Archive for September, 2007
Sunday, September 30th, 2007
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Shounen, Supernatural, Mystery
The manga tells the story of a pair known as the GetBackers, consisting of Ginji Amano and Ban Mido. The duo reside in one of the seedier areas of Shinjuku in Tokyo, and are often broke and resort to sleeping in their car. Ban and Ginji operate a freelance repossession service or dakkanya. For a fee, they will recover any lost or stolen item for a client. The two boast an “almost 100% success rate” (100% in the anime). Their motto is: “We get back what shouldn’t be gone”.
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Sunday, September 30th, 2007
Genre: Mystery, Drama, Shonen, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Cyberpunk, Postcyberpunk, Action
Taking place in a fictional city of Japan called “Niihama-shi” (New Port City) in the year 2030, Stand Alone Complex tells the story of a special operations task-force called Public Security Section 9, or simply “Section 9″. The series follows the exploits of Section 9’s agents who range from ex-military to ex-police to even ex-mafia as they address each case and how it affects them on a personal level, eventually leading to the mysterious figure dubbed by the media as “The Laughing Man”.
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Sunday, September 30th, 2007
Demographic: Shonen Genre: Drama, Romantic Comedy
It is about Tazusa Sakurano, a 16-year-old Japanese Olympic figure skating candidate. During a qualifying round in Montreal, Canada, she falls in the middle of a Triple Lutz and loses consciousness. At the same time, Pete Pumps, a 16-year-old Canadian stunt pilot, dies mid-performance when his stunt plane crashes due to mechanical trouble. Unfortunately for Tazusa, Pete ends up involuntarily inhabiting her body for 100 days.
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Sunday, September 30th, 2007
Demographic: Shonen Genre: Comedy, Science Fiction
The story takes place in Edo (known today as Tokyo because of the name change in 1868), Japan, which has been taken over by aliens called Amanto since the late Edo period. The samurai of Japan have fallen, and the Amanto placed a ban on carrying swords in public. The story focuses on an eccentric samurai with a natural perm, Sakata Gintoki, his (partial) apprentice Shimura Shinpachi, and a teenage alien girl: Kagura. All three are “free-lancers” who search for work in order to pay the monthly rent, which usually goes unpaid anyway.
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Sunday, September 30th, 2007
Demographic: Seinen Genre: Comedy, Ecchi
Each volume and episode of Golden Boy places Kintaro opposite a young, beautiful woman, whose interest or disdain for him acts as the conflict of the plot. Some of these women initially dismiss Kintaro as an idiotic and clumsy pervert, and either give him or accept from him some challenge to prove their superiority. Kintaro invariably lusts after these women, but he is principally driven by his desire to be of actual service to them and to thereby learn more about the world. Despite his outward appearances, Kintaro is an incredibly clever and resourceful individual, and consistently exceeds what the women in his encounters thought possible, winning their hearts despite his outward awkwardness. But due to chance, necessity or a sense of honor, Kintaro never takes advantage of these newfound feelings.
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Sunday, September 30th, 2007
Genre: Historical Settingm Adventure, Comedy, Ecchi, Shonen
Grenadier follows the travels of the extremely busty Rushuna Tendo, an expert Senshi, and the samurai Yajiro Kojima, a mercenary swordsman. A Senshi or “Enlightened” is one who is skilled to some degree in the use of guns. The series begins with Yajiro and a small army of samurai launching a frontal assault against a fort in an attempt to free their lord, which was taken over by a group of gunners. The assault fails.
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Sunday, September 30th, 2007
Genre: Science-Fiction, Adventure, Mecha, Drama, Comedy
Top wo Nerae 2! Diebuster follows the story of Nono, a country girl who dreams of becoming a space pilot (or to be more precise, ‘like Nonoriri,’ the meaning of which is revealed as the series progresses) who, due to a chance encounter with an actual space pilot finds herself becoming part of the elite Fraternity. Made up of teenage pilots called Topless, and armed with quasi-humanoid weapons called Buster Machines, the Fraternity’s mission is to protect the people of the Solar System from attack by swarms of uchuu kaijuu (literally, space monsters).
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Sunday, September 30th, 2007
Demographic: Shonen Genre: Drama, Mecha, Romance, Science Fiction
Directed by Mitsuo Fukuda (Future GPX Cyber Formula and Gear Fighter Dendoh) with music by Toshihiko Sahashi, the series is the first set in the Cosmic Era. This series begins with the Bloody Valentine War between Earth and the colonies that is similar to the One Year War of the original Gundam series with certain traditional elements from Mobile Suit Gundam Wing and After War Gundam X such as the presence of five multicolored Gundam mobile suits and the threat of an apocalypse. On one side is the Earth Alliance, and on the opposite is the space colonies that form ZAFT (Zodiac Alliance of Freedom Treaty). Mankind is divided over human genetic engineering, with normal humans known as “Naturals” and the genetically altered humans known as “Coordinators”. Like the original series, ZAFT has a head start on mobile suit design, the Earth Alliance quickly catches up with its five prototype Gundams. With ZAFT having stolen four of the prototypes, young Coordinator Kira Yamato pilots the GAT-X105 Strike Gundam and is forced to fight his old friend Athrun Zala. Little do they know that there are sinister forces at work that go far beyond their worst nightmares.
