Title(s): Witchblade
Media: anime
Properties/Warnings: Fighting, Humor, Powered Hero, Useless Sexy Armor, Ecchi, Focus on Familial Relationship, Romance, Death of Main Character, Angst, Hetero, Yuri
Summary:
For those of you who read western comics, you may know of a comic by the same name published under Top Cow Productions. The Witchblade featured here is a deritive work of that series published under the same company but by a different artist.
Main character Masane Amaha was left with only two things after a catastrophic earthquake hit Japan: a bizzare bracelet embedded into her wrist and a baby girl named Rihoko. Several years after the fact, she's being pursued by the NSFW - I mean, NSWF, an organization specializing in the protection and wellfare of children. When she protests to the separation of their small family of two, Masane finds herself in jail and her daughter in protected custody.
When a terrifying machine smashes into her jail cell, killing the guards and breaking a huge hole in the building, Masane thinks that she's staring death in the face. For reasons currently unknown to her, her bracelet lights up, and the next thing she's aware of is standing over the remnants to her now destroyed assailant. Seeing her opportunity, she escapes the jail and sets out to find Rihoko.
Two rival technology companies quickly hear of the incident, both with knowledge of the Witchblade on Masane's wrist. The head of one, a man named Takayama, contacts her first with an offer she can't refuse: use her power to destroy the remaining I-Weapons, war machines which would be drawn to her power, and she would have her daughter back.
Unknown to both Masane and her new boss, the rival company was now in possession of weaker but more adaptable versions of the Witchblade known as Cloneblades. The leader seeks the Witchblade to create more perfect versions of these weapons as a single step in a misguided plan to achieve reincarnation.
Personal Notes:
Though I'm usually wary of gratuitous fan-service, Witchblade's charged plotline quickly proved it wasn't a cliche excuse for poorly veiled porn. In fact, where the romantic element in fan-service anime tends to overwhelm, the romance in Witchblade blends seamlessly and doesn't come until the conflict has been well established.
Now, for those of you who're gonna go to Hulu and watch this, there's one theme I want you to pay attention to. A primary theme throughout the series is the relationship between a mother and child, and observing this relationship will offer important insight into the actions of the enemies later on.
Media: anime
Properties/Warnings: Fighting, Humor, Powered Hero, Useless Sexy Armor, Ecchi, Focus on Familial Relationship, Romance, Death of Main Character, Angst, Hetero, Yuri
Summary:
For those of you who read western comics, you may know of a comic by the same name published under Top Cow Productions. The Witchblade featured here is a deritive work of that series published under the same company but by a different artist.
Main character Masane Amaha was left with only two things after a catastrophic earthquake hit Japan: a bizzare bracelet embedded into her wrist and a baby girl named Rihoko. Several years after the fact, she's being pursued by the NSFW - I mean, NSWF, an organization specializing in the protection and wellfare of children. When she protests to the separation of their small family of two, Masane finds herself in jail and her daughter in protected custody.
When a terrifying machine smashes into her jail cell, killing the guards and breaking a huge hole in the building, Masane thinks that she's staring death in the face. For reasons currently unknown to her, her bracelet lights up, and the next thing she's aware of is standing over the remnants to her now destroyed assailant. Seeing her opportunity, she escapes the jail and sets out to find Rihoko.
Two rival technology companies quickly hear of the incident, both with knowledge of the Witchblade on Masane's wrist. The head of one, a man named Takayama, contacts her first with an offer she can't refuse: use her power to destroy the remaining I-Weapons, war machines which would be drawn to her power, and she would have her daughter back.
Unknown to both Masane and her new boss, the rival company was now in possession of weaker but more adaptable versions of the Witchblade known as Cloneblades. The leader seeks the Witchblade to create more perfect versions of these weapons as a single step in a misguided plan to achieve reincarnation.
Personal Notes:
Though I'm usually wary of gratuitous fan-service, Witchblade's charged plotline quickly proved it wasn't a cliche excuse for poorly veiled porn. In fact, where the romantic element in fan-service anime tends to overwhelm, the romance in Witchblade blends seamlessly and doesn't come until the conflict has been well established.
Now, for those of you who're gonna go to Hulu and watch this, there's one theme I want you to pay attention to. A primary theme throughout the series is the relationship between a mother and child, and observing this relationship will offer important insight into the actions of the enemies later on.