Monday, January 16, 2017

Magic Knight Rayearth Inouva



Inouva (イノーバ Inōba) is an anime-only character sporting an elven appearance and manner. Inouva is the advisor and loyal servant of Zagato. However, he has a very limited role, and his past is mostly unknown.

StoryEdit

He was a devoted servant of Zagato's, though originally he was in fact a birthday present from Emeraude to her High Priest. Inouva is not humanoid as he appears, but an animal-shaped elemental of lightning who assumed a human form to better serve his new master. His true form resembles a giant wolf with two tendrils streaming from its head. His weak spot proved to be the gemstone embedded in his forehead in either form. He first challenged the Magic Knights in the Sky Shrine, and would have defeated them if not for Windam's revival. He later resumed his true form and was killed by Hikaru.
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Sera
A series of flashbacks shows that he is a mysterious being who once attended and protected the Princess. Later, Zagato gives him his greatest desire: to obtain human form. Inouva had the opportunity to attack the girls a few of times, in the Sky Shrine and the road to Fire Temple. He carefully planned his attacks, masquerading as a girl named Sera, who was passed out in the mountains near the temple where she was rescued by Ferio. He realized the feelings between Ferio and Fuu and took the advantage, but ended with a shameful failure, so he turned to his trump card: his true form. He wished for Zagato to return him to his true form, and challenged the girls in a fierce battle. However, Emeraude, not wanting the Magic Knights to die, felt compelled to reveal the weak point of Inouva. The fight ended in tragedy after he was beaten by Hikaru, who struck the jewel in his forehead, leaving Zagato to mourn the loss.
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Inouva on his true form
Inouva is completely different from Zagato's other followers, acting as he does out of pure devotion and a sense of duty, not for personal gain or by being under the influence of a spell or love. He is without doubt the most loyal and closest to Zagato, probably the only one who cares about the latter. Zagato believed that to die for the person you love is the greatest test of your feelings, and that life is not worth living without the loved one. Inouva only wanted for Zagato's happiness, "Even if it means I have to die trying".
He asked Zagato to grant him a human appearance in order to better assist in their plans; perhaps Inouva felt confident and determined to achieve all that Zagato wanted if he had a human form. However, the shape-shifting spell could be used only once, so when he asked Zagato to break the spell so he could become a beast, he knew painfully well what that meant. Just for the opportunity to fulfill his mission, he sacrificed his own life. Inouva is likely the most powerful of the servants of Zagato and also the most clever. From the beginning, he was the one who really knew the true intentions of Zagato.


Appearance

Inouva shot
He is tall, thin, and fragile-looking, with golden eyes, silver hair, and a pale complexion. His characteristic features include long pointed ears, something none of the inhabitants of Cephiro has, which gives him the appearance of an elf. His clothes, mostly white, are decorated with touches of gold, a single grey and gold pauldron embedded with a large violet gem, and a cloak of ash grey. Some amethyst jewelry gives a whole and complete contrast to his stern gaze and practice. He carries no weapon with him because he likes to trust his magical ability and is long-range tactical fighter. In his true form, he is a large wolf with long whiskers and a horn, but still holds the gem on his forehead in both forms. His mane in creature form resembles his hairstyle as a human. His wolfish form may be based off the mythical creature known as a kirin, which is sometimes considered a lightning elemental.

Magic Knight Rayearth Zagato



Zagato (ザガート Zagāto) is the primary antagonist of the first season, his younger brother is Cail Lantis (introduced in the second arc and season). When he is first introduced, he is seen as a terrible villain who has kidnapped the beloved Princess Emeraude, watching cruelly as Cephiro crumbles without its Pillar. However, this image is far from the truth.

Zagato is the name of an Italian automotive design studio

Magic Knight Rayearth Presea



Presea (プレセア Puresea)is the best blacksmith in Cephiro, known there as a Pharle or "artisan." She is one of Clef's students and seems to have a crush on him. She aided the Magic Knights by making their legendary swords from the mineral Escudo.
She is named after the Nissan Presea.

Magic Knight Rayearth Anemone

Fuu Hououji (鳳凰寺 風 Hōōji Fū, Anemone )is one of the Legendary Magic Knights sent to save Princess Emeraude. She controls the Wind. In the English version of the OVA, she was voiced by Lisa Ortiz.


