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Hey! Guys take a look at what animes was released this year! 2009! Before the start of 2010!

Sunday, November 8, 2009

Nyan Koi! (にゃんこい!)
Rate:4.8/5
Episodes: Ongoing
Summary:

Junpei Kosaka is a second-year high school student who despises cats and has an allergy to them. It just so happens that his high school crush is Kaede Mizuno, a girl who adores cats. One day, while walking home from school, Junpei kicks an empty can and unfortunately beans the local neko-jizo-sama(guardian deity of cats). He finds he can now understand what cats are saying, including his family's own ill-tempered cat, Nyamusasu. However, if he does not grant 100 wishes from cats, he will turn into cat himself.
Review:
This anime is very very very funny! Every episode is interesting talking about how he helps out those cute little cats and how his relationship with Mizuno becomes closer. Mizuno is a blockhead and always get the wrong idea. Kousaka has luck with girls, the girls that are interested in him are very pretty. Its worth watching and most importantly its a love comedy anime!

Review by:Kizxuya

喰霊-零-
Rates:4.5/5
Episodes: 12
Summary:
The Japanese Ministry of Defense has an anti-paranormal special forces group called the Supernatural Disaster Prevention Agency. They're the ones responsible to protect Japanese soil and its people from supernatural and paranormal events. However, things didn't go so well in one of their missions, which leads to intervention by the Ministry of Enviroment's Supernatural Disaster Countermeasures Division after the SDPA has sustained large numbers of casualties battling demons.
Credits to Kizuyan for the below picture:

This anime revolves around a girl named Kagura, she was a heir to their family the Tsuchimiya.
She was given heavy responsibility of an exorcist since young, the heir of Tsuchimiya is to be given the Ga Rei a Spiritual Creature that will help in exorcising the demons. Kagura's father recieved the Ga Rei when her mother died and he was supposed to leave house and go exorcising so he handed over Kagura to another family for them to take care of her.

Kagura is under the Isayama's care (which also is a family of exorcist) and Yomi who was the heir to the Isayama treated Kagura very well treating her as if as her own little sister, in time they were very close and worked together to exorcise demons.

However unfortunate things happen and Yomi turned evil and killed almost everyone. Kagura is suppose to stop her but she hesitates...


Review:
At first it was a little bit skeptical, but only in the first episode. When I watched the second episode I knew that this was something for me. Although the starting part of the anime is about Kagura and Yomi's past, it was still interesting and the killing of someone beloved to you is something ver sad! This anime is very touching everytime I watched the part where Kagura killed Yomi and Yomi said I am proud of you being my sister this always makes me wanna cry!

Review by:Kizxuya

Summary
The story centers on the life of Hideki Motosuwa, a repeat student attempting to qualify for university by studying at Seki prep school in Tokyo. Besides a girlfriend, he dreams of having a persocom. On his way home one evening, he stumbles across a persocom in the form of a beautiful girl with long hair lying against a pile of trash bags, and he carries her home. Upon turning her on, she instantly regards Hideki with adoration. The only word the persocom seems capable of saying is "chi" , thus he names her Chi. Hideki assumes that there must be something wrong with her, and so the following morning Hideki's neighbor Hiromu Shimbo tries to analyze her with his mobile persocom Plum, and after Plum crashes he concludes that she must be custom-made.

Shinbo introduces Hideki to Minoru Kokubunji, a twelve year old genius who specializes in the field of custom made persocoms. Minoru's persocoms, including Yuzuki, a fairly exceptional custom made persocom, are not able to analyze Chi either, and thus they conclude that she may be one of the Chobits, a legendary series of persocoms rumoured to have free will and emotions. Although this could be a possibility, Minoru is confident that it is only a rumour. Yuzuki also adds that she does not resemble any persocom model in any available database and so she must be custom made after all.

