Animoe.net reviews

The melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya

2008-03-14T11:15:00.000-07:00

Kyon is an ordinary freshman high school student who has recently given up his fantasies of espers, time travelers, and aliens as he left middle school. All that changed one day when Haruhi Suzumiya, a young and very active girl, introduces herself to the entire class saying: "I have no interest in ordinary humans. If there are any aliens, beings from the future, or people with supernatural powers, come see me. That is all!"

Kyon, who sits right in front of Haruhi, has drawn his attention to this strange introduction and gradually begins to interact with Haruhi, setting off a chain of events which drag him into surreal situations.

Although Haruhi is perfectly good in everything she propose, She joins and quits every club in the school, finding only dissatisfaction, until Kyon makes a snide remark about her actions and accidentally provides Haruhi the enough inspiration to create a club of her own, which will be called called: The brigade S.O.S., a club dedicated to finding just aliens, time travelers and spers.

To help start the club, Haruhi forcefully drafts Kyon, who only stays in the club to protect other helpless victims of Haruhi's "voluntary arrests".

Thus, the first of these new members is Yuki Nagato, a silent bibliophile who usually wants to simply be left alone to read; Mikuru Asahina, a shy and timid student, who is one year above Haruhi and Itsuki Koizumi, who is almost always smiling and more than willing to give in to Haruhi's strange demands.

Except for Kyon, the members of the club are secret agents of various organizations who are sent to observe Haruhi. This way, Yuki is in fact a "human interface" (an alien), Mikuru is actually a time traveler and Koizumi turns out to be one of many espers in an organization known as the Agency.

Haruhi unknowingly, is surrounded by precisely the sort of people who have sought to find. Kyon, who perhaps is the least crazy of all, is drawn further into a world eerily like the fantasies he had just managed to outgrow, with Haruhi at its center.

Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuutsu, is an excelent and superb show that i enjoyed a lot. I entire like the way how the story is told from the point of view of Kyon, with his toughts and remarks instead of Haruhi's (the central character of the plot).

I also liked the way how every character relates with Kyon and all the crazy adventures. Yuki and Mikuru are great (animation and drawns) and they make to wish to see more in the show. There's a lot of fans out there devoted to Yuki and Mikuru as well as Haruhi's.

While some fans recommend seeing a specific episode order of the show, I saw it and prefer to see it in the order it was broadcasted, because I think it lets you go slowly discovering the story without making the plot as sequentially. It is rumored a second season of the show.

Fate/Stay Night

2008-03-04T10:02:00.000-08:00

Shirou Emiya is an amateur mechanic who attends school called Homurabara Gakuen in Fuyuki City.

Ten years ago, there was a massive fire hazard that consumed a large portion of the city. shirou was founded agonizing by a man called Kiritsugu Emiya, an enigmatic man who decides to adopt him and as time passes by, he reveals to Shirou his true identity as a Magi.

One night, after cleaning his school's kyūdō dojo, Shirou stumbles upon two beings: Archer and Lancer, battling in the school courtyard. To avoid compromising the war's secrecy, Lancer hunts down and pierces Shirou's heart with a spear. For an unknown reason, Shirou's classmate, Rin Tohsaka, a model student and idol of Shirō's school, uses a pendant to resuscitate him.

Shirou returns home only to be assaulted a second time by Lancer. This time Shirou tries weakly to defend himself but is soon overwhelmed by Lancer. Then Shirou prepares for the worst but suddenly a young and beautiful woman with an armor outfit shows up blocking Lancer's attack. She introduces herself as Saber, asking to Shirou if he is her Master.

Soon Shirou discovers that Fuyuki City is the setting for a secret and violent war among competing magi. For the past two centuries, seven sorcerers have gathered and engage in a Battle Royale, each gambling his or her own life to obtain the Holy Grail, a legendary chalice capable of granting wishes. The past four Holy Grail Wars have typically occurred every sixty years, with the most recent concluding a decade ago, but the fifth war has eerily started prematurely.

Each of the sorcerers, better known as Masters, is aided by one of the seven summoned spiritual familiars known as Servants, who are the reincarnations of legendary souls from all across time. This way, Servant and Master must fight together against other teams to obtain the Holy Grail.

So Shirou began its involvement in the War of the Holy Grail with the motivation to fight only to avoid a catastrophe such as fire occurred ten years ago and under the ideal to avoid spilling blood and save the entire world, including his own servant Saber.

Due to Shirou has very few skills as Mage, he joins with Rin to find the other Masters and at the same time She helps Shirou to develop his skills as Master. Saber, who feels a little frustrated by Shirou's "protective" tendencies, accepts Shirou principles only if he invokes her and let her fight when Shirou is definitely at risk.

