RAP #3 (Complete with general blogger's life update)

Alright so, welcome to my third RAP. To start I want to address the future of posts a bit. Since a season is ending a new one beginning, I will have no real fresh reviews right off of watching the anime. I plan to rewatch Kokoro Connect and finish up Haiyore Nyaruko-San W and will have reviews for those, once I finish. Otherwise, reviews will be primarily of animes I have watched that I don't have the patience to rewatch, or, in Clannad's case, depress me so much I'd rather not rewatch. Anyways, as usual, let's start with images.~

Images: (Again, most of these are taken from my personal files which were saved off of primarily booru/sankaku imageboards)

Shingeki no Kyojin (Attack on Titan) - Review

The three military branches' icons in SnK [From right to left: the Garrison: troops stationed for defense within the walls, the Military Police: stationed in inner wall to protect king, keep order, and collect taxes, and finally the Recon Corps: those who venture outside the walls in hopes of researching and eventually overcoming the titans. (Image take from: imgur.com)

Just yesterday the first season of Shingeki no Kyojin, or Attack on Titan, ended. While there was no definite announcement in the anime itself that a second season was imminent, I am 99.9% sure a second season will come as they left it off in the last episode, and, well, I've read ahead on the manga, but that's a different point. Anyways, Attack on Titan is about humans, whom built extremely tall walls and live inside them, on the verge of extinction due to the human devouring monsters outside the walls called titans. Titans are several times larger than humans and as such, much stronger and faster in almost all cases. As such, the humans live in fear of those titans and resort to living life within the walls, trapped from the outside world. A young man, Eren Jaeger, along with a girl he'd saved while young, Mikasa Ackerman, witness their mother (not really Mikasa's mom but still..) being devoured by a titan. Even prior to witnessing that, Eren saw the Recon Corp members as heroes, but after being thrown to despair, Eren put his foot down and set out to get to the Recon Corp. Through his trainee years, Eren is faced with a few conflicts, even one that revealed to him, along with every other human who lived through the titans breaking through the walls a second time, that humans could transform into titans, or at least Eren could. From that point on, Eren is questioned to be a friend or enemy, and questions run around about whether he was the only human with such an ability.

Danganronpa - Review

All the students of Hope's Peak Academy and Monobear (Image taken from: entravity.com)

Danganronpa was a rather.... twisted anime in a sense. The story basically is about a school for talented students that is turned into a killing spree. With the help of the mastermind behind it all, Hope's Peak became the site for a game of despair. The objective is fairly simple: kill a classmate without your other classmates catching you as the murderer. If you are caught as guilty during the class trial, you are punished with death, if you are not caught, you are set free and all of your classmates killed off instead. The series circles around that idea with several murder cases arising and being solved until closer to the end. At the end, Monobear, the self-proclaimed principal and apparent mastermind throughout the series, supposes that if the students figure out the entire case surrounding this game of despair, they'll be let out.

Late Night - General Wrap Up

Today I don't really have a structured post as today has been a long day. If I haven't already mentioned already, this blog is to fill for my physical project for my senior project. As such, I will update how my project progressed today. Today I met with a 3D animator today to talk out a potential interview and plan out when and where we will meet to do said interview. Otherwise, today was the first semifinal match of League of Legends World Championships, which I went to a friend's house to watch until about 15-20 minutes ago..... Anyways, in terms of anime thoughts today, I still have not gotten to watching today's episode of Danganronpa, but let me just say, I will be extremely mad if the series ends badly. The series is already a despair-filled series, and has been every episode, but if it also lacks a happy ending, I think I might just rage and deem it unworthy of ever rewatching. I will probably get around to watching it tomorrow or Sunday, depending on how I feel and a review will follow (as well as Shingeki no Kyojin's as I believe its first season ends tomorrow). As for now, I'm deathly tired, I apologize for having no real structured post, but this is what I've got.... Good night!

Random Appreciation Post #2

Hey there! As with the first RAP post, I'll start with images and then go on to other media like music/clips/etc. Most of these images are saved in my files, but were collected from various boorus and/or sankaku complex image boards.