A major part of the plot involves Hideki attempting to teach Chi words, concepts, and appropriate behaviours, in between his crammed schedule of school and work. At the same time, Chi seems to be developing feelings for Hideki, at an emotional depth, which she is not supposed to possess, and Hideki struggles with his feelings for her. The need to figure out more about Chi and her mysterious functions and past becomes a stressing pull for the characters in the series.

Hideki discovers that his feelings intensify for Chi whether she is a persocom or not, despite other horrible experiences involving persocoms that happened to his friends. Chi becomes aware of her purpose through a picture book series called A City with No People which she finds in a bookstore. The books speak about many different things involving human and persocom relationships: persocoms and their convenience towards people as friends and lovers, how there are things that they cannot do and questioning whether a relationship between a persocom and a human is really one sided. It also speaks about the Chobits series; that they are different from other persocoms, and what they are not capable of doing unlike other persocoms. These picture books awaken Chi's other self, her sibling Freya who is aware of their past and helps Chi realize what she must do when she decides who her "person just for me" is. Together, Chi and Hideki explore the relationship between humans and their new technological advantage, the persocom, as well as their friends' and their own.
*note: perscom is an android used as a personal computer, which is expensive.


Review:
Chobits, overall was an excellent series. The characters actually had relationships that developed, which is rare in anime. The story flowed fairly well, and did not bore the audience to death. The writers knew who would be their target audience would be, and definetly drove to please that audience. The voice acting in the english version was done wonderfully, and the voices fit the characters extrememly well.
This series was created so well, it is difficult to say that it is flawless, but it would be a lie to say it wasn't. The show could have definetly be cut down some; for example, episodes repeat what happened in the last episode too much instead of moving on in the story. The ending was predictable, making it almost dislikable; some things never really were resolve;and even though the characters moved on with relationships, at the very end, it seems like the begining is just repeated.
Despite Chobit's flaws, it is still a wonderful series. Any viewer will have no trouble looking past the bad points, which there are few, and will fall in love with this series charm and interesting view on love.

Review by:Kizxuya

Saturday, November 7, 2009

Rozen Maiden (ローゼンメイデン, Rōzen Meiden)
By : Peach-pit
Episodes : 12
Run : 7 October 2004 – 23 December 2004
Rating : 4.3 / 5 (Must watch!)

Summary :
Jun Sakurada is a Junior High School student who refuses to go to school after being traumatized by an embarrassing experience there . He has taken to locking himself in his room, never leaving the house, and spends the day ordering goods online and returning them before the date in which he has to pay. His older sister, Nori Sakurada, does everything she can to brighten Jun's dreary existence, but is unable to change his situation.

One day, Jun receives a letter claiming he has won a prize. The letter asks him to choose "Yes" or "No". It states that after he has made his decision, he must place the letter in the drawer of his desk, and Holie will take it to the spirit world. Despite his skepticism, he follows these instructions, and discovers soon after that the envelope has vanished. Moments later, he realizes that a richly detailed wood case has materialized within his room. The box contains a strange realistic doll dressed in French aristocratic attire. Jun examines the doll from every angle before seeing the key and winding up the doll. The doll creaks, stands up on its own, then proceeds to slap him for handling her as crudely as he had. She introduces herself as, "...Shinku, the fifth doll of the Rozen Maiden."

Shinku is a doll from the unique "Rozen Maiden" collection, and before Jun can fully comprehend the weight of his new situation, a stuffed clown (bear in the manga) plush doll attacks. Shinku promises that she will save Jun's life, but only if he will vow to serve her. Thus, Jun becomes entrusted with the responsibility of protecting Shinku's "Rosa Mystica" whilst she is engaged in a centuries old fight with the other Rozen Maiden dolls for the title of "Alice."


Review:
As a Lolita and aristocratic lover, i strongly recommend this anime to you. Filled with adventures, tears, love and battles, The storyline is very touching and nostalgic. Each rozen maiden doll has their own story about why they want to be Alice, The one who is pure and pretty enough to meet "father". Each of their story is very touching, especially suigintou's story. Watch it to find out !

