Orthros no Inu

オルトロスの犬

The Dog Orthros or Orthros the Dog

The mythological creature (Orthrus - Cerberus brother) with two heads whom Heracles slays eventually.

I'm a Greek Myth buff, but that isn't why I watched this drama, and the only relation between the Greek figure and this show is the title and a hazy implication of there being a tie between the two stories.

This is a MANGA turned live action from Japan, believe it or not, about two young men who possess the opposite powers in their hand. One can cure any illness while the other can take a life.

The brother who can cure all ills has a black heart, and the one with the power to kill has a heart of gold.

I'm always fascinated by the strange fact that countries like Japan, which is pretty much Buddha oriented can toss around the word g.o.d. like they mean it. Anyone with super-human anything is god. Well, God with a capital G, but I can't go there since it's nonsense.

Huge diff between Him and gods in general - like mythological creatures, statues, and anything else unrelated to the almighty.

Orthros is about these two super-humans who are brought together by a female cop. She's out to bust a bad kid who happens to be the son of a prominent business man - the owner of Bears Pharm (funny, like a play on words there ... Bayer becomes Bears) who sells drugs, stabs indiscriminately, and lets victims rot wherever he fells them.

Yaotome's Kumakiri Masaru is that bad guy, and the female cop wants him busted for putting a high school girl in the hospital. The high school girl moonlights as a party-girl hooker at a club when she overhears a nasty story about another dead girl lying up in the mountains, whom the story refers to as a 'skeleton girl' (translator?).

I figured out toward the end that maybe they meant she was left to die and by the time the authorities found her, she was that, far gone already. I don't know.

Anyway, the high school girl is a student of the Dark god, Nishikido Ryo's Aoi Ryosuke. She goes to him for advice, and after she ends up in the hospital, Aoi feels obligated to get involved out of guilt. He ends up at the same rave our female cop attends for the same reason - to take down the baddy, Masaru - when a gun is drawn, the female cop gets popped in the arm, and then Masaru hands the gun over to a buddy who wants to give it a try. Aoi arrives, using his power to 'subdue' the guy, which kills him in the process.

Everyone is mesmerized, but not for long.

Lady cop can't bust Aoi even if he does turn himself in as a murderer because there is no conclusive evidence of his crime. The sexy coroner can't pronounce the boy's death as anything other than what it is ... an act of g.o.d.

Lady cop discovers Aoi's supernatural talent and asks that he accompany her to a prison, where his opposite has been incarcerated for ten years after being accused of triple homicide and awaiting his death sentence.

The so-called good g.o.d. wants to meet the bad g.o.d. and the meeting takes place. Good hand asks bad hand to help him break free so that he can go out and save the world of all their ills by killing the guard, whom he promises to revive once he's set free.

After doing the wicked deed and setting the good hand free, the good hand turns around and tells the bad hand that he's unable to bring anyone back to life.

Bad hand cries and feels betrayed.

Good hand is played by Takizawa Hideaki (Ryuzaki Shinji) and Bad hand is Nishikido Ryo.

As mentioned earlier, Good hand possesses a bad mentality while Bad hand possesses the opposite. They both have known about their special ability since they were young, and they both look at it through different sets of eyes.

Good hand knows how powerful he can become and yet hesitates to help unless the victim offers something in return, and Bad hand knows he's evil and therefore tries not to intermingle in society - yet he chose to be a teacher at a girl's high school. 

Whatever.

Aoi is a sweetheart, but the girls in his homeroom don't behave the way you and I would expect (or behave) if we had a teacher this fine, right? I mean, c'mon. Girls? High School? Ryo? The combination spells certain disaster, and you know it.

Whatever.

The whole point of this manga turned live action is to make us believe that while there is a God (or gods) who has all the power, that it is what it is because if we mere mortals were to come in contact with anything like Good hand/Bad hand, that we would eventually kill ourselves off trying to get at said powers.

"Cure me" and "Make me wealthy" alongside "Kill this jerk" and "Take me away" would fill the air on a daily basis - because we're human and therefore weak. UN god-like.

A politician has a heart condition yet climbs her way to the top, Prime Minister stuff, when the Bear/Bayer guy suggests she meet with Good hand for a cure. She says no and is afraid of Shinji until she ends up on her back in a hospital bed (of sorts) and Shinji walks in, asking what she will give him in return before placing his shining hand on her.

