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Hello, everyone.

Well, I’ve finished reading this anime and it’s for me to give my opinion.
I have to say the illustrations illustrations of this manga are really good, I think few artists take the time of think of every detail , this is something I really thank.

However, I didn’t like the story at all. Sorry. I think both characters spend a lot of time talking in the restaurant, even their theory of Emanon’s gift to remember everything, becomes a bit boring. I wish we could have seen Emanon telling a story of waht she lived and a bit more of love the main characters.

I’m surprised the ... boy believes her when she tells him she can remember everything, the authors could have made things more difficult for her, she should have done something to make him see she’s telling the truth. I think he’s too immature and not developed at all.

I wish they had deepen more in their relationship and more in her memories of the past.

Where can I start from?

When I heard about this anime I thought it would be good to give it a chance, but… why did I do it?

Junpei Manaka is a high school boy whose dream is to make movies. One day Junpei goes to the rooftop and a girl falls over him and the first thing he sees it’s her underwear of strawberries, he has a glimpse of her face and he can’t say a word, he stares at her. She leaves and Junpei realizes she left a notebook and decides to know who she is to give the notebook back to her. Frustrated by ... not getting any clue of which that girl can be he’s challenged by his friends to ask out a girl called Tuskasa Nishino. He asks Tsukasa to go out doing exercises, she finds it funny and accepts. Everything goes right in the relationship for some time until one day, they tell him the owner of the notebook is a girl called Aya Toujou, the best student of the high school. Attracted by his skills in writing and in the need of help in some subjects he asks Aya to help him. During a study session, Junpei realizes he likes her because she’s a bit shy, kind, intelligent and because of her skills to write. From that moment he won’t know which girl is better for him. Impressive, right?

In his new school he makes a movie club with some of friends including Aya. During this new period he’ll meet a girl called Satsuki Kitaouji, she’s pretty and brave, something he likes and falls in love with her. Later he realizes he’s really in love with Aya too, and he’s still in love with Nishino and he can’t decide who he likes. That’s all the anime. Yes, it’s sounds non-sense because it is.

From the first time you realize this anime is not a big budget one just by seeing the opening, it’s was easy to make and the song is one of those you won’t remember. The same happens with the ending except the song it’s better. The animation of this anime is dull, not complicated, is like made by anime students.

You have to skip this anime because nothing happens, the characters aren’t developed enough and at the end you finish empty as the main character.

Kouichi Sakakibara arrives from Tokyo to his new high school, from the very first moment he makes a lot of friends but he notices that something is not right, one of the desks is empty. One day he realizes there’s a mysterious girl at the school, she wears a patch in her left eye, seems distant from everything, nobody pays attention at her even when she enters the classroom and sits at the empty desk. He decides to talk to her to find out what’s happening but his classmates warn him not get in contact with her, he just has to act like she doesn’t ... exist. Ignoring this warning he contacts her and mysterious accidents begin his classmates. Kouichi finds out that all these strange events started 26 years ago and decides to know the beginning of this mystery.

I must say this anime got my attention until the last episode the problem is they don’t tell us what happened 26 years ago, why these strange accidents happen, who’s the responsible for all this to happen. Not even the way to avoid these accidents is clear. All these points make the story to be a bit complex and make it not a horror story at all, but very scheming.

The main character, Kouichi Sakakibara y Mei Misaki, have a lot of punch together ad become nice, especially Mei. She’s mysterious, always speaks with calm, seems not scared of anything and wears that eye patchin her left eye hiding something. También es muy simpática. A bit of love between themewould have been good.

The problem of this story are the last two episodes that become in a mess of murders and paranoia, besides taking us to a final you don’t understand very well. Another surprise is that there’s floor 4 at the hospital.

Despite all questions that remain with no answer and to the nonsensical final I recommend this anime to everyone.

Bahamut, a feared silver dragon, has been inert for two thousand years thanks the gods, humans and demons managed to win him. To keep him away of the world gods and demons have a seal they keep in their worlds.

