All right. This will be miscellaneous reviews for me, and probably my last post for a while.
Yu Yu Hakusho - This is actually one that caught even my attention... Yusuke (Pronounced "Yuse-kay"
) dies by trying to save a kid from a speeding car. The problem is that there is no room in heaven or hell for him. Apperently, the kid wasn't going to die (In Boton's words: "If you hadn't interfered, the boy would have had one less scratch on his right arm.") So Yusuke is led by the spirit guide Boton who is like a female Grim Reaper through a series of quests that finally results in Yusuke coming back to life. The problem is that now he knows about the Spirit World, so by Koenma's (the head honcho, so to speak) directions, Yusuke must work and train as a spirit Detective who keeps the world safe.
This is a breif explaination of the beginning, and it really doesn't do Yu Yu Hakusho justice. There are a lot of rather cute bishounen in this anime - (adult) Koenma, Kurama, Hiei, Yusuke... Which made it a favorite for me. Most of the cute ones turn out to be demons and such, but hey. I can dream.
Yusuke, Kuwabara, Hiei, Karuma, Yusuke's Mom, Boton, (no idea what that purple thing is), Keiko, (don't know who the other brunette is, either ^-^'), (Adult) Koenma.
Yu-Gi-Oh - Don't laugh! I actually found the unedited version of this anime somewhat enjoyable when watched with kids. I had to go out and buy the DVDs to get the subbed version (dubbed being the edited type), and even then the dialog was in Japanese (Thank heavens for subtitles!). But it's MUCH better than what WB is playing. Ieek.
Seven Millennium items are all that stand between humanity and total domination by those who know how to wield their power. In Ancient Egypt, 5000 years before the present, "Shadow Games" that were played by pharoahs and great leaders by using monsters that could be summoned on command. Eventually the Shadow Games erupted into a war, but a pharoah locked away the power of the game in seven Millennium items. Now, five thousand years later, a boy named Yugi had opened the power of one of these Items. And in doing so, he is thrown into a quest of saving his grandfather and protecting the world from the return of the Shadow Games. He acquires an alter-ego named Yami Yugi, who is titled the King of Games.
With Yugi is his mismatched bunch of friends: Tea ("Taiya"), the voice of reason; Joey, the goof-off; Tristan, the jock; and Bakura, who, also possesses a Millenium Item that comes with a phsyco, homocidal alter-ego named Yami Bakura who wants to take the seven Items to take control of the world. (But they don't know that yet.
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I can laugh so hard at the edit version of this anime; they did such a crappy job of erasing the guns out of the hands of thugs that it's funny. They make Joey seem like a stupid idiot through it, and Tristan had two subbed voices: the first one making him sound like those stupid dogs you see in the cartoons, but the second one is much better. Tea gives a lot of friendship rants. Basically, if you're gonna watch, watch the subbed.
I just wish they would get an English version of the Manga printed out. If anything, I would get THAT!
*shrugs* No Picture!
Inuyasha - The best I've seen in a long time. A girl named Kagome finds a magic well that takes her back in time to the Fuedal period. She finds a guy with dog ears stuck to a tree with an arrow through his chest, but he's still alive. Of course, she yanks the arrow out and frees him. This, of course, is Inuyasha.
In search of answers, Kagome finds an old woman in a villiage who tells her the story about Inuyasha and the Jewel. Kagome finds out that she is an incarnate of a priestess that guarded an artifact called the Shekong (Not spelled correctly, but who cares) Jewel which had the ability to make demons *very* powerful. This priestess was slain, however, by none other than Inuyasha, who was thought to have tried to acquire the Jewel for himself, but he denies this. Before her death, the priestess shot an arrow at Inuyasha and bound him to a tree forever - or, so we thought.
Things get complicated as Kagome travels with Inuyasha to recover the many shards of the Jewel. They meet other demons - Shippo, for example, who is a little fox girl - as well as a monk (who's name has now left my head. ^-^). It gets worse when Kagome starts falling in love with Inuyasha, who, really loves the dead priestess. Confused yet? Good.
The real story of what happened and who really slaughtered the priestess begins to unfold, and things get a little messy. Swearing, violence, some adult content... It gets my thumbs up!
No picture here, either!
I'd love to link the manga image cover,but since the manga itself rated for young adult I don't think it's appropriate 
