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junichi - May 21, 2006 07:27 AM (GMT)
hi dito lang po ako para mag bigay ng ilang mga balita about
whats hot and fast in the world of otaku's^^

for a review here is one of my favorite anime shuffle

from the anime news network heres the review.


~Shuffle~
シャッフル!
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Age rating: Teenagers (May contain bloody violence, bad language, nudity)

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Plot Summary: When two doors are discovered in an ancient ruin, the gateways to shinkai, the realm of the shinzoku (Gods) and makai, the realm of the mazoku (Demons) are irreversably opened. The races of human, shinzoku, and mazoku come together in the mortal world and nothing will ever be the same. One day, two new families move next door to a boy who had previously been living a very peaceful life. In one house lived the family of the King of the Gods, and in the other lived the family of the King of the Demons. Both families had one daughter whose single wish to live next to the boy they had fallen in love with years ago has just been fulfilled. Also living with the boy is his childhood friend. With these three girls vying for his affections, the boy finds that his new life filled with despair, jealousy, and just a little hope is beginning.

User Ratings: 310 ratings have been given [details]
Running time: 24 minutes
Number of episodes: 24
Episode titles: We have 24

Vintage: 2005-07-07 to 2006-01-05

Opening Theme:
#1: "YOU" by YURIA

Ending Theme:
"innocence" by Hashimoto Miyuki

Official website:
Navel's SHUFFLE! Official Website (Game) (Japanese)
SHUFFLE! Official Website (Japanese)
WOWOW's Official "SHUFFLE!" Website (Japanese)
Links: We have 3
Trivia: We have 7
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Japanese staff
Japanese cast


Director: Naoto Hosoda

Series Composition: Masashi Suzuki

Script:
Katsuhiko Takayama (Eps. 5, 8, 11)
Katsumi Hasegawa (Eps. 3, 9, 10)
Masashi Suzuki (Eps. 1, 2, 4, 6, 7)

Storyboard:
Keiji Gotoh (Ep. 7)
Naoto Hosoda (OP/END)
Naoyuki Kuzuya (Ep. 5)
Yasuyuki Shinozaki (Eps. 3, 10)
Yuuichi Nihei (Eps. 4, 9)

Episode Director:
Keiji Gotoh (Ep. 7)
Mamoru Enomoto (Ep. 5)
Naoto Hosoda (Eps. 1, 2)
Yasuyuki Shinozaki (Eps. 3, 10)
Yuu Nobuta (Ep. 9)
Yuuichi Nihei (Ep. 4)

Music:
Kazuhiko Sawaguchi
Minoru Maruo

Character Design: Eiji Hirayama

Art director: Hachidai Takayama (Production AI)

Chief Animation Director: Eiji Hirayama

Animation director:
Eiji Hirayama (OP)
Kazuhisa Nakamura (Eps. 2, 6)
Keiji Gotoh (Ep. 7)
Maiko Okada (Ep. 4)
Masahide Koyata (Ep. 8)
Masashi Wakayama (Ep. 10)
Naoto Hosoda (END)
Seiki Tanaka (Eps. 3, 5, 10)
Yoshiko Nakajima (Ep. 9)

Character Conceptual Design:
Aoi Nishimata
Hiro Suzuhira

Director of Photography: Shigekazu Morishita (Studio Twinkle)


Animation producer: Kiyonori Hiramatsu

Art Setting: Yoshimi Umino (Production AI)

Associate producer:
Katsuhiko Kusakabe (WOWOW)
Yoshimi Suzuki (Yomiko Advertising)

Color design: Naoki Fukutani (Studio RON)

Editing: Junichi Itou (Jay Film)

Executive producer:
Nobuhiko Sakawa
Shiroharu Kawasaki
Shouji Udagawa
Shunji Inoue
Takeshi Yasuda

Key Animation:
Akio Takami (OP)
Aya Takano (OP)
Chika Kojima (OP)
Fujio Inose (OP)
Hiroyuki Iwazaki
Kyoko Taketani (OP)
Megumi Kadonosono (END)
Mitsuru Ishihara (OP)
Naoto Hosoda (OP)
Ruriko Watanabe
Shingo Adachi (OP)
Tadashi Sakazaki (OP)
Taketomo Ishikawa (OP)
Tatsuya Oka (OP)

Music producer: Osamu Abukawa (LANTIS)

Planning:
Hiroyuki Kato
Shinichiro Inoue

Planning Producer: Atsushi Itou

Producer:
Chiaki Terada
Michiko Suzuki
Tokuji Hasegawa (WOWOW)
Tsuneo Takechi

Sound director: Yota Tsuruoka (RAKUONSHA)

Theme Song Performance:
Miyuki Hashimoto (ED)
YURIA (OP)

dale_kun - May 21, 2006 07:33 AM (GMT)
hahaha, ayos,
kumpleto info mo dude!

personal review:

okei ang shuffle kasi funny and light,
i mena hindi dense yung theme,
although it is your typical anime,
ayos pa din ang delivery niya over-all...^_^

sana nga makakuha na ko nung complete version eh,

hindi ko pa kasi siya tapos!!! T_T

tanong lang, pwede ba
dito ang manga?

junichi - May 21, 2006 09:25 AM (GMT)
QUOTE (dale_kun @ May 21 2006, 03:33 PM)
hahaha, ayos,
kumpleto info mo dude!

personal review:

okei ang shuffle kasi funny and light,
i mena hindi dense yung theme,
although it is your typical anime,
ayos pa din ang delivery niya over-all...^_^

sana nga makakuha na ko nung complete version eh,

hindi ko pa kasi siya tapos!!! T_T

tanong lang, pwede ba
dito ang manga?

yup pede manga^^

basta whats hot sa japan lalagay ko dito.

yukino99 - May 21, 2006 09:26 AM (GMT)
may pagka hentaish ba yan...*nosebleed*

junichi - May 21, 2006 09:29 AM (GMT)
QUOTE (yukino99 @ May 21 2006, 05:26 PM)
may pagka hentaish ba yan...*nosebleed*

yup its 60% very echii natapos ko na to at ang ganda^^

yukino99 - May 21, 2006 09:33 AM (GMT)
oooohhh my god...gusto ko magkaron nan...

junichi - May 21, 2006 09:48 AM (GMT)
QUOTE (yukino99 @ May 21 2006, 05:33 PM)
oooohhh my god...gusto ko magkaron nan...