He ends up being pardoned for the triple homicide and she is cured.

There is a legend in their hometown - which is now underwater after a dam is built - that goes every hundred years or so, a couple will give birth to these creatures, and that the first-born will possess the good hand, so the second-born will possess the bad hand.

Throughout the 9 episodes we get glimpses of that legend played out in the form of Anime/Manga scenes. How the boys ended up being separated, how they ended up being manipulated by adults and had their power abused.

How they came to hate, loathe, and detest society in general.

Well, the good hand anyway. Bad hand got lucky and ended up being adopted by a loving couple while good hand wasn't so fortunate.

Good hand continues to manipulate his victims while also trying to get bad hand to come over to his side and help him ... with what, we're never quite sure. Good hand just keeps telling bad hand to get a grip and open his eyes to reality. Bad hand continues to struggle with his affliction and won't listen.

A majority of this show was about Shinji and his talent, or his lack of empathy and unwillingness to use his talent. It's random and subjective to the point of resentment on my part when he keeps aiming to save and then backs off for one reason or another.

Right. I get it already. Wakatta. He knows his limits, and he understands the implications. Great. Save one and the other suffers, save another and what's the point? Do only the young deserve to be saved and not those in their prime because ... what ... they're older? Does any of it make sense? If it doesn't, then what is the point in ...

Whatever.

The point turned out to be that having a bad hand is better than having a good hand because killing people who don't deserve to live is much easier on everyone, including the conscience, than saving people who might turn out to be deserving of death.

Again with the manga-mentality what-if's about irrelevant notions that spring to mind after too much wine, too little sleep, or by allowing the imagination to run wild for any amount of time.

Still, I watched clean through because of the hot guys and their long hair, tight bods, and pretty faces.

I watched because of the two leading men.

I watched because ... I wanted to see how it all turned out in the end.

It was okay as a time filler, but nothing more.

I now know that corruption, greed, power, and influence are what destroy any good in the world.

Thank you, Mr. Manga writer for helping me to figure out something I already knew, felt, understood, and believed before you brought it all home in your bizarre Manga-World way.

Now for the good stuff ~ 

I mentioned before about Ryo's ability to dazzle the eye, but this particular habit is too obvious, slightly disturbing, and entirely questionable as to it's actuality.

I wasn't the only one to notice, let's put it that way, and I'm not ashamed to say after staring at it for quite some time, I came to the conclusion that the pants just crease in the strangest of all places. OR ... 

His funny-boy sidekick, Yamapi suggested he try getting away with stuffing a rolled up newspaper just to see what kind of a reaction he gets from the fan base.

I've seen this before, though, in other shows/dramas/ads ...

Bad Guy in Chonmage Purin

Hyun Bin posing for ... something

I mean, sometimes you just can't HELP but notice, right?

Like this scene here ... opening, actually, like the rod shot of Ryo walking down a crowded avenue on a rainy evening, this took place a few minutes later, when the lady cop shows up at the Rave.

Dude obviously has his hand (get it? HAND! it's a running theme in this show) in the wrong place.
The reason I know it's obvious is his eyes. Look at what he is looking at, and it says volumes about my being right.
I'm not able to capture running footage, but I will someday, I swear. I'm not able to catch live action stuff, but if you watch this scene, guy is runnin' that hand back and forth, copping his fair share of feel. And why? Because she's defenseless. He's got her by the arm, she's supposed to be drunk, and there ain't nothing she can do about it. I hope, afterwards, that she took this fella aside and beat him down a little.
Just a little.
The rest of the stuff I caught on film ...

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Joker Yurusarezaru Sosakan

ジョーカー 許されざる捜査官

2010 summer drama from Japan that starred Sakai Masato as Date Kazuyoshi, Anne as Miyagi Asuka, and Nishikido Ryo as Kudo Kenji.

This was good.

This was JDo mystery/suspense good.

This was Sakai at his best, and with Nishikido thrown in the mix for eye candy appeal.

Ryo did a great job acting, too, though. Actually, he usually does, doesn't he?

I like Mr. Smiley Face.

I like Nishikido Ryo and JDo's that concentrate on mystery/suspense/detective stories, and I really like it when they hire Sakai to be the lead.

He received Best Actor award for this drama, and I would have to agree with whoever voted for him to win, too.

