Kyousougiga ( Mirror Capital ( Kyoto Mirror city ) 京騒戯画

Kyousougiga ( Mirror Capital ( Kyoto Mirror city ) 京騒戯画

Year : 2 October 2013

Episodes: 13 episodes

Written by : Miho Maruo

Plot : The story starts with a monk  Myoe (Yakushimaru) , this monk has the ability to give life to his drawings , everything he draws becomes reality . He lives alone on a mountain and all his days are empty and lonely , his only companion is his lovely yellow dog . Once he made a sketch of a rabbit  and named it Koto . Koto as all his drawings had his own life and loved her master , the little black rabbit with red eyes adored the lonely monk and always prayed to be loved by her master . A goddess granted  her wish and lend her body to Koto until her love will be returned by the monk . Koto turned in a beautiful silver hair lady and started to live with monk , he sketched three children for them Yase ( a blonde cute girl that looks like an elf and dreams to be a demon ) . Kurama a little priest that always meditate and get’s irritated when his other two siblings make pranks. Yakushimaru  a little samurai like dressed kid that is always very serious and lazy in some way he resembles Myoe character . Myoe and Koto are forced to move in a virtual world because other monks and people don’t like them, after a while Koto is forced to return in the real world to give back the body she  been given . Yakushimaru takes place of Myoe in the virtual world , that’s why somebody could get frustrated why there are two Myoe . The three children are now waiting their  parents in the virtual perfect world where usually nothing bad happens. In this moment the second story appears about a little girl Koto she has same name as the black rabbit , she is orphan and a monk is her mentor the image of Myoe on the other side . Koto resembles Alice in the Wonderland and always try to follow the black rabbit and find the secret behind it , she wants to meet her mother . At the first sight the anime might seem to have a pretty complicated plot ,it gets twisted and twisted but there are always feelings and emotions hiding under , this anime has a drop of romance , a drop of kindness and mystery , somebody might not understand it , somebody might find it fascinating and interesting , it has also funny simple moments that could make you cheerful . I do believe there should be more explanation in the start of this story or may be this is the secret that makes it so mysterious , sometimes the overload of mystery might kill the interest of a certain category of watchers.

The background and the style of characters changes in dependence of the reality they share , some of it is pretty original, it definitely has something that brings it out from the lot. 

Main Characters:

Kuro the black rabbit that been sketched by Myoe and was in love with her master , a goddess granted her wish and gave her a girl body to fulfill her wish .

Kuro

Myoe ( the monk)  the lonley monk that lived on a mountain he had the power to give life to his drawings and created his own virtual world where he left to live with his wife Kuro and three children.

Myoe

Yase - the bond demon girl , she been drawn by Myoe as one of his children with Kuro. Later she is shown up as grown up demon girl , this mean something changed in their perfect world since they should not have been grown in their ideal balanced world.

Yase

Kurama, one of the Myoe children , he always dreams to return and see the real world again .

Yakushimaru one of the three children on Myoe , very responsable , he never understands his father jokes .

Monk family traveling to Kyousougiga or Kyoto in the other wold.

Kuro - the little orphan girl that is grawn by Myoe from the other world . She is brave and funny , her biggest dream is to find her mother .

Little Kuro and Myoe (Kyousougiga )