Mai HiME

2007-10-10T06:34:00.000-07:00

Tokiha Mai is a student girl of preparatory who along with her smaller brother Takumi, obtained a scholarship to study in the prestigious Fuuka Academy. While they enjoyed the trip in ferry towards their new school, they sighted a young girl, Mikoto Minagi, that was floating in the sea holding a great black sword.

During the rescue, Mai offered herself as voluntary to apply CPR and she notices a small identical mark in the body of the unconscious girl. Later and due to the rescue, Mai and its brother meet Yuuichi Tate and Shiho Munakata, also two very particular students who attend the same Academy.

In the night, Mai is attacked by Natsuki Kuga, a young girl of 17 years old who wishes to avoid a meeting of HiMEs in the Fuuka Academy. The HiME are women who have the ability to materialize objects, including arms, (HiME means - Highly advanced Materializing Equipment) and the hability to invoke a protective being called “Child” and to fight against mysterious creatures from another dimension called “Orphans”.

Mai soon discovers that she is also a HiME and the secret that locks up the Fuuka Academy and its mysterious principal. But there is something more for the HiMEs in the Fuuka Academy. Something mysterious not only related to the Sears foundation, but also with the red star nearby in the moon and the most beloved person for each one of the HiMEs.

Mai HiME is a excelent anime serie with a good mix of romance, comedy, drama and love triangles between almost all the characters. The design of the characters is good and all acquire importance in the series.

Something amused that I like was the funny relationship between Mai and Mikoto, since Mikoto was attracted to Mai not only by her cuisine, but by her well formed chest.

Eureka Seven

2007-02-27T15:25:00.000-08:00

On a desolate world where mysterious Transparence Light Particles, called "Trapar" for short, whip through the air and much of the land is hidden under masses of a coral-like substance known as scub, a completely ordinary teenage boy who hates school, hates his life, and has aspirations of being a professional lifter one day dreams of leaving his beloved town Belforest to travel the world and surf the skies.

Renton Thurston is this fourteen-year-old son of Adrock Thurston. Who lives with his grandfather, attends to school as a normal kid and is a profesional LFO mechanic. One day he meets by accident a very lovely young girl named Eureka after she crashes her LFO into Renton's bedroom looking for a very important component of the Compact Drive: The Amita Drive, the key to awake the powers of the original LFO: The Nirvash typeZero.

Eureka is more than an expert LFO pilot. She understands machines better than does human beings and she very rarely expresses strong emotions. She used to be part of a military special forces unit but now she is a member of the
Gekkostate, a countercultural revolutionary group leaded by the legendary lifter Holland, a 29 year old man, who likes to run around in his underwear sometimes inside the Gekko-Go.

The Gekkostate is also formed by Talho, the head pilot of Gekkostate's ship, the Gekko-Go, Stoner, a photogrpher, Matthieu, another LFO pilot, Hap, Jobs, Woz, Gidget, Moondogie, Hilda and many other interesting characters. Renton then becomes part of the GekkoState.

Eureka Seven its a very cool and original anime serie that involves mechas with air surfing. It gets some ideas from Evangelion but without cloning it or doing a copy because of a lack of ideas. It's an awesome anime. I like Renton and Eureka feelings and emotions. Renton has a lot of determination. I also like Holland's attitud. I like the whole series, it is so good.

Magical Canan

2007-01-17T08:44:00.000-08:00

Hiiragi Chihaya is an institute student that in her free time works in the Angel Kiss restaurant, property of her mother. One day and without waiting for it, while she was with her best friends Sayaka and Miyuri of the institute, She finds a peculiar mulberry animal that suddenly selects her to become a magical warrior and thus protect the world of the humans of the threat of the seeds of evil.

This way Chihaya meets Natsuki, an "agent" from a distant place called "Evergreen" sent to the Earth as soon as an unknown being robbed the seeds. Natsuki describes to Chihaya the power that has the seeds seeded on human desires and convinces her in helping him to purify the infected humans and to return the seeds to his place of origin.

Thus, Chihaya is transformed into the magical warrior Carmein, a girl much more physically developed that the same Chihaya. Complications arise while Carmein faces monsters, the presence of Cerulean Blue, another magical warrior with a little obnoxious attitude and the mysterious transfer student, Kojima Emi.

Magical Canan is a very peculiar anime series of the type Maho Shojo (magical girls). I was surprised the resemble of Chihaya-chan with Sakura from Card Captors (almost same age, height, hair style, etc) and I like the character seiyu (voice).