hehehe mag kakaroon ka rin^^

any way here are some of my favorite anime reviews^^

kase kapangalan ko dito yung bida :P

Alternative title:
D.C.~ダ・カーポ~
Da Capo
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Age rating: Older Children (May contain mild bad language, bloodless violence)
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Supernatural

Plot Summary: Junichi Asakura lives with his adoptive sister Nemu in the crescent-shaped island of Hatsune Jima, a place where cherry blossoms bloom throughout the year. In this island, people have mysterious powers and attributes. For example, Junichi has the power to see other people's dreams, and he was also taught by his grandmother to magically create sweets. One day, Junichi's cousin and childhood friend, Sakura Yoshino came back from America all of a sudden. To Junichi's surprise, she looks exactly the same as the girl that moved away six years ago, and hasn't aged one bit. And she came back to remind Junichi of their childhood promise... It is a bittersweet tale of magic, love, hidden desires, and unattainable dreams.

User Ratings: 236 ratings have been given [details]
Running time: 24 minutes

Number of episodes: 26
Episode titles: We have 26

Vintage: 2003-07-11 to 2003-12-27

Opening Theme:
#1: "Sakura saku mirai koiyume" by Yozuca (eps 1-25)
#2: "Sonzai" by CooRie (ep 26)

Ending Theme:
#1: "Mirai he no Melody" by CooRie (eps 1-7,9-14,16-20)
#2: "Utamaru Ekaki Uta" by Haruko Momoi (eps 8,15)
#3: "Sonzai" by CooRie (eps 21-25)
#4: "Sakura saku mirai koiyume" by Yozuca (ep 26)

Official website:
KIDS STATION's Da Capo site (Japanese)
Official D.C. Da Capo Site (Japanese)

In the news 3 times:
2005-03-10 - New TV Series
2004-07-31 - King Records licensing tidbits
2004-04-19 - AX announces more guests

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Japanese staff
Japanese cast


Director: Nagisa Miyazaki

Scenario:
Katsuki Hasegawa
Katsumi Teratou
Kenichiro Katsura
Mamiko Ikeda
Masaharu Amiya
Masashi Suzuki
Nagisa Miyazaki
Yuji Moriyama

Music:
Hikaru Nanase
Yuugo Kanno

Character Design: Shinobu Tagashira

Art director: Chikako Shibata

Character Conceptual Design: Naru Nanao

Director of Photography: Kouki Oohira


Color Coordination: Kumi Akiyama

Editing: Jun Tano

Planning: Kazutoshi Matsumura

Producer:
Katsuaki Kikuchi
Tomoko Kawasaki

Series Story Editor: Mamiko Ikeda

Sound director: Hiromi Kikuta

Theme Song Performance:
CooRie (ED/ED3)
Halko Momoi (ED2)
Yozuca (OP)
Sakura Nogawa as Nemu Asakura

Yukari Tamura as Sakura Yoshino

Yuuki Tai as Jun'ichi Asakura


Akemi Kanda as Miharu Amakase

Daisuke Kishio as Suginami

Halko Momoi as Utamaru

Kanako Hattori as Tomo-chan

Miyu Matsuki as Yoriko Sagisawa

Naoko Matsui as Yokomi Shirakawa

Ryoko Shiraishi as Mi-kun

Yui Horie as Kotori Shirakawa

Yui Itsuki as Moe Mizukoshi

Yuki Matsuoka as Mako Mizukoshi


Ai Iura as
Lover (Female-ep 15)
Woman (ep 12)

Ai Uchikawa as
Jungle Ranger No. 3
Linda

Aiko Hibi as Student (ep 10)

Akira Tomisaka as
Child (ep 23)
Student (ep 22)

Asami Imai as
Child (ep 23)
Student (ep 22)

Daiki Matsubayashi as
Jungle Ranger No. 1
Man (ep 12)
Student (ep 10)

Daisuke Ono as Kuri Rix (ep 17)

Eisuke Asakura as
Jungle Ranger No. 4
Man (ep 12)

Eri Oono as Boy (ep 21)

Erika Takeuchi as Student (ep 4)

Hiroko Kataura as Child (ep 5)

Hiroshi Iida as Male Student 2 (ep 1)

Hirotaka Nagamatsu as Student (ep 3)

Hiroyuki Tsuru as Student (ep 22,23)

Ikumi Sugiyama as Oba-san (ep 11)

Jun Shikano as
Student (ep 10)
Udon House Salesperson

Katsuya Fujiwara as Student (ep 4)

Keigo Suzuki as Student (ep 3)

Ken Katou as Student (ep 4)

Ken Takeuchi as Male Student 1 (ep 1)

Kenichi Mochizuki as
Jungle Ranger No. 5
Man (ep 12)

Makoto Aoki as Student (ep 22,23)

Makoto Naruse as
Kaoru
Student (ep 3)

Masayo Hosono as Boy (ep 21)

Mayuko Kouchi as Oba-san (ep 4)

Megumi Kubota as Tomoya Mizukoshi (eps 7-8)

Miharu Iijima as Child (ep 5)

Miyuki Ono as Jun'ichi's Grandmother

Moriya Endou as Teacher

Nako Tsutsumi as Oba-san (ep 11)

Naomi Takada as Student (ep 4)

Natsuki Yoshihara as
Female Student (ep 15)
Student (ep 10)

Noriko Shitaya as Emi

Reiko Takagi as Jun'ichi Asakura (young)

Rika Morinaga as Boy (ep 21)

Ryouhei Nakao as Student (ep 4)

Ryoukichi Takahashi as
Delivery (ep 11)
Emcee (ep 16)
Student (ep 10)

Sachi Matsumoto as Rich Lady (ep 16)

Sayori Ishizuka as Sa-chin

Shinnosuke Tachibana as Student (ep 3)

Yoshimitsu Shimoyama as
Editing Man of Terror
Lover (Male-ep 15)

Youji Ueda as
Jungle Ranger No. 2
Man (ep 12)
Tony

Yukiko Fujikawa as
Mother (ep 5)
Oba-san (ep 11)

Yurika Ochiai as
Child (ep 23)
Student (ep 22)


and for the 2nd season^^

D.C.S.S. ~ダ・カーポ セカンドシーズン~
Da Capo Second Season
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Age rating: Teenagers (May contain bloody violence, bad language, nudity)
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Supernatural
Plot Summary: Hatsune-Jima was once well-known for its cherry trees, which would bloom no matter what time of year it was. Two years ago, the island's cherry trees lost this ability and all became ordinary cherry trees that bloom only in the spring. Jun'ichi Asakura is now a graduating senior at Kazami Academy, and is surrounded by many close friends, old and new alike. On a stormy summer day, a mysterious young girl, Aisia, arrives at Jun'ichi's door. She is looking for Sakura's grandmother to study magic, ultimately hoping to bring happiness to everyone. When she discovers that grandmother Yoshino had long since passed away, she joyfully assumes (thanks to his error in judgment) that Jun'ichi is able to teach her. Even though she finally understands that the only magic he's capable of is conjuring Japanese confections, Aisia continues her search for magic on Hatsune-Jima. Amid the chaos of her search, Kazami Academy hires new medical staff.

