Considering the fact I love, hands down, cats, I had to mention this.
October 29th is National Cat Day and this really adorable website, cat-opedia.com, which I came across, had a nice little post about it.
Click here to view it and also have a look around as there are some great cat tips and stuff for those who love cats.
I know readers love curling up with cats (unless you have a dog; but I’m biased) and the website is great for if you may be thinking of getting a cat or if you’re new to the kitty world, how to look after those wonderful bundles of fur.
Click here to view the October 29th post and click here to view the main website.
Exquisite animation from the Victoria and Albert Museum in London on the Cinderella story that has been a part of global storytelling across the ages. Beautiful and enjoy!
“Young girl wakes up with no memory. She sees a floating sprite who tells her that her amnesia is his fault and that she just plays along and acts normally while he helps her gain her memory back. She tries, but it’s not easy.”
-From IMDB.com
Review
OKAY! I need to start off with a little rant. THIS HAD SUCH AN UNSATISFACTORY ENDING! Like it says that it may continue (since it has 2013 – and no end date) but like, I doubt it will continue since it’s drawing, slowly, to the end of 2015. And like I thought there would be closure and all this stuff, but not. It was so sad and I’m sitting here like….Q.Q WHUT? Y U DO THIS?!
But, now let me get to the review aspect. It was an interesting anime, definitely, but very confusing. Since it followed the main heroine and her amnesia, there were many times were you were confused. You never truly knew where she saw, what world she was in, who was who, and what exactly was going on. And what world she was in, I mean by the fact that she would die and wake up on the same date, August 1st, with memories of the other worlds but no memories of anything that happened before August 1st and no idea what all of this was happening. Honestly, until about episode 8, out of 12 episodes, I was extremely confused and constantly was having to think and ask myself questions. The producers had a great idea behind the anime, but they didn’t deliver it very well in my opinion. They could have done so much more with it!
The graphics were typical animations, though I loved their costumes. There was a deck of cards theme kind of going on with some of the characters too. Apparently, per usual, it is a manga (I believe) and a game called Amnesia Later so I’m not sure if questions were answered or not. If you know the answer to this, please do let me know as I’m curious and don’t really have time to play games and enjoy myself at the moment.
Amnesia
I did really like the main theme song of the show though. That always does determine something for me – if it has a good theme song, I am more into watching it. An example of that was I started watching an anime called Samauri Champloo and while it was a good anime, and I may get hate for this, I really hated the theme song as it really wasn’t my taste, so I slowly stopped watching it. This anime had quite a good them song and I love listening to it.
This anime does fall under the category of reverse harem I believe. Harem being one guy and a bunch of girl characters, but this being one girl and a bunch of male characters (though there were only about 5). It was not a girly flick as far as I could tell (though since I’m a girl I’m partially biased) and was entertaining overall. Towards the end, there were a few questionable moments where one of the characters was kind of hinting at rape, or something along those lines (or that’s what I got from it) so I was a little like “hold up” but eventually it all sorted itself out.
It is a short anime, only 12 episodes, with each episode being only 20 minutes or so, so it won’t take long to watch and is definitely one to check out. The anime is an acquired taste as there isn’t a lot of action, though there is ‘romance’ in the sense that the heroine keeping finding out she’s dating a different guy in each world she wakes up in, which was strange, but an interesting ideas as well.
All in all, it was a decent anime but I’d classify it as a hit of miss due to the fact that it wasn’t one of the better ones out there. Though, if you have some time and are looking for something interesting to binge watch, give this one a shot and let me know what you think.
“You have been transformed into a mystical being who has the ability to do magic. Describe your new abilities in detail. How will you use your new skills?”
Now that is a question. And I did have to think about it for a moment but I finally got it. If I was a magical being, I would love to, first off, be able to give myself wings and remove them on command. Being able to fly would be awesome, but I don’t want to fly like Superman. I would love a pair of massive, glorious wings as I think that they are absolutely incredible (probably why I like The Guild Hunter Series by Nalini Singh so much).
But then, with that, I’d want to be able to travel around space, just as myself. Fly around, oxygen not being an issue, as well as the pressure of space. Sometimes I lay in bed at night and just think about the fact that space is so vast and there has to be something out there and that’d I’d love to be able to travel around. I’d explore the universe and see what’s out there, learn about what I could, and then come back. Of course with traveling through space, I’d need defense capabilities, like if I had to kick butt of aliens, and then I’d totally have to figure that part out, magically giving myself butt-kicking abilities.
So yea. That about sums it up. I’d love to be able to have wings and then be able to travel around space without hindrances. But not in a space ship…just be able to travel around freely.
It’s kind of interesting how horror book writers, while they can write some of the most horrifying material, are actually incredible people and some of them, as we find out with R.L. Stine, didn’t actually mean to write scary material.
NPR came out with an article where he spills and his friend weighs in as well, especially with the new Goosebumps moving coming out soon (which I am totally excited for!).