Amazing Nurse Nanako

2007-01-02T10:59:00.000-08:00

Nanako Shichigusa is the untiring and surprising assistant of the Ogami hospital in charge of the cooking, cleaning and helping as a nurse in the Dr. Ogami Kyoji experiments - a recognized scientist and bioengineer.

With only 16 years, a spectacular force (and personality also), Nanako is in charge of all her duties while she handles with two martial arts masters, an old witch and other personnel of the hospital and everything without neglecting its training or duties with Dr Ogami.

It looks very odd, but Nanako is always the target in a series of surprise attacks whatever inside or outside the hospital (that is in the inner fields of a military base) and usually she is forced to make actions that do not pretend to have much logic itself but with a great effect.

In advances of the series, we see as Nanako is the third clone of a series of clones of the Original Nanako who died of a strange disease and each clone at the age of 20 years dies of the same disease. The Dr Ogami has promised to find the cure of “Nanako illness” to the second clone (before she died) when he was very young.

Amazing Nurse Nanako is a OVA or rather a quite original miniseries of 6 episodes (Save Our Nurse Project). I like very much the design. the personality and the clothes of Nanako (in special the fanservice). A loose point at the beginning was the Japanese voice of Nanako although that heightens the character in the end i think that was a good election.

Rozen Maiden

2006-11-03T06:42:00.000-08:00

Sakurada Jun was a student who pleases to make compulsive and excesive purchases by Internet of strange and sometimes damn and cursed objects. He does not attend the school and stays all the day locked up in his bedroom. His sister Nori, always tries to help him in everything she can but she is a little worry about Jun.

One day, Jun received a package that he didnt requested and for his surprise in its interior were a sophisticated old fashioned doll that it seemed so real as if she was alive. After a while the doll presents herself as “Shinku” and tells to Jun that if he does not wish to die must promise her obedience and become her servant and Medium to protect her Rosa Mystica.

After this incident, Jun realizes that Shinku is only the 5th of the Rozen Maidens, dolls destined to the “Alice Game”, a game where the loser is transformed into an ordinary doll. As time pass by will be appearing more dolls in Jun's bedroom like Hinaichigo, a doll with an infantile temperament, Suiseiseki, the timid and afraid gardener, Souseiseki, brother of Suiseiseki and Suigintou, the main enemy of Shinku who wishes a lot to win the Alice Game.

Rozen Maiden is an excellent anime series that I liked a lot. The design of all the Rozen Maiden are fabulous. Every dolls has a special style and personality which i liked it. For example, Shinku seems a perfect red rose of grace. The voices of each character fit perfectly.

Links:
www.tbs.co.jp/rozen-maiden/

Usagi chan de Cue - OVA

2006-10-27T10:34:00.000-07:00

Haru Matogi is a student and a "lover" of the animals. His dream is to become a veterinarian who can understand the language of the animals. His life passes between the studies and the time that he dedicates to take care of rabbits and mascots (pets) of the school.

Everything begins when Inaba Mikami, a Haru's schoolmate, fights against Chou Benten in the school backyard. During this fight, Inaba accidentally broke the rabbit's cage. Misteriously, Inaba in her effort to protect the animals, fusions with Mimika, the special rabbit taked care and beloved by Haru.

Now and for an extrange reason, Inaba and Mimika are the same person with funny rabbit ears and nobody seems to notice the exchange but Miku, Haru's friend who is in love of him since they were children. Haru decides to take special care of Mimika and at the same time discover the mistery among fused beings to help Inaba's special condition.

Usagi chan de Cue its a 3 episodes OVA with some good fanservice in it, The story seems good and i think it could fit as a review movie instead as an OVA, but anyway i like it a lot, probably because of the PANTSU PANTSU!!!!

Labyrinth of Flames - OVA

2006-10-03T13:32:00.000-07:00

From the Director, Katsushiko Nishijima, Labyrinth of Flames, its about a guy named Garan, who has a special adoration to become a ninja and all stuff related and Natsu-sama, the daughter who wants Garan as her husband without the proper permission of her father, a respected landowner.

In all the story spins, Natsu has the idea to gave Garan a little short sword (little katana) as a present, but this sword means the husband who will "eventually" marry Natsu. But Natsu is fiance of Datenoshin, a handsome and good looking guy, almost member of the family and very beloved - specially by Kasumi, Natsu's servant, who has anemia atacks almost all the time, but she sacrifies her life (and health) to satisfy her master.

Labyrinth of flames (En no Labyrinth in japanese) is a 2 episodes OVA, very funny with some fanservice (which by the way its good for the anime) with a good designing. I really like Garan's and Natsu's attitud. He is so commited in becoming a ninja, and she is so in love with him. And Kasumi's loyalty and health was a surprise for me.