Dude has a long list of skills on his resume, and I'm making my way through everything available online the same way I did with Kimura Takuya, Yamashita Tomohisa, Takenouchi Yutaka, and Abe Hiroshi.

The only difference being our Mr. Smiley Face isn't in it for the eye candy appeal. He's the type of guy who grows on you with his personality and charisma, his selfless charm, and an undeniable persona that spell disaster for any woman NOT wanting to fall in love.

Joker is the story of a young boy who suffers through a horrific past and ends up under the disturbing yet strangely compassionate watchful eye of another cop after Date witnesses the gruesome deaths of his debt-ridden parents.

Date (dah-tay) becomes a detective with a keen eye for the not-so-obvious at crime scenes, and because of his laid-back, passive personality in the office, his co-workers aren't, too fond of him and his peculiar way of working on cases.

The story unfolds with a new girl entering the precinct to work alongside Date and his team. She happens to be the younger sister of his former partner, who was murdered - which is yet unsolved - and why she is so determined to bring the bad guys to justice. She wants to learn all she can in order to solve the mystery surrounding aniki's death.

The word JOKER was explained - kind a - during the end of this 10-episode drama, but it didn't help to make any sense, so I can't be of any help in that regard, either. Suffice it to say, though, that JOKER is the name of an underground police 'society' organization that takes matters into its own hands.

All perpetrators who are set free or exonerated due to lack of evidence or political power mysteriously disappear.

Ryo's Kudo Kenji is the precincts forensics specialist. He shows up at every crime scene to gather evidence and then analyze it. He's a playboy with an ego and immediately tries to latch onto the new girl, but she isn't having it.

This, by the way, is the only hint of romance, along with the fact that Date once dated a cop turned investigative reporter who keeps coming around snooping for a scoop. There is no romance involved, and anymore, I don't expect there to be unless the drama or movie is labeled as such. I have yet to see a JDo that does anything 'mixed' and probably never will. If it's about ghosts, then it's about ghosts. If it's about murder, then it's about murder, and if it's about ai, then you'll be guaranteed to see at least three kissing scenes. That's just the way it goes.

Still, even if we aren't able to see our favorite, leading men get it on with the lucky leading lady, at least we're able to stare at them doing other things, which is probably alright with more than just me, eh?

I can remember not liking Nishi when I was first introduced to him years ago. His eyes gave off a sinister vibe that left me quite cold. After watching him act in a few movies and dramas, though, it wasn't hard to change my mind and get on board with his millions of other fans.

He's hot, right? He also tends to show off a decent pocket rod on occasion, and that's always nice and ... unexpected ;-)

I still think that Japan has something over Korea in the story / actor / capture departments, but their use of cheaper film and lower budget sets are a turn-off.

Japan tends to delve deeper into fantasy versus reality, life experience versus make-believe, and true drama over 'what do the fans want' scripts. I appreciate it.

What I don't like is that at least 98% of what they deem as 'live action' is actually manga turned live action. A majority of what we watch is based off of some form of manga, and I'm tired of it already. Are there no more authors over there who write for a genre other than manga and kids? Or, is everyone from 90 down to 9 reading manga and therefore its just to be expected?

The cross-over from cartoon to reality is no longer just blurred but actual-factual, sad to say.

Or maybe there are no script writers? Producers walk into the studio with the manga in their hand and smile at the crew.

"So, who do you think would make a great leading man for this one, eh?"

Goofy.

Back to the show ~~~

Date is plagued by what he saw as a child, and plagued by the cop who supposedly 'saved' him from himself. This man kept convincing Date that he didn't do anything wrong, and that what he did was justified under the circumstances. Date grew up to become this ex-cop's slave of sorts, but his conscience never broke the spell.

He knew, despite his actions, that what he was doing wasn't right, and yet he continued up until the very end doing precisely what he felt was wrong.

It was cool in a bad-ass, tough-guy, you are SO not right for this part kind of way - which is why I keep telling you guys that Sakai-san is someone to watch, to root for, and to learn how to fall in love with. He's awesome.

Then our seemingly bumbling forensics specialist, Kudo, ends up joining the team. He's got his own demons from the past haunting him as well, which is why our Date-san decides he's okay and right as a third wheel in their nightly operation.

Each episode of Joker is a new story about a new crime being committed, and where a new culprit ends up Scot free due to some technicality in the laws.

