Ao Haru Ride

Mad HAPPY when I saw this anime on the list of new anime released! Been reading this manga and fell in love with it right away. So definitely am gonna watch the anime too! You guys should check this manga out if you happen to love reading shoujo manga! Romance genre! *winks*

The story revolves around Futaba Yoshioka and Tanaka Ko who likes each other. But due to some misunderstanding, the relationship kinda ended as the guys transfer school. (Epic timing!) Apparently 3 years later they meet again and that's how their love adventure begins!

The logo...obviously

3 years ago

3 years later

Since I didn't take any nice screenshot of them...

(Left) Futaba Yoshioka (Right) Tanaka Ko a.k.a Mabuchi Ko

Seriously I'm really happy with the art. Both anime and manga. It's good! Not to mention that my beloved HoneyWorks contributes for the opening song. The insert song during the "confession" scene and the ending song itself are good too! What more can you ask for?

Yes...the insert song for this scene is lovely!

Other than the storyline, art and songs, I also love the voice of Tanaka Ko! To which I found out that the seiyuu was Yuuki Kaji. The same seiyuu who voiced for Noragami's Yukine, Final Fantasy XIII's Hope, Diabolik Lovers' Kanato and more! For more chara he have voiced, click HERE!

Although it seems like he voiced quite alot clingy, mama boys type of chara, I am really liking his voice in Ao Hara Ride! I just love that deep low voice of his. Especially when he said "baka" to Futaba. Sweet! HAHAHA...it's perfect! Definitely gonna keep an ear on his voice and add him to the list of my fav seiyuus!

FAV GESTURE

3 years ago

3 years later

I also love this gesture of his in the anime. Somehow it's sweet to see him to be still doing something that he used to do. It almost feel like the old him was here but wasn't. You'll understand as you watch the anime or read the manga. Seriously this anime managed to make my heart race...*coughs

Trailer 1

Trailer 2

Trailer 3

Am really hoping that you guys will give this anime and manga a try. It's one of Sakisaka Io's sensei best work I've read. Do buy the ori DVD or manga when it's available in your country. If there's none then you can read the manga HERE.

Seriously I'm looking forward for epi 2 and so on! Other than that I still have Hunter x Hunter, Sword Art Online 2, Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun, Akame Ga Kill, Sailor Moon Crystal, FREE! Eternal Summer, One Piece, Naruto Shippuuden, Glass Slip, Soredemo Sekai Wa Utsukushii and Fairy Tail to follow. Kinda sad that No Game No Life has ended...Hopefully there's a second season. *fingers crossed

Soredemo Sekai wa Utsukushii

Yesterday I was bored and too tired to watch long duration videos like Running Man. And so I checked on the anime list I had but haven't watch. Came across this interesting anime called "Soredemo Sekai wa Utsukushii" (それでも世界は美しい Still The World is Beautiful).

Hooked right off and I ended up watching the whole 4 episodes! (Which ended at 2 in the morning! HAHAHA! Epi 4 is the latest so far...) This is highly recommended to everyone who loves adventure, shoujo genre, "magic" (ability to call the rain is magic, yes?), romance, shota boys, fantasy and comedy (you'll see why I call this anime a comedy. Lots of cutesy images ok!).

So yesh...this anime started off with the main chara, Nike (Rain Kingdom 4th princess) traveled to Sun Kingdom to marry King Livius (I love the name!). Midway of the first episode they'll show how the Sun Kingdom requested Rain Kingdom to marry off one of the princess for the country to remain autonomous. The typical life of a princess you'll see in many movies...marry off somewhere in order for their country not be taken or something liddat.

When the four daughters heard about the marriage

(2nd princess - 4th princess - 3rd princess - 1st princess)

Basically all four decided to do jan-ken-pon (rock, scissor and paper) to decide who get chosen to marry the Sun Kingdom's king. And of course as expected our main female lead got chosen as she lose on the jan ken pon game!

The winner happy face...hahaha

Cut the scenes here and there (to make sure I didn't spoil too much of the story), our main female lead has this "magical" power to call upon the rain. This power is used twice till epi 4. You can expect to see her singing to summon the rain! No chanting but singing! Hell yeah! We'll see if she can summon other than rain or not...

