WANGAN MIDNIGHT RUN

Wangan Midnight Run, one of some car racing anime series that I have seen. This one is more like Initial D without the drifting, downhill and uphill race. This one much more like random race along the highway with drivers who wants to push their cars to its limits by upgrading parts and tuning the engine beyond the limit.

Written by Michiharu Kusunoki the manga came out around 1990 to 2008 with 42 volumes under the publisher Kodansha.

Another manga came out again by Michiharu Kusunoki 2009 to 2012 with 12 volumes under the same publisher Kodansha.

Third manga 2014 to 2015 by Michiharu Kusunoki under the publisher Shogakukan with 2 volumes.

All manga I have not read a single one up to now.

Anime series adaptation came out 2007 to 2008 directed by Tsueno Tominaga through studio A.C.G.T. with 26 episodes.

The series follows the young car freak Akio Asakura who owned a red Fairlady Z (Z31) at the start of the series. Driving along with his friend in high school posing as university students with the ladies with them in the car. Later a black Porche passed them and Akio recognized the Porche as the Blackbird. He attempted to pass the Blackbird by challenging it to a race but they were left to eat the dust.

Jumping along Akio was told about a wrecked Fairlady Z in a car junkyard by Ko-chan a fellow car freak. Akio hurried to see the Fairlady Z and ended up seeing the blue Z30 almost a total wreck but the engine intact and all the shocks were still in place. He bought the car even though he was already warned by the junkyard employee that the car was said to be turned into a total wreck before it falls into another driver. The car was believed to be cursed or something since there has been three owners before Akio that met a very not so good fate. Being the fourth owner of the car Akio still bought it and repaired the vehicle back to its original state or close to it. Another name for the Fairlady Z30 is the DEVIL Z.

The original owner of the Fairlady Z30 was also named Akio Asakura and lived in the same town as the current Akio Asakura. But the original owner ended up dead during a race with the rival Blackbird being driven by his friend Tatsumi Shima who now a sort of guardian of the younger sister of "Original Akio" Eriko Asakura.

Reina Akikawa a fashion model and TV personality who also race in the night after work and she drives the GT-R. Along the story she passed by the Fairlady Z30 one night while driving. Meeting Akio and tried to drive the Fairlady and almost ended up dead, she still tried to race the Devil Z and Akio but the gap was too much for her and her car even after all the upgrades and tuning.

The entire series is all about cars and the racers that drive each car which in turn almost similar to Initial D where racers wage with their pride as the best drivers in their territory. But here in Wangan Midnight Run it does not seem like territory is at stake but only the pride of the racer and the tuner of the car.

In this series the cars also seems to be alive and is choosing its driver which is how it was described by some of the characters. Akio being the chosen one of the Devil Z as its true driver and the other cars that at first was seemed to be the drivers were the ones being pulled to race the Devil Z but it turns out the cars were the ones telling their drivers to race the Devil Z and try to win.

Also just like the Inital D this series also had its own arcade game where gamers gets a magnetic card where they can store the racing data and tuning of their chosen vehicle. One vehicle one magnetic card.

I also got a chance to play the game and raced with a number of racing gamers, My vehicle was also the Fairlady Z but I was not as lucky in this game as I was in strategy RPG  games. In the game there are race course that requires the skills to drift and good control on the driving wheel. in most arcade machines the driving wheel control were all messed up due to some players that has no or less respect to the machines and to those who will play after them. The arcade machine also has a gear shifter that looks like an actual manual gear shifter on real cars and not just the up and down shifters that were installed on the Initial D arcade games. One thing on racing arcade machines most of it has no clutch pedal but only with acceleration pedal and break pedal I guess it is for those gamers who wants to use the Automatic shifting option rather than having one hand on the steering wheel and the other on the shifter.

The anime series has also received a lot of fan made stories having Akio driving through some road and passing by the Ghost of Akina, Takumi Fujiwara and ends up racing with one another. The Devil Z vs the The Ghost of Akina, which car is faster and which driver has the real skills to drive and race using machines that can push itself beyond the limit.

So this anime series which I got hooked on from start to finish was really interesting no blood, gore, flying limbs, fanservice, mecha, super robot. Just plain guys and gals with their cars and tools in tuning the cars and having a race in the middle of the night until the sun comes out. Yeah racers running their engines on full until the sun comes out and greet them. Not sure if there are real life racers that does the same thing in Japan or any other place here in the Philippines or other countries.

There was also a live action film that came out and I was able to watch it as well. The adaptation of the manga to anime to live action seemed to be real close (I was able to read some manga but I never got through 1/4 of the entire volume which is why I never counted reading it sorry). The transition of the story of the racer/driver Akio in the series from a car enthusiast to someone who looked like who was possessed by the Fairlady Z30 was slow but you can see his addiction to the speed that the car will give out not mention on his first actual ride for the Fairlady he almost died when he lost control of the steering and the the car crashed on the the same spot where the first owner Akio died which looked like the possessed car wanted to kill its new driver on the same place where the original owner died.

Would I recommend this series to anyone? Yes I will recommend this series to anyone even though the viewer has no interest in car themed anime they might start to get hooked not only because of the upbeat opening theme but also the story of the series from start to end is really interesting to follow and no dull moments unless you don't want to listen to some car freaks talking about how the engine works and how to customize the body kit of the car for it to have the required down force and how to get the speed up beyond the limits.

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source material wikipedia

and my personal experience when I watched the series

REMI SANS FAMILLE

Remi Sans Famille and upcoming film and live action adaptation of the Remi Sans Famille novel by Hector Malot in 1878. Title translated to English as Nobody's Boy.

Personally I have not read the novel so the only comparison i can do is between the animated version and the live action. Well not really a comparison but only a quick review of the anime series that originally aired in 1977 to 1978 and a movie which I also never got to see that came out in 1980.

The Nobody's Boy Remi anime was aired and became part of my 80's cartoon series that I have watched. Not one of my favorite but this seemed to have become one of the forgotten anime series since the only series that many remembers was the Remi Nobody's Girl version that came out much later.

Three opening versions that I know (credits to the owners of the videos)

Two versions of the anime adaptation of the novel although the boy Remi is the closest to the novel since it took the same male character for Remi.

The girl Remi came out in year 1996 to 1997 so this one is on my 90's cartoons/anime list. This series was the most remembered version for most people that I had a chance to talk about the story I guess because this had more charm and it came out much later than the boy version.

Both stories are almost similar both boy and girl version had the same story lay out both were sold to a travelling old man who performs for a living. Remi was sold by the foster family in order to have money.

Remi traveled in different places and cities performing on streets as he/she got used to her/his new life as a street performer with the old man named Vitalis along with the animal performers a monkey and a dog. Cannot recall if both version had same set of animals in their troupe a monkey, french bulldog, two dogs which I have no idea what breed.

The story started off with a not so good kick off for the story a real heavy drama for an anime and for those who's tears are easy to come out yes you might cry in both versions but so far most I have talked to cried a lot in the girl version.

The story came out as a tragic one since along the travels of Remi with Vitalis and the animals one by one the companions died having only Remi, Jolicour (monkey) and Capi (dog) was left to survive on their own while performing and travelling from one place to another.

Reviewing some articles on Wiki for the two versions the stories of both versions were hardly changed since most human characters had the same names and only Remi got the gender change for the story. Both were stolen when they were babies and the mothers were looking for Remi ever since.

Both went through similar hardships as they travel their worlds striving to survive the harsh world where in order to survive one must earn the food they put in their mouths and shelter to live in.

Very true to how the actual world runs since not everything is for free and that a person needs to push each day to work in order to survive and provide for their families.

The story ended not the same but in a way both Remi's got their wish and got a family to whom they can return to and say they are home.