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Sunday, September 30th, 2007
Demographic: Shonen Genre: Mecha, Action, Science Ficiton
The story of Gundam Wing begins in the year After Colony 195, with the start of “Operation: Meteor”, the scientists’ plan for revenge against the OZ military organization. The operation involves five young boys who have each been chosen and trained by one of the five rogue scientists, then sent to Earth independently in extremely advanced Mobile Suits, one designed by each of the scientists, known as “Gundams”. Their Mobile Suits are called Gundams because they are constructed from a rare and astonishingly durable material known as Gundanium alloy, which can only be created in outer space.
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Sunday, September 30th, 2007
Demographic: Shonen Genre: Comedy, Romance,Ecchi
Hanaukyo Maid Team is about a young boy, Taro Hanaukyo, who has inherited a vast family fortune and, more importantly, the hundreds of employees working at the family mansion. While dressed and referred to nominally as ‘maids’, there are discrete albeit sometimes unusual departments for most of the employees (including Defence, Science, Catering, etc.). Presumably the various extensive projects in the house pay for most of its expenses.
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Sunday, September 30th, 2007
Genre: Harem, Ecchi, Science Fiction
Kazuya Saotome is a nerdy engineering student at Osza no Mizu Industries University who is trying to develop an artificially intelligent robot that happens to look like a toy squid. The story begins when Kazuya’s wealthy rival, Kotaro Nanbara, gives him a computer program that supposedly will provide valuable information to help with Kazuya’s research and development. In actuality, the program is a virus that Nanbara created in order to infect Kazuya’s computer and destroy all of his work. While attempting to fix his infected computer, Kazuya somehow accidentally orders a cyberdoll from the Cyberdyne Corporation website. Almost immediately, a woman appears at Kazuya’s door with a small package containing a cyberdoll named Hand Maid May. May is a palm-sized robotic doll who’s very sensitive and sympathetic to Kazuya’s feelings, likes, and needs. She has to be plugged into Kazuya’s computer via a homemade cable in order to recharge her batteries because May’s official recharging equipment was accidentally broken when Kazuya first received her. The early part of the storyline focuses on Nanbara trying to get May taken away from Kazuya due to his inability to pay for her. Nanbara enlists the help of several other cyberdolls to attempt to take May away from Kazuya, but all of them end up falling for Kazuya and failing to retrieve May.
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Sunday, September 30th, 2007
Genre: Comedy, School
The plot of Happy Lesson is based on five teachers who end up living with a troubled and indifferent orphan and their unusual plan to become mother figures in an effort to make him a productive student. To achieve their plan, they employ various methods, such as science experiments, spiritual cleansing, physical training, and hijinks.
Despite superficially resembling a harem anime, the show is unusual because it has very little romantic tension and a male lead who is closer to the ‘good-hearted delinquent’ personality rather than a measly nerd.
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Sunday, September 30th, 2007
Demographic: Shonen Genre: Comedy, Romance
Hayate Ayasaki is renowned as the industry’s fastest delivery boy, until his employer fires him on Christmas Eve after learning that he is underage. To his dismay, he learns that his irresponsible parents, whom he supported since the age of eight, received his monthly payment of 170,000 yen. Returning home, he finds that they lost all but twelve yen gambling away his salary and garnered a 156,804,000 yen debt to a yakuza, who they attempt to pay off by selling Hayate’s organs as a Christmas gift.
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Sunday, September 30th, 2007
Demographic: Shonen Genre: Comedy, Ecchi
A 14-year-old millionaire received a huge inheritance as a result of his parents’ death in an accident. Later after firing the original maids, he needed to be looked after so he decided to hire new live-in maids. While originally expecting an elderly woman to take the job, two runaway girls, Izumi, 14, and Mitsuki, 13, end up accepting the job as means for a home and income. Another girl, Anna, later becomes a maid as well, and all three live in the mansion with Yoshitaka.
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Sunday, September 30th, 2007
Following the release of the manga, an anime TV series produced by Gonzo, based on the manga of the same name by Kouta Hirano. The name is either a mistranslation or deliberate alternate spelling of Helsing, as in Abraham van Helsing from the Bram Stoker novel Dracula.
