Showing posts with label manga. Show all posts
Showing posts with label manga. Show all posts

Wednesday, 24 August 2016

Boku no hero academia anime



Izuku Midoriya is a regular middle school student in a world where people with superpowers known as "Quirks" (個性 Kosei) are the norm. However, he dreams of one day becoming a Hero (ヒーロー Hīrō), despite being bullied by his classmates for not having a Quirk. After being the only one to try and save his childhood bully, Katsuki, from a Villain (敵(ヴィラン) Viran), All Might, the world's greatest Hero, bestows upon him his own quirk, "One For All". The story follows Izuku's entrance into U.A. High School (雄英高校 Yūei Kōkō), a school that cultivates the next generation of Heroes.

Boku no hero academia or My hero academy (not like how japanese are translated it to English: My hero academia...okay okay my English isn't perfect either...) is something new to see these days. Don't mind that it is basic story from a loser to a winner but its visual style is worth to see. This series look is something that you either like or don't. It's very unique looking and different from today's mainstream anime styles. But that said it's still not something fully new. Actually if we look closer this kind of look was really popular in starting era of anime history. How could I say...this weirdly structured and over comical characters remind me of Gegege no Kitaro (started in 60's) and other that era's shows.




I don't know if I'm seeing patterns where isn't any but I swear here is one! these, let's say these last two years 60's style, is rising little bit in to today's shows. Where? At least Kill la kill and Little witch academia has same vibes.




Here is proof if somebody doesn't agree.


One other old trend is also rising here. Not only in anime field but also in movie/Tv show entertainment which is supper maaaans! *fanfare music* Especially old japanese and western (mainly America) styled super heroes. All super fans of old super hero genre raise and shine it's your era now! *goes small hole and waits for horror and fantasy genre to show again in future* Okay I don't hate super hero genre it's just not my thing. Usually. But for once I have to say thou this shouldn't be to my liking I'm actually waiting very eagerly second season (which I have heard to be announced).
It's fun how this show created hilarious super heroes and villains from old day heroes. Best example is All Might. Yeah...he is very...American super hero in that er...spandex outfit and ridiculously muscles.


He looks almost like Marvel's Captain America. With little bit different clothes. All Might's clothes could actually fit Captain well.
Lot of heroes fighting and defending good people in silly costumes.


Midoriya: Can I become hero too?

Nope. You don't have that little weird thing in your toe. Sorry. That's it. Your toe isn't your foe. (lolol bad jokes)


Midoriya: I can't...oh I should knew. Because of that toe's bone I don't have super powers... (what the hell is that thing anyway with toe's bone...shouldn't it be seen in my brain instead or something if I do have powers or don't....)


All Might: Don't believe her. She is always nagging! You can be hero! Here have some of my super powers!


Midoriya: Yeah! I can be hero now thanks!

Yeah, kinda but you can't use your powers almost all because it will broke your body every time.

Midoriya: What???!!!!!! Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!

Yeah.. sad, ha? So kinda nothing changed. And top of that don't follow that all mighty behaving All Might guy. Because he-


All Might: Don't say it!

Because this is who he really is.

Midoriya: Aaargh!

Midoriya: I- I... I think I can live with this. I mean I don't really look very hero like in my appearance either.....

You missed the point. He's true identity! He's identity! Damn you really are useless! He has changed his name but really he is Yugi! *tuntuntuuuuuun!!


He addicted so much to playing card games that almost died! And now he has sword to forget about monsters and be hero himself! Watch out! You will be possessed too! You have taken his power inside of you!


Yeah, now I'm happy. >:D Geheheh
Talking about heroes. This show has many of them and they are interesting with nice/ridiculous powers and action full scenes but if something I feel that villains didn't have enough space yet in this story. Especially the worst villains that attacked hero school. So that is something I'm looking after in second season. Have happy times you hero and action lovers! This one is great for yo all! See ya!

