xxxHolic Kei

 

xxxHolic Kei is a sequel series of xxxHolic. The characters of this anime has relation with few other animes namely Clamp in Wonderland 2 1995-2006, Tsubasa Chronicle, Tsubasa Tokyo Revelations, Tsubasa Chronicle 2nd Series.

Title: xxxHOLiC Kei (xxxHolic - 2nd Series)
Type: TV Series, 13 episodes
Year: 04.04.2008 till 27.06.2008
Categories: Fantasy, Seinen - similar
Producers: CLAMP, Production I.G
Genre: comedy, horror, mystery, supernatural

Synopsis: Yuuko is a witch who grants people's wishes, but in return the person has to give up something precious. Watanuki Kimihiro, a man who has visions, encounters Yuuko and she promises to get rid of the spirits that torment him. In return Watanuki must work in Yuuko's shop and help her grant other people's wishes. Still working to get his wish complete, Watanuki finds himself into more mess than he can handle when certain facts about his everyday life gets revealed and when he needs to learn the lesson of Yuuko the hard way.

EP	Title
1	Spider`s Web (Kumonosu)
2	Left Eye (Hidarime)
3	Half (Hanbun)
4	Buying Dreams (Yumekai)
5	Kohane (Kohane)
6	This Flower (Kono Hana)
7	Drawing Water (Mizu Kumi)
8	Whisper (Sasayaki)
9	Gossip (Fuuhyou)
10	Awareness (Kidzuki)
11	Alone (Hitori)
12	Truth (Hontou)
13	Return Gift (Okaeshi)

This series is one of the anime series that is listed in my Top Anime list.

My personal reviews

Animation - 3.5 / 5

The drawing style for xxxHolic is purposely drawn to make it stand out from any other anime we watched. Expect to see long hands, arms, legs, fingers and body. It may seemed like a failure anime but this is what makes it different from any other anime. Apart from the character drawn unusually, the rest of it including the scene are pretty similar to other anime but with simple and clean colouring.

 

Sound - 3.5 / 5

The background music did pretty well when the anime move on, however, there's still rooms for improvement. The Japanese character voice is something rather typical to any other anime but it suit the whole scene and the characters' personality. Other than that, the opening and ending music are not quite notable.

 

Story - 4 / 5

I like the story pretty much. Just like what the synopsis stated, Yuuko played her role pretty well for granting wishes and Watanuki as usual is very clumsy. The whole story attracted me pretty much as it is something that we often heard from the Chinese/Japanese society. Some taboo and some legendary stories as well.

 

Characters - 3 / 5

As mentioned before, the character voice are rather typical. The thing that I dislike is what you may hear it over and over again. And the stubbornness of the character played by Watanuki makes you think it's ridiculous (the part which he adores Himawari very much). I guess this is what makes the story move on.

 

Enjoyment - 4 / 5

I can't deny that this series genre is somewhat the genre I like. It involves some supernatural things with some explanations of the happenings. At least, it's like you are watching live action movie about taboo stuffs, but this is far better. Anyway, I believe there's still rooms for improvement for this story though. Perhaps, I'd been expecting too much from it. Overall, I like it very much.