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[i]This manga like a puzzle...

First you take a a fragment stick together him to another — it turns a little picture. You take a second, and wonder, when you realize that the expected fragment is not glued! Pictures are confused, many fragments... It would seem that you do not gather the puzzle, consisting of unlimited possibilities of turns! But gradually, you find a a clue... A little insight allows to glue a few pieces. But then all is lost with a bang... and you begin to re-glue the unfortunate image.[/i]

The author was able to capture the story, forcing to watch not only the plot, but ... also feelings, emotions and reasoning heroes. By forcing feel their emotions, fears... The characters are not «empty», «soulless» heroes, drawing on a stamp. Here, every hero has its own little story, which later becomes yet another puzzle in story conundrum.

During the whole manga, we can not determine who stands on the side of «evil» and who is on the side of «good». The author traced fine line between them giving us to choose the side on which we are, because sometimes «evil» can act
from good intentions, and «good» could easily be by this the most «evil». Probably of all, we wanted to show exactly that, because in the world not there is absolutely pure people, because the even have someplace there are black spots...

Eyes pleases story, although he also shall issue the brain. To be honest, starting to read, I did not think of such a scale the developments. First, we see an outset — the peaceful idyll of one noble family. A little later denouement — emotional experiences of the characters, flavored with different battles and riddles. At the end of receipt to completion - a dramatic story, for the most part which are memories and answers to questions, that confuse even more...

The plot is really thought out to the smallest detail, behind the whole history, I have not met any retreat, which would later not have poured into the story, also did not see the empty chapters, which would simply be forgotten. A drawing is truly a masterpiece!

Bitty stories weave a mystic, fantasy, romance, detective, humor and a host of it would seem somewhere just to not be combined genres truly attracts, enveloping in mystery. It makes read to the very end, just for that would find answers and finally unravel this tangle of puzzles!

The world is full of mysteries and miracles! As corny as it sounds, that's what we tried to show in his work Oda-sama. Will he? Of course! This story shows us not only the life of the dreamer, striving to find something legendary, but also that the dreamer is willing to take a chance for many of his friends, even the dream. It becomes stronger, seeking recognition of his love for his hope, and he sees it. But the world is not so simple, it teaches one, sometimes painful, sometimes happy, that all the difficulties of life and its sweet moments experiencing Monkey D. Luffy ... and his nakama. And whatever pain life is not the reason Luffy is always fun, cheerful, thus once again proving that desperate situations when next to you is not true friends. However, if it were that easy! In order to become a stronger person, sooner or later you have to know the bitterness of defeat. And life once again proves how strong you are, the world is full of people is stronger than you. Luffy learn, and then begin the adventure! And now come more dangers, more pain, more enemies, but also more adventurous, more friends, more than the joy of victory, but not excluded, and hot lesions. «One Piece» — is a masterpiece, a masterpiece in which the characters do not just go from one place to another, as if scripted, stone-faced sweeping enemies, and live your whole life in front of us, and it's the most important thing.

Plot.
The last words spoken by the Pirate King before his execution, have inspired many: «My treasure? Take them if you can! Now you know where I left them!». The legendary phrase Gold D. Roger marked the start the Great Age Pirates — thousands of people in the pursuit of their dreams went to the Grand Line, the most dangerous place in the world, wanting to become owners of a mythical treasure...
But every year the romantics became less their gradually squeezed pragmatic pirates-robbers who loot was much closer than some «worthless dreams». But then, one fine day, a seventeen year old Luffy cherished dream has executed ... childhood — went to sea. His goal — neither more nor less than become the new Pirate King. Over the short enough term the young captain manages to put together a team consisting of not less ambitious adventure seekers.
And let by them driven by completely different aspirations, most importantly, these guys are not as important money and fame, how much much more valuable — the principles and loyalty to friends. And yet — the service of a dream.
Well, while on the Grand Line swim such people, the Great Age Pirates will always be with us!

