@nime-club.com (Part 2)

Maybe you just don't know it but the anime you hated may actually be part of the curriculum of a literature class in college. Even Dragonball and Monkey Magic can actually give you an insight into literature. Both of these programs have characters based on a monkey, a charcter in a story by Wu Cheng-en based on the ancient Chinese legend 'Journey to the West', which traces the origins of Buddhism. It follows the adventures of Tripitak his disciples and Monkey, on their journey from China to India on a holy pilgrimage with many dangers. Some sources even point to this Monkey as the origin of the phrase 'Hear no evil, See no evil, Speak no evil.'

Anyway, when I was a lot younger, I have seen many anime and one of these is Ghost Fighter (you should be able to know this, if not shame on you!). Even though I have seen many anime, more animated and updated, but I consider this as the bes anime because it has all; the combination of romance, action and comedy especially that love in this anime is not purely girl and boy relationship but also love of brother to his sister. Remember, Vincent having a sister named Mika-ela whom he loved so much? This is such a wonderful anime, a reason why this anime is shown over and over again on T.V.

I have also seen animes based on high school life such as 'To heart', 'Sailormoon','Fruits Basket' and 'Ouran High school'. Ah, yes! Who could have forgotten the very popular 'Slam Dunk' with Hanamichi Sakuragi's love for basketball and for Haruko Takenori, the love of his life and of Kaede Rukawa calling him stupid. Imagining a boy who has an all time record of being dumped by fifty times by various girls during junior high, you can conclude that this boy's a gangsta or just plainly a very-hard-to-love guy but you know, when I saw the anime, I was impressed with his hardships in getting Haruko's attention. This anime is Hanamichi's tale of basketball, love triangles, hardships, topsy-turvy life, blood, sweat and some tears. This anime is simply amazing. If you have the chance, then please watch it because you will not be disappointed. I guarantee it's 'unberibaburya' (unbelievable)! You could have loved 'Slam Dunk' if you have seen it because even if Hanamichi's a very-hard-to-love guy, the story is just of another type, a very-easy-to-love anime. Speaking of slam dunk, rebounding and dunking are Hanamichi's specialties.

But that's not all, there's more! There are animes for detectives also like 'Detective Conan', a story of a small boy that turns out to be the best detective ever. There are also religious animes that I've seen and one of these is 'Chrono Crusade'. Are you familiar with 'Mary and the secret garden'? Well, a certain anime company has produced a series of anime, all of which are based on works on children literature. Most of them are being shown on Philippine T.V.s (and you thought all anime are mindless, think again!). Here are some of them: Anne of Green Gables, A dog of Flanders, Heidi, the alps girl and Tom Sawyer. For sure, you have one of these just even once or are you just a fan of Barbie, Bratz, Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty?