Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi

This anime is superb. There are a lot of fans crazy for this anime. First when I looked at this anime, I thought it’s a drama. But I was wrong. This anime is not really a drama. It’s a science fiction action drama! Yes, it’s science fiction. In animenewsnetwork, this anime has 8.87 for the rating, and that’s quite awesome.

Synopsis:

Suzumiya Haruhi is an eccentric and smart girl. She is actually pretty, but no one could talk to her because she is not interested in ordinary human. She is only interested in aliens, time travelers and ESPers. That’s why she’s always searching for mysteries and unordinary people by joining every clubs in her school. But because there is no such thing, like mystery and unordinary person, she is getting bored.

One day, amazingly, a boy named Kyon succeeded to talk and make a conversation with her. Because of Kyon, Suzumiya was inspired to make a club (that has no purpose) named SOS Brigade.

After finding a room, the club gets another member named Nagato Yuuki. She is not interested with the club. She is actually member of literature club, which room’s changed into SOS Brigade’s room. She joined the brigade so that she can read books in that room.

Then, Suzumiya recruited a pretty but clumsy girl named Asahina Mikuru. First of all she didn’t want to join, but after Suzumiya insisted (and after she saw Nagato), she decided to join in.

Then, Suzumiya recruited a transfer boy named Koizumi Itsuki. Suzumiya recruited him because Suzumiya found that Koizumi as a “mysterious transfer boy”.

Finally Suzumiya decided the purpose of the club: Finding mysterious things in this world.


But somehow, Suzumiya’s existence is more significant to this universe.

Hint (spoiler):

"To the aliens and other space community, she is the potential for evolution and the center of cosmic “earth-quake”
To the time travelers, she is the time warp that makes the river of time unbalanced.
To the ESPers, she is the God"


By the way, the episodes are shuffled. But let it be. There are only 14 episodes. Then, after you watched all the 14 episodes, you watch it again chronologically.

Interesting?

How interesting is this anime?

See this video of “Hare Hare Yukai” (the ending song)



There are a lot of fans who can even remember and do the dance and the moves in this video.

There is no way this anime is bad.

Overall rate: 4 stars!!
You can watch it on veoh

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Neon Genesis Evangelion

In the year 2015, the world is in chaos. There are monsters called “angel” that going to destroy the earth. The chaotic situation begins by the second impact. The first impact’s considered to be the Hiroshima and Nagasaki incident. The second impact takes place in the year 2000 (Thank God it didn’t really happen) when a giant, unidentified object comes crashing down on Antarctica which resulted the death of half of the world’s population.



According to the Dead Sea Scrolls, the angels would return to destroy the human race. So the human race created SEELE, an organization with almost unlimited amounts of funds. And NERV (which attached to UN), an organization which fights the angels with huge robots/machines called Evangelion. But not all can ride an Evangelion, only some gifted people called children could do it.

But somehow NERV and SEELE looks like hiding some scandals.

The Characters:

-Ikari Shinji. He is the 3rd child, pilot of the evangelion number 01. He is also Ikari Gendou (NERV commander)’s son. But he has a bad relationship with his father.

-Ayanami Rei. She is the 1st child, pilot of the evangelion number 00. Her expression seems cold and soulless. She is the most loyal person to Ikari Gendou. She never let anyone insults him. She uses to be Ikari Gendou’s tool.

-Asuka Langley Sohryu. She is the 2nd child, pilot of the evangelion number 02. She is half German, and half Japanese. She has a magnificent IQ. She has already graduated at a young age. Unlike Rei, she is very active and wild.

-Ikari Gendou. He is Shinji’s father and also NERV commander. He is definitely a mysterious person with complicated thought. He seems so cold and mean. But actually, he is a very caring person. He’s just lost.

-Katsuragi Misato. She works at the NERV as a captain. She used to baby sit Shinji. She loves beer^^

This anime is superb!! Even if you don’t like some kind of robotic anime, you’ll definitely love evangelion.

By the way, this anime is kind of deep and complicated. I myself needed 3 times to watch it before I understand the ending.

There are several Ending with some different stories/ending (but the same characters).

