Why does being a ninja has to be so serious?
Why Does Being a Ninja Has to be so Serious?
Let go of the seriously presented character styles and difficult pick-up-and-play gameplay! Here, we have newly released NARUTO game in 2013 for Nintendo players, Naruto SD Powerful Shippuden on Nintendos!
Two fun adventures of Naruto and Rock Lee!
Gameplay
The game features many boss battles to the point where it goes all the way to the Five Kage Summit Arc. The game will also include forehead protector cases that can hold three Nintendo 3DS games. The game allows the player to go into story mode as either Naruto or Lee and go on missions taken directly from their animated story lines.
Characters
Playables - Naruto Uzumaki
- Sage Naruto
- Rock Lee
Supports - Kakashi Hatake
- Sakura Haruno
- Sai
- Yamato
- Shikamaru Nara
- Ino Yamanaka
- Chōji Akimichi
- Might Guy
- Neji Hyūga
- Tenten
- Gaara
- Hinata Hyūga
- Kiba Inuzuka
- Shino Aburame
Bosses - Kakashi Hatake
- Might Guy
- Orochimaru
- Deidara
- Pain
- Kisame
- Tobi
- Kakuzu
- Sasuke Uchiha
- Dark Naruto
The comical animations in the game feature oversized caricature heads and humorous on-screen expressions and actions designed to entertain and appeal to gamers of all ages. The pick-up-and-play gameplay allows even casual and young gamers to enjoy busting out flashy moves and special attacks throughout the game’s various stages. Players will be able to take the ninja brawl from the training fields to the forests to the mountains during both night and day.
CLANNAD & CLANNAD AFTER STORY
Hi, I am Mao~~~ Clannad & Clannad After Story are my favorite animations. I have watched it for almost nine times and they make me cry every time. I am going to show you some my own opinions.
Story: 9/10
This story is very moving.You can find a story in each character and those stories can touch you deeply. It may make you laugh happily firstly and then you cry just after 30 seconds. The main idea of this anime is about family, the relationship between people. I think it can help teenagers a lot, it can teach us a lot about the love from our families.
Art: 8/10
The art is really beautiful and meticulous. This anime story almost happened in spring, so the cherry scenes will appear many times, it is really beautiful. However, the only problem is the character's face. By watching this anime, you can find all character have the same faces but different hair.
BGM: 9/10
Good Background musics often make people lose themselves in watching an anime, it renders people feelings in the stories. The BGMs in Clannad & Clannd After Story are amazing, they are very nice and touching.
Characters: 9/10
This anime completely shows every characters' characteristics. Each characters' back stories is good, we can also get information about characters through their daily life.
Enjoyment: 8/10
It may boring for some people, because it is not about anything which could make you excited like what One Piece does. However, this anime is still attracting many people.
Overall: 9/10
By watching this anime, I learned how important the family is, and I learned how to face the real life whatever how difficult it is. This anime gave me power to face the failure and take my own responsibilities. Family, friendship and love, we can get them in this anime.
Synopsis
Tomoya Okazaki is a third year high school student resentful of his life. His mother passed away from a car accident when he was younger, causing his father to resort to alcohol and gambling. This results in fights between the two until Tomoya's shoulder is injured in a fight. Since then, Tomoya has had distant relationships with his father, causing him to become a delinquent over time. While on a walk to school, he meets a strange girl named Nagisa Furukawa who is a year older, but is repeating due to illness. Due to this, she is often alone as most of her friends have moved on. The two begin hanging out and slowly, as time goes by, Tomoya finds his life shifting in a new direction.
A Video I made for Clannad
Flashback to the Past ~ Studio Ghibli Films - Castle in the Sky
This segment of Animia will mostly be on Studio Ghibli films. If we're talking about anime, we simply cannot go past Studio Ghibli. They are an animation studio which has produced some of the most famous animated films in both Japan and the world, including: Spirited Away, My Neighbour Totoro and Ponyo.
Today's film of choice will be the first one produced and released after the official founding of the studio: Castle in the Sky (known as Laputa, Castle in the Sky in the UK and Australian releases).
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Story: 9/10
Not your everyday film, Castle in the Sky contains undertones of the fall of human civilisation, as well as the dangers of relying on machinery as humanity is wont to do. However, while in most films we see today with this premise, we see accomplished men and women shoulder the burden. In Castle of the Sky, the hero and heroine are children barely into their teens. The comedic dialogue provided by the pirates and exciting action sequences with the robots ensure audiences stay interested, while the heartwarming moments between Pazu and Sheeta and the dramatic scenes involving Muska and the robots of Laputa round out a deep and well-written script. The weaving of our world's lore into theirs also adds something for the audience to think about.Animation: 9/10
Castle in the Sky was produced and released in 1986, long before we had the sophisticated animation technology and techniques we have now. For it's time, it was both detailed and smooth, and definitely took a lot more time and effort than the same film would take to produce today.
