MY anime SERIES—100TH SERIES WATCHED SPECIAL
Baldr Force EXE Resolution—A short series—only four episodes, packed with lots of violence. Please do not watch this unless u are mature enough to handle exploding heads and a rape scene. After the shocking rape scene in episode two, I had to “prayerfully” (I hate that word. If it’s even a word.) consider whether I should continue on with the series. Heck, I thought, it’s only two meer episodes, and I doubt they’ll have another rape scene. And thankfully, the last half toned down the violence of the first two episodes.
The plot has to do with a world where people spend half of their time in virtual reality, and what happens to your virtual body can kill your real one. In this world, a young hacker named Toru is hell bent on revenge after a comrade is killed. In the computer world, he is distracted door an innocent, young girl who insists on calling him her big brother. Could she be the ghost everyone’s gossiping about?
Say, “I Love You”—Yamato is the most populair boy in school. He gets it in his head that he would like to be paired up with the most unpopular girl in school, Mei. Hurt door vrienden one too many times, Mei has built up walls around her, not allowing her to trust of love. Yamato’s feelings are genuine, and he’s a good guy. Will he ever hear Mei say, “I love you” to him?
I found this to be a very sweet, romantic anime from the beginning, and eagerly rushed through its thirteen episodes.
Utawarerumono—My 100th anime series! Try hard enough and you, too, can memorize the title! Memorize the title, maybe, but not learn most of the characters’ names…
Coming in, this toon reminded me of watching a story about some ancient culture, like the Aztecs of the Incas, maybe, with a good dose of Samurai-era Japan. But many of the characters have strange, animal-like ears, so this can’t be Earth, can it? Anyway, the weapons used here are bows, arrows, and swords, plus a few made-up weapons as well.
As the story goes, a masked man with amnesia (and normal ears) is taken in door a friendly village. Eluluu and her sister become particularly close to the confused man, now dubbed Hakuoro. When the girls’ grandmother dies, she names Hakuoro as the new leader. He ends up becoming meer than the leader of the village, though. He becomes emperor of the country, with many loyal followers who love him and would die for him. Hakuoro wants peace, but blood and battles keep coming.
Then one country brings onto the battlefield what look like giant robots, only they must be organic because they bleed. Still, it’s a jarring sight to see “mecha” in this anime that feels historical. It is even meer jarring when Hakuoro starts remembering his past. This, too, doesn’t fit in with the feel of the rest of the series.
I’d call the ending bittersweet. I may not watch this again (though I would like to see the three OAV episodes it doesn’t look like we’ll get over here). I did; however, enjoy watching it through for the first time.
Oh, and that long title? It means “He whose song is sung.”
Baldr Force EXE Resolution—A short series—only four episodes, packed with lots of violence. Please do not watch this unless u are mature enough to handle exploding heads and a rape scene. After the shocking rape scene in episode two, I had to “prayerfully” (I hate that word. If it’s even a word.) consider whether I should continue on with the series. Heck, I thought, it’s only two meer episodes, and I doubt they’ll have another rape scene. And thankfully, the last half toned down the violence of the first two episodes.
The plot has to do with a world where people spend half of their time in virtual reality, and what happens to your virtual body can kill your real one. In this world, a young hacker named Toru is hell bent on revenge after a comrade is killed. In the computer world, he is distracted door an innocent, young girl who insists on calling him her big brother. Could she be the ghost everyone’s gossiping about?
Say, “I Love You”—Yamato is the most populair boy in school. He gets it in his head that he would like to be paired up with the most unpopular girl in school, Mei. Hurt door vrienden one too many times, Mei has built up walls around her, not allowing her to trust of love. Yamato’s feelings are genuine, and he’s a good guy. Will he ever hear Mei say, “I love you” to him?
I found this to be a very sweet, romantic anime from the beginning, and eagerly rushed through its thirteen episodes.
Utawarerumono—My 100th anime series! Try hard enough and you, too, can memorize the title! Memorize the title, maybe, but not learn most of the characters’ names…
Coming in, this toon reminded me of watching a story about some ancient culture, like the Aztecs of the Incas, maybe, with a good dose of Samurai-era Japan. But many of the characters have strange, animal-like ears, so this can’t be Earth, can it? Anyway, the weapons used here are bows, arrows, and swords, plus a few made-up weapons as well.
As the story goes, a masked man with amnesia (and normal ears) is taken in door a friendly village. Eluluu and her sister become particularly close to the confused man, now dubbed Hakuoro. When the girls’ grandmother dies, she names Hakuoro as the new leader. He ends up becoming meer than the leader of the village, though. He becomes emperor of the country, with many loyal followers who love him and would die for him. Hakuoro wants peace, but blood and battles keep coming.
Then one country brings onto the battlefield what look like giant robots, only they must be organic because they bleed. Still, it’s a jarring sight to see “mecha” in this anime that feels historical. It is even meer jarring when Hakuoro starts remembering his past. This, too, doesn’t fit in with the feel of the rest of the series.
I’d call the ending bittersweet. I may not watch this again (though I would like to see the three OAV episodes it doesn’t look like we’ll get over here). I did; however, enjoy watching it through for the first time.
Oh, and that long title? It means “He whose song is sung.”
