Anime: Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai

Hello!

now i have finished watching the second season of Higurashi serie and i need to say i liked it very much, maybe even more than the first one :D

When the first season introduced all charas and main plot the second is more about the plot and what actually 'caused the murders. Also chara development is seen. Super natural elements are introduced in this season and i think they work well but some are in the limit of "is this good anymore". I won't spoil more but the story goes more and more faster and interesting and in the end it really feels real. When the maincharacters are working together to stop all the murders it gets very interesting but doesn't get the feeling that they will surely survive so it's more interesting to see how it ends.

Foremost i liked this season too but i'm wondering what the third season can offer anymore?

Anime: A Dark Rabbit Has Seven Lives

Kurogane Taito is a freshman in Miyasaka High. After an injury that prevented him from practicing karate, which he excelled in since elementary school, he had always believed that he was an ordinary, regular guy. However, due to a forgotten promise exchanged with beautiful Vampire (Most Ancient Sorcerer) Saitohimea nine years ago, he was in fact no longer ordinary. Taito later went on to regain his memories after a certain incident, and was reunited with Saitohimea. Along with unlikely allies, Kurenai Gekkou, Miyasaka High's student council president and a genius bent on avenging his parents, and Andou Mirai, a cute lightning demon and familiar of Gekkou, they have to contend against Gekkou's twin brother, Kurenai Hinata, who sought to resurrect the powerful Vampire (Most Ancient Sorcerer) Bahlskra. Unknown to them, their destinies were already woven and foretold in an ancient prophecy of epic proportions.

Directed by	Takashi Yamamoto
Written by	Shigeru Morita, Keiichiro Ochi, Masaharu Amiya, Kiyoko Yoshimura
Music by	Frontier Works
Studio	Zexcs
Network	TVS, UHF stations
Original run	July 8, 2011 – ongoing
Episodes	5 announced

Japanese name for this serie is Itsuka Tenma no Kuro-Usagi. For a first wow! This can become one of my most liked one animes and mangas :D I really loved the every second in this anime and i'm really looking to see more (as quickly as bossible :p ).

For first my attention taked the very top quality animation technigue, colouring and sound world. There isn't any complaints about those..no really i tried to think even one bad thing about it but couldn't come up with anything. :'D Movements goes very sharply, softly and looking beautiful when sounds and colouring is giving spice in it more. Colour schale is very large and from backround to even little details everything works well. It's shown they have made effort to make this anime.
I love the charas' design and voice actors which are very top qualited ones.
Charas does have a good personalities and i really like every one of them.

Story seems mysterious and very interesting compined with interesting characters. Also it starts very well and gives the feeling "i wanna see more now!" with schenes what goes to heartful situations right from the start.

This anime is just right choice for those who like hight quality anime with interesting charas, romance, drama and shadow of black fantasy in it!

Anime: THE IDOLM@STER

The arduous struggle of the 13 girls from Talent Production 765 who dream of one day becoming idols in the competitive Japanese entertainment industry.

Directed by	Atsushi Nishigori
Written by	Touko Machida
Music by	Ryuuichi Takada
Studio	A-1 Pictures
Network	BS-i, CBC, MBS, RKB, TBS
Original run	July 7, 2011 – ongoing

The Idolmaster is very like the other same kind of animes and mangas etc. Love get chu. Genre is slice of live and in another genre in that which is being/becoming idol.

The story has many maincharas (11 girls and one boy) and it's quite hard to remember all of them in the start but i guess it will be easier in the end. And i bow for the chara creator 'cause they aren't all like the same and actually there's few charas which seems very original and has new fresh feeling in them. :D
Style of drawing and animation is cute and charas are cuite "childish/petite" styled (so yea some times it's hard to tell their ages just basing on their looks :'D ). Movements are high animated and just like the bests are in these days like in K-On.
The story starts nicely and the whole first episode is based on to tell who the idols are. New and fun mix in this is that the first episode was made like someone is making a program of them and so that way questions and chara reviews were easy and not so long as they could be with this many charas.

