Friday, July 22, 2011

Pinky Pinky

22th July



Yay, Himeji Mizuki just arrived at my doorstep today=~=
One more to goXD

Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Angel Beats! -My Most Precious Treasure-

12/7/11

Angel Beats! エンジェルビーツ!

Beautiful, and yet, sad.

Recently I've finished this anime, honestly, I feel the impact.

OVERALL REVIEW:
Angel Beats! plot takes place on the Afterlife, which happen to be a high school, a school that filled with regrets, Otonashi, a boy who lost his memories on how he died, get wandered in this school and met a girl, Yuri, whom lead they so called Afterlife Battlefront, persuaded him to joined the team to fight against the God. They targeted this girl, Kanade, whom positioning the School Council President, which is they believed that she is the messenger of God, they called her the Angel.
The afterlife battlefront, gets frustrated on how their life could be so tragic and unfair before they died, pursuing the exact revenge on the God, while Kanade, aka the Angel, was actually having good intention that she wanted all the human soul whom wandered in should have found their own peace and fulfill their dreams in order to dissapear, to pass on to the next but the other side thinks she wants them to obliterated for no reason, and new life. Countless of battles occurred between two side, blood has been shed for what's right and wrong.

Plot: 8/10
I'm not considering as a experienced anime fans but I seen lots of great work. I'm more onto comedy and romance genre. Angel Beats! did surprised me in many ways, when I approached the first episode, I'm not expecting anything, but it did, it did surprised me on the following episode. Speaking of the plot, hmmm, if you weren't having much imagination, is not easy for you to understand the plot settings, as they aren't really explaining much about the school, and the afterlife world. Probably other reviewers are right, Jun Maeda script weren't supposed to be packed in only 13 episodes, is too short, and is too rush, that's the thing I disappoint the most.



Sentimental: 10/10
Jun Maeda's previous works are famous for his sentimental and emotional storytelling, but I've never seen one of his works before thou... But he did give such a new fans of him, me, a great emotional impact, I literally feel so bad, while looking the characters tragic past's stories. Feeling bad when they struggled on their hard life, feeling sad and relieved when they finally found peace and 'Disappear'. Feel so bad about everything that Maeda's present to my eyes.
First time ever there's such an anime that could makes me shed so many of my tears, (Not to mention, only great romance like the Notebook, can only made me cried) Angel Beats! tears jerker meter bars, ten out of ten, FTW.

Characters: 7/10
As I mentioned above, the episodes is too short and yet Angel Beats! have tons of interesting characters that cannot get their story goes fully explained besides the main characters. Such a waste, characters like TK, the guy who speak groovy english in some weird accent, Noda, a violent freak who always carry a big axe that have a crush on Yuri, their leader, and many more. 13 episode is not enough, characters setting are not be able to built up perfectly and not explaining well, geez...

Musics: 10/10
I love both of the opening theme and the ending them, its suits the anime very well, and is pleased to listen, definitely will struck on your mind for long period. Ichiban No Takaramono (My Most Precious Treasure) served the ending song of the episode 10 and 13, which is the most emotionally episodes in Angel Beats!, is perfectly attach and craft into the saddest scene in Angel Beats!. The soundtrack that runs on throughout the anime are pleased to me as well. Well, what can I say? Japanese musicians are always provides great songs.=)

Overall: 8/10