One day a girl call Amira who only knows she has to find her mother on a land called Helheim arrives to Earth, she brings a amulet which is damaged and she can’t go there, but one night in a tavern she hears a bounty hunter called Favaro saying he’s going to Helheim and he knows an short cut. Amira proposes Favaro a deal who accepts ... to take her to Helheim, but to make sure he keeps part of the deal she puts him a demon tale, it can only disappear once they get to their destination.

This anime must be one of the best of 2014, it’s full of moments of plenty of action and made with imagination, we can see bounty hunters, knights, living dead and even the historic character of Joan of Arc. The animation it’s very well done and the design of the landscapes and characters show several hours of work. On the other hand I think the story it a bit dense by having so many characters participating on it, and there are things they could have changed like the moment Favaro rips off Kaisar’s left arm.

For me there are three characters that are very bored like Hamsa, the duck accompanying Bacchus, he barely makes something in the serie. Bacchus spends most of the inside a wagon and drinking. And Kaisar Lidfort, a knight who belonged to an important family and blames Favaro of all his disgraces, his emotive nature can be irritating.

Few are the animes that attracted me or I haven’t finished watching but this one was worth watch it until the end.

Everything begins at a high school where a normal student, Akira Takashiro, is getting ready for a basketball game against his friend Eiji Kudo, the winner will ask a girl out. When he goes to get a ball there’s a very strong earthquake and he loses conscious, when he wakes up he realizes the school is full of monsters eating people, he joins those who have survived and escape in search of a safe place, just to see the monsters are everywhere and there’s no place to hide.

From the first moment this manga looks like another sports manga of two friends who are fighting to ... be the star of the team and for the same girl, but soon it becomes in a horror story full of unexpected moments, of people trying to survive and get answers of what’s happening. As the story advances we get to know more survivors and their stories of what they were doing when all started, some of them are ready to help and others are already mad thinking they can beat the monsters by themselves. In the last numbers the story becomes in something weird, with special stormtroopers looking for monsters to take to laboratories to study them, or people who has been infected by the monsters and now they’re one with them, but never trying to help survivors to get to a safe place.

This manga becomes very repetitive like the author was running out of ideas after the first three or four issues. On the other hand, the design of the characters is really good and especially from those places of Tokyo we always see on pictures like Shibuya, Shinjuku or Akihabara. But not from the monsters, although there are plenty of them, you can see this is not the author’s specialty, let’s say they’re “simple” in the way they look, like those monsters seen in the Japanese films of the 1960’s and 1970’s.

I have to say the author and artist, Shingo Honda, has made a very good job after all, make something alone like a manga on thirteen issues has a lot of merit. Don’t expect to find as scary as other mangas because the story is in some way predictable.

Based in the Chinese of heroes of the legend of the Three Kingdoms but set in the present days in Japan, instead of Kingdoms we have seven different schools fighting for the supremacy. Each school has a hierarchy and depending of the position of every student inside them, they wear a gem of different color.

A girl called Hakufu Sonsaku, who has lived isolated with her mother, arrives to Nanyou academy to take her place as leader and fight against other schools, however the leaders of the school won’t make things easy for her to take the lead. She’s not alone because she has the ... help Kokin Shuuyu, her cousin and a warrior or Level D, who has practiced marital arts since they were kids.

Ikkitousen has a lot of doses of violence where girls finish with their clothes ripped-off, moments of humor and a lot of fanservice during most of the episodes. Maybe they abuse of the fanservice more than other animes and sometimes violence is unnecessary used.

The truth is that the plot isn’t complicated to understand: they just fight to become the most powerful school, and they fight inside their own schools to become leaders. Fight, fight, fight. And we don’t have fights we have fanservice. The only reason for many people to watch this it’s because of the eye candy ladies we see and their scantily suits that leave little to the imagination.

I think Ikittousen had the potential to be more than an anime with a lot of fanservice to be one of the most memorable action animes of all time.

In the future the Human Galactic Alliance is fighting against a race of beings called Hidiaazu. During a battle, lieutenant Ledo and his mecha called Chamber, are swallowed by some sort of “black hole” and taken to a planet covered by water. When he’s rescued by a fleet called Gargantia he realizes he’s on planet Earth and he can’t go back with his people in the future. He realizes he’ll have to adapt to his new life on planet Earth doing different kind of jobs to discover one day the origin of the Hidiaazu.

