Plot Summary: Fifteen years in the future, by high-level scientific power, a violent battle takes place between Lacrima, that protects humanity, and Shangri-La, that plans the annihilation of all space-time. The key to stopping Shangri-La’s invasion is a mysterious object known as “the Dragon’s Torque.” A group known as the Dragon Cavalry is being sent through space and time to find it. In the present, twelve-year old Haruka and her friend Yuu are contemplating running away from home when they meet a member of the Dragon Cavalry named Karasu (Crow). He believes that Haruka has the Dragon’s Torque and claims to be Yuu from fifteen years in the future.
There is a battle taking place between Lacrima and Shangri-La which is 15 years in the future, but in the current time Haruka and Yuu are enjoying themselves and living their lives. Karasu is fighting Shangri-La and the key to stopping Shangri-La is with the Dragon Torque. It turns out that Haruka is the Dragon Torque in her time space and Karasu finds this time space. Lacrima needs to sacrifice Haruka to stop Shangri-La and Karasu is torn in the beginning helping Lacrima and protecting Haruka, and Yuu is determined to protect Haruka. The anime starts off a bit confusing and as time passes you start piecing things together, whats confusing is that the anime bases its story on the theory that there are multiple instances of a person because there are different timespaces which is a confusing thought to start off with. The graphics of the anime itself is different, and the its a well thought out story but sometimes I think it is was a little stretched out, but overall a very enjoyable anime.
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This is artwork by Markguru who is also doing artwork for Transformers the movie coming out this July 4th. I came across his Devian Art gallery and I was mesmerized by his work with the Transformers! It’s amazing work and I want to see more, I wish he had more work done, The more I saw of his work the more I wanted to see. It wasn’t enough, such amazing work and consistent! I wish I had half the talent to draw like this guy!
This is the first animated movie for Hell Boy with the Paranormal team facing some interesting adversaries and demons. This time Hellboy is drawn to Japan to fight a very old curse and he has to return himself to reality as well as destroy the demons in the sword. The animation is well done, and the story line is very good for the first movie based on the comic book. If you think you might enjoy an animated version of the movie but with a different story line then this movie is for you.
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Plot Summary: In the future, life between the digital and physical world has been blurred. The boundary of technology and humanity has been stretched beyond imagination with lives being led in both the electronic and physical worlds. With the melding of man and machine – a new cybernetic level of existence is being created – An existence that continues to redefine mankind.
Public Security Section 9 has managed to come back together after the Laughing Man incident and this time under a new administration. Things are tight around Section 9 and the eye is now on them, with tensions building up in Japan between the Japanese the Refugees. Incidents starting taking place calling themselves The Individual 11 and their goal is to free the refugees using their own tactics. There is more happening here then meets the eye, and this time the Major and Bato have it up to their necks. This is a mind blowing anime where they kept the story line fresh and the action is amazing. With Ghost in the Shell 2nd Gig the animation is set a bar so high very few will be able to reach it. They have done the story and animation justice with the 2nd series of Ghost in the Shell, unlike the first one you feel a little bit more connection to Section 9 and its team since you get a bit of their history. When you watch it you go through it in one sitting, its amazing you won’t get enough. I was disappointed when the show ended since I want to see more, and I’m hoping at some point they will make another series of Ghost in the Shell.
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I have a huge amount of anime on DVD and in storage that I can’t even remember from the top of my head. I’m watching a couple of animes right now and all of them seem to be pretty good. I just wish I had enough time to watch all the different animes, and more are coming out. Sometimes I don’t have enough time to catch up with all the different series I have, and I keep forgetting to keep up with the downloads.
Currently Watching:
- Bleach
- Naruto Shippuuden
- Noein
- Kyo Kara Maoh
- Planetes
- Desert Punk
- Ghost in the Shell: 2nd Gig
- Eye Shield 21
Plot Summary: Sho Fukamachi, a normal teenager accidentally found an alien object called Unit and thus, changed his life forever. The Unit bonded with Sho, resulting a powerful fighting lifeform called Guyver. With this great power, Sho battled the mysterious Chronos and it’s Zoanoids, in order to protect his friends and his world. Unknown to Sho, the battle against Chronos will lead to the discovery of the origins of human, their destiny, and the Creators….
This was the first anime that I watched and I knew it was Japanese Animation, I was watching it subbed since back then they didn’t have dubbed anime and I loved it very much. I enjoy the music of the anime would get my blood pumping but I was so sad for it to end at only 12 episodes, and so more then a decade later they decided to make the TV anime of the old series, I was extact and extremely looking forward to it. I was curious as to how they were going to change the story or what they were going to follow. Sho starts off in the same enviroment next to Mount Minakami, and with Tetsuro they discover the G-Unit. Things follow along in the beginning with about the same pace but things pick up quickly, the whole thing gets your blood pumping and you can tell your getting a larger chunk of the story at this point which get me more intrigued. The music for the anime is great, and the animation itself is very well done with a mix of new and keeping with the old style, I really liked it. The story was puling me in deeper and deeper since this time they are providing you with more and more information. I really enjoyed that. The ending of this anime was just as good as the original leaving you wanting more.
