Anime Insights: What I Think About Each Series, Movies and OVAs

There exists a door that connects to another world. All you need is wait for that door to appear so you can enter into the other world quite different from your own. When the door appears and it is opened, a brand new story unfolds.  The wooden door appears from everywhere. It can be found in the forest, in the cave, on the falls ground. It happens to appear just from everywhere. Supported by a wooden frame, the single door hangs a bronzed gold plate with a cat on top biting on the rope of an engraved kanji characters on the ribbon sign. A bell chimes entry when the golden knob is opened. Welcome to Cat Western Restaurant. Cat Western Restaurant is like an ordinary food restaurant where regular people come in to eat and fill their hunger. That's mostly for the typical days of the place though, which is the weekdays. However, every seventh day of the week, the door opens to serve another group of people.    The seventh day, also known ...

“Your calligraphy is just like a copybook.” The director of Calligraphy honestly told Handa, the grand champion, as he critiqued Handa's art which won the grand prize award during an art exhibition in Tokyo.  Out of outrage and unacceptance over his workmanship, Handa punched the old man on the face causing the old man to fall down the floor. Then, he was skirted off to a remote island named Gotou in Kyushu Prefecture to cool his head off. A Tokyo born city guy, Handa Seishuu, the protagonist, arrived at the deserted airport in the far-off Kyushu island. The airport was clean of passengers except him who was waiting for the village chief to fetch him back to the village but was nowhere to be seen. He spotted an old man driving an old automobile and got himself hitched to the village. The old man dropped him off by the seaside where Handa couldn’t admire the beauty of the sea. Handa beyond surprised finding Naru under the sink Handa met t...

A fearsome and very strict Student Council President, Misaki Ayuzawa is seen a demon by male students of Seika High School. No one beats her in class and every male student is either scared of her or very  annoyed of her dominant prexy personality. But once classes end in a day, she turns into a charming and polite lady dressed in a black and white maid outfit smiling before each person who w alks in the café door of Maid Latte while addressing each customer, "Master." Misaki and Usu i A secret no one knows about until oblivious Usui Takumi caught her in maid uniform. Misaki was throwing away trash in the back of the cafe when she was seen in maid outfit by passing Usui. To escape scrutiny and salvage her pride at being seen in maid outfit, she explained her situation to him, inadvertently telling him about the financial situation of her family. Her father left them and so to help out her mother with their daily finances, she took the part time job.  ...

Talented people display sparkles when they show their talents, how does yours look like? In a high school called Hoshinomori Mahougeki, students with special talents hone and develop their ' magical arts' to becoming professionals. As they show their talent, sparkles are released. Kohana Aigasaki Not everyone can see it though. You have to be pretty special to gain the sight that sees those sparkles. Kohana Aigasaki is one of them. She can see the sparkles. What color, what pattern, what form.  Sakura Aigasaki in Hoshimori Executive Student Council Kohana is an ikebana artist who wishes to follow the path of her mother, renowned Ikebana artist, Sakura Aigasaki. She first saw sparkles from watching her own mom doing flower arrangements. Kohana transferred to Hoshinomori to pursue that dream. In this new school, she saw more varied forms of sparkles from student artists emitting their own light of art--music from a viola releases golden strands,...

Not everyone lives with a curse in their life. Especially a deep dark secret that isolates from normal people because normal people aren't cursed anyway. But some people are deeply cursed --like the Sohma clan . Juunishi Chu with Tohru on a horse In this unique and rare anime involving thirteen animals signs or   juunishi   from the Chinese zodiacs , meet the members of the clan who's not only singly cursed with animal transformation but thirteen members unwillingly inflicted with the zodiac curse . Though animal transformation only happens when a normal human being embraces a member of the Sohma. Not everyone is permitted to know the secret. It should never be divulged. Until the heroine of the story, Tohru lived with the Sohma family. Kyoko Honda, Tohru's mom Tohru Honda is an orphan high schooler who lived in a tent after losing her mother in a car accident. To keep her mother alive in her memory, she kept a picture of her and talked to...