Accel World: Why So Much Hate?

Hello Mina-san!

If you guys didn't know, Accel World is a manga and anime made by the same author of Sword Art Online, actually Accel World was released before SAO. Both of these fantastic manga have gorgeous graphic and a very catchy plot, then why is it that Accel World has always been in the shadow of SAO? 

Kirito and Asuna from Sword Art Online

As I mentioned before Accel World was released before SAO and they both have the same stupendous graphics and a few similarities regarding the plot and especially the Nerve Gear but the reason why SAO had more success is probably because although I don't want to admit it, Accel World's plot is quite shallow and lacks in depth. The first two arcs totally drew me inside Accel World and I really liked their original way to make time seem slower by accelerating the body functions and making you move faster instead than slowing down time, but the third arc was were everything went downhill. The Dusk Robber Arc or Third Arc, introduces a new antagonist, Dusk Taker who is able to steal other Duel Avatar's abilities and guess what? Yes, you're right! Silver Crow was robbed of his wings by Dusk Taker!

Silver Crow and Kuroyukihime from Accel World

Yes, it was unexpected to see Silver Crow lose it's wings but it doesn't make up for the uselessness of this arc, it has no links whatsoever to the main story plot and almost felt like a filler, the author tried in vain to make this arc more interesting by adding the blackmail scene where Seiji Noumi threatens Arita (Protagonist) to expose to everyone the fact that he accidentally sneaked into the girl's baths in school. 

Dusk Taker from Accel World

Now, we are not here to bad mouth Accel World but to expose it's good points and why it shouldn't be so underrated because although Sword Art Online is almost a "legendary" anime, it has quite a lot of plot holes which I will not mention because I don't want to hurt the feelings of those who watched it and enjoyed it (more like my feelings :P). 

The combat animations are amazing in both and so is the action but the main difference between these two Anime is that in Accel World, the protagonist has to work his way up from the bottom and gets stronger after every fight. The Incarnate System was also pretty cool in Accel World and I really liked the few episodes in which Arita tried to fly just with the help of imagination and sheer willpower. 

Silver Crow using the Incarnate System

The two main factors that differentiate the scale of success of these two Anime are the romance and the main characters, come on if I asked you to choose between Arita and Kuroyukihime or Kirito and Asuna, I bet that the latter would be the most chosen. Although Black Lotus was pretty cool, it wasn't enough to make the anime fans overlook the great heroine difference and that was really a let down. I don't even want to start talking about the romance because SAO has no competition in this area, I mean how many Anime have been able to achieve such a great balance between original story plot, breathtaking action and a traditional, almost archaic guy-saves-chick romance in one anime? The answer is almost zero, so I'm sorry to say but SAO beats Accel World in almost every area except of the character's skills development but this doesn't mean that Accel World is an anime that you shouldn't watch, actually this shows how even an anime thought to be mediocre such as Accel World could actually be the one anime that you are looking and if you want my opinion, I had a blast going through the episodes of Accel World and I would almost dare to say that I enjoyed just as much as SAO but ... let's keep it real because that would be a bit too far-stretched.

Oyasuminasai!

Fairy Tail: 3 Funny Moments

Konbanwa Mina-san!

Announcement to those who still don't know yet, the Anime Fairy Tail is coming back next month, on April. I think the exact date that Fairy Tail will air is on April 5. Now I'm going to show you 3 funny scenes that made me laugh so much from the anime Fairy Tail.

1. Mirajane "Bad Girl"

I chose it as the first one because I still cannot forget this scene. This scene can only be seen on the Anime because it's a filler, I think for me this is the funniest one because I like Mirajane. She's so strong and she's one of the S-Class wizard in Fairy Tail and also a model in a magazine in Fairy Tail ^-^. I still laugh whenever I see the pictures of this scene because she gave huge damage to Mary Hughes and then I really thought she's going to crush that girl's head with Demon Halphas but she only said "Bad Girl."

2. Happy teasing Erza

This is another funny moment from Fairy Tail which you may encounter often in the Fairy Tail page on Facebook. This is the finishing part of the Galuna Island Arc, this is when Natsu, Gray, Lucy, and Erza (later joined the mission) to help the people of Galuna Island and remove the curse. Erza was having an emotional moment, then Happy was just drawing something and when Erza saw the drawing, she just kicked Happy to the moon because he drew a broken heart.

3. Natsu tickles Erza

Another scene that made me laugh is when Natsu tickled Erza after fighting against Jellal, she couldn't move because she was exhausted. Of course Natsu saved Erza, but because Erza said that she couldn't move and thus they were not able to go home, Natsu had the brilliant idea to tickle Erza because she was defenseless and Natsu it was a payback for when she tickled him and that it was time for revenge. Their facial expressions always make me burst into laughter.

