01.09.09
Posted in Anime, Manga, Novels, Ongoing Investigations Tags: Brave Story, Dirty Pair, Make More Love & Peace, Patlabor, Take Me to Heaven, Tokyo Marble Chocolate, ダーティペア, ブレイブ·ストーリー, ラブにピース ハートをつかまえて, 東京マーブルチョコレート, 機動警察パトレイバー, 連れてけ天国 at 7:54 am by reversethieves
I started watching Patlabor on my own because I’m pretty sure Narutaki would start watching Akikan before he watches Patlabor. Not that anyone should watch Akikan. I myself have always been curious about Patlabor being one of the important foundations of the real robot genre. It’s about as real as your going to get. The show takes place in the near future where bipedal robots called Labors have advanced to the point where they are commonplace. With robots being so common they need a police force specializing in Patlabor related crimes. The anime revolves around the cases that Tokyo Metropolitan Police Special Vehicle Section 2 have to handle. The main draw of the show is Noa Izumi who is a major mecha otaku and new recruit to Section 2. Most of the cast is entertaining, too. She has an energetic charm and an infectious love of her job. The show is never really fast paced even during many of the action scenes. I would go as far as to say it is almost a healing mecha anime. You are watching Patlabor to get an insight into the lives of the members of Section 2 more than to see robot fighting action. I would even classify the mecha porn as softcore as opposed to the hardcore of Gundam or GaoGaiGar.
Watched Tokyo Marble Chocolate. If you haven’t heard of this film, the gimmick is it’s the same story told twice but one perspective is the girl and one is the guy. So it is split into two 25-or-so-minute segments. They get points for thinking outside the box but it wasn’t executed very effectively. One of the major problems is after watching the first half you have a total grasp of what happened. The story rests on a few misunderstandings and one big coincidence (which is really bizarre) but everything is already explained so seeing the second half is virtually useless. The duality would have been more effective if they were constantly cutting between the two. I liked the artistic style and the actual love story is sweet though.
Make More Love & Peace by Takane Yonetani has a shojo art style but josei content. All the stories revolve around women with some sort of complex that makes them doubt themselves and complicates their relationships. The first three chapters deal with an insecure girl named Ayame and her handsome boyfriend Koichi who is a police officer. Their life is complicated by a bratty young girl who wants to steal away Ayame’s boyfriend. The other two stories are stand alone stories that involve and shy librarian and a girl with a horrible scar. I did not read the original Make Love & Peace but I feel you don’t really need to have read it to understand what is going on. Ayame and Koichi relationship is rather easy to understand and if no one had mentioned that there was a book before this I would have assumed that this was a stand alone series. All the guys are easy going nice guys in Make More Love & Peace. They are generally flawless and willing to work with their girlfriends until they can sort out their issues. I liked this story of the girl with the scar the most. I understood why she would be insecure more than the other two girls. I feel Narutaki would have liked the story with the librarian the most because it involved a pretty blonde goofy guy who seems like a playboy but is really dedicated guy. As with any redikomi you are going to have at least one graphic sex scene in every chapter. The more I read redikomi and reviews I feel your enjoyment comes down to one simple fact: Do you enjoy the type of guy the book is about? It seems that every redikomi book I read will have multiple unrelated stories but all of them will have a very similar type of guy in every story. So if you like that sort of guy you will often enjoy the book.
I am continuing my foray into the Brave Story novel, which I haven’t been taking on the train with me because of its enormous size. I am about to embark on the real part of the journey, I think. I am about 115 pages in before anything really starts to happen and while we’ve had hints of goings on, it has been mostly mundane exposition that could have been taken care of in a couple chapters.I am still looking forward to where it is taking me, I just wish I could have gotten there a bit faster. Now onward, “Beyond the Door.”
I was super happy to see that Live Evil and Freelance Fansubs teamed up to work in the Dirty Pair TV series. I have always loved the Dirty Pair but the only fan-sub I have ever found digitally is someone’s rather grainy VHS rip of a 20th generation tape. Seeing the first episode in crisp clear quality reminded me how much I loved the show and how much hard work went into making the Dirty pair look good. We’ll Teach You How To Kill A Computer is the standard premise of Yuri and Kei solving a major problem with as much collateral damage as possible but being too sexy to blame for it. Fun girls with gun action. Also I have to say that Ru-Ru-Ru-Russian Roulette is just an awesome opening. It is such a catchy song. If you are cool and willing to watch a show fan-subbed that is an extreme long shot at being licensed I suggest you try out Dirty Pair. There is a reason I put it on our Best Anime You Have Never Seen panel.