User Ratings: 73 ratings have been given

Running time: half hour

Number of episodes: 26
Episode titles: We have 26

Vintage: 2005-07-02 to 2005-12-24

Opening Theme:
"Sakurairo no Kisetsu (The Season of Cherry Blossoms)" by yozuca*

Ending Theme:
#1: "Akatsuki ni Saku Uta (The Song Blooming Towards Dawn)" by CooRie
#1: "Akatsuki ni Saku Uta (The Song Blooming Towards Dawn)" by CooRie (eps 1-23,26)
#2: "Kioku Raburetaa (Remembrance Love Letter)" by CooRie
#2: "Kioku Raburetaa (Remembrance Love Letter)" by CooRie (eps 24-25)

Official website:
Da Capo Second Season
In the news 2 times:
2005-05-17 - D.C.S.S in July
2005-03-10 - New TV Series

Comment:
D.C.S.S. combines the elements of the D.C. Da Capo sequel manga, D.C.S.G. (Second Graduation), with additional new characters from the D.C.P.S. (Plus Situation) Playstation 2 game. The PC version of the PS2 game is known as D.C.P.C. (Plus Communication).

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Japanese staff
Japanese cast


Director: Masanori Nayoshi

Series Composition: Katsumi Hasegawa

Music: Hikaru Nanase

Character Design: Yuka Takashina

Art director: Naoko Kosakabe


Assistant director: Shinji Takago

Color Coordination: Hiromi Iwaida

Editing: Jun Taguma

Music producer: Yoshiyuki Ito

Planning: Kazutoshi Matsumura

Producer:
Katsuaki Kikuchi
Takeshi Shukuri
Tomoko Kawasaki

Sound director: Hiromi Kikuda

Theme Song Arrangement:
Angel Note (OP)
Kaoru Okubo (ED)

Theme Song Lyrics:
rino (ED)
tororo (OP)

Theme Song Music:
rino (ED)
tororo (OP)

Theme Song Performance:
CooRie (ED)
Yozuca (OP)
Sakura Nogawa as Nemu Asakura

Ui Miyazaki as Aisia

Yui Horie as Kotori Shirakawa

Yukari Tamura as Sakura Yoshino

Yuuki Tai as Jun'ichi Asakura


Akemi Kanda as Miharu Amakase

Daisuke Kishio as Suginami

Emiko Hagiwara as Alice Tsukishiro

Halko Momoi as Utamaru

Masumi Asano as Nanako Saitama

Miyuki Sawashiro as Kanae Kudou

Nami Kurokawa as Tamaki Konomiya

Naoko Matsui as Koyomi Shirakawa

Yui Itsuki as Moe Mizukoshi

Yuki Matsuoka as Mako Mizukoshi


Kanako Hattori as Tomo-chan

Kazuya Kobayashi as
Chauffeur
Male Student
Old Man (ep 3)
Store Owner

Ken Yanai as
Male
Male Student

Kiyomi Asai as Child

Koushi Kawakami as Male Student

Machiko Kawana as Female Student

Miyu Matsuki as Misaki Sagisawa

Miyuki Ono as Jun'ichi's Grandmother

Natsuki Mori as Mother

Reiko Takagi as Jun'ichi Asakura (young)

Rina Satou as Munepi (ep 5)

Risa Hayamizu as Female Student

Ryoko Shiraishi as Mi-kun

Ryuuzo Hasuike as Merchant

Satoshi Gotou as
Announcer
Dog (ep 3)
Male Student

Shiro Saito as Male

Taketoshi Kawano as Male Student

Tohru Furusawa as Akishima

Yui Kano as Female Student

Yukari Ochiai as
Female Student
Magical Girl Princess Meron (ep 5)
Japanese companies


Animation Production: Feel

Broadcaster:
Chiba TV
KBS Kyoto
KIDS STATION
Sun TV
TV Aichi
TV Kanagawa
TV Saitama

Music Production: Lantis

Original story: CIRCUS

Planning Cooperation: GANSIS

Production: Da Capo SS Production Committee


all of this are from the anime news network this junichi sighning off


^_^

alt12 - May 21, 2006 02:55 PM (GMT)
shuffle pinanood ko yan dati sa cable tv w0w0w channel 11:30 pgkatapos magtrinityblood at fullmetapanicl 2nd stage.. danda yan eh fave ko ung loli na c primula ( i tink der names represent a flower or sumthing )

5/5 rating s akin niyan dami pantyshot at fanservice.. wala nga lang bobbies!!


recommendation;
i tink u'll enjoy watching elven lied, amaenaide yo and mezzo forte (mezzo suckz)
coz they got everything blood, boobies and a decent storyline..

currently reading hiroyuki brand, lilim kiss and ichigo100% don't watch the anime it'z sucks read the book?!

trying to acquire genshiken "The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture" manga danda rin ito eh?!

recomend pa nga kau ng other ecchi un ang mga trip kong panoorin ngaun eh!!

junichi - May 21, 2006 05:52 PM (GMT)
QUOTE (alt12 @ May 21 2006, 10:55 PM)
shuffle pinanood ko yan dati sa cable tv w0w0w channel 11:30 pgkatapos magtrinityblood at fullmetapanicl 2nd stage.. danda yan eh fave ko ung loli na c primula ( i tink der names represent a flower or sumthing )

5/5 rating s akin niyan dami pantyshot at fanservice.. wala nga lang bobbies!!


