Thursday, November 7, 2013

Planetes/ (Puranetesu) プラネテス Πλανήτης aniem review

Year: 2003-2004
Episodes:24 episodes

Plot : The story begins with Ai Tanabe , a young girl that was selected to work in cosmos in the debris section . Tanabe was very happy to work in cosmos , it was her dream but when she seen her coworkers and place where she must work her excitement vanished , especially when Hachimaki one of the coworkers fell on her dressed in space diapers. The plot of this anime has many touching moments a lot of romance and funny characters that make the watcher smile or feel their sorrow or excitement . This anime depicts in a very realistic way the travel and life in cosmos , no aliens and super heroes just simple people and their dream to conquer space .
The style of drawing is simple but with good taste , lovely colors and warm light make you feel the atmosphere and work well with the rest of the action. If you want to see a relaxing anime with a good plot , not much violence , a little romance and space ships this is what you looking for .

Main characters : 

 Hachimaki and Ai Tanabe
 
Fee Charmichael 

Tuesday, November 5, 2013

Sarai-ya Goyou/ House of Five Leaves/ さらい屋 五葉


Year:2010
Episodes: 12 episodes
Plot: The story starts with moments from the past , a Japanese noble house without children adopts a little boy after they get their own child the family wants to get rid of their foster child . The scene changes to latter events a ronin Akitsu Masanosuke looses his job as a bodyguard , he is a very skilled samurai but he is to kind and shy , he doesn’t look very scary or confident so he can’t find a decent job. One day Akitsu  meets a strange man Yaichi , he is very impressed by the confident and careless look of this man . Yaichi asks Akitsu to join his group “ Five Leaves house “ as a bodyguard . Yaichi is a cleaver man and see that behind this shy man apparence hides a very skilled swordsman . At start Akitsu doesn’t want to enter in this dubious gang and work in different dubious affairs , mostly kidnapping ans asking ransome from rich and corrupted politicians , but in time he agrees and even befriends with Yaichi .
 This anime has a less cheerful drawing style , it is more simple and original in a way , it has a strange warm atmosphere , relaxing ,  like a never ending  golden autumn.

Main Characters : 
Akitsu Mananosuke – a melancholic samurai without a job that get’s involved in a thief gang called “ Five Leaves “ . Because of his nature he can’t find a job or make friends , he is lonely and poor , his looks don’t correspond with his job description and people can’t see at first sight how truly he is . Akitsu enters in the Five leaves gand mostly because he admires the leader Yaichi and his free and strong personality , but also he wants to gain a friend in this mysterious man , he is looking in Yaichi for something that he is missing in his own personality.
Yaichi / House of Five Leaves
Yaichi  - mysterious leader of “ Five leaves” , he hides his past , even so from the flashbacks we can figure out that in the past he was the adopted child in a rich family , he been disposed when he became useless . Yaichi seems carefee  and always confident but there is a feeling that he sees himself in Akitsu , the child that believed in his teacher and failed . Sometimes he can be even cruel and merciless but even so he has a soft spot that he tries to hide as he hides his past . He is very loved by women and he is very generous with them.
Matsukichi – a rober that works for Five leaves , he once been saved by Yaichi and feels very grateful for this . Matsukichi works as a pipe an hair pin maker as his undercover , he spy in different rich spoiled house for their future missions , he is clever and sneaky .
Otake  - is a beautiful women with a dark past  , she is a geisha that once been bought out by Yaichi , now she works for “Five leaves” . She usually walks around collecting leaves for their ransome letters .
Umezou – he is the owner of a tavern and another member of the Five leaves , he has a lovely daughter and is in love with Otake . He has a very brute character but a big heart . He doesn’t trust much Yaichi and thinks Akitsu is to soft hearted and naïve .

Sunday, November 3, 2013

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 )

Monday, October 28, 2013

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  kurozuka
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

Thursday, October 24, 2013

Naruto Shippuuden Kabuto Yakushi story

Kabuto and Nono Yakushi NARUTO
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 . ..

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