Kannagi

[Kraco]

"An art student named Jin Mikuriya carves a statue from the wood of the Kannagi tree only to have the statue come to life in the form of a goddess, who has now taken over the statue. He and "Nagi" work together to destroy the impurities that are gathering in the town." -ANN

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Episode 1 h264 - Ayako
Episode 1 xvid - Ayako




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I paid attention to this series after enjoying Kamichu, hoping it would be something similar. After one episode it's hard to say if there are similarities as such but this was interesting by its own right. There's certain kind of straight-forwardness in the characters so far which appeals to me, and while not exactly hilarious a few scenes have been funny enough. The graphics and animation aren't bad either. I'll keep watching.

[SamuraiOdin]

Watched the first episode, and it does a decent job of introducing the two main characters, but that's it. I'm interested to see the next few episodes to see just how they develop everything (including the school life, and the guy's father).

[Lucifus]

Hmmmmmmmmmm.







I like it.

(Needed to kill the no post message -_-)

[NeoBear]

Hmmmmmmmmmm.







I like it.

(Needed to kill the no post message -_-)

yes i too like it its cute i like how they get along and it feels kinda natural not forced its like he reacts to her like a male but not like a horney male and she just looks at him like hes a normal kid kind of like Lina and Goury but without all the eating =O

[Ryllharu]

Kannagi 02 (h264) - Ayako
Kannagi 02 (xvid)

This series has really surprised me. It's a lot more amusing that I thought it might be. Nagi is hilarious, but also has that mysterious, serious air around her. Certainly something aided by Haruka Tomastu's considerable range. The series may not have the best art, but it makes up for it with all the motion going on the frames. There's a lot of shifting hair, blinking, fidgiting characters, and fluid motion. We even have an appearance of Miyuki Sawashiro as Jin's childhood friend.

This episode had lots of fun moments, and enough serious ones as well. You kind of feel bad for Nagi though, she's pretty helpless in most situations. Her acting however, is impeccable. Not only did she trick Tsugumi into believing her crap story, she tricked Jin for a while too.

I do wonder when we will see the girl that looks almost exactly like Asagami Fujino from Kara no Kyoukai.


I like the OP, the animation is really funny, especially the choreography part. The ED is nice too. Both sung by Haruka Tomatsu, our heroine.

[animus]

I read the manga to just about here, before there were out of scanlations and I just stopped keeping up.

Good episode, very entertaining.

[Marik]

[Ayako]​_Kannagi​_-​_02​_[XVID][313110F1].avi

Kannagi - 02 - Fixed. Had encoded Episode 1 's Script onto Episode 2 before going to sleep. Sorry.

[Marik]

THIS TIME NO V2!

[Ayako]​_Kannagi​_-​_03​_[H264][01113F7C].mkv

[Ayako]​_Kannagi​_-​_03​_[XVID][B96DD969].avi

Not many are watching this show, eh?

[Kraco]

Finally the Sister (from the church) was introduced, even if not before the very end of the ep. However, while I knew beforehand that she will also remove impurities, and thus compete with Nagi, I certainly didn't foresee she's Nagi's younger sister. It'll be very intriguing indeed to see whether they will say a word about why she's (at least outwardly) a christian if she's a shinto goddess's sister... Tapping into some extra power?

Somehow I think I'm not the only one who saw from two kilometers away that the whole haunted storeroom was just a prank orchestrated by the seniors. Still, it had a good enough execution.

Not many are watching this show, eh?

I like this series. Most of the characters are interesting. Actually there has been no bad characters so far. Since this looks like a character driven story, that means a lot.

[DDBen]

Not many are watching this show, eh?

I'm definitely watching this one and really liking it so far. Just at the start of the season I prefer to watch the first few episodes of just about everything to determine what I want to stick with. Kannagi has certainly earned its spot already but during setup chapters there isn't a lot to discuss.

Overall a very funny series so far without any bad characters or insulting episodes so far. Thats more then several series have offered up at this point.

[animus]

There's honestly not much need for discussion at this point. Nothing's REALLY happening, atleast not yet. Hopefully that changes. If not it's just gonna be like a semi-slice of life.