This anime has an interesting plot to show how much Humanity has ... changed into a warrior race, and now this mentality can affect a person in different circumstances, for example, working with not so advanced technology and the way to survive in extremely conditions on a ship. And to discover the existence of friendship something lost in the future of Ledo. Surprisingly is to know the origins of the Hidiaazu, who they really are.

I felt disappointed in the design of the mechas when are used to see some incredible designs in so many animes, however, Chamber is very friendly and always ready to serve Ledo and anyone who needs help.

I highly recommend this anime it’s entertaining and original.

Akiho Senomiya and Kaito Yashio are the only members of the Robotics Research Club of a high school. Unfortunately, this club is about to close because there are no more members. Akiho is working in the project of a giant robot her sister started before going to college while Kaito plays video games of giant robots all day. However, Kaito discovers a mysterious file, in his investigation he’ll discover the dark intentions behind it.

Robotics;Notes it’s one of the best anime I’ve ever seen, from the first episode you’ll love Akiho and her open personality and her determination to save the club and finish the project ... of the giant robot. It might take some time to understand Kaito because he’s more conservative, but you’ll end thinking good things from him. We also have the eccentrically Kona Furugoori who lives in an abandoned building with her computer, but who will help in the quest to resolve the mystery of the strange file found by Kaito.

The design of this anime it’s really good, you can’t tell the characters look like characters of another show, there’s a lot of friendship and the plot is not so affected to understand like it usually happens in many animes.

What I would have really like is having a second season of this anime, or at least, the spin-off of one of the characters. I recommend to all those who hasn’t seen it yet to do it because this anime is all fun and will absorb you until the last episode.

I heard about Elfen lied from many people and decided to watch thinking it was going to be a good anime.

Everything begins in a secret laboratory where the keep in secret and under bid security measures, human beings called Diclonius, people that evolved more than normal humans and are considered a menace. On day one these beings, Lucy, manages to escape of her room and breaks away of the installations, before doing it she shot in the head causing her a problem in her memory. Two teenagers find her on the beach and take her to home with them, first everything goes right but ... little by little they discover she may not be who they thinks she is.

This anime starts in interesting way opening many possibilities one of them is how Lucy will react with her new life, if she’s going to accept it or she’ll continue her killing spree, but the story becomes in a succession of fights between Diclonius and Lucie, causing the death of her enemies by amputations. Very graphic fights. After every fight it seems she forgets what happened and back to the starting line.

I felt very disappointed with this anime when I heard all the good critics from many fans and at the end we finish with the question: “This is it? No questions will be answered again?”

I emphasize how terrific the opening of this anime can be maybe the best of all this.

Cobra is one of those any anime lover shouldn’t let go. Full of adventures, funny moments and great plots. Cobra is an adventurer who is always looking for new ways to get rich, no matter how. And also looking for ladies to be with him. He’s accompanied by an android called Lady Armaroid who will save his life more than once. The story is divided in three parts.

Part 1: Cobra finds out that he can get a big treasure draw in the back of the three daughters of the famous adventurer Nelson, but Crystal Boy, his biggest enemy will try to get to it too.

Part ... 2: Cobra travels to planet Ralou to join a team of a sport called rugball, a mix of football and baseball, to bring down a criminal organization controlling the league.

Part 3: Finally, Cobra will face Salamander, leader of the Guild.

As we advance in the story we’ll know that Cobra has never been that blonde guy wearing the red suit we know, the flashback of the past will reveal us he was already a well-known pirate with plenty of enemies. During his transformation we find out he was a weapon hidden in his left arm and he can control it with his mind.

Cobra is an anime made in the 1980’s so the technique isn’t as good as now, however, it’s really well-made. Also the color technique can be seen as “old”, with not so many details. Even technology will be obsolete for those who watch it for the first time. It has some fan service too, but not like in these days. It’s also remarkable the opening and the end credits, both songs were sang by Yoko Maeno and they’re very attractive.

My recommendation is to watch this anime because you’re going to have a great time and some laughs too.