Fruit Basket 水果篮子

Fruit Basket
水果篮子
Furuba

One of my favorite! It's funny how I get to know this Anime though. Technically, I'm not the one who found this one, instead it was a present from my mum's friend. She bought this Anime at China and gave it to me. Oh well, everyone know I love Anime. =)

The main theme of this Anime is about Chinese Zodiac. Tohru Honda, who accidentally learns that 13 members of the Sohma family are possessed by different animals in the Zodiac. They are cursed to transform into their animal forms if they are hold by anyone of the opposite site.

It seems like this Anime is a comedy when you first watch it but slowly, you feel warm, love, anger, and sadness. I cried a few times throughout the whole series and then, I thought, "why is that the title Fruit Basket?" I'm a bit shock when Tohru explained that when she was in the kindergarten, all kids were playing a game called Fruit Basket, each kid was assigned a "fruit" name. So, the game starts as one of the kids name a fruit name and so on. While all the kids were getting involved in the game, Tohru on the other hand, sits quietly on the tiny little chair waiting to be called. However, she didn't know that she will never be involved in the game because her name was Onigiri, which is rice ball. My heart shrink for a second when I finally understand the title. How cruel is that if that happens to me? Feeling that I am not belong to the group hurts me badly.

The warm part of it is when Sohma members get to know Tohru and love her as if she belongs to the family. Definitely recommend this Anime. Trust me, I've watched for maybe 3 times? My little cousins love it too. =) Oh well, they are indeed Anime freak like me now. Lolz~

Too many great characters in the series, I don't know which pictures to put!!! I guess I'm gonna go for Yuki then!

One thing that I don't like the Anime is the ending. No exact ending yet so you might want to consider reading Manga version of it then.

WARNING! Long playlist~~~~ ^.^

My heart song:
- For Fruits Basket by Ritsuko Okazaki (in playlist)
- Chiisana Inori by Ritsuko Okazaki (in playlist)
- Sorairo (in playlist)
- Aisubeki Ashita (in playlist)
- Serenade (in playlist)
- Tada Nakitaku Naru no *instrumental* (in playlist)
- Jokyoku Overture *instrumental* (in playlist)
- Secret *instrumental* (in playlist)

Rating: 10/10

Yamato Nadeshiko Shichi Henge 完美小姐进化论

Yamato Nadeshiko Shichi Henge
完美小姐进化论

Live Action Drama

• 高野恭平 - 龟梨和也 : He looks good too!

• 遠山雪之丞 -手越祐也

• 中原須奈子 -大政绚

• 織田武長 - 內博貴 : My number one love in this drama =)

• 森井蘭丸 - 宮尾俊太郎

• 中原武 - 加藤清史郎

So, I just finished this one earlier. *Yes, just finished at this time, at this moment* Hmm.. I will say not a very good one I guess.

Comedy? Not very funny.
Storyline? Not very interesting.

But still, I finished it because someone in the drama caught my attention. ahaaahaa.. 武長! 帅!

and not to forget

My heart song:
- Love Yourself by Kat Tun (in playlist)

Anyway, Anime is much better than drama. Check on my ANIME post!

Rating: 6/10

Yamato Nadeshiko Shichi Henge 完美小姐进化论

Yamato Nadeshiko Shichi Henge
完美小姐进化论

Comedy indeed! Another kind of Anime that I love. No no, not romance kind of Anime although there are still "love" part in it.

Anyway, one of my favorite which talks about how 4 good looking guys try to transform a girl who thought she is ugly after she got rejected by her first love with the reason of her being UGLY. I don't think there is any 'plot' review for this one since no major storyline here. So apart of storyline, I love how funny this Anime is! Seriously, super hilarious!

And one more thing, the way the author draw them is so cute! You will see a lot of chibi mode character, characters who look all the same and also super pretty kind of character. Aaahh... one word.. different!

Not a fan for the song though.. too bad..... >.<

Rating: 9/10


By the way, there is Live Action Drama for this Anime. =)

Fate/Stay Night 圣杯之战

Fate/Stay Night
圣杯之战

To be honest, I don't quite remember the plot of this Anime. To be more accurate, I forgot most of it. >.< But I remember I was almost crazy when I watch this one because the playlist continue non-stop. Which explain why I don't quite remember it now. I guess I didn't really watch it at all, I was too eager to know what will be happen in the end. My fault!!! I should slowly enjoy it instead of just flipping it through! aiks!

