Due to the season and the constant snowfall in the series I felt like finishing Kanon. So far I’ve watched almost half the show, namely up to episode 10 – the end of the Makoto arc.
Like many times before I watched the show, but didn’t feel too much involved or in love with the characters, till I reached the story around Makoto. I started to love her and the way Yuuichi treats her so much, episode 10 almost broke my heart. The theme is very similar to that of Air, though this time I have the feeling Makoto WAS happy before she had to got.
Stil I wonder how the story is going to evolve now Yuuichi had such a sad experience. It was also a bit irritating for me all the other girls were totally out of focus for some episodes. How are we going to come back to them?

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Opening: “Hikari no Kisetsu” by Suara
Short Summary:
Shouko and Hiro meet studying abroad in the United States of America. They fall in love, even live together. Suddenly Hiro gets a call and flys back to Japan. He promises to return soon, but after months of waiting Shouko receives a letter he will never return, because he has to take care for his little sister Karada.
Four years later Shouko and Karada meet each other at a little shrine with a stone thats supposed to fulfill wishes. Through his little sister Shouko remeets Hiro and gets into a fight with him. She can’t understand why she “lost” to his sister and says something that hurts Karada so much she wishes to be an adult fast. Again at the shrine the prophecy and so Karadas wish comes true…the only problem is Shouko turns into a child, although she did not wish for it and Karada has to cope with the fact she looks like an adolescent person, but her brain is still that of a young girl. She’s afraid of confessing to Hiro what happend, so she stays at Shouko’s flat and the two try to master the situation as good as they can.

My opinion:
Asatte no Houkou is different from other shows. Its quiet though not peaceful; J.C. Stuff did once again a beautiful animation job with backgrounds that look like watercolour. The tension between the characters was feelable from the start, even before the magical touch of Shouko and Karada’s transformation came in. While the childish Karada panics Shouko’s phlegmatic character is the strong opposite. Together they make an intersting couple. Spiced up with the background of Hiro and Shouko being lovers it gets even more interesting. But what interests me the most now, at the end of episode three is what consequences the revelation of Karada being not related by blood to Hiro will implicate. May it be he falls in love with her, who looks like a young woman now? Or will this be no topic at all because she’s only his little sister too him.
Will Shouko and Karada stay in their current form till the end of the show? How will Karada make it to go for work instead of Shouko and when will Hiro cut his hair? When his eyes fall ill with an inflammation I guess…

Ending: “Sweet Home Song” by Yuumao

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Opening: “Prelude -We are not alone-” by Fumi Ootou
The opening is a nice, melodic song underlined by piano and strings. Actually I already like it a lot!

Short Summary:
In near future there will be other humans living on moon, more or less isolated in their own kingdom. Relations between earth and moon are not always too good, so the princess of the lunar kingdom takes part in a homestay on earth. The older sister of Asagiri Tatsuya and his little sister Mai works as a press speaker in politics and so it comes Feena Fam Earthlight will stay at the at the Asagiri house, together with her maid Mia Clementis. She also brings her own photograph to make a report on her stay.
Tatsuya falls in love with the beautiful princess at first sight, but the other family members and friends also give the guests a warm welcome.

My opinion:
I’m always fast with the label “harem anime”, especially as I don’t like harem shows too much, but after watching two episodes of Crescent Love I have to admit besides a bunch of cute girls this will be more a kind of love comedy. From the start it’s clear the love story of the series will focus on Tatsuya and Feena; so far there are no hints his sister might have a brother complex or that his childhood friend from the neighbouring house may be in love with him. Tatsuya is intelligent and not the standard looser guy. Of course there are still enough clich

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Opening: “The World” by Nightmare
The rock song fits the show perfectly. Animations is a bit too milky for my taste. Interesting is the focus on the theme of the apple, which returns in the show and the ending.

Short Summary:
Light Yagami is a top student and totally bored by his life and the rotten world, full of murder and crime. Ryuuku is a Shinigami and totally bored by his life and the rotten Shinigami world. So he decides to drop his death note in the human world. It’s Light who picks it up.
On the first page he finds the rules for the book. If you write down the name of a person who’s face you think of in that moment, that person will die. IF you don’t write down the cause of death it will be a heart attack. Light can’t belief this could work but he tries it with the name of a criminal. Within 40 seconds the villain dies. After a second try the functionality is confirmed. At first Light has got some qualms, but after he reminds himself of the rotten world he hates so much he starts to kill off people.
Five days later Ryuuku visits him. light is not afraid, actually he waited for the Shinigami and gets to now he won’t be punished for his crimes. So he makes up his mind to cleanse the world from all evil, criminal, ill-natured people and sees himself as a god of a new world he will create.

My opinion:
A pretty cool first episode. The story is interesting and meets one of the most interesting questions that exists: If I was able to kill everybody with just writing down a word, would I do it? Who would I kill? Could I live with the consequences?
The atmosphere is dark and very depressiv, emphasized with gloomy colours and a monumental soundtrack. I’m definitly hooked for at least some more episodes, but there are going to be 37 episodes…that’s a lot!

Ending: “Aluminia” by Nightmare
The first seconds I had to think of musical sound, but than the song changes. I can’t say much about it so far, it’s okay. Have to hear it more often, I guess. I’m very fond of the animation sequence. They are playing a lot with the colours black/white, blue and again the red. I will have to watch the show only to learn what’s the meaning of the apple!

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