Powers and Abilities


As a Wind Knight, Fuu's magics revolves around the Wind Element. Her spells include:



  • "Winds of Healing" (Iyashi no Kaze): A healing spell. Fuu covers her target with soothing winds, healing them.

  • "Emerald Typhoon"(Green Whirlwind) (Midori no Shippu): Fuu's first and most used attack spell. She sends out a strong gust of wind towards the enemy.

  • "Winds of Admonishment"(Imashime no Kaze): Fuu covers her enemies within winds and immobilized them.

  • "Winds of Protection" (Mamori no Kaze): Fuu protects herself and her allies with a barrier of wind.
  • "Emerald Cyclone" (Midori no Zenpuu): This spell was made in the anime only. Basically, it's Fuu's strongest attack spell which spends out simultaneous gusts of wind that seem as sharp as blades.
Because Fuu is attributed to Wind, her magic is mainly used for defense. Her attributed wind may also be a factoring reason why she has the most spells.

Prinsesa Emeralde

Princess Emeraude




Princess Emeraude(エメロード Emerōdo) is both the sovereign ruler of Cephiro and a Goddess-like figure whom all the inhabitants pray to for peace, prosperity, and protection. She is also the first person to summon Hikaru ShidouUmi Ryuuzaki, and Fuu Hououji to the mystical, otherworldly realm of Cephiro, to become the legendary Magic Knights.

She is named after the Mitsubishi Emeraude.








Powers and Abilities 


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Aside from her powers of meditation and prayer as the Pillar, Princess Emeraude is also shown to be able to project herself in a non-corporeal form, such as when she appears to the Magic Knights at the Spring of Eterna. She also has the power to heal, as seen when she healed Zagato's wound using a small ball of light. In the fight against the Magic Knights, it was revealed that she also had her own Rune God, and was more than their equal, having tremendous powers of destruction, being able to completely destroy Zagato's castle with only one blow, unleashing potent energy blasts that even Fuu's usually-reliable protection spell, Winds of Protection, was no match for, and causing thunder to roar, lightning to flash, and the very land of Cephiro to literally fall apart, using only the power of her anger and hatred. Indeed, Rayearth himself stated she was "incomparably stronger than anyone else".
Even in death, Princess Emeraude's powers appeared to have lost none of their potency, given that her spirit was able to repel the seemingly all-powerful Debonair from the castle and vaporise hordes of regenerative monsters, by unleashing a potent, bright shine of pure, transcendent light through her tiara; its power completely stunned everyone, and seemed to set the entire land of Cephiro alit with its glory. Debonair herself cursed Princess Emeraude for that attack of light, confessing that it had not only banished her (hence foiling her plans), but had also "weakened her powers". She also caused Hikaru and Eagle to experience vivid visions of her life story, from the beginning where she was crowned Pillar of Cephiro, to the end where she was tragically killed by the Magic Knights, simply because she had fallen in love. Presumably, she wanted the next person who was worthy of becoming Pillar to fully understand the commitment that was required, and the price he/she would have to pay for it, so that when he/she would know exactly what he/she is doing when becoming the Pillar, and her and Zagato's tragic love story would not be repeated.

Zagato and Emeraude




Friday, January 13, 2017

Popolocrois

First series


Queen Sania and King Paulo


 King Paulo, and Queen Sania, one of the daughters of the Ryu clan (which are dragons).

Pietro PakaPuka

Voiced by: Ai Orikasa
A main character in the first series. He is the son of the King of Popolocrois, King Paulo, and Sania, one of the daughters of the Ryu clan (which are dragons). He has blond hair, and unlike the game, he wears the clothes that he had in the first two PlayStation games, at the beginning of Popolocrois Monogatari II and in the beginning of the PSP game (with no cape and no crown). It seems like Pietro is still 10 years old rather than 12 because of his childish personality, but he cares deeply about the kingdom.

Narcia

Voiced by: Yuri Shiratori
A main character in the first series. She is able to fly without a broom and has a crush on Pietro, and she has less childish personality than Pietro in the beginning. Narcia is able to turn into Kai with her Golden Key, but even though they are the same person, they have split personality. Narcia turns into Kai when she is deeply shy or when she is too scared in some situation, but most of the time she prefers to be just herself.