Oyasuminasai!!

Top 5: One Piece's Epic Moments

Konbanwa Mina-san~
Ogenki Desu Ka?

One Piece

One Piece is one of my favorites because it's the Anime that made me addicted to Anime/Manga. One Piece is actually the first manga that I read. It was also my first summer in London that I got addicted to Anime/Manga, so I got interested in One Piece because many people recommended me to start watching anime or reading manga, so I downloaded all the episodes of the Anime of One Piece. I watched it the whole summer all 600+ episodes and then I got addicted to it. After I finished watching One Piece and get into the latest episode, I started to read the Manga which led me to do drawings, which I never thought of doing because I used to be so bad at drawing. So now, I'm gonna talk about the great and epic moments in One Piece that was Amazing and Interesting things that happened and also the twists that Eiichiro Oda added.

5. Luffy Challenges Big Mom

My #5 is when Luffy challenges Big Mom in the Fishman Island. Big Mom is one of the 4 Yonkos (Emperors). They're the 4 pirates who rules the New World so everyone is afraid of them. To protect Fishman Island, the King made a deal with Big Mom to replace Whitebeard's flag because he died due to the war to save one of his crew members, Portgas D. Ace. Due to Whitebeard's death, chaos invades Fishman Island because Whitebeard used his flag to protect the island, thus the King of Fishman Island had no choice but to make a deal with Big Mom: for 10 Tons of Sweets that she likes, Big Mom will put her flag on Fishman Island. After the Mugiwara Pirates saved the Fishman Island, it was also the time the 10 tons of sweet had to be delivered to Big Mom. The machines to make the candies were all destroyed, so the other candies that have been made before the destruction were given to the Mugiwaras to celebrate saving the Fishman Island, but the Big Mom Pirates needed the candy for the Big Mom's tea party. So as soon as Luffy heard that Big Mom is going to destroy the Fishman Island if there are no sweets to pay Big Mom, he bravely answered the phone and gave his name and told his dream about being the Pirate King. It was just awesome. It's always badass when he does something like this, fearlessly challenging an opponent stronger than him. Luffy then ended the conversation by saying that he's going to make Fishman Island his. It always gives me goosebumps when Luffy just says something so straightforwardly without hesitating or anything else.

4. Luffy Faces The Three Admirals

#4 is when Luffy faces the Three Admirals of the Marines. The Three Admirals are amongst the most powerful characters, so I considered this to be part of the epic moments because it's not normal for a pirate to just go start a war with the  Admirals,  because they would just die instantly. Luffy only survived this battle because of his friends and nakamas. For example, he allied with Boa Hancock, a Shichibukai (7 Warlords Of The Sea), and Jimbei, a former Shichibukai and also a friend of Ace. Luffy also allied with Whitebeard, who is also one of the Yonko and considered as the Most Powerful Pirate after the Pirate King, Gol D. Roger because he was the only one who could fight with him on par. Whitebeard decided to help Luffy because Ace is one of Whitebeard's crew commander and also Luffy's brother. Both of them loved Portgas D. Ace and he was important for both of them. Whitebeard thought that Ace was important because Ace is the only son of the Pirate King. So Whitebeard didn't want the Marine to touch Ace and that was what Luffy also wanted: not to let the Marine touch his brother. Luffy's and Whitebeard's main objective was to save Ace, however, in order to save Ace they had to face the powerful Three Admirals that always found a way to stop pirates due to their strong and powerful Devil's fruit powers. The Three fearsome admirals were  first faced by Luffy. Luffy's is just awesome because as you can see on the video, he was transported by Jimbei with his awesome Fishman Karate to go over the wall! However, Luffy didn't show any fear to the Three Admirals because he wasn't worried about fighting the Admirals, he was worried about how he would have saved Ace.

3. Zoro's Sacrifice

My #3 is when Zoro sacrifices to save Luffy when he was in a state near to death. Bartholomew Kuma who is also one of the Shichibukai, and also a formerly a Revolutionary with Luffy's father; Monkey D. Dragon, was also at the Thriller Bark after the Mugiwara Pirates finished battling with Moria, who is also one of the Shichibukai.  He showed up after the battle and after they gained their shadows back.Bartholomew suddenly throws dangerous attacks on them. All of them perished because they were no match for Bartholomew, they just had a fight with another Shichibukai so they didn't have enough strength to fight another powerful opponent. They were all taken down, but when Bartholomew tried to grab Luffy, Zoro suddenly attacked Bartholomew to protect his friend. This was the time when Zoro proved that he was a true nakama of Luffy by because trying persuading Kuma to kill him instead of killing his captain, Luffy. He also said that his head wasn't worth much yet, but he would eventually become the world's greatest swordsman and that if he couldn't even save his Captain's dream, then Zoro's dream would have been nothing but just talk. Instead of killing Zoro, Bartholomew removed all the pains and fatigue that Luffy had been through with the fight with Moria and made it into a big paw bubble as can see on the video. Bartholomew said that Zoro didn't have enough strength and life to absorb all the pain and the fatigue and sufferings from Luffy  would lead to Zoro's death. However, when Sanji wondered about how strange it was for Luffy to regain his strength and why was Zoro missing, he decided to look for Zoro. Finding Zoro standing with all the blood all over his body and still alive, this was why I considered this as one of the most epic moments in One Piece because Zoro was so badass, he withstood the pain and didn't tell anyone about what had happen.