Which ever version of Remi for me is a great story to watch and may be once I get a copy of the novel I will read it.

As for the upcoming live action adaptation film by a French Film movie production I might get a copy of it. As for my tears to come out... not sure I haven't cried for a film for a long time now.

Recommend to watch anime yes recommended to read novel I can say yes since the anime adaptations were really good.

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source material wikipedia

VISIONARIES

Classic 80's cartoons, not really much about this series since I don't know if I was able to finish this one.

Originally aired in 1987 and I don't know what year this was aired here in the Philippines but one thing I somehow remember, the series was aired in two versions. One version was English dubbed and the other was Tagalog Dubbed.

Aired as an afternoon cartoon I think and the story covers what seemed to be a post apocalyptic Earth where technology has reached its peak and has destroyed civilizations. Humans has returned to the Dark Ages and the age of Knights and Swords or other primitive way of living since technology has been long forgotten.

A battle between two kingdoms was raging on in this story between the forces of Leoric leader of the Spectral Knights and Darkstorm of the Darkling Lords. Merklynn a wizard one day appeared in front of the knights and offered assistance by giving them magic. Those who can receive the magic are those who will finish the race that he has made for the knights.

The magic consist of animal totems being placed on the chest piece of the armors and those who have staves were granted additional powers that can help them.

Later on along the story some vehicles were found trashed and were found out that it can run with magic. So this also shows that Magic and Technology were being used before the destruction of civilization.

Kind of weird too to see that the one of the machines had the capability to remove totems disabling the user or even trapping the user in their animal form just like what happened to Leoric on one episode where he got trapped in his lion form and was said to be a possessed beast.

For a classic series this was one of my favorites when it comes to old school cartoons of the 80's and 90's and if given a chance to get a copy of this series I will have some kids of the right age to watch this, not really violent or even have any foul languages and no blood and gore as far as I can remember.

Recommended as an old school cartoon series for those looking

Yes

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REVIEW FUSHIGI YUGI

Fushigi Yugi also known as Mysterious Play and Curious Play, released in Japan in Manga, Anime, OVA and Light Novel.

This review will only cover the anime version which is the only thing I was able to watch.

The TV series aired in 1995 in Japan with 52 episodes and 9 OVA in from 1995 to 1998 and another OVA titled Fushigi Yugi Eikoken from 2001 to 2002 with 4 episodes.

Fushigi Yuugi not really in my list of favorite anime that I have seen. But the opening theme really got me and during the time this was aired I have very few options to watch since this was aired right before the evening news.

The series starts off with two high school girls Miaka and Yui, going to a library checking out some books (cannot really recall if they were going to study or do their assignments) they find a book and starts reading it. Later a flash of light suddenly burst out of the book and later only Yui is left inside the library near the book and Miaka was nowhere to be found. out of curiosity Yui started reading the book and sees that Miaka was inside the book. Panicking she later reads on following Miaka's sudden adventure inside the book.

Miaka realizing that she is no longer inside the library and noticing that the people around her are all wearing outfits of ancient China and later meeting the first person that will change her life forever. Meeting Tamahome she begins her life inside the book figuring out how to return to her own world. Later meeting the fourth emperor Hotohori, she realized she was inside the book that she was reading along with Yui and she was later said to be a destined priestess of the god Suzaku and she needs to find her guardians who bears a mark of a chosen warrior of Suzaku.

The warriors included Tamahome, Hotohori, Chichiri (wandering priest), Nuriko (crossdressing guy in the group), Tasuki (a former bandit), Mitsukake (group healer), Chiriko (the youngest member of the group)

Yui later along the story ends up inside the book as well but her fate was not as good as Miaka who was found by a gentle person, Yui was found by a bunch of hooligans who cornered her and thought of Miaka would try and help her but to no avail. She was found by Nakago the warrior of Seryu and was the one who told Yui that she is the destined priestess of the god Seryu. The same as Miaka she is to locate her own warriors but compared to Miaka, Yui's warriors were close by and seemed to be ready for her arrival

Seryu warriors, Nakago, Amiboshi and his twin Suboshi, Soi, Ashitare, Miboshi. Having her own set of warriors complete right away and all ready for combat they prepare to fight the warriors of Suzaku.

