Yona of the Dawn

Summary- Yona was a pampered princess until her father was killed by her childhood friend. When the country turns against her she escapes with her other longtime friend, Hak. They set out on a journey to find the four dragons that served the original master.
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The summary of the anime makes it seem very clique and average, but the characters are designed so that they bring more to the story. It feels like the plot is very straightforward, finding the 4 dragons and reclaiming the throne but Yona grows so much in the process that it's more interesting to watch.

In the beginning of the anime she disobeyed her father and wished to receive whatever she wanted. The brutal struggles of being a fugitive changed her as she sees Hak constantly risking his life in order to protect her. This makes her want to get stronger so she can defend herself.
               
Personally Yona didn't feel like a heroine who tried too hard to get stronger; she did push herself but the balance was nicely done. Her experience had turned her into a strong, kind, independent woman. The anime ends short on that, but the manga shows her travelling with the dragons, continually helping the kingdom by aiding the commoners.

But....seriously we need some Hak and Yona action here. She's acting as the oblivious, naive herioe who doesn't know that the person closest to her loves her. But slowly she's liking him too while all the characters around them get extremely frustrated.

Shin-ah still the cutest though I LOVE YOU SHINHA

Free!

One word: HOT
Throughout this whole anime, I was drooling and slobbering all over my phone (not literally of course). To people who just enjoy watching hot boy bods swim, you'll love this anime but other people who have lives, I don't think you would want to watch this because more than half of this anime includes half naked boys swimming. The plot is that there were four young boys that met in middle school that loved swimming together but then in high school, one of them, Rin, left the group and only three of them are in the same high school that has no swimming team. Eventually, the three best friends called Haruka, Makoto,  and Nagisa,  start their own swimming team and add Rei to their team. Go,  the sister of Rin, becomes their manager to help them all get back together because Rin has a grudge with them.
My favorite character is Haruka because I just like quiet types that are really intense :D he also swims so freely (see what I did there *Wink wink*) and does what he wants no matter what other people think of him. The drawings are awesome so all their bodies are hot in this anime :D my life has been revived.

DURARARA!!

DURARARA!! is an anime about an ordinary boy Mikado Ryugamine moves to the town Ikebukuro and meets up with his old friend Kida. Slowly the multiple characters come together in the story to form an even larger story. Each of their backgrounds come together in the abnormal city of Ikebukuro. Characters such as the headless rider, a black market scientist, and color gangs change the town. 
                       
This is one of those anime where you have to watch at least 4 episodes in order for it to become good. If you don't give it a chance it'll never become good because there are so many characters. They take the time to give you the backgrounds of each other the characters which ties to the present. 

The best part about this anime is how everything comes together in the end, Izaya ends up being the one causing everything and pulling the strings while watching everything come into place the way he wanted it to. Like what Izaya said in the beginning, everyone has their own secrets, this is really revealed as the real identity of the 2 students are shown as plot twists. 

Kida as the shogun of the yellow scarves and Mikado as the boss of the Dollars. 
                           
What I never understood was, despite how well the anime wrapped and solved many of it's problems such as the gang fights and power struggles it never showed much about Celty's head. I was disappointed when it became more of a backseat story. Celty may think she no longer needed her head but what were the human experiments the pharmaceutical were doing? Did Izaya provoke 2 gang wars because he'd hope one of them would cause the head to come alive again? Was Shinra's father the one behind Celty fainting and losing her head?
                    
Either way I still stand between the #1 couple in Ikebukuro to be Celty and Shinra or Shizuo and Izaya. The Shinra and Celty moments are adorable and Shizuo and Izaya just hate each other's guts. I wish this anime was longer and dug even deeper into the things surrounding the town. YOU SHOULD DEFINITELY CHECK IT OUT.

