Free! - Review

Genre: Sports / Slice of Life
No. of episodes: 12
My Rate: 9/10

Water, half-naked boys and good plot? It seems impossible yet I think it came out very good. The story is very interesting and also the times when they compete with others was so exciting! Even though sometimes I see the characters as 'gay' XD I feel like I extremely enjoyed watching the series and especially their friendship and team work!! However it seems like the target audience for this is girls. Well 'gay' boys in swimming suits with abs :D not really a target for boys.......

Plot:
A group of boys; Haruka Nanase, Nagisa Hazuki and Makoto Tachibana were participating in a Iwatobi swimming club in their primary school. A transfer student Rin Matsuoka joined their class and the same club and become their friend. After winning the tournament Rin went to train in Australia and other boys separated and do what they want to do. So the story settles when they attend Highschool. Haru quitted competitive swimming for unknown reason and always repeats "I swim free", however Nagisa came out with an idea to open up a swimming club and swim togather again. At the same time they see Rin who came back from Australia but he changed........... Does the club will be a success and Haru will want to join it? What happened to Haru and Rin?

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 Note: Characters introduced are not gay but they may seem like it as a result of their behaviour overall and actions towards their guy-friends. I'm not intending to offend anything or anyone :)

Ano Hi Mita Hana no Namae wo Bokutachi wa Mada Shiranai (AnoHana) - Review

Genre: Drama / Slice of Life / Tragedy
No. of Episodes: 11
My rate: 10/10

We all remember our childhood memories and we all probably want to go back to that times. Well, the anime concentrates on the tragedy that happen between a group of children who played togather. Very original story, full of sadness which will make you cry. Yeah, I cried a lot while watching, but the feelings to the characters grew stronger and stronger and I felt like I'm one of these friends who lost a precious friend. It's simply too emotional as it's not only concentrating on the loss of friend, but also parent's feelings, bullying, loneliness and love problems.

Plot:
The story is centered round a group of six children who always played togather and were members of 'Super Peace Busters'. They had a small self made house in the forest. One day one of the children - Menma died in an accident. After this the group got separted and stopped conacting each other wahtsoever. One day the leader of the group; Jintan mets the gost of Menma however he's just telling himself that it's just hallucinations caused by stress as he hasn't passed his exams and doesn't attend school. Menma forgoted everything however she feels that she just wants her friends to fullfil her wish so she can go to heaven.

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Elfen Lied - Review

Genre: Action / Drama / Horror / Romance / Physchological Thriller
No. of episodes: 13
My Rate: 9/10

The opening from the beginning makes me feel nostalagic and sad - I don't know why. I was expecting just an anime that concentrates on blood and loose body parts as I experienced lots of disappointment when watching anime with my high expectations. Yet, the plot is truly amazing! I watched all episodes in one go with tears in my eyes. Maybe there's a bit of nudity and boobs (which I'm not a fan of) from time to time but I don't mind! However if you can't stand flying body parts or don't like nudity I will recommend you to think before watching.

Plot:
Story begins when pink-haired girl with horns called Lucy (subject of experiments) escapes from a laboratory situated beside the seacoast of Kamakura. She escaped by killing all the guards and other people who stand in her way using her suprnatural powers, additional yet invisible hands. When escaping her head was hurt as a result of sniper bullet. She is later found on the beach by two students Yuka and Kouta. HoweverLucy got amnesia and became a sweet little girl insted of a sadistic monster. She can only say one word - "Nyu". Students toke her home, yet the members of the laboratory are trying to get her - alive or not! Later is found that Lucy is a 'Diclonius', a human but with little horns on the head, but is able to control 'vectors' - arms that come from the back that can became powerful weaapons.

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Sukitte Ii na yo (Say 'I love you') - Review

Genre: Romance / Slice of Life / Drama
No. of episodes: 13
My rate: 9/10

Life is difficult no matter what. This anime concentrates on nearly all life problems that teenagers and even younger childern and adults have. Love, friendship, popularity and appearance problems. This light, nicely designed anime, is a great representation of people who needed to handle with these pitful problems. Characters are really good but some of the times I got anoyed 'cause of their behaviour, however that's how we really behave. That's why I really liked this anime as it's TRUE concept of how we feel in daily life.

Plot:
It concentrates on a quiet, lonely girl Tachigana Mei, who doesn't have any friends at all. She prefers being by herself as it will protect her from being hurt by 'friends' She doesn't belive that people aren't fake as a result of her past experiences. However she accidentally kicks the most popular boy in the school who is adored by lots of female students - Kurosawa Yamato. He then started to have interest on her and tries to be friend with Mei. Despite of this Mei doesn't know how to have a person to hang out with or to talk to therefore she slowely opens heart to other people.

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Pupa - Review

Genre: Horror / Drama
No. of Episodes: 12
My rate: 2/10

How is possible to destroy good idea? Well authors of this anime just did it very easily. Personally, as a horror fan, I think that this is the most horrible and worst anime ever........ever........ever -.-. Idea was certainly unique and interesting but I DON'T see that they put any effort to send the message to the audience or just engage! Two points I just gived for the idea, that's it I will NEVER recommend this anime. No atmosphere, short (4 min per ep), censored, no proper ending at all, storyline messed up, no proper opening adn the drawing style......I saw better ones. Yeah, full episode of a girl eating her brother, sooooo entertaining >.<

Plot:
Yume and Utsutsu Hasegawa are sibling who attend Highschool probably in Tokyo/Japan. Siblings are physically abused by their father constantly however mostly Utsutsu as he protects his younger sister at all times. One day Yume was going home from school  all by herself. She was stopped by a weird, black-dressed woman who warns Yume who later sees a red butterflies and transfers to a monster. She then feeds herself with her brothers as she can't stop her desire of eating humans.

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