OK, today's anime includes Fushigi Yuugi, Girls Bravo, and DearS. All three are harem titles except Fushigi is reverse and it really is the best of this bunch.
Girls Bravo and DearS are basically just fanservice vehicles. Lots of good looking girls throwing themselves at rather pathetic main characters. Bravo's main character has a fear of women and breaks out in hives and will pass out if touched by them except for the mysterious alien he finds by falling through a portal in his bathtub. This stuff, of course, happens all the time. Poor guy ends up in hell on that other planet too because it's populated by nothing but women. Women that want a man....any man. For what evil purpose could a planetfull of beautiful women want a man? Strangely enough I really don't care after watching Girls Bravo.
Girls Bravo Rating:Not Really Good (And I'm being generous because I actually liked the childhood tsunder friend.)
DearS if anything was not quite as good as Girls Bravo. To bad too, because they could have done a lot of interesting things with this set up. A UFO full of beautiful people crash on earth and ask for asylum. 10 years later they are starting to integrate with humanity and since it crashed near Tokyo that is where most of them end up. These aliens are smart, beautiful, can fly, have superior technology and are basically superior to humans in all ways except one. They are a slave race. Not just subjugated but genetically breed to be everything they are including an overriding desire to be someones slave. Lots of moral implications could have been investigated but instead we get what probably should have simply been an h-game but with no h. Sigh. Other than pretty girls doing magical things it was really boring.
DearS rating: Not Really Good (And should be lower really but I just can't make it lower than Bravo)
Fushigi Yuugi is not like the other two. This one was a pretty good story and good characters I just got tired of the constant angst. This is a shoujo all the way. Miaka Yuuki and her best friend Yui Hongo are going to the national library so Yui can study for exams and Miaka can goof of. While there Miaka sees a red light that she follows to a mysterious old book. She opens the book with her friend Yui and even though it's in old Chinese, Yui (the smart one) can read it. As they start to read it they are pulled into the world of the book. While there Miaka becomes the priestess of Suzaku and Yui her arch enemy the priestess of Seiryuu. Much needless angst takes place and eventually 50+ episodes later after many deaths and near deaths and rapes or maybe rapes and memory losses and personality wipes later everything ends up happily ever after. If shoujo is your thing and you LIKE angst and soap opera like happenings this will be a favorite. If however, you are like me and like some romance every now and again but angst for angst's sake gets on your nerves just skip this.
Fushigi Yuugi rating: Decent
Added bonus Fushigi Yuugi: Eikoden rating: More of the SAME but for no real reason!
My back hurts! I woke up Monday and didn't wanna move. Tuesday, and Wednesday morning, weren't much better. It was starting to feel 'better' Wednesday night and today hasn't been too bad but 'better' isn't the same as 'fixed'. Guess I'll have to take the plunge, and finally break my years of avoiding it, and go see a doctor for something other than colds.
I haven't ever had a doctor to call my own, I've always just gone to a 'doc in a box' through the local MEA but this back thing along with some other miscellaneous aches and pains has convinced me I'm finally old enough to be an adult and take my medicine. Now I get the fun of figuring out how one goes about getting a doctor. Ugh...Guess it's time to pick a side on the whole 'socialized medicine' debate.
The thing that really pisses me off is that I didn't DO anything to hurt my back, it just started this mess on its own.
