Jul
24
2008
I feel it is time to reveal myself as mysterious tech person and grammar nazi here at starlight breaker! I am taking time out of my busy schedule of breaking things (4 computers in 3 days) to write about some of the anime I am watching currently.
The first of these (although not chronologically) is Ghost in the Shell. Now, for those of you more in the know, you will realise that this is an old film (circa 2001 I believe) but, I am fairly new to the anime scene, so I am primarily occupied in watching the classics that I missed…
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Jun
29
2008
As promised I’m going to do a quick run summary with lots of screenshots. This is for two reasons:
1. I’m behind on the series, no doubt there will already be many reviews and I wish to catch up.
2. I’ll spoil less of the storyline if I do this (my ‘proper’ excuse for being lazy)
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Jun
20
2008
Zettai Karen Children literally translates to Absolutely Lovely Children – sounds great so far huh? In my personal opinion the general storyline sounds like a good one, recently more and more humans have been turning into Espers, those with psychic powers of some sort, so much that it has become a norm somewhat. The story follows the lives of three 10 year olds who are Japan’s only Level 7 Espers, level 7 being the highest level attainable, and similar in power to a weapon of mass destruction.
They have been taken in by B.A.B.E.L (personally I think the director Keiichiro Kawaguchi wanted to put a lot of bible references in. His other works include Hayate the Combat Butler and animator in Great Teacher Onizuka). B.A.B.E.L is an organisation which works to hunt down and capture criminal espers, B.A.B.E.L does actually stand for something, but I thought it was so ridiculous I didn’t bother putting it in 
Anyway, lets move on and introduce the characters, first up is the ‘main character’ as she seems to be the one with the most powerful (and useful) power. Kaoru Akashi (明石 薫) is a level 7 phychokinetic, which basically means that she has the power to move physical objects (this also allows her to ’shoot’ as it were, beams of her power to blast physical objects.
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