Prince Of Tennis ( Nationals Tournaments )

Review: Another Series of Prince Of Tennis which set of the National Tournaments which another rival school will appear. A Great Anime.



Story:

Prince of Tennis first appeared in Japan's Weekly Shonen Jump in July, 1999. It has now become one of the most popular sport titles in Asia, and sprouted countless commercial products and an anime series from Production I.G. in 2001. The story chronicles the journey of 12-year-old Ryoma Echizen, a four-time American junior champion who has recently returned to Japan. Following in the footsteps of his legendary father Samurai Nanjirou, Ryoma joined Seishun Gakuen, a junior high school with one of Tokyo's most prestigious tennis clubs, and easily secured a spot on the team. Ryoma and his eight Seigaku compatriots must confront grave obstacles and formidable opponents in order to claim a stake at the National title. In fall 2004, Fthe "Genius" series took a detour and was temporarily replaced by the "Wild" series which operates under the same timeline but presents the story from the point of view of Shitenhouji's first-year student Tooyama Kintarou.

Characters:

*Seishun Gakuen










Sumire Ryuzaki(Coach of Seigaku's tennis club)



Regulars

- Ryoma Echizen
- Kunimitsu Tezuka (Captain)
- Shuichiro Oishi
- Syusuke Fuji
- Eiji Kikumaru
- Takashi Kawamura
- Sadaharu Inui
- Takeshi Momoshiro
- Kaoru Kaido

Other players:


- Masashi Arai
- Masaya Ikeda
- Daisuke Hayashi
- Satoshi Horio
- Kachiro Kato
- Katsuo Mizuno

Others:

Sakuno Ryuzaki - Coach's granddaughter and first year
who clearly has a crush on Ryoma Echizen.






Tomoka Osakada - First year who is Sakuno's best friend
and President of the Ryoma Echizen Fanclub.










Yamato Yuudai - Former Captain of Tezuka Kunimitsu and Ooishi Shuuichirou.

Echizen Nanjirou - Former student of Sumire Ryuzaki and his Wife is Takeuchi Rinko , son Ryoma, neice Nanako, cat Karupin

Notable rival schools:

* Fudomine Middle School(Fudomine Chuu)


- Kippei Tachibana (Captain)
- Akira Kamio
- Shinji Ibu
- Tetsu Ishida
- Masaya Sakurai
- Tatsunori Mori
- Kyousuke Uchimura

Other:

Ann Tachibana - Kippei Tachibana's younger sister who supports Fudomine

* St. Rudolph Gakuen


- Yoshirou Akazawa (Captain)
- Takuya Nomura (Vice-Captain)
- Hajime Mizuki (Manager)
- Yuuta Fuji
- Shinya Yanagisawa
- Atsushi Kisarazu
- Ichirou Kaneda



* Yamabuki


Banda 'Banjii' Mikiya(Yamabuki Chuu Coach)








- Kentarou Minami (Captain)
- Kiyosumi Sengoku (Vice-Captain)
- Taichi Dan (manager)

- Jin Akutsu
- Masami Higashikata
- Ichiuma Kita
- Inakichi Nitobe
- Touji Muromachi
- Tsubasa Nishikiori



* Hyotei Gakuen











Sakaki Tarou(Hyoutei Gakuen Tennis Club Coach)








- Keigo Atobe (Captain)
- Yuushi Oshitari
- Ryou Shishido
- Choutarou Ootori
- Gakuto Mukahi
- Jiroh Akutagawa
- Wakashi Hiyoshi
- Munehiro Kabaji
- Haginosuke Taki




* Midoriyama (manga only)

Kiraku Taizou(Midoriyama Chuu Head Coach)
Kushida(Midoriyama Chuu Coach)



- Yasuyuki Kiraku(Captain)
- Masato Takase
- Wataru Kitamura
- Takuma Minamoto
- Itto Habu
- Junpei Kongawa
- Akane Tsuta

* Jyosei Shonan(anime only)







Hanamura Aoi(Jyosei Shonan Coach)

- Takahisa Kajimoto(Captain)
- Reiji Shinjou
- Hiroshi Wakato
- Youhei Tanaka
- Kouhei Tanaka
- Shou Ota
- Daichi Kiriyama


* Rokkaku Chuu











Ojii(Rokkaku Chuu Coach)

- Kentarou Aoi (Captain)
- Saeki Kojirou (Vice-Captain)
- Ryou Kisarazu
- Hikaru "David" Amane
- Harukaze Kurobane
- Marehiko Itsuki
- Satoshi Shudou



