When I first looked at the graphics and the way the characters are drawn, I thought to myself,
I drew stuff like this when I was 12. I had the first impression that this was one of those animes that won't really leave a lasting impression on me.
How wrong I was.
By the end of the first episode, I had a BIG WIDE SMILE on my face, and I told myself, this is
good. I consumed one episode upon another. This is one anime that I would want my future children to watch and learn from. Yes, LEARN from.
This is an anime that has made me laugh, and made me cry, both at their extremes. It can be totally hilarious, but at times, but it can also be very deep and touching.
Why One Piece is so enjoyable
The characters are well balanced, and each of them has very unique traits that set them apart from each other. Each of them has their own dreams, their own pain, and their own inner struggles. Yet despite their differences, they are tied by the strong bond of being
nakama, which means something like a friend, or companion, but something much much deeper.
Luffy the Gomu Gomu (Devil's Fruit)
User, the captain of the pirate ship
Going Merry, is someone who rushes into a situation without a plan. If there is a plan, most probably he won't be able to follow it anyway--he doesn't use his mind to think. He acts based on his guts. His dream is to become the Pirate King!
Zoro the PirateHunter. He carries three katanas (swords). His dream is to become the greatest swordsman in the world.
Nami the Navigator. Nami started off as a thief stealing gold from other pirates. She has a deep reason for doing so, which is only disclosed far into the later episodes. She hates pirates, but decided to join Luffy's crew for her own 'selfish' reasons. Her battle skills are normal, however she gets stronger through the help of Ussopp's invention: the Clima Tact. Her dream is to completely map the world.
Ussopp the Liar. Well, Ussopp the Inventor. Hehe. But Ussopp is actually a pun for the word lie in japanese. Ussopp is the boy who cried wolf. Since the day his mother was sick, he would cry out to his village that pirates are coming, since his father is a pirate. Compared to the battle strengths of Luffy and Zoro, his skills are pretty normal. He's usually the first to freak out from a threat. In the much later parts of the episode, he invents weapons for use by Nami.
Sanji the Cook. His battle style is using his feet. He is an apprentice of a very fierce pirate. And he cooks good. His goal is to find
ALL BLUE, the sea where all the fish in the world meet, and where he can get those fish and cook them yumm yumm.
Chopper. Chopper is also a Devil's Fruit user. He transforms from a little reindeer, to a big gorilla, to a large hair ball, to a fast reindeer, to a powerful horn deer, and to a gigantic, destructive monster. He's the ship's doctor. Next to Ussopp, he also freaks out at danger.
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I actually wasn't expecting much from this anime. I wasn't really moved much by the first 12 episodes. But I deeply enjoyed the ending, the way I would enjoy watching Alucard in Hellsing. Now, the ending, THAT pumped some adrenaline.
At first, I thought this was one of those serious type animes, and so I stopped at the first 10 minutes and decided that the drawings of the unnatural beings are too childishly freaky. The idea of such things existing in the real world could give me nightmares! Anyway, upon watching it again, I found that it was actually quite fun. Especially when Madara, or Nyako-chan came into the story.
Clannad sort of has the same feel as Air. It's a lite anime. I particularly like the art, graphics, and animation. Especially the background music and sound effects. This is to be expected from the same producers as with Air.
Weird, but adorable characters. The ache at finding that some of the characters are dreams, fading. The company of friends. I'm just babbling ideas that come to mind when I think of Clannad, but I guess it summarizes some of what this anime is about.
I found this anime quite okay. But it gets better in the later episodes. It's sort of a school love story, that progresses (sort of jumps) from high school, to college, to their adult life. Now I'm not so much into mushy animes, but I found some scenes quite sweet, and I can relate with some of the challenges faced by the couple Naoki and Kotoko.
Back when this was still on TV, I found it quite an interesting idea to have the ghost of a samurai as your source of power. So it's a battle between shamans who can use the power of their comrade spirit and gain the skills of that certain spirit.
Love Hina is a really fun anime about a guy who finds himself in a situation where he is surrounded by women--his grandmother who owns a female dormitory suddenly decides to go on a vacation and leaves him to manage the place.
Chobits is an anime about a world where computers come in the form of PersoCons--computers that come in the form of people.
l was a bit bored watching the first few episodes of Serial Experiments Lain. You could put it in the weird and surreal genre. I'm not really against those kings of animes, but so far, this anime still hasn't captured me. I guess I'd prefer watching weird animated movies by Hayao Miyazaki for example, or something like Madlax. Madlax is weird, but it has cool action scenes that make up for it.
D.Gray Man's concept is quite nice, however, I think it needs to be done again. Like, produced by another team or something. There are just some scenes that make me want to scream at the producer or somthing, or whoever's fault that is.
Monkey D. Luffy's family is really powerful. For one, Gold Roger was THE pirate king. His name was really Gol D. Roger (I only noticed this after watching the One Piece episodes thrice, I believe it was Doctorine who mentioned it indirectly, saying Gol D., and commenting about "Gold"... "So that's what they call him nowadays, Gold Roger."). Ace D. Portgas, one of the strongest among Whitebeard's crew is his brother. The vice admiral and giant friend of Nico Robin was also a D.
Claymore is a 26 episode anime that tells the story of Clare, one of the warriors hired by a secret Order that is the only force that keeps creatures called Yoma at bay. Yoma are creatures that rely on human organs as their food, and are thus feared throughout the land. Humans are basically no match against a Yoma.
Rurouni Kenshin, also known as Samurai X, is an anime about the wandering samurai, Kenshin Himouri. He is known as Batousei the Manslayer (hito-kiri), one of the most deadly killing machines in Japan.
This anime is COOL. This is about the Hellsing Institution and their local vampire Alucard, (Dracula in reverse). This anime simply gives me goosebumps everytime Alucard rises from a pretty torn up shape. You could chop his body in bullets, cut his head, pierce him with sacred blades, but he's simply INVINCIBLE. He is a Class A vampire with really cool powers. Yes, COOL is the word. Enemies can tear him to pieces, but no matter what they do, he just won't be defeated. He can rise back from the dead, and destroy anyone who stands in his way.
