Summary: The Ogi Family’s own mystical site is under attack, and even their ruthless heir Shichiro seems powerless to defend it. What are the attackers really after...? Then, having gathered reinforcements, the villains shift their focus to an even more ambitious target!
Yoshimori and Tokine have dedicated their young lives to protecting the Karasumori Site. Now its profoundest secrets finally come to light...-Viz and back of book
Review: First of all, I would like to say that I loved this cover. It was amazing! I also found this volume better than 31. It started to talk about some of the more interesting parts of the story, and since I'm so near the end, this was a very climatic volume. After not reading Kekkaishi for 2 months, I was (once again) amazed by the art. I was also intrigued by Tokine's role in all of this, which has yet to be learned, and was amazed by the "flashback" in which Yoshimori is told about Chushinmaru. I hope to read the next volume soon!
Overall score: 9/10 on the Kekkaishi scale, with one point docked for slight boringness.
Monday, June 18, 2012
Saturday, June 2, 2012
Fullmetal Alchemist Volume One Review
So I just decided to reread FMA, and this is what became of it... Well then, this is one of my favorite volumes, and I have to say that it's a great model of a perfect first volume. It's got great jokes, nice art, and, really, I just love this series. There's nothing else to say! And, of course, I give it a 10/10 on the Kekkaishi scale.
Monday, May 28, 2012
En Passant Review
Sum: Verde, a powerful and secret organization that controls the world, has a new leader. The only thing that stands in its way is an unlikely character, Kujou Shin, the king of pessimists. He has no attachments to anything or anyone and feels no hesitation to dying. He is unwillingly dragged into a fight for the most powerful position in the world, the leader of Verde. What will his fate be? (From Baka-Updates Manga)
Review: I found this manga really funny. It was pretty well-written and had a good idea that carried well with the art and writing style. The characters weren't amazingly original, and the "battle/contest for ____" theme wasn't particularly new. Although it only had 20 chapters, I feel that En Passant could have gone on a bit longer than it did. The last few chapters felt rushed, and the ending was a little pshed, too, although it seemed a bit more relaxed than the previous chapters. I, personally, liked the beginning best. It had a very easy-to-grasp concept and was fun to read. I was reading Witch Hunter while I read this series, and I have to say that it was En Passant that I enjoyed more, although I prefer Witch Hunter in the long term. Although the chess theme of this manga was a little overused, I rank En Passant a seven out of ten on the Kekkaishi scale.
Saturday, May 19, 2012
"Chobits" by Clamp Review
Summary:
The series centers on the life of Hideki Motosuwa, a held-back student attempting to qualify for university by studying at Seki prep school in Tokyo. Besides a girlfriend, he dreams of having a persocom: an android used as a personal computer, which is too expensive for Hideki to afford. On his way home one evening, he stumbles across a persocom in the form of a beautiful girl lying against a pile of trash bags, and he carries her home. Upon turning her on, she instantly regards Hideki with adoration. The only word the persocom seems capable of saying is "chi", thus he names her that. A major part of the plot involves Hideki attempting to teach Chi words, concepts, and appropriate behaviours, in between his crammed schedule of school and work. At the same time, Chi seems to be developing feelings for Hideki, at an emotional depth she is not supposed to possess, and Hideki struggles with his feelings for her. The need to figure out more about Chi and her mysterious functions and past becomes a pull for the characters in the series. Together, Chi and Hideki explore the relationship between human beings and persocoms, as well as their friends' and their own.-Wikipedia
Review:
I found this series a little too ecchi for me, but still really cute. It was a nice little Clamp work, and I've heard that it's one of the more popular ones. It has a nice meaning, and, if you didn't know, Anglic Layer is the sort of prequel. I found Chii to be really very cute, and the "City With No People" series helped a lot in leading the story to its climax. Chobits wasn't very long, and it was a very simple series to read. It wasn't too much or too little, and without the ecchi, it would've been even more popular than it is today. Towards the end, though, the ecchi was sort of "lost" (in a good way) and you could ignore any little traces that were left behind. All in all, I give it a six on the Kekkaishi Scale. Chobits lost three stars for the ecchi, and another one for most of the characters' design (not as in drawing, but as in attitude and such).
The series centers on the life of Hideki Motosuwa, a held-back student attempting to qualify for university by studying at Seki prep school in Tokyo. Besides a girlfriend, he dreams of having a persocom: an android used as a personal computer, which is too expensive for Hideki to afford. On his way home one evening, he stumbles across a persocom in the form of a beautiful girl lying against a pile of trash bags, and he carries her home. Upon turning her on, she instantly regards Hideki with adoration. The only word the persocom seems capable of saying is "chi", thus he names her that. A major part of the plot involves Hideki attempting to teach Chi words, concepts, and appropriate behaviours, in between his crammed schedule of school and work. At the same time, Chi seems to be developing feelings for Hideki, at an emotional depth she is not supposed to possess, and Hideki struggles with his feelings for her. The need to figure out more about Chi and her mysterious functions and past becomes a pull for the characters in the series. Together, Chi and Hideki explore the relationship between human beings and persocoms, as well as their friends' and their own.-Wikipedia
Review:
I found this series a little too ecchi for me, but still really cute. It was a nice little Clamp work, and I've heard that it's one of the more popular ones. It has a nice meaning, and, if you didn't know, Anglic Layer is the sort of prequel. I found Chii to be really very cute, and the "City With No People" series helped a lot in leading the story to its climax. Chobits wasn't very long, and it was a very simple series to read. It wasn't too much or too little, and without the ecchi, it would've been even more popular than it is today. Towards the end, though, the ecchi was sort of "lost" (in a good way) and you could ignore any little traces that were left behind. All in all, I give it a six on the Kekkaishi Scale. Chobits lost three stars for the ecchi, and another one for most of the characters' design (not as in drawing, but as in attitude and such).
Saturday, March 24, 2012
39 Clues Movie?!?!?!
Steven Spielberg acquired film rights to the series in June 2008. Spielberg and Scholastic Media president Deborah Forte will produce the series, while Brett Ratner, director of X-Men: The Last Stand and the Rush Hour film series, is interested in directing the first film. Screenwriter Jeff Nathanson, who worked with Spielberg on Catch Me If You Can, The Terminal, and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, and with Ratner on Rush Hour 2 & 3, was hired to write in September 2008. The movie, titled The 39 Clues: The Movie, is going to be released in 2014. The film, jointly financed by Universal Studios, Spielberg's DreamWorks, and Walden Media, the studio behind The Chronicles of Narnia film series, will be released in North America by Universal. DreamWorks, through Disney's Touchstone Pictures division, will handle the international distribution.
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Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Smashwords
Okay, so I now have an account on smashwords and have published a book of my depressing poems online. Yay. You can see my smashwords account at https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/eresecrettruth . I think I'm gonna go write another book now.
Sunday, March 18, 2012
Even 100
I just checked my blogger profile and guess what! I have an even 100 profile views! Yay!
Yeah, so I'm an obsessive ninja lover. Who cares?
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