There are many stories of evangelion:
-Neon Genesis Evangelion (this series, the one you should watch first)
-The End of Evangelion (a movie, with a different ending)
-You Are [Not] Alone (A new movie. Alternate telling. It will be released on September 1 2007)
-Rebuild of Evangelion: 2.0 (sequel of You Are [Not] Alone)
-Rebuild of Evangelion: 3.0 (sequel of You Are [Not] Alone)
-Rebuild of Evangelion: Final (Sequel of You Are [Not] Alone)

There are also the manga:
- Neon Genesis Evangelion (alternate telling)
- Neon Genesis Evangelion: Angelic Days (alternate retelling, Spinoff of alternate universe in episode 26)


Overall rate: 4 stars! This anime is legendary. You definitely should watch this anime!

It's licensed since long ago. But you still can download it from http://www.veoh.com

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Lucky ☆ Star

Do you remember my last post? It’s about otaku. This anime will talk a lot about otaku. Actually in this anime there is only conversation. The characters will discuss about all unimportant trivial details (included every “phenomena” in anime or game) and analyze them with their limited logic. So it will be funny and stupid, we will also wondering why.

Since it is all conversation, I think I won’t give you a synopsis. I’ll just tell you their personality. And give you example of their conversation^^.

Characters:

-Izumi Konata. Konata is an athletic and energetic girl, but instead of joining sport club she decided to not join it, because if she joined it she will not be able to watch her favorite anime on TV. She is absolutely an anime, video game and manga otaku. She is very lazy. She never studies and always “invests” her time to play game. That makes her very good at playing video game. She never does her homework, but when she has to take an exam, she will get a good grade after studying all night long.

-Hiiragi Tsukasa. Tsukasa is actually a normal pure-hearted cute girl. But she is just as lazy as Konata. She always sleeps. But the difference is she will get a low grade because she is not good at studying. She is Kagami’s unidentical twin

-Hiiragi Kagami. Unlike Tsukasa, Kagami is very studious. She is also “black-hearted” compared to her sister.

-Takara Miyuki. Maybe she is the smartest among the others. She always answers the other’s questions calmly.

Now I tell you the example of their conversation.

Conversation 1:
-Konata: Hey Tsukasa, where do you start biting into a chocolate cornet?
-Tsukasa: Hmm.. From the head I suppose.
-Konata: I see. By the way, which one is the head?
-Tsukasa: I think it’s the narrow end.
-Konata: But I think it’s the wide end. So why do you think it’s the narrow one?
-Tsukasa: Let’s see. I think it’s because it looks like a seashell.
-Konata: I see. But I think it looks more like a caterpillar.
-Tsukasa: Caterpillar?! (;;-_-)
-Konata: Well, I think now seashell is a better image than caterpillar. So how do you eat strawberry cake? Do you eat the strawberry first or last?
-Tsukasa: I eat the strawberry last
-Konata: Hmm.. I eat the strawberry first
-Tsukasa: But sometimes I got too full and one of my families got the strawberry (;^_^)
-Konata: That’s why you should eat the strawberry first.

Conversation 2:
-Kagami: Konata, you should pay more attention to your social skill and play less game.
-Konata: Hohoho.. Despite it looks, I have friends more than 100. And I used to party every night with my friends. So I don’t have any problem with social skill.
-Kagami: Really?! Wow!
-Konata: Yes. I used to go to the tower and hunt monster with my friends.
-Kagami: So it’s a game after all. (#-_-)

Conversation 3:
Konata: Let’s take off your glasses.
Miyuki: Hm?
Konata: Hmm.. It doesn’t look like that. (;;-_-)
Miyuki: Hm?
Konata: In manga when a character with glasses ( @_@) takes off the glasses it would be like ( 3_3)
Miyuki: Sorry that I made you disappointed (;;^_^)
Konata: But I wonder why it is like that…



Overall rate: 3 stars.


If you tired with your daily life (or maybe worse: playing game all night long), I think this anime is a great comedy for refreshing (and maybe for eyes-opening for the otaku too).

you could download it on veoh.com (http://www.veoh.com)

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NANA

Lately I have been watching this Anime. I never thought that this is a good anime. And when I was browsing on veoh.com, I found many uploader of this anime. So I download it, because I think if there are so many uploader, this anime must be a great anime. And yes, this anime is very good.


