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Anime Spotlight : Top Five Emotional Anime

There are a lot of anime out there that brings a tear to our eyes, or fills our hearts with joy. Here is my list of top 5 emotional anime, the 5 shows I feel had the most feels for me. Both good or bad.  

  

5.  Ano Hi Mita Hana no Namae o Bokutachi wa Mada Shiranai

Ano Hana is the tale of a bunch of childhood friends, trying to cope after a tragic death happened in their circle. The ghost of Menma hangs around Jin, acting as a reminder of what happened that day. The show starts off with serious feels right off the bat in the first episode. Even though there are some happy times in the show. You know it's going to be hopeless.  

  

4.  Hanbun no Tsuki ga Noboru Sora

Hantsuki is about a boy called Yuichi who gets booked into hospital for his hepatitis, one day he notices Rika, a girl about his age who is in the east wing of the hospital, where all the seriously ill patients are looked after. He befriends her and after a while learns of the fate that awaits her. Hantsuki is very short, only 6 episodes but it packs a lot of emotions.

3. AIR TV

What would a Top 5 emotional list be without a Key show. Air Tv is the story of Yukito, a traveler in search for the Girl trapped in the Sky, a legend passed down in his family. On his travels he stumbles upon the curious Misuzu who wants nothing but to be his friend. Air TV is filled with a lot of mysteries and a fantasy element. There are a few different arcs in the show that all seem to interlink, and most of them don't have a happy resolution. The initial cuteness factor of the show throws one off guard in the beginning.

2. Aria

Aria is on a different side of the feels scale to most of the shows here, it's such a feel good anime. Just kind of makes everything feel better. Though it has it's teary eyed moments too. Aria is about Akari, a girl who wants to become an Undine, or gondolier  on Aqua. Aqua is the name of Mars after it was terra-formed and mostly covered by water. Akari starts working at Aria Company, and while training she meets up with the various people of Aqua, fellow Trainees and some more mysterious entities.

1. Full Moon o Sagashite

Full Moon is the heart wrenching tale of a 12 year old girl called Mitsuki, that wants nothing more than to meet up with her childhood friend and crush. Her best plan to do this is to become and idol. But she needs to be 16 years old to become one. The only problem is, that she has throat cancer, and only one year left to live. Unless she undergoes the surgery which would make her unable to sing. I was initially put off by the really shoujo art style of this anime. But there was a lot more to it the show itself then just the visuals. Full moon takes one on an emotional roller coaster ride. It fills you with hope, and then drops you into the deepest pits of despair.

As I said before there are a lot of emotional shows out there. This is only my top 5. What is your list? Let me know in the comment section. 

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Anime Spotlight : List of Anime from Spring 2014 I'm following Part 5

So it's the new season of shows and everything is starting to get into the swing of things. As such I present Part 5 of my list I'm currently following of the Spring 2014 anime season. There was a few parts to this list as there is too much to mention in one post. And the I might possibly drop some shows as the season progresses. Let's get into it. In no particular order.

1. Knights of Sidonia
Genre : Action, Alien, Manga, Mecha, Military, Piloted Robot, Romance, Sci-Fi, Seinen, Tragedy, Violence
Synopsis : It has been a thousand years since the Gauna, a strange alien race with no known method of communication, destroyed the solar system. A portion of humanity managed to escape using enormous seed ships like the Sidonia, which have allowed them to maintain the population while drifting through space. Tanikaze Nagate is a young man who has been raised deep in the bowels of the ship. When he goes into training to pilot the huge robotic weapons known as Gardes, Nagate is entrusted with piloting the legendary unit known as Tsugumori. Nagate and his fellow pilots put their lives on the line against the Gauna, in the desperate battle for the survival of humanity...
Thoughts : Knights of Sidonia is quite dark, and filled with despair for the human race. The show has kept me quite interested so far, if there was anything negative to say about it, it would be that some people will not like the CGI used in it.

2. M3 - Sono Kuroki Hagane
Genre : Action, Mecha
Synopsis : There is distorted, deep blackness everywhere. That place, in which blackness swallowed everything and took away everything, has become known as the Avidya Zone. Strange beings assume the very form of the despair and chaos of humanity. They are known by this name: Imashime.

An expedition surveys the Avidya Zone which consumes human spirits. So, in the intricate intersection between the present in impending crisis and the destiny of the past... can eight boys and girls, assembled to confront the Imashime, find the bright future that lies before the Avidya Zone?
Thoughts : Kind of an unknown this season, almost no one talks about this show. The first episode left me with a good impression though, a dark premise with a deeper underlying mystery that needs to be uncovered. Curious to see how this progresses.

3. Akuma no Riddle
Genre : Angst, Coming of Age, Conspiracy, Manga, Nudity, Tragedy, Underworld
Synopsis : Ichinose Haru is a student at a private girls' boarding school, Myoujou Academy, who is being targeted by 12 assassins disguised as students. Azuma Tokaku is a transfer student and an assassin who also initially targets Haru, but develops feelings for her and decides to protect her from the other assassins.
Thoughts : I'm enjoying Akuma no Riddle, the overdone character tropes set in the "Black Class" seem to work. And I'm also detecting some strong Shoujo-Ai undertones. The way the characters are introduced, and the pacing of the anime is keeping me interested.

4. Seikoku no Dragonar
Genre : Boing, Dragon, Ecchi, Fantasy, Female Student, Harem, Large Breasts, Novel, Pantsu, School Life, Small Breasts
Synopsis : Learning to ride and tame dragons comes easy to most students at Ansarivan Dragonar Academy - except for first-year student Ash Blake, who is known by his fellow classmates as the "number one problem child." Poor Ash is the laughing stock at school because, despite his unfashionably large star-shaped brand that marks him as a future dragon master, he has nothing to show for it. His dragon has never appeared.

Until now, that is. One fateful day, Ash's dragon awakes in full glory, but appears different than any dragon ever seen before - in the form of a beautiful girl! What's worse, Ash soon discovers that this new dragon has attitude to spare, as she promptly informs him that she is the master, and he, the servant.

Ash's problems with dragon riding have only just begun.
Thoughts : I'll be honest, I was expecting something like a mix between Dragon Crisis and Zero no Tsukaima, and I'm happy to report that I was wrong! So far this show has been enjoyable, not a lot of time was wasted on just fanservice. Pacing is quite good in this anime. And the main character isn't an idiot.

That's it for the last part of my list, quite a few shows this season, But have you watced any of the shows mentioned here? What are your thoughts on them? All information was taken from Anidb.net

My next anime related blog post will be about the shows I have dropped this season and my reasons for doing so. Until then. Bye bye!

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Featured youtubers for April 2014

I'm a bit late with this post, and I'm sorry. Has been a hectic few weeks, got back from vacation then had some issues that needed sorting out. Anyhow that's enough rambling from me, here is the Youtubers that was featured on my facebook page for the month of April!

* @chimtot he is currently doing an Xcom series and also has a Should I buy series and some other VLogs Check him out here https://www.youtube.com/user/chimtot

* @8Bit_Bastard a great mix of new and old games with flair. Check it out here https://www.youtube.com/user/8BitBastardGaming/featured

I know the list is a lot shorter than previous months, life got in the way of featuring more people last month. Anyway let me know in the comment section what you think of these channels!