Kurozuka / 黒塚 anime review

Year 2008
Episodes : 12 episodes
Studio : MadHouse
Written by : Baku Yumemakura

Plot : The anime is about a young samurai Kuro that is forced to save his life from his older brother . He runs in the woods with his servant Benkei . Kuro is a very well skilled swordsman and he escapes from the people following him , he has a bad fiver and is forced to stop and rest in a mysterious house in the woods . The owner of this place is a very beautiful women Kuromitsu . But this women is not to simple as Kuro thinks , she has the gift of immortality and because of this she is followed and hunted by a Red Organization , this organization followers seek to discover the secret of immortality . Kuro finds out the dark secret of this women but even so he falls in love with her and during all anime he is searching for her.
 Kuromitsu shared her immortality with Kuro but his servant Benkei betrayed him and cut of his head . The place of action moves to a post apocalyptic city where Kuro wakes up after he regenerates himself . The plot evolves into a war between different organizations that seek power and want to use Kuromitsu blood . Kuro is forced to fight and die several times , the plot is very twisted in this moment , I guess this is main problem of this anime , is changes so fast that at some moment it is difficult to keep track of the main idea , also it has some time and plot discrepancy . Even if there are many points in this anime the biggest interest is held by the romance between Kuromitsu and Kuro and their desperate fight to be together .
The desing of the characters is pretty interesting , there is a lot of action but also violence as in samurai Japanese anime usually is . The music and the way of how characters move reminds of kabuki theatre .

Post apocalyptic city

Kuro and Kurozuka in a field of fosforescent flowers.

Kurozuka main characters :

Kuro/ Kurozuka

Kuro : Young samurai that gets imprisoned by his desperate love for the vampire immortal women named Kuromitsu . He is noble and kind , even he fights a lot of red organization soldiers he is not even capable to step on a flower in a field that is loved by his beautiful Kuromitsu . Most of time he seems lost because of the huge changes around him even so he is determined to follow his heart anywhere . Also it seems that Kuro has some power to see fatal moments from his future , sometimes he can see his death and escape it. Is it a dream or a prophecy , will he take again this mysterious path of this fate or change his way.

Kuromitsu 

Kuromitsu : a very beautiful women that was granted immortality long time ago by an unknown to her man . She can be twisted and cruel sometimes but she can also be romantic and kind . She loves flowers and nature and looks with disgust at people that destroy it . Kuromitsu loves Kuro with all her being and tries to protect him in all ways she can . Since Kuro lost his real body she is in the search of a substitution , it seems that after a while the bodies become week and doesn’t regenerate .

Benkei: Benkei is Kuro servant , monk form Musashi , he is obsessed with his master Kuro , at some point he goes mad seeing himself and wanting to be Kuro . Kuro is his ideal , but also he betrays his master in his madness because he wants to surpass him , take his place and be loved by Kuromitsu . His feelings are twisted and understandable . Benkei beheaded his master Kuro

Naruto Shippuuden Kabuto Yakushi story

Kabuto and Nono Yakushi

 Little Kabuto and the provenience of his glasses

Kabuto was a orphan child , he had no memory no family when Nono Yakushi found him . Nono was a  nun and because of her kind heart she adopted Kabuto as her own sun . Kabuto been recruited by Fundation and he lost his identity again , he became a spy without family . All his life he searched his own place so he became Orochimaru apprentice , not many can understand his life and how he became a villain , but watching his story sometimes  you see that people life can be changed and twisted because  of other person stupid or cruel actions . Interesting how would this character evolve in other circumstances , would nameless child evolve into a hero or into a magnificent doctor . ..

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

Strike the blood ( ストライク・ザ・ブラッド Sutoraiku za Buraddonew ) anime autumn 2013 / manga

Year:4 October 2013

Plot:

The anime starts in a city that is haunted by rumours about a horrible vampire Fourth Primogenitor that appeared in the city , a city on a Iceland where magical creatures live , magicians , vampires , warewolfs and other . Kojo Akatsuki tries to be a normal student , he is kind and careful , never tries to attract attention to himself , he tries to live his life as before he became Fourth Primogenitor, Kojo doesn’t remember much about his transformation thou .

Kojo Akatsuki doesn’t still understand the full power he has and doesn’t know even how to use it at the beginning of the series , even he wished it so much to bring prosperity and fight with villains. Government and Lion Organization send a shaman Yukina Himeragi to look after Kojo and in case if he is really dangerous to eliminate him . Yukina seems to be powerful inspite of her simple ,school student appearance, she also has a magical spear that gives her power to kill familiars and other demons.

