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Plot Summary: Before he was executed, the legendary Pirate King Gold Roger revealed that he had hidden the treasure One Piece somewhere in the Grand Line. Now, many pirates are off looking for this legendary treasure to claim the title Pirate King. One pirate, Monkey D. Luffy, is a boy who had eaten the Devil's Fruit and gained rubber powers. Now he and his crew are off to find One Piece, while battling enemies and making new friends along the way.

Opening Theme:
#11: "Share The World" by Tohoshinki (eps 395-425)
#11: "Share the World" by TVXQ
#12: "Kaze wo Sagashite" by Mari Yaguchi (eps 426-458)
#13: "One Day" by The Rootless (eps 459-)

One Piece author Eichiro Oda stated that Luffy's personality and traits are heavilly influenced by Dragonball main character Son Goku, furthermore, Luffy's Gear Second which he used in his fight against Rucci was a complete duplicate of Goku's Kaioken, in both cases the skin turns reddish pink and emits vapor from the body, afterwards the strength and most notably the speed increases multiple times, and in both cases it's stated that the techniques cause tremendous stress on the body and could even shorten the user's life. This serves as something of an indicator as to how much Dragonball/Z continues to influence long running Shounen series to this day.

The character that asks Sanji if he will participate in the cooking competition after he is challenged also appears when the Strawhat Pirates leave Warship Island (he is a small man holding a box? and chewing on a toothpick?)

There is a subtle reference to Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann in episode 411. Just as Elder Nyon is falling from Boa Hancock's tower, one of the Kuja somewhat resembles Yoko, from the hairstyle, to the design of her bra, both look largely similar.

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Black Butler
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The hunt for Jack the Ripper may have ended in volume two, but the fight to survive the encounter continues here in volume three. While Ceil is confronted by his Aunt An in a bout of emotional flashbacks to the woman's past, Sebastian is left to battle the Shinigami, Grell. Wielding a weapon that draws out the memories of those whose blood it spills, Grell's attacks against Sebastian have more than just his physical being on the line and young Ceil's life at stake. After that it's back to the mansion for another round of surviving its other housekeepers' good intentions and appeasing the high standards of another concerned family friend.

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Black Butler
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The charm this series holds over its fans is clear and perhaps no time more evident then when the devil butler Sebastian flashes his confident smile and brushes back his short flowing black hair atop his faintly androgynous features. He's a character who instead of feeling flat from being near-perfect, is actually all the more entertaining and the core of the series. An acrobatic fighter of great skill and demonic strength, a master chef and housekeeper, a snappy dresser and on top of that shares a deep, master-servant relationship with the young and somber head of the household, Ceil Phantomhive. Yana Toboso's revels in teasing about the events that transpired between them years ago.

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Inconveniences to the perfection of their mansion have proven the most consistent threats to Sebastian from previous volumes, though to which he confronts with unnerving amounts of patience, but here in volume three the continuation of his fight with Grell offers up a considerably more exciting use of his abilities. Of course there's also a bit of sadistic fun in simply seeing someone so intentionally flawless take some damage and breaking a sweat.

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Grell is entirely different beast altogether and it's clear why he's able to prove such a strong opponent for Sebastian. His otherwise pretty-boy design is creepily marred by a mouth of jagged teeth and his personality proves just as off-kilter. Sadistically relishing the fight with Sebastian and every drop of blood spilled, he jests and jeers with his opponent the entire time with an array of suggestive commentary that leaves even the reserved Sebastian with the heeby-geebies. He attacks relentlessly amidst cackles with his unorthodox weapon and whether it's by being creepy or just outright hilarious in both his achievements or failures, he's definitely a memorable character.

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Black Butler
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Much the same can be said for the book as a whole - how often do you get the chance to read a story about a dashing butler fighting a chainsaw-wielding psychopath with a passion for pregnancy? Well if it's drawn half as well as Black Butler, then you may find yourself hoping for it more often. Yana Toboso's art is gorgeous. If lithe pretty-boys with Gothic flair rendered in crisp detail tickles your fancy even a little, then prepare to melt. Whether you're watching these characters back flip off walls, stare venomously at their adversaries or just striking a pretty pose in their classy clothing, there's no shortage of eye-candy here. It's easily arguable that the visuals are the strongest element the series has. It's hard to imagine each scene holding even a fraction of its poignancy or interest-grab if the art wasn't one attractive illustration after another.

