Saturday, June 2, 2007

Happy Birthday!

Well, a birthday was celebrated today. Granted, it wasn't really their birthday, but since he is an over-the-road driver and will be gone on his actual birthday, it was decided that we would celebrate his birthday today. Gotta love the fool who invented Ice Cream Cake! :)

I just recently watched a series that I was, in all honesty, really surprised that I liked as much as I do. The title is "Zero no Tsukaima", and it definitely qualifies as Sissy Anime. Our series starts with Louise Francoise Lu Blanc de La Valliere, a.k.a. Zero Louise, a second year student at a school for magic who seems to have absolutely no talent for magic at all, and has yet to successfully cast a spell... hence the nickname Zero. Since all second year students are required to summon their familiar at that time, she is secretly worried about her chances of actually summoning anything. On the appointed day, she attempts to summon her familiar, and after a rather spectacular explosion, notices the entrance of the guy of the series, Hiraga Saito.


This story is set in an alternate universe where mages exist. Saito-san, however, was summoned from modern-day Japan. Mistaking him as a plebeian (a non-aristocrat with no ability to use magic), she reluctantly binds a contract to him and accepts him as her familiar spirit. From there, the adventure and laughs begin.
The series overall was well thought out, and the characters compliment each other fairly well. As is in any anime, though, you have a couple of stereotypical characters thrown in for good measure.

I swear, though, the Zero no Tsukaima character Guiche de Gramont reminds me waaaaaaay too much of Winner Sinclair from Karin (The Chibi Vampire for all you English connoisseurs out there). J.C. Staff should have seen this one coming.

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