During this time in their apparently normal city start to happened different strange things , is this a fight between people and supernatural , is somebody starting a war , if you are a vampire fantasy anime fan you might try this anime . The characters are typical , drawing is ok, the plot has a interesting turn at least at start .
Strike the blood  main Characters :

Kojo Akatsuki 

Kojo Akatsuki – a simple high school student that became the 4^th primogenitor one of the most powerful vampire ( primogenitor – noble vampires that can have incredible powers and a lot of familiars , familiar is a demon like creature that has different powers , in most cases it takes shape similar to an animal ). Kojo is a very kind and understanding young man , even in the moments when he understands that Yukina Himeragi , the shaman send to look after him, might be a danger he is helping and cheering her . He is very shy and most of time when he has blood craving he blushes and drinks his own blood to get over it .

Yukina Himeragi

Yukina Himeragi – she is a shaman swords man , even in the anime she welds a spear , sent to look after Kojo and in case that he represents a danger to kill him . She is following Kojo Akatsuki everywhere , almost like a stalker , also she doesn’t have much communication skill because she been raised by Lion organization . Yukina is an orphan and all her life was trained to work for organization and fight with supernatural , before being send to observe Kojo she didn’t contact much with outside world , so when she goes to a shop with Kojo she doesn’t know even elemental house hold goods , all she knows is weapons and study , like a trained soldier . 

Nagia Akatsuki – She is the younger sister of Kojo Akatsuki  and classmate with Yukina Himeragi . She seems to be a simple human and most of time loves to chat a lot especially with Yukina . Nagia has great cooking skills and loves to make a ton of food . She looks very much like Yukina beside her red – purple eyes .

Natsuki Minamiya manga version

Natsuki Minamiya – Natsuki is a magi ( witch , assault magician) security supervisor for the island guard of Itogami , she is a teacher in the school where Akatsuki siblings study and Yukina Himeragi . Because of her magical aptitudes she knows that Kojo is the 46^th primogenitor and tells him to take care with Yukina Himeragi because everyone in the Lion organization are magical beings enemy and his new friend was trained to fight against him , Koji seems to understand that when he goes with Yukina shopping for her  new house .

Sayaka kirasaka - 
Asagi Aiba -

Kanon Kanase

Kanon Kanase -Kanase Kanon is the illegitimate daughter of Princes Lafolia grandfather , because of her royal blood she has magical abilities and been used by her step father in experiments to create artificial angels for war missions.

Princes La Folia Rihavein

Princes La Folia Rihavein - Lafolia si the princes of Aldegyr  ,  and her main weapon is a cursed gun , she also has a great spiritual power and can  use the copy of Saint sword of Voland System .

Official Website : Japanese version thou

http://www.strike-the-blood.com/#/homepage

Kojo Akatsuki  familiars
1 Regulus arm ( aurum ) 5th familiar  - a golden lion shape familiar that produces thunders and has red  light eyes. Kojo got this familiar after drinking Yukina blood.

Regulus Aurum

2. Al-Nasl Minium 9th Familiar , is a black horse shaped familiar , his power looks like purple cutting laser .

Al-Nasl Minium

Al-Maisan Mercury

3. Al-Maisan Mercury -   it is a 2 headed  dragon that that can destroy dimensions and is called  "the one that can devour dimensions".

Sasdalmelik Albus

4. Sasdalmelik Albus –  the 11 familiar , this is a familiar that has  the power of regeneration and time change, revert events , time  and bring it to original state . 

One Piece Most funny moments

Luffy painting the ship Pirate flag . 

Should I mention he is “terribly” talented and I think his team agree .

His team reaction.

Luffy battle with Krieg

 Luffy used the huge sea cow for speeding his ship.

Luffy with shark teeth ,borrowed from Arlong the sea man captain pirate .

Nami stealing money from villagers .
I think you all remember the episode when Nami "say good bye" to her village.