[Anime Review] Bamboo Blade

Bamboo Blade

"A good sport-related anime, too bad it's a bit slow pace" -bezoe

Toraji Ishida is a high school kendo teacher. His friend and fellow kendo teacher makes him a bet: if Ishida can assemble a girls' kendo team that can defeat his girls' team in a practice match, he'll treat Ishida to free meals at his father's sushi restaurant for a whole year. Now Ishida must find five girls to join the team.

The synopsis above (from Animenewsnetwork.com) was only a small part of the 26 episodes of this anime. Beside trying to assemble 5 girls team the story also revolve around one of the girl (Tamaki) who lost her confidence after been defeated and make her come back.

Bamboo Blade actually a pretty solid Sport-related anime, the kendo duel scene were very enjoyable, the animation actually not bad and the overall story pretty good as well except it is a bit slow pace and I think it will be better if the anime being condense into 13 episodes.

Overall Rating: A-

Favorite Characters:
#1. Miyako Miyazaki (Miya Miya) (Dual personality? hell yeah!)












#2. Tamaki Kawazoe











#3. Satori Azuma

[ Anime Review ] School Days + OVA

School Days + OVA

"The anime that really hit my nerves, I almost punched my monitor and scream like maniac because of the character" - Bezoe

Makoto Ito rides the train to and from school every day. However, at the beginning of his second term, he falls in love with a beautiful girl that also rides the train. Unfortunately, she barely knows of his existence. Her name is Kotonoha Katsura, and though they attend the same school, they are not in the same class. In an attempt to catch her eye, Makoto enlists the aid of a close female friend of his: Sekai Saionji. She helps him, despite the fact that she--unbeknownst to Makoto--is in love with him. Thus the three are bound in a love triangle of life changing proportions.

The graphic of School Days actually pretty normal, and some of the characters actually looks like a typical harem type girls, but after couple of episodes, I changed my mind. This anime really unique in a way. The story is very intriguing, it is full of drama, twisted storyline and a tons of heart break moment.

This is the 1st anime for the past couple years that can really hit my nerves for almost every episodes. The main reason is the F**ked up guy in the anime that flirting with all other girls, I really don't want to give some spoiler in my review because I really suggest to all of the Harem lovers to watch this anime. But carefull, don't go nuts like me =p.
Oh and it is also one of the best ending for harem that I ever seen so far.

Note: This is the most F**ked up anime (In a good way) that I ever seen so far.....
I keep saying 30 WTF atleast during the 12 episodes
and OMG atleast 10 times

Update: School Days OVA - Valentine Days

School Days Valentine Days can't be consider as a filler of the series, but it is still a very enjoyable episode. It is basically show all of the girls who fall in love to Makoto and try to give him their chocolates. Pretty refreshing OVA after the "12 intensive ep series"

Update: School Days OVA - Magical Heart Kokoro Chan

I love this OVA =D its unrelated to the main story but its still actually pretty bizarre~. This ova is about all of the main girls transform into a super heroes to fight Doctor S who turn all person in the town becoming a Zombie. It was very entertaining and hilarious in some part.

Overall Rating : A

Favorite Characters:
#1. Sekai Saionji















#2. Setsuna Kiyoura















#3. Otome Katou

#4. Kokoro Katsura



Most Hatted Character in Anime Universe
#1. Makoto Ito (congratz! he is the 1st guy who enter my list!)

[MovieReview] Bee Movie

Bee Movie

Cast: Jerry Sienfeld, Renee Zellweger, Kathy Bates, Oprah Winfrey, Matthew Broderick

Director: Stephen Hickner, Simon J.Smith

"Bee licious movie"-Bezoe

Barry B.Benson (Jerry Sienfield), is a bee that just "graduated" from Bee College, and he is ready to serve his hive. But he is not interested in making honey for his entire life. Barry tries to find another suitable job but can't find one, until one day he gets a chance to see the human world and finds out that humans eat their honey.

Finally, another Dreamworks animation after their flagship release early this year (Shrek the Third). Is "Bee Movie" another great animation feature from Dreamworks? Or is it just another animation that no one will care about?

For the guys who love ultra-photo-realistic 3D animation, you will bee disappointed. There's not as the eye candy of Final Fantasy, or the colorful and magnificent ocean of Finding Nemo, or even the very nice lighting and a very ugly ogre (in a good way) of the Shrek series. But hey, Bee Movie is bee-liciously good!.

The graphics are very... yellow-orange the entire movie, but thats what bees look like, isn't it? All the textures look very simple; they are almost as simple as in Toy Story but the lighting and textures are better. But what I like is, for the entire movie, it is not the graphics we pay attention to, it's the story and the comedy.

The story is very nice and give us a lot of knowledge about the bee world, and why they are important in our human society. If you watch Animal Planet then you might already be well informed about the important role of the bee. If not, then "Bee Movie" will fill in some knowledge about bees. Bee-side the story, the humor is good, hey we have the great Jerry Sienfeld here!

But "Bee Movie" is not the best animated movie that's already been produced. It is not that bad, but it's just not the best. It might entertain a lot of children and teens, but I don't think it will be entertaining for mature adults, unless you love animated movies like I do. In conclusion, it is better than "Shark Tale", but not as good as Madagascar or Shrek. But bee-live me, it's still very entertaining. Try not to miss it.

Overall Rating : B+
-Bezoe