Anime Review: C - The Money of Soul and Possibility Control

Tonight I will review:

C - The Money of Soul and Possibility Control

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!

Summary

C. is a show about what the world would be like if the world's economy was run by a hidden esoteric alter-economy that uses the future as trust. Basically if you are one of the chosen few you are given an living entity called an asset which you use to battle other people and their assets. In other words, The Economy: Shounen Battle Anime style. The main character, Kimimaro Yoga, is a high school student who is suddenly visited by a supernatural man in an expensive suit who tells him that he can live the easy life IF he accepts to use his future as collateral for it. He pressures Kimimaro into it with information that his missing father was a part of this world. If you want to know more, WATCH THIS SHOW!

The Mysterious Overlord of the Future Collateral Stock Market

Character Development

The show is only 11 episodes long but I think that they were able to compress a lot of character development into it. There are limitations, for example they can't go deep into character's family history or many of their hobbies but those are not needed. Character relationships are few but intense. The main character's missing father provides a lot of mystery and his relationship with his asset, Mashyu, is very intense. There are many rivals. This show has everything you need! In a short amount of time!

Kimimaro and his asset, his future, Mashyu

 Artistic Appeal

I was told by Deretsun to include voice actor appeal and this is where it goes! I will only go into the main character voice actors. Mashyu's voice actor is Haruka Tomatsu and she is great at sounding cute! Kimimaro's voice actor is Koki Uchiyama who is also Midnight in Fairy Tail and the Japanese voice of Roxas in Kingdom Hearts, he is good at sounding like a good guy and can be intense. The visual artistic appeal is very cool, they use CG and they use it well. 

Opening and Ending Originality

The openings and endings are the best I've ever seen. They chose great songs! The songs fit the show well, I think. Anyway, the songs they chose are epic, you'll look forward to watching these every episode. You might even want to watch them now!

RPG by School Food Punishment (ending)

Matryoshka by Nico Touches the Walls (opening)

Plot Complexity

The plot is very complex. You will be delighted because this is the type of shounen show that you'll want to keep watching but then since it's only 11 episodes you might be disappointed. Most of the plot revolves around an esoteric stock market that uses both Future and Money as collateral so you'll learn a lot about the stock market, in fact you have to know some basic stock market terms to follow the show. Just know that money loses value if there is nothing backing up and you'll be fine.

Overall: Recommended!

What I'm Watching These Days

Translation:
My name's Sawada Tsunayoshi also known as good for nothing Tsuna. Until a baby named Reborn appeared. I'm going to be a Mafia boss? Hitman Tutor Reborn starts soon!

Thoughts and Summary:
To be honest I couldn't get into this show when it first came out. The prospect of a baby teaching a teenager how to be a mafia boss seemed too imaginative even for me. But Chansu kept watching it and when he got up to episode one hundred and so he told me I had to watch it, so here I am. It's pretty good once you get used to the story. Tsuna was the kid in the class that everyone looked down on. He's skinny and he's pretty weak plus he fails math frequently. Until he finds out that a baby named Reborn is going to train him to be a mafia boss. With this mysterious baby's magic bullets (literally) Tsuna is given powers and shown how to unlock his own powers by using his maximum potential. But Tsuna still has to get over his old thoughts about being useless and powerless or he can't survive in such a world... Along with his new powers he's coaxed by Reborn to make friends and even befriend the girl he's had a crush on. But with all his new power and status comes the real mafia bosses who are looking for trouble...

Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep is OUT

The legendary Kingdom Hearts series is back with it's latest installment, "Birth By Sleep".



The series had been legendary from it's beginning with Kingdom Hearts (1). Within the game they combined aspects and characters of Final Fantasy with aspects and characters of various Disney movies. It had come out at a time when I was abandoning Disney movies to save face with my high school persona. However with this new mix I found that Disney movies are pretty cool. I can sing little Mermaid songs and name all the seven dwarfs if only because they existed in the same world as Cloud and Leon from Final Fantasy 7 and 8. The main character, Sora who's 14, was flung from his world into the world of Disney characters and allied with Donald and Goofy in order to find his friends...

Then with Kingdom Hearts 2, Sora got older (he's 16 now) and his voice got deeper. His adventure continued in his quest to find his friends Riku and Kairi. The themes in this game got alittle more complicated and focused on some heavy things like existentialism, hypocrasy, and paradoxes. I really should play the whole game again it was that intense.

Now Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep is out. Within this game the story follows the Keyblade masters before Sora who were also guided by Mickey. And yes, there's still many Disney worlds and characters who play very big parts in this RPG. I'm looking forward to it if the themes are anything like those in KH2.

This PSP release is definitely building to a large scale PS3 release continuing Sora's story probably in his twenties (he'll at least be 18 if they follow the two year skip pattern), long down the road (which is slated for release in a within a year or two).


Go get it!

MMORPG Corner: Wonderking vs MapleStory

You are about to read a very biased, uninformed review of two MMORPGs. I may be way off-base, or you may strongly disagree with what I've got to say, but cut me some slack. You're free to comment, but let's keep it to a small ember at most over here.

Ahem... Okay kiddies, if you like playing social RPGs and enjoy an anime-inspired adventure, then you've probably hit a couple anime-styled MMORPGs. Sure there's the point-and-click clones of WoW all over the place, but I believe what makes online games shine is live action. And the closest we've gotten to that is summed up in side-scrolling MMORPGs.

The Challenger

Wonderking Online is a fairly new MMORPG that has begun testing it's waters with the North American audience late January. Extremely similar to MapleStory on first glance, Wonderking boasts many of the same features: basic character classes that branch out to specializations i.e. the two-hand sword wielding Warrior to the swift, stealthy ninja (whose weapon of choice is ninja stars). Players complete quests in luscious, intricate pixelated areas, killing cute-but-deadly monsters.

The Reigning Champion

MapleStory has run the side-scrolling MMORPG game forever. If you were adept these past few years you may have noticed various commercials, online ads, and even tons of memorabilia. You start off throwing snail shells, but if you put in the endless hours of killing monsters you can look as intense as the gigantic boss monsters (but of course much smaller). MapleStory has a huge fanbase and is arguably a figurehead in the MMORPG universe.


The Debate:

MapleStory has grown to somewhat epic proportions, but it had earnest beginnings like the rest of them. Including Wonderking. It has been adapted to the North American audience in an attempt to give MapleStory a run for it's money. Wonderking has even finessed ad placement onto Crunchyroll and MMORPG.com (where there's even a WonderKing dev blog for those who want to know more about the Mods and the game).

To be honest I haven't reached endgame in either game, but I've given each a chance. MapleStory obviously has more content, but that is only because Wonderking had a late(r) start. I would definitely bet on old Sea Bird (Wonderking) to pull into the lead in the future. Let's be honest folks: no matter how good MapleStory is, too much of a good thing will either put you off or rot your teeth. I'm not telling you to go delete (or sell, whatever you game is) your account and run over to play a game that needs expansion in many areas. I'm only saying that we shouldn't stubbornly stay with the old forever.

And if you've never played or heard of either games, or even MMORPGs for that matter, give them both a shot!

-chansu

Just A Bit You Should Know

Hi all! My name is RPGHero. I'm 22 years old and I am a self-proclaimed African-American otaku. The purpose of this blog is to keep you, the reader, informed on cool updates and tidbits of information in the world of people like me, people teetering on the edge of traveling to Japan and people who want to know whats what in the world of cool gizmos, video games, anime, and culture. If you like my posts and come back periodically for all your cool information then I've done my job.
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