Anyway, I still remember Saber and some of the character of course. Saber is pretty indeed but I don't hate other Servant * oh well, I prefer calling them Hero * . So, I like all other Heroes as well. They are not bad, they have their own wish, their own will, they are HERO! The one Hero that I'm most familiar with is the Caster aka Medea.

*Why? Thanks to theater class I took in Sunway University College. I have to watch few classical film and using the theme of "desperate woman", to write an essay relating that theme. So, I watched "Medea", did damn loads of research and write that super hard essay. Not because of the theme that made it hard but the lecturer himself. =.=" But still, I'm glad I took the class though, I had lots of fun indeed! *

Okay, stop this, back to topic.

Although this Anime shows a lot of fight scene but I like how it shows some "flash back" scenes that touches your heart. Very warm yet very sad. If Fate would explain more on the story of each Hero, that will be great great great!

Last but not least,

My heart song:
- Anata ga Ita Mori (in playlist)
* I know this song even before I watch the Anime, just GREAT! *

Rating: 9/10

Ayashi no Ceres 梦幻妖子

Ayashi no Ceres
梦幻妖子

One of the best! The storyline is perfect with the theme of a celestial maiden who lost her celestial robe while she came to the earth. I am pretty sure that most of us somehow know a little about the legend of celestial robe. However, there were some difference here though. First, the legend is no longer a legend because Ceres does exist in the family of Mikage. Second, the legend is beautiful but the truth is not. Mikage family is tracking down Ceres who reborn in the family and kill her at her sixteenth birthday, generation by generation. So, the story starts here where Aya and Aki, the twin was told to celebrate their sixteenth birthday at their grandfather house, but turn out, Aya is Ceres whereas Aki is Mikagi. Then the story goes................

I personally love Toya a lot. Aiks.. Anime always make guys look perfectly handsome, girls look gorgeous, so not much to describe how he looks right? Although Yuhi is a great but too bad he is just not so attractive as compared to Toya. *I am so sorry*

Anyway, this Anime is more likely for adult because some part of it are kind of bloody and maybe ecchi in some place. So.... kids.. please stay away from this Anime ya.. =) watch it when you're mentally ready kay?

And not to forget about song!

My heart song:
- スカーレット Scarlet (in playlist)
- Cross My Heart (in playlist)

Rating: 9/10

Prince of Tennis 网球王子

Prince of Tennis
网球王子
Tenisu no Ojisama

Great Anime after Slam Dunk I will say. It's been awhile since I get to see something like Slam Dunk. Indeed, it is not necessary to have any romance scene to make it better because this is good enough! 认真的男人最帅 ! Prince of Tennis has a total of 178 episodes not including movie film, but trust me, you won't feel like you are chasing something long. In fact, you kind of feel sad when it comes to an end. I know some people doesn't like it because they think it is too exaggerate by some point but who cares? It's Anime for god sake! What I'm gonna do is I will do something similar to Slam Dunk where I comment on each character.

Echizen Ryoma 越前龙马
- My number 1 love in this Anime. The reason is so obvious right? He is the youngest, He is cool, He doesn't get distracted by romance, He is the best, the prodigy of tennis, He beats everyone! One more thing, he is left-handed like my man. Ahahah... Forgot to mention, I watch this Anime together with my man. To be more accurate, I was watching POT and then my man started to watch with me. Make sense? Aiks.. whatever!

Tezuka Kunimitsu 手塚 国光
- The leader of the Seigaku team. He is great but too bad his arm was injured by idiot so, just a little of him being amazing was shown in POT. Te-zu-ka Zone~

Fuji Shusike 不二 周助
- My 2nd love. He is so funny sometimes you know! He is known as the genius and something to note, his eyes are mostly close except when he is in the game. How cute is that! And beware, he can be very scary sometimes.

Oishi Shuichiro 大石 秀一郎
- Member of the golden pair. Vice-president and the "mother" for the team. He cares and worries about all of the members.

Kikumaru Eiji 菊丸 英二,
- Another member of the golden pair. Eiji and Oishi form the best pair ever!

Kawamura Takashi 河村 隆
- BURNING~~~~ and SUSHI~~~~ that's what I can say about him. =)

Inui Sadaharu 乾 貞治
- The one who use "data tennis". Very good in calculating the possibilities of what will be happening in the game. He seems to be quiet and cool but sometimes he does crack out some joke especially when he offers his "Inui juice". I remember there was an episode where all players "die" because of that. Funny~

Momoshiro Takeshi 桃城 武,
- Closest friend of Ryoma. I don't know why but he looks kinda like Sendoh from Slam Dunk. Maybe because of his hair style.. hahaha...