Images:

Free! - Review

The main swimmers in Free! (Image taken from: geekosystem.com)

So, I didn't get to posting this review yesterday, but since I have a late start this morning, I have time now. Anyways, as the picture might suggest (along with the caption), Free is an anime about competitive swimming and what it means to the five pictured guys above. Most of the storyline follows the drama between Haruka, Makoto, Nagisa (far left three in above picture) and Rin (far right in above picture). What happened was the four swam in a relay while they were younger and won, and therefore share that memory, but Rin left to train in Australia to follow his father's dream of being an Olympic swimmer. Eventually, Rin returned to Japan, but went to a different high school with a more elite swimming team than the other three guys' school. In fact, Haruka, Makoto, and Nagisa are the three that started to swimming club at their school, which Rei (second from right to left) eventually joined so the team could officially travel and compete.

Random Appreciation Post #1

Okay so... I'm slightly bored of writing constant reviews... and I'm also not sure which review to do next... but anyways, this post will include a few pictures I've appreaciated from around the boorus and/or pixiv. Also, I may include a video of a scene from an anime, a funny picture with text, a song, or any other random anime stuff I've appreciated either today or found before. So to start it off let's start with 5-10 random anime images:

The World God Only Knows (Goddesses Arc) - Review

Keima voicing his opinions of reality (Image taken from: photobucket.com)

Today marks the third anime that I was following this season that has ended. The anime ending today is TWGOK: Goddesses Arc. As this anime is the third season of the TWGOK series, this summary will sum up the entire series in a general view. The anime begins with a somewhat careless gamer guy, Katsuragi Keima, whom starts out just going about being antisocial and insisting his games' worlds are better than the real world. Speaking of his game worlds, Keima plays galge, and lots of it. If you don't know what galge is... here: (Link: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=what+is+galge%3F). But anyways, a demon, Elsie, shows up one day to disrupt Keima's peaceful gamer life by saying there are loose souls trapped inside the souls of these girls at his school. As for how to release the loose souls to be captured, Keima had to make them fall in love, much like how his galge works, just in reality. Once the souls are released and caught, the girls completely forget about the whole affair with Keima, thus leaving him able to move along easier than if they remembered. The first two seasons work off that going through multiple girls and multiple routes, if you will. The third and latest season is basically the same thing just most of the girls he "conquered" (as Keima words it) in the first and second seasons remember their time with Keima and also now have goddesses living inside them as hosts, which as you could probably guess, are fully unleashed by falling in love again, or getting love from the one they love, whom happens to be Keima to all of them. Unfortunately, a rouge demon organization, Vintage, is trying to wipe out the goddesses and take over hell, so Keima must work quickly and carefully to unleash each goddess in order to fight back against the threat from Vintage.

Kamisama no Inai Nichiyoubi (Sunday Without God) - Review

Ai Astin looking out a window (Image taken from: imageshack.us)

So, today marked the first ending of one of the animes I've been following this season while it aired in Japan. Sunday Without God takes place in a... different world. Honestly, I'll most likely fail to clearly explain this, but here I go. In a very short sum-up, the dead live and gravekeepers must assist the dead to truly pass on, otherwise the dead walk amongst the living. The anime follows a 12-year old (and eventually 13) gravekeeper, Ai Astin, whom initially begins in a village where Hambart Hampnie wipes out the people who are living there. The twist? All those villagers were dead, and the very person who shot them to make them "temporarily past on" (<-- my take) is revealed as Ai's father. And that's only the first arc. After Ai moves along, she visits an organized city of the dead alongside Kiriko Zubreska and meets the princess of the city, Ulla. In the final arc, Ai is caught by a school that basically locks its students in as they have no active enrollment, thus they force it upon the kids they can catch. After a bit there, Ai and the rest of her classmates escape with help from Alis, their classmate who had been trying to escape somehow in the first place. After they all escape, Alis and Ai end up travelling together and wind up in Alis's past world trying to free his past classmates from a temporal loop. And that is the final arc, it ends after that.

