Posted by IAmBored
November 11, 2012
Hello people :)
This is a comedy-action anime.
La storia della Arcana Famiglia (アルカナ・ファミリア) Arcana Famiglia, Italian for "The Story of the Arcane Family")
The story is starts in Regalo Islands, an island that specializes in trading. There is an organisation called Arcana Famiglia, which is some sort of like a police force in the area. They protect the island from threats, within and outside the island. So they patrol in groups to protect the island and maintain peace within.
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| Sumire - Mama |
There is a 'Papa' (Mondo), who is the head of the family, and a 'Mama' (Sumire) who is his wife, and also the judge of the family. They are like the father and mother figure in the family. They are also the parents of the only female protagonist in this story, Felicita. Go watch it to know how to pronounce it... Trust me, at least 50% will pronounce it wrong the first time they see her name. Me included.
So this family is different from others as each of the members have a contact with Arcana cards (Something like the tarot cards). They each have a special power and they have the mark of the card somewhere on their body. Everyone has a different spot on their body.
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| The family |
The anime starts with the Papa's birthday!!! He announces that there will be a Arcana Duello among the Arcana users to choose his successor. The winner of the duel will not only win the "Papa" seat, he also gets a wish and his daughter's hand in marriage. Of course the ojousama (lady, as called by many of the members in the family) is furious and refuses to let her future be controlled by her father. As such, she decides to train and participate in this competition as well, so as to choose her own future.
Together with Nova, who is her cousin and childhood friend, and Liberta, who is also her childhood friend, they set out to win the duel with a common goal: To win the duel and not let Felicita get married. As such, they encounter quite a number of challenges and they grew stronger after facing each one.
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| Pace - Mr-I-love-l...y |
Other minor characters include Luca, the attendant for Felicita. Pace, who is a big eater with huge strength. Debito, the guy who always calls Felicita "Bambina", which means little girl. Dante, the bald guy with enormous guns and lastly, Jolly, who appears to be the antagonist. I am still a little perplexed by him...
The Bad:
1) TOO SHORT!!! MAKE A SEQUEL YOU PRODUCERS!!! YOU CALL THAT FIGHTING???
2) *cough* Errr... The humor in the anime is either pun, or someone gets beaten up in a funny way... And it is not exactly the HAHAHA kind which I like...
3) Well, this anime has the potential to become a really good fighting anime like hitman reborn, but something was screwed up halfway...
4) The characters were not exactly well developed, there are like little stories per episode to show their lives before they join the arcana, and how they trained their powers etc but...
5) The little romance that the producers put in the anime is interesting but pathetic.... Come on, how many more triangle loves do we need? Cliché...
6) Awkward conversations...
7)
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| LOL |
The Good:
1) The graphics are really nice :) Good animations.
2) The soundtrack...?
3) -________-
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| FINALLY!!!! |
So basically, it is a total let down. I was really expecting an awesome anime. But what do you expect from an anime that is without a manga? This anime originated from a game for PSP with the same title. So basically the producers like dug into their brains to make a pathetic storyline. Ok maybe it is not that pathetic, but its focus is like, lop-sided. The first episode already mentions that there will be a duel, so one would expect it to immediately focus on the preparations or the emotions for the upcoming battle etc...
BUT NOOOOO, we have to deal with the emotional crap of the characters' sad past and random awkward stuff that took up more than 70% of the entire series. Then everything else was squeezed into the final few episodes. COME ON...Its not like there are a load of episodes for you to squeeze everything into...
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| The shortest duel ever |
All in all it was a
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| O_O |
For those of you out there who are considering watching this, if you hate any of the points I mentioned before, then don't bother watching... SERIOUSLY. I am never a person to discourage people from watching an anime, yet you will always find an exception somewhere somehow. Otherwise, I do wish that those who are going to watch this anime keep an open mind about this anime, and do remember that however awesome the beginning is, it is going to go downhill very fast... To those who are looking forward to waste a bit of time, I do welcome you to watch this anime :). It is quite a fun piece of work to watch if you do not have high expectations.
I have no words to describe how disappointed I am...
*sigh*
Producers who are seeing this don't sue me. I am giving my honest opinion about the anime. I am not paid to do this...
"La storia della Arcana Famiglia" debut on 1st July 2012 and is fan-subbed by Commie, HorribleSubs, NyanTaku & Hatsuyuki. The anime ended on 16th September 2012 with only 12 episodes. It ended quite early... :(
I used a lot of "..." today. It represents my lack of vocabulary to express my inner thoughts.
IAmBored
Edited by Tr3xus