Sky Girls - OVA

2006-09-11T07:28:00.000-07:00

In the future (Year 2080), some mechanical killing cells called WORMS appears in the Earth with the objective of destroy all living things. This causes that the united Earth Forces use nuclear technology managing the objective to destroy to this aggressor forces.

Although the Worms were eliminated, years later reappear and the Earth not yet has recovered to lose near 90% of the population in age to be in the army forces.

A special unit of attack is created, conformed by 3 brave and beautiful young girls denominated “Sonic Divers”. The group its integrated by the sergeant first, Ichijo Eika, of good reflections and is the leader of the group, sergeant Sonomiya Karen, expert in mechanics and with a superior coefficient of 170 and sergeant Sakurano Otoha, whose abilities still are not known and until questioned but she is very capable with his sword.

Sky Girls its a really cool OVA. Of the 3 sonic Divers, the one that I like most is Otoha, since she is much more adolescent and special than the others. Karen is likeable and she looks always thinking in obtaining a compatibility with the boys and Eika is much more mature and responsible than the others. This OVA has much potential, we hope to already see it in a series if they improve a little bit the plot and fighting scenes.

Hanaukyo Maid Tai

2006-05-11T08:23:00.000-07:00

Hanaukyo Taro is a Junior High School student who has gone in a search for his grandfather. However, in his quest and upon arrival to a wide and beautiful area with majestic gardens, he finds out that he's been left the entire Hanaukyo fortune (which is huge), the enormous estate and mansion, and a very large team of maids.

The maids have been told to do whatever it takes to make him happy, and that means anything to please him. But there's one little problem, Taro is allergic to girls contact.

Mariel is part of the more-than-one-hundred-maids in the mansion. She is the main maid who cares for Taro-Sama and the only character where Taro isn't allergic. Taro also has three personal maids, all looking identical except for colour of outfits and voices. They are Ichigo, Ringo and Sango.

There are a few other maids, like Ikuyo the mechanical stuff genius, Cynthia the very cute little girl who doesn't talk, and then there's Konoe. maid chief charge of security (She's a samurai maid).

Hanaukyo Maid Tai is a very short serie (just 12 eps, 5 mins each) where the comedy, romance and ecchi are the three ingredients. I really like the fun eps and the comic situations with Taro and the maids crew.

Big Update.

2006-04-25T13:35:00.000-07:00

I recently just did a big update to the FARIA A.E. site. I added a Love Hina gallery and an Iketeru Futari Gallery. This is a major update for this year, speccially this month (april). The next update will be in June - July celebrating the SIXTH anniversary of the site.

So check it out! keep sending emails with suggestions and comments.

Mahoromatic

2006-04-17T10:38:00.000-07:00

Earth is waging a war against an alien intelligence called SAINT. Mahoro is the best fighting android of Vesper, the secret Earth organization opposing SAINT. Having expended most of her life energy fighting for Vesper she is rewarded with the right to spend the remaining time she has in any way she chooses.

This way, Mahoro chooses to become a maid working for Misato Suguru, a jr-high-schooler and son of Capt. Misato of Vesper, (Who has died with his mother because the war).

Suguru leads a fairly ordinary life going to a fairly ordinary school with fairly ordinary friends and one incredibly out-of-the ordinary schoolteacher, the sleazy and provocative Shikijou-sensei.

And now Suguru's life will become more agitated and vivid with the comic situations of Mahoro and the ecchi humor resulting.

Mahoromatic is very cool and funny. In two seasons it has a lot of fan service which i really like because is very quick and clean. Also the relationship and sense of service of Mahoro is unique and special.

Links:
http://www.mahoro-matic.com/ Official Site

Hack Sign

2006-03-24T10:16:00.000-08:00

An online Network Game (MMORPG) called 'The World' its gaining great popularity. In this game all the characters can interact with each other, do whatever they want and adopt any player.

This is the story of Tsukasa, a young wizard type player who realyzes his disability to logout or disconnect from the game. Also, He doesnt know how much time has passed since and he cant remember his real identity.

While doing so, The Scarlet Knights, system moderators, suspect that he has been working with hackers. Tsukasa finds a magical item, that grants him the power and administrator permissions around the game.

Other players like Mimiru, a fighter with a sword, Bear, another fighter and BT are trying to help Tsukasa. They all are in a intensive search of a particular object from de game: The twilight key, a special and misterious object.

Hack Sign has 26 episodes with a very interesting plot: Internet games. I like Tsukasa's feelings towards Subaru. I really enjoyed watching the serie.

