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.

DNA Squared is nothing to puke at!

Junta has a problem; he’s a girl-allergic loser! All this changes with the arrival of Karin, a gorgeous time-traveler and by accident transforms him into the Mega-Playboy, the suavest girl-magnet around. Suddenly, all the prettiest girls in school have fallen in love with him and with so many adoring fans, mayhem is sure to follow!

This is something you must have in your collection. You just can not miss a volume of this DVD. The story is something I would expect from Masakazu Katsura and the character design by Kumiko Takahashi. A short TV series and a follow up OAV series, together it adds up to fifteen episodes. Once again, this series can be extended to show the hardships of Junta control of the Mega-Playboy and his condition, Karin falling in love with Junta and the girls in Junta's school who fall under the charms of the Mega-Playboy.

Another thing was the DVD packaging for the series. One DVD contained only three episodes, artwork ans sketches from the series and some DVDs have an interactive games, karaoke sing-a-long and other stuff. With the double layered DVD, the whole series with the interactive menu could have fitted on three DVD instead of five.

I have not hear about the manga version of the show but, I would anticipate Dark Horse or Viz Media to pick this series for their manga magazine. Now the only question I have for the artist; when would Shadow Lady become a anime?

Wallpaper 2- Beach time with Nobuko

The next wallpaper I made is Nobuko from Video Girl Ai. A victim in a very complicated love battle needs some time alone to think. It took me some time to figure what kind of background to put her in and this beach background was perfect.

I hoped you enjoy this wallpaper.

Wallpaper 1

As I wrote on Computer Critters, I try to honor my skills on making personalized wallpaper from anime, manga and even for family and friends who visit my blogs.
When I do wallpapers, I will have the opportunity to describe why I did it and you can make part of your desktop. Drop some comments to me so I would know that you like it or you don’t. Pass the word.

My first wallpaper is on Ichigo Morino from Please Teacher and Please Twins. Having the rare “standstill” disease, this little girl happen to be 23 years old (she was 21 years old in Please Teacher and two years past in Please Twins.) She was the first pick because of cunning and surveillance work to know all the students. The fact that she is the only woman to not go through the dress code and get suspended is really takes the school system to stride. If you need a matchmaker, just call Ichigo.

Please Twins Overview

Maiku Kamishiro grew up in an orphanage with no history of his family or of his past. Left with only a childhood picture of himself and another person in front of a house, he believes that the other person in the picture is his long lost twin sister. Upon discovering his old home, two young girls, Kana Onodera and Mina Minafugi show up on his doorstep one day both claiming to be his long lost sister. With school and work on his mind, who is his twin sister and who is a stranger?

Continuing where Please Teacher left off, Please Twins don’t have the special sci-fi love story but some of the characters come in and make special appearances. The animation is still excellent. The voice acting is also up to standard. The storyline filled the timeline from the previous video.

This video is something to watch. The DVD consists of twelve episodes and a bonus “omake theater” episode. Because the rating for this is 16 and up, there is some nudity in it.

I like the video set and when you add Please Teacher and Please Twins together, it goes together like peanut butter and jelly. Please Twins have a manga book and two volumes novels that tell the same story in a alternate world.

I hope I would see more anime and manga of Please!

Please Teacher Overview

Kei Kusanagi isn’t your typical 15 year old high school student. He’s actually an 18 year old with a rare disorder that puts him into what he calls, a “standstill”. When he was younger, this disorder left him in a deep coma which stunted his growth for the next three years! Mizuho Kazami isn’t your typical teacher either. She’s actually an alien sent by the Galaxy Federation to observe the Earth! As the sole human being with knowledge of Ms. Kazumi’s secret, Kei must…marry the alien?!

When I first saw the box in the store, I was very cautious of purchasing it. But when I saw it on sale in the video store and nothing else was out, I decided to pick it up. The animation was rich and crisp. The music moved you through the story. The voice actors were good and it matches the characters to the letter. I was amazed that this was not acknowledged more in the anime and manga world.

It has some sci-fi pieces in the story but it is mostly a funny love story. There are twelve episodes, one bonus episode and an omake short story. This is a video collection that teens and adults can watch.

Besides the anime, the two volume manga is also out. It follows the path of the anime, but it seems that they twist and change the conclusions. They also have many other things for this series. Check your anime stores, comic book retailer or go to some of the online stores for more information.

Demon Fighter Kocho... K.O

Ancient spirits begin terrorizing a school and it is left up to the sexy student Kocho Enoki to use her attractive body and magical powers to defeat the attackers. Teamed with her sister and Kosaku, their human decoys, they attempt to free the school from the spirits. The only thing that was good for this anime was the design. The story was lame, it was a cheap imitation of Devil Hunter Yohko, which I will evaluate later. Plus there was no character development and the story only lasted 30 min, the 5 minutes was for the video introduction.

I can tell you five things I was doing for the time Demon Fighter Kohco was on;

1. I was plucking my toenails
2. Rearranging my anime CDs in alphabetical order
3. Called up my family and friends and told them how lame this video was.
4. Looking for Devil Hunter Yohko to watch
5. Writing this blog to explain how lame this video is.

If you want to pick this video up, by all means watch and you will decide for yourself. As for me, Give me Yohko!