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More Than Words… More Kurenai Pimping… Now I Am SOLD

January 28th, 2008 usagijen

I love the tagline of this series, “People become stronger when they find someone they ought to protect”. rawr, so GAR xD

Not too long ago, I pointed out Kurenai as one of the animes I’m looking forward to in the Spring Lineup. Yes, I’m looking that far ahead. Although I don’t have the actual novel in my hands, I managed to find it *cough* somewhere else *cough* It took me weeks of perseverance, to keep me from buying the novels on impulse. I thought hard, wondering if it’ll be worth my time and money, considering the pile of unread mangas and novels (*cough* Saiunkoku *cough*) I have. I browsed through the novels again, supposedly for dispelling my excitement (the want-to-buy-it kind of excitement) for it, only to end up failing to resist it more orz.

These pictures in particular caught my attention, enough to make me exclaim “I AM SOLD!”. Without reading the text of the novel, I think these images already give enough hints that there’s more to this show than meets the eye (like duh, these images already show some plot-clues in the first two volumes of the novel xD). I think you’ll even be more interested once you see the recent manga adaptation. What worries me is how they’re going to conclude the anime for this yet-to-be-finished novel. Aside from that, it’s all good~

I get Aishiteruze Baby vibes from the loli & bodyguard relationship of Murasaki and Shinkurou, the two main characters of the show. I think the antics in Kurenai will be more fun, because we have a tsundere ojousama loli in Murasaki xD The possible love triangle angle with Shinkurou, Murasaki, and Shinkurou’s classmate Yuuno makes this all the more interesting. I’m in the loli-side for this one, though Yuuno is a cool kickass female herself, whose martial arts skills is even more superior than the GAR-in-disguise Shinkurou.

I decided to give this pimping my ALL (sort of), so here are some of the entertaining antics I was able to pick-up during my quick browsing:

Murasaki: Come Shinkurou! Let’s read this book together!
Shinkurou: But I still have to take care of these documents…
Murasaki: I’m reading it now!
Shinkurou: Alright, alright. So, what book is it?
Murasaki: It’s The Tale of Genji manga I borrowed from Tamaki! This story fits us to a tee, Shinkurou!
Shinkurou: Orly…? o_O

(Note: In the Tale of Genji, Genji becomes fascinated with this little girl named Murasaki, who turns out to be the niece of his stepmother, his first love. Enamored by the young 10-yr old, he “kidnaps” her, and brings her up to become his ideal lady. Murasaki is 8 years younger than Genji, and came to be known as his “most loved one”, among the MANY women in his life.)

before this, Shinkurou told Murasaki not to hesitate to ask him about anything that’s bother her, and soo…

Murasaki: Hey, Shinkurou. Which do you think is cuter between these two [panties]?
Shinkurou: Whichever is fine, so just go and wear it!
Murasaki: I said, which?!
Shinkurou: well then.. the white one.
Murasaki: Hrmm, so this is what Shinkurou likes. I’ll take note of that.
Shinkurou: Umm, you really don’t have to…

Below is the PV from the official site. Found the subbed version in youtube, but I don’t know who graciously subbed it ?_?

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Murasaki is <3 8D

…but of course, April is still a long wait, so I’m going back to the present and finish the rest of my planned posts.

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5 Comments Add your own

1. kazumaXX | January 29th, 2008 at 5:41 am

I don’t like Loli shows what about spice and wolf anime? it looks interesting
2. Owen S | January 29th, 2008 at 6:09 am

I am sold on this, since that picture of Murasaki hugging a tearful Shinkurou gives off amazing KnJ-sque vibes in a moment parallel with a younger Rin and Reiji.

I found Aishiteruze Baby to be too awesome for words, too. It should be nice to have a story where the loli character isn’t a token role, played out for fanservice, or anything like that for once.

This post title was hilarious, though. “Now I Am SOLD” would be best finished as a sentence with “To the lolicon at the back!”, but only because it seemed apt, considering one of the many target audiences of this story. “Crimson” for a title seems rather bit odd, in any case…
3. usagijen | January 30th, 2008 at 12:01 am

@kazumaXX: but this isn’t really a “loli show”, the fanservicey innuendo kind, if that’s what you were thinking. This is just, the sweet heartwarming kind~ just like Aishiteruze Baby.
as for Spice & Wolf, I watched two episodes and found it to be a solid show, though the kind of series I’d rather marathon than anticipate each week.

@Owen S: I also noticed the KnJ similarities, though not the touching scenes but the naughty bits (which I showed here) lol.

Oh, and “Kurenai” is the lead guy Shinkurou’s last name, but I think there’s still a deeper meaning behind this. It’s not really an odd title, once you see the glimpse of the manga and how bloody and dark it can be (though of course, not the Shigurui level x__X).
4. Owen S | January 31st, 2008 at 2:08 pm

though not the touching scenes

Yes, I know, that was taken out of context, but I laughed at that. Especially because KnJ’s more well-known for its… “touching” scenes than anything. You actually read the manga? :O I’m shocked.

I thought “Kurenai” could very well be used in the context of Murasaki, since, y’know, the colour is a contrast to white’s innocence, and then there’s the whole menstruation/loss of virginity thing that could be used if we’re talking symbols. Or maybe I’m just reading too much into it.
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