Recently Watched Anime (Completed!)

-Ao No Exorcist

A supernatural action packed comedy is the reason why I decided to watch it in the first place.  I completely fell in love with Rin - isn't he the cutest? - and the story line looked pretty promising, at first. It was also really funny and at times pretty heartwarming, but the story seemed to be moving too fast.   Overall, it was a pretty cool anime about exorcists fighting off demons,(simple: good vs. bad) but around the last episodes, the plot looked to be going nowhere. The ones working on it were probably trying to find a good ending and end it for good?  I wonder if there will be a second season now, I mean, they still haven't defeated Satan!  But despite the negatives, I don't regret watching it.  I strongly suggest that you look into the openings and endings of this series. Seriously, Ao No Exorcist has the best songs!

ROOKiEZ is PUNK'D - IN MY WORLD

-Elfen Lied 







Okay, my friend recommended me that I watch this anime . . and after the first episode I was like :O  This anime blew my mind and gave me the creeps.  Even the opening creeped me out.  How many anime's do you know that open with a very depressing . . Latin song - not many I'll tell you that.  The song is Lilium and it was especially requested by the director himself.  At first I thought the song was a famous opera song or something, but no.  I thought this song matched the anime perfectly and the animation was beautifully done.  It's a work of art! - According to my art crazed friend. It was beautiful, yet full of gore . . nothing close to what I had originally anticipated.  I honestly thought it was going to be a shoujo romantic/supernatural comedy. It turns out to be a psychological horror/romantic drama.  At least I guessed the romance part.  It's interesting to see a unique anime focus on the tragedies and hardships of life. The story is about Lucy, a Diclonius mutated girl who escapes her confines in which she was held and experimented on, who psychotically murders most of the guards in the laboratory only to get shot in the head as she makes her escape. She survives and manages to drift along a beach shore.  Having lost her memories, that's when she meets Kuota. Despite the gore and brutality which highly amplifies the intensity of Lucy's life, it is very enriched with life and meaning.  I thought it was a great anime, creepy and depressing, but great nonetheless.  Watch it . . if you dare.
P.S. For mature audiences only.

Lilium by Noma Kumiko

-Gravitation

I haven't encountered a yaoi BL anime before and didn't  think they would apply to me - not being a guy and all - but I was surprised to actually get more of the satisfaction from a romantic shounen than those other romances. Yaoi animes end with the couple actually together.  All other romantic animes I've seen either don't show the couple together, or don't complete the series from the mangas.  They kind of leave it up to you and your imagination sometimes and I'd prefer to not read the mangas.  Gravitation was pretty popular for a yaoi, so I decided to watch this one along with Loveless.  This slice of life is about a young man named Shuichi Shindou who aspires to be as famous as his idol "God" Ryuichi Sakuma.  One night as he writes the lyrics for a song, his paper blows away and gets picked up by Eiri Yuki.  Yuki who is a famous novelist tells him his writing is no better than a grade school level.  Not realizing he was experiencing love at first sight, Shuichi pursues Eiri Yuki and their love begins.  My first impressions of the series weren't too good.  It started off pretty boring and I wasn't sure where it was going . . then the story got more interesting and my appreciation for the characters grew. Shuichi was a favorite of mine, being the funniest character, and dressing up in dog costumes was pretty hilarious too. Overall, Shuichi and Yuki's relationship had a good amount of drama and baggage, but it definitely could've been better.

-Loveless

Loveless was originally one of the first anime's I had in my watch list.  The name caught my interest and it was interesting to see an anime that revolved around a neko world.  In the anime, the neko-like beings were all kids, or rather people who still had their virginity in tact.  Once these people lost their virginity, they would lose their cat ears and . . tails.  This yaoi is about a 12 year old boy Aoyagi Ritsuka who is left alone with his abusive mother after his brother Seimei was killed. After attending a new school, he meets Soubi, a young man who claims to know his brother. Soubi and Seimei were originally a fighting pair with Soubi as his "fighter" and Seimei as the "Sacrifice." Now that Ritsuka inherits Soubi as his fighter, he discovers the organization who killed his brother and plans to investigate further into his brother's death with the help of Soubi along the way. Overall, I enjoyed this series far better than Gravitation. One of my favorite genres are supernatural and it was interesting to see the story develop. The anime doesn't finish according to the mangas, but I wouldn't mind reading the mangas and finishing the story. The drama and romance were much more enticing.  Even though I do find the romance here a little more taboo . .I recommend this to any yaoi crazy fan.  Plus the opening has a really great song.

Tsuki no Curse by Okina Reika


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