I read the one book BL Take Me to Heaven by Nase Yamato. It is a cute, fluffy, and mostly silly supernatural story about two childhood friends. Fumiya has the ability to see ghosts and they are constantly appearing in his room. Shogo’s family owns a temple and they want him to become a monk someday, to which he resists. Nevertheless he always helps Fumiya out of jam with his own spiritual abilities even if he doesn’t want them. They are always running into crazy ghostly situations thanks to the school’s occult club. These two are major opposites, Fumiya being short, dark-haired, and shy and Shogo being tall, light-haired, and outgoing. Shogo also picks on Fumiya, but while all the girls in school recognize it as love, Fumiya is slower to catch on. There is a constant push and pull between the two of them as Fumiya usual doesn’t see Shogo as serious. As Shogo is mostly coming to Fumiya’s rescue, it was fun in the last story to see the tables turned. Though a little melodrama rears its head near the end, this story is light as air and funny. There is almost no sex in this story and what little there is is brief and ungraphic. A quick read that will make you smile. And luckily for all, there is a preview of it online.
Since I’m watching Patlabor, this is the pick of the week. It is the spirit of Patlabor with both Noa and Alphonse in the same picture:
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09.19.08
Posted in Anime, Manga, Ongoing Investigations Tags: Ask Dr. Rin, D.N.Angel, Dirty Pair, Dr.リンにきいてみて!, Ghost in the Shell, Kekkaishi, Parasyte, ダーティペア, 寄生獣, 攻殻機動隊 STAND ALONE COMPLEX, 結界師 at 9:09 am by reversethieves
We started watching D.N.Angel with the misguided belief that we would review it for the blog. Well, that ain’t happening. I also read all of the manga that has been released in English, this was a much better experience. The manga is fun, cool, sweet, and even a bit heartbreaking. The anime was a weird mix of fan-service and super-filler. There were good episodes and good moments, but there was too much space between these instances. They don’t explain much and some things just plain don’t make sense. They also seem to throw out the whole phantom thieving at one point. Uh? And yeah I’m still pretty bitter that Dark is in love with Riku in the manga but not in the anime. Read the manga and don’t watch the anime!
I liked the Riku and Daisuke solo dynamic but I feel that adding Dark into the mix makes it interesting to read. Since the manga was not completed they decided to simplify the story in order to adapt it. The problem with that was two fold. First they simplified it too much so you were left with large amounts of filler, wasted space, and uninteresting new additions. I’m looking right at you Mio Hio. Ironically several of their attempts to simplify things made several points more complicated or just plain confusing. Secondly we are cruising along the story pacing highway speed limit at 30 MPH and then the anime original ending cranks up the speed to 110 mph. The last two episodes feel rushed and somewhat unexplained at crucial points. It’s not a bad anime but it’s clearly an anime that is inferior to the manga it was based on.
Ghost in the Shell SAC first season finished! Really amazing show, jumped up into being one of the best things I have watched lately. It had a great climatic ending with some serious emotions emerging. I have heard that it is debated whether or not Batou has feelings for the Major, not sure how this could be debated unless you are blind. Whether the Major actually reciprocates is a different story. Seriously though, the sexual tension in the room (you know the scene I’m talking about) was so intense I thought it was going to crack the windows! As for the Laughing Man, I was pleased though I would love to see him again. And as promised I have a Laughing Man wallpaper.
I want to meet the cool dude or lady who fully got Ghost in the Shell SAC the first time through. I wish to shake the hands with such a genius. I got most of it but I am still fuzzy on several of the details of side cases. I thought everything involved with the Laughing Man was awesome. He is such an awesome character. It was well written and well executed. They could have thrown in some more complex episode in between Stand Alone episodes in the middle but that is a minor flaw. The Stand Alone episodes were often as good as the main plot. Good filler, will the wonders ever end? Oh, I would go as far as to say blind and deaf to miss Batou’s feelings.