Kai

Voiced by: Yuri Shiratori
Kai is a human-kind that Narcia can transform into, thanks to the help of the Golden Key. Kai shows up in the beginning of the first episode as "Tobikera", which is the stripped dragon form that it's shown from Kai's attack in the game "Dino". She has a complete personality change, it's very weird because she also refers herself as Narcia, so she speaks about all the things that Narcia knows in a different way.

Shirokishi

Voiced by: Masashi Ebara
Shirokishi literally translates to ¨White Knight¨. Shirokishi is first shown as he is traveling to find the King Knight Sword. Shirokishi speaks in an old-samurai dialect and shows great respect toward Pietro and Narcia. He is extremely skilled in swordsmanship despite his appearance, and also he's very kind and likes to help others (which was the main reason to help everyone he finds in trouble).

Hyuu

Voiced by: Eri Miyajima
A main character in the first series. She is a character only for the anime series. She mysteriously appeared in Flornel Forest after GamiGami Maou (Japanese name for "GamiGami Devil") had failed to transfer his castle with Popolocrois castle, causing a mysterious beam to strike Flornel Forest which opened a way for Hyuu, Sanda, and Ston to come to Popolocrois. She has a blue hair with a pony tails on each side and one in the back, she has the mysterious "Wind-kind" crest in her chest. Hyuu is selfish and always state that wind-kinds should be alone and free, but she shows that she wants affection. She is "loved" by GamiGami because he is under a love spell toward Hyuu, but she actually wants to be with Pietro and actually wants to stay with him forever.

Sanda

Voiced by: Takeshi Nagasako
A side character in the first series. Sanda is a little, fat pink monster that follows Hyuu, he seems to be fascinated by the new world he came into, especially by the food. Both Sanda and Ston are able to transform into giants, Sanda turns into a fat, outgoing giant that wears red Chinese clothes, and is able to create thunders just by the friction of his fingers and control them. Sanda also has the mysterious "Wind-kind" emblem. Sanda is supposed to be the Japanese pronunciation of "thunder".

Ston

Voiced by: Uchida Takeshi
A side character in the first series. Ston is a yellow, narrow monster that follows Hyuu, Ston always refers Hyuu as a "selfish little girl" but still follows her. Both Sanda and Ston are able to transform into giants, Ston turns into a tall, very pale giant that wears blue clothes, Ston is able to create Gusts by just blowing, and also he can create windstorms. Ston also has the mysterious "Wind-kind" emblem. Ston is supposed to be the Japanese pronunciation of "storm".

GamiGami Maou

Voiced by: Furuta Arata
The same arrogant character from the game series, also known as GamiGami Devil. He lives in a swamp within his "junk castle", also with his humanlike robots. GamiGami is supposedly the main antagonist of the series, as he tries to take over the Popolocrois kingdom (which he actually does later in the series), but Pietro and Narcia see GamiGami as a minor threat because of their previous adventures.

Second series

Pinon PakaPuka

Voiced by: Omi Minami
The main character in the second series. He has short vanilla white hair, wears a white shirt, pants, vest, with the PakaPuka Emblem, also carries around King Paulo's sword (later, he carries the dragon sword). He is the son of Pietro and Narcia and the new prince of Popolocrois, he is very passive in the beginning of the series and just want to read books and study in the castle rather than practice swordplay, go to school, and make friends. He is often compared to his father, Pietro, because everyone expects him to be as great as Pietro was when he was young, but Pinon hates the fact everyone is expecting too much from him. Later, Pinon becomes courageous and starts to stand up for himself, but gets a little discouraged in tough situations, but he is now a man with a strong heart and wants to be a king who can create a world without sadness. Pinon uses the power of the Wind Seirei to use a tornado attack (or an attack that resembles the "Wind Cutter"/"Kaze no Yaiba" tech) with his sword. At first he is not mastering it well, but he is able to use it consistently during the fight with Zephys. He actually falls for Luna at the first sight, and he accepts her identity as a water sprite. He is always the one who comfort her when she got very sad.

