Now Watching: Children of the Whales

I'm currently watching Children of the Whales.

Chakuro is the 14-year-old archivist of the Mud Whale, a nigh-utopian island that floats across the surface of an endless sea of sand. Nine in ten of the inhabitants of the Mud Whale have been blessed and cursed with the ability to use saimia, special powers that doom them to an early death. Chakuro and his friends have stumbled across other islands, but they have never met, seen, or even heard of a human who wasn't from their own. One day, Chakuro visits an island as large as the Mud Whale and meets a girl who will change his destiny.

Now Watching: March Comes In Like a Lion

I'm currently watching March Comes In Like a Lion.

This is a gentle tale about people trying to regain something. And it is a tale of battle.
Kiriyama Rei had lost his family in an accident when he was young. Now he is a 17-year-old pro shogi player who is burdened with deep loneliness. Rei lives alone in an old town in Tokyo, but after becoming acquainted with three sisters, Akari, Hinata and Momo, he begins to change little by little...

Now Watching: Occultic;Nine

I'm currently watching Occultic;Nine.

The "paranormal science" story follows nine idiosyncratic individuals, linked by the "Choujou Kagaku Kirikiri Basara" occult summary blog run by 17-year-old second-year high school student Gamon Yuuta. Little incongruities that occur around these nine eventually lead to a larger, unimaginable event that may alter what is considered common sense in this world.

Now Watching: Mobile Suit Gundam 00

I'm currently watching Mobile Suit Gundam 00.

By 2307 AD, fossil fuels had already long become virtually exhausted. Humankind spent several decades on wars around the little that remained of such fuels and on constructing a large-scale system to draw in solar power from orbit, with an orbital ring, power microwaving technology, and three orbital elevators. In order to construct such a gigantic, resource-intensive system, however, most relevant countries had consolidated into three major power blocks: the World Economic Union, centered around the United States of America; the Advanced European Union, centered around the European Union; and the Human Reform League, centered around Russia, India and China. As only these power blocs and their allies had participated in the construction of the solar power system, only they were entitled to its benefits; with fossil fuels nearing extinction, countries with economies based on them, such as those from the Middle East, became progressively poorer.

Meanwhile, these three superpowers continued to intervene militarily where they see fit, terrorism was still rampant, and peace was a faraway dream for many people. Even in the 24th century, humankind was far from unified. And even though humans insisted in not learning about the horrors of war and did not make a point of pursuing peace, they still intended to venture away from the Earth, with colonies having been built and nanomachines already allowing for decent life conditions even during prolonged periods in space.

In this still disgracefully conflict-ridden world, a private paramilitary organization unveils its existence, announcing its intention to bring forth the eradication of war and conflict through force of arms. This organization, called Celestial Being, possesses its own mobile suits, the Gundams, which are much more powerful than those in the hands of any military in the world, and proceeds to using them to intervene in conflicts in order to stop them by force. Their actions quickly divide public opinion, and governments and other groups begin to act by taking their existence into consideration, but will they manage to bring peace to the world? Beyond the question of how the world will reply immediately, what is going to happen in the future as a result of their actions?