AngelBeats!

AngelBeats!

This series is short; It's 13 episodes. However, it accomplishes so much in that short timespan.

The series starts out like an action series, but it's so much more than that. It is potentially one of the most well-rounded series I have ever watched; Action, comedy, drama, and even a bit of romance are all covered - in amazing fashion - and by the end, the viewer is left emotionally attached to the characters, allowing for a good cry at the finale. The character development is very strong, but unfortunately the briefness of the series renders it impossible to cover EVERYONE'S backstory, which leaves you wishing for more a bit. That said, I am completely and utterly satisfied with the series as a whole. Each episode leaves you wanting to watch the next one, without an overly heavy use of cliffhangers.

                    

Infinite Stratos

Infinite Stratos

Infinite Stratos: Complete Collection (w/OVA + CD) (DVD) due out on 4/10/12.


Contains episodes 1-12 plus the Encore OVA episode and a bonus music CD.

Special Features: Behind the Scenes: An Interview with Director Yasuhito Kikuchi, Episode Commentaries with the Japanese Voice Actress, Radio IS, Clean Opening & Closing Animations. 

Originally Posted by Soundtrack CD

1) Aka Ku Aka Ku (Houki Shinonono)
2) SUPER∞STREAM (Houki Shinonono)
3) Noble Heart (Cecilia Alcott)
4) SUPER∞STREAM (Cecilia Alcott)
5) Hachio Smile (Rinin Fan)
6) SUPER∞STREAM (Rinin Fan)
7) Mon Chérie, Ma Chérie (Charlotte Dunois)
8) SUPER∞STREAM (Charlotte Dunois)
9) An die Freude (Laura Bodewig)
10) SUPER∞STREAM (Laura Bodewig)

The odd numbered tracks are “Character Songs” – one by each of the VA’s for the main girls in the series. Each “girl” also sings the end theme for the show (Super Stream). The names next to the songs are the CHARACTER NAMES. The songs are sung in character.

These tracks are all off the bonus CD’s that were included with the Japanese home video releases.

                    

TheWorld god Only Knows

 TheWorld god Only Knows

Plot: Keima Katsuragi, a second-year high school student, is an avid bishōjo game player. He is known on the Internet as "The Capturing God (落とし神 Otoshi-gami?)" for his legendary skills to be able to "capture" any 2D girl in games. However, in his actual school life, Keima is known as otamegane (オタメガネ), a derogatory portmanteau of the two words otaku (オタク) and megane (メガネ-"glasses") and is considered nothing but an intelligent yet gloomy geek with glasses. 
        At the start of the series, Keima receives an e-mail offering him a contract to "capture" girls. When he accepts it, thinking it is an invitation to a game, a demon from Hell named Elsie appears. She asks for his cooperation to help her in catching runaway spirits. These spirits hide themselves inside the hearts of girls’, and Elsie suggests that the only method to force the spirits out is by "capturing" the girls hearts—making them fall in love with him and filling up the gaps which the runaway spirits hide in. Interested only in 2D girls, however, Keima is appalled by the idea and refuses the assignment as he has no romantic real life experiences whatsoever. Nevertheless, with the contract already agreed, Keima has no choice but to help Elsie no matter what as they will be beheaded if they fail. 
        While the series focuses on Keima and Elsie adventures on capturing spirits, the series also makes fun and parodying common and popular cliches about dating sims, anime character stereotypes and pop culture.

Review: So right away you might be thinking this anime is too cliché, and seems to be boring how he goes one girl after another saving them all on some hopeless and never ending journey. right? WRONG! look at me, now back to the show, now back to me, what are you holding? It’s a PFP(PSP), with an eroge inside. Look back up, where are you? Your at a japanese high school, filled with tsundere, sports freaks, and idol wannabe’s.Anything’s possible when you watch this show!I’m hungry!