The Priestesses to be chosen gets to have one their wish granted by the god that they represent, but there was a condition the priestess is to remain a virgin until the ceremony which I got confused of. Yui was thought of to have been defiled when she was found by Nakago and Miaka was tricked to make her think that Nakago got his way with Miaka making her loose her virginity.

In the end of the series where almost all warriors of both sides were almost killed in the battle Miaka was the one who got her wish granted. So I guess she realized she is still a virgin.

The series later got some OVA telling the story of the characters after their adventure inside the book. Everyone were still alive and Tamahome was reincarnated in the real world as Taka. Both Miaka and Taka meet and remembers everything from the time they met inside the book and started going out and later marries.

So yeah spoilers for those who has not seen the series.

There are other anime series that has similar theme as Fushigi Yugi one of them is another series that I managed to finished which is Ayashi no Ceres which I will make a review on.

The fight scenes well I know there were a lot of cuts but I have no urge to re-watch the entire series anytime soon just to see what were removed from the Tagalog dubbed version here in the Philippines.

Since I have not seen the original Japanese dubbed version I am sure that were a lot of scenes that were removed from the local telecast of the series here in the Philippines along with some foul languages in order to censor it out. The series was good to watch although the target audience seems to be the female ones since it was basically a reverse harem genre but during that time i cared less about those since I was still clueless about those stuff.

Would I recommend Fushigi Yugi as a classic anime for those looking for old school anime, the answer is yes even though it is not on my favorite list. So all those who have not seen the series you can give this a shot all depends on you.

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DAWN OF JUSTICE

BATMAN V SUPERMAN : DAWN OF JUSTICE

A recent movie that came out 2016 and I just recently got to watch it on HBO which was followed by the Wonder Woman movie which I still need to see in full.

So this review and reaction is only for the Dawn of Justice

Boy are they looking real old and stubby. Wonder Woman did not appear in this animated version of Batman vs Superman but a new Robin did appeared out of nowhere a young girl for this movie.

There are any other versions of the Batman vs Superman stories out there but these two are my well favorites for now.

At the start of the film i was all WOW i finally got to watch that talked about movie at the office and in the internet. I was going "thank you HBO".

While watching they started out at the scene which I think was the battle of Superman against the invading General Zod destroying Metropolis and we see Bruce Wayne (took me a while to figure out that it was Bruce Wayne riding in a car making his way which I think was the Daily Planet and he was talking to someone on the phone, audio was bad while watching not sure why)

So in that scene it looked like Superman was going berserk blasting that heat vision which I don't know if this was that scene from the Superman vs Zod I think this was the part where they were throwing each other from building to building wrecking everything in the area. Made me really wonder why is it that when the good guys get involve in the battle there are more destruction than when it was only the bad guy wrecking the city.

Other than the part where heroes get to wreck more stuff than the villains, this Dawn of Justice seems to have happened in an alternate timeline. The reason for me to have this opinion is that The Flash appeared out of nowhere in the Bat-cave trying to reach Bruce telling him to find "them"which I thought was the members of the Justice League. I still have no idea as to how this movie will go except for some rumors I have been hearing about both from the internet and from some friends and co-workers.

The scene where the Flash was trying to reach Batman seemed like Flash is stuck and trying to get out of some vacuum but was not successful and was only able to tell Bruce to "Find Them" and then vanished. Are we going to get a Flashpoint movie as well? 

This is also the only Batman version where I saw him use a gun except that Flashpoint Batman which was his father who has been using firearms along with his gadgets to fight (If we are going to have Flashpoint movie we might also get to see Bruce's father as Batman and his mother as Joker not bad although we might see a skinny Superman as well).

