Other completed anime... Karin and Tide Line Blue

(tags anime, romance, action, spoiler)

Karin (the "reverse" vampire 増血鬼で恥ずかしい「かりん」) is 4 out of 5 stars for me. It's a happy story. Since I don't own any DVDs I'm not going comment on it further, except to show that I bought a telephone card set of it:

The DVD on the right is Tide Line Blue. I bought the last DVD to see the unreleased last episode (number 13). I watched episode 12 to review and it was grand. The episode 13 tied up some loose ends but unfortunately it wasn't really worth the price of admission, because it really didn't finish off the story. In the whole series too there was some "deus ex machina" and sometimes the science was as bad as that movie The Core, but still, it was the human story that really interested me. I suppose this is a 4 out of 5 star series because I didn't go out and buy the DVDs, but I want to put it at 4 and half because of the compelling, human condition story, the grandious music, and of course, Minami Kuribayashi's (栗林みな実) opening song, "Blue treasure". I need to get disc 1 because they interviewed her, but wait is it the same as the special interview on the official web site?. I think I know what she's going to say though: "Buy this series!". Haha, why do they have interview her at all? She's not part of the voice actor staff.