Come, Tender rain~~

To my surprise, the king she is getting married to is a lil boy! HA! At first I was expecting guy in their teenage years...Say 18? It seems like I was way off since it was way younger than my expectation. Hahaha. But nevermind! He reminds me much of Kuroshitsuji's Ciel Phantomhive! Looking at how at their young age are blessed with the capabilities to ran the family "business". Not to forget that cold exterior they have that's like a tsundere character...LOLOLOL!

Ciel Phantomhive from Kuroshitsuji

Whoa...whoa...whoa...our lil boy here can kissu!! HA!

Definitely this Sun Kingdom's King Livius is the 2nd shota character which able to break my barrier of saying no to shota characters. The first is of course Ciel! Japan seriously have the power to make any characters favourable to the watchers! First they make me able to like ojisan (uncle) characters and now they make me to fall for shota boys!! Nao I feel like a full fledged pedobear!

How I love this kind of scene

Cuteness overload

Again this kind of look

And of course the exaggerated expression is top notch! 

The Butler (?) Neil

When I first heard Neil talking, I was haunted by dejavu. His voice is soooo familiar to which later I confirmed that the seiyuu is Tomokazu Sugita. The seiyuu of my beloved Gintama's Gin-san!!! Interesting...hahaha!

Do give this anime a try...and if you prefer manga more you can read them HERE! Go go go!!!

Hunter x Hunter

Honestly I almost gave up on watching this remake version of Hunter x Hunter. Coz when I knew about it, there's like about 60+ episodes already out. So yeah...kinda lazy to catch up with it. Thankfully a friend of mine, Ieu Ieu insisted that I should definitely watch it. (To which I found out later that I am totally hooked up to it and managed to catch up to the latest episodes in no time. Haha...I think it's episodes 75 nao! *winks*)

Talking bout this anime, I've watched the old version long long ago. But at that time I watched it from TV. So I can't really catch up to every episodes coz of things like family members suddenly asking to go out together, forgot the airing time, having some other activities which requires one to leave the TV and bla bla bla.

Can say it's the same case with Inuyasha and Samurai X. Though I'm watching Samurai X anime too right after I'm done watching the live version. Am at around episode 30.

Ok...back to Hunter x Hunter...

The first few episodes were boring...most probably the memories of the scenes from that episodes were still so clear to me. But the episodes onwards are good! Especially starting from when Hisoka first appeared. LOL!

Kurapika, Gon, Leorio, Killua

The frog that appears during Hunter Exam...somehow it's cute~

Would not say much bout this anime coz again I don't want to show much spoiler. But definitely I would love to recommend you all (if you love animes) to watch this one. Storyline wise was good until nao. Not much flashback like Naruto case...Except for about 2 episodes in which "konon" Gon was telling his Aunt Mito azbout what he experienced during the Hunter Exam...LOL. Can say it's a cheat coz it's a repeat of the previous episodes...just have to add Aunt Mito holding a letter and BAM! Flashbacks! Haha.

But other than that, this anime sure is interesting in it's own way. I thought that "Nen" was interesting in a way too. Hehe...Basically in this anime you have Gon who entered the Hunter Exam in order to find out what's so good about being a Hunter and at the same time strives to look for his dad (Ging), then you have Killua who is the son of a famous assassin who wants to be normal and searching for things that he would like to make as his goals in life, from there you have Kurapika who is the last remaining member of the Kurta Clan who wishes to avenge his clan and to collect all the scarlet eyes, last but not least there's Leorio who entered the Hunter Exam in order to use the financial benefits of a hunter to join medical school.

Personally I took a liking of the 3 characters: Gon, Killua and Kurapika. Leorio characters just seems dull and bland compared to the other characters...Even when compared to Hisoka...Somehow I set my eyes on him ever since he first appeared in the first few episodes...hehe.

