Nanya’s Crazy Reviews

A lot of ghosts!? Part #1

October 5, 2006 at 8:40 pm | Posted in Ghost Hunt | 3 Comments

GHOST HUNT

For more information about this anime, please check out THIS ANN ENTRY.

Title:	#01 悪霊がいっぱい！？
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Adopted from a series of novels by Ono Fuyumi (The Twelve Kingdoms or Juuni Kokki), the story is exactly as the title suggests, a.k.a. GHOST HUNT. It begins with the heroine Taniyama Mai and her friends talking about ghosts in the AudioVisual Room. They talked about the old school building where a teacher committed suicide by hanging himself. Since then strange accidents happened whenever they wanted to do construction work on the old building. The principle then brought in a bunch of experts to get rid of what they believed to be ghosts or spirits that caused these strange accidents. The experts brought in include a ghost hunter and owner of the Shibuya Psychic Research (SPR) Shibuya Kazuya, the miko Matsuzaki Ayako, Takigawa Houshou, a bass musician who also gets rids of spirits, Hara Masako, a cute Japanese doll looking girl whose mouth can translate messages from the spirits. Finally, there’s John Brown who is a foreigner (obvious) and speaks Japanese with a Kansai accent but he’s really a good exorcist.

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Stella Quintet

October 5, 2006 at 6:54 pm | Posted in + Ending Theme, La Corda D'Oro ~primo passo~ | 5 Comments

Title:	Stella Quintet
Vocalist:	Taniyama Kishow, Itou Kentarou, Fukuyama Jun, Morita Masakazu, Kishio Daisuke
Series:	La Corda D’Oro ~primo passo~
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These vocalists are the voice actors for the five main guys. Frankly, I was rather shocked in the beginning to know these voice actors are picked for this series. Reason is because aside from Taniyama, the rest are not particularly good at singing (relatively compared to other voice actors). To cast them in a music themed game is just crazy. However, from this ending theme, it’s pretty obvious the guys have put a lot of effort chucking out a relatively decent piece. For non-seiyuu fans, I’m not sure what your judgment will be. For me though, I give a pretty good rating just for their efforts!

Brand New Breeze

October 4, 2006 at 10:04 pm | Posted in + Opening Theme, La Corda D'Oro ~primo passo~ | 3 Comments

Title:	BRAND NEW BREEZE
Vocalist:	KANON
Series:	La Corda D’Oro ~primo passo~
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Kanon studied music in Queensland, Australia and she’s famous for her transparent voice. Since she’s not the “idol” type of musician but the more traditional classical performer, “Brand New Breeze” is slightly different from the average anime theme. I quite like the song itself but it doesn’t quite fit the “opening” I think because it’s a bit too soft and slow. It might be better if it were used as the ending theme instead.

#01 Impossible Prelude

October 2, 2006 at 10:46 pm | Posted in La Corda D'Oro ~primo passo~ | 2 Comments

For more information about this anime, please check out THIS ANN ENTRY.

Title:	#01 ありえないプレリュード
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SYNOPSIS:Konjiki no Corda is based on the game of the same title by KOEI. Later, a manga version emerged and is currently serialized in LALA/Hakuensha. The first episode is roughly based on the first two chapters of the manga though it ended in a different way. The story is rather simple. Hino Kahoko is a normal student at Seisou Gakuin, a school which is divided into music and non-music section. On her way to school, she met a cute fairy Lili. Not many people can see Lili, only the selected ones and one of the first people with the ability to see Lili was also founder of this music academy. What Lili wants is to bring happiness to people through music but sadly Lili can’t find anyone in the school who can see him, not until Hino. Owing to Hino’s ability to see Lili, she was chosen to join the music competition that would soon be held at Seishou Gakuin. The problem is that Hino can’t play any music instrument. Lili gave her a magical violin but she refused to take it. Then, she met a bunch of bitchy girls from the musical section who criticized Fuuyumi for being selected to perform at the competition when she was just a first year student. Hino was pissed, took on their challenge, and got the magical violin Lili gave her out of the case… Continue Reading #01 Impossible Prelude…