Daily Archives: July 25, 2015

Noragami (2014-)

 in Adventure / Fantasy / Interesting by

Summary

A minor god looks to gain recognition and uses the help of a girl while having conflicts with his Regalia.

Review

So, I totally watched this entire season in 1 day. And to say I want more is an understatement. This is not some deep show where you have to concentrate, but it is light, gives quite a few laughs, has decent animations and is just overall fun to watch! There are some interesting underlying ideas behind the issues which the main characters have such as popularity, not fitting in and similar concepts.

Most likely a lot of anime lovers wouldn’t love this show due to the fact that it’s not a huge one, like Bleach or One Piece (with so many episodes I can’t even keep track), but I like that it’s smaller. It follows a god by the name of Yato and he wants to gain attention. In the show the people of Japan would pray to the gods before big events and call upon the gods for help for various things from wishing someone was dead to just passing a test. Yato wants to be called upon more and get more money so that he could have a shrine. Having a shrine means that you truly are a god as you have a place to have people worship you. As of now he resorts to putting his phone number on walls or bathroom stalls.

Yato, along with his Regalia (which is a spirit which he can use as a weapon), and his girl companion fight these creatures called Phantoms which are essentially dark spirits and they can corrupt people. The gods job is to keep the Phantoms in check and kill them off using their Regalias.

There is quite a lot of comedy in the show and it had me laughing quite hard. The show definitely is for 16 and up because of some of the jokes but nothing was terribly inappropriate like some animes can definitely be.

I also did quite like the opening theme song.

Overall I really did enjoy it and was sad that there was only one season so far so I’m hoping that they’re going to bring it back this year. Just have to hope!

Oh, and please watch it in Japanese with English sub titles. It’s much more authentic and you lose a lot of the feelings when you watch it in English. Believe me. I’ve spent time watching the same episode in English and Japanese and it’s honestly not the same. It is sometimes hard to keep up with the subtitles, but you will learn how to do it in time. But it really does change the experience a whole lot when you watch it in English!

Happy watching!

The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater

 in Book Reviews / Books by

Summary

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Shiver and Linger comes a brand new, heartstopping novel.

Some race to win. Others race to survive.

It happens at the start of every November: the Scorpio Races. Riders attempt to keep hold of their water horses long enough to make it to the finish line.
Some riders live.
Others die.
At age nineteen, Sean Kendrick is the returning champion. He is a young man of few words, and if he has any fears, he keeps them buried deep, where no one else can see them.
Puck Connolly is different. She never meant to ride in the Scorpio Races. But fate hasn’t given her much of a choice. So she enters the competition – the first girl ever to do so. She is in no way prepared for what is going to happen.
As she did in her bestselling Shiver trilogy, author Maggie Stiefvater takes us to the breaking point, where both love and life meet their greatest obstacles, and only the strong of heart can survive. The Scorpio Races is an unforgettable reading experience.

-From Amazon.com

Review

I did not finish this book because of one reason. Some of the violence. I really thought that the story line was amazing and it was a great fantasy novel, but it was just not one for me. It is about these water horses and how they are tamed for the ‘Scorpio Races’. I got about a quarter of the way in and I just didn’t want to read more.

If the author, Maggie Stiefvater, reads this review (as some authors have done(much to my surprise)), I do not want her, or you, to think that this was a bad book. On the contrary, it was an amazing book and had a great story line and maybe I will pick this book up later, but for me, I just did not want to read about the bloody parts of the book. There are not many parts like that, but the ones that are, are quite graphic.

I really do recommend this book if you are interested in that type of story line as it really is a good read and many people will and have enjoy/enjoyed it (obviously as it was #1 on the NY times best sellers list.)

So please do give this book a try, it is really a good read and the characters are interesting and the story line is intriguing and interesting to read as well. I just was not in the mood for this book right now. I will probably pick it up again some time in the future and have a different view on it .

Enjoy!