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The storytelling itself is reminiscent of shoujo-horror creator Kaori Yuki. Victorian-era theatrics with blood-soaked alleyways, serial murderers, tormented pretty-boys and family lives that are anything but functional. Once Sebastian and Grell's fight is essentially completed, things detour to Ceil's Aunt An and her bleak back story. It proves considerably more engaging than one may assume it'd be going in, beginning in her years as an awkward teenager and eventually leading to her being molded by circumstance and psychosis into a medically licensed prostitute-killer. Her story is actually effectively heartbreaking to a point and surprisingly believable in its time-spanning evolution, save for perhaps the single-panel time skip of her medical degree acquisition.

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Alas the affection for a cast of colorful characters is sullied by the return of the terrible trio – the gardener, cook and maid – who inhabit Ceil Phantomhive's home. Continuing on with all they've done in the past, they successfully appear just long enough to lay waste to Sebastian's hard work. Ruining the garden, blowing up the conservatory and destroying the living room - these characters seem poised to act as nothing but contrasts to Sebastian's unequal skills. Why? Presumably to ensure there's some life in the mansion aside from Ceil and his butler, though the resulting enthusiasm they exude leaves more a desire to see the devilishly well-dressed servant strangle it from them instead. Subjectively speaking of course.

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Vampire Knight
DVD 1
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Cross Academy is a little odd as schools go. It has one campus and two dorms, all of which are separated by moats and causeways. The occupants of the dorms are divided into the Night and Day classes, which means exactly what it sounds like: one class studies at night and the other during the day. And never the twain shall meet. Yuki Cross and Zero Kiryu are the Academy's Disciplinary Committee, charged with ensuring that the twain don't meet. Both are adoptive children of the Academy's eccentric founder Kaien Cross and are privy to the Academy's big secret: the Night Class is comprised entirely of vampires. Their days are spent driving the mobs of squealing Day Class girls away from the Night Class's parade of luscious undead man-flesh, the better to avoid blood-sucking mishaps. Both have their own hang-ups about the job—Yuki has a serious crush on Night Class leader Kaname Kuran and Zero, whose family was eaten by vampires, hates the creatures—but that's the least of their problems. Because Zero has a secret that will completely upend their lives, and perhaps even threaten the Academy's carefully maintained order.

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Synopsis:
Vampire Knight DVD 1
Cross Academy is a little odd as schools go. It has one campus and two dorms, all of which are separated by moats and causeways. The occupants of the dorms are divided into the Night and Day classes, which means exactly what it sounds like: one class studies at night and the other during the day. And never the twain shall meet. Yuki Cross and Zero Kiryu are the Academy's Disciplinary Committee, charged with ensuring that the twain don't meet. Both are adoptive children of the Academy's eccentric founder Kaien Cross and are privy to the Academy's big secret: the Night Class is comprised entirely of vampires. Their days are spent driving the mobs of squealing Day Class girls away from the Night Class's parade of luscious undead man-flesh, the better to avoid blood-sucking mishaps. Both have their own hang-ups about the job—Yuki has a serious crush on Night Class leader Kaname Kuran and Zero, whose family was eaten by vampires, hates the creatures—but that's the least of their problems. Because Zero has a secret that will completely upend their lives, and perhaps even threaten the Academy's carefully maintained order.

Review:

Vampire Knight is at heart a classic, if twisted, love triangle. At the top you have perky amnesiac Yuki, on the right you have flawless pretty-boy vampire Kaname and on the left is tortured bad-boy Zero. As awful as that sounds—and you have to admit, it sounds pretty awful—the triangle works, and works well for a very basic but important reason: It's all kinds of perverse. Kaname is aloof, Yuki is codependent, Zero is violently antisocial, and between them they cover undead attraction (yay necrophilia), pseudo incest, and murderous hatred. Romance in Vampire Knight is anything but sunny and wholesome; it's all subtle poison and broken taboos. Even minus the bloodsucking and adoptive family ties, nothing about Yuki, Kaname and Zero's affections is healthy. Yuki's feelings for Zero are mired in pity and the weight of sisterly duty, and her affection for Kaname has a worshipful tinge that borders on subservience. Zero's desire for Yuki, in the meantime, is caught up in a masochistic cycle of self-loathing and denial, while Kaname's affection has already acquired a discomfiting obsessive edge. The Walton's this ain't.