* Rikkai Daigaku Fuzoku










- Seiichi Yukimura (Captain)
- Genichirou Sanada (Vice/Substitute Captain)
- Renji Yanagi
- Akaya Kirihara
- Masaharu Niou
- Hiroshi Yagyuu
- Bunta Marui
- Jackal KuwaharaNationals rival schools appearances:

* Higa Chuu



Saotome Harumi(Higa Chuu Coach)

- Eishirou Kite
- Yuujirou Kai
- Hiroshi Chinen
- Kei Tanishi
- Rin Hirakoba
- Shiranui
- Aragaki


* Shitenhouji














Watanabe Osamu(Shitenhouji Chuu Coach)

- Kuranosuke Shiraishi
- Senri Chitose
- Kenya Oshitari
- Ishida Gin
- Koharu Konjiki
- Kintarou Tooyama
- Yuuji Hitouji
- Hikaru Zaizen



* Saint Icarus

- Richard Sakata

* Makinofuji Gakuen

- Hagi
- Kadowaki

Others:



* U.S. West Coast Team

Richard Baker(The American West Coast Team Coach)


- Kevin Smith
- Arnold Ignashov
- Bobby Max
- Tom Griffey
- Terry Griffey
- Billy Cassidy
- Michael Lee




Others:
















Izumi Tomoya - Gyokurin Chuu Regular














Fukawa Kimiyoshi - Gyokurin Chuu Regular and partner of Izumi Tomoya














Fukushi Michiru - Ginka Chuu Captain

Rinko Echizen - Ryoma's mother

Nanako Meino - Echizen's college-bound cousin who lives with Ryoma and his father.

Smith - Father of Kevin Smith

Saori Shiba - Photographer for Monthly Tennis who follows the team with Inoue

Mamoru Inoue - Reporter for Monthly Tennis magazine who follows the Seigaku team and is a big fan of Nanjiro Echizen.

Hikomaro Sakurafubuki - fanatic tennis-lover millionaire who hosted to play in the Exhibition Match on the cruise.

Chitose Miyuki - Fourth grader Miyuki is the younger sister of Shitenhouji's Chitose Senri. She befriended Tezuka Kunimitsu while he was rehabilitating in Kyuushuu.














Ryoga Echizen - Ryoma Echizen's adopted brother and adopted son of Nanjiroh Echizen.He is the captain of Sakurafubuki Hikomaro's tennis team and often calls his brother "chibisuke" meaning kiddo. Instead of Mada mada dane, he says Mada Mada daze.






Written by: Takeshi Konomi

Hitsuji no Uta ( Song of the Sheep, or Lament of the Lamb )

Review:

A great story which is disturbing and scary when I read it on manga series consist 7 volumes but not yet watch the anime series which consist of Four Episode.




Characters:

Kazuna Takashiro - Chizuna's younger brother. Afflicted by the same "vampiric" condition that's been passed down through the Takashiro family.

Chizuna Takashiro - Kazuna's elder sister. Not only does she have the blood-craving disease, she also has heart problems.

You Yaegashi - A member of the art club at Kazuna's school and has a crush on Kazuna.

Doctor Minase - Chizuna's doctor. A close friend of the Takashiro family since she was a small child. He has a scar on his left eye from the time Chizuna attacked him years ago. He has been in love and devoted to her for a long time but his affections were not reciprocated.

Doctor Shizuna Takashiro - Chizuna and Kazuna's father. A doctor who spent years trying to find a way to cure the Takashiro disease (which affected his wife), and committed suicide a year before Chizuna reunited with Kazuna.



Story:

The story centers on Kazuna, an "average high school student" who starts to lose control at the sight of blood. This problem is traced down to him being a vampire, like his lost sister, Chizuna, who he now turns to for help.

Kazuna lives with his "aunt" and "uncle" (both of which are actually old friends of his father), after his mother died, and his father took Chizuna and left. Kazuna is friends with an aspiring artist named Yaegashi, who later learns about his condition.

Kazuna and Chizuna's father had committed suicide six months before the start of the (manga) story and trying to understand his suicide is one of the central plot of the story.





















Original creator:Kei Toume
The Ending Song:"Destiny ~Shukumei~" by Hayashibara Megumi & Seki Tomokazu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyA8VkdNZhE

Fushi Yuugi : Genbu Kaiden

Review:


















Another Fushi Yuugi series which is the story of priestesss of Genbu and which the story told by the anime series.


Character:




















Main:

Takiko Okuda( Genbu no Miko )
Hikitsu( Equivocal )
Inami( Cow )
Uruki( Woman )
Tomite( Vacuum )
Hatsui( Camping )
Namame( Wall )
Urumiya( Ceiling )




Others:


Bohui/Hakei

The Crown Prince of Qu-dong (the land to the east, protected by Seiryu). He is evil, but always hides his intentions with a friendly attitude towards Uruki (in "Taki" form) and is bent on invading Bei-jia. Ziyi and Feiyan are under his command.