Synopsis:

This anime tells about 2 girls named Nana. Komatsu “Hachi” Nana (She’s called “hachiko” because she’s being like the other Nana’s pet or dog) and Osaki Nana.





Hachi is a naïve and dependent cheerful girl who is always seeking for love and fall in love on the first sight. By the time she’s hurt by some guys, she will start fall in love again with another guy.

One day Hachi move to Tokyo, which is a big city, compared to her hometown, to start a new life and meet her boyfriend, Endo Shoji, who has moved to Tokyo first.

On the train she meets Nana, and start to make friend. Contrary to Hachi, Nana is a very independent serious girl with her pride.

Nana is a former band vocalist. She used to sing with her band, Black Stones or BLAST, in her hometown. But one day the bassist of the band, who is also her boyfriend, Honjou Ren, left the band to be the guitarist of a famous band in Tokyo known as “Trapnest”. That makes Nana and Ren broke up. Now she moves to Tokyo too to be a professional singer instead to meet Ren.

First Hachi thought that she will live together with her boyfriend, but Shoji insists her to live alone and independently. Then Hachi starts to find an apartment to live in. But accidentally Hachi and Nana are interested in the same apartment. So they decided to share apartment and live together.

Hachi and Nana are two best friends. They will help each other to solve their problem, love and career.

But somehow, when our best friend’s falling in love with someone, we will also feel that we are being abandoned.



I rate it 3 stars.

If you tired watching animes which characters have super ability or super personality, I think you should watch this anime.

Btw, the songs in this anime are superb!

you could download it at veoh.com (http://www.veoh.com)

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Higurashi no Naku Koro ni

This time is a psycho one. How can an anime be psycho? Imagine that there are cute little girls (about 6-12 years old). You know all of them. You play with them everyday. Imagine that you are new guy on that village, and you hear about some fishy rumors and you end up with suspecting your friends. Imagine that since the day you suspecting your friends, they always bring a HUGE knife, but they said that they still want to be your friends and don’t want to lose you, while they’re STILL carrying the knife. Imagine that you could be stabbed from your back anytime.


And then, imagine that you kill them by smashing their head with baseball stick!

Synopsis:

Maebara Keichi is a new boy in a village called Hinamizawa. Keichi is just an ordinary boy, he used to using his free time with his friends at the club.

The club’s member:

-Ryuugu Rena. She is actually also a transfer student. She’s transferred because she causes an incident by breaking the entire windows in her school. But she seems to have a caring personality.

-Sonozaki Mion. She is a member of the ruler family of the village. Therefore she supervises and takes care everything happened in the village. She is actually tomboy.

-Furude Rika. She is younger than Keichi. She is a member of the priest family. She is just so cute, but sometimes she is like another person, saying something deep and mysterious.

-Houjou Satoko. She is Rika’s classmate. She is a naughty cheerful girl. But it seems she had some incident regarding his brother, Satoshi.

One day, Keichi figures out that there was an incident in that village. A man was mutilated, but his friends don’t tell him the truth about it. And there is also a curse by Oyashiro-sama, which curses everybody who leaves the village. And every year there is always some people who are spirited away during the Watanagashi.

Keichi is very confused, because his friends are definitely hiding something. Then a police officer comes to him, and asking for information regarding the incident and the curse. He also tells Keichi about the background of his friends, and tells him to be careful.

That makes Keichi scared and cautious. He started to suspect his friends, and put the worst scenario that he would be killed. So he should gather information, and keep himself safe.

I rate this anime 3.5 stars.

Higurashi no Naku Koro ni is an anime with new genre, because it mixed loli anime with thriller.

This anime will end by 4 episodes, but it will start all over again with the same setting, the same time line, the same character, but with a different scenario. When we watch this anime, we should gather information and think about the fact so that we know the truth of that village’s history and about oyashiro-sama’s curse.

Sorry that I couldn’t give you much synopsis, because it will end up as a spoiler. But this is a great anime. Watching it makes me fall into the darkness. It breaks my heart seeing that cute girls to be cold blood killers or victims.

