Queens blade season 1, swords, tiny armors and alot of skin.

okay.
I just finished watching first season of queens blade, and I have to say that it didnt match my expectations.
I honestly tought that it was purely only fanservice.. but  it actually had story too.
Reina is princess who wants to become Queen so she can bring justice for her country (or something)
Shes attacked by swamp witch's minion Melona, a thief Risty saves Reina from Melona.
Risty is inprisoned, but she manages to break out from her prison and takes Reina with her on her quest to Queens Blade.

Few more characters are introduced too, but Reinas storyline is imo most interesting.


Good things about Queens Blade:

+ Action scenes are animated well, and they dont leave you cold.

+ Its not only fanservice, okay. clothing will be shred, but its not only that.
Characters have meaning, backstory and personality.

+ Menace. ancient Queen of eghypt.
Shes such a little kid :D she makes me smile with her annoying personality, but eventough her little girlish personality, she can be airheaded.

+ Risty, I like her! shes tomboyish and she does not want any help from others. but if shes been saved, she pays back.

meh things about Queens Blade:

- a little too much fanservice. its tiny, but still big part of the series.
fanservice is taken a little far in this series.
I can enjoy fanservice, but when fanservice is girls trying to massage honey on each other in questionable poses... argh.. its too much...

- Melonas breast bazooka, she shoots her milk and milk explodes... nuff said..


- Menace just cant fight!! Menace is best character in series imo. but she does not have any weapons...
she has stick called Setra.. but she cannot fight or defend herself with it! give her somekind of spear or sword please!

- Cattleya. Shes a blacksmith.. okay.. understandable.. but why does she have too big breast and too tiny costume!!

- Alleyne. She does not get screentime! shes interesting character! why doesnt she get any screentime?!




all in all, Queens Blade with its fanservice was enjoyable show, few characters were left with less screen time, wich was little dissapointing. and some characters were just ridicilous and out of place..

but I liked it, and I'll be looking foward to watch second season soon

highschool of the dead ep 4

what the hell..
I feel little dissapointed right now.
third episode was great, but in fourth it felt like, notthing is happening.
and whats worse. IT WAS FILLED WITH FUCKIN FILLER AND CENSORSHIP!!
i mean come on.. you censor scene where man is groping womans breast..
im alright with somekind of censorship, but does it have to be fugly blue light that just appears out of nowhere?

seriously..
i still have not lost my hope on hotd.. i'll see next episode, hopefully something happens then.

cant wait for dvd version tough

Clannad Aftermath

okay.
this has been very emotional day.
The fact that Clannad ended so well, still amazes me.
I dont remember feeling this satisfied by anime in a while.
But at the same time i feel kind of sad, it feels like i have lost a friend which has walked by my side for a while.
I know that there is always possibility to watch it again. but i dont think it will catch the same emotion i felt today, after i watched last episodes.
Ofcourse im going to watch it again next year, cause there is noway im gonna watch it this year again.
But there is possibility that I watch it again with my friends this year, i'll never know.

I honestly think that there isnt gonna be as great anime series in five years as clannad.
Clannad was well built, writen, animated and delivered anime, that just satisfied many people.
I might even say it was better anime, than any anime Gainax has putten out.
of course thats only my opinion, and I respect everyones opinions.

I even started to think about getting the game and play it through.

But i'd like to hear other peoples toughts after watching clannad.

thank you, and Peace!

clannad after story. it'll eat your heart and drink it down with your tears!

As I said it.
Clannad after story likes to put you in rollercoaster of emotions, and Im sure you'll be thankful after that!
I just watched it myself today. it took me almost a year to  watch it, cause im pretty careful when watching anime or readin manga.
I once again try not to spoil anything.
But incase.. SPOILER ALERT!! if you havent watched Clannad yet, go and see it!

Clannad is a story of young boy Okazaki Tomoya, who meets girl named Nagisa.
Nagisa wants to start theatre club, but they  dont have enough members.
After few characters came along they accomplished their goal and had one theatre show at school festival.
After that Nagisa fell ill, and Tomoya started to feel lonely.
Soon after Tomoya told Nagisa how he felt about her, and they started dating.
That concluded first season, but then came after story..

In after story, main characters are seniors, but Nagisa falls ill again.
Nagisa cannot graduate because she cannot go to school because of her illnes.
Tomoya and others  graduate before Nagisa does, and Tomoya starts to work at Nagisas parents bakery.
After getting job from electricity company, Tomoya moves to his own apartment, where Nagisa visits everyday.
Tomoyas father gets caught for selling drugs, or as they say "dangerous stuff" and Tomoya loses an  opportunity to get Better job, Tomoya punches a wall out of rage, but Nagisa comforts him, and they decide they will get married.
After playing THOUSANDS Rounds of baseball with Nagisas father and graduation of Nagisa, they finaly get accepted and marry.

