Reviews/Anime/Kannazuki no Miko

This anime is different. What appears to start out as your usual boy likes girl, boy gets a mecha and kicks butt, and all is right with the world, is not what happens.

Two girls, Chikane and Himeko, that appear to meet by accident at school find out they are the Pristess of the Moon and the Sun. It is their duty to save the earth from the evil Orogai. Their friend Souma is actually one of the Orogai, but he swears to protect the girls from harm. Souma confesses to Himeko that he will stay by her side, just as he has since they were children. So far that's your standard story.

Standards change quickly. Every time Souma helps protect the girls his body dies a little more. The evil beings that live on the moon and are set on destroying the earth are strangely modern. In fact among the seven are a manga writer/artist, a modern teenage girl, a little cat-girl complete with a tail and ears and a very large syringe as part of her attack, and a girl that sports more crosses than Sister Rosette. The chief Orogai is Souma's brother.

And then I must give a warning for this anime. Although it has the girls of the school being in "love" with Chikane because she is beautiful, we go a little further with it. In the last episodes is a scene of Chikane raping Himeko. This is not your normal story.

Although it was hard for me to watch some of the episodes, by the end you realize that everything you have seen does have a reason. Why the evil beings want to destroy the earth. What is the true relation of Himeko to Chikane. It all comes together in the last two episodes. Watch this for the complete story, and try not to judge the characters beforehand.

Guest review by Jay