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

“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...

It's not every day you find a creature that wanders in the real world and is actually a resident of the otherworld . If ever you happened to be in this kind of situation, get to know Hanae and Abeno to help you out of this dilemma. Hanae Ashiya is a junior highschool teenager who lived with his mom who owned a flower shop. A day before he entered high school, he came across a white furball lying by the side walk. He put it inside a spare plastic grocery bag and hung it by the siderail by the sidewalk; however, the white furball stuck on him as he was leaving. Hanae with the white furball stuck on his back From day one of entering high school until day five, Hanae never reached his classroom and was instead sent to the nurse's office because of fainting. What was worse, only he could see the white furball and it grew on him everyday resulting to his body weakening. Desperate to get rid of the thing, Hanae found a post concealed on the school's bulletin board. ...