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Mushishi is an anime that has an outstanding atmosphere around it. The art and the sound are, for me, it's best points. However, even though I am a relaxed person and I like chill settings, the story and the character development are too slow-paced. They haven't stricken me as surprising or oustanding. Let me explain why I say that.

Story: 9/10

The story gravitates around Mushi -a misterious lifeform that resemble ghosts- and the main character, Ginko, who is a Mushishi, a specialist in dealing with this lifeforms. Each episode has an entirely different scenario and, at least at first, it seems like nothing comes ... together. However, small pieces of information appear in every episode and the mistery around the protagonist and the "mushi" starts to disappear. I will not go deeper into it because I want to avoid spoilers of all kinds(if spoilers can truly happen in this series).
I gave the story a 9 because of the other features that the whole series has. In itself, I found the story truly boring. No dynamics, no plot twists, no attention catchers whatsoever. However, this series was not created for its complicated storyline, but for the atmosphere around the story. This is the strong point about Mushishi. The images and the symbols do the talking.

Art: 10/10

The art of this anime is simply fantastic. It is a pleasure watching the scenery. If I may exaggerate, it is the only thing that kept me going through this series when I got bored. The producers really did a great job on the aestethic part.


Sound: 10/10

Really good sound effects and , also, good music. The quality is flawless but the important thing is that it provides the necessary ambient for the atmosphere of the series. Both the intro and sound effects throughout the episodes offer a peaceful and calm ambient in which you can't but get lost in. I remember countless times as I was watching and I almost fell asleep. Really relaxing.


Character: 9/10

Here, things get tricky. Aside from Ginko, everyone is a temporary and secundary character. This means that the development of the secundary characters start "rock-bottom" at the begging of the episode and by the end it goes "sky-high". This seems a little abrupt but it gives off a strange, yet pleasant feeling. On the other side, Ginko's development is very slow-paced and there are no big changes in his character as he is very flexible and reliable no matter what the difficulty. All things aside, a good diversity of character development and personality types.


Enjoyment: 8/10

To put it bluntly, I was bored quite often. Maybe I just don't understand the peaceful and almost static action of this type of series. What I enjoyed, though, was the scenery, the symbols and the lessons at the end of the episode. Very insightful about a large deal of "normal" problems, described in a fantasy world.


Overall: 9/10

To be quick about it, Mushishi is very relaxing and static. It lets you discover a new fantastic world in which mistery is around every corner. If you like this type of slow-paced shows, I recommand this series to you. If you like more complicated storylines or more action in your anime, please search something else or give this a try, but don't despair.

Hen Koi!

Hen Koi! is your typical high school fantasy ,in other words, having sex with a hot girl not in your league that might fall in love with you. If you imagine yourself it’ll be exciting, huh?
Well I’m telling you this manga is really exciting even to read. This will be my first review of a manga, so bear with me please. The following grades and explanations are my personal opinion thus do not judge me ^_^.

The rating will be from 1 to 10. I will be rating every criteria.

Plot: This manga has an 8 out of ... 10 from me for it’s story.

Not a very complex story that may give you a high emotional state when reading. As I was saying this may be due to the fact that every boy(or girl) is his/her high school years fantasized about someone they like, liking them back. The actual story of this is about Watase Yuuto a normal high school boy that finds his classmate Aoki Honoka masturbating with his clothes. Not knowing what to do, his instinct and desires draw him to masturbate watching Honoka. He is caught as well(the irony) and as you were expecting an embarrassing situation, things escalate quite quickly from there on, and the story continues from there on with their desire for sex and an unexpected event near the ending which may give you a hard laugh.

Art: 8 out of 10

You will see that the art is quite old fashioned, if I may. The drawing consists only of essential parts, the details being left out. This has a quite common design for old mangas, but it’s still popular for it’s unique look.
That was about quality, now let’s talk about quantity. Hen Koi consists of 9 chapters with sensual hentai acts and romance. Each chapter has between 18-26 pages. You may think you need more, but it’s compressed design makes Hen Koi special.

Characters: 7 out of 10

Both of the characters are nice, but I prefer Honoka. Her personality far exceeds Yuuto’s. She’s also got the looks and is pretty confident, but still she knows what she wants and who she wants even when their below her as appearance, intelligence and so on(I’m referring here to the episode of Honoka and Yuuto speaking their minds about their relationship, chapter 2 page 15 to be precise).
Yuuto seems quite weak of heart and determination in the begging. Caring about what others say of him or his relationship with Honoka. But as the story goes by, Yuuto realizes that he shouldn’t actually care when he does the unimaginable in front of a bunch of people, just to make Honoka feel better with herself after her accident.


Amusement/Entertainment: 8 out of 10

I was deciding on whether 7 or 8, but I decided to mark it with 8 due to the short size of the story and it’s principal genre (hentai) that has nothing to do with being amused or entertained but rather aroused by it. Even so, it has some funny parts that can surely make you grin if not laugh. It’s plot and unexpected turn of events are quite unique in my opinion.

Overall: 8 out of 10

It’s really worth reading. The size of Hen Koi! is small but quality is it’s specialty, as for it’s author.
Check out more of Azuma Tesshin’s manga and support him.

Thus I end my review, hope you liked it and found it useful. I would really appreciate feedback, doesn’t matter if good or bad. Have a great day y’all and have fun ^_^’.