The 13-episode TV series was produced by Gonzo in 2001, with the story and characters quite different from the original manga. The TV series was broadcast on Fuji Television in Japan from October 10, 2001 to January 16, 2002 and in the US on Starz!’s Encore Action channel from October 4, 2003 to December 27, 2003.
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Sunday, September 30th, 2007
Demographic: Seinen Genre: Comedy, Ecchi, High School
High School Girls chronicles the raunchy high school lives of main character Eriko Takahashi and friends Yuma Suzuki, Ayano Sato, Akari Kouda, Kyoko Himeji, and Ikue Ogawa (”The Moron’s Group”) as they attend all girls “mediocre princess school”, Yamasaki Girls Academy Fuji High School (referred to as “Saki Girls” for short). The manga emphasizes that for the most part the stories come from Oshima’s own real life experiences.
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Sunday, September 30th, 2007
Demographic: Seinen Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Psychological Thriller
In Higurashi no Naku Koro ni, there are six main characters who appear in almost every scenario. The main protagonist is Keiichi Maebara, a young boy who has recently moved to Hinamizawa with his family, and begun to adapt to life in the countryside. Keiichi has a natural charisma which allows him to make friends easily. Since Hinamizawa is a small town of about two thousand people, with only a single school, there are not many children around his own age; he easily meets the others his age and becomes friends with them.
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Sunday, September 30th, 2007
Genre: Games, Psychological, Shonen
The same basic storyline is followed by the manga and anime, with a few small changes between the versions. While exploring his grandfather’s shed, Hikaru stumbles across a Go board haunted by the spirit of Fujiwara no Sai, a fictional Go player from the Heian era. Sai wishes to play Go again, having not been able to since the late Edo period, when he possessed the body of Hon’inbo Shusaku, an actual Go player of that period. Sai’s greatest desire is to attain the “Kami no Itte” – “Divine Move,” or the “Hand of God” – a perfect game. Because Hikaru is apparently the only person who can perceive him, Sai inhabits a part of Hikaru’s mind as a separate personality, coexisting, although not always comfortably, with the child.
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Sunday, September 30th, 2007
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Mecha, Dystopian
After the world population and economy is devastated by simultaneous hyper-hurricanes, many different factions and fledgling nations appear. In Japan, an elite class called Logos appears, controlling special zones in the country which have most of the wealth and resources. The Logos exercise control over the Levinas, the lower class which struggles day to day in order to stay alive. The Levinas are restricted from entering the special zones, causing tension which creates a resistance group which fights back against the Logos.
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Sunday, September 30th, 2007
Genre: Horror
The inugami doesn’t remember anything of his past, but sometimes hears a voice that orders him to spy on humans, and for that reason he’s left the forest and has come to the city; his appearances are those of a (already extinct) Japanese wolf, but he can grow spikes from his back to fight, has a number, 23, tattooed on his ear, and he’s able to recover quickly from serious wounds. He can pass on his powers to anyone who happens to touch his blood, and this last power of his is the most troublesome one; not only mosquitos who bit him can change animals into monsters (or kill them) but there are people interested in acquiring this kind of power.
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Sunday, September 30th, 2007
Demographic: Shonen Genre: Martial Arts, Comedy, Romance
The story is focused on Kenichi Shirahama, an average 15-year-old weakling, whose life turns to Hell with the appearance of the naive, beautiful, and strong transfer student, Miu F?rinji. After Kenichi witnesses Miu’s skills in martial arts, he joins the Ry?zanpaku dojo, the gathering place of those who are truly strong, which also happens to be Miu’s home. After beating a karate student in a match, he is soon targeted by all the delinquents in the school. Since then, Kenichi’s routine is divided between his hellish training with the masters of Ry?zanpaku, and his fights against the members of Ragnarok, a gang who views him as either a possible ally or an impending threat to their plans.
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Sunday, September 30th, 2007
During August 2005, an anime series based upon KOF entitled The King of Fighters: Another Day was announced. It debuted at the Tokyo Game Show about a month later. Production I.G produces the title as an original net animation. There are a total of four episodes, each about 10 minutes in length (but considerably less, when accounting for the end credits). It has since been released as a bonus DVD, packaged with The King of Fighters: Maximum Impact 2 (King of Fighters 2006 in USA).
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Sunday, September 30th, 2007
Demographic: Seinen Genre: Romance, Drama
Born twelve years apart, siblings Koshiro and Nanoka were separated when their parents divorced and moved to different parts of Japan; as a result, they both grew up hardly aware of the other’s existence.
The story begins when 15-year-old Nanoka moves to Tokyo to live with her father and brother, the latter being 27 years old and employed by a marriage-arranging company. Koshiro first encounters Nanoka on the train one morning, and returns her dropped train pass. Despite their age difference, they feel a brief spark of connection before they go their separate ways.
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Sunday, September 30th, 2007
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Saturday, September 29th, 2007
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Saturday, September 29th, 2007
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