to manipulate them or irritate to see their reaction. He looks like a young beautiful man with black hair but his true demonic form is not reviled .

Tanaka
A very old housekeeper that always walks around with a cup of tea, even if he looks very old and fraile he is a very capable butler and in critical moments he does amazing things . Tanaka always supports Ciel and always looks after him even Sebastian is around , and it seems the demon butler has a respect for him.

Mey- Rin
It is the house maid , she is usually very shy and at the sight of Sebastian starts to do stupid things . She has red hair and usually wears huge round glasses , but they seem not to help her very much because she can’t do anything right . She is very skilled with guns , latter is related that she been a sniper before . She is usually very comic and cute .

Finnian – (Finn , Finny) He is the house garden keeper , but he usually ends up destroying it . He usually wears a straw yellow hat and has a dump appearance , he is very friendly and has a super human strength , can drag around trees and huge objects .

Bardroy – he is the Phantomhive house cook but his cooking usually ends up with blowing the kitchen , so Sebastian ends up cleaning after him . He is one of the comic characters that always ends up blowing the house or himself , he usually tries to be better then Sebastin and gets in more trouble . As the other Phantomhive personal he is very loyal to Ciel and protects the house at any costs .

Grell Sutcliff at the bening of series
Grell Sutcliff changed with red hair
Grell Sutcliff
He is a comic grim reaper that has an infatuation with Sebastian . He is very hot tempered as his hair color , he usually has nifty outfit and walks around with a scissor . At the start of the series he has dark brown hair but latter it changes in red as his clothes. He has very sharp teeth and a creepy comic smile He is cunning even if most doesn’t understand his actions and tries different schemes to obtain anything he wants .
Grell Sutcliff at the bening of series falls in love with Sebastian

 Elizabeth hugging Ciel
Elizabeth Ethel Cordelia Midford  

She is Ciel fiancé, she is very cute and always tries to make surprises to Ciel , but it seems he doesn’t  like it much . Her kind heart gets her in trouble sometimes , she loves Ciel very much and usually does foolish things to impress him . During anime is revealed that she has great sword skills , beside being very cute and gentle , looking very helpless.


Elizabeth dressed Sebastian.

Tanaka dressed by Elizabeth