Mar 18, 2008
The slow pace of Blood+ turned me off initially. Thank god I mustered enough strength to pull it out again from its dusty shelf. The series redeems itself after episode 20 and the story just got really exciting.
The biggest appeal factor for me was Saya. For one, I really adore girls with short hair. Another and perhaps more important observation, Saya was not portrayed as the all too powerful sword-wielding heroine who makes minced beef out of her opponents. Instead she was almost always confused and weak yet full of determination. Her character was consistent till the very end. It was an interesting contradiction to my expectations on action anime like this. Thus, slick or gory action scenes can’t be expected in this series even if it was all about samurai girl and monsters (chiropteras). Blood+ still managed to make the story interesting though. It was a refreshing change for me.
There seems to be a love angle among Saya, Haji, and Kai. The plot is quite subtle on this perhaps because it was not the focus of the series to begin with. Looking back, Solomon’s character was more interesting for me. He really fell in love with Saya. Even if it meant a tragic end, he remained true to his feelings.
I feel sad for Diva who was just forced to live a life of evil because she was deprived of the familial love and affection Saya had been showered with from the very beginning. Things had been unfair for her. There was an ED scene with the child version of Saya and Diva holding hands while crossing the street. That was really touching.
The ending was a mixture of joy and sadness for me; beautiful just the same.
Mar 13, 2008
Today 13 March 2008 marks the 1st year anniversary of hisashiburi, so I’m giving out free figures!! Just kidding hehe. While the number 13 is quite an unlucky date to celebrate an anniversary, good things actually happened on this blog in its 1 year of existence. There are a lot of things I cherish on this experience but the most important thing for me would be those good anime bloggers that I’ve met along the way. They’ve given me good insights on anime and other stuff and cared to share their thoughts on this blog. More than good bloggers, to me they are good friends. And to all other visitors I thank you as well.
Inspired by many anime bloggers, I started the blog early in March on Blogger under the blog name “Manga Onigiri” which turned into “Evil Onigiri”. After a while I moved to a wordpress platform (on Blogates) which I found more user/commentator friendly. I took a vacation in May till September. When I came back my blog got deleted by Blogates so I resurrected it on WP.com and rebuild most of what I’ve written. Then finally I got a free hosting from Dasaku.net which allowed me to play around with themes and css hehe.
I think I’m still keeping up with the objectives of this blog, which is simply to write about anime I’ve watched, mangas I’ve read, and all other otaku stuff I enjoyed doing. I never really planned to write deep analysis on anime, make episode summaries or track the latest anime; that would be too much for my busy schedule. I guess the biggest thing that happened on this blog was Project SVN which surprisingly received positive responses. To those who commented and who emailed me and those who wrote reviews, let me thank you again. You all inspire me to do more of such projects, but that would have to wait for now ^^.
Let’s cut the drama and have some of that cake! ^^