Black Butler (Kuroshitsuji)

This anime seriously has no plot whatsoever but the drawings are so damn hot, it makes up for everything the anime is missing. This anime is about a young master named Ciel, who made a contract with a demon who he called Sebastian Michaelis. Ciel made a contract with a demon when he was a little boy cuz he was messed up and cuz he wanted revenge against the queen (which is ironic considering that he is her watchdog). *Let me speak in an elegant manner before while fangirling comes out* While most people consider Sebastopol as SEXY and COOL and AWESOME which they are entitled to think, I LOVE CIEL THE MOST cuz of his eyes and the intricate clothing he wears.

Ciel makes all the plans and is really smart in so many ways (despite the fact that Sebastian had to teach him) and he taught Sebastian how to be a proper Butler (using a spoiled child act). Ciel is the mastermind throughout all theit evil plans while Sebastian carried out the plan, finishing everything off with "I am simply one hell of a butler" with an evil and sexy smile. Oh and just to let you know, Sebastian LOVE cats but Ciel is allergic to them but Ciel did adopt a huge dog for Sebastian to take care of because it amused him (LOL). What makes this anime kind of like a comedy are the three servants that Sebastian hired. They can't actually do anything  that would  be related to housework but they are amazing in fights because the maid can see things really far away while the cook has really good instincts and the gardener has super strength. AND Grell,  or Jack the Ripper, loves Sebastian and in terms of  yaoi,  I ship them even though a lot of people ship Ciel and Sebastian.

The second season was pretty confusing because a whole new set of characters jump in and they all piss me off so much, especially Alois. 

Alois copied Ciel and has a demon butler too :( he takes over Ciel's body (NASTY AND DISGUSTING) and changes those pretty eyes of Ciel's. SOB the horror. WELL anyways there's not much to talk about anymore so watch the anime and is you like it, then the manga is even better :D

Parasyte-the maxim-

I'd just recently finished the anime Parasyte-the maxim and can honestly say that it's one of the best anime I had ever seen. The plot is about a teenager Shinichi Izumi who gets involved with new organisms named "Parasites" after one failed to take over his head, and ended up becoming his right hand. The hand which he names Migi is a species of organisms who's main goal is to devour humans. They do this by taking over human heads and using them as hosts and continually using humans as a food source. Migi has no emotion being a parasite but he and Shinichi learn to co-exist with one another as they are stuck together for life.


The anime has elements of horror, mystery, action, and a little romance involved. I would strongly recommend it to anyone who is looking to watch an anime that will bring out all the feelings.

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Honestly, this anime made me cry more then Angel Beats because it was not solely based on a foundation of sadness. The way it follows Shinichi from an awkward high school to a cold matured adult was done incredibly well. His mother's death did not seem rushed or too slow, it was perfectly portrayed and a great way to transition. I found it interesting how much they added elements of school and his "normal" life. Personally, I feel like whenever an anime deals with supernatural occurrences they tend to not add these elements. But we are always reminded of how distrupted his normal life is after parasites came to be.

The anime also asks so many real questions about what humans are doing to the world. By the end I really liked Migi and Shinichi's partnership, especially after he rescued Murano. Even though Migi is suppose to be emotionless, being around Shinichi and bonding together made them both better people. I honestly thought the anime was going to end on a sad note with Migi and Shinichi dying and Murano left with Shinichi's unborn child. They also didn't leave as many untied ends, such as the serial killer. Although I really wanted to know what happened to the baby and if Shinichi will ever tell Murano what happened, to explain his weird behavior and change.
                    
Overall, I didn't find this anime boring at all. Sometimes animes talk and get psychological with multiple monologues and thoughts. While this one had that it also had so much action and thought that you begin to like it so much. Each death was painful and the author was so great at making you like the character before they died. Overall rate 100/10. ;-; One of the best endings in an anime I've seen, bittersweet, but not so sad that you feel like strangling the author.

Kuroko no Basuke (some spoilers after the summary!)