recommendation;
i tink u'll enjoy watching elven lied, amaenaide yo and mezzo forte (mezzo suckz)
coz they got everything blood, boobies and a decent storyline..

currently reading hiroyuki brand, lilim kiss and ichigo100% don't watch the anime it'z sucks read the book?!

trying to acquire genshiken "The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture" manga danda rin ito eh?!

recomend pa nga kau ng other ecchi un ang mga trip kong panoorin ngaun eh!!

hai!! pede rin yan pero it defends nalang siguro sa kanila^^


yukino99 - May 22, 2006 07:09 AM (GMT)
ooohhh...elven lied is good but,,,,napaka brutal...T_T

junichi - May 24, 2006 04:53 AM (GMT)
^ for me ok yung elfen lied but its too brutal for my taste ^_^

ok heres is another freview from the one who brought us shuffle here's

soul link^^


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Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Military, Romance, Science Fiction

Plot Summary: Aizawa Ryota was in the 3rd grade of the preparatory course of Central Military Academy. AD 2045, he went to a space station, Aries, for the training with his classmates including Nagase Saka and Nittak Kazuhiko. However, the station was attacked by a terrorist group, Hallarax.Now they must find a way back to earth.

User Ratings: 37 ratings have been given [details]
Running time: half hour

Number of episodes: 12

Episode titles: We have 8

Vintage: 2006-04-01

Releases: We have 1

Opening Theme:
"screaming" by Miyuki Hashimoto
Ending Theme:
"dust trail" by Miyuki Hashimoto
Official website:

Soul Link
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Japanese staff
Japanese cast


Director: Toshikatsu Tokoro

Series Composition: Toshikatsu Tokoro

Scenario:
Isao Shizuya
Katsumi Hasegawa

Music: Hiroyuki Sawano

Character Design: Yoshihiro Watanabe

Art director: Mitsuharu Miyamae


Colour Design: Haruko Nobori

Editing: Akimitsu Okada

Sound director: Satoki Iida

Theme Song Performance: Miyuki Hashimoto
Hideki Ogihara as Ryota Aizawa

Yuki Masuda as Sayaka Nagase


Junko Shimakata as Yu Yamanami

Kentarou Itou as Shuhei Aizawa

Kumi Sakuma as Nao Morisaki

Marina Ono as Aki Nitta


Chiharu Tezuka as Cellaria Markelight

Natsumi Yanase as Nanami Inatsuki

Norio Wakamoto as Shigemichi Morimoto

Takashi Nagasako as Gale Lantis

Takehito Koyasu as Kazuhiko Nitta

Yoshino Nanjou as Aya Sugimoto

Yui Shoji as Karen Tachibana
Japanese companies


Animation Production: Picture Magic

Broadcaster:
AT-X
Chiba TV
KBS Kyoto
Mie TV
TV Kanagawa
TV Saitama

Music Production: Mellow Head

Original Concept: NAVEL

Production: Soul Link Media Project

Uruhara - May 24, 2006 06:35 AM (GMT)
^nice previews....

sana may iba pang preview dito ;)

alt12 - May 24, 2006 11:36 AM (GMT)
aus lang elven lied ah, andami mong matutunan parang fairytale!!

try nio rin panoorin ung school rumble maganda cya!! papanoorin ko pa lang siya ngaun wik!! wickedsick!!

junichi - May 29, 2006 09:41 PM (GMT)
i got here one of my favorite anime.

kung sa tingin niyo ok na sa inyo si ultraman well check niyo to.

this is a view from UG-ultimate girls ^_^


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chepot - May 29, 2006 10:28 PM (GMT)
wow junichi! kumpleto ka ah! do you by any chance have some info on the series "the melancholy of haruhi suzumiya?" :)

junichi - May 30, 2006 12:11 AM (GMT)
QUOTE (chepot @ May 30 2006, 06:28 AM)
wow junichi! kumpleto ka ah! do you by any chance have some info on the series "the melancholy of haruhi suzumiya?" :)

ill try to research it ^_^

chepot - May 30, 2006 05:04 AM (GMT)
:lol: yey! yey!

junichi - May 31, 2006 12:27 PM (GMT)
by request for today!
(salamat bukas na ulet ung news networks) -_-

Alternative title:
涼宮ハルヒの憂鬱 (Japanese)
Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuuutsu (Japanese)
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~opening~
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~ending~
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Age rating: Teenagers (May contain bloody violence, bad language, nudity)

Genres: Comedy, Science Fiction

Plot Summary: On the first day of high school a beautiful girl named Haruhi Suzumiya introduces herself as having "no interest in ordinary humans". She asks for any aliens, time travelers, sliders or espers to join her. Watching her weird behaviour is Kyon a boy who sits in front of Haruhi and is the only person who talks to her. Commenting on Haruhi's joining every club in school and then quitting Kyon unwittingly gives Haruhi an idea to start her own after school club. Thereafter Kyon and several others find themselves literally dragged into the Save our world by Overloading it with fun Suzumiya Haruhi's Brigade (the S.O.S. Brigade for short).

User Ratings: 377 ratings have been given [details]
Running time: 24 minutes

Episode titles: We have 10

Vintage: 2006-04-02

Releases: We have 1

Opening Theme:
#1: "Koi no Mikuru Densetsu (恋のミクル伝説; Mikuru Legend of Love)" by Yuuko Gotou as Mikuru Asahina (ep 1)
#2: "Bouken desho desho? (冒険でしょでしょ?; Adventure, right? Right?)" by Aya Hirano (eps 2-)

Ending Theme:
"Hare Hare Yukai (ハレ晴レユカイ; Sunny Sunny Happy)" by Aya Hirano, Minori Chihara, and Yuuko Gotou
Official website:

涼宮ハルヒの憂鬱 Official Site (Japanese)

Kyoto Animation's Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuutsu Website (Japanese)
Links: We have 2
Trivia: We have 13
In the news 4 times:
2006-05-17 - Hare Hare Yukai #5 on Oricon
2006-05-12 - Haruhi Suzumiya Single on Oricon
2006-05-12 - Haruhi Suzumiya CD Sells Out
2006-05-03 - The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya Storms Amazon.JP
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Japanese staff
Japanese cast


Series director: Hiroshi Yamamoto

Director: Tatsuya Ishihara

Script:
Fumihiko Shimo (ep 8)
Hiroshi Yamamoto (ep 1, 3, 5)
Joe Itou (ep 7)
Katsuhiko Muramoto (ep 4, 6)
Tatsuya Ishihara (ep 2)