Links:
http://www.dothack.com/index2.html

Gunslinger Girl

2006-03-21T10:22:00.000-08:00

A so called non-profit welfare organization its training young girls as professional assassins. This girls dont have any relatives or any place to go and they have mechanical bodies and dont hesitate to kill at all.

In this way the storyline its in Italy and Henrietta, Triela, Rico and Claes are always in the eyes of her fratellos or trainers but as the story goes they become closer friends.

Usually you would think this girls are too serious but they are very compromised with a job where the plan B its not to kill a suspect.

I really like the serie, specially the scenes where Henrietta shows up. I think she is very cute and probably the most sensitive of all the gunslinger girls. She have a very special relationship with Jose-san.

links:
http://www.fujitv.co.jp/b_hp/gsgirl/
http://www.gunslingergirl.com

It's Alive!!!

2006-03-08T13:37:00.000-08:00

After 2 weeks of testing my computer i think finally it's working normally again (done!! :D). You can keep record in the new blog My so called Anime!!! and i will keep this one just for anime reviews.

^_^

Crack Down!!

2006-02-21T07:22:00.000-08:00

aarrrgggghhhh!!!! My computer went down!! I dont know what the h**l hapenned but now i got a lot of trouble with it... i think its the hard disk

just when i was about to start posting again!!!

Ohayo!!

2006-02-17T11:56:00.000-08:00

Good morning!! I want to apologyze because i was a little "off" with my blog. Christmas, new years and my job were in my way and now my studies in college. But i will retake my blog posts very soon.

Now i am thinking in a new concept in my anime blog. I will keep doing reviews and posting anime news, but now i will post thoughts with anime pics also.

The Spanish blog will be the same, so dont worry.

see ya!!

Anime meets Ipod

2006-01-19T05:35:00.000-08:00

And so do I. For new years eve i bought a 4GB White Ipod Nano and its awesome!!! I have a lots of Anime OST's in my iTunes library and its very cool to listen it in my ipod.

Unfortunately i cant watch any videos in my ipod but in here you can download some anime trailers for your Ipod Video:

http://www.centralparkmedia.com/ipod/

Evangelion 10th Anniversary

2005-11-28T08:37:00.000-08:00

Gainax is celebrating the Neon Genesis Evangelion 10th Anniversary with the Project:Angel-XX, a cool re-design of 3 Angels: Sachiel, Zeruel and Tabris, now in anime figures.

(right click to download files)
lilith_xx
sachiel-xx
tabris-xx
zeruel-xx

For more info check it out at:
http://www.gainax.co.jp/goods/angel_xx/index.html

Hand Maid May

2005-10-31T14:10:00.000-08:00

Kazuya Saotome (a nice guy), is an electrical engineering student at a local college. His hobbies are programming, building robot squid, and blushing madly every time his landlady's daughter slips through his room's window to talk to him.

He also has a rival, a bizarre hyperactive mental case named Nanbara who's richer, smarter, better looking, and much more clever than Kazuya... at least, according to Nanbara. One day, the jealous Nanbara's plot for revenge results in Kazuya getting a package from Cyberdyne Corporation.

Kazuya takes delivery of May, a pint-sized "cyberdoll" with a French maid's outfit (very cool), a desire to please, and a recharge port in a very intimate place. For his part, Kazuya has to contend with keeping May a secret from the public at large, making her feel wanted and useful.

Hand Maid May is a sweet-and-funny type of anime, and not the hentai type you would expect. Every episode (a total of 11) its very comic and awesome. In adition, the animation in this series is bright and cheerful and the characters are very cute and friendly.

Golden Boy

2005-10-12T13:15:00.000-07:00

Kintaro Oe is a young -25 years old- boy, who travels the world on his trusty bicycle to learn new things. Kintaro makes it a point to try out different jobs and (why not) meet lots of beautiful ladies at the same time...

Kintaro usually writes and sketches everything he picks up in his notebook, which is his most precious possession. While Kintaro may strike one as a bit of a pervert, he's actually not a bad person. He's perpetually attracted to sexy and beautiful women... but Who doesn't...

Golden Boy was created by Tatsuya Egawa and consists in 6 episodes where each one can stand on their own. The art and animation are very good. Its very funny and comic.

Chobits

2005-10-05T11:12:00.000-07:00

Motosuwa Hideki, is a 18 year old guy from the province of Hokkaido who goes to Tokyo to study for his entrance exams. At this time, people connect to the internet through robots called Persocons, who look just like women except with different ears.

Motosuwa really wants one, but unfortunately doesn’t have enough money to buy one. One night, as he is walking home, he finds one lying in a trash pile and decides to take her home. He has no knowledge of computers or persocons, and tries desperately to switch the persocon on .