Not everything relates directly to the series' love triangle, of course. Yuki's amnesia is one obvious sidebar, though it has yet to be explored, as is the vampire politicking hinted at by references to Purebloods and the Hunter Society, again unexplored. And there's also Zero's secret, which does get explored. (In case you haven't guessed, he's a classic self-hating "made" vampire). The best of it, though, all comes back to that domineering love triangle. The tortured-vampire boilerplate of Zero's incipient vampirism, for instance, is only interesting insofar as it affects his relationship with Yuki. Which it does by introducing an element of emotional sadomasochism to the already twisted dynamics of their three-way romantic tangle, as well as a rivalry for her delicious blood. Yum. In the end it isn't Zero's descent into undead-hood—or the vampire politics, or Yuki's amnesia—that makes volume two seem a damnably distant prospect; it's the anticipation of warped romantic developments to come.

When parsing why Vampire Knight enchants instead of making your eyes roll back into your head until the optic nerves snap—which it really should—the role of Kiyoko Sayama can't be ignored. One of a very few female anime directors, she's a shojo specialist of surprising patience and subtlety, and a master of the emotional zinger. She manages with deceptive ease the tricky feat of making the three protagonists' affections simultaneously obvious and tantalizingly elusive, and handles Yuki's discovery of Zero's ailment—the volume's solitary emotional peak—with restraint and intelligence that hide a potent melodramatic sting.

Where she really surprises, though, is in her visuals. Unlike most of her previous output, Vampire Knight isn't just sensitively directed, it's also beautiful. Sayama wraps her cast and their troubles in a rich gothic atmosphere, her camera trawling arched hallways and drifting across aged stone as elaborately uniformed teens play out their private dramas to the ravishingly dark music of Takefumi Haketa. From the overwrought symbolism of the opening credits to the crawling dollies, creepy marionette motifs and ironic tag line ("I'll also show you a sweet dream next night," in blood red letters) of the end credits, each episode is the performance of an artist in full control of her craft and relishing every tasty moment of it.

It's just a shame that all of that skill and enthusiasm aren't spent on something a bit worthier. Make no mistake, the series is a dark and delicious confection; but it's still just a confection. The skill of its handling and the gothic danger of its emotional perversity don't change the fact that Matsuri Hino's original manga was and is a preposterous teen melodrama. No amount of striking coloration or textured characterization erases the Night Class's role as a bishonen meat market. A facility for breaking them up with thoughtfully placed bits of goofy humor doesn't make the portentous inner monologues go away. Even if you love the show, chances are it'll still embarrass the heck out of you.

It isn't until you hear Viz's self-conscious English adaptation that it becomes clear exactly how important the passionate commitment of the Japanese cast is in selling the series' stilted dialogue and gothic excesses. The English cast is too professional to actually sound embarrassed when speaking, but they're obviously aware of how silly it all looks and sounds from the outside and it affects their performances. And even in the mouths of perfectly skilled performers like Mela Lee and Vic Mignogna, Vampire Knight's flowery language simply won't work without nearly perfect commitment. Without it, it's just tripe. A less than graceful translation shares some part of the blame, but it's that need for veracity that ultimately hangs the dub.

Not everything about these four episodes runs silk-smooth. Kaname doesn't come across favorably and several plot threads are introduced without so much as a cursory attempt to progress them (hello amnesia subplot, goodbye amnesia subplot). But the series' perverse sentimentality and immersive addictiveness are no less evident for the bumps along the way, making this, if not a perfect, a perfectly good introduction to one of anime's great guilty pleasures.
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Production Info:
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Overall (sub) : B+
Story : B-
Animation : B
Art : A-
Music : A-

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Love Hina
DVD 2: Go West!
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In the second volume of Love Hina, Keitaro and Naru must face the Tokyo University entrance exam. The results of their test will lead them to many adventures with the girls at Hinata Inn from places as close as the spring, to Kyoto and Okinawa. Along the way, the two meet a girl named Mutsumi Otohime who is strikingly similar to Keitaro in many ways. There the plot thickens as emotions start to unveil themselves as one more girl is added to the group that Keitaro must try to keep track of.