You can only watch it on crunchyroll ( http://www.crunchyroll.com ) or veoh.com ( http://www.veoh.com ), because it’s licensed already.


By the way, lately the sequel of this anime is released, titled “Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai” , But you wouldn't understand unless you watch Higurashi no Naku Koro ni (without Kai) first, so enjoy^^

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Lovely Complex

Lately I have been watching this anime. Somehow I just love drama comedy anime like Honey & Clover, Ouran High School Host Club, and this one, Lovely Complex.


Synopsis:

Koizumi Risa is a very tall girl. She is always having bad luck with love because her height. She hadn’t gone for a date in her life. One day, she should take the summer class because she was dozing off on the ceremony. On the summer class she saw a boy named Suzuki. He is taller than she is. She is fallen for him instantly.

Reading her feeling, a boy named Ootani Atsushi comes to her and offers her a deal to fix Koizumi and Suzuki but she should fix Ootani and Tanaka, the girl Ootani likes. Ootani is actually Koizumi’s biggest enemy. They always fight over small things.

Contrary to Koizumi, Ootani is very short. He is always called as midget. He is quite popular actually, but he seems to have problem with love too.

So they all go to the pool, but they haven’t succeeded because of their height. But they haven’t given up. They make a bet who will find a girl/boyfriend first.

Although Koizumi and Ootani always fight over small things, they are actually best friends because of their personality. But that friendship could be love.



I rate it 2 stars.

I like this anime because I love to see how could they fall in love, and see how their height could be a problem (because I don’t have problem with my height^^)

You could download it from animesuki ( http://www.animesuki.com ).

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Ouran High School Host Club

Ok, those are serious animes (except Honey & Clover). This time I’ll give you a very funny anime. Ouran High School Host Club.

Synopsis:

Fujioka Haruhi, a normal student in a very prosperous high school who always studies hard. Haruhi is actually popular because Haruhi is the only commoner in that school.

One day Haruhi was looking for a quite place to study, but it’s noisy everywhere because the rich go to school just for play. So Haruhi went to the music hall, but haruhi found a host club.

Host club is actually a club for handsome rich guys, who have time to give hospitality to those lovely ladies who also have time and profit off of them.

But Haruhi made a mistake by shattering a vase. So that Haruhi’s in debt for 8 million yen (around 80.000 dollar). So Haruhi should pay the debt by being the club’s dog. But Haruhi isn’t doing a good job. For example, the club told Haruhi to buy coffee.. but Haruhi bought an instant coffee, which those rich bastards, I mean people, never drink before (they drink espresso). They didn’t even know that there is instant coffee. For them, it’s too “common”. So they’re scared to drink it.

But the club realizes that Haruhi has definitely a charm. So they decided to make haruhi as a host.

There are 6 members of the club (exclude Haruhi):

-Suou Tamaki. He is the leader of this club. Although he has the leadership skill and is loved by his member, he believes too much to people. But he is definitely a good man with a simple and unique personality. He is the prince type host, the king, and the father of this club.

-Ootori Kyouya. He is the cool type host. Kyouya is very smart. He should study hard to make his father satisfied. He is the manager of this host, he take care the accounting part. He is also the "mother" of this club.

-Hitachiin Hikaru and Hitachiin Kaoru. These twins always sell brotherly love for their customer. They are very naughty and make everything as their toy. They seem always cheerful, but they actually have problem because no one has recognized them as hikaru or kaoru because they are very identical.

-Haninozuka Mitsukuni (a.k.a Honey). He is the lolishota type host (lolishota means young boy under 17 who is very cute). He likes to eat cake and something sweet. Despite it looks, he is very good at martial art.

-Morinozuka Takashi (a.k.a Mori). He is the wild type host. He always baby sits Honey and protects him. He is very good in kendo.

Despite their look, they have their own rich people problem. Haruhi seems to be their savior. Vise versa, these rich people want to improve their relation with Haruhi, but it seems like a different dimension, dimension of the commoner.


I’ll rate it 3 or 4 stars.. well , it’s 3 ½ stars^^

This anime is super funny. There is a lot of hyperbolism.

