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Maria†Holic

January 3, 2009 Flatcher Leave a comment

Maria Holic is one of my most awaited animes of 2009 due to it’s interesting story. It starts with sophomore Miyamae Kanako who enlists in a all-girls school due to her fear of boys and allergic reaction to boys. Then she meets freshman Shidou Mariya, and Kanako finds her an ideal person. Until she discovers that she discovers that he’s actually a crossdressing (tarp) gothic boy. Right now, the first episode is pre-aired, and will start tommorow, Jan. 4th. There’s also a manga foar it.

Maria Holic ED song (Kimi ni Mune Kyun by Yu Kobayashi, Asami Sanada and Marina Inoue): See other post for full song, and no more TV Size!
The ED song is also adapted off of this : Click Hare

Maria Holic OP song (HANAJI by Yu Kobayashi) : See other post for full song, and no more TV Size!

Now here are some pictures to make things interesting. (Click them to make them bigger fools!)

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Samurai Shampoo

November 1, 2008 hsnake Leave a comment

Well, here I am again…bored and it’s Christmas Halloween…One more anime review people!

It’s Samurai  Shampoo Champloo!

Samurai Champoo, it’s a short anime, 24 episodes, that have action, comedy, alcohol, sex scenes, gambling, Jazz and Rap soundtrack, and mutilations!, what a perfect anime, right?

There’s a Manga also, but the ending is a bit different from the anime.

Also, did you notice that Mugen looks like that guy from Cowboy Beebop?well, same author

The plot can be a little weird, but there it goes:

Fuu (the pink kimono girl) is a young teenager yet, 15 years old, who used to work on a pub, then, the governor’s son came; she accidentally drops tea on his “pants” (there are no pants in japan in that epoch), shit hit the fan, Mugen (the red clothes dude) saves her from death (romantic?no, believe it, NO), but, meanwhile, Jin (blue dude) just killed 3 of the best governor’s bodyguards easily, and went to the pub, in time to encounter and engage in battle with Mugen, both fight like ninjas (lol, they are samurais), but when a guy who lost his hand in the battle with Mugen burn the place to ashes with both Samurais in, they are knocked out and wake up in the prison, being tortured and going to the death sentence.When time comes, Fuu use some bombs (?) to help  them escape from the death, shit hit the fan again, she toss a coin, one face they may leave and kill each other or whatever they want to, the other face they have to follow her in her quest to find the Samurai who smells sunflowers (does sunflowers have a smell? o_o).

The anime have a Jazz and Rap as soundtracks, which fits really good in some fight scenes.

A bit about the characters:

Hurrrr

Hurrrr

Mugen: Age 20, crazy and hyperactive samurai, always looking for a good fight, money and food.

He’s actually from Okinawa (still being Japan though), and was a thief or something like this, he wears a red jacket, with some shorts, and wooden shoes with metal plates on it for last defence way.He fights in some cool weird way, dancing break and spinning like a Beyblade (sorry for that).He’s the most lazy, yet the most hyperactive, cool eh?

Next we have…

Jin: Age 20, quiet, yet short tempered.Not much different from Mugen, looking for food, money, shelter and fight (not in that order).He has a dark past, that he killed he’s Dojo Master and ran away, being chased by that Dojo’s students.He wears a blue kimono, “ponytail” and a pair of glasses, which wasn’t even invented on the epoch!.In a fight, he’s extreme accurate and cold, ending the fight as quick as possible, but never run from a fight by the way.

Last and not less important…

Fuu: Teenage 15 years old girl, who travel japan with 2 crazy asses Samurais…no lolicon involved though.She really don’t fight, but carry a knife and a mystical flying squirrel (what?) with her.She likes gambling and it’s good on it, she also, is good on a “eat till you explode” competition.She’s not the stupid screaming girl, but leave the fight for the two samurais…

Also, one of the last episodes, they play BASEBALL or something like this…

Well, I watched, liked and recommend it for those who wants comedy, action, jazz, rap and gambling anime…it’s up to you know to decide.

A?!

October 31, 2008 hsnake 1 comment

Since today is Friday, I don’t have any friends and is Halloween, I’m gonna make this special anime review post in memory of Halloween…lol

AZUMANGA DAIOH!

(this will be a long ass post, really)

First, The Plot:

Azumanga Daioh (あずまんが大王), is an anime, about… (counting them)… 6 high school girls (again, no musical bullshit), Kasuga “Osaka” Ayumu , Takino Tomo, Mizuhara “Yomi” Koyomi, Sakaki, Kagura, Mihama Chyio and her dog (not really).

The anime starts with them 3 years before going to university.At the beginning there are only 5 main characters (Kagura join their class in the next year only).

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they are holding books :O

The anime is complete random, with funny quick scenes and jokes that you may never ever understand.It’s not exactly Shojo manga just because they are all girls, actually, I just saw/heard 4 or 5 male character voices, yet, all secondary and nameless random characters.

The anime have 26 episodes, most of the scenes based on the Manga that was made a time ago before the anime, not all characters actually exist on the manga.