2. Death of Whitebeard and Fire Fist Ace

#2 is are the deaths of Whitebeard and Ace. I put it in this top 5 because I really never thought that 2 badass characters were going to die at the same time. It gave me goosebumps when Ace died, and almost cried because he sacrificed himself to save Luffy. Akainu one of the Admirals was raging because he was freed by Crocodile, a former Shichibukai who fought with Luffy once and got his ass kicked in Alabasta. Luffy and Ace were fighting back to back against the Marine soldiers,then when Whitebeard announces that he will stay in Marineford, Whitebeard asked one last question to Ace. He asked if he was a good father to him and Ace answered 'Of Course'. After, when Luffy and Ace tried to escape with the Whitebeard Pirates, Akainu tried to provoke Ace by insulting Whitebeard as a failure. So Ace stopped running and went back to fight with Akainu. But Ace's fire was no match against Akainu's magma which burned Ace's arm. Then Akainu tried to kill Luffy who is defenseless, but instead of Luffy dying, Ace sacrificed by getting in between Luffy and Akainu and took the hit from Akainu. The thing that gave me goosebumps and that also made me cry was when you see Luffy's face when after Ace died and sacrificed himself to save his brother in front of him. Also when he said with his last words,

" Old man, everyone!! And you.. Luffy. Even though I've been good for nothing my whole life, even though I have the blood of a demon within me... You guys still loved me! Thank you so much!!"

Although  Whitebeard cried when he saw Ace died, Whitebeard himself was severely injured. Like when one of his crew members, Squard sneakily attacked him with a large katana. But Whitebeard forgived him and hugged him and told him that he's a fool and he still loves him but Whitebeard found out later that Akainu was the reason why Squard attacked Whitebeard. After Whitebeard saw Akainu killing Ace, he attacked Akainu immediately, damaging the admiral severely. When Whitebeard attacked Akainu the Marineford HQ also had been destroyed and because of this they saw that the Blackbeard Pirates were watching the whole fight hiding in the shadows. Blackbeard then greet Whitebeard by saying that he has come to see his death. Whitebeard then tried to attack Blackbeard but he dodged. Whitebeard then attacked him again, then choke him and Blackbeard asked him if he would kill his own son but Whitebeard already said before, that he doesn't consider Blackbeard as his son anymore because he killed Thatch, one of his crew commander, so Whitebeard just ignored him and just sent another attack to him making injuring him severely. Then Blackbeard commanded his crew to attack Whitebeard, after Blackbeard's pirates ran out of bullets, Whitebeard was still standing. He tells Blackbeard that he was not the one who Roger waited for, he then tells Sengoku, the Fleet Admiral who has a more powerful rank than the Admirals, that even through the bloodline of Roger, there will be some people that will inherit his will and died shouting that 'One Piece' exists making Sengoku angry. After saying farewell to his crew and allies, he died standing. Which also gave me goosebumps because he died strongly protecting his crews and still died standing up. He's a badass character and one of the saddest deaths that I saw on all the mangas that I read. 

1. "Red-Haired" Pirate Shanks stops the War.

