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**blizzarddog5** · 05-23-2008, 06:54 PM

Genres: action, comedy, drama, fantasy, romance, supernatural

Plot:
Yuji Sakai is a typical high school student who expects that his life will carry on being exactly the same as everyone elses, plain and ordinary. However, this can not be the case as time suddenly freezes and the people around him are being engulfed by blue flames. Why? Because a large doll like monster is consuming their life energy. Until this moment it hadn't noticed Yuji and is surprised by the fact that he can move unlike the rest of the normal humans who are still frozen. Taking this as a great opportunity for a nice feast the monster starts attacking him.

However, Yuji is saved by a girl wielding a large sword with black attire and eyes the colour of flames. This girl introduces herself as a 'flame haze' and that Yuji is a 'torch'. Torches are temporary replacements for erased humans but after a period of time, they will vanish from existence and the memories of the living, meaning that Yuji is technically dead.Unfazed by this, Yuji befriends the strange girl and names her 'Shana' after her sword.

Expecting Yuji to slowly fade away like all other Torches do, Shana is surprised to find that Yuji is not a normal Torch, but instead a special kind called a "Mystes": he has a treasure inside him, known as a "Hougu", a device possessing special abilities of sorts, and an extremely powerful and valuable one at that. Shana resolves to protect Yuji from the Denizens, who would use the treasure to disrupt the balance of the world, and Yuji decides to join Shana in her fight.

Review

Great anime, I'll definitely see it through to the second series. I also like the fact that even though this is more of an action rather than romance anime that they can make it more complicated than just 'he likes her' or 'she likes him' because even at the end of the series it's debatable. I also really grasped the concept of this story, although following a basic magical girl story line the plot was very interesting. Actually this reminded me alot of zero no tsukaima, except for darker and more action. The art is great and deserves to be mentioned.I watched it on megavideo and had veoh quality. twas great. lots of visual effects especially the flames and the action scenes. Though some of the monsters look very odd, and really weird alott of the times. The music was decent. The first op was pretty good, and the others start to get catchy. but nothing new. The characters are literally the main part of this anime. the characters make it. i love watching them, they also keep you very intruiged. if they had done the characters different this anime might have been an epic fail.And how the two main characters act towards each other is great. but luckily they got it right. Well enough from me you should just go see it.
Honestly if you liked zero no tsukaima i can garuntee you 99.9 percent you will like this

I give Shakugan no shana an 8/10

05-23-2008, 06:54 PM	#1 (permalink)
blizzarddog5 Rejects your reality blizzarddog5 is offline Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 1,713 Rep Power: 12	Shakugan no shana Genres: action, comedy, drama, fantasy, romance, supernatural Plot: Yuji Sakai is a typical high school student who expects that his life will carry on being exactly the same as everyone elses, plain and ordinary. However, this can not be the case as time suddenly freezes and the people around him are being engulfed by blue flames. Why? Because a large doll like monster is consuming their life energy. Until this moment it hadn't noticed Yuji and is surprised by the fact that he can move unlike the rest of the normal humans who are still frozen. Taking this as a great opportunity for a nice feast the monster starts attacking him. However, Yuji is saved by a girl wielding a large sword with black attire and eyes the colour of flames. This girl introduces herself as a 'flame haze' and that Yuji is a 'torch'. Torches are temporary replacements for erased humans but after a period of time, they will vanish from existence and the memories of the living, meaning that Yuji is technically dead.Unfazed by this, Yuji befriends the strange girl and names her 'Shana' after her sword. Expecting Yuji to slowly fade away like all other Torches do, Shana is surprised to find that Yuji is not a normal Torch, but instead a special kind called a "Mystes": he has a treasure inside him, known as a "Hougu", a device possessing special abilities of sorts, and an extremely powerful and valuable one at that. Shana resolves to protect Yuji from the Denizens, who would use the treasure to disrupt the balance of the world, and Yuji decides to join Shana in her fight. Review Great anime, I'll definitely see it through to the second series. I also like the fact that even though this is more of an action rather than romance anime that they can make it more complicated than just 'he likes her' or 'she likes him' because even at the end of the series it's debatable. I also really grasped the concept of this story, although following a basic magical girl story line the plot was very interesting. Actually this reminded me alot of zero no tsukaima, except for darker and more action. The art is great and deserves to be mentioned.I watched it on megavideo and had veoh quality. twas great. lots of visual effects especially the flames and the action scenes. Though some of the monsters look very odd, and really weird alott of the times. The music was decent. The first op was pretty good, and the others start to get catchy. but nothing new. The characters are literally the main part of this anime. the characters make it. i love watching them, they also keep you very intruiged. if they had done the characters different this anime might have been an epic fail.And how the two main characters act towards each other is great. but luckily they got it right. Well enough from me you should just go see it. Honestly if you liked zero no tsukaima i can garuntee you 99.9 percent you will like this I give Shakugan no shana an 8/10 __________________ Need a new anime? check here:http://myanimelist.net/animelist/blizzarddog5 Last edited by blizzarddog5; 05-24-2008 at 12:02 AM..