Nagisa becomes pregnant soon after, but she falls ill again.
Tomoya starts to worry that he might lose his wife and unborn child.
Winter comes and Nagisa starts to give birth, she gives birth to healthy daughter.
But Nagisa dies soon after she gives birth.

Tomoya falls to depression, he cannot take care of his daughter,
Soon Nagisas mother Sanae invites him on a trip, but there was a scheme.
When Tomoya arrives to his late wife's parents home, he realises that they have left him with his daughter  Ushio.
Ushio and Tomoya go on a trip, where Tomoya meets his grandmother, who tells him about his father and how they have walked same kind of road.
Tomoya realises  that he has to protect his daughter and live on.

Ushio falls ill just like her mother..
Ushio is dying too, but then Tomoya wakes up in situation where Nagisa is giving birth.
She gives birth to healthy Daughter, but this time she does not die.

so that leaves me on questions:
Does Tomoya worry too much?
Was Nagisas death scenario only Tomoyas "dream"?
Did they live happily ever after?
and do i have to cry for rest of the year?

Spoilers end here!!

and I think that it will take time for new anime to come, which will touch its watchers just like clannad did.

it was very hard to watch once in a while, there were many hard parts that made me feel uncomfortable.
But soon after uncomfortable happenings, you'll get happy ending after all.

I'll have to give this anime full 10 points.
It would be too rude to give it less..

My favourite things in this series:
- It'll make you feel many kinds of emotions, this is not an easy series. but at least it had happy ending.
- It takes its watcher seriously. it does not threat you like your stupid. it makes you think about the plot and characters actions.
- AWESOME SOUNDTRACK! i listen soundtrack music alot. and i'll have to get every song of this series.
i am learning to play Dango daikazoku on piano too.
- Very huge collection of characters. Every character is diferent! you'll feel something for everyone,
I personally liked Nagisa, Kotomi, Tomoyo and Fuuko most.

My favourite Scenes in this series:
- FUUKO APPEARS! they were cute scenes, Fuuko just appears out of nowhere to use her starfish
technique. wich doesnt help any situation at all. but she sure feels proud even trying to help her friends!

- Kotomis violin concert. Sure, she does not know how to play a violin... but she enjoys it! so i'll be more than happy to listen to her music.. if i can use earplugs tough...

- Kotomi in library, shes just sucked in to the books, she does not realise whats happening around her, unless you say "Kotomi-Chan".

- Tomoyo kicks ass. Always. just always, she will lay 100hit combo on you if you do something wrong.

- Tomoyo Is my waifu! Tomoyo wakes Tomoya up everymorning during final episodes of clannad and makes him breakfast. that was very sweet of her, and Tomoyo became one of my favourite characters in the show.

- They all lose to Nagisa. when they all try to help Tomoyo to become member of school counsil, Nagisa fell ill, and Tomoya helped him. That is when all the girls who were in love with Tomoya, realised that Tomoya has fallen for Nagisa. it was very touching moment.

Those are my toughts on  Clannad, I'd like to hear your opinions too!
Who was your favourite character?
Favourite moment and so on! :)
Thank you.
and peace!

man i love Shouji Sato!

I just watched first episode of highschool of the dead, and all I have to say is:
WOW! they really did good job, transfering Shouji Satos artstyle in to anime!
I really wish that this series keeps up the good quality, cause I dont want Shouji first anime to fail..
Shouji is one of my favourite Manga/doujinshi artist at the moment.
And I wish to see alot from him in the future!

KimiKiss volume 4

so!
I went and bought newest volume of Kimikiss!
And as a Kimikiss fan, I found it really good! it was maybe the best out of 4 that were available at that time.
I TRY TO NOT SPOIL ANYTHING! if you are fan of kimikiss, I recomend you to read it first before you read what I have to say about it!

This volume centers around genious, but unsocial girl Futami Eriko, who wants to do all kinds of experiments.
She never got to do what children usualy do, because of her overprotective mother.
Our main protagonist starts to spend time with her, so she would break out of her social shell and get friends.

The story is very heartwarming in my opinion, because personally, I am not a social butterfly.
So I can relate to her a bit.
Ending of the volume in my opinion was pretty dissapointing.
I felt like it could have been done some other way. (its kind of hard to say because I dont want to spoil anything again.)

So my final judgement for this volume is:
It was great, it was a bit better than previous volumes, but it had a dissapointing ending.
I really could relate a little to Eriko, and she may  have become my favourite girl in the kimikiss series.

I highly recomend kimikiss to everyone who likes highschool romance comics!

this is all I have to say for now, Next Asu no Yoichi (american puplish name: samurai harem... WHAT THE HELL?!)

welcome

hello!
this is diavolo, i just tought that i would share my views and toughts about japanese anime, manga, figure and doujinshi culture with blog.
I hope you are interested and share your views and toughts with me too!
In this blog i'll be reviewing various animes, and maybe even making top ten list about various subjects.
I'll look foward updating this blog soon.

until then.
take it easy!