During those days when I can watch anime from Youtube at work (without any worries of being monitored or caught), I was told by my sister to try out Gakuen Heaven. She said it was cute and funny. I researched a bit about the series and found out that it was an anime full of gorgeous boys, hahahhaa. So being the fangirl I am, I tried it out.
The series only has 13 episodes, to begin with. The story is centered on Itou Keita, your average nice guy who is polite and kind to just everyone in the school. He is the most recent transferee in Bell Liberty School which is famous for having students with great abilities and potential. It’s so prestigious that you can’t get in without a personal invitation from the administration. Since Keita didn’t have anything special going on with him, he was obviously surprised about the invitation.
Eventually, he meets the other (lovely) guys in the school. All of them are of course, great in some way. One of them has good leadership skills, the other is superbly athletic, and another is greatly skilled in the arts and so on. Even though Keita is different, they welcomed him to their “circle” of friends.
Later on, issues about Keita’s transferring are questioned because as said before, there’s nothing special about him. But Keita, inspired by his new friends, felt that he needed to assert his place there. Of course, the real reason surprised even him but I won’t go there because I don’t want to be a bad bad spoiler gal. :P
Yup, it’s a yaoi series but I kind of like the love story because there is depth and meaning. Kinda like Gravitation, I guess. As for the music, I prefer the ending song “Panorama”, it’s cute and relaxing.
What made this series funny for me are the beginning scenes every time a new episode starts, a pair of boys would only be heard saying “suggestive” things and then it would turn out that it was not sexual at all, hahahaha, LOL. Then the ending!! The boys as hamtaro mascots in a mini chapter called Hamu Hamu Heaven! Very very cute. :D
A-chan’s rating for Gakuen Heaven: 7 / 10
Card Captor Sakura has a lot of plus factors and one of them is definitely the good music set. With a total of 4 bgm cds for the TV series, one for each of the two movies and about three vocal collections, CCS fans (like me) will never get tired of the lovely background music and catchy theme songs that the show offers.
”Memories of Warmth” is one of my all-time favorite CCS bgm songs. I think it’s only played about two to three times during the whole series but it’s still unforgettable for me. This song is the one that Kinomoto Nadeshiko taught to her son (lovely, fafable Touya) in the piano. During the episode when Sakura inherited her late mom’s old calendar, Touya played this song in the school piano for probably no reason at all (maybe because he saw Sakura leafing eagerly through her mom’s calendar, haha). I absolutely love anime guys who can play the piano. *_*
When I picked this song, I immediately had flashbacks of highschool days, in other words, the MTV days once again. My memory of this song’s music video is very vivid because I remember that it used to be one of my favorites. Just imagine four beautiful gals with different personalities dancing in the bar (on top of the table!) and offering drinks to their customers with flair. And then LeAnn Rimes steps in to give her powerful vocals that fit the atmosphere perfectly. :D
I liked the song before I liked the movie. My friend lent me her copy of “Coyote Ugly” and when I saw it, I loved the song more. It’s just so dancy (is there such word??) and catchy. ^^
Omg. Pure LSS factor. This is what “Sakura Kiss” definitely has. When you hear this song, you’ll probably keep on hearing it in your sleep. :P
I think it was around June or July last year when I got hooked on Ouran. At first, I thought it was a yaoi series (hahaha), but then it turns out to be a reverse harem set-up. Anyway, the song is definitely addictive. Kawabe Chieko’s energetic vocals are so catchy that you can easily sing along with her. And that “kiss kiss fall in love” part at the beginning of the song, hahaha. Well, it doesn’t make sense grammatically but hey, the same goes to most j-songs with English phrases on them. ^^;;
