Type: Series
Episodes: 10
Duration: 20 min. each episode
Year: 2002
Studios: Oriental Light and Magic, The Right Stuf International
Tags: Drama, Romance, Music, School Life, Slice of Life, Shoujo, Piano

Plot

The story revolves around Miu Nomura, a quiet 14 year old girl, who has loved to play the piano since she was little. But now it’s becoming harder for her to express herself, even through her music. She experiences even more pressure from the fact that she has a crush on a senpai Kazuya Takahashi. But with the support of her best friend Yuuki Matsubara, who is experiencing similar difficulties, they will try to do their best together.

Piano is a nice story about love, music and coming of age. It may seem a little boring in the beginning, but with each episodes it gets more and more intriguing. After I saw Piano I got interested in Chopin. You can say Miu introduced to me to Chopin It may seem a little too shoujoish for some of you, nevertheless it’s very enjoyable. ^^

Here’s the OP

And the ED

Type: Series
Episodes: 13
Duration: 24 min. each episode
Year: 2002
Studios: Madhouse Studios, Broccoli
Tags: Action, Adventure, Contemporary Fantasy, Idol, Music, Romance, Seinen, Super Power

Plot

A High School student and a talented musician Kamikurata Kyouta and his friends Kojima Junichi, and Hirota Shingo are trying to make it big with their rock band “Traffic Light Signal“. Just when things are starting to go well Kyouta finds out that he and his girlfriend Sannou Yoriko are involved in a war between five supernatural fractions and that he possesses the power to save Yoriko.

From left to right: Kojima Junichi, Sannou Yoriko, Kamikurata Kyouta. Below: Hirota Shingo

Review

Last but not least in the Musical Anime Top Aquarian Age makes its appearance. Combining awesome rock music and supernatural powers the series hoked me in for good and even made me watch it twice.

The soundrack by Yuki Kajiura and the opening and ending themes are very beautiful. The story with it’s twists and turns makes you wonder what will happen next each time the episode ends. At first you might be discouraged by the “supernatural powers” part of the Anime, but it really spices  things up.

Aquarian Age – Sign for Evolution is definitely one of my favorite series about music, since it is about a band that is trying to go pro, which makes it very inspiring.

Traffic Light Signal band

Here are the Opening and Endings

It also has some love-romance in it. Check out this AMV.

I have already rated them in a very unconventional way and formed a Top 12 which I will reveal shortly. What I did is I took the ratings from various popular anime websites and calculated a weighted average. If I’d rate them It would be completely different. ;D

Hot Soundtrack

Some of them will even recieve a “HOT SOUNDTRACK” badge from me
Please look forward to it ^_^

Intro

The first episode starts off with a surprisingly familiar, Elfen Lied like beginning. A woman with some kind of super power coming through a wall of bullets unharmed to save a little girl. ^_^’

Even the scenery feels familiar, as though they made it similar to Elfen Lied on purpose. The mood is completely different though. Must be the lack of blood and nudity. ^^

On her way back she meets another woman with a sword in front of a mountain of corpses. And that’s about it for the gloomy intro.

Round one

Now let’s meet Minato Sahashi our protagonist . A 19 year old  ronin who is about to find out he didn’t get in to University. Again. Without any goals or prospects of finding a girlfriend he heads home.

But his miserable existence is about to change.  On his way back he meets a big-chested roof-jumping girl named Musubi, who literary crash lands on him while trying to escape from two e_vile women who cast purple lightening at her.

Mmmm… Purple lightening…

The next thing that happens is when Minato wakes up in his apartment the next morning he notices Musubi lieing next to him wearing only her panties and his shirt. But that’s not the point.

Are you my Ashikabi?

Better fasten your seat belt, because after greeting and thanking Minato she start’s to undress so she could return the shirt to it’s rightful owner… Now there’s a good mannered girl.

As soon as Minato realizes he’s not dreaming he runs out of  the room trying to stop his nosebleed.

It’s a hundred years early for him to see a nude girl with such an enormous rack from a fairly small distance.

While waiting for Musubi to change her clothes Minato has a conversation with his landlord, who warns him that if Minato will bring his girlfriend to the apartment he will be kicked out. Tough luck.

Even more trouble await Minato. Later Musubi has a faint from hunger. Poor girl, she must have hadn’t time to eat while running away from e_vile, lightening zapping women…

I have absolutely no I idea how Minato is going to feed that meat shredder, since she has one hell of an appetite. No wonder her jugs are so huge. After feeding her twice Minato runs out of money and decides to go to the bank. That’s where they meet the e_vile women again.

Round two

The bust size of the left one obviously indicates that she is the dominant female. While the right one is her small chested counterpart. And when two big breasted women (Mutsubi and the purple e_vile woman) meet things get ugly.

After a small dialogue they successfully zapped Musubi, tearing her clothes apart.

Seeing that Minato finally realizes his duty as a man and protects Musubi from the second round of zapping, which makes Musubi all horny. OMG, there’s something wrong with that girl.

Exit stage left. Musubi and Minato find themselves surrounded in an alley, with no chances to escape. What should they do?? That’s when Musubi’s hornyness came in handy.  She climbed on top of Minato and yes!

The climax of episode 01. The kissing scene.

Musubi screamed, wings appeared behind her back and she chased the evil women away. Happy ending NOT!

While running away the two women meet a mysterious person who can cast fire. Hmmm. I bet he’ll appear in the upcoming episodes and mess things up a bit more.

Now I get it

Anyway… Musubi-chan and Minato-kun finally return home. Suddenly the TV turns on by it self and this weird dude start talking to them out of the box. He explains that Minato got himself involved in a game and told him that under no circumstances he should not tell anyone about the game or the corporation MBI will get him.

Suddenly a knock on the door. Minato almost wet his pants when he saw a MBI representative standing at his door.  There was nothing to worry about though, the man only wanted to deliver new clothes for Musubi.

Musubi isn’t a shy girl so she started to undress without any hesitation causing Minato to flee from the apartment. Bad move Minato… The landlord was standing outside and when he saw Musubi the outcome was obvious.

Now Minato and Musabi are on the street, searching for a new place to live. Can it get any worse than this? Sure! ^^

It started to rain…

Now they are sitiing in the park, all wet. But Musubi doesn’t lover her chin. She kisses Minato, spreads her wings and they fly away… Whoosh…

The preview of the next episode promised to have more boobaliciousness.