DGP'S Anime Review: Yami no Matsuei

Also known as: Descendants of darkness

Created by: Yoko Matsushita

Basic Summary:

Asato Tsuzuki is a shinigami with 70 years' worth of experience. He has the power to call upon twelve mythical creatures that aid him in battle. He works with other shinigami in order to help unrested souls; and all shinigami must have a partner. Sadly Tsuzuki does not have one but that is all about to change when he mets his new partner Hisoka; and later on in the story mets his antagonist Muraki. (Who has a odd obsessing with Tsuzuki's body XD) So the story follows Tsuzuki on his many cases and his developing relationships with his new partner and enemy.

My Review:
Ummmm Huh? XD You know this going to be a good ride when you left wondering what the hell just happened.. And at last this is what happened to me when I sat back to watch this anime. Well, perhaps I was raising it up to much, I had heard of this anime and because of the many yaoi vids it's meantioned in, was thinking how great a yaoi series this much be.. Well it does have many of yaoi "scenes" per say but not really yaoi. That was no big deal, I Love animes without yaoi so I sat and watched.
....I didn't like it all that much. The animation was great, the characters well done(May I meantion how insane Muraki is..But why do I love him so?!) but the plot seemed fast. Ya, I know this anime was only thirteen episodes long but I have watch anime this long before and never felt rushed. Alot of the time I was left in confusing about what was going in the episode until it was all explained at the end. Also through out the episode I was left bored and waiting for the yaoi to happen XD So Ya i Didn't like it. The plot of death gods protecting lost souls, rape scenes(Yes RAPE scenes), and a "everybody wants him uke" (Cough Tsuzuki cough) didn't work out well. I really think it would have worked better with more episodes to grow it out. Like one think it was really quick (Like what one episode?) that we learn Hisoka's past? I mean really. The could have waited till we got to know the character before stuffing his past down your mouths. (sigh) They were many things I didn't like, for one some characters were given only small parts and we never really got to know them..and it was really hard remembering names.. Way to many long names XD All in all I would have liked more glasses-guy scenes.. WHAT IS HIS NAME? XD
I being really hard on this anime aren't I XD? But I tell you two things I like about Muraki (He was creepy but oh so cool..XD) and Tsuzuki. I loved the relation between these two and also I was left wondering what the hell Muraki was.. He most likey not human XD
So all in all I didn't like this anime very much D: I did like Muraki and the yaoi Scenes but that's about it. But I say that maybe someone out there can get something out of it. I heard there was going to be a second season.. Maybe I'll check it out.

Rating: 3 Muraki's evil smiles out of ten

DGP'S Anime Review: Chibi Vampire

Chibi Vampire(Also known as Karin)
Created by: Yuna Kagesaki
(This review may contain spoliers and also contains Twilight bashing)

Basic Summary:
The series evolves around the main character Karin, a abnormal Vampire. Who in stead of drinking blood injects the blood in the person. Besides from that, she also can go out in the sun, eat human food and basely live a normal teen aged girl's life..Well that was the life she was living until a transfer student named Kenta Usui came to her school. Everytime he came around her, Karin's blood would increase (this causing nosebleeds). Karin finds out that the reason for this is beacuse her blood type is 'unhappiness', and Kenta is very unhappy. She then makes her plan to make Kenta happy in order to stop her blood increasing and return to a normal life. Things happen and that normal life goes threw the window when Kenta learns she is a vampire, a vampire hunter comes to there school and her sleeping grandma wakes up. The Anime follows Karin's school life and her growing relationship with Kenta.
My Review:
I don't like romantic animes all that much..but i do enjoy romatic comdemys (Odd) XD. I decided to watch Karin after a friend told me about it, now I was really worryed about this..My friend is a lover of the twilight series(a series that I all want to do is burn..), and she said that Karin is the anime version of that trash..I mean book. Well it can be say there are simitaries between the two, I'm very glad to say that Karin is nothing like Twilight. Thank God.
Karin was funny when it needed to be, and emotional at other times..which mixed very well. I really liked the characters. All of them had there own traits that made them all that likeable. In fact I found that I liked all the characters and couldn't find one I hated or disliked. The only one that came close to me disliking was Karin herself. As I usually hate hate anime girls who are always going on and on about wanting a normal life. Karin loves her family and friends and at the last episode was ready to give up her normal life for her family. Out of all Characters my favorite has to be Winner XD He was funny!! xD and Hot (MORE XD) I liked Winner for his goodness(It's a word XD), even when he was being a nerd or a jerk he cared about others and tried to protect the innocents from Vampires. He also choose to do the right thing later on when his uncle told him to shot Karin for being a vampire..he could not because he loved her.
Which brings up something, I noticed that as the series when that Karin was getting more and more depressing. Wasn't this suppose to be a comdey? Not that I'm saying thing against making more depressed scenes it just some times these depressed scenes seemed really out of place.
I did enjoy the anime but at certain points I could be heard saying, "WTF?!" Over and over. THE LAST EPISODE. It was going so well..Sad but well. I was crying over the (seenly) deaths of Karin's family..mostly Ren XD When suddenly the bad guy cuts open Karin's shirt. ...And The bad guy falls over in faint and the others live. WTF? The Bad guy, who badly hurt four other vampires was taking out by BOOBS?! That even weirdly then zombie boy having a kid(Talking about you Edward Cullen.)
All in all I liked it. Not one of my favorites and not something I watch again mostly because I found it very chessy, the realtionship too fast, and Winner should have got more scenes.
Well that's my opinion and BTW..The episode about Ren in a all boy's school? FAVORITE EPISODE. SO MUCH YAOI GOODNESS

Rating: 3 and 1/2 stars out of ten