Showing posts with label story. Show all posts
Showing posts with label story. Show all posts

Saturday, December 13, 2014

Soredemo Sekai wa Utsukushii Anime Review


So I watched this one a while ago, also. 

Soredemo Sekai wa Utsukushii is basically about bringing two kingdoms together.  The Sun kingdom and the Rain Kingdom. (I know what your thinking and I agree.) Basically, it's about how Princess Nike, from the Rain Kingdom, has to survive in the Sun kingdom with King Livi. (seriously, what's with the crappy names?) It's a pretty good anime as long as you get away from the part where King Livi is like... what... 10 or more years YOUNGER than Nike? And you can clearly tell he has mommy issues. You can tell he is trying to find his mom (who he calls by her first name... which is weird. He also dreams of her in weird ways.... Idk. It doesn't really go into 'to' much detail....) in her. 
Eventually, you start to see them really falling for each other and what they have to do to stay together. 
It's a pretty short anime but its refreshing to watch if you have been watching a lot of governmental/overthrow the government type anime, such as Akame ga kill. 

A little more about the two main characters. 
So,  King Livi is basically a 'ruthless' king, although he doesn't look like it. He is very grown up for his character and at times you forget that he is so much younger than his wife.... That is, until you see a faraway picture of both of them... Then you just kind of want to laugh because of how small he is compared to her... But in all honesty, you enjoy seeing their companionship towards one another.

Princess Nike. Well, She's pretty cool. She has powers over wind and rain so she could kill a bunch of people if she wanted to... She doesn't do that, of course. She can make it rain by singing and I really liked the parts when she sang. I wish she could have sang more than one song but as it was... It made sense to keep it to one song.
She's a very nice, funny girl and fun to watch. You enjoy her from the beginning because she isn't just your normal princess. She has her own thoughts and she isn't afraid of saying what she thinks most of the time.  

I really hope there will be a second season because it was very enjoyable to watch. 

Art was alright. It isn't very detailed or anything but I like the small differences in each person. 

Music.
The opening seems like something a girl in her pajamas would start blasting and singing/dancing around with. xD Silly, I know. It's not bad. :)
Ending. I actually enjoyed the ending a little more than the beginning. I don't really know why. haha.

Monday, December 1, 2014

Akame ga Kill Anime Review

Akame ga kill starts out pretty quickly. A dragon (that doesn't look like a dragon... more like a giant bug) pops out of the ground in front of some passer-bys ,and then the main character, Tatsumi, comes and slashes the dragon's arm off and chops it down. Just kind of an 'ok then' moment. He's some arrogant, naive 'little' boy who wants to make it big. (He kind of gets on my nerves a little, at first.)
It does change into a gruesome anime, though.
Basically the anime is about a revolution that is going on with the kingdom. You find out about these assassins called night raid. (This next sentence isn't really a spoiler but just in case, thought I would let ya know. It happens in the first episode so it's not really a big spoiler.) Tatsumi decides to to join their little group. You basically see how cool they are with their fancy magical weapons and everything.
ANYWAY!
With the very first episode, you feel bad for the kid. At least I did. :/ Some things go down, I'm not going to ruin it for you if you do decide to watch it...
Each character has their own personality, of course.  The other main character, Akame, is probably just like you think. Cool, calm, distant. The usual. Most people like those types anyway. It makes it a bit more interesting. There are the other characters but Akame is probably the one you want to know the most about since it has her name in the anime. (But to be honest, I don't really see how it's about her. Yes, she's in it but it is more about Tatsumi than anyone....)

It does have it's comic relief though. So, if you're not really into the complete overly dramatic anime... It has your little smirk in it here and there. Nothing overly laugh out loud.
It doesn't start getting really interesting until episode 6. It's very hard to keep interest in it until then so be patient. It took me forever to force myself to watch each episode. Once you do get to the interesting point, it's worth watching.
The fight scenes are my favorite.
It stops at episode 17 and it seems as if there is going to be a season 2. Either that or they stopped making episodes. I can see either one of those happening to be honest. It has its good and bad parts. It wasn't one of my most favorite anime to watch. But... It's worth giving a shot.
I would probably watch the next season. It didn't end on a cliff hanger or anything but I do want to watch the battles between 'good vs. evil'.

You do start to notice that the girls start to crush on .... Guess who?? Yeah... I probably don't have to tell you. But it doesn't really go in to much detail about romance in this anime so if you don't really like it then... you don't have to completely worry about it. I think it's more for comic relief than anything.

ART!
The art isn't anything that screams 'WOW!' to me but I do like the emotions that each character gives. It reminds me a little of Higarashi no naku koro ni kai with it's crazy scenes. (Eyes and such)
It has some pretty gruesome scenes so I was pretty interested in that.

OP/Closing songs
There were two openings and two closings.
The openings and the first ending were alright.
The second ending caught my interest though. The art for the OPs/Closing were really pretty though.

Anyway!
All in all... The anime was alright. I really had to push myself to watch it for the first part but once you get past that, it was a interesting.
Warning! It is bloody and gruesome so please be aware of that.


UPDATE!!!
So, I've been watching the newest episodes and I have to admit. I wasn't expecting so many things to happen all at once but it is really progressing and I am actually enjoying it and can't wait for the next episode. I am a little afraid of watching the newest episode. (watched a little preview of it and I'm a little nervous as to what is going to happen) The emotions of each episode seem to get higher and higher and it makes me really like this anime. I think they are learning from each episode and how to play things out.
So if you are still having a hard time trying to watch it, please stick through because you will enjoy the newest episodes that have come out. It's a slow anime to start out but very enjoyable once you get past that large hump of boringness. ( I don't care-ness)

All the blubbering-ness in the last episodes. SO MANY FEELS!! T^T
Also, I still think it's stupid that they don't make Akame the main character until the last episode.

Friday, November 7, 2014

Riddle Story Of Devil/Devil's Riddle/Akuma no Ridoru Anime Review



Three words.... Boring and disappointing. 

So... The characters seemed really cool at first and I thought that the concept sounded interesting at first.... But I just kept getting more and more let down each episode. 
At some points it reminded me of Danganronpa but it's not as interesting.
It's suppose to be about assassins trying to kill this girl but it just drags on and on.... 
Let me just say... It would have been better as an OVA. 
It had to many episodes and it got boring quickly. 
I did however get excited for the last two episodes. (Possibly because it was getting down to the point.) 
I liked how they mixed the plot up a bit at the end about the girl they were trying to kill but it still didn't help the show. 
The ending... THE ENDING! Let me just get a slap in the face right now. That was the stupidest thing I ever watched. WHAT KIND OF ENDING WAS THAT?! 
The people that die should stay dead. Not act dead... Trying to make a "happy ending" out of something that shouldn't be happy... I was content with some of them dying.... not acting like nothing ever happened. Just very disappointing. 

One thing I did like about this anime was the art. As I said before, it reminded me a bit of Danganronpa. This is one of the reasons. The eyes are what made me want to keep watching. It's the type of style that you could say would be 'creepy cute'? I loved the art in it.  

Opening and Ending songs... Opening... Nothing special. It did have some hidden notes in there but other than that... Nothing special.
Ending song(s) . Interesting for the most part. I like how each character had their own ending song. Stayed through to listen to each. It kept it interesting. 

All in all. Very disappointing anime. Not something I want to watch again. It wouldn't keep my interest. That is all.

One little interesting tidbit... It seemed as though it was somewhat a little bit of a yuri. Just by how some acted towards others.