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Ok, so if you’ve been waiting for part two, you’ll not be disappointed for long. My anime selection of the month will move on to RahXephon and Escaflowne. The guide line is Mechas!!

RahXephon: It’s the story of a 17 year old boy named Ayato Kamina. He lives in a near future Tokyo. After his city is attacked he mysteriously finds himself in control  of a giant God-like bio-mechanical war machine. At first he merges unwillingly with the “RahXephon” to protect his friends and family. But he quickly learns that something is not right in the world he lives in. He discovers that  the world he was raised in is similar to what we’ve seen in the Truman Show. His parents and friends all have blue blood!  Ultimatley he encounters a women who proposes to show him the truth about the world he lives in.

This anime involve themes like love, war and purpose in live. At some point  in the 26 running episodes you’re introduced with new characters that make the plot even more confusing. But that’s ok! IT’s alright to mix futuristic machines and super-natural events such as alternate dimensions or mind control. Music was really important throughout this anime and it’s one reason why it’s opening theme is now my all time favorite song.

Vision of Escaflowne: (You’ll have to wait for part 3 ??)

Sometimes it’s hard to believe how much I fall in the general category of boys that start off with reading Dragonball mangas just for the thrill of it to then become a skilled analyst of anime. I don’t have a master degree and visual conception of art (does a master degree like that even exist?) but I want to tell you about my favorite anime of the hour.

I’ll put my cards on the table right away, from what I remember, I used to watch Sailor Moon and Dragonball Z all the time and really liked anime over other animation, still I loved the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Mummies Alive! and X-Men. High school and college is pretty much a big black-out from anime culture, I still had my roots with my all time favorite character Piccolo.

Shaman King: The story is about a young boy named Yoh Asakura who wishes to become a great shaman. The shaman merges with his gardian ghost who then enables him to use the ghost powers in the physical realm. Yoh teams up with the ghost of Amidamaru, an ancient samurai and throught their fusion they must battle ennemies and enter the Shaman Fight. The winner of the tournament will be crowned Shaman King and will receive the Great Spirit. By accomplishing this the Great Spirit grants his owner all the knowdledge of any spirit of Earth, thus gaining all-knowingness. The plot eventually thickens as the opponents become more powerful and the techniques required to fight them off more elaborate (Oversould, Giant Spirit). None the less the story eventually an evil twin brother who wants to destroy the world and reshape it to his own twisted vision. In the end the objectives change and Yoh and his friends have to go against an unbelievable new foe that is to put it simply overwhelming.

It’s a 64 episodes show of about 24 minutes each. Very fun to watch, oriented towards friendship and how to live with one an other and that you have to stick with your friends to the end. Even if there are ghosts all over the place the theme of death is crushing you since you have multiple parties with weird visions of what human life is worth competing to be shaman king.

Just like many other anime you sometimes get the impression the show got cancelled towards the end and they had to wrap up the show so towards the end you get crazy gear shifts, those actually add to the excitement of a great show. I have a short video sample from a previous post you can see what kind of content you can have in Shaman King.

You can read more on Shaman King on Wikipedia. Part two of Anime Love will present RahXephon and Vision of Escaflowne. Stay tuned with RSS feeds!

This movie is so great! I’ve seen the first previews long ago. Nearly forgot about, but I’ve finally seen it.

This movie brings 3D animation to the top. Don’t be scared of this sequel to the world greatest game ever (Final Fantasy VII on PlayStation).

We get the feel of the action, we are amazed by the moves and those are the kind of animation we would of like to see in the original game.

To understand the story you really must have played the game, or else you won’t understand much. But to summarize we’re two years after Sephiroth has been defeated. The other clones still want to organize the Reunion with mother Jenova.

Fine, you haven’t played the game? Doesn’t matter then it’s a MUST see. FFVII:AC brings fantasy to pure extasy.