As it turns out, the Persocon he found is special, and may actually be one of the legendary Chobits, specially made persocons that have free will. He names her Chii because that is the only word she can say. Hideki has to teach Chii everything from speaking, to taking a bath and eventually..LOVE.

I really like Chobits, its very comic and hilarious with adorable persocons and people. With only 27 episodes but it is very fun to watch and it was made by CLAMP. Chii and Hideki are the perfect couple. He is very funny, clueless and a little dumb (and a little perverted) and Chii is very beautiful, cute, inocent and funny.

Anime Wallscrolls

2005-08-30T08:41:00.000-07:00

I have two original anime wallscrolls from Cardcaptor Sakura produced for the US market (but made in Taiwan). I like them very much, specially because I like Sakura and i like the designs.

Their size are 31 inch wide x 43 inch long (82 cm x 110 cm) , made from fabric hung on plastic rods. Actually, they are in my bedroom, but sometimes i change their place in my home. Im plannig to buy another wallscroll but im not sure when or what anime serie would i be interested, probably Chobits or i dont know.

Ukiyo-e

2005-08-18T06:56:00.000-07:00

The art of ukiyo-e ("pictures of the floating world"), originated in the metropolitan culture of Edo (Tokyo) during the period of Japanese history, when the political and military power was in the hands of the shoguns, and the country was virtually isolated from the rest of the world.

It is an art closely connected with the pleasures of theatres, restaurants, teahouses, geisha and courtesans in the even then very large city. Many ukiyo-e prints by artists like Utamaro and Sharaku were in fact posters, advertising theatre performances and brothels, or idol portraits of popular actors and beautiful teahouse girls. But this more or less sophisticated world of urban pleasures was also animated by the traditional Japanese love of nature, and ukiyo-e artists like Hokusai and Hiroshige have had an enormous impact on landscape painting all over the world.

http://user.bahnhof.se/~secutor/ukiyo-e/

Cowboy Bebop

2005-08-03T15:58:00.000-07:00

The Year is 2071 and humanity has developed an interplanetary society. Swift travel is possible by a network of phase differential gates. In 2022, during the tests of the gates, a terrible accident affected the earth orbit and humans had to evacuate mostly to mars.

Spike Spiegel, a bounty hunter from mars and his teammate Jet Black an ex-ISSP (Inter Solar System Police) detective pursue the outlaws and crime families who strive to make a dishonest buck.

These so called "cowboys" of the good ship bebop aren't complete without Faye Valentine, a young woman who is obsessed with money and has a gambling problem, Ed a genius girl hacker and Ein a normal male Welsh corgi with human intelligence.

The bebop crew can take on drug dealers, hackers and terrorist organizations for just a few wooloongs to survive.

Cowboy Bebop - The TV Series - directed by Watanabe Sunichiro presents 26 episodes or "sessions" where in each one you can see a bounty over some criminal. I really like Cowboy Bebop, specially the fight scenes where you can watch the fighting technique of Spike.

Serial Experiments Lain

2005-07-21T14:30:00.000-07:00

"Present day....Present Time"

All begins with the mysterious suicide of a high-school girl, Chisa Yomoda. Chisa-chan was a classmate of Lain Iwakura, a quiet and introverted, 14-year-old high-school girl. One of the other girls in the class has been receiving e-mail messages from Chisa-chan, and Lain discovers she also has mail from Chisa-chan. In the mail she explains to Lain that she just abandoned her flesh. She assures lain that she still is alive in the 'wired' world.

After getting a new computer (called Navi) and adding a 'psyche' circuit, Lain spends more and more time in the wired. It seems that Lain has at least 2 personalities, and Lain's first personality is changing even now. Who is lain? Who are the 'knights'? Can the wired influence the real world with a prophecy? Is the real world nothing but a hologram of the information in the wired?

Serial Experiments Lain its a scifi-drama anime of 13 episodes with a great animation style and a fantastic soundtrack intro featuring the japanese group "BoA". My favorite character is Lain, specially when she dresses with her bear outfit ^_^.

Last Exile

2005-07-12T13:27:00.000-07:00

"What Do You See in the Sky?" Alex Rowe.

On the world of Prester, a massive storm called the Grand Stream separates the two countries of Anatoray and Disith. War rages between the two nations, but with nearly all technology controlled by a mysterious group known only as The Guild, engagments are constrained by rules laid out by that organization.

In the Anatorian city of Nokia, Claus Valca and Lavie Head are vanship pilots who run a courier buisness with a near 100% success rate. Folowing in their fathers' footsteps, this daring pair hopes to place their names among the highest ranks of vanship pilots. Their ultimate goal is to be the first team to cross the Grand Stream in a single vanship, completing the task their fathers perished in years before.

