fredag 26. januar 2007

Negima!?



Negima!? Is the new animation of the Manga Mahou Sensei Negima. This Anime is produced by a different company than the ones who did the last negima anime. Personally I think that is because the other ones did a really horrible job. This new anime has much better Animation and an alternate storyline so we won’t see any fillers (episodes to fill in to not catch up with the manga.) The story is really great even though it seems goofy at first.


Negi Springfield has graduated from magic school and is sent off to Japan to further his studies. He becomes the homeroom/English teacher at an exclusive private school and has run-ins with an enemy of his father, as well as with Asuna, who makes his life a living hell, and that's before she discovers his secret. He learns about (and from) his students and about himself in order to become a master mage, like his father before him.



This Anime is still running and airs every Wednesday 17:30 on TV Tokyo as well as a few other Japanese TV stations. There has currently aired 17 episodes out of 26. What really hooked me on this anime though (even though I am a die hard fan of negima) is the Awesome/hilarious soundtrack. I really think this is one of the greatest soundtracks I have heard to date. And there are so many cool openings for the anime. Just the other day I got 18 different versions of the opening and 8 different versions of the ending. I will probably add some of these to the mp3 player soon.



The voice actors for this Anime are also really great! Naming one is Matsuoka Yuki which is my favourite voice actress. She does Evangeline A.K McDowell for this anime and she has done the voices in some quite famous Anime’s like “Nana” in Elfen Lied and “Osaka” in Azumanga Daioh.
All the other voice actors are really great too. I really don’t want to go into each of them since there are 32 main characters in this anime.

If you like Negima or just Akamatsu’s manga’s in general you really should watch this. Negima!? Is really an awesome Anime.
 

torsdag 25. januar 2007

Anne Freaks


 
Anne Freaks by Kotegawa Yua is my most recent read manga. This manga is really one of the greatest short manga’s I have ever come across.

Yuri Kitagawa just killed his mother. Just when he thought it was all over, he runs into a girl named Anne who knows he killed his mother, and oddly, wants to help him. She also tells him she wants him to be her parent killing partner.

This Manga is all about killers. All the main characters are killers. I really like this because it goes against all this stereotypes. I really hate stereotypes and whish they didn’t exist. Manga’s like this is really the reason I really love manga’s.

This is a manga I really will go as far as say READ IT. I don’t care if you don’t like this kind of manga I say read it. This is an absolutely masterpiece! You won’t regret it!

onsdag 24. januar 2007

Itsudatte My Santa


Itsudatte My Santa is a short manga by Ken Akamatsu. I haven't read the manga because it's really hard to come by. The anime is really great though. The plot is a really beautifull twist of an old Christmas tragedy cliche but it's still super beautifull!
Mai, a young and inexperienced Santa-in-training offers to spend the night with Santa, a young man with a knack for bad luck. Rarely having a proper birthday celebration, and born on the 24th of December, he is usually depressed; his parents usually vacation near his birthday. However, spending the night with Mai changes his view of life and shows him what is truly important.
For some reason Akamatsu's manga's has a tendency to always make me cry at some point. This manga has really great, wide variety of comical jokes, sad person and beautifull love.
i really loved this anime and i really want to read the manga.
There is only one thing that bothers me about this anime though. It's said everywhere that there are only two episodes but episode two has a preview for episode  three. i hope i can find episode three someday. Itsudatte My Santa was a really great anime!