Labels: Rozen Maiden

Shugo Chara! (しゅごキャラ!, Shugo Kyara!)
Artist : Peach-pit
Episodes: 51 Run : October 6, 2007 – September 27, 2008
Rating : 3/5


Summary :
The heroine of the story, Amu Hinamori, is a student at Seiyo Elementary.At first glance, her classmates refer to her as "cool and spicy" and rumors speculate about her personal life. However, her real personality is that of a very shy girl who has trouble showing her true personality. One night, Amu wishes for the courage to show her "would-be" self, and the next morning finds three brightly colored eggs—red, blue, and green—in her bed. At first, she is alarmed, but realizes she must have really wished to change. These eggs hatch into three Guardian Characters: Ran, Miki, and Su. The Guardian Characters aid Amu in discovering who she truly is and help fulfill Amu's dreams. Amu's life becomes much more complex as she struggles to deal with her "would-be" selves and the Seiyo Elementary's Guardians, who recruit Amu as the Joker to search for X Eggs and X Characters, the corrupted forms of peoples' dreams.

Meanwhile, the Easter Company is extracting people's eggs in search of a special egg called the Embryo. The Embryo is believed to grant any wish to the one who possesses it. However, the process creates X Eggs and X Characters. It is described as a white egg with a heart and yellow wings.Which they eventually found out was someone else's egg.

Later on in the series a fourth (yellow) egg is born, this egg contains the Guardian Character Diamond. She was only seen a few times in the series, until about halfway to the end, where she was purified of the X on her, and then would appear in times of heavy crisis.



Review :
This anime is a little bit too long-winded for me, as it contains 3 seasons currently and the 3rd season is still airing. Prior to shugo chara ! Doki, Shugo chara ! is kind of a mahou shoujo anime , as in the start, only Hinamori Amu can transform with her charas. As time passes by, the guardian group get closer together to achieve a common goal : Get hold of the embryo. It revolves around the character Hinamori amu, a girl who doesn't understand her inner self and outer ego, As she fights her outer ego of being a cool and spicy girl, she finally lets her inner self take over bit by bit.

Review by:Xin

Labels: Shugo Chara

Akikan! (アキカン!?, lit. Empty Can!)
Marks:4.0/5[Nice...]
Episodes:12



Summary
Akikan (”Empty Can”) is the unlikely story of high school boy Kakeru Daichi, whose can of melon juice soda magically transforms into a human girl. More "akikan" girls begin appearing, each of them needing to be infused with carbon dioxide from their respective drink types to survive. The akikans were created as part of the 'Akikan Elect' to determine whether steel cans or aluminium cans are superior. The akikans must battle each other until only the strongest can type is left standing.




Kakeru Daichi (大地 カケル, Daichi Kakeru) is the series' main Protagonist. A sixteen year old male virgin studying at Kyuugetsu Academy. He's a perverted boy who loves to play lewd jokes. He enjoys collecting rare juice cans and basically likes juices. One day, he bought a melon soda that transformed into a girl, which was an Akikan. He was later invited by Hidehiko Otoya to join the "Akikan Elect" and "Intelligence Port Project" but being a person who hated fights, he rejected the invitation (although he was later forced to participate). Later, he made his mind to crush those projects together with his comrades. A certain incident during his sophomore/junior high school days made him afraid of hurting somebody.




Melon is a steel Akikan who came from a melon soda, owned by Kakeru. She's competitive and strong-willed, which was the reason why she was always having a fight with Kakeru. Although she likes her owner she cannot express her feelings well, which ends up telling opposite of what she wants to say. She likes watching baseball matches, even with midnight telecasts, though she has stated she has no clue on how the game is played. She basically hates Aluminum Akikans.



Review
A very ecchi anime. Story is good and it is sure funny, but there is something i don't understand is where is the fighting between Akikans in the anime . I thought the story plot is to show how Akikans fights but instead it showcase romances only. Otherwise it is great.

Labels: Akikan

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