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Well, here's my first Anime review. I actually sent this to a friend to explain this newly released Anime, Spiral. I thought I did a pretty good job on it, so you all get to read it too!!! Heh heh...
Spiral is about this 15 year old named Ayumu Narumi. The anime opens to a scene of Ayumu napping on top of the school building. He oversleeps, and in those mere matter of minutes, things start to spiral out of control. A classmate of his is pushed off the 5th floor roof onto a truck below, injuring the girl. A teacher sees him up there looking down ( Ayumu had been on his way down off the roof when he heard the girl scream), and to make things short, he's accused of pushing her off the roof. With no other witnesses or apparent suspects, it looks like Ayumu pushed her. He knows he's innocent, and we the viewers know he's innocent, but with a teacher going around spreading rumers, and with the nosy school newspaper editor dogging his steps, proving his innocense may be a bit harder that he thought. Fortunatly for him, His sister in law just happens to be the head investigator on the case, and cuts him a little slack. And in a bizarre turn of events, he solves the attempted murder. Because Ayumu is like the smartest 15 year old I've ever seen. The following episodes are more or less different types of cases that the boy wonder and his newspaper editor assiatant end up solving with her amazing data collecting skills and Ayumu's deductive reasoning. But it's the back story that makes Spiral truly amazing. See, 2 years ago, Ayumu's older brother, Kiyotaka, mysteriously disappeared while looking into the mystery of the "Blade Children". Now, 2 years later, some of these Blade Children start to show up. And they're after Ayumu... He's supposebly able to save them...from what we don't know. Nor do we know what exactly the Blade Children are. All we, the viewers know by the end of the 5th Episode is this: The Blade Children will stop at nothing to complete their destiny. And only Ayumu stands in their way.
That's it more or less. It's lauded as the X-Files of the Anime world, and while it's simular, you don't have any of that occult, the aliens are out to get me stuff, that you got with the X-files. What I find really impressive with it, is that there's no cussing in it anywhere!! I've never seen an anime without bad language. This is only the first volumn, so I don't know what will happen in later volumns, but I hope they continue with the way they've written the english language script up to now. Read More...
Release Date: 11/09/04
125 Min.
Vol. 1 contains Episodes 1-5
Wanna check out the website for more info? Go toSpiral TV
Posted by guardianofrevolution
at 1:05 AM EST