I'm waiting for good animation and nice story to watch and i hope i will get it based on the first episode. It seems worth of watching and looks very nice so why not to watch it even if silce of live is interesting genre or being idol is something what you want to know about. Also this serie has fun comedy in it so i recomment it cladly :D

Anime: R-15

R-15 is a Japanese light novel series written and illustrated by Hiroyuki Fushimi and Takuya Fujima. It was adapted into a manga series by Hayato Ohashi in 2009 and an anime television series in 2011.

Directed by	Munenori Nawa
Written by	Sumio Uetake
Music by	Yuichi Nonaka
Studio	AIC
Network	TV Kanagawa, Sun TV, Teletama, Chiba TV , Gifu Hoso, Tokyo MX, Mie TV, AT-X
Original run	July 9, 2011 – ongoing

Takuto Akutagawa has a special ability for writing porn novels. He applies to Hirameki Gakuen a high school which only accepts people with "Unique" talent. Now he must chase his dream and direct his classmates to win an interclass competition. All while trying to create the prefect harem.


I just wanted to watch some random anime and picked this one. R-15 is very new anime and has only one episode now so need to wait more.

Drawing and animating style is cute and colourful with beautiful backrounds. The story doesn't start much in first episode but it seems sure who is the one who will be his girlfriend in the end :'P The system of the school is quite fun that only genious ones can be there but it also makes wonder what the hell he is then doing there? :''D The genres for this anime are romance and ecchi. So basically romantic things for some people and ecchi for others. And just to remind ecchi isn't porn it's just light things like panty shots :'D The mainchara called Takuto doesn't look any ecchi person (actually very sweet and uke-like) so i found it fun when he seems to be the one who creates top porn novels :'''D
This review is very short but the story doesn't get started well yet so can't talk about it more but anyway, seeya!

Anime full: 30 sai no hoken taiiku

Hayao is a 30-Year-old Salaryman who has yet to lose his virginity. Due to his lack of personal skills he is resigned to using a blow-up wife to release his sexual tension. Hayao is the subject of Daigorō and Macaron's mission. During a "lesson" of Daigorō's Hayao meets a woman, who seems to have got lost, she then disappears upon seeing Daigorō's "lesson." Later during class that Daigorō makes him go to in order to meet more women he meets the woman again, Natsu Andō, whom he instantly falls for.

Directed by	Mankyū
Written by	Ryō Akiyama
Studio	Gathering
Network	BS11 Digital, Tokyo MX
Original run	April 7, 2011 – June 23, 2011
Episodes	12

This anime was very fun to watch and it did have very much humor in it. It can't be taken very seriously but that's not problem if you wanna see something crazily fun (althought the serie was also created for 30 years who doesn't know about things and so the serie is little bit dogument like) :D Yea i would categorize it in "crazy humor"- category for sure.

The story is about a typical man who doesn't know how to be or talk with a woman and so doesn't have got a girlfriend. Then in his house 'comes two god of sex's and they tries to help him. X'D Those gods looks very good..or atleast i think so ;p The older one is handsome and the younger one is veeery cute-su! :3 Aaaw i wanna hug him and feat him and... krhmm hehe back to work.. hmm where was i? Oh yea, so the mainchara man gets to know about women and meets very cute woman called Natsu. Hi falls in love and wants to be her boyfriend which he will be later after many times of trying :'P The woman also is virgin and has two God of sex's too by her side. So you can imagine how funny it's when two people who doesn't know what to do are wondering and trying to do as their gods are saying to have a partner.

The drawing and animating style is more consentrated to charas than backround but looks still very good and combines well with very heavy comedy feeling. Also charas' movements and thinking ways are very humorous but the best idea is to sensorise every "dirty" thing (also used humorously) etc. even when god of sex says virgin he says: "%//)&%¤%" and so we really doesn't hear the words. Althought the name the serie doesn't have any schene of sex in any way so it's not really even in ecchi level.

The anime is only 12 episodes long (or so it seems like) and the episodes are shorter that normal animes are. It's quite sad to see that the serie is finish when you felt like you are just starting. I really hope they will make another season for this.

I mostly recomment this for people who like to watch crazy comedy and little romance in it. The story is really creative and fun (i haven't seen this kind of story earlier)!

Manga: D. Gray-man volume 1

Chao! My friend recomment this manga and i finally read it ;D I had hear about this manga but didn't got change to read it so now i can finally say i have read it and actually i'm reading in volume 3 now. This review is about volume one thought.