Brief introduction.
The story itself, though quite simple at first glance, but it quickly evolved into something huge. Most of the very first episode focuses on team building and meet new characters. Although this is certainly not enough more action. But as soon as they catch up with the Grand Line, adventure go for adventure, and you can see a lot of fantastic-story arcs. Battles and fights well developed; fight the final boss is always completely full of epic. The episodes are full of lots of funny moments, not too much and not too little. There's always a delicate balance of action and humor.

Design.
At the expense of design. It is true, it is completely different from all the anime I've seen. But even so, you'll love it. Style change over time... still would! After a few years will pass and «One Piece» we will see in «new light». Cinematography (4:3) change in the anamorphic image (16:9). As a result, there will be more clear, bright, clean and colorful image.
But despite these changes, the schedule 1999 has not lost its uniqueness and I love her still. ))

Review.
Some few years ago, «One Piece» promptly rushed into my life by becoming an integral part of it, decorate her own, unprecedented up to this point, paints. This anime was the ray of light, which I did not have all the time... a ray that shines to this day and will shine for me a very long time, if not forever. In fact, «One Piece» became my way of life, without exaggeration. In it there are so thin «highlight» that if the catches, then so thoroughly and deeply that permeates through the soul, and forget it ever anime, but rather that track that has left more than 350+ episodes of view, which looked at one go in record time, it is impossible. Of course, this is purely my personal opinion and experience.
«One Piece» — is a constant drive that runs through you from head to toe. It's so crazy adventure, colorful characters, and a great atmosphere, I believe that «One Piece» One of the few things that can be considered perfect. At the moment, more than 678 episodes drawn, and it's not a terrible figure to show, on the contrary, each episode is so interesting and fascinating that when viewing exactly half of the episodes, you begin to frighten the thought that there is still the same, and in fact looks at one go and episodes of flying is not noticeable.
«One Piece» — is one big pirate adventure story, with the supervision of that, you become a witness, unimaginable adventure through the red tape that goes the theme of dreams. This is another huge plus for the whole idea of ​​«One Piece», for this many thanks Ode Eiichiro. Dream - it's an incentive to go forward, to make progress, as well as live. This motif is thoroughly imbued with the entire anime series and its protagonists, who are each his dream, but they are making it all together.
To sum up the above logic, although I believe that I could write at length on several pages of this wonderful anime, the conclusion suggests itself: «One Piece» — a bright pearl among all the anime genre shounen and adventure anime-series. He remains in my heart for ever, and do not forget while watching another anime. Those who did not look — look, those who viewed themselves soon want to reconsider. Of course this is again my personal opinion, but, hell, «One Piece» — a masterpiece!

Soundtrack.
I want to give due attention to the soundtrack. He is a great! Not only OST's but OP&ED.

General impressions.
Best Anime and best Shounen who saw and probably ever will see. Anime rest on his background seems boring and predictable set of fillers...

Finally.
The most beautiful and noble of all the anime I've ever seen. I think that «One Piece» in Russian — a world of the soul.

Verdict.
Masterpiece! 10/10.

Rurouni Kenshin -Meiji Kenkaku Romantan- ...
A very unusual piece. And it should look, oddly enough, does not rhyme or reason, and thoughtful. For the main thing here is not on the sword fights and adventures — paradoxically, it is just the entourage, and that associated with them.
First, it is necessary to look in the original Japanese voice (and indeed all have to watch anime in the original language) acting with subtitles rather than dubbing with some.
It Kenshin repeatedly changed throughout the series, he speaks differently, depending on who is currently. When he was familiar to everyone in everyday life Kenshin — he always uses the ... «oro», which displays it some confusion in the comic and otherwise, currently speaks in the third person — «seiches» — your humble servant, «godzaru».
When he hitokiri — Kenshin it gets tough, there is the pronoun «I» and the rough male «Ore». Along with changing eye color and behavior Kenshin it really shows what a profound change is taking place at this point with the main character. And when he was a mentor — in general begins to speak, like all normal people. I must say that their relationship with a mentor — this is generally a song! Just something there for a few episodes for the entire series, but what's the point...

Second, we see that the characters are not stupid, and conversations have a deep meaning. Just all this talk — the main in the series. Thanks to them, reveals the philosophy of Kenshin, meaning the existence of someone who had the courage to live with a monstrous load of a huge number of lives and their own destiny. Because death — the easiest way to get rid of the conscience. Much harder to take the path of redemption — to continue to live when you stop to appreciate their own lives in general. And save the lives of others, once and for all decided that it is the fact that you so easily robbed before — human life — is the greatest value. And this at a time when blood feuds were a way of life, when it was thought that, having created senpuku, you can save the honor and wash away sins!
Another distinguishing feature — not only the protagonist, who is certainly a key figure in the series, but all the other characters are very well designed. They are all individual, with its history and destiny. One Sōjirō what it takes! They do not commit stupid acts, not hysteria, all the story lines are intertwined, which is the complete picture. There are, of course, and fentaziynye elements. The same Fuji. But, despite his incredible size and episodic, even this character is revealed to the end.

Third, look, after all, we must begin with a TV-series (62 episodes, things are moving almost in the manga, but from the 63rd until the end of the episode are fillers), and only then OVA-1.
When reading the manga, where each deal is. But the OVA-2 do not recommend watching (fortunately, the manga author Watsuki Nobuhiro has nothing to do with this OVA-2, — it's incredibly happy)...

Manga in Japan not only performs the function of entertainment, rather, it is not so much as function, call it so, upbringing and education. And Kenshin — it is not fighting and screaming, it's not rubilovka and ninjas, it's not Japanese swords and other branchy cranberry, and a very serious story about a human duty and destiny, sin and redemption. And inscribed (and very carefully!) In the historical reality of post-revolutionary Japan. Author manga, Watsuki Nobuhiro, has built into its story many real people, known in Japan about the same as ours — those who overthrew the monarchy in the 17th year. And in a ... sense, this was intended to arouse interest in its own history and the people who made the first step of the country to prosperity. And the hero of this manga — Kenshin — not drunk with the blood of the samurai, but just the opposite — the man who gave his youth to those who believed the fighters for a just cause, then making sure that his pure intentions — to help and protect the weak — turned into what he was weapon in the hands of those in power. Became hitokiri. Saw the light, the person gives an oath never to kill, and to atone for the affairs of life taken away. And to wander off, forbidding yourself to have a house, family, friends, barring a happy and loving. But the fate of experiencing (or reward it), giving it what he did not even dare to dream. And after sending a test that — who knows — he may not survive. Life or principle? Humanism, or self-preservation? Is it possible to survive and stay with a man?
And it is this manga. As a person looking for the answer — you can if you want to live after the offense? Does it have a right to happiness? For good reason in the manga he does not just completely «broke» him, he even speaks of himself in third person, without using «I'm proud» — or rather, taking advantage of, but very rarely, when it is absolutely unbearable.

Hino Matsuri — another one of my favorite manga (after Watsuki Nobuhiro). She paints a very nice, but so shrewdly, that it seems as though each character is endowed with a soul. Especially beautiful painted Kaname. He is not there equal! Yuuki... I like where it vampirka: long hair, more mature and intelligent look... Yes, Kaname tried... The plot, gorgeous, though a bit confusing...

Still, I admire Hino Matsuri! Manga «Vampire Knight» continues in production. And it pleases.
Chapter 43-45 manga will end in the anime. It would seem quite logical final denouement, everyone has their own way, and all that. But it is precisely these ways ... and begins to start a manga after some of the windows on one page, «After 1 year».

Matsuri begins to tie a new story on the ruins of the old and distant. The plot is much deeper and is not similar to the shoujo genre. It becomes like a heavy vampire drama.

Humor has become much smaller.

Beautiful eyes anymore.

Here I am now reading the last chapter released and sigh. Yet what were lovely and carefree main characters in the beginning, and what they are gloomy now.
Wholeheartedly root for Kaname. I love it.

P.S. : Too bad the anime does not peresnimut.

Gundam SEED Destiny stronger than the first series — Gundam SEED. In it we meet again, so beloved by us earlier, but have grown up characters, and new.

Characters, and mecha are the same as we left them in the first season. But as time passed. Our friends have matured. Although, not all, as turned out to be something taken out of the lesson of their former errors. Every word, every action — before the eyes of that same Gundam, just changed the appearance of new characters and the idea that I was sick Chairman. We see events through the eyes of others, on the other ... side. And now, with the fall of fragments of the colony Junius 7 on Earth begins a new battle for the characters, a new war. Some may sigh, but provide no Gundam battles impossible. It is impossible not to fight, while living in the world, and especially in war. And returning to the roots of one is not encouraging. Again, continuing the battle will resume again the policy will spit on people, rivers stained red, and the music will be muted groans of the dying and losing everything in the fire of the most expensive. Again, seeing no one wants suffering. And who prefer something like that?

Only those who profit from this, who makes a name for himself. They talk about a world without a warrior for justice, for some incredible plans sverhideyah, projects that can idealize the human race, the future — to write on a blank sheet of destiny. And these people believe. They want to believe. For us, the audience, the idea of the plan the Chairman «Destiny» just another idea to enslave the entire world. So those who would believe it, who? Fools? There world is filled with billions of fools? No, I guess. We were not in a situation like they are even. We were not in place of those desperate people that are not able to fight for the salvation of the words which the Chairman and Lacus Clyne, that the image, clean and beautiful. People do not live in order to fight and cry. As Kagalli said, «Life — is not just a battle». But we have to fight. Fight to one day all can live happily ever after. We must fight for their future, their future, being able to endure all the hardships and difficulties. And it is easy to do if you are not alone. When you're surrounded by friends when you are hoping hundreds of people, when someone sacrifices their lives for, even if it sounds pathetic, but the future, how can you try to escape from the battle, how hard is not it? So, for example, Athrun again lost. Not wanting to continue the war and fleeing from the past, he disappeared into the Orbe. And then he just felt useless, unable to do anything. He returned to the same doubts that plagued him in the first season.
In Athrun have the power, wisdom, understanding, but he again began to look for an answer, for what need to fight, for whom and why. One of the characters Gundam SEED Destiny said: «Why are we fighting for?.. When we start to think about it — it will mean that we lost». Athrun lost himself, his past.
Everyone knows that at any moment death can resume. Nobody wants that. To live, expecting at any moment from heaven may fall upon the stones — it is almost impossible. I do not want to fight, you do not want to be afraid. I want peace, but what is it? Kira, Lacus, Kagalli, Athrun — they are too experienced to treat all without trepidation, fear, despair, and not wanting to admit a single mistake. Suddenly it will become a cause for a new battle. Kagalli was ready to sacrifice everything for his country. Kira wanted a world without war, where no one will have to endure what he endured, and many other participants in the battles. For this he was ready to fight for the sake of those who are dear to him... A Athrun... After escaping from the past, he was lost in the present with no hope for the future. The feeling of helplessness weighed on him, and Chairman the words were so believable...

But, of course, the entire generation of past battles would like to be deceived by stories of a world without wars. Particularly susceptible to this, those who saw the horror of battle with my own eyes and in that moment he could not do anything. Having lost everything, how terrible the idea that no matter what you do not pass, that the world is too cruel, and all around are wrong. Only you, as it were, seen it, only you lost and wept over the dead bodies of his parents and little sister. And such a person continues to confirm the validity of Chairman and cheering words, even without knowing its purpose and thus they mock and insult people whose ideals are somehow different from their own. And that Shinn — the protagonist Gundam SEED Destiny....

