Taiga is Emma 2.0
First I would like to say that it is an usual approach I took to do this reaction paper and instead of watching the straight up versions of Emma or that relate to the novel in a direct way I took another way around it and investigated some new stuff that is coming out that is scary similar to that of Emma’s novel. I guess this matchmaking and stuff that happens around it has always been part in some way of how modern society works. Anime is often seen as something that is shallow and just meant for kids and that it cannot be deep enough to portray mature and concrete actions. Anyways, I could go on for hours talking about it and would not serve that much the purpose of the paper and honestly I think Anime is just another medium to express an idea and to portray a deep story; just like a movie or a novel tries to do. With that say let’s get on with what this reaction paper is about; I will be focusing on Jane Austen’s Emma and Toradora! . Just like Emma, Taiga is the main character in Toradora! And she faces many of the many challenges that Emma encounters during the novel. They also have similar life styles and their quest for perfection always gets them in trouble.
Taiga Aisaka is the matchmaker in Toradora! And she is always in her constant quest to match Ryu Takasu with Minori. Ryu Takasu is her best friend and confidant that is always for her no matter what and her partner in her many pranks. When Ryu tells Taiga that he likes Minori she goes all out to make the match work and along the way she makes many unsuccessful attempts to get them together, but she fails every time. Taiga tells Ryu that she likes the class president, Yusaka Kitamura, and they make the promise that they will help each other out but they fail once again. Just as Emma, went to many failures of trying to make matches for her friends.
The way Taiga and Emma connect to each other is interesting, since they both fail at the matchmaking business and even if their hearts are in the right place they still fail to bring together two completely different people together I would say. We can see how Emma pushes too hard for Harriet and Mr. Elton. Mr. Elton likes Emma and she is incompletely ignorant of this, and when she goes too far she is hit in the face when he confesses to her. It is similar to Taiga and Ryu, when Ryu during Christmas Eve tells Taiga that he loves her, but she just ignores him because she thinks she has stolen him away from Minori. Continue reading »
Black Rock Shooter OVA
The long awaited “Black Rock Shooter OVA” finally came and it did not disappoint. The waiting was worth it and we were lead into a different universe where friendships sometimes turn into something wonderful or can be just be lethal. So far the story has not revealed to us why everything is happening or at least explaining what is the reason for the Black Rock Shooter to exist. But what we were left with was an introduction to the friendship between Yumi (Yomi) and Moto and the Yuu.
Yumi (Yomi) is the classical rich school girl that is spoiled by her parents and has always been moving around the world and never stays that long in one place.
Moto like sports and is an “ace player” on the basketball team. She befriends Yumi (Yomi) during the first day of school and they become good friends.
Yuu is the manager of the basketball team where Yumi (Yomi) plays and becomes close friend to Moto as they enter the second year, because they are in the same classroom.
Anyways, without going into spoiling the episode for all of you some complications happen and Yumi (Yomi) is missing and Moto feels like she is responsible for what happened. She messages Yumi (Yomi) tirelessly and then she gets an empty text message with just Yumi’s (Yomi) name as the sender and Moto rushes to where she thinks she is. This is where it gets interesting and we learn a bit about the whole ordeal of the “Black Rock Shooter” that we had been bombarded since the opening of the Anime.
Black Rock Shooter OVA leaves us with many questions and I am sure answers will come in future episodes and understand why things happened in the first place. Whatever the reason is, it is surely fun to watch the fights take place in a futuristic setting and with some awesome weapons crashing against each other. I personally wanted to watch more fights and a little more action, but I guess we will see much more of that in future episodes.
Here are a few Screeshots from Black Rock Shooter OVA Episode 1
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Update: Sorry for the misspelling: It is Yomi instead of Yumi! anyways both names sound good in my opinion :P