Kaidoh Kaoru 海堂 薫,
- The snake guy or The viper.. Nothing much to say... hahha.. snakey snakey snakey~

Not a big fan of the songs, so I'm gonna skip this part.

Rating: 9/10

Sakura Wars 樱花大战

Sakura Wars
樱花大战
Sakura Taisen

To be honest with you, I can't really remember what exactly happened in this Anime but I do remember that I used to watch this everyday after school during my High School Time. It was on show on AXN trial version of ASTRO. So don't waste it right? WATCH IT THEN! haha..

Anyway, even though I can't remember the whole plot or storyline but still it was a good old Anime. I am not going to write too much about this one because I don't want to mis-judge on something that I am not very familiar with.

ONE thing that I didn't forget is the song! I know the song is kind of old, but it suits the Anime very well and YEA~ I sang along with the TV everyday. Oh well, maybe not really singing but I hum... That's good enough!

My heart song:
- 夢見ていよう (in playlist)

Rating: 7/10

Pokemon 宠物小精灵

Pokemon
宠物小精灵

This is the first Anime that I actually bought it. I was in a VCD store owned by my Mum's friend and I saw this cute creatures on the VCD cover. So I asked my Mum to buy me 2 episodes without knowing what this Anime about. I believe that I have good taste in looking for Anime. I always get to find great Anime randomly. Perhaps, that's destiny! haha..

Obviously, I got in love with Pokemon and started to buy whenever there is a new episode. However, I am sure you know how freaking long Pokemon series is so I stopped right after I moved from Penang to BM.

Luckily, after few years, we got INTERNET! Thank you for giving such opportunity to watch Anime online! hahahaha.. But still I still haven't finish all the Pokemon series because it is crazily LONG~ I tried to watch few new ones but too bad I didn't like it. I still love the very first one starting from where Satoshi got his Pikachu.

Things that I love:
- cute Pikachu!
- oh well, I guess the only thing I love about this Anime is CUTENESS of all the Pokemon.. =)

Not my favorite part:
- I don't see any because I got cute pikachu!


~ Pi-ka-chooooo ~

Rating:
For kids - 9/10
For adult - 6.5/10

Slam Dunk 灌篮高手

Slam Dunk
灌篮高手
Suramu Danku

Another MUST WATCH Anime.
Note that this Anime is not only for boys, girls like me love it too! Oh well, maybe that's because of Rukawa I guess. Haha..

If you want me to say something special about this Anime, I'm sorry that I couldn't think of anything other than Basketball. The main theme of this Anime is about Basketball team of Shohoku High School.

*I was in primary school and thank god ASTRO has this Anime on showing. So no doubt about it that Slam Dunk was one of the popular topic in school then. I still remember that there was one day, I got some girls to come over my place, whereas the boys went to another friend of mine who own a condo there but not actually staying there. So we had fun in the in the evening and got up after few hours. One thing that I didn't expect was the boys came to my place, just when I was going to ask them, one of the boys shout out SLAM DUNK. OMG! I almost forgot that Slam Dunk was going to start in like few minutes. So ended up, boys and girls screaming for ANIME basketball in the room. =.=" *

Okay, that's it for my personal life. Back to the topic.
Lists of characters and my point of view:

Takenori Akagi 赤木 剛憲 #4
- Big gorilla brother, I like him as a very responsible captain. Nothing special about him I think except the very cute gorilla look. haha..

Kiminobu Kogure 木暮 公延 #5
- Glass-wearing guy, nothing much about this character but still he is loyal and a good friend to Akagi though. I do remember that there was one episode of him throwing a 3-points shot. And FYI, that 3-points shot lasts for half an hour because it starts from the point he shoots ---- story of himself ----- ball IN. haha...

Hisashi Mitsui 三井 寿 #14
- My 2nd favorite in the Anime. I admit that I hate him at first because of the super gili long hair and no teeth samseng. But then! Oh MY! When I first saw him with cut hair and teeth on oh please.. He looks GREAT! Not to forget that his 3-points skill is crazy.

Ryota Miyagi 宮城 #7
- Short guy with curly hair. Hehe.. sounds pity in a basketball team huh?! Not at all, he has incredible speed, skills, and court awareness. His skills are typical of a point guard with strong passing and dribbling, as well as an understanding of the game that allows him to be a floor leader. *copied from Wiki*

Hanamichi Sakuragi 桜木 花道 #10
- The main character. But oh well, I guess this is the first Anime that I do not have any favor on the main character. I'm not going to write negative comment about him... I just don't like him.. that's it.. haha..