Date and team work hard to bring the criminal to justice and offer some form of consolation to the victims family, but it never pans out, so the night-time Date (and Kudo) take matters into their own hands.

They don't kill the bad guys, but they do exact a totally cool form of justice.

As we get closer and closer to the end of the 10 episodes, answers start to be revealed in the form of whodunits and no way's that sometimes come unraveled near the end of an episode, putting us right back at square one.

I suppose it is safe for me to be able to say (by now) that the usual suspects with finger pointing in their direction at the very start are NEVER who they seem and NEVER end up being the bad guy.

I can also say that the ending for Joker hinted at another season, but this was 2010 and today is the end of 2013, so who knows if anything will actually result. I, for one, would be happy to watch another, ten episodes of something this interesting.

And ... the 'special' actually went beyond just a silly recap of everything I just watched, but not by much. Specials, to me, are supposed to answer all the unanswered questions, delve deeper into certain characters, and show us what happened AFTER the close of the last episode. Every special I've ever seen thus far has only ever rehashed the previous episodes, making no sense whatsoever.

Joker's special picked up where we left off, but then it showed the older scenes, but with Kudo and the girl cop wondering why this had to happen, why Date chose to behave the way he did, etc. It was better, but not good enough.

Let's just say that Japanese - and perhaps Asian nations in general - still have decency left in their bones if they think the crimes committed in this show were despicable and heinous.

~unforgivable ~

Being an American, I'm able to sit completely unaffected and immune to their sympathetic tears. Sign of the times.

The majority of these crimes were senseless (but, aren't they all?) and cruel, but I can't say it shocked me or made me want to wish evil will on the perpetrators. I just hoped they would die soon is all. Or, maybe the Christian mentality of 'oh well, God will get them when all is said and done' makes me not like the idea of revenge for the sake of revenge. Well, let me rephrase that ... I like the idea of revenge, as long as someone else is pulling all the strings and not me, and I think criminals deserve to be punished, this or that side of the law, but at the end of the day, I don't want to believe or accept that it's just a part of life and the way of the world.

What happened to both Date and Kudo as children upsets me, and child abuse is no joke, of course. Which brings up the question of 'is it any wonder, then, why some people grow up to be useless clowns with zero conscience?'

Yet, in our society, some of these clowns are simply the ill-advised and neglected children of the daycare generation with zero morals or upbringing who end up walking into a crowded mall or movie theater and opening fire.

I don't want to go there, though, because while Joker wanted us to think about such things, I didn't and don't want to. I know it's reality, and I know it's wrong, but unless I become an activist or a cop, I can only hope and pray for a change - not actually do anything to bring about that change.

Date and Kudo had a right, in a manner of speaking, to behave the way they did, but I don't know that we have a right to judge them, their behavior, or that of a killer or a victim. Everything happens for a reason, and I never believed that anyone has a right to judge anyone else.

Joker was a great show if you like mystery, suspense, and the criminal mind.

I liked it because of that and the fact that it starred two of my favorite, JDo actors.

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流星の絆 / Ryusei no Kizuna

Ties of Shooting Stars


This was a two-fer in that Kazunari Ninomiya AND Nishikido Ryo star in this 10-episode, 2008 JDorama about three siblings who sneak out of the house late at night in order to watch the Leonid meteor shower (despite the pouring rain and their father's stern warning to forget about it and go to bed), and when they return home, they discover the brutal slaying of their parents.

Of course, the three are sent off to an orphanage, but at least they remain together, and because Nino's Ariake Koichiis is the eldest, it is his responsibility to look after his younger siblings, who all vow to one day find and kill the perpetrator.

Fourteen years later, and when the statute is about to run out on the murder case (not that way in the States), Koichiis, his younger brother, Taisuke (Ryo), and their little sister, Shizuna (Erika Toda), have already set in motion their attempt to find the culprit and have him slain.

Koichiis works at a diner, Taisuke at a video rental place, and Shizuna in an office until the unreasonable harrassment by a senpai forces her to quit.

She wants revenge on the office manager, and with the help of her brothers, they manage to swindle him, which came a bit, too easy, so they start to swindle others who had swindled the sister.

All the while they continue to work the case of their murdered parents when, after more than fourteen years, and with the expiration date fast-approaching, the siblings have little, if any, confidence in the investigator in charge since that fateful night long ago.

What I picked up on and appreciated was the writer's sensibility in that he/she allowed us to see the adults through the eyes of or at least from the perspective of the Ariake children, who still believe what they perceived to be the truth without the benefit of growing up in understanding and knowledge of their parents true nature.

Also, there was plenty of great, Japanese food in this one - though they did regard the dish as Western fare (hashed meat, curry stew, or Shichūkarē).



An added bonus (for me) was that Kaname Jun also starred as Togami Yukinari, a rich kid whose father owns several, Western-style restaurants but Yuki-chan is in search of the perfect Shichūkarē recipe for the restaurant he is soon to be in charge of once opening day arrives.

Yuki-kun also falls for the little sister, whom he invites to the restaurant and serves her a curry rice dish based on a recipe he found among his father's personal belongings - and when she tastes the dish, it brings tears to her eyes, reminding her of the dish her late father used to prepare in a tiny but popular Western-fare restaurant he ran before his untimely death.

Turns out that Yukinari's father had a falling-out with Ariake-san, who loved to gamble and usually ordered take-out from Togami-san's food stall up the street.

Ariake told Togami that his food was awful, and that he had no right preparing Shichūkarē if he wasn't going to do it right.

All roads seem to lead toward Togami-san as the killer, which devastates poor Yuki-kun and completely confuses Shizuna, but the two brothers are determined to find out the truth and take their revenge.

There is a plot-twist at the end that I didn't see coming despite a few warning signs along the way, which always makes me very happy - when the writer can stump me.

If you haven't already, I recommend you give Ryusei no Kizuna a try - I think you'll enjoy it as much as I did.

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アテンションプリーズ

Attention Please!





2006 JDorama that stars

Ueto Aya as Misaki Yoko

and

Nishikido Ryo (that dude from NEWS) as Nakahara Shota - an airline mechanic working for JAL, where Yoko hopes to become a flight attendant even after finding out that the guy from her 'punk band' days isn't, actually interested in girls who wear a uniform - which was the only reason she decided to apply for flight attendant training in the first place.

I didn't rate this drama quite as highly as others I've seen, and not because I didn't care for this story because I did, actually - it just wasn't, quite up to JDorama standards as far as I was concerned.

Didn't care for the theme song, either - but this time I remembered the MUTE button.

In each of the eleven episodes, we watch as our young, energetic and totally clueless Yoko goes through the motions of flight attendant training while incurring the wrath of a sour-face matron instructor not even involved directly in Yoko's training.

The woman in charge of her class is a beauty with poise but who also has that sour lip position a majority of the time.

Yoko is loud, carefree, and she dresses funny, but even after finding out that the guy she was in love with isn't interested in her or chicks in a uniform, she decides to go ahead and learn how to serve tea to passengers at 30,000 feet.

Ryo's Shota held true to his 'Ryo' expression throughout, and he was even rude to Yoko on occasion, but believe it or not, he actually cracked a smile here & there - or was it just once that I noticed and was so shocked, it stuck with me for a few, more episodes?

Regardless, Shota was cool, aloof, and a help to Yoko every time she felt like walking away from the monotony of her training.

Attention Please! focused mainly on the rigors of training for this type of job, which helped me to better understand the inner workings of what on the outside appears to be a glamourous position in life.

I recommend this if you are snowed in, have the flu, or a long weekend with no plans.

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Last Friends / ラスト・フレンズ

2008 Fuji TV drama that stars Nagasawa Masami, Ueno Juri, Eita, Nishikido Ryo, Mizukawa Asami, Yamazaki Shigenori, etc.

The synopsis said this is about new struggles of new people in today's modern life, and I disagree.

Instead, it's more like modern people dealing with issues that have plagued mankind since the beginning of time (as usual).

'Gender Identity Disorder' (funny term for homosexuality/lesbianism) is nothing new, spousal abuse is nothing new, incest is nothing new, and child abandonment is nothing new - along with alcoholism, rape, and everything else we as a society deem unacceptable thrown in the mix.

Still, I was actually amazed at how quickly and effortlessly Last Friends managed to suck me in and kept me up til about 3 a.m. so I could watch the entire show in one sitting.

Better still was the story's ability to throw me off entirely and make me think one way throughout, only to have the exact opposite of what I was predicting occur.

In Last Friends, there is a girl, Michiru, with low self-esteem who comes from an unstable home life where her alcoholic father abused her mother until she and the girl had to run away from debt collectors on the father's behalf.

