And I don't care about speeling!
- Lil bro when I was pointing out his typos
That's right! You people are in for another treat: Anime Reviews! Can you say... woohoo? C'mon, it's not that hard! Heh.
Yes... strangely enough, I'm going to do another review. Perhaps I should exploit my blogdrive account and create an anime review blog. And if I do that... wow. That means I'll have a total of 6 blogs in this one account. Ahhh, proof of my obsessive compulsiveness. Can it get any better than this? ::crooked grin::
Well, firstly I shall talk about Gakkou no Kaidan.
When I first caught sight of this anime in bit torrent, I read up on the reviews and thought, hmm. It's supposed to be a spooky anime? Takes place in a school? Sounds interesting. Pity it's aimed for the younger viewers though.
Then I thought... heck. I'll give it a go. There's nothing else to watch. So I clicked and downloaded the first 4 episodes.
Thank god I did that.
Basic Summary:
Satsuki Miyanoshita and her lil bro Keichiro moves into their mom's old hometown and enrolls in their new school. It's new, but it's also situated right next to the old school building. And according to school-lore everywhere... old school buildings are haunted.
The anime takes its lead from there. Kaya, the Miyanoshitas' cat, runs into the old school building and the siblings rush to find it. There they meet the other three 'main' characters; Hajime, the ever-present loveable 'tough' guy, Leo, the ever-present nerd, and Momoko, the ever-present beautiful girl who everyone else falls in love with.
From there, they find out ghosts are coming out from the forest situated behind the school - people are clearing the land to build a monorail of some sort and with the demolitions of statues, trees, etc, the ghosts are released from their seals and ready to wreak havoc. And of course... they've got to do something to stop this.
I love this anime. It's the very first that actually had my lil bros and I screaming, though admittedly it was from surprise and my bros are very adamant in claiming that it's only becase I screamed first that they screamed.
Okok. I lie. It wasn't from surprise. The little girl in the bathroom is downright freaky and I'm not ashamed to admit she scares the hell out of me (But then again... I've always had this irrational fear of little ghost kids...). The entire anime gets better with each episode, with the 4th one (the last amongst my downlaods) winning the award for scariest moment.
The 4th episode deals with the music room ghost. This apparition plays Fur Elise, and the victim is treated to 4 versions, with each one the tempo slows down... and after the 4th version, the victim dies.
Scariest moment award goes to the 2nd playing. I'm not saying anything else. If you're curious, go download it ::grins:: Although the 3rd play was a riot. Fear the piano! ::cackles::
Character-wise, I like 'em. The girls are not the typical anime stereotype. And by that, I mean they do use their brains! Heh... and the guys scream louder than them. It's very satisfying.
And lets not forget the cat Kaya. That cat rocks. Heck. This anime rocks.
Rating: 4.5/5
Scariest moment for me: 2nd play in 4th episode.
Scariest moment for lil bro: Ending song lyric - Hey, won't you come into my room?
Scariest moment for lilest bro: The TV in 4th episode.
Whistle!
Aha... another sports anime. This one deals with soccer though, and sadly, unless you're a fan of the sport, I doubt you'd enjoy it. Or maybe you will. This anime's funny like that.
This anime is a bizzare lil' concuction. I swear, the 3/4 of the cast are gay and aren't afraid to express it. The one guy who I'm sure isn't gay walks around wearing pink. Those who are hot pieces of eye-candy are very very eye-candy, and those who aren't are down-right ugly.
Ok, that's enough of my bitching about the characters. I do like this anime, why else am I downloading all 39 episodes? I just needed that vent, that's all ^_^
Like my lil bro said... "Sis, ugly people make you bitch." Well, ok. He said whine, instead of bitch, but I'm sure he meant bitch.
It's... I dunno. I'm not too sure why I like this anime. It's not out-standing in any way. The main character (Kazamatsuri Shou) makes me cringe cause I keep on comparing him to Ryoma from Prince Of Tennis, and trust me... Shou is NO Ryoma.
Hmm. Well, I'll just try explain the plot and we'll see if I can figure out why I like it from there.
It starts off with Kazamatsuri Shou transferring from the No.1 soccer school (Mitsouri no Mori) to one of the most pathetic soccer schools around (Sakura Jouki). And from there the anime follows the soccer team as they go through trying to make a proper team out of themselves.
::blinks:: That was rather short. Lemmie try extend it by giving away some spoilers.
In the few beginning episodes, Mizuno, the most talented player on the team, challenges the team captain to a match of substitudes vs the regular players, with the captainship on the line. Mizuno obviously is not happy with the way the captain has been running the team, but as the captain said... as long as they're in the same district as Mitsouri no Mori... why bother better themselves? They'll just get beaten in the end.
So after that obstacle has been dealt with, the team now faces new problems. With the resignation of the old captain most of the members followed suit and resigned as well, to show their alliance to the old captain. However, with the new player Shou in the team, he manages to get some of the old players back and the team finds themselves under harsher training regimes under the leadership of Mizuno.
Now they just have to go out there and win some games...
Hmm. Ok, that's slightly better ^_^
Ok... the anime has its funny moments and they really are funny. Like when Fuwa (Think Inui, Kaidoh and Ryoma condensed into one bishonen package, and given Heero Yuy's appearance. Mada mada dane~ ::Squeals to self::) attempts to apologize to Noro. But some bits are just so randomly weird...
Ok, seriously? I can't seem to review this anime. Go watch it to figure out if you like it.
Rating: 3.5/5
Random observation: Shou has maternal instincts goddamnit.
Random warning: Watch out for the nekkid Greek.
Inside running joke: Mada mada dane! MADA MADA DANE DAMN YOU!!!