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Saint Seiya: The Heated War of the Gods

Alternate Name: 聖闘士星矢 神々の熱き戦い (Saint Seiya: Kamigami no Atsuki Tatakai) Director: Shigeyasu Yamauchi Year: 1988 Trailer: In the cold mountains of Siberia, Hyoga rescues a man who was attacked by bandits. Nearly to death the man mentions the name Asgard. Several days pass, Seiya, Saori, Shun and Shiryu wondered what happened to Hyoga and head to Asgard to investigate for themselves. Arriving at Valhalla, the Lord of Asgard, Dolbar along with his right hand personnel, Loki never heard of Hyoga. Noticing evil cosmos, Seiya sences it from Loki and the other Odin Saints known as God Warriors. Will everyone find Hyoga or will the God Warriors be in everyone's way? There were plenty of action, but my only gripe is that the characters get or give a few punches. The one that was giving or taking the punch is down in a couple of hits. I'm not saying give long action battle scenes or anything of that sort. Rating: ☆☆☆             Rent it

Saint Seiya: The Battle with Eris

Alternate Name:  聖闘士星矢 邪神エリス (Saint Seiya: Jashin Eris) Director: Kozo Morishita Year: 1987 Trailer: Three heroes Seiya, Shun and Hyoga visit Saori who is known to Athena to them at an orphanage. Meeting Eri who was once an orphan herself has a crush on Hyoga, both sitting outside star gazing. A shooting star passes by and Eri makes a wish. When Hyoga leaves, Eri searches for the star, but instead discovers a golden apple. Possessed by the goddess of discord, Eris kidnaps Athena to absorb all of her energy. Will the heroes rescue Athena and save Eri from Eris's possession? Story may be a little confusing with no knowledge of the series, but entertaining other wise. Rating: ☆☆☆             Rent it

Classmates

Alternate Name: 同級生 (Doukyuusei) Director: Shouko Nakamura Year: 2016 Trailer: Two unlikely boys in an all boy school, Rihito Sajou and Hikaru Kusakabe. Sajou is an honor student who gets perfect test scores, and Kusakabe plays in a rock band as well as the girls find him popular. Before they would've never met each other until one day Kusakabe offers to help Sajou for their upcoming chorus festival and the two begin to interact with each other. Will Sajou and Kusakabe get close or will they decide to pass each other by? This film did an interesting concept of braking down each segments in seasons as well as the transitions are done well. I'm not really into the shouenen ai genre, but I thought of the the viewers especially the female viewers out there. Rating: ☆☆☆             Rent it

Magical Sisters Yoyo and Nene

Alternate Name: 魔女っこ姉妹のヨヨとネネ (Majokko shimai no Yoyo to Nene) Director: Takayuki Hirao Year: 2013 Trailer: Two witches, Yoyo and Nene live in a place known as Magical Kingdom who specialize in curses or to decurse. Discussing to a woman who is looking for her sister. Telling Yoyo and Nene that her sister disappeared twelve years ago. An unforeseen tree appears in front of Yoyo and Nene's house. Unfamiliar to Yoyo are buildings embedded in the tree and she explores and stumbles to modern day Japan. Figuring out what is going on Yoyo makes a deal with two brothers to decurse their cursed parents. Will Yoyo figure out why she is in modern day Japan. As well as why the curse is on the brothers parents? The characters weren't fully fleshed out also the story felt stretched. Overall I wanted more! Rating: ☆☆☆☆             See it