Series Recommendation, 'Tokyo Ravens'...
Jan. 28th, 2014 09:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mdehnersIt's pretty much it's own genre, the "Wizard Highschool" in Anime. This one has enough variations on the theme, with good characters and storytelling to make it worthwhile...
'TR' is the adventures of 3 friends who go to an Onmyo(a form of Japanese Magic in which pre-written spells are written and set on strips of paper for future triggering) Prep school.
The differences?
Natsume, the female Crossdresses and presents herself in school as male. While here 2 friends know she is a girl, the rest of the schoolgoers(I assume the teachers know but;>)don't with the usual Teen sexual tensions unfolding. Oh, and she MAY be the reincarnation of a Wizard that flattened Tokyo near the end of WWII...who has a cult of Worshippers who're always trying to resurrect their Master....
Harutora, one of the males is a Slacker who Nasume(of course) also has a "crush" on. He also has no Powers of his own and gets them only after Swearing Fealty to Natsume for Life.He also has a Protective Spirit attached to him that unfortuneately Manifests visually as a cute preteen Foxgirl", giving him a "rep" not only being Gay with his own age but a Het pedophile...
Touji, the 2nd male is a reformed thug whose "Bad Boy" image isn't hurt by being half Orge...the most "normal"
of the 3;>
Add in a peglegged homeroom teacher with a twisted sense of humour and you have a great way to "kill" a half hr;>!
Cheers,
Pat
'TR' is the adventures of 3 friends who go to an Onmyo(a form of Japanese Magic in which pre-written spells are written and set on strips of paper for future triggering) Prep school.
The differences?
Natsume, the female Crossdresses and presents herself in school as male. While here 2 friends know she is a girl, the rest of the schoolgoers(I assume the teachers know but;>)don't with the usual Teen sexual tensions unfolding. Oh, and she MAY be the reincarnation of a Wizard that flattened Tokyo near the end of WWII...who has a cult of Worshippers who're always trying to resurrect their Master....
Harutora, one of the males is a Slacker who Nasume(of course) also has a "crush" on. He also has no Powers of his own and gets them only after Swearing Fealty to Natsume for Life.He also has a Protective Spirit attached to him that unfortuneately Manifests visually as a cute preteen Foxgirl", giving him a "rep" not only being Gay with his own age but a Het pedophile...
Touji, the 2nd male is a reformed thug whose "Bad Boy" image isn't hurt by being half Orge...the most "normal"
of the 3;>
Add in a peglegged homeroom teacher with a twisted sense of humour and you have a great way to "kill" a half hr;>!
Cheers,
Pat