Mobile Suit Gundam SEED. Sitting down for watching fifty episodes of this anime — the series (or rather to say anime — the epic), decide what you want to see. Category one — mecha, but it has many sub-genres, from science fiction, romance and other genres.

Background to tell you it makes no sense. It all takes a few minutes in the first episode and is reduced to the fact that war broke out between the two... hmm... categories of people: «Naturals» and «Coordinators». And it's actually very sad. Naturals envy Coordinators for their abilities, they in turn see themselves as the new master race. And ... so they fight — wall to wall, as they say. Coordinators with the huge, multi-functional armor, and people with nuclear weapons. This creation studio «SUNRISE» appeared to me one more answer to world problems.

The war is the battle, pain, death and suffering. It may not be fair. And the most fundamental dictators understand this. What to say about ordinary soldiers, and on this side and on the other hand, when their eyes were dying relatives and friends. They begin to hate. The main thing — revenge. And such a war can not end. «Why go to war if you can not beat it?!» — So said Patrick Zala. They just can not turn back, shake hands and scatter to their homes. The war of all against all. None of the episode goes by without a battle, and some are just dying, it proves to be right.
«Coordinators — not people! They must be destroyed! They destroyed the city where my family lived!»
«The Naturals deceitful and selfish creatures! They killed my friend!» It is difficult to choose the side on which the will to fight. If you are an independent country, if not come down to whose — either way, you be accused of cowardice. Either with us or against us. Unfortunately, you can not win a war without battles, it Lacus Clyne knew, but on the other side of the war did not end when you continue to fight. Vicious circle, which is very difficult to understand in order to break. In a word — war. I think that one word, to mean all of the above written.

War can not be held without the participation of people in front of us, and there are the main characters. Kira Yamato and Athrun Zala, childhood friends and enemies in the past to the present (a familiar story, is not it?). For them I was going through. I was afraid that they, in fact, kill one — another. It's so hard to fight against the ones you love. It is almost impossible! But sometimes anger, desire for revenge — all that is stronger than the most sincere good feeling. When the eyes of the dying one way or another you will take up arms when the culprit in front of you (not everyone is yet to be your alarmist). It's almost animal instinct. It can not be avoided, unless you are... In the anime, there is also a crowd of others, perhaps even more interesting characters. I am truly sick of Yzak Joule, Dearka Elsman and Miriallia Haw. Mu La Flaga and Rau Le Creuset is also very remarkable his charismatic personality. Murrue Ramius — a strong, wonderful woman. Cagalli Yula Athha — it's something uncontrollable, and at the same time vulnerable. I liked it. Lacus Clyne, it would seem, my dear girl, do not affect the overall story, a kind of kawaii item, and no. It turned out the opposite. We should also mention Flay Allster (I did not realize it until the end). And for a long time we can speak in such a way...

Unfortunately, it turns out that it is at war, you can check the strength of feeling. Friendship or love, or something else. My first acquaintance with the Gundam franchise, «Mobile Suit Gundam Wing» began with.
But after watching two seasons of «Gundam SEED», I'm incredibly in love with this anime, more to the Universe Cosmic Era.

I love mecha! The fighting is impressive, some so eager and review. Music is in harmony with the action. Openings and endings theme is also encouraging. It turns out that Gundam me happy! What I wanted, what I saw. See you want if you do not mind fur, because it is everywhere. It is important not to miss the main thing, because «life is not just a war».

Verdict — 10/10.

P.S. : In december 2011 started the show Gundam SEED HD Remaster.
Yes, we once again see «the same» Gundam SEED, only in HD. In fact, he is not inferior to the version in 2002.
Naturally, some changes (the cooling, the openings, endings, again redrawn many scenes, characters, etc.) do exist, but it does not take away any impression on the viewer.