#1 is one of my favorite characters in One Piece, Shanks, the captain of the Red-Haired Pirates. He is one of my favorite characters because he is one of the strongest and the one who influenced Luffy and made him a pirate. He also sacrificed his own arm to save Luffy from a sea monster. Shanks is also one of the Yonko, just like Whitebeard. Shanks came after Coby shouted, Coby is one of the characters that Luffy had been friends with, and is now part of the marine just like he always wished. Coby shouted in front of Akainu, telling  everyone to stop fighting because he knew that the marines have families waiting for them, and that both sides are only wasting lives. After he told everything to stop everyone, Akainu then told him that he wasted seconds and that the Marines didn't need someone like him and then Akainu got ready to attack Coby. Before Akainu could attack Coby, Shanks just appeared from nowhere and defended Coby from Akainu's strike. Heroically, he said to Coby that the seconds he wasted were the seconds of courage that changed the fate of the world. He then picked up the straw-hat that he gave to that Luffy dropped during the battle and said that he came to end the war. When he came it was awesome because everyone was shocked and even Akainu was shocked because another one of the Yonko was in Marineford, even Garp, who hated him so much because he was the one that influenced his grandson to become a pirate instead of becoming a marine. He then called Buggy, which was one of his old mates when they were with Roger, the pirate king, to give the straw-hat to Luffy, and in return he would give him a treasure map, because he knew that Buggy loves treasures so much, so he quickly went to Law's submarine to give the hat. He is one of the baddest characters in One Piece because he threatened the marines by saying that if anyone wants to continue fighting, even the Blackbeard pirates, then himself and his crew will fight, but Blackbeard postponed the battle with Whitebeard because he was not yet prepared for fighting Whitebeard. When everybody stopped he said that he would take care of the body of the deceased, Ace and Whitebeard, for their funeral, because he was close to those two. So this is the reason I put it in the #1 spot because he was badass and threatened the whole Marines that his crew would fight against those who continue to fight.

Thanks for reading Mina-san! There still are a lot of Epic Moments from One Piece, but I think these are the best 5 as you just read. If you haven't read the manga or watched the anime, then you should because I know that you would enjoy it too.

Arigatou~

Attack On Titan Season 2 ... or not?

Hello Mina-san!



As many of you already know, Attack On Titan is a great anime. There is no arguing about that, the upcoming review about this super-duper-demonically amazing anime will be episode by episode because there is an immense amount of things that have to be said about this anime and therefore we decided that it will be much simpler to break down the review to the episodes of the anime.


Before the upcoming review, I would like to talk to you about the very anticipated season 2 of Shingeki no Kyojin (Attack On Titan). Attack On Titan it's a fairly new anime which came out in 2013 and is now really popular amongst people who watch anime. It's been quite a long time since there has been a new anime which achieved this degree of popularity in such a short amount of time and with such a small amount of episodes (25 without counting 16.5). We could almost compare Attack On Titan to SAO (Sword Art Online), another incredibly popular and fantastic anime which surely deserves a forthcoming episode by episode review, but I guess that's another story.

I've been doing quite a bit of research in the web and apparently there will be no season 2! Of course, as you might of have guessed, I researched into other websites and I also found that the anime could be in hiatus until the 20th volume of the manga, which will be the last one, is released. Now I don't want you to take this information for granted because the beautiful net is filled with a huge amount of bullshit. 

To tell you more about the hiatus, the creators DO want to make a season 2 and expressed their eagerness to make a second season but there hasn't been any official release date or any official plans made yet. The creators said that they will wait until the manga finishes before thinking about a second season for Attack On Titan and at the moment, there are currently 12 volumes from what I know and thus only 8 left before the manga ends.

If you want my sincere opinion, I think that it would be such a waste not to continue with anime because nowadays we need something a bit more different than the usual mainstream anime/manga and I would also love to see the ending of Attack On Titan.
If the creators do continue with a season 2 this could totally turn the tide and bring Attack On Titan back in the top 3-5 or could just turn into a disaster because like most anime that have been in hiatus, the plot could have lost its momentum.

I really wish for a second season for Attack On Titan and hopefully a third. Soon there will be a detailed review that you will be able to read in Baka-Topics about this fantastic anime and also about other anime or manga which deserve a place in our hall of fame.

Oyasuminasai!

Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day

Konbanwa~ Mina-san !

This is my first post and the first anime that I want to show is this! It's called AnoHana. It's a 11 episode anime and I wanted to write about this on my first post because it's one of my favorite anime. It's an amazing anime with a really nice plot. This anime actually made me cry and I'm sure you will as well, because Anohana has already made other people cry. Anohana is really moving and hit me hard, but the anime is not overly sad because there are parts full of joy and happiness.This is a heart-warming anime, touching and an unforgettable story so please watch it, you won't regret watching this beautiful anime.

WATCH IT NOW!!

(The plot is below for more information)

Plot:

A group of six childhood friends drift apart after one of them, Meiko "Menma" Honma, dies in an accident. Ten years after the incident, the leader of the group, Jinta Yadomi, has withdrawn from society and lives as a recluse. One summer day, the ghost of an older looking Menma appears before him and asks to have a wish granted, reasoning that she cannot pass on into the afterlife until it is fulfilled. Since Menma does not remember what her wish is, Jinta gathers his estranged friends together once again, believing that they are the key to resolving this problem. However, hidden feelings, internal conflicts, and lingering feelings of bitterness from Menma's parents result in complications for the group as they struggle to help not only Menma move on, but themselves as well.

You can find Anohana at crunchyroll.