Read Kekkaishi volumes 13 and 14. The latter ends the first arc of the series and wraps it up quite nicely while leaving a few lingering villains to show up later on. We also get a glimpse of the tremendous power that is housed in Yoshimori. This is also where the anime ends so I am now reading totally new material. I love that the first thing Yoshimori does when he gets home after this whole ordeal is to bake a cake. I am glad to see this aspect of his personality in tact. The rest of book 13 and most of 14 is mostly short adventures but the end of the book looks to be the start of something.
I read Parasyte book 4. Even though it has a high school student as the protagonist it clearly straddles the line between shonen and seinen that makes it hard to categorize some of the titles in Afternoon. It seem like a shonen manga with it’s high school love story. On the other hand it can be placed in the seinen category just by the number of gory deaths of several important characters and countless unnamed ones. I was a little saddened by the death of the major character in this book but I can’t say it was not interesting.
So when you go to the Live-Evil fan-sub group’s website, the top banner changes and I kept seeing this cute picture but it didn’t say what it was. Finally decided to go through a process of elimination to figure it out, turns out it was a show called Ask Dr. Rin. Watched the first couple of episodes so far. It is essentially a magical girl show with Feng-Shui. Meirin has incredible fortune-telling powers using Feng-Shui, she has a secret identity of Dr. Rin who is becoming famous thanks to her website. Her fortune-telling seems to be dead on for everyone but herself. But when the guy she likes is in trouble her power manifest themselves into a dragon like spirit and she is able to save him. Looks like a major baddie caused this and his motives are yet to be revealed. Cute and fun show that promises nothing more than that.
I watched the Dirty Pair OAVs this week and they are just so much fun! I really like that the science fiction elements are there each and every time to make the story cool. Science is not there to be explained or deus ex machina. It’s just there to enhance the story. I like my hard sci-fi anime like Planetes but some times you need to kick back with two hot girls with big guns and watch them kill God in one episode and upper cut children in the next. Kei and Yuri have a fun dynamic that makes them like sexy versions of the stereotypical buddy action movie characters.
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11.10.07
Posted in Anime, Fandom Tags: Dirty Pair, Fushigi Yugi, OVA, Ranma 1/2, Slayers, Tenchi Muyo, TV series, ふしぎ遊戯, らんま½, スレイヤーズ, ダーティペア, 天地無用! at 2:30 am by reversethieves
Certain fashions are timeless and others are only products of their time. Jeans are always fashionable but bell-bottoms are very much a product of the 70’s. Anime can be the same way. Certain shows are classics and forever will be. I can’t see a time when people won’t be talking about Evangelion, Akira, or Castle of Cagliastro in anime fandom. Other series seem to be all the rage, necessary viewing for anime fans, and then disappear from consciousness like they were never released at all. Some shows fade because they lose their novelty factor, others fade because the genre they are in falls out of favor, and some seem to fade for no other reason other than people don’t like older shows.
Oh, so many shows, so little time. It seems that American fans hang on to shows a lot longer than the Japanese do. So it comes as no surprise that so many series get swept under the rug. Most people are looking for the newer, better thing.
Now on to those who were once giants but now have been humbled by time.
Ranma, Ranma, Ranma. Where do I begin? Ranma 1/2 is the story of a tough guy martial artist who, after falling into a cursed spring, turns into a girl when splashed with cold water. Much like Midori Days, it’s one of those shows with a premise that so easily could be used for some bizarre hentai but is used for only slightly ecchi situational comedy. Ranma’s father has promised his long time friend, Soun Tendo, that Ranma would marry one of his daughters and carry on each families martial artist style. The Tendo family decides that Ranma should be engaged to Akane, the youngest sister. Due to a general distaste for boys and a series of unfortunate events (and Ranma being a ego-maniacal jerk) during their first meeting, Ranma and Akane’s engagement starts off on a bad foot. Their relationship never seems to improve as dozens of aspiring fiancees and would be rivals show up to complicate their fragile relationship. There is lots of comical martial arts fighting combined with situational school comedy and cold-water changing mix-ups.
Ranma 1/2 was, at a time, Viz’s flagship title in the U.S. It seemed like the show everyone had an opinion about. Love it or hate it; everyone had seen some Ranma 1/2. There were those people who loved it and thought it was the best thing ever. And those people who hated it and wished the people who loved it would shut the heck up about it. It was constantly cosplayed, fan-fiction boards were flooded with Ranma stories of all types, and almost every list of favorite characters had someone from Ranma on it.
