Characters - 8/10 The characters in the story are very unique and each has different personality that suits the character designs. is very dark. It's a gothic drama dealing with the supernatural. It's gory and mature, so younger viewers may not like it.

The series is the first collaboration between Kan Eguchi and Kanazawa Tomoki since Riding Uphill in 2018. [5] Director Kan Eguchi began working on a series centred on professional sumo after the release of The Fable in 2019. [6] He described the series was first and foremost conceived to put forward the story of young wrestlers in clash of desire, ego, and stubbornness that can be seen in professional sumo "by peeling off [the] thin skin [of the sport]" and the "soul-shaking" master-student relationship wrestlers develop throughout their career. [5] During the audition process for the wrestlers, a hundred or so actors were selected and put through a series of physical tests to ensure that only actors who were both physically fit and able to follow the training in real-life situations were retained. [6] Ridiculously Cute Critter: Benkei, the baby Troodon Suzume is temporarily charged with taking care of. Suzume can't help but be overwhelmed by how cute he is when she first sees him. However, it doesn't last, as Benkei proved quite the troublemaker.The next are the characters. As you can see I am not a big fan of them at all. I have read very few manga but till now these set of characters are worst among them, hand down. Every action made me cringe and call them out for their stupidity. Not only were they badly written but the character's low grasp of the situation made things far worse. The two heroes were carbon copy of each other. They were like same wine in different glasses. Both were smart, strong, good looking, righteous, great at sex, charismatic, visionary; you name it they are it. There was no flaw to them. If they felt like it they could have cured cancer and world hunger in few chapters. Their reasoning was beyond the world, the plans they made could only trap idiots, the straight forward attitude they displayed would usually place them at lowest possible place in politics, and moreover their explanation could only make idiots see the light. The only other thing that we know about the characters other than their current selves was that they were refugees from Cambodia. The characters have no depth. They have no reason to act the way they act and no answer to the question "Then What?". What would they do after their mission was done. How would Asami run the country without a plan? What would Hojo do now that even after his plan he is still a don and ultimately a criminal? What are their outs and what do they gain for this? Nothing of this sort is answered here. Thus, characters are nothing more than 1-D, card boards cut outs with a mouth. The side characters were equally dumb. They are swayed away by every other details and plans. Every little thing over whelms them and these are portrayed as the smart guys. They do not have a brain of their own, do whatever the two heroes tell them and become their puppets. If this happened due to the smarts of the heroes, it would have been different. Like how Light and Lelouch do it but this was different. Throughout the story the side characters give their reason for following the two protagonists. They just say that it is interesting to watch Hojo/Asami's progress. Like WHAT? What about their own careers? What about their own motivations? What about their own dreams and fears? As expected the author does not delve there. All they are stupid people who get convinced by hero's plans faster than speed of light. They do not ask questions or oppose the hero. Excellent politician material. 10/10 would vote them. Oricon News (in Japanese). 7 December 2020. Archived from the original on 5 May 2023 . Retrieved 3 May 2023. Characters [ edit ] Akira Hojo ( 北条彰, Hōjō Akira) Voiced by: Shō Hayami(Japanese); David Kaye (English) Portrayed by: Toshiya Nakasawa Don of the Sagara Alliance ( 相楽連合, Sagara Rengō). Asami's childhood friend, he is heading towards domination over Japan's Yakuza corporations. By the end of the story, Hojo runs for the Diet. Chiaki Asami ( 浅見千秋, Asami Chiaki ) Voiced by: Kazuhiro Nakata(Japanese); Paul Dobson (English) Portrayed by: Hiroshi Abe Ambitious and strong-willed politician. He lived in Cambodia with Hojo's family in the 1970s. Asami's personal nemesis is Isaoka. Norimoto Isaoka ( 伊佐岡紀元, Isaoka Norimoto) Voiced by: Takeshi Watabe An "old fox" with all the connections one can imagine at every economic, politic and illegal level possible. He served a prison sentence in Sugamo Prison after World War II. Tokai ( 渡海) Voiced by: Takaya Hashi(Japanese); Scott McNeil (English) Hojo's former mentor, a through-and-through Yakuza who serves his boss efficiently, with an unshakeable loyalty. Reiji Tashiro ( 田代怜二, Tashiro Reiji ) Voiced by: Tomokazu Seki(Japanese); Brian Drummond (English) Portrayed by: Toshihiko Sakakibara Young assistant of Hojo, who saved his new-born baby years ago. As with Tokai, he would give his life for his boss. Kyoko Ishihara ( 石原杏子, Ishihara Kyōko) Voiced by: Hiromi Tsuru(Japanese); Nicole Oliver (English) Portrayed by: Azusa Nakamura Deputy-chief in the district of Tokyo. Born in 1965 (vol.1 chap. 2) she is 27 at the time of the story. Went to Tokyo University. Kyoko later falls for Hojo and the feelings are mutual. Ozaki ( 尾崎) Voiced by: Unshō Ishizuka(Japanese); Ward Perry (English) Portrayed by: Naomasa Musaka Subaltern of Ishihara, he knows Tokai very well, but he's a good policeman nonetheless. Besitt ( ビセット, Bisetto) The Trade Minister of the U.S. who falls for Asami and becomes a loyal foreign ally. Yuki Asami's lover, a university student. Murata ( 村田) Hojo's advisor in the Yakuza. Wong Chi-Yeung ( 黄志陽, Kō Shiyō, Chinese Mandarin: Huáng Zhìyáng, Jyutping: wong4 zi3 joeng4) A Hong Kong Don who at first double crosses Hojo and Asami before later aiding them again. Masanobu Miyamura ( 宮村政信, Miyamura Masanobu) A Don who owes Hojo his life. Ibuki A Don from Kobe and ally of Hojo. Shinichiro Sengoku ( 仙石慎一郎, Sengoku Shin'ichirō) The son of an old school politician who is both a trouble maker and playboy. He does everything he can to avenge his father's death and joins forces with Asami. Kisuke Nakagusuku ( 中城規介, Nakagusuku Kisuke) Leader of the Okinawan mafia. Media [ edit ] Manga [ edit ]