[Ryllharu]

I think you need to reassess what you've been watching animus. This is the only series this season that has really exceeded my expectations. It is a largely character driven series, much like a lot of the other comedy-with-hints-at-romance series this season, and there hasn't been one episode to not make me laugh yet. Most of the jokes have been perfectly timed and executed. Nagi even uses old man puns.

For how proud she is about her goddess stature, Nagi uses a 300 yen plastic wand she found at the department store to exorcise evil. Finally, someone called her out on it at the end of this episode. That's great comedy outright, and now it is one part of her sister's attack on her. The series will continue on with Nagi feeling inferior as she potentially loses her divinity and balances between her current personality and her serious Goddess modes.

Nagi still has super keen sense of observation. Not like it was hard for the viewers, but Nagi, without even knowing either of them for more than a week, has already determined that both Jin and Tsugumi like each other.

I even enjoyed Tsugumi freaking out about the reason she has another uniform and that the old one fits Nagi better, only to turn around a few minutes later after overhearing about Jin's porno mags and declaring her temporary victory.

Then we have the side characters, foremost among them is the overly self-conscious, "Too good for the manga club" self-righteous, and self-absorbed okatu freak, who of course is named...Akiba.

[animus]

I know it's good and fun, I just meant that there's really not that mysterious element yet to garner random inquisition and guesses on what's happening.

[shinta|hikari]

Nagi makes this show. The rest is just filler until more of her.

[David75]

Nagi makes this show. The rest is just filler until more of her.

Do I read "CC like" in your comments?
Sure, a nice strong, sometimes capricious, yet loving and lovely female character is always a big bonus

[shinta|hikari]

Actually, it is more Holo-like, who is my top 2 or 3 favorite anime character.

[animus]

Episode 4 XviD - Ayako
Episode 4 h264 - Ayako

[Kraco]

This series is getting more and more interesting, which is a very fine state of affairs considering all the disappointing series of this season. I kind of hoped Zange's reason for being in such an outfit would have been more than cosplay or a coincidence, but I guess it can't be helped. Now she's one more evil "christian" appearing in anime... (The Japanese must really hate us.) An intriguing character, though. All sweet outside and all sadistic inside (I wonder if that's the opposite of Nagi actually. A mirror image would make sense considering they were originally one split goddess). The whole deity business is getting far more serious than the first episodes suggested.

[Ryllharu]

I don't think there's that much of an anti-Christian bias. To me, it seems more like they are calling out "fake Christianity" in Japan, which is actually very prominent in the weddings circuit. Japan is full of fake churches who's sole purpose is Western wedding ceremonies. None of them are consecrated churches, and if I am not mistaken, the Catholic Church is quietly upset about the practice.

Zange, being the evil bitch that she is, is just playing along with that exactly as Nagi said. Since her tree is in the (potentially truly) consecrated church ground, she's doing the same thing. Impersonating a nun for the purpose of shifting worship to her.

I definitely agree on the split personalities though. Nagi's true side is more like what she shows to Tsugumi, and the brief scene we saw at the beginning of the first episode and with the kittens. Nagi, though upset and a little crazy about losing her tree, is a benevolent goddess, while Zange has always been trying to steal worship.

Now I am very curious exactly how much Zange was telling the truth. Is the possession of Hakua really consensual on both sides? Or did Zange convince her like some overly pushy timeshare salesperson? Their conversation in the church was not as illuminating even after going back to it. Which one of the two claimed she was in control?

[KrayZ33]

just picked this up and watched the first episode.

seems to be really good so far, it has a very nice opening and I like the animation. (looks like movie/ova quality)

edit:

btw how come that zoom player and my VLC player use different sub-fonts?
I can choose of 2 different subtitles with VLC.. one with translator notes and comments and one normal, however both subs look a lot worse than they do in Zoomplayer, is this normal? (and the subs with translator notes doesn't exist in zoomplayer somehow)

I don't use VLC anymore but I wanted to make a screenshot of Nagi when she wrapped the toast around the Oishinbou (funniest scene if you consider what they are talking about ^^), so I just noticed it.