Yami No Matsuei/ Dessentence of Darkness
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mimis_tsuzuki 01
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Yami No Matsuei/ Dessentence of Darkness
I've just finished the best anime ever! I love it! I dono who's seen it or who hasn't but it really made me cry at the end!
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SarahtheBoring
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Descendants
I think your sig is too big under the forum rules.
Now that that's out of the way, can we get an actual topic and not a journal entry? The series has flaws, definitely, but it is pretty. I've started to like the manga (thus far) more than the anime, although I have heard that it jumps the shark later on. There's much more background in Ju-Oh-Cho, which is interesting.
But the anime does have damn pretty animation, and the romance (such that it is) isn't remotely as stereotypical as some BL series. Hisoka is cute and small, but he's tougher than Tsuzuki is, ultimately. Which is nice.
Descendants
I think your sig is too big under the forum rules.
Now that that's out of the way, can we get an actual topic and not a journal entry? The series has flaws, definitely, but it is pretty. I've started to like the manga (thus far) more than the anime, although I have heard that it jumps the shark later on. There's much more background in Ju-Oh-Cho, which is interesting.
But the anime does have damn pretty animation, and the romance (such that it is) isn't remotely as stereotypical as some BL series. Hisoka is cute and small, but he's tougher than Tsuzuki is, ultimately. Which is nice.
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BunofGovt
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Yami no Matsuei...*grins* Loved it. I admit it. The manga and anime were just beautifully drawn... Watari is so cool, love his hair (I love guys with long hair, not all effeminate ones either, strong, buff man + long hair = me needing drool bucket. Johnny Depp for example from POTC). I really liked all the characters. Muraki really = Nakago's reincarnation. I'm convinced. They have a lot in common. Ya know, his hair wasn't supposed to be silver...it was supposed to be blonde according to the manga I was reading...heh...
Dragons can be good or bad. Care to guess which path I follow?
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SarahtheBoring
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In the dub (it has unintentional entertainment value! Shut up) he does say that he has "platinum blond" hair, in the Kyoto arc when he's talking about his hair being found at one of the crime scenes. I'm blanking on whether that's in the subs too, at the moment.
And in every art I've seen it's white/gray/silver, even on the manga covers. The script and the art are not in line there. :p But it is described that way.
Muraki is, wow. Quite the old-school batshit insane villain. He has one of the more diverse lists of crimes I've seen in anime villainry. SOME villains stick to serial murder *or* mad science *or* emotionally scarring all the heroes, but oh no, he's gotta do it all. Gyah. It's a bit too much, but the story is melodramatic like that, and the heroes are just multidimensional enough to keep it from going all the way off the deep end.
And in every art I've seen it's white/gray/silver, even on the manga covers. The script and the art are not in line there. :p But it is described that way.
Muraki is, wow. Quite the old-school batshit insane villain. He has one of the more diverse lists of crimes I've seen in anime villainry. SOME villains stick to serial murder *or* mad science *or* emotionally scarring all the heroes, but oh no, he's gotta do it all. Gyah. It's a bit too much, but the story is melodramatic like that, and the heroes are just multidimensional enough to keep it from going all the way off the deep end.
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Aliana
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Astria
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The anime is a lot of fun, I admit. Just rather bizarre, melodramatic, angst-ridden, daft-humoured, disturbing fun. Muraki manages to be a stock villain...but with an edge of style. He is one vicious individual, make no mistake. SarahtheBoring is right about his diversity of...criminal activity.
It's as though he ticks the boxes in a list of 'bad guy' criteria. Serial killer and rapist, check. Morally questionable doctor, check. Psychopathic occultist, check. Sort-of vampire, check...
Tsuzuki is so...cool. He's ridiculously powerful in fights; he has 12 Shikigami, along with his own mysterious power. Spoiler question: is he actually part demon? Its what's implied in places in the manga, but... The fact that this is a pretty, bishounen-full, melodramatic fantasy gives me an excuse to like the purple-eyed, magic-using dark and mysterious bloke.
(though as far as 'powers' go, I wouldn't mind being able to manipulate shadows like Tatsumi)
The anime manages to keep to the more angtsy stories, plus odd humour. We don't have bits like the martial arts tournament, or the downright weird Hokkaido story.
There's only so much they could have done in 13 episodes, though it does seem a bit odd that they covered - in the Viz release of the manga volumes 1, 2, 3 (Nagasaki, 'The King of Swords', and 'Devil's Trill'), and then skipped all the way to volume 7 and the kyoto arc. It was left a bit too open ended.
Spoiler: but, that was one elaborate way of attempting suicide. Though, 'attempt' doesn't quite cover it.
It's as though he ticks the boxes in a list of 'bad guy' criteria. Serial killer and rapist, check. Morally questionable doctor, check. Psychopathic occultist, check. Sort-of vampire, check...
Tsuzuki is so...cool. He's ridiculously powerful in fights; he has 12 Shikigami, along with his own mysterious power. Spoiler question: is he actually part demon? Its what's implied in places in the manga, but... The fact that this is a pretty, bishounen-full, melodramatic fantasy gives me an excuse to like the purple-eyed, magic-using dark and mysterious bloke.
(though as far as 'powers' go, I wouldn't mind being able to manipulate shadows like Tatsumi)
The anime manages to keep to the more angtsy stories, plus odd humour. We don't have bits like the martial arts tournament, or the downright weird Hokkaido story.
There's only so much they could have done in 13 episodes, though it does seem a bit odd that they covered - in the Viz release of the manga volumes 1, 2, 3 (Nagasaki, 'The King of Swords', and 'Devil's Trill'), and then skipped all the way to volume 7 and the kyoto arc. It was left a bit too open ended.
Spoiler: but, that was one elaborate way of attempting suicide. Though, 'attempt' doesn't quite cover it.