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Opening Theme:
"Maikaze" By Yoshioka Aika
Ending Theme:
"Akane Sora ni Negau" By MAO

release date
Episode titles:
2010-10-02
Hakuouki Hekketsuroku episode 1.
2010-10-09
Hakuouki Hekketsuroku episode 2.
2010-10-16
Hakuouki Hekketsuroku episode 3.
2010-10-23
Hakuouki Hekketsuroku episode 4.
2010-10-30
Hakuouki Hekketsuroku episode 5.
2010-11-06
Hakuouki Hekketsuroku episode 6.
2010-11-13
Hakuouki Hekketsuroku episode 7.
2010-11-20
Hakuouki Hekketsuroku episode 8.
2010-11-27
Hakuouki Hekketsuroku episode 9.
2010-12-04
Hakuouki Hekketsuroku episode 10.
2010-12-11
Hakuouki Hekketsuroku episode 11.
2010-12-18
Hakuouki Hekketsuroku episode 12.

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The Abashiri Family
Synopsis

The Abashiri criminal family is about to reveal its greatest secret: the youngest "son" of the family is really the first female born to the family in centuries! (Why her brothers didn't notice this before is beyond me.) But between the senseless violence of their world and the whims of a few arch-criminals who would silence their opposition, does Abashiri Kikunosuke stand a chance of becoming the daughter her father wants her to be, or will she die trying?
Review

What happens when the yakuza go insane? You get the Abashiri family - a family of criminal goons that is simply beyond belief. How Kikunosuke (the lone female of the family) manages to keep a semblance of sanity in that background is beyond me. Amid very unsettling violence, she goes to school to attempt to be a normal girl (only God knows why), only to find out she's entered the school from Hell. (Literally.) Fight, kill, live. (Did Go Nagai have THAT bad of a childhood or something?)

The Abashiri Family is a truly absurd, yet somehow amusing piece of animation that is akin to Cutey Honey meets the yakuza meets Itchy and Scratchy. The superhuman powers of the family itself tend toward the hilarious side, with one of the sons, for example, almost literally a rubber man as far as flexibility (practiced in his pursuit of ladies' undergarments a la Happosai).

The body count in this show is staggering, bloody, and bared to the screen. The story includes double-crosses, traps, and all manner of devices designed to make an end of the Abashiri criminal empire, which inevitably fail due to their inhuman powers and capabilities of killing. For all it's worth, very few characters in this show are portrayed as being truly good. (Don't attach yourself too much to the one that is...hint, hint.) The Abashiri clan might be the protagonists, but they are just as loaded with faults as the villains in the cast, though by no means as mean-spirited or nefarious. They want to rule, not destroy, and that makes them far more "noble" than those who would kill and rape to keep control. So it seems, anyway.

I'd really recommend this only for those with the strongest constitutions. Lots o' bloody death a la Go Nagai, slightly dated animation and art, and really bizarre character designs make this one a truly strange trip indeed. Again, being hopped up on caffeine at six in the morning also helps with this one. Just don't bother making too much sense of it; there's just not a lot of sense to be found here.

Add one star if you're a Go Nagai fan. If you're not, feel free to ignore this videotape. A whole lot of people might even drop this a star and stick in the turkey bin, and I can't say that wouldn't be unfair. — Carlos Ross

Recommended Audience: Definitely not for children. This is one of the movies that rank up there with Fist of the North Star in bloodshed. Decapitation, bullet wounds ... you name it, they've got it, in all its crimson charm. Also a few rape and attempted rape scenes that are just as repellent as the violence.

Version(s) Viewed: VHS, Japanese with English subtitles
Review Status: Full (3/3)

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[R1 DVD box art]
AKA: アリアジ・オリジネーション (Japanese)
Genre: Slice of life drama.
Length: Television series, 14 episodes, 23 minutes each
Distributor: R1 DVD from Right Stuf International
Content Rating: PG (Mild adult themes.)
Related Series: Aria the Animation, Aria the Natural, Aria the OAV ~Arietta~
Also Recommended: Aria (any season), Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou, Haibane Renmei, Sketchbook ~Full Color's~
Notes: Based on manga by Amano Kozue, licensed and released by Tokyopop, together with its manga prequel Aqua.

The R1 DVD box released for the North American audience also comes with Aria the OAV ~Arietta~ and Aria the Origination: Picture Drama. (The latter not reviewed on our site.) The Origination Special episode, "That Little Secret Place" is also counted in the show as episode 5.5.
Rating:

Aria the Origination
Synopsis

It's been quite some time since Mizunashi Akari joined Aria Company, and she -- as well as her friends Aika and Alice -- starts to realize the day when they reach their goal to become Prima is getting ever closer.
Review

Much like our favorite undine girls, Aria has come a long way over the last couple of years since its beginning as an anime series at the end of 2005. To think that a small leap of faith on an almost ridiculously underappreciated manga released in a severe state of incompletion would lead to this.

