Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Itsuka Tenma no Kuro Usagi




Episodes:  12

How: Fansubs

Rating:  2.5 out of 5

Overview: {From MAL} Taito has been really sleepy lately, and keeps dreaming of a female vampire who says she has given him her "poison." Sometimes he even thinks he hears her voice when he's awake. But after surviving an accident that should have killed him, Taito's world changes drastically and he realizes that his dreams are more real than he thought.


Thoughts: Taito! Himea! Taito! Himea! Uhg.  Up until Episode 6 this show was pretty painful to watch.  I had to stop myself from deleting the series from my hard drive multiple times....
      What kept me going?  Curiousity.  I wanted to see how it ended and now I am semi-glad I did.  It certainly needs a second season.  Nothing was really solved, Taito still has two women after him and the bad guys are still running around.
     Guess you can't expect a lot from a 12 episode series that has a Manga that's still going but.... Damn!  What did Taito loose when he made the deal with Edeluca in episode seven?  At first I thought it was his feelings for Haruka but...Nope.  He still seemed all worried about her. Grrr... Anyways..

{Characters and Stuff}

Taito Kurogane: It begins with a dream, Taito dreaming of a unknown girl he met when he was just a little boy. She bit him and injected him with her "poison" that has cursed him so that he will be by her side forever...
        It wasn't a dream, Go figure.  While saving a girl{Mirai} from being hit by a truck he looses his head.... Litterally.  His body gets up off the ground, picks up his talking head and runs off with it right in front of the girl {Mirai} which gains him the nickname of Immortal-Kun.
        His memories comes back, He rushes to the last spot that he remembers seeing Himea and she returns to him... Tada!
        He's only somewhat immortal, He can die six times... On his seventh death he will be really dead.  This resets every 15 minutes, I'm still not sure if it's 15 minutes from his first death or 15 from his last death but that's just another question...
       Throughout the series he's trying to get stronger to protect Himea, I guess he sort of does get stronger but by the end he's still pretty useless other then for a meat shield.

Himea Saito:  She's a Vampire Witch, She meets Taito when he's just a young boy and falls in love with him... putting a curse on him to make it where he can stay with her forever they are soon torn apart by a strange boy {Hinata} and she is sealed away.
        After breaking free, She's reunited with Taito {TaitoTaitoTaito} and Hinata pops back up to seal her away/take her again... Fight ensues more people show up and Taito ends up completely dead.
       Later in the series it's revealed that Himea takes the dead Taito to Edeluca for him to be revived, She grants wishes then takes something of equal value in exchange. What did she take?  A good portion of Himea's powers.
       Lots of people are after her, Want to use her, kill her or seal her up. She's really quite annoying and is jealous of Taito's friendship with Haruka, She's good at playing damsel in distress even though she's supposed to be powerful {even with the powers taken} and it seems she may actually be the Ancient Sorceress that goes insane from loneliness and destroys the planet...

Gekkou Kurenai: President of the Student Council of Miyasaka High, Monster Killer, Twin of a crazy psycho and all around jackass with a giant ego. Well, Maybe he's not that big of an ass but he certainly isn't that likable {most the time}.
        Nine years ago his twin brother Hinata sacrificed their parents for power, Sense then Gekkou has sought out power of his own and has now been trained in exorcism, possesses an ancient sword known as Spell Error and is the Master of Mirai.
       He's quite useful, Yet his ego certainly gets in the way and he's nowhere near as powerful as he thinks he is.

Mirai Andou: A cute, playful yet probably more dangerous then she seems demon that was sent to kill Gekkou by Hinata.  It didn't work, Gekkou ended up defeating her and forcing her into a contract...
        She can't use her powers unless Gekkou kisses her and she's normally just a clueless little girl.  When activated her powers are lightning based, Apparently she is supposed to be a super powerful demon type but... meh.
      Seems she does have some love for her master, seeing she gets so flustered when he ignores her and such..

Izumi Aomi:An ordinary human... She joins the student council out of boredom? Curiosity?


So, I need to get to the end of this...  The series is really unfinished, Taito's "friend"  Haruka ends up getting kidnapped by two demons who want to trade her for Himea.
    Seems Haruka isn't quite human either, She has{or had?} some sort of split personality that was watching Taito. The two demons {Serge and Hasga} end up "sealing" the second personality so that Haruka may live on and pursue Taito.
     A love triangle with a clueless guy in the middle. It ends with Taito saving the day.... Sort of.  Serge and Hasga end up becoming members of the student council and going to Taito's school and... Yea.... Unfinished.


Favorite Episode{s} ;  Episode 6  ~  Mirai's "date" with Gekkou.
                                          Episode 12 ~ Hot springs, Everyone together!

Least Favorite Episode{s};  Episodes 2 thru 5 ~ Uhg.


Favorite Character{s};     Izumi Aomi ~ I like her attitude the most.
Least Favorite Character{s}:
                                      Himea ~ She's irritating, clingy and TaitoTaitoTaito.