Although personally I think Kadokawa deserves some space on this poster... the movie was really great. Though it had its share of blames for portraying a Japanese soldier "in a positive light", I thought that's not really a fair criticism for the movie...
I admire the director's courage (?) for deciding to portray not only the said Japanese soldier but also the character Mr. Tang, who would be considered as a Hanjian (traitor) and whose personality and actions would be portrayed as completely negative in traditional Chinese WWII films...
Having said that...the scenes of the movie were very..... ..... ... shocking, to some extent...especially if one considers how things like this happened in actual history. I couldn't stop crying for the entire time I was sitting in the theatre. But these things are really hard to explain in words (especially at such late hour at night lol)...

Yes if you're in Toronto this weekend (Sept.19) go see it @ the Toronto International Film Festival!!

Ok yea I read the first 5 chapters of the manga because the original novel is by Ono Fuyumi who wrote 12K, and I read the novel because it was two bucks at book off the manga was pretty interesting

Non-spoiler portion:

Favourite characters:
Toshio 尾崎敏夫
Natsuno　結城夏野
Ritsuko　国広律子
The Mutou family　武藤一家
The Tanaka siblings 田中姉弟

Other characters I liked:
Tatsu (the old woman at the stationary store) 竹村タツ
The nurses @ Ozaki Hospital 看護婦たち
Seishin's parents 静信父・母
Kanami 矢野佳奈美
Sunako 桐敷砂子

Least favourite characters:
Seishin (I'm sorry but seriously - -) 室井静信
Motoko (if that's how one pronounces her name)　前田元子
Atsushi 大川篤

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Shiki Afterthoughts + Characters [屍鬼]…の追伸

Judging from the plot summary, I thought this movie was going to be really....hmm how to say it, heavy? --> (too serious, etc)
But it turned out to be not true at all... there were so many humorous scenes scattered all over the movie despite the overall serious theme, which I thought was a really nice thing Other than that, it was generally speaking really touching....I cried about 3 or 4 times throughout the movie, especially towards the end

Definitely worth watching!

Ok so the last entry was written 10 minutes after I finished watching the series....and it's really late at night (oh wait so's this entry)....
Either way, thinking back, maybe I should've given it more credit...the plot was really good actually, many funny and exciting parts...and the entire johnny/naked thing was really good -w-
Also the characters were also more interesting than I gave them credit for...mameshiba (the little dog) was so damn cute

But, as one might say, all's well that ends well....and the ending left me feeling uneasy and bleh, hence the entire thing goes down in my mind....
Therefore, in order to make something good in ppl's memories, the ending has to be really good!!

....当たり前か

So....after a long time of not watching any new anime series I managed to finish one today while sewing: Eden of the East (東のエデン).
This was the title that I was mostly attracted to back in the spring we were going through the list of new animes...anyway, my thoughts of it are below (on a scale of 5):

Plot:
Characters:
Graphics:
Music:
Overall: 3.5 out of 5

(Clearly this is full of bias )

Plot: I would've given it a 4 or 5 star by episode 5 or 6 or something, in the middle of the story...it had a kind of excitement and suspense going on and was really fun to watch...but the ending kind of just left me there going "HUH???" I know there's gonna be 2 movies (sequels) coming up soon, but as a complete piece of work the way it ended was rushed and doesn't give a feeling of satisfaction...and a lot of stuff were left unexplained = =

Characters: (Please don't hit me....personal taste only!)
OMFG Morimi Saki. That's the kind of character I cannot stand....her face was kind of cute and she said one or two good lines, but besides that....wth woman...to me she seemed like a mere mascot, just as her status was in their college circle. Many of the side characters could've shined, but the story was so rushed they were introduced without given much exploitation... the entire member of "Eden of the East" were kind of left hanging there half way...By the last episode I was so stressed with the character settings even the good music and graphics didn't seem to be able to heal me
(My favourite character was Mr."panties" he had some good noticeable traits and good involvement in the plot too)

Graphics: As expected from Production IG it was really good....the background, etc were beautiful as always.....hmmm? Wait a second. The last anime that I watched was....Toshokan Sensou....and before that it was Seirei no Moribito...... ...(unless I forgot something in between..)
...... ........ .....maybe I should try watching something that's not IG lol

On a side note, I'm not very satisfied with the character design...IF I didn't watch Honey and Clover I would've thought it was good, but all of them look too freaking similar to Honey&Clover characters = = and the girls are way too loli to look like actual 22 year olds. Mikuru (21) looks like she's 13 (seriously) (No I'm not saying this because I look older than my age!! )

Music: I really liked the music....usually I don't take note of the background music...but in this case it was really really good (personal opinion) both in terms of individual tracks but also the timing they put the songs in....unlike some animes or dramas that put music on when it's not really necessary...
In fact the music was so good that I looked up who the composer was...and on wiki it says:
Kawai Kenji
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So...it was YOU No wonder there was a strange sense of nostalgia (not the point)
Also, good theme songs