Kobato

Posted Tuesday, March 25, 2008 by MoonLunita
Kobato



A shoujo manga created by CLAMP, incomplete, published in 2005 with one volume and a kind of volume called "Temporary" that it could be named the continue of the first volume. It is about a strange naive girl who has arrived in this world from another that cause his attitude about this actual world, it seems it is a totally different world holding a rare bottle that she must fill with "healed hearts" with the help of Ioryogi, a very bad-tempered lived stuffed plush.

There is no anime version but it has been seen animated in the video clip "CLAMP in Wonderland 2" in a small part.

I love this story! i love how her innocence, so funny! her teacher of about how to live in this world has been the tvs she can watch outside some stores loool so cute and sweet, can't wait the time when CLAMP decide to continue it.

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Fate Stay/Night

Posted by MoonLunita
Fate Stay/Night



It was created originally as a visual novel game created by Type-Moon in January 2004 with a shounen manga version with 5 volumes and an anime version with 24 episodes aired in January 2006 to June of the same year. The main story is about a war that starts every 10 years between seven masters (magicians) and their seven servants to obtain the Holy Grail to grant a wish. Each master summon their servants to kill the others in order to the matters mentioned before. The story starts with Shirou Emiya, a kid who survived from the chaos of the last war and was adopted by Kiritsugu Emiya, who decided to transfer his magic to the child before he died making Emiya one of the masters for the next war without any notice.

There is a visual novel game sequel called Fate/Hollow Ataraxia with other different characters plus two of the stay/ night Shirou and Tohsaka Rin.

The anime Original Sountrack was composed by Kenji Kawai and openings-endings by Sachi Tainaka and Jyukai.

I haven't played the game but my friend EdO told me that is in there where you can found out the whole and real story, some important answers, some important discovers. I will read the manga and hope I can play the game later hehe but for now, ,my favourites are Saber and Rin!!! hehe and the music is sweet.

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Fullmetal Alchemist

Posted by MoonLunita
Hagane no Rekinjutsushi



A shounen manga by Hiromu Arakawa published in January 2001 and is still ongoing with 19 volumes and 81 chapters, each released almost every month. It is about Edward and his brother Alfonse Elric living in a small town with their mother since their father left them some time ago, who used to be an alchemist. They were living a happy life when suddenly their mother died because of an illness, Ed and Al tried to revive her using alchemy and failed causing the almost dead of Al's that Ed's could save only his soul losing his right arm and legs. It was known that with a philosopher's stone, he could revive anything without failure and decided to become an state alchemist to access to all kind of information about how to get it or create it thus beginning an adventurous and a hard journey.

There is an anime version aired in October 2003 to 2004 of the same month with 51 episodes, not very similar from the manga because there are a lot of changes and different characters but it is a good animation. The end of this anime, practically it could be seen in the movie "Fullmetal Alchemist the movie: Conqueror of Shamballa" aired in 2005 with a runtime of 105 minutes.

The music of the three Original Soundtracks was composed by Michiru Oshima, wonderful, so beautiful included in my top anime OSTs and my favourite is the OST 1. Its opening and ending was in charge of good bands like Porno Graffitti, L'arc~en~ciel, Cool Joke and Asian Kung-Fu Generation.

I like it so much because how the alchemy is used in this story is so interesting and so cool, drama parts, so dramatic, fighting scenes, so amazing both manga and anime. I following the manga until the end comes because I would like to know all the puzzle this story has been doing about that famous philosopher's stone and its skill to revive.

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Death Note

Posted Monday, March 24, 2008 by MoonLunita
Death Note



A thriller manga created by Tsugumi Ohba and illustrated by Takeshi Obata published in 2003 to 2006 with 12 volumes and 108 chapters about how a Japanese high school student called Yagami Light (Raito for me XD I love how it sounds so I always pronounce Raito instead of Light) founds a notebook in the street, outside the school with a weird title "Death Note". When he opened it was written some "how to use" directions, the main one was "The human whose name is written in this notebook shall die" followed with some rules. Since that, Raito's lige drastically changed his life thinking that he could change the world with his sense of justice and this book could create a better and peaceful world. Later on, he would meet a mysterious-world famous detective known as "L" , his top rival.

There is an anime version aired in October 2006 to June 2007 with 37 episodes, a very good adaptation but not at the end, it is different from the manga and it wasn't a good idea, in my opinion, the way the anime was. The music was composed by Kenji Kawai and with openings and endings Maximum the Hormone, Nightmare and Yoshihisa Hiran, heavy sounds hehe.

There is a live action divided in two movies:
Death Note - aired in June 2006 with a runtime of 126 minutes.
Death Note The Last Name - aired five months later of the same year with a runtime of 141 minutes.


This story is so interesting, the way Raito and L fight their perspective of justice using their intelligence, the unexpected end... well, suspense all the time that anybody can't miss, a well done story.

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UDOS!

Posted Sunday, March 16, 2008 by MoonLunita
Viendo videos de graciosas entrevistas o graciosos errores de mi grupo irlandes favorito, The Corrs, me encontre (a lo mexicano) con la mamada mas grande del mundo:



pudiste notarlo? lo escuchaste?? oooh siii!! U2, otro buen grupo salido de Irlanda ha sido vilmente traducido XDDDDDD y es UDOS jajajajaja que peeex con la vida de los españoles??? es que no puedo salir de mi asombro jajajajaja heeellooooo notese que no todo en la vida puede traducirse, no caguen el ingles y menos al grupo diciendole UDOS!!! es "llu tu" y asi se pronuncia LLU TU!. Si por cada nombre de equis cosa en lengua inglesa se tuviera que traducri en cada idioma creanme que para que chingados esta entonces el ingles?? jojo... mis condolencias si eres español y lees esto pero no maaaa.

Lo repeti mil veces para escuchar la pavadota que se aventaron XD!!! increible... *Møon tratandose de serenar y parar de reir* hehehe que cosas.

X/1999

Posted Saturday, March 1, 2008 by MoonLunita
X



An unfinished shoujo-fantasy manga by CLAMP published in May 1992 with 18 volumes about how our world in 1999, a japanese boy called Kamui, has its destiny deciding to become a Dragon of Heaven or Dragon of Earth. They are called The Seven Seals and The Seven Angels respectively. The Dragons of Heaven are in charge to protect the kekkai or barrier that's surrounding the Earth to prevent the last day of it. The Dragons of Earth are the ones in charge to destroy that kekkai so it could cause the destruction of the Earth to give chance a new era without the real destruction humans are causing to the world. The main idea was based in the Biblical Apocalypse about the end of the world adding the urban myth about at 2000 everything would be finished.

The anime version was aired in October 2001 to March 2002 with 24 episodes and music composed by Satou Naoki. As the manga has no end, the one shown in the anime it's considered the end of the story although it doesn't follow it so exactly, the end is reasonable.
The movie of 100 minutes was aired before the anime in 1996 with music by Yasuaki Shimizu, a strange version but a good resume about the story, let's call it an introduction.

I like it very much, they made a good and interesting creation with the urban belief about the end of the world, I got rapidly involved with most of the characters -spoiler-I felt kind of sad when Fuuma had to be the "other Kamui" becoming a Dragon of Hearth changing his tender and soft heart to an evil one-spoiler- and it lefts you with a very important message about caring people you really love and the earth who gives you home. The anime music is pretty, specially "Sadame" that makes you feel the tense situation and the excitement about what is going to happen.

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