Ok, sure, it's just a 13 episode season this time, but that doesn't change the fact that Aria -- OAV included -- ended up with an episode count of 53. That's fifty-three episodes of quiet, reflective gentleness, of friendship, discovery and introspection and most of all, a joyful love of a simple life and its mixture of modernism and nostalgia.

The show has probably never looked better either. A few animation nitpicks aside, the character designs seems to have settled at a midpoint between the slightly more mature designs of the first season and the more rounded, cuter look of the second. The line art is crisp and clear, and the animation is also nearly constantly top-notch for a TV show. Hell, the characters are even more expressionate than ever, especially as the show rounds the last turn to the finishing line. Whatever misgivings I had about the animation quality and the somewhat fluxuating art is now gone. And, again, some of the background works are just breathtaking, especially near the end of the show.

Even better, the music is still provided by Choro Club, rounding up enough new and excellent material for yet another soundtrack CD (which I naturally got), plus the return of the gentle voice of Makino Yui for yet another of her intro themes that suits the show so well somehow.

This season picks up almost immediately where it left off on Aria the Natural, introducing everyone of particular importance right off the bat. As it should be, they do a quick reflection of past events and our young apprentices once again reaffirms their resolve, with the episode setting the mood for things to come. It's one of the things I've always loved about Aria; the humble, yet unrelentingly optimistic approach, with a love for just about anything. And for the first half, that's the route we take. It's a character portrait, a city portrait and a mirror to the real-life Venice whom this futuristic-yet-not image has been based upon.

One of the greater boons about Aria has always been that its observations about itself are always full of wonder, but never really goes completely overboard with its romanticism. This has been true for the most part, but if I was asked to pick one flaw in this season, then that would be the third episode, where they kind of did. See, the review for Aria the Origination was originally meant to be a collaboration between me and Bradley Meek. In the end, though, we couldn't come to an agreement about it; he basically felt that said episode ruined a lot of the goodwill he had towards the show, and while I don't exactly agree with that, I think I can understand him a little. But then, I thought the show more than made up for it with the rest of the episodes anyway, by keeping up a steady -- not to mention impressive -- pace for the rest of its runtime.

Indeed, as the show passes the halfway mark, there is a certain sense of impending closure. It's actually the most serious Aria has ever been, and even though it's hardly jarring, it's certainly noticeable as Aria cranks up the emotional levels considerably. The threads from earlier episodes in the first seasons come together to weave themselves into the various episodes leading up to the finale, because this is where Aria comes to a complete end.

And such an end, too. Much like when I finished the Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou manga, the ending of Aria fills me with a certain sense of melancholia as much as happiness over having been given the chance to view it in its entirety. It's a fine closure to one of my definitive favorites, and it addressed the faith I had in it by not having it let me down, so I would not betray that faith by considering it any less than top rate material.

The final season, ending off -- as I hoped it would -- on the best note imaginable. — Stig Høgset

Recommended Audience: Third season and still nothing objectionable to point out, save for some drama that will go over the heads of the children.

Version(s) Viewed: R1 DVD, Japanese with English subs only
Review Status: Full (14/14)

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Saito Hajime is the leader of the third squad and a master of the left hand sword technique. He is silent and a taciturn but also very loyal, polite and wise. He often analyzes the situation before attacking to figure out which actions are necessary to complete the mission.

Voice Actors
Toriumi, Kousuke
Japanese

All 12 Kimi ni Todoke Books on Japan's Weekly Top 100 Manga
posted on 2010-09-29 18:47 EDT
Boosted by film, Karuho Shiina's manga is shōjo manga with most million-sellers since 2008

All 12 volumes of Karuho Shiina's Kimi ni Todoke romantic comedy manga ranked on Oricon's chart of the top 100 manga books for the September 20-26 week in Japan. The sales of the manga were boosted this past week by the September 24 opening of the live-action film adaptation starring Mikako Tabe and Haruma Miura.

The 12th and newest volume debuted this week and ranked #1 with 570,979 copies sold. That topped the previous series record holder, which was the 10th volume with 517,358 copies in its first week of sales in January.

Since Oricon began publishing its book sales charts in 2008, every Kimi ni Todoke volume from the 6th one onward has ranked #1 during its first week of sales. The last seven volumes have collectively sold over 1 million copies. Kimi ni Todoke is now the shōjo manga with the most #1 books and the most books to sell one million copies since 2008. Only the shōnen manga One Piece and Naruto have had more #1 books since 2008, and Kimi ni Todoke is the fourth on the overall list of manga with the most million-copy-selling books.