Superman in this version also looks like he is about to take over the entire planet since he is being praised like a god by majority of the people who has seen him.

Wonder Woman well I did not notice much except she seemed to be more of a war hungry amazon just like in Flashpoint as well.

Flash well is Flash and it really looked like he really did something in the timeline.

Aquaman looked like a scared fish in that video.

Cyborg he looked like a toy kit that is slowly being assembled but with missing parts and that cube assembled him. The cube I assumed is a Motherbox Unit used by the New Gods which seems to be a sign that we might see Darkseid in the future.

Lex Luthor is also different here, he looked like a guy with many screws loose in head and his brain is about fall out of his head. What happened to his character here.

The fight scenes in the movie is well entertaining having to see how Batman made Superman bleed, how Batman prepared for his fight with the Last Son of Krypton and later how their fight ended by just mentioning "Martha" which in turn is the name of both their mothers. This triggered a lot of memes where fighting were stopped by mentioning Martha and ending up they have mothers of the same name.

Doomsday, I think that was Doomsday created from the carcass of General Zod altering his genetics with the help of Lex Luthor mixing his blood with General Zod.

Wonder Woman appearing to help the two muscle brains in the fight against Doomsday ( I am calling him Doomsday )

Personal reaction to this film I was legit surprised on their character representation I was not used to seeing Batman using guns even though I have seen a Batman version in the Flashpoint animated movie using guns to fight, but in a live action film it was a first for me.

The actors:

Ben Affleck - Batman / Bruce Wayne
Henry Cavill - Superman / Clark Kent
Gal Gadot - Wonder Woman / Diana Prince

The main cast of superheroes in the film

Ezra Miller - Flash / Barry Allen

Jason Momoa - Aquaman / Arthur Curry
Rey Fisher - Cyborg / Victor Stone

The superheroes to join them in the next film Justice League, which I have yet to see.

All in all the film was great to watch although not without the parts that got me saying "what the heck"

I will watch this again and the Justice League film and I will recommend this film and I stop myself from spoiling the fun ( I did try my best to not say too much about this film right? )

Robin Atkin Downes - Doomsday the guy who... well those who read the comics and who knows the Superman story this guy is the drinking buddy of Bane who got bragging rights after well you know with Batman.

Well time to look for Justice League

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SUPER BOOK and FLYING HOUSE

SUPER BOOK OPENING

FLYING HOUSE

Both series aired in 1982 with several seasons and a number of episodes.

Two of the morning weekend cartoons I watched during my elementary school days. All stories are Bible related for both series.

Super Book where two kids a toy robot magically enters a book which is assumed as the Bible. As they enter the book the toy robot gains a life and moves on his own although he runs out of energy and the kids need to turn a giant wind key on its back to make him move again so yeah a kid sized wind up toy walking around ancient times in a random timeline and place that the book send them.

Flying House is well a flying house which three kids found in the woods when they were caught in a strong rain and enters the house for shelter purpose only. But for some reason the kids were startled when the robot guarding the house saw them and started running around and hits a control console and made the house fly and began to travel through time back to the time of creation and other Biblical events. As the Professor the owner of the house and the kids with the robot try to find a way to return to their own timeline, they travel through the timeline and meet with many Biblical characters along the way.

The Super Book series later on had a similar incident where a new character young boy and the same robot accidentally got stuck inside the book and had to travel in random chapters until they get back home in their own world.

So basically this is an old school series which also later got a new version of a series I think for both which i never got to watch.  A cartoon series which covers the story within the Bible and kids meeting with famous biblical characters may they be the ones who we say are the protagonists of their own stories and the antagonists of their own stories as well.

For a classic cartoons the art itself is really well made and if they were remastered the kids today may not even notice that these two series were aired in 1982 and still enjoyable to watch (yes I enjoyed watching both considering my current genres that I am watching these days)

Not much really to tell about both series except that once I have a child of my own I would start them off watching these kinds of cartoons before exposing them to some other series slowly.

