Summer ’11 Reviews

Ikoku

Summer 2011

Episode Review: Ikoku no Meiro Croisée episode 1

Claude, Yune and Oscar


This review may contain spoilers regarding events within the episode. If you wish to read a general synopsis and review for the series thus far, click here. Otherwise, read on!


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Anime Series: Ikoku Meiro no Croisée

Yune

“Paris, at the end of the 19th century. The silhouette of a small girl named Yune can be seen under the roof of the Galerie du Roy. Only a few Parisians, however, know of her arrival.”

Claude, a sign maker working in the Gallery, is surprised to find that Oscar, his grandfather, has returned from his trip to Japan with an extra guest. Yune, a young Japanese girl from a rich family, has come to Paris to work for Claude at his shop in an effort to learn about life in the city she adores.

A slow-paced slice-of-life series, La croisée dans un labyrinthe étranger (the crossroads in a foreign labyrinth) deals with Claude and Yune and their efforts to learn about each others’ vastly different cultures as they grow close.

Similar to:

Aria, Spice and Wolf

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Spring ‘11 Reviews

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Spring 2011

Episodic Review: Deadman Wonderland episode 2

dmw_thumb2Upon a massacre that occurs at Igarashi Ganta’s school, which results in all of his classmates’ deaths, Ganta is falsely accused and sentenced to death. Now on death row, he is sent to the privately owned prison, Deadman Wonderland, a prison that doubles as an amusement park, utilising its inmates for entertainment.

Having found new powers that seem to have been given to him by the red man who murdered his friends, he decides to prove his innocence and avenge his classmates. Why was he the only one left alive? Has this something to do with his history in the now demolished Tokyo? Who is this mysterious girl, Shiro, who resembles one of his dead friends?


This review may contain spoilers regarding events of previous episodes. If you wish to read a general synopsis and review for the series thus far, click here. Otherwise, read on!


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Episodic Review: Deadman Wonderland episode 1

dmw_thumb2_thumbUpon a massacre that occurs at Igarashi Ganta’s school, which results in all of his classmates’ deaths, Ganta is falsely accused and sentenced to death. Now on death row, he is sent to the privately owned prison, Deadman Wonderland, a prison that doubles as an amusement park, utilising its inmates for entertainment.

Having found new powers that seem to have been given to him by the red man who murdered his friends, he decides to prove his innocence and avenge his classmates. Why was he the only one left alive? Has this something to do with his history in the now demolished Tokyo? Who is this mysterious girl, Shiro, who resembles one of his dead friends?


This review may contain spoilers regarding events of previous episodes. If you wish to read a general synopsis and review for the series thus far, click here. Otherwise, read on!


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Series Review: Deadman Wonderland

dmw_thumb2_thumbUpon a massacre that occurs at Igarashi Ganta’s school, which results in all of his classmates’ deaths, Ganta is falsely accused and sentenced to death. Now on death row, he is sent to the privately owned prison, Deadman Wonderland, a prison that doubles as an amusement park, utilising its inmates for entertainment.

Having found new powers that seem to have been given to him by the red man who murdered his friends, he decides to prove his innocence and avenge his classmates. Why was he the only one left alive? Has this something to do with his history in the now demolished Tokyo? Who is this mysterious girl, Shiro, who resembles one of his dead friends?

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