Saturday, January 8, 2011

FORTUNE ARTERIAL Akai Yakusoku


★★★★☆
Author: AUGUST
Director: Munenori Nawa
Music: Takaaki Anzai
Animation: ZEXCS/feel.
Aired: Fall 2010
Key Broadcaster: TV Tokyo

Summary:
Kohei Hasekura, An 11th grader is moving back to an island he used to live 6 years ago. He transfers into the Shuchikan Academy, and starts a new life...with the secret of the school: vampires.

Review:
Based on a Ero-game by AUGUST that sold over ten thousand copies, this was one of two animes of the Fall 2010 seasons based on an successful Ero-game. The opening music is great, composed by RUCCA and sung by the goddess-like Lia. The graphic quality was stable throughout the series, and for an Ero-game based anime, the intensity and the dramatic effect was great...up until episode 11, one before the last episode. The last episode wasn't badly made, unlike many romcom animes and perhaps better than how Akane-iro ni somaru saka ended, but it could have been done better. It was a good series nonetheless, I don't expect a second season, but it makes me want to play the original game. Oh, and even if there are vampires in the story, it doesn't suck like the you-know-what series.