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Love Hina DVD 2
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Review:

Released in North America by Bandai Entertainment, fans are getting the exciting opportunity to watch Love Hina, a quirky series that lies somewhere between a comedy, a romance, and random adventure. The second DVD comes with four episodes, and a few fun extras. Among the extras is something entitled “Keitaro's Songbook” which includes the Romaji and English translated lyrics for a song sung in the middle of the eighth episode. The feature gives a brief explanation of the cultural in-joke behind the song, and allows the viewer to hear the song in its brief entirety. Another feature in the series is a character gallery featuring Motoko, as well as a brief biography on her. The DVD itself is packaged amongst a nest of extras, as the insert unfolds to reveal a brief guide to Motoko's character traits as seen through the eyes of Keitaro. The reverse side of the cover reveals a poster-like print of the characters inside the video game, like the scenario they find themselves in in the final episode of the disc. The episodes alone make this fun series a great addition to any humor fans' anime collection, but the extras are an added boost that, while not anything spectacular, are nevertheless amusing.

Somehow, Love Hina is series that can be wholesomely intriguing, while at the same time possessing an incoherently continuous storyline. Each episode ties to the one preceding and proceeding it well, as the series keeps an ongoing plot that allows the episodes to flow together. Within each episode, however, is a mess of randomness that allows the series to be spontaneous and exciting, giving viewers something radically new to look forward to each episode. In the end, the amounts of miscellany and cohesiveness form a perfect equilibrium, producing an end product that is both wildly fun to watch, yet logistic enough to keep watching. The hilarious antics of the Hinata Inn tenants and the people they come in contact with are reasons enough to watch and re-watch the series multiple times with fresh laughs each viewing.

Especially interesting was the music and the sound effects that popped up throughout the series. The music itself is nothing spectacular, but it's cute and emotional enough at times to provide audio backup to the story, while not becoming blatantly obvious. The opening and ending theme songs sung by Megumi Hayashibara are pleasant to listen to, depending on what kind of mood the viewer is in, as the opening is happy and uplifting, while the ending is more wistful and moribund. The sound effects in the series, though, are nothing short of amusing. Many of the sounds placed in the episodes seem almost to have no reason of existing, other than to let the sound directors push extra buttons. Oddly, this is far from annoying, as they somehow actually manage to accentuate the comedic effects. Effectiveness aside, it is rather puzzling why a whistle is played every time Kaolla Su enters the scene, as the two have nothing in common whatsoever. Other than this puzzling tidbit, the rest of the music and sound is perfectly fine and compatible, sans one technical issue in one of the episodes. Partway through one of the scenes, the sound fades out due to a bad audio transfer so that the characters can barely be heard. This only happens once throughout the disc, however, so the problem is nothing major.

In regards to the rest of the audios in the series, there is unfortunately one grotesque characteristic about it – the English dub. While the Japanese voicing cast performed brilliantly, making their lines seem natural and fun-loving as the series demands, the English actors delivered their lines as though they were forced. Not only were the actors unemotional and dry, the actors were also horribly cast. The Hinata girls that were supposed to be young, junior high characters were cast with mature, middle-aged voices, which ruined the cuteness of the characters. Meanwhile, Kitsune was cast with a heavy, feminine Southern drawl that was not only uncharacteristic of her party-loving, tomboy character, but also excruciatingly grating on auditory nerves. Fans of the series are better off choosing to watch the subtitled version, and never touching the dub in order to protect themselves from scarred ears.

Love Hina is one of those rare shows that are just purely fun to watch. Good times abound when the disc is in the DVD tray, regardless of what mood the viewer is in. Granted, there are certain choices, such as watching the series dubbed, that may dampen any unready viewer's day, but for the most part, Love Hina is something that can be enjoyed alone, or with a big group of friends. Whether viewers are in the mood for comedy or adventure or even action, Love Hina is the surefire way to go.

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