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Short Summary:
Sakai Yuuji is a normal high school whose world is turned upside down one day. While in class that fateful day, he sits beside a girl named Hirai Yukari. She hands him back an eraser that he dropped, and then saves Yuuji when the teacher calls on him. After school, he runs into her again at the CD store, and she is very interested to know more about his good friend Ike Hayato, including whether he has a girlfriend or not (he doesn’t). Shortly after they part ways, Yuuji notices a giant seal open up underneath him, and then his surroundings turn red. Two monsters appear and start consuming the people frozen in time around him. They notice that Yuuji isn’t like the rest, and conclude that he must be a Misutesu. One of the monsters tries to eat Yuuji, but a swift strike cuts off its arm. A girl with fiery red hair appears with sword in hand. After she destroys the baby-like monster and kicks the ball of heads into a building, she raises her sword against Yuuji. It comes down to lop off another arm – the arm of the monster standing behind him. As the girl gets ready to finish off the last one, Yuuji gets in the way, telling her to stop. The monster uses the opportunity to stick her hand into Yuuji’s back and starts to feel around. The girl wastes no time in slashing through him and destroying the monster. The consequence is that Yuuji’s left side is now separated from his body. After the puppet inside of the monster flies off, Yuuji can only cry for help to the girl. The pendant around her neck, which she calls Alastor, tells him that if he were human, that severe wound would have been instant death. The girl gets up close and puts him back together again. She then raises her arm and restores everything around her, including all of the people. Yuuji notices that everyone has returned, including Hirai Yukari. But when he tries to call to her, she doesn’t answer and just keeps walking on with lifeless eyes. He can see a flame inside her, and then notices that he can now see flames in almost everyone. Yuuji chases down the red-haired girl, whose hair is now black, in order to get an explanation. She tells him that he is not human, and that inside his body and others, there are lights. This torch is a placemarker that signifies that these people will eventually disappear from this world. This also means that Yuuji, who also has a torch, is already dead.
ED Sequence
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OP: 「緋色の空」 by 川田まみ
ED: 「夜明け生まれ来る少女」 by 高橋洋子
I love the OP! It reminds me a lot of KOTOKO’s music, and understandably so because Kawada Mami is also from I’ve. Very fast paced, very much an I’ve-style song. The ED is done by Takahashi Yoko, whose voice I remember most recently from the OP to KonoMini. It’s starts out slow, but then really gets into a technoish beat. I haven’t listened to it that much though, since I’ve been playing the OP over and over.
Shakugan no Shana is quite intriguing, though frankly, very confusing. The episode starts out by doing a bit of a fast forward, showing you several scenes from the middle of the episode, then backtracks to the beginning of the day. My first thought was that they’re moving way to fast, but then it seemed to settle down. Unfortunately, that early episode preview made the actual fight seem almost redundant (almost). The good things is that there’s a lot more to it than just the two minutes that you see in the beginning.
Of course, there are also a slew of villains, mysterious people, and objects that aren’t explained at all. I don’t know what’s with Alastor (the pendant), who Shana is working for, why she’s fighting the monsters, why Yuuji has a torch inside of him, etc. I guess it’s a way to keep the viewers tuned in, but I had hoped they would do more exposition. Or maybe I’m complaining for nothing and they’ll cover it all next episode.
The music is as good as (or better than) it was in the prelude, even feeling epic at times. And JC Staff does a wonderful job on the animation, though I admit that I was spoiled by the prelude and had been hoping for that much quality. I guess that’s the difference between a TV broadcast and a DVD.
I am tentatively going to keep up with this series, depending on how the next few episodes turn out. But then again, the OP alone should keep me coming back.
I suspect that the torches inside peoples’ chests that Yuuji sees (including inside his own) are their souls. After all, they look rather like the soul of Shinji’s dead mother inside Eva-01, don’t they? And anybody with a soul will indeed disappear from the world someday, through aging and eventual death.
Two questions: A. Is it known if anyone will fansub this? (dear god I hope so)
B. completely agree about the opening, for some reason this opening reminds me of Kannaduki no Miko’s opening although they seem completely diffrent rhythme wise.
This is a pre-licensed series by Geneon. That being said, EP has released the first two chapters of the manga adaptation (if you get what I’m trying to say).
hmm i was wondering so what genre does Shana fall under??? Fantasy/Action/Romance ???
and oh ya the girl in the 6 picture of the op sequence … is she shana?? hmm
They covered a bit of the exposition at the end of the episode – Shana explains about Torches and Guze, although not in massive amounts of detail (it’s better than the manga in that regard).
i got a feeling shana = yukari… or somehow… i dunno
*spoilers*
Yuuji has a torch inside him because at some point, he was “eaten” (as in got life-sucked like all those other people in the monster attack), and got replaced with a “torch.” (Shana explains that part in episode 1; I can understand Japanese ^^ ) Shana explains that when people are eaten by those monsters, they are replaced with “torches” so that their sudde dissapearance doesn’t have a huge impact on the spiritual balance of the world (or something to that effect). I’m guessing that Yuuji was eaten at some point before the attack in episode 1, but when you’re eaten, the replacement “torch” doesn’t know it and just goes on living like the real one would have.
And yes, basically the torches are the peoples’ souls. Once the torches go out, the “torch” impostor dissapears, along with all the memories of that person.
Wow, a loveable heroine, a seemingly whimpy hero, an evil cool dude with a doll for his lover, great plot and the endless wave of screams…What more can I ask for!?
It’s shows like these that make me hate how long a week is. XD
who exactly does the OP music, i love it, and want to see if thers a ful version!
I haven’t looked up the music artists yet, but the Full-length versions are coming out in the next few months or so on CD in Japan. ^^
its a great one you must see it OP $ ED not bad too i really recomend the one to all of you
VERY GOOD ANIME!
I saw the first Anime. Looks a bit like bleach, but only much better. I saw the first ep and can’t wait to see the second!
Anza – It sounds like the music from Kannaduki no Miko because Kawada Mami is from I’ve, which is the same group KOTOKO was from. KOTOKO sings the OP and ED for Kannaduki no Miko. Catch my drift?
-Karasuhebi
wat is name of the opening song?
Ok real quick, I see the “do not ask for” so I’m going to leave for raws and subs…a link that any anime lover (who is broke and can only buy DVD’s one at a time but wants to keep up with stories, and as I do watch the DVD’s over and over and over and over (scrapped princess anyone :-P) Anywho
http://www.tokyotosho.com/ Carefule though lotta non english subs (great for finding spanish versions of One Piece too :() Anyways…Eclipse is running a Fan Sub of this anime (A minor arm of Shinsen Subs I think) So, EXCELLENT quality (their low quality Xvid is better than most people’s HIGH quality. Use the search engine on Tosho, it works…for the most part.
i already hate yuuji :/
another dumb ass male protagonist
that can’t do a thing but whine