Michiru was close to a girl in middle school named Ruka, who happens to be a lesbian and races motocross for a living.

When the girls meet again after four or five years, Ruka falls deeper in love with Michiru, who has no idea her best friend is gay.

Ruka had also bumped into Eita's character, Takeru, a good-looking guy working as a hair stylist, a make-up artist, and as a bartender by night.

At the time Ruka reunites with her first and only love, however, Michiru is on her way to her boyfriend's apartment because he has begged her to move in with him.

Ryo plays Sosuke, a suit working in Child Welfare who by outward appearances seems like a great guy, but not long after Michiru moves in, she discovers her caring boyfriend is actually a mental case who likes to use his fists to get his way.

That part pissed me off almost instantly and made me throw up my hands, thinking, 'aw HAAL no - not gonna spend the next, few hours watching some hunny with a weirded out personality abuse a dopey girl too stupid to get out of her own, damn way.'

That was the first of a few surprises, though.

I actually couldn't NOT watch - I had to watch - I needed to keep watching because I truly wanted to know what would happen next, and I honestly love that most about these foreign dramas.

Ryo is one of them 'love 'em or hate 'em' kind of guys in real life, and I'm guessing a majority of the comments made at aznv.tv were from fans who like the guy, because while EVERYONE thought he did a terrific job of shocking the hell out of them by playing a bad guy with evil eyes, none of his fans could believe that he was capable of actually 'looking' the part.

I think he's cute in a mysterious, I wonder what I'd find after unwrapping this piece of candy sort of way.





This is how he looked in Last Friends:



and I don't see much of a difference, do you?

Personally, I've always seen the 'sinister' aspect of his personality behind his eyes, so I don't know what all the hype was about to be honest.

I saw him in the drama as I have always seen him in pictures, so my opinion of him AND his character, Sosuke, had no bearing on my opinion of the drama at all.

Anyway ~ a love triangle or quadrangle of sorts begins to emerge, where Michiru loves Sosuke, Ruka loves Michiru, and Takeru loves Ruka.

Eita was the guy who ended up taking me by complete surprise more than anything else about this drama.

When I first saw him, I couldn't help but giggle at his big ears, but once I realized that Nagasawa Masami also had big ears, Eita's didn't stick out so much anymore - well, yes they did, but I got used to it and became more drawn to his Takeshi Kaneshiro-esque appearance instead.

He could definitely pass as the little brother anyway!

In the drama, Takeru was a thoughtful, attentive man with a huge burden on his shoulders that gave him insomnia while also forcing him to have to endure the agony of an abnormal aversion to the female body.

Ruka was the main character as it turned out, and she went through a myriad of stereotypical BS from start to finish with the guys at the race track behaving sexist, the girls there behaving bitch, and with her deep, dark secret eating away at her until she ends up having to seek counseling.

In centuries past, homosexuality was commonplace in Japan since the then Emperor was extremely fond of young boys, thus making it fashionable, and since they're mainly a Buddhist nation, I find it difficult to understand how or even when their puritanical notions sprang up- like it's always been here in the USA.

Whatever ~ as far as the drama is concerned, I really liked Ueno Juri as an actress, she played the part flawlessly, and I even wished my hair would spike the way hers did so I could accept a short hairstyle on me with more grace and aplomb.

For a majority of the show, Ruka fought to protect Michiru from Susoke, and since Takeru was in love with Ruka, he ended up doing a majority of the protecting so that Ruka could concentrate on winning races to qualify for the main event.

Hikaru Utada's Prisoner of Love wasn't a bad tune, but in every episode, the subbers had the Hirigana and English lyrics splattered on the screen in huge, blue type, and after the third episode, it became annoying until I chose to walk around the house until the theme song ended and I hurried back to the computer to watch the next installment.

(I need an excuse to exercise anyway, so it wasn't that much of an inconvenience)

Speaking of subtitles, Kioku Fansubs did an awesome job with practically flawless English, so kudos to them (even if the white over blue at the start proved annoying until they changed to normal font, viewable color).

Last Friends was really good and well-played by all the characters, so I highly recommend you give this one a go if you haven't already (or if you quit early on, like some of the people at aznv.tv said they did because of the violence turning them off) - honestly - don't DO that! Taking chances is a part of life, and in this case, you'll be surprised to discover what you missed by being so narrow-minded or squeamish.

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