The plot details their rise through the ranks of their respective organizations. You follow each of the two main characters, and sometimes a side character, but their plotlines frequently intertwine, since they not only aim for the same thing (the reform of Japan) but organized crime and politics also have frequent connections and common interests within the story. First and foremost: a good, interesting and clever plot. No pointless fighting or sappy romance but a balance between the two and some great political scheming. If you know another manga with a plot like this, please do inform me about it (well, I'm also expecting a lot from Cesare but it still has a way to go);

In the first chapter, when Suzume arrives at the zoo, she comforts a group of schoolchildren scared by Enoshima Dinoland's Giganotosaurus by explaining how dinosaurs aren't all scary through pointing out that birds are also dinosaurs, establishing her primary characteristics - her passion for and knowledge in dinosaurs, her desire to help people understand and connect with dinosaurs better, and her general kind and helpful nature.

Extinct Animal Park: The eponymous Enoshima Dinoland is a small struggling zoo that hosts about two dozen species of dinosaur note technically nineteen non-avian dinosaurs, four pterosaur, and one plesiosaur, ranging from small herbivores to giant carnivores. The series focuses on the day-to-day business of running the place, which is not too different from what real-life zoos deal with when it comes to their animals. in Japanese). Shogakukan. Archived from the original on November 11, 2004 . Retrieved October 27, 2020. Ryukoku, who has discovered the truth, confronts Yayoi in the presence of Ryuki and sends her away. Ensho is summoned to Kumada- oyakata, the chairman of the Sumo Association because during the degeiko Enno assaulted one of Umayama's wrestlers who had provoked him. Enno is therefore dismissed. Asuka tries to change Inushima's mind without success but Hana calls in a favour owed to her by Ryukoku. The latter managed to convince Inushima to suspend Enno rather than dismiss him. Enno discovers that Nanami was having an affair with Murata and decides to break up. Motivated by Sanae, Enno decides to continue sumo and starts training harder. His mood also changes and he becomes humble and conscientious. At the same time Shizuuchi remembers his mother's suicide after she killed his little brother. Nov 20 From the U.S. to Japan, You Can Control the Life-Size Moving Gundam from the Comfort of Your Own HomeUnfortunately, from an objective point of view, I couldn't have been more wrong. It was childish idealism at the time. Angel Sanctuary the OAV is impossibly hard to review because it is based on what is in my opinion, one of the greatest and Something else that I noticed is that Kaori Yuki's famously elegant sexy style just seems creepy in this show. This is an author that is known quite famously for her very obvious hoe yey overtones and extremely liberal opinions on human sexuality. The Angel Sanctuary manga is littered with men lusting after men, incest, transgender characters, etc. All of this is done in a very natural and respectable way. In the anime, the portrayal of these characters can best be described as dirty/creepy. Watching the main characters struggle with his feelings for his sister makes him seem more like an out of control, horny teenaged sex offender rather than a young man in love. The character Rosiel who acts as one of the series antagonists looks and sounds like a rapist. It's somewhat unsettling to watch. In a world where dinosaurs were rediscovered in 1946, Suma Suzume works in Enoshima Dinoland, a struggling dinosaur park where she takes care of many dinosaurs and faces many challenges. Author Appeal: Author Itaru Kinoshita's favourite dinosaur is Giganotosaurus. Naturally, its the focus dinosaur of the first chapter and the first animal Suzume works with at Enoshima Dinoland. a b 恐竜が絶滅しなかった世界を舞台に1人の新人飼育員を描く新連載、バンチで始動. Comic Natalie (in Japanese). Natasha, Inc. March 19, 2021 . Retrieved July 15, 2023.