Shooting Blanks with Early Reigns

The train en route to Sunshine Hill holds six very deadly and beautiful women. On this particular day, these fine women find themselves on a train escorting a man named Spencer through frontier territories. Among his many enemies ride a fearsome gang of notorious bandits, and they're fixin' to take his head along with the train's cache of gold, but that won't happen if these pretty ladies have their way!

This DVD has great animation from the characters to the CG train, but I have to say the story was very short and lack of depth. Maybe with the evolution of the characters with some flashbacks of the past with all the girls, a major “bad guy” in the background and the cooperation of the girls to face all the outcome of the Wild West, plus it doesn’t hurt to make this into a 26 episode TV series.

Right now, Early Reigns is a late drizzle on the DVD Shelf.

Anime Holiday wishes

Happy holidays! I want to share some of my favorite show that celebrates the season.

Maison Ikkoku had some great moments for Christmas between Kyoko, Godai and the tenants and they all spend their party at the Chachamaru. The first Christmas was a few months after Kyoko became their manager and it was a social gathering. Godai brought the manager a brooch but did not get a chance to give it to her. The next Christmas, Godai’s present was a pair of earrings, but when Kozue gave him a hand knitted hat he handed her the earrings. When Kyoko gave Godai a hand knitted scarf, as well as the tennis coach and the tenants, he went to his room and found the brooch from last year. Godai was penniless as Christmas came again and got a part time work at a department store. He heard about her story about having a Christmas star. He gave her the star as well as the streamer that was hooked to it.

Love Hina celebrate the holidays it more of an adventure. When Kentaro was a little bit confident that he would pass his mock exam for Tokyo University or he goes home. He did not pass the mock exam and he was going to sneak home without telling the girls. He tries to infiltrate the house but was caught by Shinobu and that brought everyone out to attack the burglar. Only Naru knew that was Keitaro and found him at Tokyo U to conviced him to stay and study. To go into Love Hina Christmas Special would be too long, but I can tell you it is worth watching.

Ranma ½ Tendo Family Christmas Scramble is part of the OAV series set. It brings all the characters of the manga and anime together to celebrate the holiday and to see if Ranma would survive the beating of Akane, sing karaoke, being Nabiki’s money bank and to give Akane his gift to her. But mostly I think this story revolves around Kasumi and her Santa Claus dream.

Finally, Oh My Goddess episode 5, Keichi has found out the system bugs was coming to the human world by a vortex between himself and Belldandy and was forced not to be around each other. Plus Belldandy was called back to heaven to fix the problem. Little by little he is getting a memory that was suppressed a long time ago which made him want to give her a ring. The rest of the story goes into this, but at the end of the show they were celebrating Christmas.

There are many holiday stories I can look for but these were the one that stood out for me. I would like to give my wishes to everyone.

Princess Nine Hits a Home Run!

Ryo Hayakawa has loved baseball ever since she was little. Not only that, she seems to have inherited her father's superior pitching skills as well. A great opportunity is presented to Ryo when Keiko Himuro, chairperson of the Kisaragi Girls High School, approaches Ryo with a scholarship offer in exchange for becoming a member of the would-be Kisaragi Girls High baseball team. It's like a dream come true, but it's up to Ryo and the other team members to make it through the hardship of the committee to make their dream a reality.

When I heard about Princess Nine from magazines and internet rumors, I was thinking more of the term of white castles and bronze knights with fantasy. Then I found out it about a all girl baseball team, a desire to achieve at Koshien, memory of a father greatness through his daughter. From a want-be model, former softball stars and even a sumo wrestler, these misfits came out and prove to the high school world that girls can play baseball, also.

The DVD has a good presentation, talked about the history of Japanese baseball and even how to make oden. The story show the rise and hardship of the girls’ baseball team, a love triangle between two girls and the star hitter for the boys team, a father secret and Koshien. The animation for this TV series was above average, the story was well written for baseball fans as well for the anime otaku. This is a series I would recommend to watch, but that is my opinion,

For more information, check out http://www.advfilms.com/favorites/princessnine/index.html

Wallpaper3- Simple Keitaro and Naru pic

Today’s wallpaper, I wanted just to be simple with Keitaro and Naru in a very awkward position. Maybe the next wallpaper, I get a little more creative. Please enjoy this work and please send any comments.

Love Hina Overview

What happen when you made a promise to live happily ever after if you attend Tokyo University to only find out you still trying to get in? Plus, your living in a crazy women’s dormitory as the manager. You are immersed in the story called Love Hina.

The story between the manga and the anime are very close but the different is more characters and alternate side stories not staying with the timeline of the manga. The manga consists of fourteen volumes and the anime has 25 TV episodes, 1 bonus episode, 2 movies and 3 episode OAV series.

Keitaro Urashima, bounded by a fairy tale dream to meet his promised girl from the sandlot by entering Tokyo University, goes to his grandmother’s hot spring hotel to stay over to study for his entrance exams. Finding out that his grandmother went on a trip around the world, the resort has been turned into a girls’ dormitory, who don’t want him there and then his grandmother has appointed him the manager of the dorm.

He first met Naru Narusegawa, a brilliant high school girl that have a nerdish look when she has her glasses but she is a glamorous and most of the time with Keitaro, she can be violent with her punches and kicks.
Then there is Mitsune Konno, nicknamed Kitsune as in sly fox, love to play pranks and try to make a fast buck by betting on horses and extortion. In the manga, her job was a novelist and author but all we see her doing is loafing and drinking.
Motoko Aoyama, also know as “Kendo Girl” by Keitaro, had no interests in men and been studying her sword techniques. At the beginning, she hated Keitaro but later she liked him. The only things she fears are turtles and her older sister.
Kaolla Su, the only foreigner in the dorm, is a firecracker that is always exploding. Despite her age, she is always wants to play and knocking Keitaro around. No one would guess she is a genius.
Finally there is Shinobu Maehara, a very quiet and shy girl that has a crush on Keitaro but she sometimes run away when she sees him in a awkward positions. In the manga, she was already a resident of the dorm but in the anime, Keitaro helped her to get into the resident. Her family owns a restaurant in Hinata; she became a great cook for the resident.
To check out more information, you can go to http://lovehina.bandai-ent.com to check out the trailer and more info about the anime series and the extra cast of characters.

Despite there are panty shots and partial nudity, the story is great but there are stories from the manga that did not make it to the anime. Overall this is something I would watch most of the time.