Let's see....firstly I have to say that this is probably the only Fall show that have awesome songs in both OP and ED (beside Tales of Abyss, but then the OP is taken directly from the game, so that won't really count). I'm not quite familiar with Angela, but the OP "Beautiful Fighter" and ED "My Story" are just the type of songs that fit my taste. Animation style is okay, suit well with the dark theme, and sometimes it manage to give me the creep down my spine. Then, to the story. A fairly dark theme surrounding supernatural phenomenon called "Corpse/Shikabane" which arises from the dead (obviously...), and this is where the plot is revolved - the main female lead, Makina (a cool/cold chick wielding dual-machine gun) who is also a Corpse, went on various missions to exterminate the other arisen Corpse which can possibly endanger human. As far as episode 4 concerns, there is no clear connection between the main hero, Kagami with Makina, although he often gets caught whenever Makina is lurking for suspected Corpse.
But unfortunately, there's one aspect about this series that kept me from giving more credit to this series. I find the seiyuu for Makina (Nana Akiyama, the kamen rider girl) and Kagami fail miserably, almost as worse as Maka (Soul Eater). Seriously, what's with the monotonous scream by Makina whenever she was hurt? Same goes for Kagami, at some points he shouts for Makina, but then one might wonder, is he really shouting? It's just...terrible.
It's HEREEEEEEEEEE!!!!!! I'm always a fan of the game, probably one of the best I've evr played since Valkyrie Profile Silmeria. The OP song, Karma by Bump of Chicken is taken directly from the game, and the ED song is nice too. Animation style remains unchanged compared to the anime sequence as seen in the game, which is a good thing although I wish they could make Tear a bit more sexier :3 Plot-wise, it followed faithfully with the game plot, although there's a slight changes here and there which does not really affect the whole understanding of the story. Luke remained a spoiled child with his unmannered behavior, and although he should be enlisted in a must-die character, at least there's something going on about him later as the story progress which made me forgive him, albeit his inferiority complex still annoyed me.
Giving the fact that this series runs for approximately 26 episodes, I believe the anime can packs most of the lengthy game plot, though it's likely they'll exclude some details. But what made me a little disappointed with the anime is that they took out many hilarious jokes from the game, (like Natalia-Tear-Luke's funny scenes when they arrive in Baticul in ep5) which is one of the main factor that made the game so awesome. At least they still keep Jade's sarcastic remark throughout the anime, which more or less make up for the lack of humor :3
One of the better product from JC Staff this Fall, obviously I'm comparing this to Toradora. I love the OP song, "Psi-Missing" by Kawada Mami, which has similar style to her song "Hishoku no Sora" featured in Shakugan no Shana. The animation quality and special effects used by JC Staff is superb, especially during the fighting scenes. This somehow surprised me, considering how bad they made Toradora looked like. Nonetheless, just as many other manga adaptation, the story followed the original work for most of the parts, although I can't confirm this any further than the part when Index got healed by the summoning ritual. That's the last time I read the manga. The main hero, Touma is a gifted guy with the ability to negate any kind of spell, but aside from that, he really has no redeeming point in term of fighting skills. And he met with Index, a girl with insanely tremendous memorizing capabilities who was chased by an organization claimed to be evil, Necessarius. And that's it, their short, misery quest of survival...sorta.
But unfortunately, there's one aspect about this series that kept me from giving more credit to this series. I find the seiyuu for Makina (Nana Akiyama, the kamen rider girl) and Kagami fail miserably, almost as worse as Maka (Soul Eater). Seriously, what's with the monotonous scream by Makina whenever she was hurt? Same goes for Kagami, at some points he shouts for Makina, but then one might wonder, is he really shouting? It's just...terrible.
It's HEREEEEEEEEEE!!!!!! I'm always a fan of the game, probably one of the best I've evr played since Valkyrie Profile Silmeria. The OP song, Karma by Bump of Chicken is taken directly from the game, and the ED song is nice too. Animation style remains unchanged compared to the anime sequence as seen in the game, which is a good thing although I wish they could make Tear a bit more sexier :3 Plot-wise, it followed faithfully with the game plot, although there's a slight changes here and there which does not really affect the whole understanding of the story. Luke remained a spoiled child with his unmannered behavior, and although he should be enlisted in a must-die character, at least there's something going on about him later as the story progress which made me forgive him, albeit his inferiority complex still annoyed me.
