Side Quest 003: {Hoshi wo Ou Kodomo} Gather Ideas and Inspiration from Anime - In Progress

Hoshi wo Ou Kodomo is an Anime Movie. It is a Adventure Drama.

The movie is about a young girl meeting a mysterious boy who saves her from a dangerous situation. That's all I can really say about the story without spoiling oh and she has a cute little pet!

The theme of the anime is Life and Death. The Anime is portraying a journey to find oneself and teaching the characters and the audience of the concept of Life and Death.

I quite enjoyed it, a big change from typical Anime tropes. I mostly liked how they portrayed the importance of everything rather than ignore minor characters.

What I learnt from this film is that when making stories, every character should have their own, no matter how minor of a character they are, although that's what this anime made me think, I don't think its shown as much in the film but all of the important character's development were explained well during the movie.

I guess I'd give this 8/10
I recommend to those who want a change of pace in Anime. Note that I haven't seen all of Studio Ghibili's films and I've seen 1 or 2 of em back in high school for a class and they felt similar.

Side Quest 003: {Aku no Hana 06} Gather Ideas and Inspiration from Anime - In Progress

So this Anime finally finished? No, apparently it was only Part One.

So this anime might continue one day, although I think a lot of people disliked it, mainly because of it's art style and slow paced story.

But I kinda liked this Anime in my own way, it made me think about myself, and what I would've done in those situations, and curiosity is what drove me to watch the next episode.

I think Aku no Hana was trying to show in realistic ways of a choice, the path which most won't take if they had to choose. Also I believe Aku no Hana was trying to portray a person's true colors even if that person is unaware of their own true colors. Or it could be the power of a person's actions can drastically change their and other people's lives.

I guess I give it a 7/10.

Side Quest 003: {Aku no Hana 05} Gather Ideas and Inspiration from Anime - In Progress

Truth. That is the keyword for episode 10 of Aku no Hana

I surprisingly enjoyed this episode, it showed a lot of emotion yet confusion on what goes on on his mind. But a truth has been told and we have some clarity to what goes into his mind and some clue to why he acts the way he does in the previous episodes.

Nothing really bad in this episode, nothing was dragged out like some other episodes.. It was actually really interesting progress.

Side Quest 003: {Phantom: Requiem for the Phantom} Gather Ideas and Inspiration from Anime - In Progress

Phantom: Requiem for the Phantom

I just finished watching this anime, I just couldn't stop watching it, I even gave up sleep just to watch it (I like to watch anime late at night, especially if it's a dark theme).

But I should tell you what the anime is about. To be honest, it's quite difficult to explain without spoiling the anime, even the description, so I'll just explain from what you'll learn from the Anime.

This isn't some badass Anime where assassins just kill everything (this is a Seinen Anime not a typical shounen), it has deeper meaning, I guess it's rediscovery of oneself. Rediscovery? Yes, the main character loses his memories of the past and is turned to an assassin.

But in this Anime, the main character not only attempts to rediscover himself, but also we learn in a surprisingly realistic way of what the life of a assassin would look like. Not only that, but due to many various events, you could expect anything to happen.

This Anime made me feel a whole bunch of emotions, happy, sad, angry, confused. I guess this is why I like Seinen Anime, they have more mature stories which creates many emotions, and is not bounded by typical Anime norms.

Recommendation

This Anime reminded me a lot of Gungrave and Darker than Black, and are similar in many ways. Although it is unique to other Anime of this type.

Ideas and Inspiration

This is another Anime which I could reference to for a deeper meaningful story and of one way of how assassins come to be. I also haven't seen many games that showed how the learnt how to use a gun, and they're just simply born with it. Also since I'm planning on having masked people in a future game I'm planning it helps a lot more.

I give it a personal bias 10/10, the Anime itself I probably give it a 9/10 due to some unexplained stuff.

Side Quest 003: {Aku no Hana 04} Gather Ideas and Inspiration from Anime - In Progress

Aku no Hana

Yep this anime yet again to sum this episode up without too much of a spoiler is:

Walking, walking, walking, more walking, something actually happens.

Yay! Walking!

I think they made half the episode walking to build the suspense for what was about to happen, although they took it way too far.

So I heard you like walking, so here's more walking! =D

I recommend just skipping to the 14 minute mark and watch from there, maybe even a minute before to get slightly more suspense. The only thing that happens before then is that he goes home then goes back to school.

Side Quest 003: {Aku no Hana 01} Gather Ideas and Inspiration from Anime - In Progress

Aku no Hana

A strange anime with a different from usual art style.

Where do I start.. probably on what most people would hate about the anime - the art style of the animation.
Why would people hate this Anime's art style? Well it is a more realistic style of art where they main characters are based on real people with realistic resemblance and detail, including freckles. The animation is also very realistic in regards to facial expressions and body expressions.

The reason I believe they chose to use this art style was to enhance the feeling of how realistically possible that the situations shown in the Anime.

The theme of the Anime is a dark, depressing and psychological.

The Anime as of yet has no unrealistic scenes and I believe it will not.

The Anime's name translated to English is apparently: Flowers of Evil

Now you might have an idea on how it visually seems to be, but let me attempt to explain the story in a non spoiler fashion.

The story is of a male student in a school who reads a book about sins and evil etc. But it's somewhat poetic or something. One day he gets into a situation where he impulsively does something which happens to change his school life. Another female student witnessed this act of impulsiveness and takes advantage of the situation. Simply put, she's the one who makes it psychological.

From the first few episodes, I personally found this Anime quite weird, yet I'm curious on what is going to happen next, despite how weird it is.

If this Anime's art style was created in the typical way, it would not have felt as psychological as it is and the story might of seemed stupid.
Also the OST of this anime is very eerie. Especially that ED...

What Ideas could you or I get from this Anime?

Well since this Anime is very different from most Anime, we could learn how simple mistakes or events could be shown in such a serious way that it turns from stupid to psychological.

In short, ideas might bloom from this flower for a Horror/Psychological Game

Side Quest 003: {Infinite Ryvius} Gather Ideas and Inspiration from Anime - In Progress

Infinite Ryvius (Mugen no Ryvius)

The anime Infinite Ryvius revolves around a ship called Ryvius, which was discovered due to various events, but we'll skip to the main plot. 

The main plot is that there are hundreds of children who are aged 18 or younger who are attempting to survive in a unknown space vehicle while being attacked by enemies.

The anime attempts to portray how children of different abilities would emotionally feel and react to various issues. Infinite Ryvius does this in a realistic way with little to no illogical miracles that appear out of nowhere.

The main thing I want to gather from this anime is to find out in more detail on how and why the characters turned out to what they are, as this would greatly influence my ability to design characters and how they would interact with each other.

This is a very original anime and you should watch it! It's a bit old, but if you like character development and story over animation quality, you'll enjoy it! I give it a 9/10