Friday, June 20, 2008

Shakugan No Shana


Synopsis
Yuji Sakai's world changes dratiscally from normal to well the not so normal when one day on his way home the world suddenly freezes in time, leaving Yuji to watch in horror as blue flames engulf the people around him. Soon a monster resembling a large doll appears and begins sucking the flames into its mouth, until it notices Yuji. Surprised with Yuji's insusceptibility to the time-stop, it jumps with glee.Just as the monster prepares to consume Yuji, a sword-wielding girl in black attire with flaming red eyes and hair that burns like embers appears, swiftly and confidently destroys the monster, before noticing Yuji moving freely. The girl calls herself a "Flame Haze" who hunts the "Denizens of the Crimson Realm" and the "Rinne" they send to do their bidding. When Yuji notices a blue flame in his chest, the Flame Haze tells him that the "real" Yuji died some time ago, and that he is a "Torch", a temporary replacement for erased humans. Torches take on the forms of those erased persons, but after a period of time, they will vanish from existence and the memories of the living.

Episode's:
48

Genres:
Drama
Fantasy
Love-Romance
Magic



Member Review
This anime had the potential of becoming a great action anime. The enemy's were pretty good and the fights were really great. But this only applied to the first season. Season 2 on the other hand was quite a let down. the first half of the season only featured lovey-dovey problems and seriously annoying private issues of the maincharacters. I dropped out at the half, than got back on it, than dropped out. I somehow managed to get to Arc where the fight of "salbrac (king of guze.... strong guy ok?)" takes place. These 3 episodes were by far the best of whole season 2 and I would only rewatch these 3 episodes if I were to become bored again. Also watch the special Konoe Fumika Returns (shakugan no shanatan something). I enjoyed this special more than I enjoyed the whole season 2. (you need to have watched season 2 tho, which is quite the let down... again)
Ending Themes
#1: "Yowake Umare Kuru Shoujo" by Yoko Takahashi (eps 1-14)
#2: "Aka no Seijaku" by Yoko Ishida (eps 15-23)
#3: "Hishoku no Sora" by Mami Kawada (ep 24)
#4: "triangle" by Mami Kawada (eps 25-39)
#5: "Sociometry" by KOTOKO (eps 40-47)
#6: "sense" by Mami Kawada (ep 48)
Opening Themes
#1: "Hishoku no Sora" by Mami Kawada (eps 1-16)
#2: "Being" by KOTOKO (eps 17-24)
#3: "JOINT" by Mami Kawada (eps 25-39)
#4: "BLAZE" by KOTOKO

Characters
Yuji Sakai
Yuji, the main character of the story, is just an average high school student. However, his world is turned upside down when he discovers that he is already dead and does not have much time before he disappears.


Shana
The female lead of the show and a Flame Haze. Initially she is concentrated solely on her duty as a Flame Haze, going as far as to not bearing even a name. She sees Yuji only as a Torch, an object, marginally interesting because of his status as a Mystes. However, she slowly opens up to Yuji, coming to think of him as a person.









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