I'll say that if you've read Love Hina and liked it even a teensy bit definetly go for this one. you will not be disapointed!
 

tirsdag 23. januar 2007

Najica Blitz Tactics


 
Najica is yet another short manga i've found. Najica is on 3 volumes and i think that it's a quite good manga.
With 17% of the earth's surface submerged in water, Najica lives a double life, as both a skilled perfumer and an operative for the secret intellegence organization CRI. Her undercover partner Lila is a Humaritt, an incredibly lifelike android with abilities beyond those of normal humans. While Lila may have the skills she still lacks the knowledge of how to act correctly and normally within the real world. Najica and Lila go on dangerous and actionpacked missions for CRI and slowly begin to discover the secrets of what Humaritts are and what they were built for....
I think that this manga has a really great "Android" vs human reletionship, and brings up some meybe a bit cliche but good themes.
You get a quite good explenation at the end of this manga but like most short manga's you don't really get an ending. i think it's ok with this manga but sometimes it just pisses me of.

anyway i think that this is a really good manga. and if you don't like to read tower after tower of manga this manga is a very good choice.

mandag 22. januar 2007

Alice 19th


 
Alice 19th By Watase Yuu is a realy entertaining manga. Even though it's short it does have a conclusjon as opposed to the Nanaki manga.
Alice Seno is a 16-year-old girl who has always been overshadowed by her older sister, Mayura Seno. One day, Alice finds a rabbit who gives her powers because she is chosen to be a "Lotis Master". Alice has an argument with Mayura, and the latter disappears. Alice tries to save her, but it is too late. She must save Mayura from the demon that took her and bring her back to the real world.
It's really an interesting manga. This is such a short manga and its a shojo manga too which doesen't really get this manga known all that well. even so i think it's a great manga.
and the manga also has a really cool charackter (in my opinion) which is from norway. personaly i really love his personality and i think he is really funny. the story of the manga doesen't look like much at first glanze but it really is cool.
and the way the ending is really stirred me.
my opinion is that if you like shojo manga do go for this one.

søndag 21. januar 2007

Ranma 1/2


 
Ranma is one of the first manga i ever read and i think it is a great manga. I sadly haven't goten all the volumes yet because i haven't had the money to buy it.
well the main plot of Ranma is that while Saotome Ranma was on a training trip with his father in China he got plunged in the spring of drowned young girl and now whenever he is drenched in cold water he turns into a girl. Great plot for alot of cool stuff right? and it sure is. Rumiko Takahashi have really done a masterfull job on Ranma and it's still one of my favorite manga even after several years with my manga fandom. Sadly this manga could by someone to be considerd very drawn out and it seems the relationships between any of the charackters are going any way. Even so i've had alot of funny moments with this manga and even more ideas for my own drawings/manga
This really has become a manga Classic. even though it's geting kinda old it's still a super work and should be in every manga lovers house.

I'd say that this is a definet buy and if you like this kind of manga you will abselutely not be disapointed

torsdag 18. januar 2007

School Rumble


 School Rumble by Jin Kobayashi is a Manga i read quite some time ago and took up again to read recently. School rumble is a Manga i really want to call "the king of missunderstanings" this serie is hell of funny because of all these missunderstandings going on between the charackters. The main plot is: Second-year student Tsukamoto Tenma learns that her secret crush, Karasuma Oji, will be transferring to a school in America. In a last-ditch effort to reveal her love to him, she writes a long (but anonymous) love letter. When Karasuma ends up postponing his transfer for another year, Tenma realizes she has to tell him how she feels before time runs out again. But her extreme nervousness around him prompts her to try and setup all sorts of schemes to get close to him and let him know, without actually coming out and saying it. Meanwhile, unknown to Tenma, the school delinquent, Harima Kenji, has the biggest crush on her, as well as the same anxieties about being direct. Around this love triangle of clueless people are a few of Tenma's friends, and her younger (but older looking, more mature, and more popular) sister, Yakumo. Mainly the main charackter Tenma is compleatly useless and stupid. luckily later in the serie she isn't as centered as at the start. This manga is something i can see going to be quite long because of the super ongoing story with no ending in sight. even so the Manga is very fun and entertaining and has made me laugh very much. This is one of the few manga's i actually think is ok as an anime. that is because the anime is very very similar to the Manga.

So if you are a romance humor fan i say definetly go for this one, It can be stupid at times and also super hilarious.