Friday, October 18, 2013

Ristorante Paradiso anime review

Year:2009
Episodes: 11 episodes.
Manga writen by : Natsume Ono
Studio: David Production
Plot:
Nicoletta a young girl that been raised by her grandmother wants to meet her mother and tell everyone the truth about herself . She travels to Rome and goes strait to the Casetta dell’Orso ( Bear’s den)  restaurant , owned by her mother new husband . Her mother all this years hide from her husband the fact that she had a daughter , being afraid that he might dump her . After a some  events Nicoletta is convinced by her mother not to tell the truth to Lorenzo Orsini ( her current husband). Nicoletta falls in love with one of the waiters Claudio and asks her mother to get a job as a cooking apprentice , so the story begins . This anime has no supernatural heroes , extraordinary events just pure romance and usual life personages , even so their story is very touching , completed by their nature and color . The some of the backgrounds of this anime are very charming , made in pastel colors , this makes it very pleasant to watch . 

Ristorante Paradiso Characters:
Nicoletta , Ristorante Paradiso ( watching evening Rome)
Nicoletta - A girl around her 20’s that comes to Rome to meet her mother . She is very natural , lovely and sometimes get’s lost in her wishes like a normal young girl in a new ambiance . Nicoletta been raised by her grandmother so she cooks not bad . With the help of her mother she starts to work at Casetta dell’Orso . She is very ambitious and dreams to make a career , to be successful as a normal young girl would dream but in the same time she puts her romantic feelings for Claudio ( a waiter from restaurant she works ) on first place “ nothing is more important then her feelings now “, even so she is afraid of them and sometimes unsecure .
Olga and Nicoletta
Olga – Nicoletta mother . She is a blonde , very beautiful women that works in an advocate company and is very successful . Olga divorced her Nicoletta father long time ago , after a while she meet Lorenzo Orsini and fall in love with him , she was afraid that he might not get married with her if he would know about her previous marriage , so she hides the fact that she has a daughter. Even so she tries to help her child in need , sometimes she seems selfish , sometimes she seems just a simple mother .
Claudio Paradiso
Santo Claudio Paradiso -  is a waiter at Casetta dell’Orso . Claudio is a very gentile and kind man , from the moment he meets Nicoletta he always tries to gentile with her , he feels like her life is very similar to his ( especially after he finds out she is Olga’s daughter) . He can’t get over his past  marriage with Gabrielle , another successful women that works with Olga in the same advocate office . Claudio is in big dilemma when Nicoletta appears in his life , he is also concerned is it right because he is much older then her and he can’t  understand his own feelings yet.
Luciano de Luca
Luciano de Luca -   he is a waiter at Casetta dell’Orso also , his wife died long time ago but he still keeps her memory alive . Most of his time he seems harsh to Nicoletta but he is really concerned  about her like a father , somehow he always tries to talk to Claudio and protect Nicoletta feelings . He is a very attentive grandfather and loves to read newspaper.

Lorenzo Orsini – Lorenzo is current Olga husband , he is a cheerful man , but also very enigmatic . He is the owner of Casetta dell’Orso and half brother with Gian Orsini ( Gigi). He adores his wife and in spite all her past he accepts her . He is very kind to Nicoletta  and everyone from his restaurant workers.
Vito , Ristorante Paradiso
Vito – another waiter at Casetta dell’Orso . He is tall bald and very cheerful , he has a very young wife so everyone keeps joking about it.
Nicoletta and Gian Orsini ( Gigi)
Gian Orsini ( Gigi) He is half brother to owner of the restaurant . He doesn’t talk to much so Nicoletta is very surprised when he approves her pasta .He is currently single and younger then others so Olga thought that Nicoletta might be interested in him more then in Claudio.
Furio ,Ristorante Paradiso chef
Furio – He is the chef of the restaurant and a very kind man . He loves cooking and wears fake glasses just to keep working at Casetta dell’Orso. He adores his wife Angela.

Gabriella – Claudio ex’ wife and a very successful women , works in the same office with Olga , Nicoletta mother and they seem to be very close friends . She often visit Casetta dell’Orso and pains Claudio . She seem very cold to him but her feelings are quite a mystery , may be she loves knowing that her ex-husband is still interested in her.
Teo ,Ristorante Paradiso
Teo- he is a young cheerfull chef at the restaurant , he is talented and flirty , sometimes there is a felling that he likes Nicoletta even he doesn’t show it much .

Level E / レベルE ( Jpanese)/ Reberu Ī ( anime ) review

Year: 2011
Episodes: 13 episodes ( 24 minutes )
Opening : Cold finger girl - Chiaki Kuriyama ( nice opening )

Plot: The story starts with Yukitaka Tsutsui a high school student that plays baseball , he was not very popular before and he didn’t think of himself much until he moved to a new town and a new school . Here he seems to be popular , Yukitaka doesn’t know yet  everything about his surroundings , when he arrives at his new apartment he finds there a stranger  dressed in his clothes .  This stranger is not as simple as he look he is actually a prince from the Dogra planet , who would believe that of course Yuki think  he is a poor mad man . At this point the adventures start and Yukitaka finds out that aliens do exist and they live hiden around us , and many of his so called fans are one of them , he gets pulled in prince plans . As you would  not expect this prince is not a hero or usual type of super man he just loves to make fun of people and acts according to his Baka name . The anime starts pretty well , the plot is limping after a while thou.
 If you want to watch a supernatural comedy with new personages and interesting type of drawing style this is what you looking for .
 Characters :
Prince Baka - A weird alien prince that loves to do pranks on people around him , he is careless and unserious , sometimes It feels like this character is a rebellion against usual  prince type . At start when you see his lovely blonde type prince style you think all right another hero , but no in this case you are totally wrong , even so he seems to have compassion in some moments even they are not very much showy . The development of this character is not finished , I think it could make a greater story if it would involve other sides of this personality and give a chance to the starting story line .

Yukitaka Tsutsui – this character appears at the binging of the story and seem to have a central role but it is just at the start , so at some point the viewer might be disappointed . Even so he is a typical high school student that loves sport , he hopes to get famous in his new school . He falls in love with his new neighbor

Miho Edogawa - a high school student and doughter of a man that researches the alen life on earth . She is a cute girl and seems to like her new neighbour Yukitaka Tsutsui. 

Captain Kraft- Captain Kraft is the prince Baka body guard and his main toy , poor man has to endure all  sort of pranks on his skin , at the beginning he is very angry but after a while he finds ways to deal with prince on his own . Even he is prince bodyguard he doesn’t stop from punching him .

 Prince Baka  Level E
Prince Baka Level E