Tamaki-chan’s bamboo blade
About Bamboo blade:
Bamboo Blade is a Japanese manga series written by Masahiro Totsuka, and illustrated by Aguri Igarashi. The manga was first serialized in the Japanese seinen manga magazine Young Gangan starting December 3, 2004. The manga has been licensed for distribution in North America by Yen Press. An anime adaptation by AIC A.S.T.A was broadcast in Japan between October 2, 2007 and April 2, 2008 on TV Tokyo. The series tells the story of a Toraji Ishida, a luckless high school Kendo instructor, who is challenged by his former upperclassman, also a kendo instructor, to a competition between their female students. The bet inspires Toraji to gather and train a team of five girls. Fortuitously, at this time he meets Tamaki Kawazoe, a gifted young female kendo practitioner. Source
Plot Summary:
Toraji Ishida is a high school kendo teacher. His friend and fellow kendo teacher makes him a bet: if Ishida can assemble a girls’ kendo team that can defeat his girls’ team in a practice match, he’ll treat Ishida to free meals at his father’s sushi restaurant for a whole year. Now Ishida must find five girls to join the team. Source
Lovekuja’s review:
Story: It was pretty much like every other school anime. Characters do something for a few episodes and then move to something else. Blade Braver was a great way to add some feeling of a on-going story.
Art: The animation was not anything special and was pretty much like most other anime. The drawing style and colors won me over.
Sound: Soundtrack was good. Voices were good. Opening and ending themes were good. I’m not complaining.
Character: I liked …the characters, well most of them. Tamaki was just super cute, she was the reason I began watching this show. Kirino was an awesome character too. When she’d get sad, you knew something was seriously at miss. I seriously wanted to kill Dan-kun, but I believe that was the original purpose of this character anyway. That american chick messing with Miya-miya seriously also annoyed me.
Enjoyment: I enjoyed this show. Full of comedy and an occasional touch of epic, girls screaming men, do and kote was kinda awesome. They also managed to put some good drama here and there.
Overall: Very shonen. Surely anyone into sports or school anime will get something out of this show.
My discussion:
Bamboo Blade has a captivating genre. No one will ever imagine how the creator portrays a simple story yet still made a pretty interesting and unique plot. With this kind of genre (sport) anime will looks a little dull because of a limited scene. You cannot exaggerate their capability to act which most of the anime do. I had read an article which anime had an odd law regarding on how anime characters acts especially when they are on a fight scene. That just inconsiderable when you talk about sport genre because in reality no one can really suffer so much injury yet still manage to stand. But in this anime it is well developed there is no need to put some exaggerated effects just to attract the audience.
Anyway, as a teenager Tamaki (one of the lead character) she participate as the leader of the kendo club, which has only have a few yet lovely members, and in house she had to some household choir which nowadays, most children do not do anymore. She also has a very childhood attitude (she loves watching her favorite superhero, braver, like most children do. But she still holds on a big responsibility as an heir and inspiration to her group members. She is well trained by her parents and even in their own dojo she has a good reputation that is why in kendo, she never loses her composure during the fight, and even feeling very confident. Although Tamaki looks very small and weak but whenever she carries with her the wooden sword her characteristic changes. She becomes someone else people will never expects she will be. In kendo one thing she never wants to forgive is to cheat. However, as a child she never loses to anybody especially in kendo that is why it’s hard for her to accept loses. Nevertheless, by her parent’s guardian and her comrades’ motivation she still continues to improve and accept her loss.
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