Welcome to Typenights – an anime and manga review blog.

This is my personal anime and manga review and summary blog. I hope to write down my thoughts on the various series, whether manga or anime, throughout the many upcoming seasons. I want to look back one day and to remember these days and the shows I have enjoyed or sometimes struggled to complete. Along the way I wish Typenights will grow as a blog and as a hub for the rest of the anime community to discuss their favorite or hated shows.

How long have you been an anime fan?

It all started with the Scifi Channel, they were airing anime shows in the early 1990s. Then came English dubs of Dragon Ball Z years before it appeared on the Cartoon Network here in the States. Spring forward 10 years and I have pretty much caught up with most the of anime I ever wanted to watch. My favorite genre is romance comedy, therefore it’s not hard to believe my favorite anime of all time is Kare Kano (His and Her Circumstances).

Where do you get your anime/manga from?

Most if not all of the anime I review/summarize comes from fansubs. As far as how and where you can get these fansubs, is up to you.

My Top 10 Of All Time

1. Kare Kano “His and Her Circumstances” – Romance Comedy

Yukino Miyazawa is the perfect model student. Pretty, kind, good at sports, always at the top of her class. But she’s not all she seems. It’s all an act of deception; she is really the self-confessed ‘queen of vanity,’ and her only goal in life is winning the praise and admiration of everyone around her. When she enters high school, she finally meets her match: Soichiro Arima, a handsome, athletic, popular, and very intelligent young boy. Ever since he stole the top seat in the class from her, Yukino has hated him, and has been plotting on how to take back her former place as the object of all other students’ admiration. What she wasn’t expecting, however, was that Soichiro, the very boy she hated, would confess his love for her. Or that he would find out about her deception – and use it to blackmail her!

2. Evangelion – Mecha, Drama, Physiological

At the age of 14 Shinji Ikari is summoned by his father to the city of Neo Tokyo-3 after several years of separation. There he unwillingly accepts the task of becoming the pilot of a giant robot by the name EVA01 and protect the world from the enigmatic invaders known as “angels.” Even though he repeatedly questions why he has accepted this mission from his estranged and cold father, his doing so helps him to gradually accept himself. However, why exactly are the angels attacking and what are his father’s true intentions are yet to be unraveled.

3. One Piece – Action Adventure, Fantasy

Before he was exacuted, the legendary Pirate King Gold Roger revealed that he had hidden the treasure One Piece somewhere in the Grand Line. Now, many pirates are off looking for this legendary treasure to claim the title Pirate King. One pirate, Monkey D. Luffy, is a boy who had eaten the Devil’s Fruit and gained rubber powers. Now he and his crew are off to find One Piece, while battling enemies and making new friends along the way.

4. Hunter X Hunter – Action Adventure, Fantasy, Comedy

Twelve-year-old Gon Freecss one day discovers that the father he had always been told was dead was alive and well. His Father, Ging, is a Hunter–a member of society’s elite with a license to go anywhere or do almost anything. Gon, determined to follow in his father’s footsteps, decides to take the Hunter Examination and eventually find his father to prove himself as a Hunter in his own right. But on the way, he learns that there is more to becoming a Hunter than previously thought, and the challenges that he must face are considered the toughest in the world.

5. Crest of the Stars / Sekai no Senki – Space Opera

Jinto Lin’s life changes forever the day that the alien race known as the Abh invades his home planet of Martine. Without firing a shot, the Abh take over, and as the result of a peace settlement, Jinto suddenly finds himself alien royalty. Now, as a new member of the Abh royalty, Jinto must leave his home and go far away to study and learn about a lifestyle he never imagined – or wanted. Jinto stands ready to continue the next phase of his training. And en route, he finally meets his first Abh, the lovely and confident Lafiel. But she, like all the Abhs, is more than she appears to be. There is little time for pleasantries, as Jinto and Lafiel soon find themselves in the midst of what threatens to become an interstellar war. And this unlikely duo will wind up depending upon each other for their very lives.

6. Turn A Gundam – Mecha, Romance

The year is Correct Century 2345. The civilization of Earth is at about the level it was during World War I. Long ago, humanity traveled through space, but the people of Earth have long forgotten about that. However, an advanced civilization still exists in cities on the moon, and now this Moonrace, in desperate need of resources, sets its sights back on its home planet. Three Moonrace teenagers, Loran Cehack, Keith Laijie, and Fran Doll, are sent to make sure that a return is even feasible, and are followed two years later by the invading Dianna Counter forces. Now, five thousand years after humanity first traveled into space, a new war is brewing between the Earthlings defending their homes, the Moonrace looking to settle on Earth, and other members of the Moonrace who believe a return to Earth may revive a nightmare from humanity’s forgotten past…

7. Rurouni Kenshin – Sword Fighting, Action Adventure

Himura Kenshin is a vagabond with a dark past and sunny disposition. Not a ronin but a rurouni, he was never a samurai, but an assassin of utmost skill in the Meiji restoration, who in the turning point of the war simply walked away. His travels lead him to Tokyo in the 11th year of the Meiji era, where he befriends a female Kendo master, a former thief, a brawler and a doctor all with their own secrets. Together they fight off the enemies surfacing from the dark past that Kenshin cannot escape.

8. Seirei No Moribito - Fantasy

Balsa, a female bodyguard bearing a short spear as her weapon, visits the New Yogo Empire after a long time. Here she assists to an incident, and saves a young boy. His name is Chagum, and he is no less than the second prince of the Empire. But his fate seems to be even greater than his rank: inside the boy’s body, lays the egg of the Water Spirit, thus making him the Guardian of the Spirit, an event that happens only once in one hundred years.

9. Elfen Lied – Drama, Horror, Physiological

Imprisoned under tight military security, Lucy, a genetically-altered human known as a Diclonius, escapes her confines in a wave of bloody violence and brutality. Now lost, alone, and stricken with amnesia, she wanders into a kindly family that takes her under their care, oblivious to the latent destructive power that this innocent-looking girl harbors.

10. Fruits Basket – Drama, Fantasy, Romance

The Sohma family is cursed. When a member of the family is embraced by a person of the opposite gender, they transform into an animal of the Chinese Zodiac. The Sohmas managed to keep the curse private for generations, but when a young girl stumbles upon their hidden secret, life at the Sohma house changes forever! Conflict erupts as Zodiac rivals clash in this most unusual household. Young Tohru Honda must promise the secret will remain her own … or face the consequences.

*** Descriptions courtesy  of ANN.

Honorable Mention:

• Xam’d Lost Memories
• Mahoromatic
• Sailormoon Stars
• Berserk
• Great Teacher Onizuka
• Initial D
• Yu Yu Hakusho
• Zegapain

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