Fantastic Children
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For centuries, a group of strange children with white hair have been appearing again and again, their origins and purposes unknown; yet always, it would seem, they are searching for something or someone. Now, in the year 2012, they have come to the South Seas to search. There, they encounter the young martial artist Tohma, who has been helping two runaway children from a nearby orphanage, Helga and Chitto. As Tohma learns more about the mysterious children, he also discovers a startling truth about his new friend Helga. A story unfolds that goes back centuries and across the stars, and will change everything in Tohma's and Helga's lives.
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Now and Then, Here and There
Alt titles: Ima, Soko ni Iru Boku
Amidst a beautiful sunset, Shu is violently whisked away to a grim future devoid of water, and empty of hope; a place where children are forced to become soldiers, and kill countless others in the name of King Hamdo. Shu's companion is a mysterious girl named La La Ru, who may hold the key to survival. Now, he must concentrate on the only things that matter: escaping Hellywood, and finding a way home.
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add recBoth Fantastic Children and Now and Then, Here and There feature simple character designs and child protagonists, which in each case belies the tragedy and hardship in both series. Each involves people from another world (which features figures of cruelty) invading ours to capture a quiet, etheral young girl, who is protected by a brash young boy who has made her acquaintance. Now and Then is the more shocking of the two, but I think they're quite complimentary.
Tragic, melancholy, and full of excellent exploration of the human condition. Oh, and bad things happen to children. Now and Then, Here and There does all these things just like Fantastic Children, only BETTER. The main thing to take note of is that Now and Then, Here and There is far less about the suspense but also more original in content.
Focussing on the struggle of younger, and probably more sane, heroes both NT:HT and Fantastic Children build up a story expertly with an evil protagonist you will come to loathe. Dark and twisted, these are certainly not Hollywood happy endings. Both shows are very engrossing and will certainly not be to everyones tastes. However, I think fans of one will enjoy the other.
Noein
When Haruka, Yuu and their friends decided to go ghost hunting, they had no idea the "ghosts" they'd find would turn their lives upside down. Black-clad and wielding quantum powers, these knights from the future are after an artifact of immense power that they hope will save their dimension from destruction: the Dragon Torque; and Haruka seems to be the key. As factions within the knights violently disagree on how to proceed, Haruka and the gang are caught up in a fight with the Shangri La, in an existential battle where fates of entire universes are decided.
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add recFantastic Children and Noein share the same feeling of mystery, have unusual graphics, involve children, and deal with questioning the characters' identities. Fantastic Children is darker than Noein, though. If you liked one, you'll surely like the other.
Fantastic Children and Noein are both directed towards a younger audience, however; the stories are told through an intricate world with complex reasoning. Both anime are a sweet combination of science fiction and fantasy, and their plots deal with similar issues such as time travel and exploration of another world. There is also a heavy use of supernatural powers from characters of both anime. (example: flying, creating energy beams, running at the speed of light)
The first thing i noticed between the two, were the smilar characters. lots of characters, dressed in black, from a different timespace/world. with a similar mission on earth.. to bring back a certain person. Both are pretty dramatic, altho Noein surely isnt as dark as Fantastic children, still.. if you watched one, i bet you'll see the resemblence right away!
Haibane Renmei
- TV (13 eps)
- 2002
A young woman quietly falls to the earth, escorted by a solitary crow. This sort of dream, as many other before have dreamed, comes just before being reborn as a Haibane, a charcoal-winged angel. On the outskirts of the walled-in city lies Old Home, a haven for Haibane to study, live, and learn, while waiting for their chance to ascend to the heavens and escape the confines of their new world. Rekka is the newest inhabitant of Old Home who wants nothing more than to remember her past and discover the secrets of her kind. Together with Reki, Kuu and plenty of other new friends, Rakka will laugh, explore, and search for the meaning of their existence in the process.
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add recThe plots, animation style and overall level of action of Haibane Renmei and Fantastic Children are very different,yet these two anime share a certain commonality in their sometimes dream-like pace, and the deep level of characterisation they both contain.
Watching Haibane Renmei or Fantastic Children, you are seized by the characters and their universe, in a way that cannot be ignored. Once these anime have their hooks into you, they don't let go.
If you are a fan of one of these shows, you may find the artwork of the other strange, but if you give it the time it takes to get into the story, you'll find how similar they are in mood and depth. And you'll love them both.
Fruits Basket
- TV (26 eps)
- 2001
Tohru Honda is a compassionate girl who is down on her luck. Her mother having recently died, she has been forced to camp out in the woods for shelter. However, things start to turn around once she is invited to live with class hunk Yuki Sohma and his family... but all is not as it seems! Yuki's family is burdened with a dark curse which causes them to turn into the animals of the Chinese zodiac once hugged by a member of the opposite sex... and Honda may be the only one who can help them.
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add recFruits Basket and Fantastic children have similar tthematic and emotional backgrounds. Both animes deal with mysterious strangers, doomed for generations to a tragic fate. Trauma, love, forgivemess and redemption give both series their emotional impact.
Fruits Basket is more intimate and comedic, fitting into the structure of high school romantic comedy. Fantastic Children explores the same emotional ground in a more epic setting, involving the fate of worlds, power struggles, life and death. (Less funny.)
Please Save My Earth
Alt titles: Boku no Chikyuu wo Mamotte
- OVA (6 eps)
- 1993
Remnants of a past life on the moon swirl in Alice's dreams after she overhears two of her classmates talking about mutual dreams they are having. Banding together, they set out in search of others who share these dreams, and for answers. All the while the pressing question is, do these memories of a past life determine the course of the present?
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add recBoth deal with characters whose current lives are affected by events that happened in their past lives and both explore the past and present lives of some of their characters. Fantastic Children has more action than Please Save My Earth, but if you liked the idea of past lives affecting current lives in one, you'll surely like the other.
