Posted in Anime, tagged Afro Samurai on April 27, 2008 | No Comments »
An anime about an Afro Samurai - wow that original!
Afro Samurai is an anime from GONZO studio. In terms of story, it’s not so different from the usual anime stuff - basically it’s a samurai seeking revenge. In the world of Afro Samurai, samurais faight to be the number 1 in which they attain a [...]
Posted in Anime, tagged Anime, Grave of the fireflies, studio ghibli, setsuko, seita, war-movie on April 12, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Last week-end, we had the annual chinese festival in Chinatown, Mauritius. As usual, I wanted to go have a look (with Bertrand and Pawan) and buy some salted plums (salangis) and while walking I saw a shop selling DVDs and I managed to get hold of Grave of the Fireflies (now the ones missing on [...]
Posted in Anime, tagged Samurai X, Trust and betrayal, Rurouni Kenshin, Reminisence on February 24, 2008 | 2 Comments »
First of all I’d like to explain the different parts of this anime; I myself was confused about it to start with. Chronologically we have the following in the series:
Samurai X: Trust and Betrayal (Reminisence)
This is an OAV (4 parts) that is the prequel to the anime Rurouni Kenshin. It tells the story of Kenshin [...]
Posted in Anime, tagged bleach, spirits, spirit world, spirited away, death note, princess mononoke, no face, gillian on January 23, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Beings from the spirit world are everpresent in Anime (and Manga). Miyazaki’s movies masterpieces (I haven’t seen a bad one to date) like Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away strongly feature spirits.
In Princess Mononoke, it’s basically all about spirits: the movie begins with an attack on a village let by the boar God Nago. Ashitaka [...]
Posted in Anime, tagged alucard, Anime, berserk, gatsu, hellsing, manga on November 1, 2007 | 6 Comments »
Something special, just for Halloween.
Out of the anime I’ve seen in the past two years, Hellsing and Berserk are definitely among the top ten. Many people would rate these two as bloody, gory horror anime and I cannot argue with that. However, I feel that these anime didn’t have blood gushing around just for the [...]
Posted in Anime, tagged Anime, gundam, gundam 00 on October 19, 2007 | 2 Comments »
The new Gundam is out!
I’ve only seen the first two episodes and it might be a bit too early for me to comment but if it persues that line, it seems that it will be a tradtional Gundam story which hopefully it won’t be. Apart from that, graphically it is very nice.
Anyway, here’s an outline [...]
Posted in Anime, tagged blanks, bleach, memories of nobody on October 5, 2007 | 3 Comments »
I finally managed to see Memories of Nobody and oh God it was a long wait! Indeed the movie came out in December last year and it’s only 10 months later that I finally saw it. So was it worth the wait? Yep, well worth it: one and a half hour of action packed adventure. [...]
Posted in Anime, Music, Films & Games on July 16, 2007 | 12 Comments »
I think it’s high time I write a post on the different categories of anime and manga. There is so much confusion on this issue (loads of people confuse anime for hentai or anime and manga for example). So let’s start (with the basics) and get things straight.
Anime v/s Manga
Anime and Manga are related but [...]
Posted in Anime on May 31, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I think I must have got lucky today (life can’t all be bad luck anyway), walking in Rose-Hill I finally managed to get hold of “Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind”. It’s a rather old animation (1984) by the grandmaster Hayao Miyazaki.
I’ve seen a couple of the 3D movies that Hollywood is serving [...]
Posted in Anime on May 6, 2007 | 6 Comments »
This is a nice anime with many funny characters. The story line is as follows:
Yoh is a shaman who is training to be the Shaman King (basically the leader of all shamans with powers close to God) to acheive his dream - live lazily while listening to music! Eventually the aim changes a bit as [...]
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