Music/Soundtrack: 10/10
In my opinion, Studio Ghibli has some of the best orchestral soundtracks ever made for animations, Japanese or otherwise. The soundtrack for Castle in the Sky is no exception. With almost each scene demanding different background music, upbeat music is woven into suspenseful pauses effortlessly and smoothly, while tragic scenes invoke beautiful soaring symphonies that abruptly end upon the beginning of action sequences where the orchestra itself seems to add a few extra sound effects on top of the sounds of guns and cannons. The ending song during the credits sung by Azumi Inoue is sung to the instrumentals of the movie's main theme song, evoking a sense of the familiar even as the movie ends. Created by Joe Hisaishi and his team, the soundtrack is very well-rounded, and is a definite must listen.Overall: 9.5/10
Overall, I've loved Castle in the Sky since my first viewing when I was a child. While the movie does tend to stretch a bit long in some sections, the comedy and action scenes are inserted at the right times to ensure the audience is never bored. And really, why would you be? It's a story about finding an ancient city in the sky, with advanced technology and robots to boot! This would appeal to both children and adults everywhere!
Why not have a listen to Castle in the Sky's iconic theme song?
Why not have a listen to Castle in the Sky's iconic theme song?
Toki wo Kakeru Shoujo (The Girl Who Leapt Through Time)
So it’s finally the Easter break and to start
off my holidays, I’ll be watching some anime films (instead of the mainstream
typical anime series) for a change. So without further ado, let’s start off my
first post.
Toki wo Kakeru Shoujo (The
Girl Who Leapt Through Time) is a 2006 Japanese-animated science fiction romance film produced by
Madhouse, directed by Mamoru Hosoda and written by Satoko Okudera. It's about a seventeen-year old girl Makaoto Konno who gains the power to literally
travel through time by “time-leaping” after coming across a mysterious,
walnut-shaped object. Ever since then, Makoto have been using her power
frivolously to prevent undesirable situations in her everyday life.
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This is your typical shoujo slice-of-life
science fiction romance anime film with an interesting topic on time traveling.
In addition, the balance between the comedy and drama in TokiKake was very good
and never ceases to entertain me.
The music used in the film did a good job in
creating the mood for the film; upbeat and lively, typical of a slice-of-life
genre. In addition, the theme song “Garnet” and insert song “Kawaranai Mono”
performed by singer-songwriter Hanako Oku helped create a bittersweet
feeling towards the end of the film.
Overall, I loved the film for its short
story-telling style. It is a fantastic film to watch if you wanted to watch
something different for a change instead of the typical anime series. Even
though the characters were not well-developed, the story itself with the comedy
and drama more than makes up for it.
Ratings:
Story: 9/10
Characters: 8/10
Animation: 8/10
Music: 9/10
Siren (The Japanese Horror Game) Gets Their Own Manga Series!
The official PlayStation Twitter account in Japan announced on Thursday that Siren, "the quintessential Japanese horror video game," is inspiring a "shocking" manga in Home-sha's Shinmimibukuro Atmos magazine. The manga is titled SIREN -Akai Umi no Kobigoe (Siren: The Call of the Red Sea).
A preview is running in the Spring issue of Shinmimibukuro Atmos that debuted on Thursday, and artist Hiroshi Kamio will launch the series in the magazine's Summer issue in July. The game franchise's director Keiichirō Toyama, scenario writer Naoko Satō, and other staff members are supervising all aspects of the manga, which will tell previously untold chapter in the storyline.
Sony Computer Entertainment's original SIREN horror game was released for PlayStation 2 in 2003 followed by a North American release in 2004. Forbidden Siren 2 was released in Japan, Australia, and Europe in 2006, and the third installment, Siren: Blood Curse, was released for PlayStation 3 in Japan, Europe, North America, and Australia in 2008.
Animia is hoping for this series to one day get an anime series too! - Alan Nguyen
Alan's Anime of the Week - Angel Beats
This week, after much speculation I have chosen Angel Beats as my anime of the week.
STORY: 7/10
The story is revealed irregularly; some episodes teach you various things about the world, while others spend their time screwing around. I had fun watching those anyway, but I can see how others would think it's a waste of time.
ART: 9/10
The art is beautiful. Beyond what we've come to expect, the animation is amazing (especially for the concerts), and the lighting effects give the show a slightly washed-out, surreal look - which I'm sure was the intended effect.