Author: Katsura Hoshino
Artist: Katsura Hoshino

D.Gray-Man is set in fictional 19th century Victorian-like England. This blend of horror and action follows the journey of Allen Walker, a 15 year old boy with a cursed eye and a powerful anti-akuma weapon embedded into his left arm. The Akumas are created by a demonic figure known as Millennium Earl, who uses them in his bid to create despair and destroy mankind.

The manga is very shonen like as much as it seems like when i first looked it. Also the art it very shonen like, quite detailed and still simple ;D

Story is very basic shonen and it can be taken as good or bad depending who is reading. To me the story is quite good to read if it doesn't have the basic scheme in every book which changes little bit every time in next volume. I need to say in the first volume story seemed to be like this kind of story which moves in its same frames but after reading volume 2 i figured out it won't be like that. That's very good relief for me 'cause i don't like so much stories which are like that ( if you even did understand what i meant :'D ).

Characters seems good but the main character didn't give me the wanted "Oh he seems very interesting" but the enemy who is a comic-relief-like troll jumping around wearing funny clothes. :'D yeah believe me the enemy can't be taken seriously..or atleast i couldn't :''D

So anyway D. Gray-man seems to be manga what i will read more but i guess it won't be my ultimate favorite just little bit above "good-thing-for-killing-time". Mostly i recommend it for those who like shonen and want's easy manga to read and amusement. For people who have seen so many basic shonen i'm not sure will this be the best choise but i guess it won't still be bad choise to read.

Anime full: Higurashi no Naku Koroni

Higurashi no Naku koroni was first game but then it developed to be anime and manga too. story takes place to a mountain village where happens weird murders and the culprit is always one of these friends for some reason. The whole story was solving who was murder this and that time and then finally was lead to wonder what really was behind these murders. Opposite to the fact that the village's god would be the culprit wasn't after all the one but an aliens...yea i didn't except that coming :'D The story was quite hard to follow but if you consentrate then you will be okay, and yes, don't mind the little mysterious scenes in the story they will be opened better in the next season...or atleast it's how i was told..well let's see :''D But oh, it still was really good anime!

The characters' emotions and all was made very well and they really looked crazy and horrible when loosed their control. Also way of murders and little scenes were linked to each others fun and interesting way. Even the smalest scenes like etc. one when Mio and Keiichi was talking out of his apartment at night, changed little bit in next murder scene. Using of characters in every musder was also good and they had differend postitions what was last time.

Art was quite light coloured and looked nice. The style how the charas were drawn was cute and brings to my mind "cute but horrible-style" which suited this story i think. though someone would think it looks too childish with baby-face kids and teens killing each others :'D the drawing style was cute but sometimes i thought it looked too simple like the ones drawing this anime were hurrying too much or something.

I will give extra plus for the mystic and trans-like music, opening and ending!
In the end i really liked this serie and i recomment it to others too if they like occult, horror, cute characters and black story telling with joy little bit here and there.

Manga: Kimi ni todoke volume 1

Manga called kimi ni todoke is very heartful and sweet story about shy and weird girl's life as outsider in her school but one day she will become friend with famous boy who becomes her friend and maybe more.
Karuho Shiina has made story where heroine isn't typical loud voiced and crazy like other mangas' charas are but scary looking and shy girl. The heroinen is very nice and sweet to watch but i didn't like so much the boy 'cause he didn't has got nothing new in the chara than others have already so that was pity but i hope it gets better in other volumes.
Art isn't bad and has sweet and light like feeling in it but sometimes gets too light and doesn't express the sad feelings so much. Also the art is quite familiar to the other type of basic manga styles in shojo which makes it look less original. I personally call this kind of drawing style as "sweet shojo style". I hope the story will get better in the next volume but i still liked to read it and it's good for reading it but i guess i still won't read it again twice.
people who likes sweet shojo stories and light-happy stories will like this but in other hand to others it could be too light and boring to stress with feelings and person's problems. This is story about friendship and sweet love.

Bakuman manga

Hello!