Monday, 22 August 2016

Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei anime



Magic—A century has passed since this concept has been recognised as a formal technology instead of the product of the occult or folklore. The season is spring and it is time for a brand new school year. At the National Magic University First Affiliate High School, A.K.A Magic High School, students are divided into two distinct groups according to their academic performances. The "Bloom," who demonstrate the highest grades and are enrolled in the "First Course," and the "Weed," who have a poor academic record and are enrolled in the "Second Course." This spring, a very peculiar brother and sister enrol as new students. The brother is an under achiever with some deficiencies and enrols as a "Weed," while his younger sister is a honor student, who enrols as a "Bloom." The brother, with a somewhat philosophical expression, and the younger sister who holds feelings a little stronger than sibling love for him... Ever since these two have entered through the gates of this prestigious school, the calm campus was beginning to change...


This anime was listed one of the popular animes in one site so I had high hopes for this one. The story starts very nicely and has mystery about two siblings background. I felt plot setting was also nice that there were two groups in school the ones that are thought as better ones and not so good ones. Rivalry between them was interesting to follow. Also idea of how magic works in this world was interesting and felt unique. That was one of the main reasons I started to watch this anime.


Yes, It rises hope indeed. Well technology and magic is nicely bonded in this story and I like how it's mechanism was introduced. One example was how flying magic works. It's always nice to see that things are thought well and not only explained as the theory of love or I-can-do-random-magic-thou-I-don't-know-it-works-it-just-happens-lol. Especially when magic is bond with technology.

Talking about magic I need to admit that the secret siblings had was something else that I thought first. Well you can't blame me that I thought Tatsuya is a robot. Yeah, I thought he is an agent robot or something like that. He doesn't have any feelings at all! What ever is situation he always has same look! (why this sounds familiar....oh yeah..Ragnarök the anime..). He also can restore himself even from death! He looks and acts like a robot!


He doesn't seem to have any emotions. Emotionless robot!

Miyuki: My dear brother isn't emotionless robot!

If that's true then why you are the only one who gets all of the feelings that he should have? Are you maybe his lover or something that you need to defend him so much?

Miyuki: Uhm... I would love to be.... and Tatsuya only has some emotions when it's about me...


Others: Whaat!? You two weren't just fooling around! You really love each other that much!? Is this anime that badly written that we need needless sibling complex that actually doesn't have much back story!?

...Then...You aren't a robot? Right, Tatsuya?


Uh...Okay I don't mock your sister anymore... Err.. let's move on to your secret (not the love one).
So Tatsuya and Miyuki go to a magic school but they are more powerful than what they tell. Also Tatsuya is some genius machine maker. Fits for a robo-


Okay okay! He's a master magic machine maker. To that point every episode was nice to follow and I liked to hear more about their a secret. But after all this a nice school life and a competition scheme I felt my interest faded away quickly. Some how all this changed to a war story. All details were somewhat not very clear and who was who and why they did it. It felt like I skipped many episodes without knowing it. I hoped that maybe all those family matters and war things would be introduced more and better later on but even a final episode ended weirdly. It felt like this wasn't a full story. I looked from Internet that maybe this one actually was second season or something but found out that it wasn't. Also I doubt that it's not gonna get a second season though ending episode felt like it should have. I found out this anime was based on many light novels and manga so maybe that's why it felt so scattered.

I'm not even interested about most of the characters in this show because they are seen so damn many times (looks and temperaments). The quiet introvert one (I think this is what Tatsuya is meant to be but fails ), happy neighbour friend, calm and playful lady, some random charas that doesn't even have clear temperament, tough fighter boy, clever bookworm boy, child-like happy shy girl, tomboy redhead girl, shy kind bookworm girl and so on.

 
I mean really? Can't you have more imagination with these?

One from this anime and one from Suzumiya Haruhi. These two could look to mirror and see others faces without realising it's not their own!


 Faceless: I don't care! Gimme any face! I will pay you! Even a generic one is okay for me!

No! It's not what ever matter! It matters that charas are well designed so that anime history won't stop here, will evolve and keep interesting!

