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Jun 18, 2009
Noein
3 of 3 found this helpful Noein is very common. Got it at a sale at Borders.
Plot: Noein is, as agree with other reviewers, a very weird and sometimes confusing anime to watch and understand. The story takes place during summer vacation at a coastal city where Haruka and friends are running around and having fun expect for Yue. Yue's mother is overprotective of her son and makes him study for her safety. Out of this, Haruka convinces Yue (I can't remember) to go on nightoutting to look for ghosts that have been spotted in a local graveyard. However the kids get more than they bargained.
They met a postapolyatic future group. They have a connection to the past but they argue over what to do with Haruka. Haruka haves a mystic necklace called the Dragon Torque which is able to stop the timestream or change it. Some members of the group want to off her to save their future, while others think she doesn't have anything to do with the future and leave her alone, or protect her to save their future. But most of the characters are used as pawns by the deity known as Noein, who finishes to destroy all of reality. The characters struggle to save the present timeline and all realities of the timestream.
Art: Art is very good for the Nice character designs and computer graphics. But from the box set art in back, I thought it would be a very violent anime. It is not really but adds to the confusion. When it gets weird with the art is with the Aeon Flux-looking future characters/monsters of the story. Though not bad, some of it gets really outageous (like future Ai) but it does add to the creepiness of the dysutopia that the future is in.
English voice acting: Perfect. Nothing is mismatch or sound bad for it.
Good or bad: Noein is a enjoyable anime that makes you want to see the end. It does give the feeling of freshness with its unusal plot but most of the sci-fi time travel themes are nothing new to the genre. What gets confusing is with science talk (which they use to make as a joke in the series but anyone is use to sci-fi should know what they are talking about in layman themes. However the writers fail to examine some of the jokes in the shows (such as the cat in the box) which should have been confusing by some viewers of what it means. Action is good through (alot of butt-kicking moments and energy blasting attacks all around.
Also some plot elements were very confusing and not dealt with properly (such as the origin of the Dragon Torque or why Haruka is allowed to wield it? Why does the pink/red haired future woman not the younger pink haired girl. It could have been pretty obvious).
I would have it to stay it is between good and average with average a strong tendacy towards about average due to the weirdness.
May 29, 2009
A cult classic-The Drifting Classroom
2 of 2 found this helpful Read through about Vol. 4 of an online translation of it.
Drifting Classroom (DC) is a 1970s manga and award-winning at that. With a Lord of the Flies feel and post-end of the world future, it is a very terrfying and haunting sci-fi manga.
The main character is Sho, a 6th grader at a Japanese elementary school. At the beginning, he gets into a fight with his mother over some toys she throw out. His mother tells him that he needs to grow up and be mature for his age. Sho tells her he doesn't want to see her again and marches off to school. What happens next is that the school gets transported through a explosion to a very dry, desert alien world.
With the strange situation they are in and unable to perceive what happend, some of the character go insane; especially the adults. The most terrifying is the lunch delievery man. He, like most of the people at the school, realizes that the only food left for them is the one he delievered in the truck. He starts attacking students who try to get food and even takes a girl hostage. He does this in order to keep all the food to himself. Sho and the others lead an assault on him, being able to capture the lunch deliever and confine him into a locker. Then Sho's teacher goes insane and kills all of the teachers after he learns the true nature of the world they were in. He tries to kill Sho but he is able to get rid of him.
DC is mainly a psychological thriller of horror. Through the manga so far, characters's realizations/declining of their situations or treatment towards others impacts how they survive during the series. For example, Sachiko, a classmate of Sho's, haves a little brother who runs out into the desert to go home. He collapses and everybody is afraid to go out; especially the adults who fear possible radition. But the kids spy on the teachers later on and hearing them being glad of the student's death for it gives more available food to the teachers. However despite hearing them, they continue to believe Sho's teacher is good and believe his story of the teachers' suicides (due to his being kind to other students before his discovery). Their lack of concern would cause more deaths later on in the series.
Despite the great psychological drama, the series does have it problems. Some of the characters' looks scream sterotypes of the genres and they look like they can play the part easily. But despite all the violence of the series, violence is really tone down due to being originally published in a young boys' comic book. It shows one character got run over by a car, with his face facing the tire. His head should have been sqush like a bug with a foot coming on it. It should have been more sensible if they did a cut-away with blood being seen only. However due to its age (this was made during the 1970s), this should have been proper for the time.
This is a good series so far from what I read. It is very hard to find at stores but if you find it, it is highly recommended. Brillant plot and good characters makes the money spent on it worthwhile.
May 13, 2009
An Person with Autism/Magna fan reviews With the Light
2 of 2 found this helpful Paid $16.99 Available:common
With the Light is the story of Sachiko Azuma, her low functioning autistic son, Hikaru, and those around them. This award-winning series's format in storytelling is like For Better or Worse with the characters growing up, comedy situations, and facing serious issues such as child abuse and mental disorder discrimination.
Story for Vol.1-The story begins with the birth of Hikaru by Sachiko and her husband, Mastaro. The Azumas are like any normal and to the standards Japanese family. Mastaro is a rising corp. executive while Sachiko is the faithful and peeky housewife to him. But Hikaru breaks the mold and problems within the marriage start to show. Mastaro is really a work-alcholic husband who gives little time or care to his wife or son. Sachiko becomes unhappy and depressed over the situation of her son. Declining that there were problems with her son and husband for a time, she finally seeks help after an embarrassing incident.
Though she gets help, problems with the marriage continue. After Sachiko gets impatient with Hikaru and slaps him to calm him, Mastaro and her get into a fight over how the problem could be handled. Sachiko decides to leave her husband, believing that he is not helping with the welfare of their son. Mastaro finally collapses from his work and realizes his mistake.
WTL does this scenario several times throughout the series. Character does not understand what autism is, and does something hurtful to the Azuma family or someone else. Then the character reforms. That might not be good for the average manga reader.
For those who have autism, people who work or know them, this is a good book to have. It gives situations and solutions to problems on how to handle problems with living with someone with autism. For example, showing them cards with pictures and asking what they want from them to give them a freedom of choice. It is very simple though it should be remember that Tobe is not a professional physician or doctor, and should be handled carefully. Another positive with the story is that it clearly defines what a lower-autism is and what are the syptoms of the disorder. There is even charts for such help in the book.
Besides the story, Tobe provides testimony of real doctors, parents with autistic children, and autistics themselves. This is what makes up for the fact that people don't take the story seriously.
Art is average for the book. There are not alot of tones or fancifulness to the drawings.
Overall, With the Light is a good guide to autism but not a solid story with it predictness. It also one of those stories where it is hard to see how the average audience of manga (teens to 20s) will react to it. I haven't heard alot among American otakus, but it seems to be popular in Japan and critically-acclaim with winning awards and being adopted for a T.V. series.
So, check out WTL and have fun with it.
Update not: The author, Keiko Tobe, haves passed away recently (Jan 2010). WTL was on hitabus when the author told sick leave. I have heard nothing so far if the story will be continued in her absence or not. The manga (the present edition-Yen Press will be 7 volumes