Showing posts with label Anime Review. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Anime Review. Show all posts

Saturday, June 28, 2008

Clannad Movie. Thoughts.

Well. Finally. Whee. Okay! First off, the whole Clannad story reminds me of my boyfriend and I to begin with. He was anti-social, angry guy that only liked his friends and passed school, but only went as much as he had to and didn't like anything or anyone - according to him - until I came around. He has brown hair and blue eyes, too, which Tomoya has blue hair, but he has blue eyes. The way that Tomoya described Nagisa is how Kell describes me, even though it makes no sense to me, but .. with the loving her because of her odd light and energy and the way she sings weird little kid theme songs and likes the strangest things and was in drama - I did all those interest wise and that's how Kell describes me and explains why he likes me - because I was so much more energetic and nice than him, but.. yeah.. it's creepy. I have brown hair and brown eyes, too.

But that's not the real reason, it's more about the having a kid together. Kell did not abandon his child but we have talked about what would happen if I died and he used to say that he wouldn't be able to take care of Azalea or anything anymore and he would be too depressed to do anything - so when I saw the movie and saw that was how Tomoya had become, it was a bit freaky. Ushio is 5 years old, too, in the movie, and my daughter is 5. But. I'm alive. So yay, I think.

But! I loved the movie. I liked it more than the anime in the Tomoya and Nagisa sense, but I love the anime nonetheless. Nagisa's personality was much better in the movie - I like how she knew Tomoya liked her and stayed around him despite his initial attempts to push her away and sharing the strangest things with her (Kell did that, too) and her attitude in general was just adorable. I loved her anyway from the beginning of the anime, but Kell and I were both like, 'Awwwwwww' when Nagisa first turned up on screen in the movie, she's just so cute.

She also kind of looks like Rena from Higurashi and is voiced by the same voice actress, so Kell has a special place for that reason. Hehe.

Nagisa's performance in the movie was amazing, too, I liked it a lot more than the climactic performance of the anime - their dreams met each other and he embraced Nagisa, realizing he loved her, it was so cute and her in that wedding dress was sooo beautiful.

But.. The relationship between them was great and I loved the nigthmares of Tomoya, they were very creepy, but beautiful to watch and see them change. As always, I love Nagisa's family... so much.. they're so cute, whee. Her dad is one of my favorite male voice actors, too.

The scenes of Tomoya in the present day being totally depressed were sad, though, especially in the scene where he talked about how his real life was his world of nothingness now and he wanted to know when his world without Nagisa would end.. It sounded pretty suicidal, which is why I guess they come and get him the next day - and because his father can see this, too.

The final scene of the movie is so beautiful, though, one of my favorite, ever, in anything. It's absolutely adorable, but I can't blame him for avoiding her since it seems like he hasn't seen her much or at all since Nagisa had her and died and she looks EXACTLY like Nagisa. She's also the girl with the robot in the magical world in the anime, also in a picture in my sidebar. The female gene is very strong in the Furukawa family, it seems because all the girls resemble each other so much, but that's okay, they are super adorable and I love them. <3

The ending, though, aw. I know that there are other ways the story can go where they still both die, which is what happened in the anime I am pretty sure, and why they are in the hidden world trying to rebuild Nagisa, but.. at the end of the movie, Tomoya and Ushio finally get together and you can just see that he won't be going away from her again.

I love the Clannad movie. I cried so much. Poor Nagisa, but.. poor Tomoya, too. Hopefully there's a bit more that explains the Ushio girl and the Tomoya robot in the anime and hopefully they will succeed in making a miracle, but we shall see. It makes sense, though, as to why Robot chose to be born with Nagisa-Ushio girl. <3

Wednesday, May 14, 2008

School Days Review.



This review is not new, but I was re-watching School Days scenes again, so I thought I would share it. It's from MAL, from when I first watched School Days.

Overall 9
Story 9
Animation 10
Sound 10
Character 7
Enjoyment 9

School Days is a psychological anime, number one, so do not think it is about cute children playing in school and having happy days. School Days is an anime about how cheating on someone can really end up messing with their head and lives and how the human heart and mind are very fragile and how friendship is very precious and when destroyed in the worst way, it can have the worst consequences.

The main character is your seemingly typical anime guy in high school that listens to music and has a bunch of perverted thoughts about girls all the time, but who turns out to be quite different than your usual main character guy and he has a crush on this girl that he sees on the train all the time and he ends up taking a picture of her and putting it in his phone. In class, another girl who he happens to sit next to, named Sekai, sees the picture in his phone and tells him her name and then, from there goes about getting him and the girl on the train to know each other so that they can try and start a relationship, all the while falling for him herself.

This anime is very much a psychological anime and deals with relationships and what happens when someone cheats on someone, but not only one person, many people. The main character is one of the most despicable characters I have ever seen, if not my MOST HATED character and cares nothing for the people around him, it seems, but to be able to hate him that much and to have so much passion for his pain and wishing something bad would happen to him was an exciting feeling because I really felt he would have to get what was coming to him. He hurts basically every single person he meets and cares nothing about how they feel when he is done with them, only to use them again in the future. He walks all over every girl in the anime, save one or two, and they all basically sit around begging for more mainly because they want to know what it's like and why the others are doing it, so they do it, too.

The majority of the anime the main character is, in my opinion, a sociopath, as well as a sex-addict, but there are moments here and there where you see that his actions actually do bother him and these are very important in this particular anime because if they did not have them, he would truly seem to be a monster. It is sometimes scary that the most evil people are not demons or supernatural at all.

The ending is something that is perfect, though, in my opinion and it is something I ABSOLUTELY saw coming, but the way that it was done was really something creepy and gave me chills - I really enjoyed it! It was an awesome turn, but something I saw coming the entire time and something I kept repeating throughout the entire thing, over and over again and when it finally happened, I was extremely happy and satisfied. It has a very twisted ending, as well, so do not be fooled by the innocence of the title because this anime is anything but innocent, but make sure you watch until the end because there is more than just one awesome, sick twist at the end that will leave you satisfied with the feeling you get watching the rest of the anime.

Everyone basically gets what they deserve because this anime shows that the human mind and heart is an extremely fragile thing and that you can't just push someone aside like they are trash the second you are done with them because they may not be done with you or ready to let you leave.