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Day 232/366 Red Garden death brings these girls together in a strange way. Grey skirts with a black jumper dress over top. I love the belt and the bow colour. I oddly really like the white shirts with the grey cuffs. Overall: Pass.Related posts: 366 Days of Anime School Uniforms: Day 31/366 R-15 366 Days [...] Related posts: 366 Days of Anime School Uniforms: Day 31/366 R-15 366 Days of Anime School Uniforms: Day 8/366 Strawberry Panic 366 Days of Anime School Uniforms: Day 113/366 Tantei Opera Milky Holmes
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Red Garden is one of those shows that I watched a long time ago and, since I had discovered it …Continue reading »
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Red Garden FunimationComplete Collection - 22 episodes + OVA600 minutes $29.98 S.A.V.E. edition (2009)ISBN 704400096556 English/Japanese Audio - English Subtitles Director - Kou Matsuo Studio - Gonzo TO BUY: Red Garden Synopsis: Four girls at a prestigious private academy wake up one morning with no recollection of the previous night.  They learn a fifth girl is found dead and then strange things start to happen.  They are drawn by butterflies to the same place where a woman named Lula and her partner JC inform them they are dead and residing in magical bodies.  The girls witness a man partially transform into a beast and attack them.  They manage to fight and eventually kill him.  In order to regain their true bodies the girls must fight and kill these man-creatures on a nightly basis. Attempting to resume their normal lives proves difficult for the girls as they continue the nightly killings and discover their new bodies possess heightened agility.  Revelations comes slowly, but they learn of two opposing clans suffering from curses: Animus and Dolore.  The Dolore become beasts and have only two remaining female relatives thus endangering the continuation of their clan.  The girls are thrust into this nightmarish war against their wills. Also includes OVA Red Garden: Dead Girls - set several hundred years after the ending of the original series Pros: Somewhat interesting premise with two cursed clans, animation style and fashion costumes are really well done - girls actually change clothes!, OVA flash-forward (a couple centuries) was pretty cool seeing the girls' future selves after they forget all their previous memories Cons: Image quality is poor for such a recent anime - immediately noticeable when the show starts, characters are bland - especially Kate and Rose, very little horror/suspense moments, zero answers about what the deal is with the Red Garden, how did the one family know when the other ones would turn so they could beat them to death?, the dub voices suck (there's singing) Mike Tells It Straight: I had really high hopes for this anime after seeing the preview.  Four dead girls taking on things that go bump in the night, but the story was a disappointment.  The girls' lives were really boring and the show dragged along until the last few episodes.  Visually compelling, I was impressed with the show's design and style, but the image quality was terrible.  I'm not sure if Funimation skimped on production quality for the S.A.V.E. edition since it's at a lower price point, but I've never seen such bad quality outside of an HK bootleg.  I would recommend this to female anime viewers due to the teenage girl angst and impressive visuals/fashion designs, but overall this set was a miss for me.  You're interested in anime, but want to know what shows are truly worthwhile
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Red Garden is the story about four girls living in New York City, dressing fabulously and doing crazy things. Yes, it looks like I am about to review Sex and the City but I am not. Sex and the City … Continue reading →
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Album Title: Red Garden Original Soundtrack Anime Title: Red Garden Artist: Akira Senju; KOKIA Catalog Number: PCCR-00442 Release Type: Soundtrack Release Date: January 17, 2007 Track Title Artist Time 1. Main Theme ~ Sou de Aru to Negau Kara Akira Senju 3:39 2. Kojin no Shi Akira Senju 2:34 3. Nasu Koto Toshite Akira Senju 1:53 4. Ayumi .. Yamerare Zuni Akira Senju 1:35 5. Yowaku, Yowaku Akira Senju 2:18 6. Shizuka ni Omou Koto Akira Senju 2:15 7. Sono Saki ni Mieta Kara, Zutto Zutto Akira Senju 2:42 8. Omoi [...]
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Airs every weekday thereafter at 9PM WIB (GMT+7)©2006 Gonzo/Red Garden ProjectAlmost forgot about this. Red Garden will premiere tonight at 9PM WIB (10PM Singapore) on Animax Asia. Since I didn't catch this on subs, thinking I'd take the first Animax episode out for a spin and see whether it's worth investing in. (Gonzo does get some anime (S•A!) right, after all. Plus FUNi licensed it. Plus that
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Anime Nation has listed the sixth and final volumes for Welcome to the NHK, Red Garden, and Pumpkin Scissors. Get them while you can, quantities are limited! [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Short Synopsis: About 200 years after Red Garden, we return to the girls of Red Garden, who still turn out to be alive. Highlights: It’s about bloody time! Overall Enjoyment Value: 7,5/10 So, finally the final OVA has gotten subbed, more than a year after the original airdate. Indeed, it’s about bloody time. To clarify: I’m not going [...]
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One volume in and I begin to wonder which Gonzo made Red Garden. Is it the one that made Last Exile and Gankutsuou or the one that made SpeedGrapher and Real Bout High School? Cheap-shot mentioning RBHS, I know. I guess either way, Red Garden promises to be horrific, though obviously I [...]
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When I first saw the trailer for Red Garden, I said that I would be interested in watching it and now that I’ve seen some of it, I see that there is more drama and downer moments than the horror-action-oriented trailer conveyed. I got the first DVD in the mail last week after ordering [...]
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New ideas these days, seem hard to come by. Everything from fashion to food is recycling and revamping ideas from an earlier time. All one would have to do to be “in” 20 years from now would be to stow away their clothing and haul it out again when the fashion “gurus” declare old is [...]
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I honestly don’t know what to say. Watching this trailer just blew me away because of it’s ridiculous good-looking action scenes and some rather provocative shots and mostly because I’m quite surprised at the amount of changes. From what I can tell this must be some kind of alternate story with the same characters as [...]
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ADV released some new trailers this week for 5 Centimeters per Second (December), Pumpkin Scissors (Oct. 23 - tentative), Red Garden (Sept. 18), Welcome to the NHK (Oct. 2 - tentative), and Xenosaga (Sept. 11). They are the usual no-dialogue teasers with either the opening and ending song as music and narrative trailers with some [...]
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Hot of the Japanese presses! Yes, they press digital trailers these days. So all you clinically depressed anime fans out there, be happy! The upcoming Red Garden: Dead Girls OVA has had a new trailer put online. The trailer runs about a minute an 40 seconds. Oh, and the it has a release date. The [...]
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I just read on the ANN that ADV’s gotten a bunch of licenses for Gonzo anime. Oh, and Magikano isn’t a Gonzo one, but the others are. Out of the four, I watched a bit of NHK and all of Magikano. Red Garden repelled me with the mega-shnozzes. Pumpkin Scissors had a really dumb name. Magikano [...]
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I’m not giving an episode synopsis. If you’ve watched the show, you know what happens already, and if you haven’t then I’m not going to spoil the last episode for you! It’s a fairly unsurprising episode, and plays out much like you might expect - the mysteries of the show are now all [...]
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# All the girl’s personal stories come to an end as they prepare for the final Animus/Doral confrontation at Christmas; Rachel finally breaks away from her social circle, Rose spends the time with her family, Claire gives Ewan the gift he really wants (…no, not that) and Kate, rather oddly, chooses to spend it clubbing with [...]
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