Then one day, after an unfortunate encounter with a crippled vanship fleeing from a strange ship, Claus and Lavie are asked to deliver a young girl by the name of Alvis to the Battleship Silvana. Will this new mission help them move toward their dream, or cause the duo to drift apart?

Last Exile its the masterpiece of Gonzo Productions, celebrating their 10th anniversary. The CG in Last Exile are breathtaking and well done also the original sound track. I really like this serie, specially Claus and Lavie. The design of the vanships and the Silvana its very amazing and incredible.

Links:
http://www.lastexiledvd.com Official Sitefrom Pionneer.
http://www.jvcmusic.co.jp/m-serve/last-exile/ Official Japanese Site.

5th Anniversary Faria A.E.

2005-06-21T14:42:00.000-07:00

It all began in july five years ago. it was then the year 2000 when Faria After Earth born in the world wide web.

My first site (formerly the version 1.0) was made in a Mac with the Nestcape as HTML editor and it was hosted in the angelfire.com dominion. Later i moved up to more sophisticated tools using Dreamweaver v3.0 (about 1 year later).

With some technical difficulties with my host i decided to move my site to topcities.com and i stayed in there since then. Im still using Dreamweaver to edit my html pages but the latest version.

The layout and design of the site had changed a lot. The first version was quite simple but catchy. i liked it a lot and back then it had few galleries. Unfortunately my HD went down and i lost all the data related with the site.

The second version it was more prefessional. You can found it and still view it in http://fariaae.topcities.com but i decided not to update this version anymore to focus in the third version. You can see how the blue color was a dominant color since the begining (because i like blue and green).

The third version came with a lot of new features: Full images, downloads, skins, more galleries, wallpapers and more, even a special hentai section (for adults only) at http://fariaae.cjb.net.

5,000 hits during this five years and still counting. Five years in a row. And there will be more FARIA After Earth to come in the next years.

Nurse Witch Komugi-Chan

2005-06-08T08:00:00.000-07:00

Ungrar, the King of Viruses, has escaped from his prison cell in Vaccine World. Maya, the Goddess of Vaccine World sends Mugimaru down to Earth to find a human to accept the powers of Vaccine World and become the Magical Nurse. He finds the best (and the only willing) person for the job when he meets Komugi Nakahara a high school student with 17 years old.

Komugi is a playful, lazy, and easily distracted teenager whose dream is to become a cosplay idol. She tries really hard to be on time and do a good job, but things always seem to mess up.

This anime serie has 5 episodes of 25 mins each. I really like Komugi design, she looks very cool and cute with her pink hair and flat chest (i think thats the way i like anime girls >_<).

Links:
http://www.advfilms.com/titles/komugi/index.html

Air

2005-06-04T09:00:00.000-07:00

"Exists in the sky a girl of white wings like the snow that flies sad and tapeworm awaiting being rescued by those who love her."

Kunisaki Yukito is a traveller, ever seeking the 'girl in the sky' from a legend passed down in his family. His journey takes him to a small seaside town, where he meets Kamio Misuzu, a girl who seems eager to become his friend.

Misuzu is a school girl with a cool outfit attending the school in the town where the story takes place. Lives with her mother Haruko in an isolated house. She is so kawaii, always smiling, lively and always strong.

AIR TV its based in the bishoujo PC game released in Japan in the year 2000, following on the success of Kanon. It has 12 episodes with one final selection episode.

Links:
http://www.bs-i.co.jp/anime/AIR/

Mahoraba - Heartful Days

2005-05-31T11:00:00.000-07:00

Shiratori Ryuji wants to become a picture book writer, and he moves to an apartment, Narutaki-Sou, in order to go to an art school in Tokyo. Narutaki-sou is an old Japanese style one-story house which doesn't fit in urban scenery. It is owned by the cousin of his mother, and the manager of the apartment is Aoba Kozue. She is his second cousin, and they met with each other when they were children although he doesn't remember her much. She is in the second grade of a high school attached to Aoba Junior Collage.

There are five people living in Narutaki-Sou. First, Chanohata Kotomi is living in the room #1. She is a best friend of Kozue. Then, the resident of the room #3 is Momono Megumi. She is a kind of person who goes her own way. In the room #5, Kurosaki Sayoko and her daughter Asami are living. Asami is in the first grade of a junior high. Finally, in the room #6, Haibara Yukio is living with his kind of a dog puppet.