So yeah both series look them up very highly recommended for viewing even for adults.

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ANGELIC LAYER

Released in 2001 as an anime TV series with 26 series and a manga from 1999 to 2001 with 5 volumes.

The series was created by CLAMP the same group that created a number of anime series which i have seen and will be watching, some of them are Magic Knight Rayearth, Magic Knight Rayearth OVA, XXX Holic, Card Captor Sakura series, X, Tsubasa Chronicles.

So this series will also feature characters who has similar features in appearances and attitudes just like the main doll Hikaru who looks like Hikaru Shidou one of the main girls in MKR series.

Before the time of the Gundam Build series which includes Gunpla Builders Beginning G, Gunpla Build Fighters, Gunpla Build Fighters Try and the current Gunpla Build Divers. This series came out with a similar idea although this one use dolls which enters a battle field similar to the plavsky particle battle field. But the fighters toss their dolls in the field as shown in the intro above. Unlike in the Gunpla Builders and Gunpla Build Divers the players place the gunpla on a platform and the system scans the gunpla to create a VR version while in the Gunpla Build Fighters and Try series the gunpla are made to move with an energy called the plavsky particles.

Here in Angelic Layer the dolls move with a technology which I cannot recall if it was ever explained except that the players wear a goggles and their brain waves are being transmitted into the doll via the battle field and they move by use of the players will to move their bodies.

I got hooked on watching this series since during that time I was still looking for an anime that triggers my interest which later ends up to "it all depends on the story if it interests me as well as the fanservice so it depends". Also another reason why i got hooked with this series was because it was made by CLAMP.

This series is also similar to another older anime titled Super Doll Licca which also has dolls which moves by magic and oh yeah the dolls grow from doll size to human size too. I will also review this later on.

Back to Angelic Layer, the series centers on a young girl named Misaki Suzuhara who later got hooked in playing Angelic Layer after seeing a live broadcast of a match which she at first thought were real women fighting until two kids told Misaki that the ones fighting are just dolls and the real women were controlling the dolls.

Misaki was later dragged by a weird guy and persuaded to start to get into Angelic Layer and she ends up spending her money including her supposed train money to get to her aunt's place where she will be staying since her mother is somewhere in Tokyo working.

The series is really great from start to end considering that the series seems to actually target young female audience but it also caught my attentions.

The series entirety is one of the best i have watched ever since i started getting hooked to anime and i would recommend this to anyone asking which anime they could watch.

So I won't be spoiling this article for the sake of those I would be recommending this and for those who will be watching this later on.

Highly recommended for any anime viewers.

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SCHOOL DAYS anime TV series

School days TV series released 2007 from July to September with 12 episodes with 2 OVA.

The school days was also released as a game under the several gaming platforms for PC Windows, PSP, DVD, PS2 with the genre of eroge visual novel for the windows format.

The anime series was released to be a slice of life, drama, harem anime series where one guy gets to hang out with several girls who fell for him for some odd reason.

Two OVA were released titled Valentine Days and Magical Heart Kokoro –chan both released in 2008 consecutively.

A manga version was also released as well as an audio drama titled Radio School Days.

Other release of the series were titled Summer Days, Cross Days and Island Days both Summer Days and Cross Days were released for the genre of drama, erotica, harem while the Island Days was released as a tower of defense visual novel all three release are all games for several gaming consoles.

This review will cover the TV series School Days which is also one of the most controversial anime series that I have watched.

The TV series was written by Makoto Uezo and Directed by keitaro Motonaga.

The series started as a normal slice of life series that follows three characters.

Makoto Ito the main male protagonist/antagonist of the series. Main reaction for this guy from the start of the series is that he seems to be a shy guy who could not even ask a girl out for a date let alone confess his feelings for that girl, which is why Sekai his friend helped him out with Kotonoha until that one day that turned everything upside down for these three.

Makoto

Kotonoha Katsura one of the two main female characters of the series and the supposed girlfriend of Makoto Ito. The certified shy girl and a main target for bullies in their school.