I had a friend at the time who was big-time into Ranma. I saw a lot of it through her and luckily our local video store carried quite a few tapes of it. It seemed to be like one of the first shows, along with a couple of others on this list, that had such a huge cast of characters it was almost impossible not to find one you liked. That was the real magic in it I think.
You can still find fans of Ranma 1/2 but most of the hardcore fandom has moved on to other shows and most people only speak about it with a distant nostalgia (or a dry contempt). All of Rumiko Takahashi’s major works seem to illicit this type of reaction, but I think Ranma is the epitome of this syndrome. Urusei Yatsura came around when there was less of an anime community, so it made a smaller impact because there were less people in anime fandom. The Inu-Yasha manga is still ongoing in Japan and the American fandom has not totally died down. So it doesn’t fall in this category yet. I myself actually like Takahashi’s characters even though they are usually utter jerks. Most people tend not to like Ranma 1/2 because it’s extremely long. It also has a habit of dressing up the same jokes in slightly different clothes. For some reason, I really like Takahashi’s series but your mileage may vary.
My tolerance was rather short. I still really love the OVAs and the movies. But could I sit through 7 season of Ranma? Hell no. I think your ability to do so really has to do with whether or not you liked Ranma, himself. I find it difficult to watch a show if I can’t atleast tolerate the main character. However, I tend to think all of Rumiko’s main works run too long. That is the fault of the editors no doubt.
I think this sums it up best.
Fushigi Yugi is a harem anime for girls. Okay, it’s more than that but lets not ignore this fact. Miaka Yuki and her friend, Yui Hongo, are ordinary girls who get transported into a fictional world contained in a magical book called The Universe of the Four Gods. Miaka soon learns that she is the priestess of Suzaku. The duty of the priestess of Suzaku is to find the seven celestial warriors and summon the god Suzaku. The problem there is a rival nation that worships Seiryu is trying to stop Miaka from summoning Suzaku and will doing anything is their power to stop her.
Anything includes trying to kidnap and rape her 40 times. Because I swear this child is helpless.
Fushigi Yugi was one of the first and one of the biggest break out shojo anime back at a time when the only titles that were being brought over were shonen titles. It was definitely not the first shojo title released in the U.S. either commercially or through fan-subs, but it was still a majorly influential. The old story goes that t Karen Duffy can in many way be considered the person who most helped Fushigi Yugi become the juggernaut that it was. Her fan-subs supposedly almost single handily created a fan-base for Fushigi Yugi in the U.S. No matter how it started it was the tremendous fan-sub fan-base is what got American companies interested in the show. It was definitely a show that came to be licensed in the states with the help of fan-subs. It most probably would have eventually come over to the U.S. but it come over when it did because fan-subs made English-speaking fans aware that such a show existed.
This is such a cool story because it shows the power of fan-subs, in a positive way. I’m sure it has been exaggerated but it can’t be denied that Fushigi Yuugi would never have been what it was if not for the tape trading community. This also put Yuu Watase’s work on the map here in the U.S. Her and CLAMP were the first big shojo manga-ka to gain a following when the manga industry just started up.
This was a show that had a distinctly shojo feel but borrowed enough shonen elements that it had a decent crossover appeal. Despite it’s male fans it should obvious that Fushigi Yugi had a largely female fan-base. In many ways it was a good bridge for all the girls who wanted to watch something else from Japan after Sailor Moon. Since Miaka Yuki was in many ways an ideal self insertion character and was surrounded by a harem of good looking guys, of all stripes, it is no surprise that it quickly gained a female following. The internet was flooded with shrines devoted to any and all of the Celestial warriors, and most of the other male characters form the series. Even the villainous Nakago had a large fan community. It seemed like every girl in anime fandom had watched Fushigi Yugi and would always try to get the guy in their circle of fandom to watch it.
We can thank Fushigi Yuugi for a number of things. Firstly, it was a more mature shojo title than Sailor Moon. It dealt with more adult relationships, sex, betrayal, and death. It also made girl otaku realize, what Japan knew all along, the appeal of the bishonen. Yuu Watase couldn’t draw an ugly guy to save her life. For most this was a somewhat new flavor to the mix. It also did really well in the manga realm and this kick started the shojo manga crazy that has never quite picked up in anime form here in the states.