Storyboard:
Hiroshi Yamamoto (ep 1, ED)
Kazuya Sakamoto (ep 5)
Noriyuki Kitanohara (ep 3)
Shinobu Yoshioka (ep 4, 6)
Taichi Ishidate (ep 7)
Tatsuya Ishihara (ep 2)
Tomoe Aratani (ep 6, 8)

Episode Director:
Hiroshi Yamamoto (ep 1, ED)
Kazuya Sakamoto (ep 5)
Noriyuki Kitanohara (ep 3)
Seiji Watanabe (ep 1 asst.)
Shinobu Yoshioka (ep 4, 6)
Taichi Ishidate (ep 7)
Tatsuya Ishihara (ep 2)
Tomoe Aratani (ep 8)

Music: Satoru Kousaki

Original creator: Nagaru Tanigawa

Original Character Design: Noizi Ito

Character Design: Akiko Ikeda

Art director:
Miyuki Hiratoko (asst.)
Seiki Tamura

Animation director:
Akiko Ikeda (OP, ep 2)
Futoshi Nishiya (ep 7)
Kazumi Ikeda (ep 4)
Mitsuyoshi Yoneda (ep 3)
Satoshi Kadowaki (ep 1,8)
Tomoe Aratani (ep 4, 6)
Yukiko Horiguchi (ep 5)

Director of Photography: Yoshiko Tanaka


2nd Key Animation:
Asako Tomita (ep 5)
Emiko Nakano (ep 1)
Kunihiro Hane (ep 1, 5)
Natsumi Tada (ep 1)
Noriko Kashihara (ep 5)
Sayaka Ikeda (ep 5)
Shigeko Kurebayashi (ep 1, 5)
Sunao Naitou (ep 1)

Animation Check:
Chitose Nakamine (ep 1, 5)
Emi Nakano (ep 2, 4, 6)
Kenji Murayama (ep 7)
Tomoyo Awada (ep 3)

Assistant producer: Mayumi Yamaguchi

Associate producer:
Gouto Muroichi
Tomoko Suzuki
Tsuneo Takechi
Yoshimi Nakajima

Background Art:
Emi Kesamaru (ep 2, 4-7)
Jouji Unoguchi (ep 2, 4-7)
Miyuki Hiratoko (ep 6)
Mutsuo Shinohara (ep 2, 4, 5)
Naoki Hosokawa (ep 2, 4, 5, 7)
Natsumi Katou (ep 2, 4, 6, 7)
Shinji Matsuura (ep 2, 4-7)
Tomoko Marukawa (ep 2)
Yoshiko Kawauchi (ep 2, 4-7)
Yutaka Ito (ep 5-7)

Colour Design: Naomi Ishida

Colour Setting:
Akiyo Takeda (ep 5)
Ayumi Shimoura (ep 1, 3, 6, 8)
Naomi Ishida (ep 2, 7)
Rie Takagi (ep 4)

Digital Composite:
Kazusa Ishii
Kazuya Takao
Natsumi Hamada
Rin Yamamoto
Ryuuta Nakagami
Tetsuo Umetsu
Yoshiko Tanaka

Digital Paint:
Asako Aisawa (ep 2, 7)
Aya Toyosawa (ep 4, 6, 8)
Ayumi Yamamori (ep 3, 8)
Chiyomi Koura (ep 5)
Emi Ebisu (ep 4)
Hitomi Imaizumi (ep 1, 6)
Kana Miyata (ep 2, 7)
Masumi Ichinose (ep 5)
Mayumi Nagayasu (ep 3, 7)
Mayumi Taguchi (ep 4)
Mihoko Eda (ep 1, 6)
Nanako Kitaoka (ep 3, 8)
Riri Senami (ep 1, 5)
Sachiko Sasaki (ep 4)
Shizuka Uno (ep 2, 7)
Tomoko Shima (ep 3, 8)
Yasumi Kawai (ep 2, 7)
Yoshiko Kimura (ep 1, 6)
Youko Shukuya (ep 5)
Yukie Tsuda (ep 1, 5)
Yuusuke Ishihara (ep 4, 6, 8)

Editing: Kengo Shigemura (Super Editor Kyon)

Executive producer:
Nobuhiko Sakawa
Shouji Utagawa
Takeshi Yasuda
Yoko Hatta

In-Between Animation:
Akiko Higaki (ep 6)
Asako Tomita (ep 7)
Aya Sato (ep 3)
Ayako Endou (ep 4, 8)
Chitose Nakamine (ep 2)
Hana Hosoda (ep 3)
Kaori Furukawa (ep 4, 8)
Kayo Hikiyama (ep 4, 8)
Kenji Murayama (ep 1)
Kumi Kuroda (ep 2)
Kunihiro Hane (ep 7)
Maki Inoue (ep 4, 8)
Manami Natsumeda (ep 1)
Mie Kiyohara (ep 7)
Naoko Fujita (ep 1)
Natsumi Tada (ep 3)
Sayaka Ikeda (ep 5)
Shigeko Kurebayashi (ep 3)
Tatsuya Satou (ep 6)
Tomiko Kisuki (ep 7)
Tomoyo Awada (ep 2)
Youhei Kawasaki (ep 6)
Yukina Sadamura (ep 5)
Yumi Oohashi (ep 5)
Yumi Ookawa (ep 2)
Yuugo Oohashi (ep 1)