I recently finished the anime Kuroko no Basuke and it has been the anime I have watch through the quickest. The anime is about a generation of prodigies who played for the same middle school and have dubbed themselves the "Generations of Miracles". While most of the players have gone onto recognizable schools the Phantom sixth man of the group has joined Seirin high school. Kuroko Tetsuya has agreed to make Kagami Taiga the best player in Japan. The story evolves a lot from there and it is interesting to watch because of the fast paced "battles". Although the matches between the schools are exaggerated as each player has almost a special move they have named. It makes the matches even more like a battle in an anime. They use the moral that hard work can overcome natural talent.
The large range of characters in this anime makes it even more fun to watch, you begin to cheer for not only Seirin but some of the other teams. Because the anime was based on basketball many people would think that it wouldn't be interesting to watch if they didn't like basketball, but you don't need to like or know about the sport to watch the anime. I didn't know anything about basketball except the basics and it was still enjoyable to watch.

It's weird how the name of the anime is Kuroko's basketball even though the anime is hardly about him, it may have been Kuroko to begin the transformation of all the members but he himself plays a small part on the court. Personally my favorite character is Aomine Daiki, his attitude and style of playing is the best to watch.

Instead of a tradition style the sleek movement makes his play different from everyone else's. The author's efforts into making a personality for over 20 characters make the days go by faster as you want to finish the next battle and the next battle. Currently the anime is up to the point where they show the old Generation of Miracles. Akashi's transformation will likely take place here. His ability the "Emperor's Eye" is one of the more unrealistic abilities of all the GoM. I would have liked to see the Kuroko no Basuke Repeats to be made into a OVA since the matches are usually back to back. You hardly get to see the characters out of the basketball court.

Last thing- NUMBER 2 IS ADORABLE.

The innocent little puppy was one of the best additions to the anime, and his small cameos in the episodes are always adorable...even when he peed in Midorima's cart.

WOW IMPORTANT UPDATE:

The anime FINALLY finished and I'd just like to say how AWESOME it was - everyone has to watch it, seriously. At the last game where Akashi told Kuroko that Kuroko is not a shadow anymore with those flashy moves he used in the past, man did I get depressed and passed at Akashi. But that's not the important part because in the last episode (SOB why cruel world!?) Kuroko totally has the ball and uses his cool drive to pass the ball to Kagami. The coolest part is when he says (in a SASSY way) to Akashi, "I am the shadow" (or something like that cuz seriously,  I'm not going all the way back to the anime since I'm on my phone) and DAMN was it nice when Akashi started crying. FEEL THE PAIN! BURN BABY! Just joking, I love Akashi too. Heck I LOVE THE WHOLE GENERATION OF MIRACLES but I'll always have a special place for you Kuroko and number 2.

Angel Beats!

Angel Beats! was a lot like the movie Inception because it was about people who died in the real world being reborn in an afterlife where they cannot die. The characters can feel the pain of their deaths but eventually, they heal from their wounds and continue with their ageless lives. In the beginning, there is a boy named Otonashi (who does not remember his surname) meets a girl, Yuri Nakamura,  who is pointing a gun at another girl, Angel, from the top of a school building. Otonashi has lost all of his memories and finds out that he cannot die but he can be obliterated and disappear from the world. He will never age and will continue to be a high school student until he gets obliterated. PLUS their enemy is Angel who they call Tenshou but she is so much prettier than the other characters and it's kind of sad how she is always lonely but she has these awesome powers that none of the others in the world have.

Oh, and something important is that most of the people in the anime are stupid in a funny way with 3 exceptions I think...

BUT who cares about the first episode!?!?
SPOILERS
The last episode was TOO SAD this tragedy anime is too deep for me I almost started crying and I'm still reminiscing over the obliteration of Angel. Otonashi was still grabbing for her and OMG HE FOUND SOMEONE LIKE HER AT THE END AND THEN THAT DAMNED LIFE LIME THING SHOW ED UP AND THE ANIME WAS OVER. I still have so many questions! How will I survive? IS OTONASHI STUCK THERE FOREVER? WHO THE HECK IS THAT GIRL? And I can't believe Angel left him!!! I'm so angry over her but why didn't Otonashi leave with her? IDK WHAT HE REGRETS NOW!!!