March 2011 Archives
Mobile Suit Gundam 00
Originally planned by Tomino Yoshiyuki and Yatate Hajime (pretty much all other Gundams) and directed by Mizushima Seiji (Fullmetal Alchemist, Shaman King) Mobile Suit Gundam 00 is set a couple of hundred years after our times and tells a story about people’s last efforts to completely eradicate war from our society. The story is told via the eyes of a terrorist organization, Celestial Being, which is surprisingly honest with its cause - they want to eliminate war, and will kill everyone who will dare to wage it. Their base of operations is located somewhere in space and they possess technology which far surpasses anything Earth has; so it’s not like they are a bunch of bugs trying to attack a lion or something. Either way, even they themselves aren’t fully aware of the capabilities their technology has and their whole course of action is completely dictated by someone who they only refer to as “Veda”, whose plans might not be limited to something as simple as global peace…
Shiki
Originally written as a light novel by Ono Fuyumi (Twelve Kingdoms, Ghost Hunt) and adapted to anime by Amino Tetsurou (Macross 7) Shiki is tale about vampires, or rather “shiki” as they proclaim themselves to be, and their attempts to build up a society for themselves. The show starts as a somewhat strange Kirishiki family moves into an abandoned mansion on top of a hill in some rural village. They dress in most eccentric way possible, nobody ever sees them walk the village during the day and they talk in riddles. Ever since they do move in however, a strange epidemic begins in the village, people start dropping like flies from causes as light as simple anemia. And so it’s up to the village’s doctor, Ozaki Toshio, to find the real cause of this peculiar plague.