Luna (Lunattress Andolink)

Voiced by: Tomoe Hanba
The main character in the second series. She has a long aqua blue hair, wears a white dress along with a white bandana, and the Golden Key as her necklace. She was first shown when Pinon tried to save Papuu when it was stuck on a little island just off shore, Luna saved Pinon when he almost drowned. Luna seems to know about Pinon but Pinon has no idea why. Later on in the series, Luna reveals her true form when Pinon was once again drowning in the sea, a Mermaid-like Water Sprite. According to Pion (and Marco), when she is in her true form, she is very bright and beautiful. Luna is supposed to be the Princess of the Ocean Sprites but got into a fight with her mother, running away to the Popolocrois beach. Such caused Seilene, her mother to be possessed by Zephys. She is also very kind to others, even to the water sprites who serve her, and she loves them even if they were turned into dark sprites by Zephys. The fact that dark sprites can never turned back to once they were and her mother need to sacrifice herself to seal Zephys that saddens her very much, even after the incident, but she is OK now because Pinon always comfort her when she wanted to cry. She actually loves Pinon, knowing him since very small, and the prime reason she wants to be on land, and she sometimes get jealous when Punpun flirts with Pinon(which Pinon often reluctant to do so). In the last episode, she became the heir after her mother died, and she held hands with Pinon in the ending like Pinon's parents did.

Marco

Voiced by: Wataru Takagi
The main character in the second series. He wears a brown armless shirt, and has tanned skin with three white stripes on his face, a pony tailed hair pointing up, and carries a little axe. He is the son of Leona and quite possibly of the White Knight, he lives in the Flornel Forest, away from Takinen Village with his mother. He is not quite intelligent but still has guts to do something. Marco uses the power of the Fire Seirei to use a fire attack with his axe.

King Pietro

Voiced by: Akio Ōtsuka
Now the once crowned prince of Popolocrois has become the new king of the kingdom. Pietro has the same brown hair along with beards, he wears the crown of wisdom that was passed down to the kingdom, a dark olive robe with white outlines, with the Pakapuka emblem. Pietro is a strong and wise king like his father, and still the skilled swordsman he was. Now he live with Narcia in the Kingdom.

Seirei

Seirei is compromised in kanji of "sei"(holy) + "rei"(spirit). There are 4 different elements: fire, water, earth and wind. One by one they all are threatened by the spirit of darkness (Yasm), but Pinon saves them from being sealed; they repay him by becoming weird animals and accompanying him. There is "Hirarin", the green "Cat-Bat", (Wind); "Bobo", the red "Pig-Bird" (Fire); and "Chappi", the blue creature (Water). After the first arc, the seirei just disappear and appear out of nowhere...

Prince Kogoto

Voiced by: Koki Miyata
He is an adopted child of GamiGami. He is an older brother of PunPun and respects GamiGami. His character looks like the GamiGami well. He builds a robot and plots world conquest.

Princess PunPun

Voiced by: Rumi Shishido
She is an adopted child of GamiGami. She is a younger sister of Kogoto and respects GamiGami. She is strong-minded and is irritable. She loves Pinon and always fights for her love (more like a fangirl) with Luna.

Sielene Andolink

Voiced by: Emi Shinohara
Seilene is the Queen of the Ocean Sprites, who is also the mother of Luna. Before the series begins, Luna wanted to venture onto the land. However, her mother refused because she wanted to shade her daughter from the law of the moon. However, her daughter disliked that and she ran away from home. Such have made a hole on her heart which then used by Zephys to possess her (however, she said it is her stubbornness that caused Zephys able to be possess her ) after the defeat of Yasm. After being possessed, she cursed the whole population in Popolocrois (except the trio) to turn into stone under the control of Zephys. Then, she commended the trio who visited her to find the Moon Drop, which she later called Gaude and Pannya to steal it from the trio to her. Then, she arrived at the Petrification Island to undo the Law of the Moon in the Ephemeral Temple. After the abolishment of the Law of the Moon, Zephys left her body for the Ocean half and Sielene become unconsicious. After being escorted back to the Croconesia, she came back to her senses and have a walk with Luna on the land for the first and only time. She was astonished and happy to see that her daughter has become stronger and kinder than before she walked on the land. In the final battle with Zephys, Sielene choose to sacrifice herself to reinstate the Law of the Moon in the Aventurine Temple, which has become her resting place because the slab in the Petrification Island stated that the one who commit a sin must atone for it inside the temple walls.