Ziyi/Shigi

A beautiful, yet cruel, boy. Always insists that Genbu must absolutely not be summoned. He kills The Oracle, Lady Anlu, Namame's guardian. His weapon resembles a whip, but is made out of what looks like nunchuku. He is constantly wearing a smile on his face (even when he is brutally killing someone) and it not one to be underestimated in battle. Speaks very politely, almost like a woman.


Feiyan/Hien

A violent, hot-tempered man whose arm was cut off by Uruki. Bent on getting revenge for having his arm cut off. Ziyi and Feiyan are commanded by Bohui to take "Taki" (who is actually Uruki's identity when he joins the Kotou army in his man form) and fight with him against the Genbu celestial warriors and priestess. Although Feiyan does not trust Taki (and later on it is revealed that Ziyi did not either), they do not throw him out of the army as Bohui is adamant that he should stay.


Hagas/Haagasu

While not necessarily evil, he fights against the celestial warriors of Genbu and has the ability to absorb their powers. He is not totally evil, as he is seen saving children during some of the battles. However, he has a goal to destroy the Genbu warriors, with Uruki in particular. Under the command of Uruki's father.


Boratte/Borate

Tomite's mother. The one who first accepts Takiko as the Genbu priestess followed by the rest of the village. She and the village people, the Ha tribe, might be the only ones who thinks that the coming of the Genbu priestess and the summoning of Genbu is a good thing. Takes an arrow for Takiko when it is shot at her during a raid of the village of the Ha tribe.


Ayla /Aira

Hikitsu's younger sister. Had been encased in ice for a year together with the beasts that had attacked the village of whence the Ha and the Kan tribe used to be placed. Finally, released from the ice when Tomite returned to the place to search for Hikitsu. Currently staying with Boratte. Makes moves on Tomite even though he froze her for a year.


Anlu/Anru

An Oracle protected by Namame. It took her a great deal of time to win his trust as he had been treated very cruelly by other humans when he attempting to fit in. She is killed by Ziyi and Feiyan's men as she continually provoked with her prophesy that "The priestess will definitely summon Genbu- Go away!". With her dying words, she reveals to Takiko the key in communicating with Namame (her necklace wich is made out of the same rock as him).


Story:






















In Japan of 1923, a 17-year-old girl named Takiko Okuda is living with her ill mother after recently moving to a small town. Her father comes home one day (he's never home, as he's a busy novelist), much to Takiko's chagrin. He apparently has been working on something called "The Universe of the Four Gods" and even after returning home, is obsessed with the book. Her mother eventually dies and Takiko becomes angry at her father for ignoring the two of them. These feelings, paired with her feelings of loneliness and uselessness at being rejected both in love and by her father, lead her to attempt to tear the book apart. However, it instead whisks her away to the country of Hokkan where all of her adventures begin.
















Japanese manga written by Yū Watase

Shou Xi De Wen Rou ( Your Familiar Tenderness )

WoIZong shi yi ge ren zou
Have always walked alone
Xin li
My heart
Que chong man kong dong
Is filled with such emptiness
You tai duo jie kou
Too many excuses
Wai mian bu ji mo
It’s not lonely outside
Que wu fa zhao hui zi you
Yet I couldn’t find back my freedom
















Ai
Love
Ceng jing cha shen er guo
Had once passed me by
Xi huan
I like
Zai ji yi li ting liu
To linger in my memories
Xi guan shou xun ni de
I am used to searching for your (love)
Zhi yao ni de jiu gou
Just your (love) is enough
Yuan lai wo men yi zhi dou zai nar
All this time, we were always there
Zui mei de shi hou
In that most beautiful moment in time











Chorus:
Ni shou xi de wen rou
Your familiar tenderness
Cong bu ceng li kai wo
Has never left me
Zai ni xin li
In your heart I see
Kan dao yong you
All that I possess
Ni ye yi zhi zai deng zhe wo
And you have been waiting for me too
Zai duo de yu yan
No matter how many languages are spoken
Ye hen nan qu biao da zhe yi fen cheng nuo
It’s still so hard to express this promise
Wo bu hui fang shou
I won’t let go
Wo yao yong gan di ai zhe ni
I want to love you *fearlessly

*courageously, bravely


Song By:Vic Zhou(Zaizai)



Theme Song Of Taiwanese Drama: "Silence".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNqjbrI21vk