Now it seems that U.S. fandom has mostly turned against Fushigi Yugi to the point where it is often considered a good example of what is wrong with certain types of shows in anime. Most people seem to talk about it as if they can’t see why they would have ever liked a show like that. It is a show that contains quite a few cliches, a long some would say overextended plot-line, and a good number of people would punch Miaka in the face if they ever met her in real life. If nothing else I know Kohaku still loves this series (and still loves Tasuki).
Well, as a fan-base grows older it seems easy to look back and question your tastes. I was never a fan of this show myself, I had the first two VHS tapes and that was about as far as I got. I read a bit more of the manga. Yuu Watase, still has a huge following, but you don’t really see that in anime. Since, I believe most of her series aren’t animated. I think this skews the idea of why it is looked at with contempt. Quite frankly, series with characters like this are still very popular in shojo manga. You might not see it anime wise, and you won’t see male fans picking up on it anymore. Fushigi Yuugi’s crossover appeal, in my opinion, was product of its time. There wasn’t that much, it was a new concept, and people didn’t have the same expectations. So to say completely useless female heroines surrounded by pretty guys is not popular, would be a mistake.
Slayers was a insanely popular comedy series in the U.S. back in the day. Slayers is set in a D&D fantasy universe with a decidedly farcical slant. Lina Inverse is a sorceress supreme who much like a D&D character wanders around fighting bandits and looting them for treasure. During one of the bandit hunting expeditions she runs into a handsome, but somewhat dim, swordsman named Gourry Gabriev and his legendary Sword of Light. They begin traveling together due to Goury’s want to protect Lina and Lina’s desire to get the Sword of Light. Along the way they usually run a foul of some major demon and reluctantly foil their nefarious schemes. They are eventually joined by the stoic chimera, Zelgadis, and the justice otaku, Princess Amelia. Most of the movies and OAVs are prequels to the TV series that involve Lina and her rival/traveling companion Naga the White Serpent. Although there is usually a very serious overall plot-line, the general tone is always comical and everything is tinged with parody and sarcasm.
Hey, you totally forgot Xellos! That secret keeping priest! And where would the yaoi doujinshi community be without him? Slayers is a show that there was also lots of fan-fiction written about as I recall. And I also saw many sites dedicated to pairings from this show. As my previous statement suggests, they weren’t all canon. I distinctly remember a site that was trying to convince people that Zelgadis and Xellos were clearly in love.
Next you going to say Trowa x Quatre is not canon.
Slayers seems to have had a major effect on the Japanese fantasy anime market by the sheer fact that it spawned dozens of similar comedy fantasy shows. Even the anime Rune Soldier, which is set in the Record of Lodoss world, uses the same comedy/drama formula. It seemed to be a show that was used much like Record Of Lodoss War to draw in people who were familiar with RPGs but knew nothing of anime. Other people went to Slayers after watching Record Of Lodoss War, more fantasy and were not thrown off by Slayers comical bent.
Now here’s a series I can really get behind; hilarious slap-stick comedy combined with almighty power! Plus, there is very little, good fantasy anime. I think that is why both Slayers and Lodoss gained a really large legion of fans. I was and still am a fan of both shows. I am always shocked that there isn’t more like these two shows with the plethora of RPG video games out there. Oh, and as a side note: all the songs were all a lot of fun! I always liked that about the show.
As far as I can tell most people just don’t watch Slayers anymore mostly because it’s old. It still has somewhat of a following, proven when Tokyopop thought of dropping the novel series. They got a massive write in campaign that seems to have saved the series for now. Funimation picked up the TV series with a savior license but I’m curious how well that is doing for them.
Well, I just saw them on the best sellers over at Right Stuf, so that is atleast something. It is true the style and animation look a bit dated. I really think that is the only thing holding it back. Comedy can be universal and many times timeless. I think Slayers is that way, since it is mostly physical comedy.
I will forgo making the overused joke about Cowboy Beobop spoilers and the sexual orientation of certain members of the WWWA and jump right into what the Dirty Pair is about. Kei and Yuri are jack-of-all-trades trouble shooters for the intergalactic World Welfare Works Association. Code named the “Lovely Angels” they are both famous and infamous in the organization. Famous because they they have a perfect success record in the organization and solve the hardest cases, uncover the most obtuse mysteries, and untangle the most byzantine of webs of deception. Infamously called the “Dirty Pair” because almost of of their missions causes a horrific amount of collateral damage. Each episode is self-contained and there is no real need for continuity so they can be watched in any order.