Giving the fact that this series runs for approximately 26 episodes, I believe the anime can packs most of the lengthy game plot, though it's likely they'll exclude some details. But what made me a little disappointed with the anime is that they took out many hilarious jokes from the game, (like Natalia-Tear-Luke's funny scenes when they arrive in Baticul in ep5) which is one of the main factor that made the game so awesome. At least they still keep Jade's sarcastic remark throughout the anime, which more or less make up for the lack of humor :3
One of the better product from JC Staff this Fall, obviously I'm comparing this to Toradora. I love the OP song, "Psi-Missing" by Kawada Mami, which has similar style to her song "Hishoku no Sora" featured in Shakugan no Shana. The animation quality and special effects used by JC Staff is superb, especially during the fighting scenes. This somehow surprised me, considering how bad they made Toradora looked like. Nonetheless, just as many other manga adaptation, the story followed the original work for most of the parts, although I can't confirm this any further than the part when Index got healed by the summoning ritual. That's the last time I read the manga. The main hero, Touma is a gifted guy with the ability to negate any kind of spell, but aside from that, he really has no redeeming point in term of fighting skills. And he met with Index, a girl with insanely tremendous memorizing capabilities who was chased by an organization claimed to be evil, Necessarius. And that's it, their short, misery quest of survival...sorta.
Okay, another series from JC Staff. As previously mentioned, I dislike how the animated this series, I mean having read the manga and a fair bit of the novel, I expect the character to be designed just as how they looked like in the manga/novel, if not better. But they failed me, with Takasu was made to look like a badass guy with vicious eyes, but in my eyes it's just uncool. Same goes for Kitamura's oval-shaped spectacles. For first-timer of this series, this might not be an issue though. Not to mention the overall animation quality is below par.
Okay, then to the story. Not quite following the manga in some parts, but essentially most characters stick to their role. Episode 2 was uberly rushed that somehow made the manga/novel readers surprised. But the studio make up for it with a well-elaborated story in subsequent episodes. Taiga, being as close as Louise (Zero no Tsukaima) in term of overall attitude is now almost officially accepted into the trinity tsundere of Nagi, Shana and Louise. That makes it four now. Tsundere Quartet? :3 Takasu is just a normal guy with a vicious eyes. Kitamura is Hanai-like guy (School Rumble), although he is not as enthusiastic as Hanai especially in love department. Minorin is a non self-proclaimed airheaded. And Ami is a spoiled, foul-mouthed girl. And these makes up the 5-way love, romance and comedy story.
Okay, then to the story. Not quite following the manga in some parts, but essentially most characters stick to their role. Episode 2 was uberly rushed that somehow made the manga/novel readers surprised. But the studio make up for it with a well-elaborated story in subsequent episodes. Taiga, being as close as Louise (Zero no Tsukaima) in term of overall attitude is now almost officially accepted into the trinity tsundere of Nagi, Shana and Louise. That makes it four now. Tsundere Quartet? :3 Takasu is just a normal guy with a vicious eyes. Kitamura is Hanai-like guy (School Rumble), although he is not as enthusiastic as Hanai especially in love department. Minorin is a non self-proclaimed airheaded. And Ami is a spoiled, foul-mouthed girl. And these makes up the 5-way love, romance and comedy story.
The last one for my Fall series rant. Harem youkai anyone? A story of a guy with special lineage power of exorcism (to put it pluntly) who was appointed as the chief in a Youkai town, and he is mainly assisted with 3 youkai chicks - Hime the superheroine, Ao the mindreader, and Kotoha the conjurer (Gate of babylon ftw). The main problem of the story has yet to be cleared to the reader, but looking back in episode 4, we can expect that this will mainly involve Akina and Hime's relationship with their old, possessed friend who is now seems to be the main bad guy of the story. The animation quality a bit plain and probably is not the better one by today's animation standard, but as some people say, it is at least still acceptable. One thing that about this anime that I find to be a major distinction of this series compared to many others is the use of different style of BGM in some of the scenes - the slow, rocking music which we rarely seen nowadays. Not the kind of bgm I'm used to, but still nicely done nonetheless.
finally done~
finally done~
Tales of Grace F
Warrior Orochi 3
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