Kanade Tachibana

Kanade Tachibana...

Today, I'm going to feature Kanade Tachibana from Angel Beats. The truth is I just happen to finished all of the Angel Beats' episode yesterday and it's worth watching for. Also, it was just yesterday that I started to become a fan of Kanade. (^_^)

Kanade Tachibana, also known as "Angel" is the student council president at the afterlife school. This places her at odds with the SSS as her responsibilities require her to suppress delinquency and other disruptive activities that the team does. The SSS initially calls her "Angel" since they do not know her real name, but they still refer to her by it even after finding out her real name to be Kanade Tachibana. It is difficult to understand what she is thinking due to her rarely showing any outward emotions. Despite her gentle demeanor and small frame, she is incredibly powerful and near indestructible to the point of ejecting bullets out of her wounds during battle. She is personally dedicated to helping others overcome their regrets and pass on. She has an affinity for eating mapo doufu, a spicy dish..

At first, I thought it was not a good anime because when I watched its first three episodes (I think it was last month..), I can't even understand the story so I stopped watching it. But yesterday, I was so bored so I browsed animes that I could watched and I accidentally saw Angel Beats. I watched an episode from it and saw Kanade who shows more emotions than before that's why the anime caught my interest. Then, I found myself watching all the episodes because it became more interesting than before and Kanade becomes more adorable after every episode. She's really cute and innocent although she has this personality of not being able to show her true emotions or may I say that she's just bad in communicating her true feelings and intentions. Overall, she's the reason why I watched Angel Beats because she's so cute especially when she started communicating with others more and smiles more. So so so cute and adorable. Naming her Angel really suits her but I think her real name Kanade is a cute name too.

As for Angel Beats, it's worth watching for. I even found myself crying in some of its episode because it has sad stories and there are parts where students found their real happiness in life that they missed during their life on earth. It's also full of twists and surprises. But, there's a part in the final episode that made me confused wherein it was revealed that the donor of Kanade's heart was Yuzuru. I mean, it doesn't make sense that the donee first came to the afterworld before the donor itself. Anyway, I will just make an assumption that Yuzuru wanders longer than Kanade that's why she came to the afterworld school first.

Ekaterina "Katja" Kurae

Ekaterina "Katja" Kurae...

Aaargh, until now, I haven't recovered my files yet so I will just stick for featuring my favorite characters. Today, I will feature Katja from Seikon no Qwaser. I've always wanted to feature her but her images were so limited and the anime isn't finish yet.

Ekaterina Kurae (a.k.a. "Katja") is a ten year old girl who was supposedly sent to St. Mihailov Academy as a transfer student from Russia, and also because Miyuri Tsujidou wanted a foreign friend of her own to compete with the bond that Tomo and Mafuyu shared with Sasha. On the outside, she maintains a sweet, innocent exterior as Miyuri lavishes her with expensive gifts. In private, Katja appears to be a domineering, manipulative girl and a Qwaser who has traveled to Japan for reasons known only to her. Shortly after arriving in Japan, she made Hana Katsuragi into her obedient slave (which her friend Miyuri doesn't seem to notice), and continues to lord over her in a sort of S&M relationship despite being half her height. She carries a life-sized copper puppet named Anastasia with her in a coffin and sometimes refers to it as "mother," though it is unclear why she does so. However, she manipulates the copper puppet for many tasks ranging from attacking her enemies to simply restraining and teasing her slave girl, even if it does waste her "Soma" to do so. (source: animevice.com)

She is my favorite character in Seikon no Qwaser. This "little naughty devil" has the ability to capture her viewers hearts because of her attitude and cuteness. Despite her evil schemes and naughty ideas, she can still be reliable in times of need and sweet to others especially with Hana and Miyuri. I just love watching her and I guess the reason why I started to watch Seikon no Qwaser is because of her.

-- video made by SchwarzerVirus

Nagi Sanzenin

Nagi Sanzenin...

Today, I will feature Nagi Sanzenin who's also one of my favorite charcters. I guess all i can do is to feature my favorite characters since until now, I haven't recover my collections of manga yet. *sigh* But still, I hope that I can recover the files (crossed fingers)...

Nagi Sanzen'in is the only heir to the Sanzen'in fortune. She is short-tempered, spoiled, and immature, but ultimately good-natured. She has an otaku-level hobby with manga, anime and video games, and draws her own manga, which is called Millennium Legend: Magical Destroy. She is good at finance and likes to learn. She has a large crush on Hayate, and has misunderstood that Hayate loves her since they first met. But because this is only a misunderstanding, she often feels that Hayate isn't interested in her. She sometimes tries to make him take an interest in her in many ways, but her plans tend to end up in failure.

Nagi's only surviving family is her grandfather, whom she greatly dislikes. She regards Maria as a mother or older sister figure, and warns Hayate not to touch Maria in any indecent way or dying will be the least of his worries. She has a pet white tiger, Tama, whom she regards to as a family cat. Her mother is shown in Volume 12 of the manga.