Kotonoha

Sekai Saionji the second of the two main female characters and last to complete the trio main characters of the TV series. Seems to be a tomboy at first until that decisive day.

Sekai 

The three main characters of the series started off with a smooth flow of Sekai helping out Makoto getting together and dating with Kotonoha for several episodes until it all went down a path of no return for both Sekai and Makoto who later discovered they actually have feelings for each other.

Adding more spice to this series other characters namely Setsuna Kiyoura, Hikari Kuroda, Nanami Kanroji, Otome katou whom had their own ways with Makoto in the series.

Setsuna

Hikari

Nanami

Otome

(From left to right the girls in the background) Kumi Mori Minami Obuchi, Natsumi Koizumi (not sure if Makoto also had his way with those three)

they are so close

So sum this all up the series is a chain of events where the main male character who started off as a guy who is supposed to be shy towards his female schoolmates but later on had his way with them in more ways than one.

This series is just one of those series that I later questions myself “what the heck did I just watched?”

For some reason I was glued to the series from start to end while almost midway the series run I started questioning myself why am I watching this or what the heck is going on with this series.

Until I reached the end of the series where my only reaction was WHAT THE HECK?!!!?

sweet aren't they? you will know once you watch the series 

Taisuke Sawanaga (The jerk of the series you will know why)

Which was also a common reaction of almost all those who watched the series during its run.

One of the controversies that the series received was when the series final episode was about to air it was cancelled by the TV Kanagawa due to an incident of a young girl murdering her father and for some odd coincidence the final episode contained a similar event. An edited version of the finale was aired ten days later but one network decided to air an unedited version and aired the original finale on the same day giving off two versions of the series ending.

When I saw the edited version i was curious why the heavy edit until I heard there was a released unedited version which I hunted down until the day I found it and yes another WHAT HECK WAS I THINKING.

The finale was replaced by airing a compilation of beautiful scenes from Australia where it featured a lot of boats, yes a lot of boats and the finale also included a BOAT

 

This spread real fast

Another controversy for the series came from the viewer’s themselves in some online forums I saw months some years back. It is also related to the final scenes of the final episode which contained very graphic scenes that had some viewers squirming in their sits while watching and some were surprised and very calm at what they were seeing at an anime where characters are young teenagers who engaged themselves in a series of troubled romance and a guy who had his way with all the girls who showed motives that they want him to have his way with them with no objections. Not to mention the few scenes towards the ending were really something that will give a very nice reaction to viewers.

This was one of the series that I had a hard time getting out of my system and up to now the scenes are glued in my head and I guess I will be remembering those scenes until the time my memory slowly erases it.

Entirely the series is well done considering the preteen relationships that were formed in the series and incidents that some still have questions that only fellow anime viewers who have seen the series were able to answer in their own theories, I am still in self-debate whether I will research the answers or leave it as it is.

I may recommend this series to some anime viewers but I will tell them I will not be responsible if the series will leave a mark in your head.

For the adventurous anime viewers feel free to watch the series but for those only curious as to what kind of series this is, well this series is one of those old school quality anime that will certainly leave a mark in your brains and make sure you are not squeamish.

Highly recommended for those not weak at heart.

I will be back for another review/reaction.

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reaction / review to GUN GALE ONLINE anime

Hello readers, welcome to my first Review/Reaction/Insight of whatever comes to my mind.

REACTION/REVIEW TO GUN GALE ONLINE GGO

GUN GALE ONLINE part of the SAO series or rather called the SWORD ART ONLINE ALTERNATIVE GUN GALE ONLINE or just GGO which started airing April 8 2018.

The series focus on the character named Karen Kohiruimaki, a girl who is self-conscious of herself due to her height. She was introduced to online gaming by her friend Miyu Shinohara who later joins her in the game.