They are all characteristic and eccentric persons. However, in fact, the most eccentric person is Kozue. She has a secret; when she is shocked at something, she changes her personality. Not knowing this, Takashi moves to Narutaki-Sou to realize his dream.

This anime reminds me a little of Love Hina and i really likes Kozue's personality, she is so cute and kawaii. Mahoraba -Heartful Days its very comic and its very recent (2005) in Japan. I dont know exactly how many episodes will be but it looks very awesome!!

Here are some cool links:
http://www.mahoraba.info
http://www.mahoraba.net

Full Metal Alchemist

2005-05-26T16:00:00.000-07:00

"Humankind cannot gain anything without first giving something in return. To obtain, something of equal value must be lost. That is alchemy's first law of equivalent exchange. In those days, we really believed that to be the world's one and only truth."

(Alphonse Elric, Fullmetal Alchemist intro)

In this world, there exist people with special abilities to manipulate objects and transform those objects into other objects. These people are known as alchemist. However, this manipulation process does not come without cost, as the basic alchemy rules stated that something with equivalent cost is needed to perform the manipulation.

The main character is a famous alchemist named Edward Elric, who loses his little brother Alphonse in an accident. Edward manages to contain his brother's soul in a large piece of armor suit. However, merging the soul and body of the dearly departed comes with great cost, so the two brothers must embark on a journey to find a mysterious power amplifier which can reduce the cost to manipulate objects greatly.

This anime serie has 51 total episodes and it was published in 2003 by the Bones Studio. It has Action, Comedy, Adventure and of course Magic.

Some good sites:
http://www.fullmetalalchemist.com Official site
http://www.fullmetal-alchemist.com

Elfen Lied

2005-05-12T10:00:00.000-07:00

Lucy, a beautiful young mutant, is bred by the government to be the ultimate weapon. Armed with unfathomable powers, she escapes her handlers, but loses her memory in the process.

Fortunately, our young waif is taken in by two well-meaning students. Now, with government killers on her trail, the disposition of a five year old, and a hair trigger for ultra-violence, Lucy and her young friends must unravel the dark secret of her legacy before it’s too late.

Critics have described Elfen Lied as “weird,” (Anime Planet), “surprisingly sadistic,” (Gamerz Edge), and “addictive” (Animesou).

This seems to be an awesome anime title. "A must see..." should i say. ^_^

Evangelion - NERV Bag

2005-05-09T08:00:00.000-07:00

Well, i did it!! i bought the evangelion nerv bag at japanimation.com and its awesome. The bag its very cool. It has eleven pockets and two sided mesh pockets. Its black with the nerv logo centered in the flap of the bag.

I received my nerv bag via Priority Mail by USPS in two weeks. You can see the package and the invoice attached.

Also I bought two Card Captor Sakura Keychains (Syaoran Li and Sakura in blades) and a wallet with the nerv logo embroidered very cool with a lot of tiny pockets.

Here are the pictures (right click to download).

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You can Buy all your anime items at japanimation.com

Anime Blood Types

2005-04-27T06:46:00.000-07:00

In Anime, the blood type of a specific character influences their personality and how they will handle themselves and situations.

Blood Type A
Characters who have a blood type of A are calm and studious. They are usually well disciplined and serious. Further, they have difficulty expressing emotion.

Blood Type B
Those with a blood type of B are exuberant and cheerful. They work hard and actively on life and it's endeavors, but never focus too heavily on one certain thing.

Blood Type O
Individuals with a blood type of O are very peaceful but have contradictory feelings and attitudes. They are strong willed, but open to others opinions and feelings.

Blood Type AB
Someone with a blood type of AB are delicate and considering towards others. They are, however, very strict and serious towards themselves.

Evangelion live action Movie

2005-04-22T08:29:00.000-07:00

The evangelion live action movie is a current project under development. Weta Workshop has been designing a live-action adaptation of Neon Genesis: Evangelion. The film is on hold but it is Weta’s hope that it will enjoy getting to work on the film production of this amazing story in the near future.

These are some pictures from Weta Workshop's oficial web site http://www.wetaworkshop.co.nz/projects/filmography/film/neon_genesis

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These are just art and desing concepts to implement in the film. As far as I know, the producers haven't choosed the director and the cast for the movie but we'll going to hear more from this live action movie soon.

You can find more info at:
http://eva.trivialbeing.net/index.php

New Blog / Nuevo Blog

2005-04-19T14:08:00.000-07:00

I have started a new blog. In fact my first one. In here i will put some reports, news, images and all stuff related with anime. I hope you like it.

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He iniciado un nuevo blog. De hecho es el primero que hago. Pienso colocar reportes, noticias, imagenes y todo relacionado con el anime. Espero que les guste.