~Anyone who like anime, sure like tis one, KARAS ~
Tis one is combination of matrix and final fantasy 7:advent children
It a wonderful animation ever created. Lot of special effect and action. <hehehe… no XxX stuffz la>
The animation is combined wif 2D and 3D, mostly is 3D. So it’s a supreme animation… Damm cool and kickass

Alternative title:
鴉 -KARAS- (Japanese)
Genres:
Science Fiction
Number of episodes:
6
Vintage:
2005-02-07 (TAF Pre-Event in Hollywood)
2005-05-28 (Japanese DVD Volume 1 Release)
2005-10-29 (Japanese DVD Volume 2 Release)
2005-11-26 (Japanese DVD Volume 3 Release)
Ending Theme:
"Selenite" by Rurutia
Official website:
Tatsunoko’s KARAS Site
The Karas.net (Japanese)
Fansub website:
Karas Fansub
Description:
Karas Seen
Tatsunoko’s latest creation, Karas–a six-part OVA due for imminent
release in Japan–represents a dark departure for the animation studio.
“We always do heroic works with handsome characters.”
[Ippei] Kuri (president of Tatsunoko) remarks. “but Karas has a dark
hero, and that was a genre we really haven’t done before.” It may share
a bird motif with Gatchaman, but that’s where the similarities end:
Instead of regal eagles or elegant cranes, the crow (“bad birds who
live in nasty places,” Kuri quips) was used as the basis for Karas’
armored lead.
Director Keiichi Sato, who also conceived the
show, explains that in the world of Karas, human and yokai coexist. The
yokai are traditional Japanese apparitions-akin to the bathhouse
customers in Spirited Away-that are invisible to humans. In each city,
a yokai takes the form of a young governing priestess, and upon her
command, “someone is sent out to preserve the balance between humans
and yokai-that someone is there Karas.” To maintain status quo, they
either heal or mete out punishment on either side where necessary-but
Echo, a Karas watching over Tokyo since the Edo era, goes renegade and
raises hell in the human world. “The more humans fear yokai, the
stronger the yokai get. He starts to go crazy with that kind of
thinking.” Echo’s lust for power threatens to topple the balance and
needs to be stopped. “Yuri [Tokyo’s yokai turned governing priestess]
has sent out several Karas in the past,” explains Sato, “but they just
can’t hold a candle to Echo. The main character, a guy named Otoha,
seems particularly well-suited to the task, so he becomes a Karas, and
that’s how it starts.”
In order to faithfully realize the
hero’s design, Sato turned to 3D. “The more details you add, the harder
it is to animate,” he remarks on designing for traditional animation,
which includes his retro-styled mecha of Giant Robo and The Big O at
other studios. “I’m very picky, so I ended up doing a lot of designs
that ended up stressing the animators.” His work on three live-action
hero shows (at Toei), culminating with Abaranger (“Power Rangers DINO
THUNDER”), was a different experience. “The spatial portion of the
design gets expressed on screen. I thought the work was very suited to
me. Once I got more feedback [on Karas], I was wondering how I could
express those designs without robbing them of their soul, and 3D was
the answer.”
Not that he’s abandoned 2D completely. Most of
the work’s other elements retain a traditional look, and he’s also
mixing in a 2D Karas that appears at the start of action sequences.
“Halfway through you swap him out with a 3D Karas using effects,” Sato
says. “We’re trying things you don’t see shows doing all that often.
Its just my way of having some fun.” Still, mixing 2D and 3D poses
certain challenges. “There are a number of different things that look
unnatural to the eye, but the way I think of it, those are the things
that make for interesting footage.”
After much consideration,
Sato decided not to use motion capture to animate the hero. “I wanted
to draw out the feeling of animators who work in 3D. If you use motion
capture, it’ll look real of course, but there’s no sense of magic in
it, nothing amazing. You never really give it the chance to turn into
something tricky and neat.” Sato also sought to infuse Karas with
visuals that stretch beyond traditional Japanese art, creating a look
he describes as “Asian Gothic”; influences include Western gargoyles,
Korean Hanhul writing and Singapore’s Merlion statue. And although the
story is set in the real-world Shinjuku district, familiar surroundings
take on an otherworldly atmosphere. “We purposely did things like
taking every syllable in Japanese and coming up with a Chinese
character for it. None of that writing actually exists anywhere.”
Adorning the building and show signs, the writing looks like Japanese
at a glance-but isn’t. “Young people in Japan will see it and go ‘What
the hell is this?’ That’s the kind of reaction I want to evoke.”
-August 2004 NewType USA
"鴉" is the Japanese character for Karas,
so the full Japanese title, "鴉 -KARAS" works out to "Karas -KARAS-"
however it is not referred to in this way. It is simply called "KARAS"
or "The KARAS."
Gallery:
This are some of the pictures…<if wan more, plz go to the fansub or the official site>


For the readers, plz don’t get me angry… Hehehe.. All the facts are copy from the other website and so on… <lazy writing… anyway it veli cool and nice animation>
Plz buy ori DVD… Support ori DVD…
<who cares anyway hehe :>