Now, the characters:

In order of Left to Right:

Sakaki: She’s the tallest (duh) and the most big breasted from all, she’s quiet, smart and love (no, really, LOVE) cats.There’s one cat in the street that she always find, and try to pet it, and he ALWAYS bites her.She’s also a born-athlete, the faster of all of them.

Kagura: She just join them in the next year that the anime starts, and was also Sakaki’s rival (but Sakaki don’t care at all).She is in the Pool team of school, and she’s a really good athlete.Her personality is joker and kind of hyperactive, get bad grades and play video games (lol).

Chiyo-chan: She’s is only 10 in the beginning of the anime, and she’s at the same class as them, so, she’s a genius (really).She’s polite, smart (duh) and it’s rich too, even though she do her own lunch.Her ponytails seems to have own life (just kidding), and she have a dog that is 2 or 3 times bigger than her (yes, she rides him)

Tomo: Completely hyperactive, joker, crazy, dumb and annoying.She’s Yomi’s oldest friend, and it’s always trying to be the number one of everything (fails 90% of times by the way).Her hair style changes every year, and it’s always making jokes with everyone and copying the homework from Chyio or Yomi.

Yomi: The most “nerd” (not really) of them, she’s have a short patience, and it’s the one who wear glasses.She’s kind of “the mom” of the group, because it’s the most mature of them.Well, can’t say much about her, because in the OWN ANIME, it says almost nothing about her!that’s sad…

Osaka: Completely…uhm…slow….?, she’s kind of the most creative of the group, but seems to lack in energy, and is often sleeping on the classroom during class (duh).Osaka creates the godly “Yawn” and sneeze so “unloud”, that even a blind man wouldn’t hear it

There are also some secondary characters, as teachers, GOD (not haruhi), and other students.Such as:

Teachers:

Yukari being happy (rare, lol)

Yukari being happy (rare, lol)

Yukari-sensei can!Tanizaki Yukari: The “main” teacher of the Azumanga, she’s very competitive, lazy and easily goes in RAGE.She’s Nyamo’s old school best friend and kind of rival too, she’s the English teacher and the main teacher of the main characters classroom.Yukari also have a car, yeah, or at least what survived of him, and she also drives like in Need for Speed.


Nyamo sensei, the students like her

Nyamo sensei, the students like her

Kurosawa “Nyamo” Minamo: She’s the most mature among the teachers so far, very polite, calm and funny too, she’s the student’s favorite also, and was Yukari school friend (as I said before).Right at the beginning of the anime, she seems to be blackmailed by Yukari about something on her past.She’s looking for a man.

Hes not suprised, hes just like that

He's not surprised, he's just like that

Kimura: He’s the literature teacher of them, and it’s also a pedo (obvious among the series).Even that he looks weird, he help clean the streets, is married (not underage) and have a kid (never seen on the anime though) and have a good heart (I hope so).He’s always with his mouth open, say and do weird things among the episodes.In a nutshell, he’s Pedobear in human form.

And now, the secondary student, behold:

Kaorin, lol

Kaorin, lol

Kaorin: She’s a secondary student that we don’t know much about her, besides that she’s (probably) lesbian (no joking), since we can see that she fall in “love” (or something like that) for Sakaki.She went to Chyio’s summer house with the others once, and seems to like to take pictures.

Well, that’s it, it’s a long ass post, no copy paste bullshit, everything write by me.

Also, you WILL identify your self with someone, if you are in doubt, do some online quizzes or ask for a medium, or be indifferent with this…the choice is yours.

Also², this was the first “real” anime that I watched (Naruto, Bleach, One Piece, Dragon Balls and stuff like that doesn’t count [BECAUSE I SAID SO]).

Happy Celtic Myth day


Uzumaki, The Shit Bricks Manga

October 26, 2008 hsnake 2 comments

If you thought I was talking about naruto, you can go fuck your self because I’m gonna talk about a MATURE MANGA (unfortunately, no hentai)…

At first you think it looks old japanese crap horror story…but to say the truth, you’ll shit brick my friend…

The story is about a little city (in japan, duh), that is under a “spiral invasion”…no, its not aliens killing people, but supernatural events that somehow the spirals have something to do with…

Our protagonist, Kirie Goshima, is a high school girl that lives a normal life, until her boyfriend’s (Shuichi Saito) father dies in a…REALLY WEIRD WAY, no kidding…Then, weird events start to take over the city (death related), such as this one:

Thatll give u a terrible headache

That will give you a terrible headache ma'am

This, my friend…is the most light scene you’ll see…

Like, a boy gets ran over by a car, and his corpse got stuck in the wheels, making his body twist in a spiral

Ouch...

Ouch...

The Manga has only 3 volumes, I have all of them (behold), and I say…you’ll shit bricks…

This, is the closest thing you’ll get from HENTAI/LOLI/YURI:

boobs!

boobs!

awww…isn’t it cute?

That’s it…read at your own risk

Oh, by the way, the Manga have a movie too, but unfortunately, not an Anime :\ don’t need though…it’s scary as shit…no kiding…

After Reading the WHOLE manga, this…

omg...o_o

omg...o_o

will make you scream like a little bitch