The Dirty Pair was based on a series of light novels by Haruka Takachiho, the author of Crusher Joe. It spawned the anime which was a sleeper hit but went to included a series of OAVs, movies, and a alternate universe series called Dirty Pair Flash. It was also very popular back in the day in the U.S., too. The Dirty Pair was so popular an American comic was produced based on the anime. Toren Smith and Adam Warren wrote and drew an English version of the series with their own take on the characters. The term “girls with guns” was coined for Dirty Pair and made the genre popular with U.S. fans. In fact, certain apocrypha states that Burn Up! became popular in the states due to fans of the Dirty Pair looking for a similar show. The popularity of Burn Up! in the America lead the Japanese to make Burn Up W (Not that the Dirty Pair should be held responsible for Burn Up W).
I remember renting the movies quite a lot. The series is full of big, exploding action but also has comedy thrown in the mix. Also you have two really bad ass female characters and it never felt like the fan-service was over the top enough for anyone to be offended. I assume the popularity of the show also went hand in hand with the Bubblegum Crisis following.
I don’t know why the Dirty Pair has fallen out of favor with US audiences. I feel other than slightly outdated (but still nice) animation there is nothing for modern fans not to like about the Dirty Pair. It has enough eye candy of beautiful girls and heart pounding action for the guys, strong female characters for the girls, and comedy for everyone. I guess really the reason the show fell out of favor was the fact that the genre itself fell out of favor.
80’s character designs. Is the pure and simple reason.
BTW, I feel shows like Noir and Gunslinger Girls are not Girls with Guns series despite what Wikipeida might say.
Now, the show we can blame everything that came afterwards for, Tenchi Muyo. This show was big, big…mega big. It was on television! And there was so much merchandise you could have drowned yourself in it. There are about 10,000 different sequels, movies, books, etc. Yes that is right, Tenchi brought us harem anime.
If Tenchi Muyo did not start the harem anime genre, it at least is the most popular of the first harem anime. The story revolves around Tenchi Masaki, who is quite the average ordinary boy, except for the fact that his grandfather is the owner of a Shinto temple. One day, he goes into the forbidden cave on the temple grounds and accidentally releases Ryoko, a space pirate sealed in the temple long ago. After stopping her from killing him, Tenchi gets Ryoko to warm up to him. But before they can get to know one another, Ayeka and Sasami, two space princesses, come to capture Ryoko but end up falling in love with Tenchi. A ditzy space police officer named Mihoshi also comes look for Ryoko, and happens to fall in love with Tenchi. The genius mad scientist Washu also comes by and, if you haven’t already guessed, falls in love with Tenchi. Eventually an evil bishonen from space comes, who does not fall in love with Tenchi (except in doujinshi) and they have to fight. The plot is a little different in the television series, but you get the picture.
I was quite a fan myself. I had never seen a show like it before. What was that saying you told me Hisu? You will forgive the first one? I’d say that is true, I haven’t found a harem anime worth watching since. Once again, we are seeing a large cast with a lot of different personalities, so it is easy to find someone you like. It is mostly situational humor with mixed in serious parts.
Despite my somewhat tongue in cheek overview of Tenchi, it’s a rather enjoyable show and rather easily accessible. The characters in the Tenchi are fairly iconic and seem to have had imitators and homages to them for years now. For some odd unknown reason, I really like Mihoshi in the original OAVs. I’m not sure why.
My feeling on why shows fall out of favor is, that is the cycle of entertainment. In general, nothing in that industry lasts forever. And if it does, it is a classic. Very few shows are going to fall into that category. To me, for something to become classic, it must bring something new to the table. It should show us something different, make us think in a new way, or make you feel like you’re watching anime for the first time. They aren’t supposed to come along everyday. But that doesn’t mean if it isn’t classic it isn’t worth watching.
Narutaki Currently!
Watching Story of Saiunkoku
Reading Nosatsu Junkie
Listening to Aya Ueto
Hisu (Brainwasher Detective) Currently:
Watching Hellsing Ultimate
Reading Clamp no Kiseki
Listening to Life is Like a Boat by Rie fu
Top 5 shows that got me into anime
5. Demon City Shinjuku
4. Tenchi Muyo in Love
3. Akira
2. Record of Lodoss War
1. Ninja Scroll
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