Shakugan no shana

**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

**Shanasha1234** · 05-23-2008, 07:15 PM

I was thinking of watching Shakugan No Shana, and this review will definitely put it on my Will Watch list.

**Poparteeb** · 05-23-2008, 07:26 PM

The animation seems a bit childish though...

**blizzarddog5** · 05-23-2008, 07:32 PM

lol. pop just watch the begenning of the first ep....

**feanor** · 05-24-2008, 08:07 PM

I've watched both of the seasons, the movie and the specials, and it was great. The setting is a bit crazy, but all in all, it's more than worth watching.

**Furanshisu917** · 05-25-2008, 09:18 AM

it reminded u of zero no tsukaima for 3 reasons, the characters designs where similar (done by same artist) the 2 main characters had the same voice actors (im sure the female one was the exact same but i cant rmembers saki voice now lol) and the relationship between male and female was kinda the same.

ggood review

**Benawolnow** · 05-27-2008, 02:56 AM

LOl yeah lol I'll try this anime out just because it looks a little like zero no tsukaima

EDIT: Lolz, episode 1 is a little weird more like bleach or d.Grayman instead of comedy o.o sounds kind of EMO-ish :O like sad and depressing O.o

It gets better at the end of episode 2 and I guess episode 3 will be good too so I'll continue on this new anime.

**jingettey** · 05-27-2008, 04:02 AM

it's a great anime.
lol it was just the first epi. they have some humour after that.

**Benawolnow** · 05-27-2008, 04:05 AM

Well, I hope so :O

**blizzarddog5** · 05-27-2008, 04:09 AM

ya the first episode was insanel weird to me too lol i was like what? but i wanted to see what happened as the story progressed =) and i liked it

**jingettey** · 05-27-2008, 05:09 AM

yeah.
in short, don't judge an anime by its first episode.
well, sometimes ._.

**Nighvale** · 05-27-2008, 06:44 AM

I just started it thanks to the review! I am only on epi 6 but its been interesting so far.

**blizzarddog5** · 05-27-2008, 06:48 AM

hey im glad to be of help =) lol

**Poparteeb** · 05-27-2008, 02:51 PM

kk peoples, you got me... I'll watch this after i finish darker than black.

**Benawolnow** · 05-28-2008, 02:28 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jingettey

yeah.
in short, don't judge an anime by its first episode.
well, sometimes ._.

Lol that can be said GENERALLY but not for some animes like...

Lucky Star, when I first saw the first episode up to 10 minutes I just exited out of the screen and said no. The first episode is like this girl eating ice cream and all the ways of eating it like eating the cone first or lick the ice cream etc...it was just so annoying and I didn't understand it at all.