*ahem* yeah, so that’s the show in a nutshull. Also, its murphy’s law for the main character keima. Anything that can or should go wrong, will go wrong. usually he ends up getting dragged into lame tasks that he’s not interested in, and end up causing physical pain some at some point. lol

Overall though I had previously started reading the manga, then got lazy and just started watching the anime and I think this is a pretty enjoyable show. It may seem really corny and cliché at first, but I think it’s kind of meant to be. Also, this show does have hilarious scenes for example:

teacher: “ keima, are you even listening to the lecture!!!??? *makes pissed off face with foot on desk*”

keima:*intensely plays PFP* “hang on a sec, need to save”

So, yeah stuff kike that I find pretty unique to this show. His nonchalant and I don’t really care attitude unless it involves 2D Girls sort of reminds me of Gintoki from Gintama and how he doesn’t really care unless it involves money so hey can buy food. lol

Anyways, I’ve ranted on enough! check it out for yourself! I think it’s one of the must watch shows for the fall season^_^

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Heaven's Lost Property - Season 1 (2009) [2011]

Heaven's Lost Property - Season 1 (2009) [2011]

2xDVD9 + 1xDVD5 | ISO+MDS | NTSC 16:9 (720x480) | 337 mins - 14 Eps | 8,11 Gb + 7,97 Gb + 2,16 Gb
Audio: English AC3 5.1 @ 448 Kbps; Japanese AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subtitles: English | Cover+Inside
Genre: Anime, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-fi, Romance | FUNimation Entertainment, Japan
Tomoki's life was normal until a wish-granting angelic android named Ikaros fell from the sky and started calling him master! Of course, thanks to his raging teenage hormones, most of Tomoki's wishes have something to do with panties. And that makes things pretty complicated, because one simple wish can lead to a rampaging robot made out of frilly undergarments or turn bloomers into bombs capable of blowing up entire neighborhoods! If Tomoki doesn't learn to control his impulses around Ikaros and be more careful with his wishes, the chaos will only get crazier. Luckily, even with such a dirty mind, Tomoki's heart is in the right place. His hands, however, are a completely different story. 

                    

Haruhi

Haruhi

Most people know about anime and manga, but a new wave of Japanese popular culture is just starting to hit the United States: the light novel. The light novel (literally “raito noberu” or “ranobe” for short) is similar to a young adult novel in the United States, but it also has a little twist: manga-style illustrations are littered throughout the books. So now that you know what light novels are, here’s one of ourTen Light Novels That You Need To Know:

The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya

I mentioned in the introduction that Haruhi has blitzed the entire world with her antics. Written by Nagaru Tanigawa and illustrated byNoizi Ito, the series currently spans ten volumes, nearly all of which are told in an achronological fashion. (This resulted in the anime airing its episodes out of order as well.)

Haruhi may be the most visible character of the series, but the protagonist is actually a fellow nicknamed Kyon (his real name has yet to be mentioned). Kyon is an average high school student who manages to strike up a friendship with Haruhi, his unfriendly classmate who claims to have no interest in normal humans— only in aliens, time travelers, and espers. During one of their pre-class talks, she complains that the school clubs are all incredibly boring, so he flippantly suggests that she create her own. Which she does, dragging Kyon along as its first member, of course.

She bullies three other members into joining: Yuki, who is actually a member of the literature club (whose clubroom Haruhi also stole); Mikuru, a nervous (and buxom) upperclassman; and Itsuki, a “mysterious” transfer student. As time passes, each of the members comes to Kyon with an unusual tale. None of them is actually a normal human: Yuki is an alien robot, Mikuru is a time traveler from a distant future, and Itsuki is an esper, a being with magic-like powers. Each of them explains that several years prior, Haruhi somehow gained the ability to alter reality as she sees fit. Yuki suggests that she’s an anomaly in the system. Mikuru thinks she’s a crack in the space-time continuum, and Itsuki suggests she might simply be god.

All of them, however, agree that Haruhi should be kept unaware of her abilities, lest she decide consciously that the world around her is too dull. So Kyon joins them in preventing Haruhi from figuring it out— and in keeping the world in its original form, or as close as possible.

The series has been made into a manga twice (the first effort failed dismally with fans), and an anime season aired in April of 2006 and became immensely popular world-wide. A second season has been announced, but no air date has been offered yet. The novel series has not been licensed for release in English, though a fan translation project has the vast majority of it available online (illegally)

                     

Fairy Tail

Fairy Tail

                    

Vampire Knight

Vampire Knight