Otogi Zoshi
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darkelf105I finished up this anime last night. I am late to the bandwagon, but I really, really loved this.
The plot, which takes place first in Heian era Japan and then skips forward about a thousand years to modern day Tokyo, follows noblewoman Hikura Minamoto as she defends the capital and her family from evil by cross dressing as a man and mainly being epic as hell until she and everyone else are later reincarnated in modern day Tokyo, where she is landlady extraodinaire and still epic as hell.
While the plot somehow managed to be crazy, it was also a little uninspired (except for the reincarnating in modern Tokyo which was really neat and I liked A LOT). However, the characters, ALL of them, were very, very awesome. I didn't particularly like Heian era Mansairaku, who was a dancer (Noh?) and the main love interest for Hikaru(who is one of the best examples of a realistically done, very cool, very awesome teenage girl I've seen. Plus, she's an archer that is, yanno, useful). I knew he was trouble the moment he told her he heard "her flute crying in the darkness" or some other such nonesense. But I liked his fate and I liked him quite a bit in the Tokyo arc, so there ya go.
Sadamitsu was my favorite, because everyone loves a man-whore with a heart of gold. But I also loved Tsuna and Hikaru about equally. And Urabe! And Kintaro! See what I mean about liking all the characters. Plus, it was funny.
Some thoughts:
I believe that although Sadamitsu was a soldier in his former life, he reincarnated as a man-slut, as in, that was his job. If it's not, please don't tell, because I like it my way better.
Mansairaku has got to learn some more skillz if he ever wants make it with the ladies. His first two dates were okay, what with the dancing and the poetry and the strange mysterious smile, but uh, his third date included a plan to destroy the world; he might have wanted to rethink that because that's the quickest way not to get laid.
Hikaru should never, ever change. And should have more shows about her and her group of crazy friends because I could watch them forever, even without the epic end of the world stuff.
The plot, which takes place first in Heian era Japan and then skips forward about a thousand years to modern day Tokyo, follows noblewoman Hikura Minamoto as she defends the capital and her family from evil by cross dressing as a man and mainly being epic as hell until she and everyone else are later reincarnated in modern day Tokyo, where she is landlady extraodinaire and still epic as hell.
While the plot somehow managed to be crazy, it was also a little uninspired (except for the reincarnating in modern Tokyo which was really neat and I liked A LOT). However, the characters, ALL of them, were very, very awesome. I didn't particularly like Heian era Mansairaku, who was a dancer (Noh?) and the main love interest for Hikaru(who is one of the best examples of a realistically done, very cool, very awesome teenage girl I've seen. Plus, she's an archer that is, yanno, useful). I knew he was trouble the moment he told her he heard "her flute crying in the darkness" or some other such nonesense. But I liked his fate and I liked him quite a bit in the Tokyo arc, so there ya go.
Sadamitsu was my favorite, because everyone loves a man-whore with a heart of gold. But I also loved Tsuna and Hikaru about equally. And Urabe! And Kintaro! See what I mean about liking all the characters. Plus, it was funny.
Some thoughts:
I believe that although Sadamitsu was a soldier in his former life, he reincarnated as a man-slut, as in, that was his job. If it's not, please don't tell, because I like it my way better.
Mansairaku has got to learn some more skillz if he ever wants make it with the ladies. His first two dates were okay, what with the dancing and the poetry and the strange mysterious smile, but uh, his third date included a plan to destroy the world; he might have wanted to rethink that because that's the quickest way not to get laid.
Hikaru should never, ever change. And should have more shows about her and her group of crazy friends because I could watch them forever, even without the epic end of the world stuff.
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on 2010-01-23 05:36 pm (UTC)I have not seen or read No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, but it looks really cool.