Let's face one other not so nice thing in this series: I didn't except this to have sibling complex but also little mix of harem. It's not well showed but you can see some elements of it. I wonder why this anime is full of starts of plots which then are forgotten later on. Well with harem plot I'm not sorry that it didn't grow bigger.


But hey seriously what those all see in Tatsuya-robot? Only his mad skills? Hey high hopes for ones who doesn't have anything inside them but skills and still girls are over them! XD lol. There is no reasons why all those girls clearly start to like him more than friendly way.

But at least all this sibling complex and harem thing just popped here but didn't go further. It would have been very irritating. It's okay see sibling romance and harem in those stories that are meant to have those but not when they are some kind of little fillers to fill big cracks in a main story.

In nutshell start promised more interesting and cohesive story than what I got. I don't know if I should recommend this to anyone because here isn't even any clear plots going on. Not even fan service plot that could interest someone so maybe we will just quietly bury this in anime history. (I need to read all the novels and manga to see if original story is better to recommend to even someone)!

Monday, 23 February 2015

Akame ga kill anime


In a fantasy world, fighter Tatsumi sets out for the Capitol to earn money for his starving village, and finds a world of unimaginable corruption, all spreading from the depraved Prime Minister who controls the child Emperor's ear. After nearly becoming a victim of this corruption himself, Tatsumi is recruited by Night Raid, a group of assassins dedicated to eliminating the corruption plaguing the Capitol by mercilessly killing those responsible.


When I started to watch Akame ga kill I first thought this is one of the hero-comes-to-save-world stories in old world full of dragons and monsters but I was surprised with joy and interest when I saw the first episode's twisted ending. I liked very much how the blond snob lady was shown as nice person and then she was found out to be such a bad person. The pictures of showing charas' true natures were very nicely done! I liked every time I saw them.


Also the first episode's ending explained why Tatsumi's companions didn't look like main characters...well they was supposed to die in the start. I should have figured that out. :'D

About dying what happens almost in every episode, well how should I put this... It's always good way to kill main characters and that way get the watchers' interest and feelings toward the show and characters but the anime makers forget one important thing: ANYBODY WON'T GIVE A SHIT IF THEY DON'T KNOW THE CHARACTERS ALMOST AT ALL AND WON'T CRY AFTER THEM IF THEY DOESN'T FEEL LIKE IMPORTANT WHAT IS VERY CRUCIAL THING IF WE ARE TALKING ABOUT MAIN CHARACTERS!


...And watched the whole show. People is dying in this show like cropping weed! First main character dying is always the most dramatic thing because it doesn't happen so much and that is what it should have been when Night rider's Sheelen died. But we didn't get to know about her almost at all (about 1 or 2 episodes she was in and seen?) when she died. Top of that it was rubbish that she made her final attack after she was sliced to half?! Oh come on! I have high anime tolerance toward nature laws but that was as ridiculous as Death note's blasting shower of blood from one guy's body after stabbed with fucking pen (anime version)!
But I must admit I thought the green haired guy Lubbock would be the first one to die (I always thought he had the least amount of personality of them all) and still he almost survived to the end!
But it doesn't take much time to realize that almost every character is going to die one per episode. People died so quickly after we even get to know them and then the show pushed new characters to the show AND killed those too almost immediately. So I wasn't feeling anything when I saw people dying. Just thought in my mind: Hmmm... someone whose name I don't even remember died....What should I make for the dinner?

When the new "bad guys" arrived to the show and was gathered to the room with long table I was pointing to the screen and screaming that now the writers has been lazy! They have made copy versions of the "good ones". Honestly, think about it! Gay guys, quiet black haired food lover girls in school uniforms, cool sharp calm warrior captains, comic reliefs (latex suit guy and Lubbock) and bold brave goofy basic main character heroes with warm heart.

Moving away from the fact that we didn't get to know much about characters they actually had very big variety of personalities. There were some that was school book examples of generic characters like Mine who is basic looking and personalized tsundere from head to toe. But also unique and not so much seen personalities like how the "bad guys'" commander was. Actually that commander was one of my favorites. But when talked about those two I really don't know why they both fall in love with Tatsumi? Well I guess that the commander's love can be argued differently depending on people but I found it somewhat confusing. But it's better than Maine's and Tatsumis love. It came from nothing. Why? I guess it was because Mine's death would other wise be just air without any little reason with the main character without love.


