Unfortunately for the wallets of the prncipled, Hundred Stories has been licensed and released as Requiem: From the Darkness. That's not to say it's not WORTH the money, nor that downloads can't be found by the less principled, of course, and Jigoku Shojo, currently being subbed, seems to be based on the same mythology, if rather less interestingly so In My Holy Opinion. Anyway, to describe the characters form hundred Stories:
Mataichi is a little short guy swatched in bandages, who carries a wooden box with ... I think it was an eye design? on the front, which is some kind of mystycal artifact that the group uses in their job of punishing the wicked. He has a rather wide, toothy, and disturbing smile.
Ogin is a very beautiful woman who goes about in kimono generally and has one side of her face covered by a boomerang bang, when she drops the illusion that side of her body is a withered corpse. She does the puppet thing with a style even Sasori might envy.
Nagamimi is a big, bald, barrelchested guy with huge ears, and monstrously strong. I don't remember his outfit too well.... an open vest and pants, maybe?
These three are joined by a young guy who writes books of word games, but who really wants to collect a book of 100 ghost stories, hence the title, and as the episodes proceed, with the punished sinner of the week, an arc plot creeps up on you from the side the way each episode does in the details.
It's probably the only straight-up example of the horror genre I have EVER liked - well, unless you count Narutaru/Shadow Star, though it's mixed with monster training so I don't - and so has the #1 most reccomended spot there - the art is fantastically ugly, but the way military hardware is ugly - "I don't give a damn what you think, this is what I am" ugly. The storylines do a good job of varying the formula so even though you know what's generally going to happen, how is usually a suprise. Thinking about it, it really does fit in with the Naruto setting overall - even though many of the darker aspects are glossed over in Kishimoto's work, they are surely there.
- CD
- CDSERVO: Loook *deeeeply* into my eyes... Tell me, what do you see?
CROW: (hypnotized) A twisted man who wants to inflict his pain upon others.
Dr. Akagi will recover. Observe, Rei smiled. Shinji-kun, are these your clothes?
Ritsuko shot up like a spring loaded meerkat. What? Shinji-kun is naked?
See, Anata? Dr. Hentai is alive and well. - Innortal's _I Do_
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows
Mataichi is a little short guy swatched in bandages, who carries a wooden box with ... I think it was an eye design? on the front, which is some kind of mystycal artifact that the group uses in their job of punishing the wicked. He has a rather wide, toothy, and disturbing smile.
Ogin is a very beautiful woman who goes about in kimono generally and has one side of her face covered by a boomerang bang, when she drops the illusion that side of her body is a withered corpse. She does the puppet thing with a style even Sasori might envy.
Nagamimi is a big, bald, barrelchested guy with huge ears, and monstrously strong. I don't remember his outfit too well.... an open vest and pants, maybe?
These three are joined by a young guy who writes books of word games, but who really wants to collect a book of 100 ghost stories, hence the title, and as the episodes proceed, with the punished sinner of the week, an arc plot creeps up on you from the side the way each episode does in the details.
It's probably the only straight-up example of the horror genre I have EVER liked - well, unless you count Narutaru/Shadow Star, though it's mixed with monster training so I don't - and so has the #1 most reccomended spot there - the art is fantastically ugly, but the way military hardware is ugly - "I don't give a damn what you think, this is what I am" ugly. The storylines do a good job of varying the formula so even though you know what's generally going to happen, how is usually a suprise. Thinking about it, it really does fit in with the Naruto setting overall - even though many of the darker aspects are glossed over in Kishimoto's work, they are surely there.
- CD
- CDSERVO: Loook *deeeeply* into my eyes... Tell me, what do you see?
CROW: (hypnotized) A twisted man who wants to inflict his pain upon others.
Dr. Akagi will recover. Observe, Rei smiled. Shinji-kun, are these your clothes?
Ritsuko shot up like a spring loaded meerkat. What? Shinji-kun is naked?
See, Anata? Dr. Hentai is alive and well. - Innortal's _I Do_
--
"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows