Project #535: Shaman King (2021) Part 2

Hello and welcome to Project Nitsuj. Welcome to the second week of Shaman month. Yeah, we might as well make it official seeing how this review is going to take up the whole month. The first half follows in the footsteps of the original anime. Albeit, rushing through some parts, leaving out filler, and adding […]

Chapter 38: The Way of the Grandmaster and Ranger

*As Sanada and Wato were sword battling each other, Raika and Pennie were having an intense close-quarters handgun battle with each other. Both ladies were attempting to shoot the other but they would either block each other’s attacks, deflect the guns away, or dodge the bullets. The two were constantly moving around Sanada and Wato […]

Record 15: The Rangers

(Raika): The Blue Dragon Order is home to some of the most skilled knights in Brister. They keep us safe from enemy kingdoms as well as Eclipses. But every great army has an elite force lying in wait to take on some of the more difficult tasks out on the battlefield. For Brister, it’s the […]

Project #534: Shaman King (2021) Part 1

Hello and welcome to Project Nitsuj. In the 90s the young channel that was known as Cartoon Network changed the landscape of cartoons for children in the west with their program block known as Toonami. Toonami would serve as the gateway into anime for a lot of kids in my generation. As we got older […]

Record 14: Zenbitseo

(Zia): Within the Elfan culture we have a tradition called Zenbitseo. When translated the word means tree of birth. When an Elfan child is born their parents take a seed and infuse it with the blood of the newborn to be planted. The tree is then left to grow in the forest until the newborn’s […]

Chapter 37: Pride of the Weakest

*In the forest, a young Amarti wearing brown shorts, a long-sleeved buttoned shirt, long black socks, and brown shoes was walking while carrying an axe. An older elf with grayish blonde hair and wearing a butler uniform that consisted of a long-sleeved buttoned shirt, white gloves, black jacket, black pants and black shoes was chasing […]

Record 13: The Crestbush Mage Academy

(Morgan): Create a beautiful game. That’s what students are told when they enter the Crestbush Mage Academy. One of the unique things about Brister is that it has two knight academies. The first and most popular choice is Landshill and for good reason. A lot of people wanting to become knights are a bit more […]

Chapter 36: What A Beautiful Game We Play

*A few days before the battle, the members of Javan were in a room as Saber went going over the members of Shadow Eye* (Saber): Amarti Cloudsfall. Nicknamed the Elf Merchant but recently people have started calling him the Elf Kingpin. Out of all of the members of Shadow Eye he is the one person […]

Anime Surpasses Manga

Hello everyone and welcome to the Otaku Mind. Stop me if you’ve heard this before: the manga/novel is better. It’s a common statement you hear when people compare an anime to the manga/novel it’s based on. It’s no secret that 95% of anime are based on a manga/novel, so comparing them to the source material […]