The film opened this past weekend at #2 on Kogyo Tsushinsha's box office chart. Viz Media will publish the sixth manga volume in North America in November. Neither the 2009 television anime series version nor the current live-action film version have had a North American license announced.

Source: Oricon

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Saint Beast: Kouin Jojishi Tenshitan Review
by: KiraRin
August 10, 2009
story 4/10
Saint Beast: Kouin Jojishi Tenshitan screenshot

Recently, I have come to notice that fangirls are exactly the same as fanboys – they both like looking at pretty, albeit mindless, things. Usually, this comes with a generous measure of sexual undertone and a general lack of story development, but nothing drives this point home like Saint Beast: Kouin Jojishi Tenshitan (SB:KJT). After suffering through thirteen episodes of animated bishounen fluff, even the most rabid shounen-ai fan will waver at the lack of consistent entertainment.

Taking a long time to warm up, the show left me depressed with the lack of flirting and playful interaction between the gorgeous onscreen hunks. Instead, SB: KJT sees a deluge of main characters with two emotions – angsty and not angsty. A competition to be saint beasts (the God Zeus’ special task force) sees the flimsy plot spiral downwards, as two competitors throw a tantrum and leave heaven whilst a third becomes an angelic emo. At this point, the specially selected six essentially become Zeus’s bitches, and do whatever he commands – something that made me question if the writers had an ultimate motive in setting the story in heaven. The inevitable underlying commentary on religion poses an interesting question: does blindly following an omnipotent being without asking “why” make you a devout follower or a fool? As brave as the writers are to pose this conundrum, they unfortunately bottle out of providing a satisfactory answer.

A glimmer of potential comes from a midpoint injection of action and storyline progression; the fallen angels Lucifer and Gabriel add an interesting twist as they try to show the saint beasts the true nature of their work. Unfortunately, the show is cut off in its prime and conspiracy is brought to an abrupt halt with a hasty rundown of the future of heaven and its occupants. Even the mildly entertaining arc with Kamui the wolf-man served no other purpose than to saturate a bishounen cast.

Sadly, SB: KJT is guilty of having numerous plot lines that become entangled and result in perplexing viewing. A poorly written script doesn’t help this matter, and there are often pointless scenes where an unfunny joke sees the angels stood around sharing some hearty laughter. As mentioned in the review opening, this is a prime example of the lights being on but no-one being home, as a vacant storyline finally drags itself to an unsatisfactory close, leaving the viewer hungry for real shounen-ai action.
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animation 4/10

I found myself frequently checking the monitor to make sure I hadn’t unwittingly adjusted the sharpenss setting as certain scenes in SB: KJT apply a liberal layer of Vaseline to the screen to give a blurred holy light effect. Apart from this, the artistic style is certainly nothing to write home about; the fight scenes are hampered by awkward movements (although, running without functioning joints is very amusing), and the flowing hair looks out of place on some impossibly proportioned guys. Yes, the boys are very pretty, with a diversity to appeal to a wide range of tastes, but their atrocious costumes leave them looking more like poorly animated drag queens rather than a host of stupendously sexy angels.
sound 4/10

Rocking out with a saccharine sweet eighties power ballad, the opening track of the show sets the low tone for the incoming audio mishmash. As well as ambient music better suited to a Japanese dating sim, the cheese-fest presents a disagreeable closing rap track, which felt completely out of place in the angelic tale. Redeeming the audio, a multitude of acclaimed seiyuu vocalise the dazzling leads. From the hyper and animalistic Gai to the powerfully masculine Zeus, the sexual undertones are enhanced by their sensuous resonance.
characters 5/10

Been there, done that, got the t-shirt. If you have seen any boyish harem, you should know the roll-call by now: the intelligent one, the juvenile one, the strong-silent one – the list goes on. My tastes were impulsively drawn to the heroic hunk Judas – his protective nature and toned muscular body made me naturally weak at the knees. Unfortunately, this genre also means the introduction of personalities that grate, and the juvenile Maya was my main source of aggravation. Some people will find his childish antics endearing, but I prefer a world where men are fearlessly gallant heroes and children are seen, but not heard.
overall 4/10

Although finishing on a low overall score due to the show’s major flaws, I want to reiterate to the fan-girls that the bishounen are lovely, salacious in fact. My advice? Stay away from this plain shounen-ai romp, and instead relish the adult fan-art that sees the saint beasts losing their halos during hedonistic boy-love.

