Hitohira (TV)
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Director: Akira Nishimori Series Composition: Megumi Sasano Music: Conisch Original creator: Izumi Kirihara Character Design: Art director: Yukiko Iijima Sound director: Yota Tsuruoka Animation producer: Hideyuki Motohashi Color design: Megumi Nagasaka Editing: Naoki Watanabe Prop Design: Futoshi Oonami Theme Song Performance: | Ayako Kawasumi as Nono Ichinose Orie Kimoto as Mugi Asai Daisuke Kishio as Kai Nishida Emi Yabusaki as Chitose Kanna Ken Narita as Takashi Katsuragi Kyoko Hikami as Risaki Nishida Miho Miyagawa as Kayo Touyama Satsuki Yukino as Mirei Sakaki Akiko Tanaka as Hibiki Kawasaki Ayumi Tsunematsu as Sachie Ayase Chiwa Saito as Jin Domon as Sadaji Wakui Jun Oosuga as Kana Ueda as Haruko Tamaki | |||||||
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2009-09-25
This week, the dried-
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This week: the Soul Eater games we just might see over here, plus the next Kingdom Hearts, Valkyria Chronicles 2, a new English trailer for Sakura Wars, and this week's Disgaea-
Ah, Darkside Blues…that 80 minute refugee from the good old days of violent, post-
The problems with this second half are not enough to derail the show, but the experience is way less satisfying than it should be. Such is the power of its characters that I still can't help but love the whole package.
The manga version puts the focus back on the most interesting character: the Count himself. As a result, the plot reaches full steam in a very powerful way—but sadly gets derailed in the later chapters.
It's a film that defies any and all expectations of both medium and genre, that makes us marvel and has really little time to do much else.
The clues it contains about the future direction of Guts' journey—and the relentless monster action—ultimately save it, but unless the series regains its bearings soon this will begin to qualify as a genuine slump.
It's a beauty to look at, but a pain to follow. But we continue following anyway, because the path of destiny still holds many more surprises.
This seems like it could become a fairly solid series, but this first entry feels more like doing homework; it's hard not to dismiss it al and look forward to the fantasy plot that it seems bound to focus on in later volumes.