Yasm

Voiced by: Kazuhiro Nakata
A main antagonist of the first arc of the second series. Yasm is the Spirit of Darkness; he devised a plan to destroy the balance of the world by capturing the seirei and sealing their powers. He is first defeated by Pinon with the power of the moon from Papuu. He immediately returned to the human world as a sand dragon, but was again destroyed by Luna's Golden key. There is a mystery behind Yasm, because all the elementals had no human names to begin with, so there is a chance that another was controlling Yasm's plan.

Zephys

Voiced by: Jun Karazawa
The true antagonist in the second series. She was the first king of all sprites when the time only sprites exist. As time flows, the race of humans and dragons appeared and they took place where sprites used to live. Such angered Zephys and she threw a war on the other races to drive them out, and such hatred turned her into the sprite of darkness. Seeing her action, the god used the power of Creation of the wills of light, Duon, to split her into the Ocean half and the Forest half, and sealed them near the Emphemeral (Utakata) Temple on the Petrification Island and near the Aventurine (Isago) Temple in Popolocrois respectively, with only the soul of Zephys able to escape. This created the Law of the Moon (this is the reason why Narucia will turn into air when she touches sea water and Luna will turn into sand when she goes to the land without the golden key). Initially, Zephys created Yasm to weaken the moon so that she can revive. However, such plan fails after Pinon, Luna and Marco destroyed Yasm. She used Seilene, the queen of Ocean sprites and the mother of Luna to break the Moon Drop thus deactivating the Law of the Moon, as well as the seal of the two halves of her body, then she left Seilene to her Ocean half. She was very tough to deal with even just in the half form, let alone the full form. She even turned all water sprites into dark sprites as her army. When Seilene sacrificed herself to reactivate the Law of the Moon, Zephys was split into two once again. However, some of her body part stayed and wanted to kill Luna for revenge, only to be destroyed by Pinon with the Wind Cutter.

Gaude

Voiced by: Taiten KusunokiSeiko Tamura (young)
Gaude is an Ocean Sprite who is the henchmen of Zephys. In the past, his mother rescued a human boy from being drowned in the seashore, which caused her death(turned into sand because of violation of the Law of the Moon for walking onto the land). Such incident has planted his hatred towards the Law of the Moon and determined to abolish it in any costs, even if it means to work with the Queen of the Dark Sprites. Gaude normally uses a giant crab mecha to fight others and transportation, and it is also used to destroy the Darkart to render the group of Pinon immobile. During the final fight on the seas between the Petrification Island and the Demon Channel, after the Ocean half is unsealed, marco cried for her Mum since he thought he may lose her forever. At this point, Gaude also cried because he is also doing what he has done to save his own mother. A sudden twist in his mind caused him to rescue Pinon and the gang from falling into the Demon Channel, which he fall into it instead. He laughed at himself ironically and met his end after he called her mother for the last time.

Elena Pakapuka[edit]

Voiced by: Yuko Minaguchi
Introduced in the second arc. She is King Pietoro's little sister, and Pinon's aunt. This is the same Elena from the game series, the 3-year-old child that admired Pietoro and Narcia. Now she is 18 years old and now is the boss of her own ship, The Dakart, and she travels around the world for fun. She is an excellent swordsman (skilled enough to do the same technique that Pietro uses, "Wind Cutter"/"Kaze no Yaiba") and very commanding, but kind and gentle toward the trio (Pinon, Luna, and Marco) and cares for them, she doesn't like Pinon calling her "obasan" (Aunt) because calling an 18-year-old girl an aunt isn't really flattering, so she prefers Pinon calling her "Oneesan" (Big Sister).

Soar High! Isami


Tobe! Isami


Summary:
Isami Hanaoka is just a fifth grader who happens to be a descendant of the Shinsengumi. Together with fellow descendants and classmates Soushi Yukimi and Toshi Tsukikage, she discovers in the basement of her home, strange artifacts left behind by their ancestors as well as a message urging them to "Fight the evil Kurotengu organization."