I just read Bakuman manga's first book. Well i have read it before but this time i saw it in bookstore and wanted to buy it and comment. Story is written by Tsugumi Ohba and art by Takeshi Obata so only this promises good story and art. Death note is maybe their most famous work and i think Bakuman isn't worse.
Story tells about two students who wants to be a mangaka and so basically story is about their life as creators. Yea i know that may sounds like pretty boring when you think about mangaka's life behind desk but actually it's not boring.
Story has many twists even in book one and i can tell you it gets even better when you read it more. Actually it also gives many things to interest like: know about how manga is made and published, drama and love. One thing that pops out from "ordinary" is how minimalist the story, art and ideas are. Art is very realistically drawn and from every backround to little pen are very well drawn as in real life. This minimalistic perfection doesn't end to art it also is in the story. Every idea and thing about manga is realistic and really excisting in real life too like the publisher Jump. Bakuman also refers to very much real life manga and criticises and comments about those and how manga is created from a start to finishing. This serie also gives useful information about creation like comment about how swords are very liked in these days in Jump.
For those who doesn't like so much discover world of manga they can consentrate to original type of love beatween characters.
If i need to say anything bad about this manga i would say Ohba and Obata's mangas has always very much text and dialogue so it's sometimes hard to read. Also for those who doesn't want to read story about creation this may be little boring and hard to understand eventhough the art makes it more faster and interesting that you could imagine when you read what the story is about.
I really recoment this serie cladly! :D

Animes in internet

I have always been angry for that i can get only few anime and manga in Finland to read and watch so i have looked for places where i can watch and read those and i guess you want also to know where that is possible so here is links for anime sites:

http://animehorizon.com/
http://anime.thehylia.com
http://www.animehere.com/
http://www.animestealth.com/anime-list/
http://www.fin-tv.com/category.php?cat=anime
http://www.watchanimeon.com/
http://www.lovelyanime.com/full-anime-series-list/
http://www.chia-anime.com/
http://www.otakucenter.com/watch-anime-f5.html
http://www.crunchyroll.com/
http://www.animeboy.org/
http://www.animetake.com/anime-downloads/
http://www.umaianime.com/anime.php
http://onepieceofbleach.com/watch/
http://www.animea.net/series
http://mangahut.com/
http://get-anime.net/
http://www.animeseason.com/
http://sky7anime.net/directory
http://animehorizon.com/
http://www.animecrazy.net/

and believe me here's lot more but i guess this is enough for a start :P

Anime: Koisento

So like i told i will rate animes, mangas and games. Here is the first anime. It's called Koisento

The story takes place in Nara city in 2710. Shin'ichi visits there on a school excursion and a white deer suddenly takes his bag away. He chases the deer and meets a mysterious girl called Toto, who is running away from a gang of chasers.

Yea...sounds like a "hyper/crazy-category" anime :'D But let's see.
Yes it's crazy-category anime but also has sad things in it. From first episode it seems quite normal anime not much unique things though some weird things like clown looking comic-relief charas with little bad granny :'D And here's lot of crazy deers and whole worls is Japan ears later where everything almost is little bit more cyber than these days.

One thing that comes to eye at first notice is that the whole anime is done with computer not drewn with hand, that's bad and good thing. Some way the liveliness doesn't come through but on the other hand it brings something new in the movement. Colours are used cretively and the whole anime is quite colourful. the world of this anime and style brings my mind movie called Paprika. Main chara is normal boy and robot girl who fall in love when they meat first time...yea how many animes and mangas i can list from these words..hundreds. Top of that the girl is as almost always happy-go-lucky chara and the boy is mister i don't understand anything but always someone likes me and takes care of me and i don't even ask what is happening :''D

Koisento is good to watch when you don't have much criterias and when you want lazy crazines. But i don't believe this will be my ultimate favorite but i guess i will watch some episodes more when they will come. At least i think the story is quite ok and has some unique stuff like crazy deer but one thing that lowers my will to watch this is the some-what lazy using of computer style in characters. So the backround is more better done than the charas are and that's some way sad.

Japan mania comes like a disease

Hello! I'm like in fire when someone talks about Japan and thing about Asia in anyway so i though i would like to set up a page that tells about Asia especially Japan things. I'm going to talk about trends, new products and some way also rate them (etc. manga, anime, games, art). I have also traveled in Japan  so i can also talk about things what i have seen. Stay beside me and you can see and hear about lot of fun and interesting things!