Monday, April 29, 2013

Anime Analyze: Eureka Seven (Anime)


So the next anime that I took a look at is the popular anime called Eureka Seven.  Started back in 2005 by Bones studios, the anime runs for 50 episodes and later that year was made into a manga series.  After finishing it's run in 2006 it won best anime series in the 2006 Tokyo International Anime Fair and won other awards as well.  Put into the Sci-Fi genre it is based around action, comedy, and romance all rolled into one.  From what I can tell, this anime is very well known and is very popular worldwide.  Due to the length there were a few opening songs, the first being "Days" by the band FLOW, the second, "Shounen Heart" by Home Made Kazoku, the third was "Taiyo no Mannaka he" by Bivattchee, and the last one was "Sakura" by NIRGILIS.  So here is my review on the widley acclaimed anime called Eureka Seven. 


OP 1 "Days" by FLOW



(Apologies, I could not find a good video of the Second opening for Eureka Seven, and that one was my favorite too :(, look it up it is "Shounen Heart" by Home Made Kazoku

OP 3 "Taiyo no Mannaka he" by Bivattchee

OP 4 "Sakura" by NIRGILIS


Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Anime Analyze: Kaze no Stigma (Anime)


Kaze no Stigma, also known as Stigma of the Wind, originally started out as a light novel series that started back in 2003.  While the series was also adapted into an anime by Gonzo, the novels were still being created up until the death of the author in 2009 leaving the story itself unfinished and thus, the anime could not be fully completed as well.  However, that does not mean that the makers of the anime had to completely leave it up to a cliffhanger.  Well they kinda did, but it wasn't as bad as some others that I have seen where they stop the series even if it does continue (*cough* Rave Master *cough*) but I digress.  At 24 episodes this series has a lot to offer, action, comedy, romance, incest (kinda), magic, ...wait, did that just say incest? Yes, this series does seem to have something like that in it, and while it may not be what it intended to be, that's almost how it came across. Anyway, we can talk about that later, so here is Kaze no Stigma. The opening for the show was "Blast of Wind" by Sario Kiuiji and the endings were "Hitorikiri no Sora" by Sario Kiuiji, "Matataki no Kiwoku" by Ayumi Fujimura, Yuka Inokuchi, and Shizuka Ito, and these are kinda random for which episodes they go with they just kinda switched back and forth and then they have a random third ending for just episode 12 which confused me but it was "Tsuki Hana no Inori" by Sakai Kanako.


Monday, April 8, 2013

Anime Analyze: Sacred Seven (Anime)


Alright, so the next anime that I will be looking as is Sacred Seven.  Made by Sunrise in 2011, the show is short, only having 12 episodes in it and while that being that short can prevent an anime from being good, I think that mindset has left me especially after having seen [C] and Black Rock Shooter which are both shorter than this series.  Now after watching this series I can say that having a short series does not make it bad at any rate and sometimes can be a good thing when you think about how shows could be if they were longer and you wonder if they could hold themselves up or not.  In any case, this show had one opening and one ending, and halfway through the series they flipped them and played the ending as the opening and the opening as the ending which was pretty cool.  The first opening was "Stone Cold" by FictionJunction, and the ending was "Kiseki" by Yuuki Nanri.  So lets take a look into the short but good series of Sacred Seven.




Opening 1





Opening 2