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Alternative title:
Hakuōki Shinsengumi Kitan (Japanese)
Hakuouki (Japanese)
Thin Cherry Ghost (Japanese)
薄桜鬼 (Japanese)
Genres: action, comedy, fantasy
Themes: bishounen, demons, historical, male harem, samurai, slow paced

Opening Theme:
"Maikaze" By Yoshioka Aika
Ending Theme:
"Akane Sora ni Negau" By MAO

Galaxy Angel Rune
Sub.DVD 4 Review
Whatever else can be said about Bandai Visual's pricing, dub-aversion, and weird 1-4-4-4 episode breakdown, they produce a fine product. Nice pink packaging with a nice pink reversible cover and a nice pink (if uninformative) insert booklet and plentiful extras. Which this time include clean versions of all four ending sequences, a short video starring Lily's seiyuu Erina Nakayama (and Whisper of the Heart's plot), and a 15-minute concert video featuring the entire main cast. Good stuff, so long as you're flush with cash and can actually stand the show.

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Galaxy Angel Rune
Sub.DVD 4 Review
Which limits the series' audience to die-hard Galaxy Angel fans with steady jobs. And among them there are bound to be those who will recognize this series for what it is—a tired attempt to wring money from a worn franchise without bothering to study up on what made it successful—and act accordingly. Hopefully their toilets can handle it.

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Fate/stay night
DVD 1 - Advent of the Magi Review
Shirou is a self-styled Champion of Justice. Not of the mask-wearing, cape-sporting variety, but of the quietly helpful, self-sacrificing, unyieldingly principled variety. The only survivor of a tragedy that cut a swath of destruction through his town ten years earlier, he witnesses an altercation between two supernaturally skilled warriors, and is soon drawn into a battle between seven magi and their seven Servants, resurrected legendary warriors from around the world. Paired with a powerful female Servant known only as Saber, Shirou must take his place as the seventh, and last, of the magi.

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Fate/stay night
DVD 1 - Advent of the Magi Review

Fate/stay night is a reviewer's dream. Not because it's indisputably great (or deliciously bad), but because its pros and cons can be boiled down to one of each: a surfeit of atmosphere and a dearth of involvement. To be sure, there are other positive and negative aspects—the historical hook of the Servants for instance—but the vast majority of these first four episodes falls into one category or the other.

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Alternative title:
Hakuōki Shinsengumi Kitan (Japanese)
Hakuouki (Japanese)
Thin Cherry Ghost (Japanese)
薄桜鬼 (Japanese)
Genres: action, comedy, fantasy
Themes: bishounen, demons, historical, male harem, samurai, slow paced

Opening Theme:
"Maikaze" By Yoshioka Aika
Ending Theme:
"Akane Sora ni Negau" By MAO

Galaxy Angel Rune
Sub.DVD 4 Review
It's also the only episode where the cast seems to be honestly enjoying themselves. The rest of the volume is acted without conviction, the performances as frenetically soulless as the rest of the production. For all of the rioting colors and busy artwork, there's little of interest in the art, and all of the action and dashing about (with the exception of the incongruously high-quality space battling) is fatally undermined by a fundamental lack of animation. Even the soundtrack sounds like some high-school student's idea of funny music, and the opening and closing numbers aren't nearly as amusing or as catchy as their Galaxy Angel predecessors.

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Alternative title:
Hakuōki Shinsengumi Kitan (Japanese)
Hakuouki (Japanese)
Thin Cherry Ghost (Japanese)
薄桜鬼 (Japanese)
Genres: action, comedy, fantasy
Themes: bishounen, demons, historical, male harem, samurai, slow paced

Opening Theme:
"Maikaze" By Yoshioka Aika
Ending Theme:
"Akane Sora ni Negau" By MAO

Galaxy Angel Rune
Sub.DVD 4 Review
The franchise has always run on silly Lost Technology mayhem, pointless quests (for hot springs!), and serious situations (like murder) that end up having no repercussions. But even as chronically upbeat as Galaxy Angel was, its humor had a becoming mean-spirited edge. Rune is too busy trying to build camaraderie and end each episode on an uplifting note to give its humor teeth. No one who ever succeeded on humor alone (which really is Rune's only choice, given its lack of other merits) ever did so by being nice. It's no coincidence that this volume's few genuinely funny sequences are all in the final "Evil Rune Angel" episode where an outside force frees up the cast to be hilariously, pettily mean.

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Fate/stay night
DVD 1 - Advent of the Magi Review

The spooky atmosphere of supernatural menace is largely the achievement of the show's more technical elements, with some help from the script (nothing keeps you on edge like a show that kills its protagonist at least once in the opening set of episodes). All of the visuals are cued towards replicating this atmosphere: the proliferation of empty nighttime settings; the perpetually slanting sunlight and long, deep shadows; scenes that suddenly shift crimson as if filtered through blood; even the striking, sometimes frightening Servants in their eye-catching, fanciful costumes. The size of the budget (large) gives everything an extra boost, particularly during the kinetic combat scenes in which the Servants demonstrate their lethal capabilities (once Saber begins moving, it's easy to believe that, with the right Master, she could indeed be the most powerful of all).

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