Key Animation:
Akiko Ikeda (OP)
Akiyoshi Shidou (ep 2, 3)
Atsuko Abe (ep 7)
Chiyoko Ueno (ep 1, 5)
Eisaku Kawanami (ep 1, 4, 6, 8)
Emiko Nakano (ep 6, 8)
Eri Matsuo (ep 3)
Fumie Okano (ep 5)
Futoshi Nishiya (OP, ep 2, 7)
Hiroko Utsumi (ep 6, 8)
Hiroshi Karada (ep 1, 5)
Hiroyuki Takahashi (ep 2, 3)
Hisako Yamada (ep 2, 7)
Kazuya Sakamoto (OP, ep 2)
Mami Komatsu (ep 2, 7)
Mariko Takahashi (ep 1, 4, 6, 8)
Masato Fukushima (ep 1, 5)
Masaya Makita (ep 1, 4, 6, 8)
Mitsuyoshi Yoneda (OP, ep 2)
Noriyuki Kitanohara (OP, ep 2)
Reiko Oobuke (ep 5)
Rie Sezaki (ep 7)
Ryouhei Muta (ep 1, 4, 6, 8)
Ryouichi Nakano (ep 4, 6, 8)
Saeko Oofuji (ep 2, 3)
Saiichi Akitake (ep 1, 5)
Satoshi Kadowaki (ep 1, ED)
Seiji Watanabe (ep 1, 5, ED)
Shinobu Yoshioka (ep 4)
Sunao Naitou (ep 8)
Taichi Ishidate (ED, ep 7)
Tomoe Aratani (ep 8)
Touko Takao (ep 2, 7)
Yoko Takada (ep 1, 4, 6, 8)
Yoshiaki Urata (ep 2, 7)
Yukiko Horiguchi (OP, ep 2)
Yumiko Hashi (ep 3)
Yuuichi Isoku (ep 7)
Yuusuke Matsuo (ep 2, 3)

Online Editing Supervision: Keiko Oide

Online Editor: Naoki Kanazawa

Planning:
Naohisa Yamashita
Shinichiro Inoue

Planning Producer:
Atsushi Itou
Hideaki Hatta

Production manager:
Ryouko Tomii (ep 2, 3)
Shin'ichirou Hatta (ep 4, 6, 8)
Takahiro Kurisu (ep 1, 5)

Publicity:
Seiichi Hachiya
Yousuke Nishiyama

Recording: Satoshi Yano

Recording Assistant: Fumiaki Tanaka

Setting: Hiroyuki Takahashi

Setting Manager: Kazuki Awara

Sound director: Yota Tsuruoka (Rakuonsha)

Sound Effects: Eiko Morikawa (Sound Garden)

Sound Manager: Yoshimi Sugiyama (Rakuonsha)

Special Effects: Rina Miura

Theme Song Arrangement:
Junpei Fujita (OP)
Takahiro Ando (ED)

Theme Song Composition:
Akiko Tomita (OP)
Tomokazu Tashiro (ED)

Theme Song Lyrics: Aki Hata (OP/ED)

Theme Song Performance:
Aya Hirano (OP2 & ED)
Minori Chihara (ED)
Yuko Goto (OP1 & ED)

chepot - June 2, 2006 05:02 PM (GMT)
:lol: yay! you are really da best sarge! bayani ka talaga! :wub: :wub: sige request pa ko isa kaso di ko sure kung anime nga to o spoof lang...


OS tan

junichi - June 3, 2006 01:19 AM (GMT)
nope hindi pa siya anime pero eto ang nakita ko sa reseach ko^^

OS-tan info

chepot - June 8, 2006 02:15 AM (GMT)
thanks po

junichi - June 12, 2006 09:46 PM (GMT)
ok review na nga ulet eto ang isa sa mga favorite anime ko sa ngayon
kung na inlove kayo sa story ng midori no hibi mas ma iinlove kayo dito^^
heres a review of..


Alternative title:
双恋
Twin Love
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Age rating: Older Children (May contain mild bad language, bloodless violence)

Genres: Comedy, Romance

Plot Summary: With his mother dead and his father working abroad, Futami Nozomu returns to the town where he lived as a child, to attend high school and work part-time at a local shrine. He soon finds himself caught up in a local legend of twin girls loving the same man. And there are many twin girls in this town....

User Ratings: 144 ratings have been given [details]
Running time: 24 minutes

Number of episodes: 13

Episode titles: We have 13
Vintage: 2004-10-06 to 2004-12-29
Opening Theme:
"Habataku Mirai" by eufonius

Ending Theme:
"Yawarakai Kaze no Naka de" by eufonius
Official website:
StarChild official Futakoi website (Japanese)
In the news 2 times:
2005-03-18 - Futakoi Alternative Trailer
2004-06-16 - New Anime
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Japanese staff
Japanese cast


Director: Nobuo Tomizawa

Series Composition: Tomoko Konparu

Screenplay:
Masahiro Yokotani
Miho Maruo

Music: Sou Kikuchi

Original Work:
Hina Futaba
Mutsumi Sasaki

Character Design: Mineko Ueda

Art director: Seiji Sugawara


Color design: Tomoko Yamamoto

Theme Song Arrangement: Sou Kikuchi

Theme Song Composition: Sou Kikuchi

Theme Song Lyrics: riya

Theme Song Performance: eufonius
Motoki Takagi as Nozomu Futami


Ami Koshimizu as Sumireko Ichijou

Chiaki Takahashi as Ai Momoi

Hiromi Tsunakake as Yura Sakurazuki

Kaori Mizuhashi as Sara Shirogane

Kozue Yoshizumi as Ui Chigusa

Mai Kadowaki as Souju Shirogane

Minako Sango as Mai Momoi

Natsuko Kuwatani as Koi Chigusa

Shizuka Hasegawa as Ruru Hinagiku

Yui Horie as Kaoruko Ichijou

Yui Itsuki as Kira Sakurazuki

Yurika Ochiai as Rara Hinagiku


Ai Orikasa as Miyabi Hinagiku
Japanese companies


Animation Production: Telecom Animation Film

Copyright:
FutaKoi Production Committee
Media Works

Music Production: Starchild Records

after that me panibagong searies na lumabas maliban sa unang futakoi
pero its a big another dimention^^
mas kuwela at mas nakakainlove ke sa sa una di ko alam kung ano ang nasa
utak ang autor ng futakoi kung bakit siya gumawa ng ibang
story ke sa sa unang futakoi pero ok din siya^^
tawa ako ang tawa sa anime na to^^

heres futakoi alternative.



フタコイ オルタナティブ
twin love:alternative
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Age rating: Teenagers (May contain bloody violence, bad language, nudity)

Genres: Comedy, Romance, Shounen

Plot Summary: The Futaba Detective Agency, being run by Rentarou, who has taken over the family business, after his father's death 3 weeks ago. Along w/ Sara & Souju, his live-in identical twin assistants. He ends up running afoul of the local Yakuza.

