So...
One day I was walking in Best Buy with a few friends... when that unfortunate itch hits me.
You know the kind... the dad-gum itch to buy something when you know nothing about it.
Most of the time, the itch turns out to be a bad decision. This go around, I actually hit on something I've greatly enjoyed. Right up to the last episode!
Shakugan No Shana (henceforth now to be called Shana) is an Anime that is for the most part does things we've all seen before.
- Boy lives normal life.
- Boy has encounter which changes life.
- Girl falls in love.
- Girl has never known love, thus confusing her even more.
- Demons, monsters, and perverts with doll fetishes. (It's a joke from one episode. And no, it's not that sick.)
For me, the voice acting was beautiful. Each character was believable with the emotion that came from their voice and what the screen showed.
The animation is fairly good as well. I especially love the flaming hair blazing eyes hunter.
The story while simple, contains enough in it to keep the series going. It's basically Chaos versus Balance with Humans caught in the middle unfortunately.
Humanity remains completely oblivious to the battle. So much that the human lives which are lost are not missed. In other words, if you die, reality is "adjusted" to make it appear that you never existed in order to maintain the balance of the world.
Enough spoiling though...
I liked it, and plan on getting the Manga and Novels produced. I also hope to import a couple of soundtracks. The first opening song was pretty nifty. I didn't care too much for the songs made later-on. I wouldn't recommend this for young kids, however teenagers would probably like this.
My primary beef with the show thus far is the last episode.
The way they saved the heroine was fine, however I thought the explanation of how our hero survived was a little... weak.
So... Go! Buy it! Like it! ... Or at least watch an episode of Samurai Pizza Cats.
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