Anime Reviews

Alternative Name: サムライチャンプルー
Years of Released: May 20, 2004 – March 19, 2005
Episodes: 26
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Martial Arts
Favorite Characters : Jin, Mugen
My Rating: PG-13
Grade: A

Summary:
A young lady named Fuu is working as a waitress in a tea house when she is harassed by a band of ruffians. Another customer, Mugen, offers to take care of them in exchange for food, but ends up instigating a brawl. Jin, a stoic young ronin in samurai garb, enters the tea house in the midst of the fight. Mugen attacks Jin after he proves to be a worthy opponent and they begin fighting one another, ignoring a fire that started during the brawl. They both faint from smoke inhalation. When they awaken, they find they have been arrested for the murder of Shibui Tomonoshina, the magistrate's son who had burned to death in the fire, and are to be executed. With help from Fuu, they escape and Fuu asks them to travel with her to find "the samurai who smells of sunflowers," a mysterious man Fuu can give little description of, but whom she insists she must find. They agree to join her, with Fuu making only one condition: they are not to duel one another until the journey is done.

My review:
Very well done. I like characters and plot. Very interesting. Animation was quite impressing. I liked how animators used very odd angles for some shots. It added to animation. Loved Mugen's fighting style. The ending though was a bit disappointing. I expected something more but beggars aren't choosers, right?

Recommend:
highly recommended. good humor and fighting

Alternative Name: NARUTO
Years of Released: October 3, 2002 – February 8, 2007
Episodes: 220 (9 seasons)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Martial Arts, Shounen
Favorite Characters : Kakashi, Itachi, Shikamaru, Naruto, Sasuke, Gaara, Neji
My Rating: PG
Grade: A

Summary:
Naruto Uzumaki is a young boy who has the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox sealed within him. Twelve years before the start of the series, the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox attacked the ninja village Konohagakure, slaughtering many people. In response, the leader of Konohagakure – the Fourth Hokage – sacrificed his life to seal the demon inside his own son Naruto when he was a newborn. Konohagakure, however, regarded Naruto as if he were the demon fox itself and mistreated him throughout most of his childhood. A decree made by the Third Hokage forbade anyone mention the attack of the demon fox to anyone. Years later, Naruto was tricked by the renegade ninja Mizuki into stealing a forbidden scroll, but was stopped by his teacher, Iruka Umino. That encounter made Naruto realize he was the container of the demon fox.

My review:
I love Naruto. Now I can see why it is so popular. I took me awhile to get into all that ninja stuff and now I'm completely cool with that. It got so intense starting from 110 but too bad it didn't last long. If not all the fillers(which are 80 episodes) I would give it an A+. I bet Naruto fans agree with me on that one. But things the way they are so can't do much about it. I love Kakashi! He is one of the funny elements in Naruto. I think I will LOVE Naruto even more when it's over because it has been dragging on for so long now in Naruto Shippuden and I simply don't have enough patience to wait for episode every week. I'll watch the whole thing again when it's over. But anyway I'd say go for it. I know kids love it. I was talking to my 10 year old nephew using Naruto language and I was given that look from his father as if I'm insane. If poor guy doesn't know what is SHARINGAN or BYAKUGAN mean it's not my fault, right? He just doesn't get it...


Recommend:
Worth watching if you have time and patience...

Alternative Name: Mountain Summit, Ashita no Yoichi
Years of Released: January 8, 2009
Episodes: 24
Genre: Comedy, Ecchi, Martial Arts, Romance, Shounen
Favorite Characters : none
My Rating: PG-16
Grade: C

Summary:
A boy swordsman, Yoichi and his father stays in mountain training for his descent from the mountain. Yoichi comes to the city to lodge and stay with 4 beautiful sisters. A new more severe "training" regiment awaits him.

My review:
Didn't really like it. Firstly it is Ecchi. Secondly the plot was blurred. Thirdly the end was... it's like there was no end at all. I honestly expected more. That might be my mistake.

Recommend:
If you like ecchi.

Alternative Name: Mononoke-hime
Years of Released: July 12, 1997
Time: 134 min
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Martial Arts
My Rating: R
Grade: D+

Summary:
Set in feudal Japan, a time of upheaval of samurai warriors and isolated villages, Princess Mononoke follows the journey of the last Emishi prince,[2] Ashitaka, and his attempts to make peace between the human settlement, Irontown (Tataraba in the original Japanese), and the creatures living in the forest that surrounds it.
The film begins with Ashitaka receiving a curse during a battle with a demonic giant boar called Nago which is threatening to destroy his village. During the fight, Ashitaka receives a wound on his right arm; the cursed wound will spread to the rest of his body and eventually kill him. Ashitaka resolves to journey to the boar's origin, the lands to the West, and find a cure for the curse. He cuts his hair, signifying his permanent departure from his village,[3] and rides out with his steed Yakul, his loyal red elk. On his journey, Ashitaka passes by a village suffering a samurai attack. Some samurai attack him, and Ashitaka defeats them with the supernatural strength of his cursed arm. In a nearby town he meets Jigo, a wandering monk impressed by his feats of arm, who informs Ashitaka that the god of the forest in the mountains of the west may be able to help him....

My review:
Ok. It was one of the worst anime I've seen so far. I really didn't enjoy it at all. The plot was really weird. Definitely not my taste. There was also blood but it didn't do anything to the movie... Anyway, I gave it D (and + for forest creatures. they were funny looking and cute)

Recommend:
Would not recommended it.