User Ratings: 136 ratings have been given [details]

Running time: 25 minutes

Number of episodes: 13
Episode titles: We have 13

Opening Theme:
"New World" by Bae Yu Mi

Ending Theme:
"ぼくらの時間 (Bokura no Jikan)" by eufonius
#1: "ぼくらの時間 (Bokura no Jikan)" by eufonius (eps 01-07)
#2: "ぼくらの時間~memory~" by eufonius (eps 08-09,11-12)
#3: "ぼくらの時間~with you~" by eufonius (ep 10)
#4: "ぼくらの時間~stick with me~" by eufonius (ep 13)

Official website:
FUTAKOI alternative official web site (Japanese)
Trivia: We have 2
In the news 2 times:
2005-03-31 - Japanese Spring Anime Updates
2005-03-18 - Futakoi Alternative Trailer
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Japanese staff
Japanese cast


Chief Director: Takayuki Hirao

Series director: Matsuri Ouse

Director: Takayuki Hirao (OP)

Series Composition: Ryunosuke Kingetsu

Script:
Katsumi Teratou (ep 4)
Kazuharu Sato (ep 6)
Matsuri Ouse (ep 5)
Ryunosuke Kingetsu (Ep 1 - 4, 6 - 13)

Storyboard:
Katsumi Teratou (ep 4 - 6, 13)
Masashi Abe (ep 2)
Matsuri Ouse (OP, 8, 11)
Saburou Mochizuki (ep 8)
Shinji Takago (ep 9)
Takaharu Okuma (ep 12)
Takayuki Hirao (OP, Ep 1, 3, 7, 13)
Takuro Takahashi (OP)
Takuya Nonaka (ep 12)

Episode Director:
Fumiharu Kamanaka (ep 2, 10)
Hazuki Mizumoto (ep 6)
Masashi Abe (ep 2)
Satoshi Kadekaru (ep 5)
Seiya Numata (ep 11)
Shinji Takago (ep 9)
Takaharu Okuma (ep 12)
Takayuki Hirao (Ep 1, 3, 7. 13)
Tomoki Kobayashi (ep 4)
Yoshihide Yuuzumi (ep 8)

Music:
Shunsuke Suzuki
Tatsuya Murayama
Toshimichi Isoe

Character Design: Toshimitsu Kobayashi

Art director: Kuniaki Nemoto

Animation director:
Hidenori Yumoto (ep 9)
Hisashi Shimokawa (ep 2)
Kazuhiro Ota (ep 2)
Kiyoshi Tateishi (ep 6)
Kumiko Horikoshi (ep 8, 10)
Masakazu Saito (ep 5, 12)
Mizuki Aoi (ep 11)
Satoshi Kadekaru (Ep 1)
Sawako Yamamoto (ep 3)
Seiya Numata (ep 11)
Shinichiro Minami (ep 4)
Takuro Takahashi (layout, 7)
Toshimitsu Kobayashi (Overall, OP, 13)

Cgi director: Hiroaki Yanagisawa

Director of Photography:
Hiroaki Yanagisawa
Ryoma Sakamoto


Art Setting: Iho Narita

Colour Design: Emi Chiba

Editing: Tsuyoshi Imai

Key Animation:
Akio Shimotsukasa (OP)
Go Kimura (OP)
Jun Shibata (OP)
Kei Oikawa (OP)
Koji Watanabe (OP)
Masakazu Saito (OP)
Masashi Ayase (OP)
Masumi Fujita (OP)
Mitsuru Obunai (OP)
Orie Tanaka (OP)
Sadafuru Yuuho (OP)
Satoshi Takahashi (OP)
Seiya Numata (OP)
Soichiro Matsuda (OP)
Tomonori Sudou (OP)
Yoshihide Yuuzumi (OP)
Yoshiki Yamakawa (OP)

Production producer: Hikaru Kondo

Sound director: Jin Akitagawa

Theme Song Arrangement: Hajime Kikuchi (ED)

Theme Song Composition: Hajime Kikuchi (ED)

Theme Song Performance: eufonius (ED)


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maruichi - July 7, 2006 07:45 AM (GMT)
wow!!! atehg ka kuya junichi....XD
IDOL!!!! :lol: :lol: :lol:
la aq ma-say!!! @_@

Aveya - July 10, 2006 01:29 AM (GMT)
KYOU KARA MAOU!

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Year: 2004
Country: Japan
Director: Junji Nishimura

Cast:
Takahiro Sakurai - Yuri Shibuya
Toshiyuki Morikawa (seiyuu of Sephiroth of FFVII:AC and Lucian of Gin no Requiem) - Conrad
Akio Ohtsuka - Gwendal

Synopsis:
Yuri Shibuya is an average baseball-loving high school student. When he decides to take a stand against some local bullies, they decide dunk him in a toilet and Yuri finds himself sucked into another world! He lands in a strange new world populated by warring humans and demons. When the demons announce that he is their new "Maoh" (Demon King), Yuri's convinced that they must have got it wrong. He's not alone in that opinion and some of the other nobles who are eyeing the throne for themselves are already taking action.

Review:

I can be shallow and I’ll admit it freely. I like my dramas, the serious, thoughtful works exemplified by Kon or Abe or Ooshi. I also like my action, titles like Fullmetal Alchemist or Gungrave or Yukikaze. But occasionally I like a little brainless entertainment – entertainment that at least doesn’t involve a lot of explosions or bloody deaths or deep-seated angst – which is a large part of the reason why I started watching Kyou Kara Maou!. Inoffensive and quirky, KKM doesn’t demand much in the way of thinking. It’s fluffy, light-hearted, silly and fun, has No Plot, and the male characters in it are handsome and many – it’s the anime equivalent of a himbo, basically.

Of course, to get technical for a moment, this isn’t supposed to be an insult. On the contrary, it’s part of its attraction. KKM is after all a standard magical girl adventure anime. You know the type; normal human girl gets transported to another world, where she is in fact some fulfilment of a prophecy/a princess/someone with undreamed-of magical powers, is surrounded by heroes, needs rescuing with some regularity and eventually has to fight to find her own inner strengths. These genre stories aren’t meant to be deep thinking, at least not intellectually speaking. What they are meant to be is emotionally engaging, and Kyou Kara Maou manages to achieve this through an unexpected twist, a twist that seems to make all the difference - the magical girl in this case is, in actual fact, a boy.

In the same way that Hayao Miyazaki tends to put young girls in the sorts of roles usually reserved for boys in order to shake up the standard gender based narrative conventions, KKM puts a boy in the role of the girl in a standard shoujo narrative, and changes nothing else. All the other normal stereotypes and devices typical of this kind of story still apply - Yuri Shibuya is still transported to another world, still finds himself surrounded by handsome, heroic types, still finds that he has powers he doesn’t know how to control as he struggles to become a stronger person, but the difference in gender refreshes the basic premise to an unexpected degree.

It also, of course, makes for not a little hilarity. Yuuri is gormless, charming and idealistic, which gets him into more than his fair share of trouble (and also incidentally describes the heroines of pretty much most magical girl series), and being positioned as he is, he is far from your typical macho, boy’s story character. Naturally in that case, there is a level of shounen-ai (yaoi) subtext present in the story also; since the story conventions remain the same, the emotional involvement similarly remains, but it’s treated with the same light-hearted sense of play that infuses the rest of the series.

At least, up until the end of season one, which is around about where KKM does something else you might not expect, not because it leaves any of the boy-in-a-girl’s-world conventions it’s already established, but because somewhere along the line, it stops being a show on random, fantasy-genre crack and develops a plot. It’s a bit of a surprise, as if the writers suddenly decided, after thirty something episodes, to introduce an actual story. And not only does the quality of plot improve, thereby intensifying the emotional elements so much a feature of girl’s stories, but the animation quality also gets a lot better too. For a while there, in fact, it’s possible to wonder if you aren’t accidentally watching the wrong show.

But if you’ve gotten that far, you’ve already come to really like the numerous charming and kooky characters and you’ve already been having loads of fun for thirty-something episodes. By the time you start to realise there is actually something serious under there somewhere, it’s patently too late to wonder where it came from. Luckily though it’s not all bad. Kyou Kara Maou is still the fun, wacky, standard magical girl boy story that you started off watching, just with a twist – it actually isn’t all that brainless after all.

review by Deni Stoner
from http://www.heroic-cinema.com/reviews/kkm

yumenokoyume - July 22, 2006 09:14 AM (GMT)
QUOTE (Aveya @ Jul 10 2006, 09:29 AM)
KYOU KARA MAOU!

user posted image

Year: 2004
Country: Japan
Director: Junji Nishimura

Cast:
Takahiro Sakurai - Yuri Shibuya
Toshiyuki Morikawa (seiyuu of Sephiroth of FFVII:AC and Lucian of Gin no Requiem) - Conrad
Akio Ohtsuka - Gwendal

Synopsis:
Yuri Shibuya is an average baseball-loving high school student. When he decides to take a stand against some local bullies, they decide dunk him in a toilet and Yuri finds himself sucked into another world! He lands in a strange new world populated by warring humans and demons. When the demons announce that he is their new "Maoh" (Demon King), Yuri's convinced that they must have got it wrong. He's not alone in that opinion and some of the other nobles who are eyeing the throne for themselves are already taking action.

Review:

I can be shallow and I’ll admit it freely. I like my dramas, the serious, thoughtful works exemplified by Kon or Abe or Ooshi. I also like my action, titles like Fullmetal Alchemist or Gungrave or Yukikaze. But occasionally I like a little brainless entertainment – entertainment that at least doesn’t involve a lot of explosions or bloody deaths or deep-seated angst – which is a large part of the reason why I started watching Kyou Kara Maou!. Inoffensive and quirky, KKM doesn’t demand much in the way of thinking. It’s fluffy, light-hearted, silly and fun, has No Plot, and the male characters in it are handsome and many – it’s the anime equivalent of a himbo, basically.

Of course, to get technical for a moment, this isn’t supposed to be an insult. On the contrary, it’s part of its attraction. KKM is after all a standard magical girl adventure anime. You know the type; normal human girl gets transported to another world, where she is in fact some fulfilment of a prophecy/a princess/someone with undreamed-of magical powers, is surrounded by heroes, needs rescuing with some regularity and eventually has to fight to find her own inner strengths. These genre stories aren’t meant to be deep thinking, at least not intellectually speaking. What they are meant to be is emotionally engaging, and Kyou Kara Maou manages to achieve this through an unexpected twist, a twist that seems to make all the difference - the magical girl in this case is, in actual fact, a boy.

In the same way that Hayao Miyazaki tends to put young girls in the sorts of roles usually reserved for boys in order to shake up the standard gender based narrative conventions, KKM puts a boy in the role of the girl in a standard shoujo narrative, and changes nothing else. All the other normal stereotypes and devices typical of this kind of story still apply - Yuri Shibuya is still transported to another world, still finds himself surrounded by handsome, heroic types, still finds that he has powers he doesn’t know how to control as he struggles to become a stronger person, but the difference in gender refreshes the basic premise to an unexpected degree.

It also, of course, makes for not a little hilarity. Yuuri is gormless, charming and idealistic, which gets him into more than his fair share of trouble (and also incidentally describes the heroines of pretty much most magical girl series), and being positioned as he is, he is far from your typical macho, boy’s story character. Naturally in that case, there is a level of shounen-ai (yaoi) subtext present in the story also; since the story conventions remain the same, the emotional involvement similarly remains, but it’s treated with the same light-hearted sense of play that infuses the rest of the series.

At least, up until the end of season one, which is around about where KKM does something else you might not expect, not because it leaves any of the boy-in-a-girl’s-world conventions it’s already established, but because somewhere along the line, it stops being a show on random, fantasy-genre crack and develops a plot. It’s a bit of a surprise, as if the writers suddenly decided, after thirty something episodes, to introduce an actual story. And not only does the quality of plot improve, thereby intensifying the emotional elements so much a feature of girl’s stories, but the animation quality also gets a lot better too. For a while there, in fact, it’s possible to wonder if you aren’t accidentally watching the wrong show.

But if you’ve gotten that far, you’ve already come to really like the numerous charming and kooky characters and you’ve already been having loads of fun for thirty-something episodes. By the time you start to realise there is actually something serious under there somewhere, it’s patently too late to wonder where it came from. Luckily though it’s not all bad. Kyou Kara Maou is still the fun, wacky, standard magical girl boy story that you started off watching, just with a twist – it actually isn’t all that brainless after all.

review by Deni Stoner
from http://www.heroic-cinema.com/reviews/kkm

I cant believe it! the guy just have flushed in the toilet. what a weird entry to another world. i've watche the first six episode of it and i realy love it.i hope it could reach the local tv station.




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