Karen who is so conscious of her height chose to have a small cute version of herself for an in-game character and named her LENN who fashions a PINK colored version of the military camouflage uniform and armed herself with a P-90 which she calls P-chan and one of her in-game abilities is her super speed.

She was later known as the Pink Devil or the Pink Munchkin that became popular to other players as a Player Killer.

she later meets with other characters namely Pitohui a girl clad in black shape revealing suit, M a sniper and later her friend Miyu enters the game as Fukaziroh.

As someone who is not really a fan of the SWORD ART series this one gets my attention that it made me wait for each episode each week which is for now has eight (8) episodes and I think I am hoping that this series goes beyond 12 episodes (which what normal anime series goes these days)

I have seen a lot of anime with similar genre where characters tend to get introduced or has been playing online games just to escape the reality of the world. Which is the similar story layout of these kinds of genre.

The best of the series that I have watched with this kind of story has been .hack//sign which was the also the first of this genre that I have watched. And so far no one has become trapped in the game while playing or had any trouble logging out.
This is for another review.

For now GGO has given all I have expected in such genre (regardless of the fanservice which I normally wait in most anime series that I usually watch. The normal fanservice was replaced by the gunfights in each episode which got me hooked in the series also how each characters created total opposites of themselves from their reality to the VR world.

Some real life people do the same they escape reality by playing games, watching anime, western animation and other stuff just to escape the cruel reality that we live in. Creating another persona of themselves inside the online world. So i guess this is one of the reasons I got attracted to this series since I too once tried to escape reality and maybe even up to now I still try to escape reality.

Well with that I recommend this series to those who want to try new genre of anime, a bit different for those who are in to other genre also i don't think we will get any romantic story in this series.  Since so far i have not seen any that will lead to that.

There has been special mention of the SAO series and some of it's characters but were never named except that Pito was supposed to be in the game during the time when Kirito and the others got trapped. Surprisingly Pito was disappointed that she was not able to get in the game when she found out that it became a life threatening game. And now plays GGO in order to "die" according to M.

Very confusing character for Pito who wish to die and Lenn who plays the game who wish to gain friends. Two opposite characters in one game. So far for me the two characters are about to face each other in an event in the game so I am waiting as to how this will go since they have very different goals in life.

So far the character development of the main character Lenn/Karen is slowly and steadily growing in a way I wanted to, Karen being able to open up although in front of other players that she has met in real life and inside the game where she has learned how to face different opponents in various locations.

8 episodes in and i have not checked online as to how many this series will go but I am guessing around 12 or 13 and 1 or 2 OVA or special episodes I think.

Hopefully this series goes beyond 12 or 13 episodes and have them go head to head with some players from SAO who has been playing GGO as well.

Well time to wait and I will be back for another insight review of GGO maybe once the series is finished. 

The series is a mix of scifi, action, comedy catchy sound tracks.

pictures and video all from the internet (credits to the owners)

INTRO

My first blog page

Review and reaction for different series, movies and games that I have come across in the recent years since I started following them on TV which is almost all my life. Basically around 30 years and I am 36 now.

In this page I will be making some reviews and reactions on all series that I have seen ever since the day I got hooked on watching different TV series in all genres.

Reese is not my real name I got it from one of the movies that i followed a character from Terminator Kyle Reese the time traveler who became the father of the main human hero of the movie series John Connor.

I will be making random reviews in random genre no spoiling of the series since all I will be putting up here is how i got hooked on the series and followed it from start to finish and how I would recommend each series to people who wish to start watching or just wants to see if it catches their palate.

Just like what I have mentioned the review will be random and since I have been watching a lot of shows I normally watch anime and Japan genre series but i also watch western TV series when I get some wind to watch them. Flash, Arrow, Supergirl, NCIS, some movies as well as some crazy videos on Youtube and other streaming sites. I might also do some game reviews, whatever I feel like reviewing on my free time.

My first anime and my first western animation reviews will also be coming. The two characters that first got me hooked.

In each review i will try not to give out any spoilers but if I do... sorry about that.