Puella Magi Madoka Magica/Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica - Review

The five main girls in PMMM [From left to right: Sakura Kyoko, Sayaka Miki, Tomoe Mami, Akemi Homura, Kaname Madoka] (Image taken from: shoshosein.info)

PMMM is a magical girl anime, similarly to Sailor Moon, but has an entirely different twist. In Madoka Magica, there's more of a dark twist in the sense that magical girls are made basically by agreeing to put their soul in a gem and fighting against illusionary creatures in order to cleanse their souls. The anime starts out with the main-main girl, Kaname Madoka, essentially clueless about the illusionary world with the creatures, but Madoka along with her friend, Sayaka Miki, witness this world alongside Tomoe Mami, whom was already a magical girl. At school, another magical girl, Akemi Homura, transfers into Madoka and Miki's class and warn them (more so Madoka) of just how dangerous and miserable it is to be a magical girl. After some time, Miki decided to form a contract with Kyubey to become a magical girl herself to fight against the illusions despite knowing virtually nothing about the background behind what being a magical girl entitled. The rest of the series follows the struggle of the five girls: Kyoko, Miki, Mami, Homura, and Madoka, as they all question what being a magical girl is or suffer under what they must do to live on as a magical girl.

Sword Art Online - Review

Elucidator [Kirito's black sword] and Lambient Light [Asuna's rapier] (Picture taken from theanimegallery.com)

Sword Art Online takes place in the year 2022, a year in with virtual reality gaming has become a norm. In the anime, VR gamers are enjoying the release of the next big game: Sword Art Online. The game seems to be a very normal game on the surface, being a hack and slash, kill monsters and level up type of game. Unfortunately, for the gamers whom logged into SAO, there was no log out button as Kirito and his new in-game friend Klein discover when Klein tries to log out. Moments later all players that were online were moved to an arena in which the creator of SAO, Kayaba Akihiko, informs them that every single one of the players was in a death game. They all were trapped inside the game unless someone climbed the levels and beat the game. The catch is that if one dies in the game, the VR console fries their brain, and they also die in real life. Along with a skilled partner-player, Yuuki Asuna, and her guild, Knights of Blood Oath, Kirito aims to beat the game, whether or not people truly had his back.

Guilty Crown - Review

~~~WARNING: THIS MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS SOME MAY NOT WISH TO KNOW OF.~~~

Ouma Shu drawing a void (Picture taken from: animequotes.net)

This morning I finished an anime called Guilty Crown. The story follows a teenage guy, Ouma Shu, who starts out as a lazy high school student in Japan which is controlled by GHQ forces after the 'Lost Christmas' incident. GHQ uses the apocalyptic 'Lost Christmas' incident as a guise to subjugate the Japanese who are believed to be carrying the Apocalypse virus. Instead of tracking specific suspects, GHQ would wipe out entire cities of Japanese citizens at a time. Shu, who seemingly seemed to be on the outside of the chaos with GHQ, comes across an idol named Yuzuriha Inori from the group Egoist in the show. Shortly after meeting Inori, Shu is brought into the havoc between the Undertakers rebellion group, which Inori is a member of, and GHQ. In the first skirmish, Inori winds up injecting Shu with a void genome, which allows Shu to essentially pull a person's heart out in the form of a weapon or tool to fight. Throughout the series, Shu faces several conflicts in which he must utilize his void abilities in order to assist the Undertakers which he joined after being led into the organization by Inori and the leader, Tsutsugami Gai.

Day 1

Alright so... Today's the day. Since this is my first post, this will be an overview more than anything. My name's Kenny behind the screen name of Rurisuke. I am 17 years old and I'm absolutely obsessed with Japanese anime/manga, gaming, and/or anything nerdy in general. This blog will primarily focus upon my anime interest whether it be connecting to my daily life with a related story, thought, or anything else. I will also occasionally have semi-formal reviews in the format of basically a summary (WARNING: I MAY SPOIL I SERIES) and then my opinion, thoughts, or other comments involved. As this blog is for my school project on top of my own interests, most posts may be semi-formal in speaking. Honestly, I believe that this will be more casual writing than formal, cause that's just how I roll. But anyways, this blog will focus upon anime in the vast majority of posts with the occasional post about gaming and whatnot, with a weak tie to anime somewhere in there. For anyone out there wondering, the artist of the background image is H2SO4 from the Island of Horizon circle! Well then, that's that for tonight, I'll just leave a song I've had stuck in my head for ages now... For those of you who do not know it is the first opening song for the anime Guilty Crown. The name is "My Dearest" performed by Supercell. Enjoy~!

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rV-jTX4HIzs