One thing I liked about him is how hard it is to determine whether he's a good guy or a bad guy. Even till nao I still can't find out. Hopefully the writer won't kill him just like how Naruto writer killed Ero Sennin. *sobs*

And oh!!! Somewhere later in the story, it is shown that Hisoka have a nice body! *coughs* *coughs* And if you watched much further, you can see him with his hair let down too~ (It reminds me of Iori from King of Fighters)

Was planning to flood this page filled with Killua too (my other bias). But oh well...guess alot other people love Killua as much as I do too...So I came into a conclusion that I should post Hisoka pictures instead since he's more on the odd side. (Recently am so into weird characters...something about them just feels so alluring...*coughs*)

BEWARE of excessive amounts of Hisoka pictures from here onwards...LOL! 

Look at dem bodies!

Those eyes and smirks!

Don't even wanna think of what Gon and Killua saw...lol

-SPOILER-

He sure is a perv for staring straight at Gon and Killua's ass...

Side view

Front view

When his hair is back to the original

Wondered why the writer makes him into this hairstyle when it was all good even before styling...hahaha. Though of course I can see that the hairstyle suits him in a way. I mean...too handsome then the character feels normal and too predictable...no? Ah...nvm...I'm just going wild in thoughts on unnecessary stuff. Don't really fancy clown or joker so much...but Hisoka's definitely an exception. Everything about him is just interesting~

Ok...enough of me talking bout Hisoka. Am looking forward to the next episodes...Hopefully it won't end so soon. Perhaps another hundreds of episodes would suffice...Even better if it's as long as One Piece. Though I dunno how the writer gonna continue with the story.

Heard from a friend of mine who read the manga that the writer stopped writing halfway. I think that's a bad news for me since I've just started to get really addicted to Hunter x Hunter. Really hope that the writer will continue writing ASAP. Am praying that he'll get all the idea he'll need to continue the story...Coz I think the characters and storyline have potential to improve...so yeah...

Anyway, am looking forward to the anime film: Hunter x Hunter Phantom Rouge...It was out on January...so most prob it'll be in DVD form somewhere around June? So excited can!! Last but not least, here's the preview on the anime film. 

That pretty much ends this post...good night and I hope that this post kinda succeed in persuading you to watch this anime.

Uta no Prince-sama

Finished watching Uta no Prince-sama (うたの☆プリンスさまっ♪ マジlove1000) few days ago. It's pretty good and I must say that I LOVE the artwork so much! The drawings and colours are just PERFECT!

Storyline wise it's good but nothing extraordinary. It's about a girl who strives to be a composer and so she enters a music academy in which she met with the guys...then yada yada yada...Shall watch it yourself to know more! Hahaha...Btw the artwork is done by Kurahana Chinatsu. Other than this anime, she is also the one behind Togainu no Chi. Click HERE to read her blog.

Read from Wikipedia that this was previously an Otome game targeted to female gamers. Somehow they adapt it into an anime then it's well received. Heard that there'll be a 2nd season for this anime. Am looking forward to it as much I'm so patiently waiting for Chihayafuru 2nd season too.

Another Josei Anime

Josei anime lovers, you should try watching "Chihayafuru" (ちはやふる) if you haven't. Unlike the previous anonymous anime I introduced which ended in tragedy, this one I believe will have a good ending. Not sure bout the ending since the manga has not reach to an end yet. So we'll have to wait for the mangaka to finish the story...Haha. Really love that this anime does not only focus only on love but also dreams and Karuta.

The main characters

Had fun watching the entire 25 episode. Except for episode 16 which I find boring coz it's kind of a compilations of previous episodes plus short random scenes. Other than that, this is an anime which is filled with happiness, "butterflies-in-the-stomach" and touching scene. It's pretty good!

Though how I wished there wasn't triangle love. It's so hard to choose who I wish her to end up with...LOL! Well, my opinion won't change the storyline...but still...wish her to be with the one she love the most. (Though I believe whoever gets her I'll still be both sad and happy for the guys)

By the way, heard that they'll come out with Season 2. I'm so happy with the news and can't wait for the release. Really hope that they'll release it sooner than 2013. *fingers crossed*

If it's longer and I can't wait, guess I'll just read the manga first. But that would be my last choice cause I don't want to spoil the fun of knowing the stories which will appear in second season. Anyway you can read the manga HERE!