Wednesday, October 15, 2008

ok, my exams are over and the results are out and its not that gd though... 2 weeks refrained myself from updating my blog and now its gonna be a long post, for those interested about the new animes can see my flight to anime at the bottom =)

first things first, OKTO is going to start this Sunday and having taken over kids and art central, the show should be more promising, and it seems that it was not that bad after all... the animania section is purely just taken over to OKTO, while D.Gray man and Azumanga Daioh is going to reshhow again during weekends at around 7pm, saturday night at 10pm however will be showing Inuyasha movie which i find this a good approach rather than just reshowing old animes

the Anime Festival Asia 08 is going to be at Suntec convention center 4th floor on the 22nd and 23rd of November, which has a small entrance fee. i should be going on both days as day 2 will be the cosplayt competition and the seiyuu of Sheryl Nome in Macross Frontier will be coming to this AFA 08 live which i tink is on day 1, so it will be very worth it to go =), however it looks like i'm going alone for this AFA again like the recent Autumn Matsuri, well it isnt that bad though =)

[ISM Flight 2 Anime]

OK, lots of new animes are showing and i'm currently watching 6 of them, inclusive of 2 of them which i watch on TV, Toradora! and Skip Beat! The other 4 shows were promising and had me hooked on, so here comes the reviews: (summaries might be a little shorter and bland as i haven really quite understand some things in the anime yet)

Shikabane Hime

The show starts when this kid Kagami is leaving a home which had taken care of him for a long time. Before the day he left, during the night, he stumbled across a dead corpse of a girl lying on the floor, he went closer and found out that the girl was already dead and quickly hid himself when he heard this brother coming. His brother was accompanied by other fellow priests with his brother covered with wounds. His brother Keisei then went to the girl and hugged her when she opened her eyes again. Kagami was shocked as he was really sure that the girl was dead. It later reveals that the police were hunting down a serial killer who later jumped from an apartment and was supposed to be dead, but he revived as a "shikabane" vampire and attacked other people. Keisei and the girl Makina then went to chase after this vampire, but Makina was caught and was threw down from the sky. Makina then dropped onto the ground near to where Kagami was when he was moving to his new home. Kagami quickly went to her and attempted the same actions as what his brother had did. Makina is then shown in a world that looks like hell and Kagami managed to bring her back to the human world. When Makina asked if he was afraid as he clearly new that even if she woke up, she still had no heartbeat as she was a moving corpse. Makina then left with Keisei and quickly chased after the vampire. Makina then told the vampire that she is a "shikabane hime" who hunts down those "shikabane" that eats human. The fight continues on and Makina managed to destroy the vampire.

Akaneiro ni Somaru Saka 1

the story starts when a girl who's name is Katagiri Yuuhi gets bothered by two strangers and Jun'ichi who went by, saves the girl when the two strangers recognises him as the legendary "Genokiller" who is heard to have killed many people. They apologised and quickly ran off. Yuuhi was then fetched by her butler with Jun'ichi walking off without leaving his name. He then regretted acting cool as Yuuhi was cute and he somehow had fallen for her. The next day in school, Yuuhi happened to have transferred to the school Jun'ichi was in the found out that the "Genokiller" thing was a mock story made up from Jun'ichi who was a past delinquent. Yuuhi then made everyone mistaken when she said she wants to go out with Jun'ichi but was actually just going for a tea break. Jun'ichi's friends then explained his past to Yuuhi with Jun'ichi trying to clear the misunderstandings. They then returned to class where everyone is asking Yuuhi's relationship with Jun'ichi who after some commotion, kisses her in front of eveyone. Everyone was shocked by Jun'ichi's action and Yuuhi went angry and bash up Jun'ichi who had clearly misunderstood the situation. It then ends with Yuuhi coming to Jun'ichi's house saying that she will be staying here onwards and that she is Jun'ichi's fiancee.

Akaneiro no Somaru Saka 2

It then clearly shows that Yuuhi was made by her father to marry the fiancee that is living in this city and she didnt realise that that fiancee of hers was actually Jun'ichi. Jun'ichi's father then called to tell him that he was going to have a fiancee but it was already too late to be said as thought by Jun'ichi. After that, Yuuhi slept at the living room sofa when she clearly does not wish to sleep in Jun'ichi's room in a futon and the next morning in school, the friends of Jun'ichi told him that the act he did to Yuuhi yesterday had added another page to his legend of Genokiller and such. Yuuhi then went home with Jun'ichi's sister and went shopping together. Yuuhi had fun there as it was the first time she had went into a supermarket. They two then went back home to cook curry where Yuuhi is seen playing around with the things in the kitchen as she had never been in one before. After quite some time, the curry is done and Jun'ichi tastes the curry, which he finds it alright. The light in the house went off and somehow Jun'ichi landed on Yuuhi who quickly moved away and made Jun'ichi suffer through series of arm locks and a headbutt. After that night, Yuuhi then went into the living room half asleep and still in her dream. Jun'ichi and his sister smiled when they saw how Yuuhi was really like while Jun'ichi said that he had found a weakness in Yuuhi.

Chaos; Head 1

The story starts with Takumi who lives alone in a dream where the city is destroyed and a angel-like girl appeared beside him. He then woke up when being called up by an imaginary character in his mind and talks to her about things in his life. Takumi then went to school and can be seen that he was a fan of animes and addicted to gaming till he was always seen talking to the imaginary character in his small little container house. In school, his friend told him about a series of strange happenings in the cities that are called the New Generation but Takumi was not at all interested in the 3 dimensional world at all. Back in his home, he started gaming and his teammates were also taking about the new generation. Takumi's sister then came by and wanted to by Takumi a handphone so he could be easily contacted by Takumi ignores and made her sister leave alone despite the strange happenings in the city. Takumi was later brought into chat room where he sees a person talking to him and placing a lot of links to the photos when Takumi accidentally clicked on one of them and it shows clearly the bloody scene of one of the killings of the New Generation. Takumi was very troubled and shocked and decided to play games in the internet cafes instead of at home. Just when he left the internet cafe, he heard some metal clanging sound and found a pink haired girl stabbing a man with metal nail-like dagger with blood dripping on the floor. The girl then calls out to Takumi in his name and wanted him to do something, Takumi immediately ran back to his home and was comforted by his imaginary character, Seira and treats it as an delusion. The next day, he found out that someone was following him and hallucinated about the stalker being the lackey of the pink haired girl and wants to kill him. He runs off by injured himself when the girl following him catched up and introduces herself as Yua who has fallen for Takumi. Takumi then thinks it as a trap but Yua manages to bring him to his home. They both then discussed about Seira who is well loved character by the both of them and Takumi agreed to go out with Yua to a anime shop. The next day in school, Takumi sees the pink haired girl seating down next to him and greets him. Takumi's eyes went blank as he stared at the girl.