Showing posts with label anime. Show all posts
Showing posts with label anime. Show all posts

Thursday, March 11, 2010

Seikon no Qwaser

Anime need to be reviewed is Seikon no Qwaser. This anime can be gendered as Extra Ero and Ecchi Sci-Fi Adventures, the uncut version of this anime is not for children under 18 or whatever the legal ages of you, readers of this blogs, live at.

Seikon no Qwaser is an adventure of a boy, Alexander Sasha Hell, with ability to manipulate iron (In Seikon no Qwaser, People who control the ability to control an element is called Qwaser, but it need energy called Soma) to destroy evil organization that trying to find Virgin Mary's Icon, believed to holds great power because the soma produced by Virgin Mary's Icon is the purest Soma. During Sasha's adventures, the organization where Sasha work get information that the Icon is hidden in one of Catholic high school, St. Mihalov, in Japan so, he is sent to Japan to find the Icon and protected from the adepts, believed to be evil organization which want to owns the Icon.

In other hand, Mafuyu Oribe, adopted daughter of the late St. Mihalov's Dean, and Tomo Yamanobe, the daughter of late St. Mihalov's dean, found a boy with white hair fallen in a street so, they decided to bring him home and put him in a room to treat him. When mafuyu and tomo are arguing about what to do with the boy, the boy disappear from his room. Mafuyu then try to search for him, suddenly she is attacked by mysterious Qwaser, who has terrorized the area where they lived. Mafuyu then saved by the boy she tried to find, who is Alexander Sasha Hell. After the incident with Qwaser, Mafuyu figures out that Sasha trying to find who holds the Virgin Mary's Icon and somehow, the late St. Mihalov's Dean already knew about the icon and he hide it so, no one can ever find it.

I cannot tell you much about the anime more than the above summary because it would be too much spoiler. This is probably my worst review yet, but I hope you guys want to watch this anime just from that small description I gave.

The bad news after episodes 7 of Seikon no Qwaser,  no subber has subbed this anime title yet. Some subber which I can recommend all anime lovers to use CoalGuys, but they only sub the anime till ep 6 so far. the other constant subber is Chibi-Doki, but I questions their accuracy for the sub because according to me, it is not that accurate.
The other subber which I will try to look at is SubDesu, I have used their sub for a while for anime such as saki and kurogane no linebarrel. I will post my update on SubDesu Sub for Seikon no Qwaser in the future, so stay tuned to this blog.

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Katanagatari

So far, this is probably the most unique anime I have ever met yet. There is only 1 episodes for each months which can be annoying. Yet, the story line of Katanagari isn't developed quite fast, but each episodes reveal a new conflict and secrets of the 2 main character.

Started with the introduction of a samurai who use a technique that doesn't require sword. The samurai end a rebellion of  Japanese general(daimyo), who desired to keep 1 of 12 legendary sword, by killing the daimyo. it is  believed that if a person holds over all 12 swords then he/she can rule over the japan easily. The eyewitness of this execution by the unarmed samurai  is daughter of the rebelled daimyo.

Several years after the subduing of the rebellion and the new Japanese emperor take over Japan, the emperor order a girl to collect all 12 legendary swords. To accomplish this mission, the girl go to small island where it is believed the samurai who doesn't use sword and have subdued the rebellion lived in that island. To her shock, the samurai died couple of years ago. However, the girls hope to collect all 12 swords doesn't disappear because the samurai has successor. During this time, her enemy closing on her to kill her. Will she able to collect all 12 and how she know about the art of swordsmen which doesn't require swords to kill someone?

In summary, the anime has quite good storyline, but I don't know if it were worth the time of waiting especially until the newest episodes(ep 3) there is no good improvement in the story line. the battle scene also not that promising too. Well I must say, I cannot say I recommend to watch this anime because I don't really see a promising storyline except the curiosity of what secret behind the 12 swords.

Keep in touch for another anime review section.

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Gundam UC OVA part 1 Day of The Unicorn

The Long waited and must-see anime for gundam mania, Gundam UC. Among all Bandai's release for this year, this might be their most successful release yet. I realized that this OVA has been released a while ago, but for those non-gundam mania, I will try to review this with non-bias point of view.

The end of Common Era which also serves as the beginning of Universal Centuries, marked with terrorism attack on Prime Minister Laplace's spaceships. Apparently, one of the terrorist is the founder of Vist family and Vist Organization. Vist Organization holds power in Anaheim  Electronic, A Mecha-production factory(All of you non-gundam mania can assume it as a weapon factory) who had sells its products to Earth Federation and Zeon (both of them had been in war for quite long time). Apparently the reason why they have such power over both faction because of an item called Laplace's Box, believes to be able to end the never ending war between Earth Federation and Zeon.

The main character, Banagher Link is a student over Anaheim Factory who lives alone since his mother died and doesn't know his father, felt presence that a girl, Audrey Burns the pro-antagonist in this OVA,  is in trouble.After he helped helped her escaped from life and death situation, Audrey told Banagher about a war which about to happen and she can stop this war by meeting the current head of Vist family thus, Banagher offer his help to get Audrey to Vist's Mansion. When both of them got to Vist Family's Mansion, Banagher got a feeling that he had been there before.

