Mnemosyne – Daughters of Mnemosyne

I have no idea how to pronounce the show’s name properly in English, but the katakana used for the name are pronounced ‘mu ne mo syu ne’. Which is funny, since the ‘mune’ part taken on its own means ‘breast’ in Japanese. Haha, tits. I’ll get back to that later.

The structure of the show is pretty interesting. It’s a 6 episode series and each episode runs for an hour (45 minutes without commercials). Starting Feb. 3rd, they’re airing one episode per month. Pretty weird. It’s like an OVA, but on Satellite.

I’ve only seen the first episode raw (I don’t think there are any subs yet), and my Japanese is hardly at the level where I can ‘get’ everything, but I have the general idea of the show. Taking place in 1990, it centers around the green haired lady in the image above. She’s Rin Asougi, the central character who runs a sort of detective agency along with a loli chick named Mimi. Rin strikes me as a cross between Yomiko Readman of Read or Die and Motoko Kusanagi of Ghost in the Shell. She’s highly skilled and pretty ruthless at times, but when she’s not fighting someone she’s playful, compassionate and even a little clumsy.

Now let’s get back to the boobs. This is definitely an Adult show. Rin doesn’t have any problems rolling around unclothed with nary a puff of steam or strategic prop placement to be found. Putting aside the nudity, there’s some pretty disturbing violence in one extended scene involving a chick with a piercing fetish. It’s actually worse when the piercings are taken out. Yikes. Rin actually dies 3 times in this episode. This was being advertised as having ‘erotic violence’, and it certainly lives up to that advertisement.

If you’re the type that follows seiyuu, this show has a few big names to it. Mamiko Noto, Rie Kugimiya and Rie Tanaka all play major roles in this show. Nobuyuki Hiyama is in it as well, but I didn’t recognize his voice at all. The opening and ending songs are done by the Japanese metal band Galneryus

Looky here for a 3 minute trailer to have an idea of what the show looks like.

I’d imagine Mnemosyne would be more interesting if I understood what they were saying. It did hold my attention through its entire 45 minutes, so this is something I’ll be following during its run. It wasn’t anything particularly spectacular, but it is one of the more exciting programs this season. Hope someone subs it!

Tokyo Majin Gakuen Kenpuchou 5

Alright, I originally started this blog to practice writing, mostly through anime blogging. It’s been about 3 months since I started this thing, and not one dedicated anime post yet. So, I figured I’d start.

I haven’t decided on a format for these things yet, I’m just feeling it out. Keep in mind that since these are going to be single episode (and maybe sometimes movie) blogs, there may be unmarked spoilers. As things go on I might do some fancy stuff to hide the spoilers or whatever, so bear with me.

The first anime I will be blogging is: Tokyo Majin Gakuen Kenpuchou. Don’t ask me what it means. I’m 5 episodes in and I’m going to assume you have the same level of knowledge about the show as I do for the time being, so beware if you’re expecting some kind of explanation on background story up to this point.

There are several pictures following this, so be forewarned in that regard as well.