You should definitely watch this anime.

You can download it at everyanime ( http://www.everyanime.com ). (the torrent is very slow, there are just few seeders since it isn't new anime)

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Claymore

Phew.. I want to share this anime.. I can tell you the interesting part of the story, but it will end up as a spoiler because it has a flash back for 4 episodes.

Hmm.. how about this? I’ll tell you the main story without tell you when, or who of those scene. Ok?


Synopsis:

There is a time when villages were attacked by monsters called “Yoma”. Yoma can also disguise as a human. Yoma like to eat human’s guts.

In order to raid these Yoma, villagers usually ask reinforcement from “Claymore”. Claymores are silver-eyed female swordsmen half-human and half-Yoma. Because they’re half-Yoma, people are usually scared asking for their help. Claymores can also partially transform into Yoma, but if they cross a certain limit, they will never change back and turn into Yoma.

The main character in this anime named Clare. She is a Claymore, but not special one. Her job just like any other Claymore, to find Yoma in the city then kill them. Her character's just like any other Claymore too, cold and emotionless.

One day he met a boy named Raki. Raki has lost both of his parents because a Yoma killed them, because of that Raki has no one to live with. Then Clare takes him as a cook. Raki accompanies Clare through her missions.

Clare’s past:

Every Claymore was once a human, so was Clare. She has no one to live with, because she had lost her parents, since then she was a Yoma’s toy. One day a Claymore named Teresa slashed the Yoma. Since that day Clare clung to Teresa. Teresa was actually the number one Claymore (the strongest Claymore).

But one day Teresa killed human in order to protect Clare. Claymores have a rule that they must not kill human regardless the condition, those who violate this rule should be executed. But Teresa wanted to stay live for Clare. That makes the organization sent number 2 to number 5 to hunt for Teresa’s head. Of course they didn’t make it.

But the situation changed when 1 of them turned into Yoma and kill the other except Clare. In order to take revenge, Clare decided to be a Claymore.


I rate this anime 4 stars.

Before you download it, I want you to know that episodes 1 to 4 are kind of boring. Well, it’s not boring actually, but filler-like episodes. They are just ordinary missions. But since it’s about the main story, episodes 5 above are superb! You should definitely watch this anime!

You can download it from torrent (animesuki.com) and everyanime ( http://www.everyanime.com ) (it's direct download^^ so it will be fast)

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Black Lagoon

Next anime.. this anime’s kind of brutal, and a little bit adult. And deep.. a little bit like the Godfather. If you like Godfather, and you like something chaotic, like Gangs of New York, I think you should watch this anime!

Synopsis:

Okajima Rokuro is just a normal businessman. His normal day consists of social drinking with clients and being kicked around by his bosses.

He finally gets a break though, as he’s sent by his company to the tropical seas of Eastern China to deliver a disc…only his boat gets hijacked by a mercenary company, The Lagoon Company, that were hired to steal it. “Rock” (as he is newly dubbed by his captors) catches the interest of the only female mercenary “Revy” as she thinks he’s worth a ransom, taking him hostage.

However, the disc turns out to be more trouble than its worth, and complicates things both for Rock, and the Lagoon, because Rock’s company doesn’t even bother thinking of him as a hostage.

Betrayed by his company, Rock decides to join the Lagoon although he’s a good man. Rock proves his quality as the intelligent one by planning strategies and his art of approaching.

The Lagoon has 3 members (exclude Rock):

Revy. She is a gunslinger know as “Two-Hands”, it’s because her skill using two gun. She is a very short-tempered and brash girl.

Dutch. He is the boss of this company. He used to baby sit Revy, because Revy seems to be out of control.

Benny. He used to deal with computers and electronics. He joined the Lagoon after Revy saved his ass.

The Lagoon based in a city called Roanapur. Roanapur is simply a city without law and full of murderer, trickster, prostitute, rapist, gangster, veteran, etc.

Rock’s always having hard times with this chaotic city, while he’s keeping his good-man ideology.


Actually I want to rate it 4 stars, but because not all of us could like this anime (because this anime’s very deep and has like-novel language), I’ll rate it 3 stars.

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