Kaede Rukawa 流川 楓, #11
- My number 1 love! Do you have any idea how much I was in love with this guy? This super rookie or ace has skill! He is attractive to girls but too bad, the only thing the attracts him is basketball. ^.^

My heart song:
-君が好きだと叫びたい (好想大声说喜欢你）

Rating:
For kids : 7/10
For Adult: 10/10

Final thing before I end this post

~ RUKAWA RUKAWA L.O.V.E RUKAWA ~

Cardcaptor Sakura 百变小樱

Cardcaptor Sakura
百变小樱
kadokyaputa sakura

The story starts with Sakura who accidentally opened a mysterious book and releases the magical Clow Card. So now, her job is to collect all these released Card with the help of Cerberus aka Kero. Other than all those magical fighting scene you will see in the Anime, you will be able to see all different kind of clothes Sakura will be wearing. Tomoyo, Sakura's best friend and also the one who design and sewn all Sakura's fighting costumes. Isn't that sweet to have a friend like that? Next, I will talk about Syaoran Li who initially Sakura's antagonist, but ended up to be the one who is in love with her. Another two characters that means something are Sakura's brother, Toya and Sakura's crush, Yukito. I personally like Toya more. =)

Things that I love:
- Characters! Sakura is cute, Tomoyo is pretty, Syaoran is cool.... etc!
- Not to forget, Kero is just way toooooo kawaii!
- Nice storyline with great ending.
- There are two full-length film that conclude the whole Anime.
- Fashion! Sakura's fighting costumes!
- A lot of funny scenes.

Not my favorite part:
- I'm hoping for more Syaoran and Sakura love moments.
- I'm wishing for more Tomoyo's song!
- Yukito and Toya story.. That's it?!?! Should elaborate more.

My heart song:
- Catch You Catch Me (in playlist)
- 夜の歌 (in playlist)
- やさしさの種子 (in playlist)

Overall are good because I still love it both as a kid and adult.

Rating:
For kids - 9/10
For adult - 7/10

Sailor Moon 美少女戦士

Sailor Moon
美少女戦士セーラームーン
Bishojo Senshi Sera Mun

My first Anime!
The one who officially brought me into the heaven of Anime
What happened actually was my cousin brought me into this rental store for some Hong Kong drama and then I saw this "shining" poster of Sailor Moon and it fully caught my attention.

Then, on the same day at night, I brought my Mum to the store and asked if I can rent this Anime. Of course my Mum agreed, I was only 8 years old maybe and it sounds logic that this cute little girl *I swear I was so cute, okay* wanted to watch some girl's cartoon right?

So starting from that day, I will go to the store and rent 5 to 10 tapes each week.

Things that I love:
- the outfits especially Princess Serenity's !!!
- the love story between Usagi and Mamoru
- the Friendship
- how the storyline goes
- various kind of transformation and how it becomes better and better

Not my favorite part:
- I feel boring at the end because the plot of each episode is almost the same. Keep in mind, I'm saying each episode, not the whole story.
- wishing for more romance moments... *teeheehee*
- the female devil's clothing are abit slutty for children..

My heart song:
- Moonlight Densetsu (in playlist)

One more thing.. It was Sailor Moon who link me to my penpal, Trisha!
We know each other since my Fifth grade.
Then after 10 years! We finally met in the States!
We had lunch, We chat, We took pictures! =)

Rating:
For kids - 9/10
For adult - 6/10

New Born

I guess this blog will mostly talking about Anime since this is the main reason which got me started.

Japan!
The language, The fashion, The food...
I would love to talk about it for whole day if you really gonna start that kind of conversation with me.

The first time I got into this language was when my mum went for Japanese class.
She used to teach me simple word like, o-ka-san ; o-to-san ; o-ba-chan ; o-ji-chan ; a-ri-ga-tou and etc....
I don't even know if I spelled them correctly.

So then, she started to rent me Anime tape *yea.. it was during the time we have tape* and Japanese drama.

Which means, I really need to thank my mum for raising me into this Anime freak! =)
People call me 宅女, so what?
I love being 宅女, that's what makes me ME!
I will be 22 this year and I still don't see any problem with it.
My dad used to tell me that I'm no longer the age for cartoon....
oh nooo... daddy, you're so wrong!
It's not cartoon.. It's ANIME!
I'm so gonna watch Anime at my 60!
I'm very sure about that!

^.^