Tatsumi: "Wait what!? You mean that I'm not attractive enough that I wouldn't get girls without plot?"

Nope. U are meant to be with gay guys.  -___-


Tatsumi: ".............do you mean that we aren't just practicing without shirts because that's what true men do"




Bulat: "Seeing me as a gay."
Tatsumi:"......................................."

Yes! Yes! I see yaoi here! (O3O) This will be interesting anime. *One episode or less later Bulat dies* Whyyyyy?! Bulat! Why they killed the gay guy! It's so unusual that adventure anime has gay main character.....well okay again all gays are just comic reliefs...actually it's quite sad that gay characters are non-comic characters almost only in yaoi but in other stories they are just the weird and fun guys.... just like in this anime. But I must say that this anime has quite many gay charas. Almost so many that I can hear the song: "Dru Pal's drag race! Start your engines! Dru Pal's drag race. May the best woman best woman wiiiii-in!" (Well okay I know that the Dru Pal's show is about drag queens and drags' aren't always gays) But let's start the gay show!!!!!! Welcome! Welcome! Let's see who are here today! Come here Bulat!


Bulat: "Yo!"

Oooh! Look how he has made his hair today. Looks like Elvis has found love! Sweet heart!
And next let's see our second handsome gay! Come to the runway Dr. Stylish!


Yes! Stylish indeed! Take a look how he is dancing for us in glittery world! Glamour, baby!
And to the last but not the least: Bols!


Oh my! Oh my! Who has that leather prison look! Yummy bad boy!
Now everyone has walked the runway. Let's interview them little bit. So what makes you special and worth of winning?


Some weird guy: "Hey! Here is more gays why we can't get in?"

Shut up! Shut up! You aren't fancy enough! All gays must have style! So shoo shoo! So where was we? Oh yeah! So why you should win?


Bulat:"...I should win because I know many tricks!"


Bulat:"I'm so badass that I can lick boots without getting sick!"


Bols:"I know how to cook!"



Dr. Stylish: "Hmph! Those are nothing!"


Bulat: "What did you say?!"


Dr. Stylish: "I will show you the best thing ever what I have!"




Dr. Stylish:"Behold! I have army of latex gays!"


Tatsumi:"......................."


Bols: "We can't win against that....."


Bulat:"Bhah! You aren't the only gay in anime world that have latex gay army! There's plenty of them! Nothing special about you!"


Dr. Stylish: ".......eh?"

Good! Good! That's enough! And now the judges will announce the winner!
*long anxious waiting*




Aaaaand the winner iiiisss.....Bols! He is the most charming gay character! He has useful skill: cooking, has fashion, lovely personality and the only character that got the fangirl's  eyes teary when he died (though he isn't even the main chara!)


Bols: "Me? Oh thank you! Thank you!"


 Dr. Stylish:"But he isn't even gay! He has wife and kid!"

Doesn't matter he acts so gayish so it's close enough! So he is the winner!


Wave:"Such... sparkling....happines...in...this....gloomy...blood...filled...series!"

Wait...By the way that Dr. Stylish's voice...It sound so familiar... OH MY GOD! NOT THA-!





OH MY DEAR GOD THE MEGA GAY IN ANIME HISTORY! NO! NO! GO AWAY! GO! AAAAAARRRGGGGHHH! DON'T COME HERE I'M NOT READY TO TALK ABOUT YOU YET! I NEED MORE COURAGE! ARGH! MY EYES!!!!!! I DEMAND YOU TO LEAVE! LEEEEAAAVVEEE!

............................Phew....pheww....phewww... He has left...Oh god............Thanks!

So in the end Akame ga kill has really interesting plot story, moral issues and characters. Also the animation style is beautiful and well made without hurrying but it still lacks some very important things. It's really pity that this could have been the next Naruto or something. So sad.....