SOUND: 10/10
It's been a while since I've liked every song in a show. Some of the BGMs are repeated a bit often, but the feature songs are all brilliant. The seiyuu also do a fine job. No voices will annoy you - unless it was intentional.
CHARACTER: 7/10
This one's tricky, as many of the characters' back stories are still veiled. Some characters seem to follow the usual anime tropes, but they work. I definitely felt more interested in a character once I learned more about their past.
ENJOYMENT: 9/10
There's a very obvious sign as to how much I'm enjoying a show; I get antsy and check for updates every hour. The more I see, the more I want. The concert scenes alone are worth the watch.
OVERALL: 8/10
I guess in the end, your enjoyment of Angel Beats will depend on whether its various aspects strike a chord with you or not (pardon the pun). For my part, I'm glad to have found a series that keeps me guessing, interests me with its premise, dazzles my eyes, while making me laugh and sniffle in the same episode.
This one's definitely worth your attention, at least until you're absolutely sure you don't like everything about it. Check it out.
Read more at http://myanimelist.net/anime/6547/Angel_Beats!#tlg6Ra5vRupSAlxv.99
The story is revealed irregularly; some episodes teach you various things about the world, while others spend their time screwing around. I had fun watching those anyway, but I can see how others would think it's a waste of time.
ART: 9/10
The art is beautiful. Beyond what we've come to expect, the animation is amazing (especially for the concerts), and the lighting effects give the show a slightly washed-out, surreal look - which I'm sure was the intended effect.
SOUND: 10/10
It's been a while since I've liked every song in a show. Some of the BGMs are repeated a bit often, but the feature songs are all brilliant. The seiyuu also do a fine job. No voices will annoy you - unless it was intentional.
CHARACTER: 7/10
This one's tricky, as many of the characters' back stories are still veiled. Some characters seem to follow the usual anime tropes, but they work. I definitely felt more interested in a character once I learned more about their past.
ENJOYMENT: 9/10
There's a very obvious sign as to how much I'm enjoying a show; I get antsy and check for updates every hour. The more I see, the more I want. The concert scenes alone are worth the watch.
OVERALL: 8/10
I guess in the end, your enjoyment of Angel Beats will depend on whether its various aspects strike a chord with you or not (pardon the pun). For my part, I'm glad to have found a series that keeps me guessing, interests me with its premise, dazzles my eyes, while making me laugh and sniffle in the same episode.
This one's definitely worth your attention, at least until you're absolutely sure you don't like everything about it. Check it out.
Read more at http://myanimelist.net/anime/6547/Angel_Beats!#tlg6Ra5vRupSAlxv.99
Synopsis
Otonashi awakens only to learn he is dead. A rifle-toting girl named Yuri explains that they are in the afterlife, and Otonashi realizes the only thing he can remember about himself is his name. Yuri tells him that she leads the Shinda Sekai Sensen (Afterlife Battlefront) and wages war against a girl named Tenshi. Unable to believe Yuri's claims that Tenshi is evil, Otonashi attempts to speak with her, but the encounter doesn't go as he intended.
Otonashi decides to join the SSS and battle Tenshi, but he finds himself oddly drawn to her. While trying to regain his memories and understand Tenshi, he gradually unravels the mysteries of the afterlife.
[Written by MAL Rewrite]
Read more at http://myanimelist.net/anime/6547/Angel_Beats!#tlg6Ra5vRupSAlxv.99
Otonashi decides to join the SSS and battle Tenshi, but he finds himself oddly drawn to her. While trying to regain his memories and understand Tenshi, he gradually unravels the mysteries of the afterlife.
[Written by MAL Rewrite]
Read more at http://myanimelist.net/anime/6547/Angel_Beats!#tlg6Ra5vRupSAlxv.99
One Piece Wanted Posters
I have posted below images of each of the straw-hat pirate's bounty for our new anime fans!
Enjoy~
- Alan Nguyen
New Anime Adapted Game - One Piece: Unlimited World RED
One Piece: Unlimited World RED is the next game in the long running series of gamers based on the One Piece manga and anime. So far only the Nintendo 3DS version of the game has been released in Japan, but it is also coming to PlayStation 3, PS Vita, and Wii U in June. We also learned a little while back that the game would definitely be coming to the US sometime in 2014, but now have a little more information about the content itself.
According to Bandai Namco, the US version of the game will include a brand new coliseum mode that will closely resemble the latest episodes of the One Piece anime, along with a new playable character for this mode with Law.
We have also learned that the PS Vita version of the game will also be getting a physical retail release exclusively through Gamestop, and EB Games in Canada. This is in addition to the physical release on PlayStation 3 and Nintendo 3DS, with a digital only release set for Wii U. Look for this game in the US sometime later this year.