Because of her pampered existence, she lacks any worldly knowledge and is even incapable of looking after herself. In one episode, in the absence of both Maria and Hayate, she was shown to be incapable of even making tea on her own, wrecking the mansion in the attempt. Nagi is mortally afraid of the dark (due to an incident with Isumi) and so shares her bed with Maria in the nights.

Nagi spent most of her younger years living outside Japan. Because of her family's wealth, she became the prime target of the Sicilian Mafia and other criminal organizations. Nagi disliked being a target and spent most of her days indoors playing video games and watching TV and hence slowly becoming a hikikomori. Hayate, Maria, and Klaus worry about her well-being because she likes to play games until late at night and skip school so they encourage her to leave the house or invite guests for a party. She begins to go to school more often after Hayate transfers to her school. Despite her laziness, Nagi is a highly intelligent student. She skipped grades and is currently in the first year of high school and in the same class as Hayate.

"Nagi" (凪, Nagi?) means "windless, calm", which seems to be the contrast to Hayate, "gust of wind." However, according to Nagi in a 4-koma on the cover of Volume 13, she was named as such because her mother "wished that she'd mow down ("nagi" (薙?)) everything in this world." (source: wikipedia)

She's really my favorite character from Hayate the Combat Butler. For me, she's the cute "litte Hikikomori princess" that can take anyone's admiration by her cutenes and charm. I really like her tsundere character that makes me laugh and think that she's really cute in her own ways. It's like Hayate the Combat Butler's nothing without her (in my opinion). Well, obviously, the anime's really hilarious but it's like the anime will never be complete without her. So so so cute...*squeal*

Finding the images (credits are given to those who made these images) was really hard but still worth it since she's really one of my favorites. ^_^

--Video made by LuciaNanamiFan1

Chikaru Minamoto

Chikaru Minamoto...

Another character that I really wanted to feature today is Chikaru Minamoto...

Chikaru Minamoto has shown herself to be a natural leader as she is the president of several functions: the student council of Lulim, the Transformation Club (where members cosplay various themes), the Secret Club (where members try to solve mysteries), and a variety of other clubs which she regularly creates, such as the Waiting First in Line Club. She has a friendly personality and enjoys helping others when they need it, which makes her an excellent candidate for the student council. Also, Chikaru tends to be very knowledgeable about the schools and their inner workings. When in Astraea student council meetings, she often lets the other two school representatives argue with each other while she sits back and observes their behavior. She is not easily perturbed and frequently helps out those who have trouble, regardless which school they attend.

Chikaru has exhibited a strong familiarity and faculty with the arts in costume design, costume creation and acting. She plays the title role in Astraea's production of Carmen, as well as designing the costumes for the show. In the manga and light novels, she has a bit of a more hidden agenda that she sees Lulim as a dark horse and sees the conflict between Spica and Miator as a means to push Lulim to prominence.

A mother, sister, friend, classmate --- oh what the heck, she's everything you could ask for. She's a character from Strawberry panic. For me, she's a very cute, hilarious and caring person. She's simply the best. Even though she doesn't have any love interest, it doesn't really matter. It's because she is the type of character that anyone would fall for and anyone would easily love her. That's Chikaru Minamoto for you!!!

--- Video was from Thesongofthe12 and images from Photobucket

Urumi Kanzaki...

Urumi Kanzaki...

Since I can't recover yet my saved files... I'll just stick with featuring my favorite characters... *sigh*

Today, I watched GTO but not all of its episodes. I only watched episodes about Kanzaki Urumi...

The antithesis to the "dumb blonde" stereotype, Urumi Kanzaki is a prodigy, with an IQ over 200. She is also a heterochromatic, possessing different colored eyes: one brown and one blue.However, she is psychologically disturbed, having her fair share of hate toward teachers. Her genius is displayed repeatedly by such abstract actions as the detonation of time bombs (i.e. firecrackers in disposable boxes) and making a harmless snake look like a cobra using paper cutouts. Her intellect is also shown through actions, such as shouting curse words in French and being able to speak fluent Mandarin. On the trip in Okinawa, Yoshito Kikuchi noted that she can speak 5 languages, but ironically, she doesn't understand what her Gundam otaku roommates say.

She grows extremely infatuated with Onizuka, to the point of wanting to elope with Onizuka. Urumi takes a more stereotypical role of a character that prefers the use of violence, in response to jealousy - she is often seen beating Onizuka mercilessly every time he tries to fulfill his pervertedness. Urumi states Onizuka should wait for her hormones to start kicking in, because she's sure that she would have a bouncing body by then. Like Noboru Yoshikawa, her loyalty to Onizuka is extremely strong, to the point that she would consider suicide, if he were to die, knowing that her own life is worthless without him around.

I just remembered her when i thought about GTO then out of the blue, I searched for it and watched it. I like the angel-devil personality of Urumi here. Even though she has done so many evil schemes, she can't be blame because of her past. But, in latter episodes, she used her knowledge to help others especially her friends and Onizuka. She's a cool beauty and a prodigy at the same time... So so so cool!