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I have had a bit of rough week at work but I know it isn’t done yet. I wanted to do one thing which is watch Ghost in the Shell: SAC 2nd GIG with my two friends since we have been postponing it a bit and the story is nothing short of amazing.
After work I was helping out with my cousin get a projector for her home since my cousin wants something for movies but nothing too insane so I knew what my cousins’ needs were and we went to ETC to check out what they had and we came to a decision what worked best for now and the guys at ETC were really good and had all the projects setup to demo the movies.
Then I went home and I was busy checking out all the maintenance work that has been going on in the house over the past three weeks, I dont think I knew this many kinds of paint, paste, cement, and all the different maintenance things going on in the house. I want to make sure I take care of this since I’m currently alone in the house and they won’t bother anyone in the house.
After that my friends came around 6:30pm and we watched anime for about 4 hours straight and we even had some KFC which was just what was need to keep on watching. This anime is nothing short of amazing and the story keeps you pulled in, I would doze off a bit because I was tired but they would beat me with the remote if necessary to keep me up to watch! I was tired but I really wanted to watch and I was happy as hell I did watch it. I drove them nuts though I stopped playing the series just as one episode ended at a peak we have been waiting to get to! Now they are going to drive me nuts to watch the next couple of episodes, so hopefully sooner rather then later.
Plot Summary: Five years ago, while battling an alien force known as the “Mimesis,” Dannar pilot Goh Saruwatari first met Anna Aoi. Today, on the day of their wedding, the ceremony is interrupted when the Mimesis strike again. As Goh struggles in his battle against the alien threat, Anna stumbles upon a top secret robot known as the “Neo-Okusaer” and uses it as a last-resort to save her fiancee. At that moment, Dannar and Neo-Okusaer merge to become the mighty robot “Godannar.”
This is a different kind of Mecha anime since there are multiple machines which are powerful but it is also the pilots who make the machines powerful. Goh is the main pilot of the Danner and Anna becomes the pilot of the Neo Okusaer. This anime operates on a few different levels and it has its sexual comedic side but there are some complex story lines to follow from the past that happened and what is going on. On top of that all the male pilots have to battle these monsters they are risking the possibility of being taken over by a virus that they contracted from being exposed to these monsters. You keep seeing the story developing and in the beginning it seems to be just comedic but it has this story beneath the lines which develops as you watch. The sexual comedy is hilarious though and it seems they can’t get enough of the women in this anime. So a nice story line with a good amount of comedy, its an entertaining watch if you like Mecha and slightly perverted comedy! I was happy I watched it since I saw a couple of episodes a while back and I just had to finish it.
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Baki Hanma is a young fighter who yearns to follow in the footsteps of his father, Yujiro, and become the strongest fighter in the world. Thru that he trains tirelessly and fights constantly to hone his skills and develop his body to achieve these goals. Many intense battles lay ahead of Baki as he goes about his quest to be the best and ultimately take the title of “King” from his father.Hanma Baki, son of the strongest grappler in the world, is trying to claim his father’s throne. To do so he has to fight many; making lots of friends and enemies in the process.
I have been watching Baki the Grappler over the past year! It is one hell of an anime! When I started it off I had about 4 DVDs and I thought it would probably end around DVD 6 but I was very wrong about that. This anime is a full throttle no joke fighting anime with so many fighters who just want to put everything on the line for the last taste of glory. It is insane, you get really caught up with this anime. You follow Baki Hanma through his development from a grappler to becoming one of the most powerful grapplers on the planet, just so he could beat his father Yujiro Hanma. Yujiro is known to be the unstoppable monster and through out the whole series nobody is able to beat him and most everyone is killed or extremely injured after fighting him.
This is one hell of anime when you follow all these fighters who have dedicated their lives to perfect their style of fighting in one way or another. And following Baki through all his trials and the bond that he forms with these men that he fights until one of them falls. This is one amazing anime, the animation itself is good, but it could have been better, for a little bit it isn’t consistent, but the storyline and you get pulled into the whole atmosphere of the fighters. You hate some of them, you respect some of them, and you love some of them. That is how good this anime is, it pulls you into it. I recommend this anime to anyone who likes fighting anime with a really good story!
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When I saw the picture of this Gundam I thought it was really cool and I hope I could find a silver version of it somewhere. Then I read the details after looking at the picture! This costs $250’000 completely made out of Platinum! Seriously Bandai is nuts, but I’m loving it!
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