Why is Banagher knows the Vist Mansion before? Who is Audrey? What is inside of the Laplace Box? To answer them, you guys need to watch all the Gundam UC OVA.

Overall, this anime seems to have a promising complex story because the 1of 6 OVA started by a lot of mysteries which might be solved at the end of the long OVA. To be honest, in order to watch the Gundam UC all of you non-gundam fans might need to learn all the Universal Century gundam story because the main story of the Gundam UC is about how Anaheim Electronic fall. To learn this, just try to wiki gundam universal centuries and learn their time line. All of you, readers of this blog, need to pay attention why suddenly the manufacture of gundam and some of the mecha in Earth Federation shifted from Anaheim Electronic to SNRI(Strategic Naval Research Institute).

I hope all of you watch this mecha genre animation. I hope all of my blogs reader like my review.
See you all

Monday, March 8, 2010

Gundam 00 Specials

Today I will give review about this gundam 00 specials. For those who wonders what is this specials all about, I just need 1 word to explain it, RECAP!! I don't know what is in Bandai and Sunrise minds when they decided to create these 3 parts of specials. Lets cut to the chase shall we?

Specials Part I
Basically its a recap of all 25 episodes of Gundam 00 Season 1, they added some 30 seconds scene in some scene to makes thing clearer. The only things that added the specials is where the narrator, Reborn Almark, explain what in his thought at some scene(Ex. When Alejandro shoot Aeolia). I cannot gives you the recap about this specials because basically its already a recap.

Special part II
This is a recap of half of Gundam 00 Season 2, the specials ended with the destruction of the 1st Memento Mori. Like the 1st part of the 00 specials, there are added scene which helps to make things clearer and the thought of reborn almark over several scene, other than that specials it is just a recap. However, too bad they ended in just the destruction of the memento mori, it doesn't cover how celestial being ended up on earth.

Special part III
The last part of the 00 specials, also only a recap of the last half of 00 2nd season. To be honest with you all anime lovers, I am disappointed with the specials part III. Why?

First, we need to wait for it to be release which is 3 months after the 2 specials released.

Second, it's a recap.

Third, this is what made me upset the most, it look like made in a hustle and it is so bad!!! the way they put stephanie's songs, Friends, in a battle when setsuna+saji vs. Louis and when tieria ambush reborn. Then put songs which has effect to increase excitement and battle in a scene where sumeragi asking for forgiveness from billy. then put sad songs when all people in celestial being has a moral boost and louis recovers from being death.

Fourth, cutting battle scene between celestial being and innovado especially the battle scene between reborn gundam and 00 raiser, gundam vs gundam battles, which this series are lack of. The way they cut it off is worse than ever, suddenly 00 lose his legs or suddenly 00 lose its head.

This is the worst possible specials bandai ever made yet.

Overall, I would not recommend you, anime lovers, especially those who lives in a country with low bandwidth to download this specials specifically the part III. Since it is not worth the trouble and time!!! Sorry for being harsh and showing too much of emotion in my reviews, but watching this specials pissed me off.

I hope all anime lovers stick for another anime review from me.

Sunday, March 7, 2010

To Aru Kagaku No Railgun

Do you, anime lovers, remember about To Aru Majutsu No Index? To Aru Kagaku No Railgun is about one of the character in Index, Misaka Mikoto one of the Lv. 5 psychics in Academy City.

After I watched several early episodes of this anime, I thought this anime is a stand alone episodes, meaning that each episodes is not connected to others, because during the first 3 episodes, Misaki and her friends only defeat another psychics who are doing menace.

However,the story starts to get together when Misaki's partner mentions how the database of the level and power psychics user in Academy City doesn't match with the face and one of the new character in Railgun starts to mention one of the urban legend in Academy City, Level Upper, an item which is believed to increase psychics power when it is used.

The story of Railgun starting to pick up its phase when all psychics user who had used the level upper becomes unconscious. Who is behind all of this events? Why the culprit create the Level Upper? To answer these questions you need to watch this anime yourselves.

To watch this anime, you need to watch Index first to pick up all the background story and some of the characters in Railgun. In addition, I think this anime's story will somehow cross its path with Index's storyline since the way I view it, all the episodes in this anime is connected to one another thus, it might also have connection to Index.

If you decided to pickup this anime, you can use mazui subs because they are the fastest and stable subber who covers all railgun series so far.

See you all in another anime review, Otaku Unite!!

Saturday, March 6, 2010

Summer Wars

Wohooo... it is time to review an anime. This time I'm going to discuss an anime movie called "Summer Wars". For all of you who live in a country with low bandwidth might wonder whether it is worth the time waiting to download this anime, thus I hope after you read my article about Summer Wars you readers might watch this title.

