But here's what you guys probably want to hear more. The anime part of my break. So I was about to crank out a bunch of new anime (or at least new to me). So I figure I would do a little anime review of them.
Episode Count: 12
Thoughts:
Its a really nice short well animated anime. Especially since I'm used to stuff like Gundam from Bandai, its nice to see something that isn't a long mecha anime. Not that mecha anime are bad. Its theme song I think is also top notch being played by the glorious Fictionjunction (Gundam SEED opening anyone?)
The story is about a guy that happens to have this weird power to transform. Other people in the world have this power and are categorized by those that can control it (the Light Stones) and those that cannot (the Dark Stones). With the help of a very attached female protagonist, that helps him to control his power, they fight the Dark Stones and learn of the secret conspiracy behind the stones.
In term of plot development it isn't all that bad considering the episode count, but I think what made me really stick with this anime was that it had its typical high school love drama, good face paced action, and the theme song.
Opening:
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Title: Sword Art Online
Episode Count: 24
Thoughts:
I cannont praise this anime for what it is. I actually didn't know much about it until my friend came over to my place, sat me down and convinced me to watch this anime by well...making me watch the anime. In turn I really appreciate for what he did, cause I don't regret spending a weekend of my break to watch this. It like Sacred Seven has great smooth and "glittery," for lack of a better word, action scenes. (From all the CGI) It has a stereotypical love story in it, but I think it develops well. You understand the reasons why the characters do what they do and what's best is that they make the characters relatable.
So a little bit of back story, this show was originally adapted from a novel, similar to Toradora. And boy am I glad that they did. Novels, from my experience, tend to have better stories and flow a bit better than stories first adapted into the anime medium.
The idea behind this anime is that a boy plays a state of the art video game with a state of the art adaptive device called the Nerve Gear which allows a person to experience they game using his/her own senses. The kicker of the anime is that the creator of the game traps them all in the game and tells the players that if they die in the game the Nerve Gear will fry their brains in the real world with the only way to get out is to beat the game.
It does have its dark side but the anime does dive well into the complicated concept of living life in a virtual world as opposed to that in the real world. It also addresses the more complicated topic of "if you spend time in the virtual world does count as living?". If anything you can take this idea one step further and say its really asking,"what does a person truly consider as the meaning of living" and what do you do when you're idea of that is turned on its head. Do you try to fight your way back to your old life, or do you just succumb to your situations and adapt to your new world?
Sword Art Online brings up a lot of interesting ideas like this, as the main character spends nearly 2 years in the game with 10,000 other players. Which warrants this to be an anime not only to be purely used for enjoyment but also for careful analysis. Out of any medium, I believe that Sword Art Online has been able to best answer these questions and to provide a nice story to go along with it.
Season 2 is a little weird though, mind you. Don't tell me I didn't warn you.
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