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January 8, 2016
Anime Review: Ao No Exorcist (Blue Exorcist)
Warning: This Anime is NOT Recommended
Because it diverges from the manga...
When you watch an anime there are certain things that we all look for. They are as follows: Character Development, Artistic Appeal, Opening and Ending Originality and Interestingness, and Plot Complexity. These are our FOUR anime judging qualities and by reviewing this way we can avoid spoilers, I think. So let's begin!
Character Development
This anime diverges from the manga, very disappointing. Up to episode 15 or 16, the story is the same as the manga and all of the main character's stories are put out there. This pertains to Rin and Yukio and their adopted father, Fujimoto Shiro. Shiro is a priest and also an exorcist who is like a father to Rin and Yukiko at great cost to himself. Since, their real father was the devil. After this point (episode 15), it's all up in the air as to what's really from the manga.
Artistic Appeal
Rin's voice actor is Nobuhiko Okamoto who also voiced Origami Cyclone in Tiger and Bunny and Niizuma Eiji in Bakuman, if you know those. Yukio's voice actor is Jun Fukuyama who also voiced Guache Suede in Letter Bee, Watanuki in xxxHolic, etc. They make good brothers haha. The artistic appeal of the show is good. The conceptualization of the different demons from good ones to evil ones was clever, and added a Japanese twist to what you would think is a evil spirit.
Opening and Ending Originality
The openings and endings are alright. The first opening was UVERworld and was very cool. But soon after the opening was changed, and was made to fit an anime with no real plot...
Plot Complexity
Again, this show diverges from the manga which is a disappointment. Anyone can wonder why. Was the manga too sacriligious to be exposed via television in it's fullness? Is the creator and co. trying to get a following for the manga or a newer anime? Who knows? The plot isn't complex, after episode 16 you don't really know anything else about Rin and Yukio's adopted father Shiro. This is why I started to watch the show because his involvement with them is suspenseful and shounen. He's like Jiraiya in Naruto. But then the show goes on to some filler plot...
The Gritty: Don't Watch
Unless you just like sacriligious anime with cool shounen overtones.
Fanlib: "That's right girls worship the spawn of evil"
January 7, 2016
January 5, 2016
A New Year's Resolve and Destiny!
Hey readers! Happy New Year to You All! Read on for a New Year Otaku thought on fate and destiny...
What about destiny and fate? They're usually grown-up, mature words but as anime fans and otaku, we've wondered about this question almost forever. Anime and manga makes them seem like these questions are nothing special, if you're a main character you just change everything you want, that's all there is to it, right? In IRL or the "real world" it's a bit different or rather let's take a look at the world of anime.
In DBZ, a character can enter a serious bureaucracy world when that Z warrior loses a fight and subsequently loses their Z life. Goku and Vegeta always went to the same place when they lost a Z-fight. In other words, the place they go to is the processor of lives, kind of like a re-imagined "River Styx" or the "Underworld". Goku calls it heaven but Vegeta could have only come back to inspire Goku, with no clothes as Goku was being panhandled by Frieza. Why wouldn't Vegeta just run "Snake Way" and come back like Goku after training with King Kai on his gravity harsh planet? That might have been harder but it beats barely being the main character's inspiration...!
In Bleach, however, everything changes since there's a whole hidden dimension called the "Soul Society" that supposedly uses "reishi" as oxygen and water for soul reaper characters or also as food for the monster Hollow creatures. Either way, the real world dimension didn't operate by "reishi" or spirit energy, but life energy. The monster hollows in both, try to eat "reishi" or life energy by hurting soul reapers or human beings. Bleach then is every action-paced, right? But nobody does anything other than defend themselves from monsters...
There's then Natsume Yuujincho where Natsume's grandma had made friends with hundreds of folk spirits that are as scary as ghouls or ghosts but they're really not so bad at all. Natsume had to put together all of his knowledge of his grandma to make new relationships with them all and even the folk spirits that were less amicable toward him and his family. Some of such spirits wanted nothing more than to move on, even though they were immortal... Natsume had to decide how to help and spend time with them all without becoming trapped in their problems, himself...
But then there are anime like Yu Yu Hakusho, Clannad, and Toradora. What they all have in common is ailing family bonds met with new relationships in the absence of presence or help from any family. It would be cool though, don't you think, if life was a Toradora and love overpowered distant family members or Yu Yu Hakusho and face the spirit demons while getting a second chance at a seemingly normal life. Maybe however in real life fate is not so clear and plug and play. They say you won't know when you're dead (the scientists), but that could be a loaded crocker. You always know when your destiny is calling and the world of anime has given its fans, the gift of optimism and laughter!
Aren't us fans and otaku, us imaginative people and dreamers, lucky for those dreams that those manga-ka, the creators of responsible for changing the way animation and animation media changes our lives? FOR SURE!
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This blog, "The Otaku Reviewers", was started in February of 2010 on this very same platform, Blogger. At first, it was a venture into the informational and informal world of comics, anime, video games, and Japanese culture. In other words, just a random blog.
Over time, the founder of the blog credited with the pseudonym "RPGhero" was joined by two fellow bloggers and friends with the names "Chansu" and "Deretsun". Together the three bloggers looked up interesting Japanese culture facts, recommended new anime, talked about their own "otaku" interests, and traveled across the United States to various anime conventions.
There have been off periods when the blog ceased production of content and there have been times when there would be dozens of blog posts per week. The schedule varies depending on the lives of the people behind the alias'. However the pattern is that we always get back into the game with even newer information about Japanese culture, anime, video games, and other nerdy hobbies.
The motto of our blog is:
"A cure for your apathy and an inspiration for your dreams. ...Applies to Otaku, anime fans, J-pop junkies, and the like"
The purpose is to blog about cool stuff related solely to anime and otaku stuff. There's no other reason we're doing this.