The story start with introduction to the virtual world called OZ, which look similar to Digital worlds from old anime Digimon combined with the widely known MMO life simulation in US, The Second Life; e-bay, and many other feature in real world. OZ is widely used by people around the world even company, organization, and government use it for their activities such as business transaction, paying bills, controlling water pressure, even military stuff. For some of the readers who wonders about why the director start it with the intro about OZ instead go to the main chara or story? Well, Summer Wars story has a lot of connection to the OZ.

One of the main character of Summer wars is Kenji, a high school student who is very good at math,but bad with girls. The story of the male character started with he and his friends working for OZ through virtual world using their avatar in OZ, they are working part time for OZ as their system maintenance for summer using their school club room as their workplace, then suddenly their senior, who is the most beautiful girl in their high school and the other main character in this story named Natsuki, come into the room offers one of them part time jobs which is to follow her to go to visit her grandmother in country side for Natsuki's grandmother's Birthday . Kenji then accept Natsuki's offer to go with her to Natsuki's grandmother house without knowing the details of his jobs.

During Kenji visits to the Natsuki's grandmother, he found out that his senior is descendant of samurai clan who had served one of the highly known japans' general during the Japan's civil war and Natsuki's grandmother has a lot of influential in Japan's Government and Business. After Kenji meet with his senior's grandmother, he finally knows that his part time jobs is to pretends become Natsuki's boyfriend during the whole trips.

That night after Kenji arrives at Natsuki's grandmother house, our main character receives an e-mail send to his OZ account by a mysterious sender, it contains bunch of numbers. Since he is bored, he decided to solve what is the meaning behind the number, when he found out the answer, he send the answer back to the sender of this mysterious e-mail. However, this naive boy hasn't realized that the mail he just sent would end up making disaster to the world because apparently the one who send him the mysterious e-mail is an A.I. which is built to hack anything in its way. Furthermore, The A.I. wants to destroy human worlds through OZ, now its up to Kenji and Natsuki's whole family helping him to stop this berserk A.I.

Overall, the story is similar to Digimon, but it has more drama twist on it. I would highly recommend this movie to all of you who likes family drama and adventure with a touch of romance and futuristic sci-fi. For anime lovers, I don't hold yourselves, you've got to watch this anime since you won't want to miss this title.

P.S. for subs you can use [Zero Raws-QTS] because it had been cleaned from the korean subs and their english subs is good.

Friday, March 5, 2010

Code Geass OVA

For those people who wonder what is the OVA of the Code Geass, titled Code Geass: Zero Requiem, all about? Ill do a review for this anime title.

The Code Geass OVA is only a recap of the Code Geass R2 overall, but with a little bit touch of C.C. and each chara voice as a narrator who will explain the events. The OVA starts with the scene of lelouch taking over the britania as a 99th Britania King, then the story goes back to the episode 1 of the Code Geass R2 with a little bit extra how Lelouch memories was erased.The story then will moves forward to how zero saves the rest of the black knight, zero exiled, and battle in china, shirley killed(for this part, the seiyuu of shirley would become the narrator who will explain how shirley feel for lelouch), the rest of the OVA goes on like the normal Code Geass R2 normal plot.

Overall, for those people who fans about Code Geass I recommend to watch it for the sake of remembering one of the greatest anime ever created, but unfortunately there is no subs for the special edition yet because most of the words had already been translated in Code Geass series. While for those people who haven't watch this anime, the OVA can become a starter which will forced you to watch both Code Geass season 1 and season 2.

I hope my reviews will help motivate people to watch this anime series. See you next time, and have fun out there.

Thursday, March 4, 2010

Kimi ni Todoke - Anime reviews

For some people who already know this title, I know it sounds so unmanly. However, there might be girls who read my blogs so, I will gives some review about it.
Kimi ni Todoke is an anime with roman-drama genre. This anime featuring of a high school females students who is nicked name as sadako (yes, its the name of ghost from Japanese infamous horor movies "The Ring"), this young girl never had any close friends to rely on.

Until one day a boy who is famous in her high school starting to approach her and show her that she can make friends. She starts to make a real friends, go out with her friends for the first time, etc. Finally she realized that she is in love with the boy who started all of her friendships. What she will do about this feelings?

Over all, I feel that kimi ni todoke is an anime unlike a roman-drama like kanon and toradora, those 2 titles is shonen roman-drama, but kimi ni todoke is a bishoujo roman-drama the drawing also is a bishoujo style. Therefore for those girls out there who read this blog, this is a good anime to watch. For guys, I only can gives you recommendation to watch this anime if you in the mood for serious roman-drama because please don't expect cute chara drawing and sometimes a humorous part which is so silly, this anime doesn't have it.

Hopefully, I didn't give to much spoilers about this anime title, and I'm sorry if the reviews isn't that professionals since this is my first anime reviews. I hope you guys who read this blogs can gives me some knowledge what to do.

Thank you and have some fun out there!

P.S.: For those people who want to watch this anime with english subs, I can recommend you using these 2: eclipse, for people who has patience to wait for their subs, or use the FMS-SunBerries, for people who is impatience to get anime with english subs.