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Monday, 21 December 2015

Top 15 Best Supernatural Anime Shows List

1.) Fullmetal Alchemist - Brotherhood: This is the second anime television show to be based on the immensely popular manga "FullMetal Alchemist", the plot continues where the last anime series had ended. The story showcases two brothers Edward and Alphonse also called "Al" in the series, they were both raised by their mother "Trisha" alone after they were abandoned by their father who happened to be a renowned alchemist in his time.

The boys too developed a keen interest towards alchemy, and later when they lost their mother to a serious illness both of them tried to revive her using their incomplete knowledge of alchemy. The experiment was a failure as its is not possible to conduct a Human transmutation, and it is also considered as a Taboo because of its Volatile nature. There is a big explosion where Alphonse's body is completely disintegrated and Edward looses one leg, at the last minute Edward sacrifices his right arm to bring back his brothers soul which he enchants into a Armour Suit.

Both these brothers head towards the capital city after burning their childhood home, and the aspire to become government sanctioned State Alchemists. And the story further shows their adventures and missions as State Alchemists.

2) Fairy Tail: This popular anime shows has been incorporated from the Japanese Manga "Fairy Tail" which is a successful Shonen Manga since 2006. The Story is narrated from the point of view of "Lucy Heartfilia" who runs away from her rich family to live the adventurous life of a teenage wizard, she is invited to the Fairy Tail Guild by "Natsu Dragneel" who has few abilities of a dragon and spends his time traveling through the kingdom to find his missing father "Igneel" who is a real dragon that has gone missing along with all the other dragons a few years ago.

The story advances when a team is formed that has "Erza" and heroic warrior of the guild who can switch armours, "Natsu" a fire mage with dragon powers, "Gray" and Ice Wizard and "Lucy" who later discovers her ability to summon celestial spirits. They take up challenges and missions to honour their guild, and they also face quite a few villains along the way.

3.) Darker than Black: Known as "Darker than Black : The Black Contractor" this series has been animated by Bones Studio and was aired in Japan on 5th April 2007. The story features a strange event that creates a "Heaven's Gate" in south America, which is followed by the opening of "Hell's Gate" In Tokyo, it changes the landscape of the skies and many stars are replaced with fake stars. This event causes many people with various superpowers to emerge, they are called "The Black Contractors" and they all have unique supernatural skills and are kept secret from normal people.

The story unfold and shows that America has lost power over a secret organization called the Syndicate, and a Chinese contractor called "Hei" is shown undertaking several assassination and espionage missions and he later finds out Syndicate's plan to destroy all the contractors.

4.) Code Geass:
This Japanese anime series has been released on Oct 5th 2006, and later made it way as a English Release in 2007 thanks to Bandai Entertainment. The Story takes place in time where the world has been dived into three main superpowers which are The Holy Britannian Empire, The Chines Federation, and The European Union.
The Story begins where The Holy Britannian Empire has defeated japan with its new weapon called "Autonomous Armored Knight", they take away all the rights from the citizens of Japan and name it country Area 11 and the citizens were called "Elevens".
Then series showcases the former prince Lelouch VI Britannia who has somehow acquired the mystical power of "Geass", that he uses to destroy the Britannian Empire because they have caused disharmony and problems in many countries.

5.) Mushi Shi: This show is based on a Manga By Yuki Urushibara, and has been translated and released in many countries including North America, Aurtralia, and The United Kingdom. The Story is set in Japan in a hypothetical time period but shows some technology from the 19th century, the main focus of the series on creatures called "Mushi" that supposedly possess supernatural powers and abilities.
Mushis are primitive creatures that are not visible to normal people, but there are few people like "Ginko" who can see them and help the people who have been affected or attacked by the Mushi. Ginko is a self proclaimed "Mushi Master" and also the main character of the series. The show is about his adventures as he tries to find and help people affected by the Mushi.

6.) Claymore: A Dark Fantasy manga that has been incorporated into a Anime Series, the series begins in a time where the world is infested by shape shifting humanoids called "Yoma" who eat human beings. A rebellious group make their own Human Yoma Warriors to defend themselves and kill Yomas, these warriors are all female and carry "Claymore" swords and have Silver coloured eyes.

Both Yoma And The Claymores are made with demonic energy called Yoki, when a particular warriors uses too much Yoki they are awakened and they transform into a Super-Yoma called An Awakened Being. There are 47 Island districts and 47 Warriors ranked according to their powers and abilities. Some high ranked warriors possess special swords skills like inhuman speed, vibrating the sword to make it invisible and many other skills like stretching the arms and fighting with two blades.

7.) Death Note: Inspired and based to the Japanese manga "Death Note" this popular shows is made by Madhouse Studios, it features the story of a young boy named Light Yagami who finds a notebook with supernatural powers that belongs to a shinigami named Ryuk. It is shown that this books gives the user the power to kill anyone just by knowing the name and the face.

Later the story advances when the Character "Light" decides to use the book to cleanse the world of all evil and become a God thereafter, a detective called "L" is sent to stop him from being successful in his plans. Later a character called "Misa Amane" who discovers that "Light" is the first Kira, Tracks him down and convinces him to be his boyfriend in exchange of her obedience.

8.) Fate/Stay Night: Unlimited Works: A Visual Novel and fantasy manga which has been made into a hit anime series, it is the story of Shiro Emiya an amature mage who summons "Saber" a Mystical female warrior. Later, both of them are dragged into a secret magical tournament called "The Fifth Holy Grail" that has many powerful mage participants in pairs of Masters and their Servants who are reincarnated heroes from history.

The prize of the tournament is a chalice that has magical properties that can grant any wish or desire of the victor, Shiro and his Summoned Servant Saber are shown fighting in this tournament. Later they both team up with a Master called Rin and her Servant Archer who dislikes Shiro.

9.) One Piece: A popular Ongoing Shonen Manga that was serialized in 1997, its showcases the adventures of a character called Monkey D.Luffy who unintentionally gains the properties of rubber after eating the "Devil Fruit". He is a young and funny man who travels the ocean with his crew of pirates "Straw Hat Pirates" in search of a unique treasure called "One Piece" to become the Pirate King.
It has been a consistently popular show since more than 15 years, and the chronicles of this rubber pirate is liked by a huge number of fans across the world.

10.) Bakemonogatari: This Anime is based on "Monogatari" a series of Light Japanese Novels written by Nisio Isin, and Bakemonogatari was the first novel that was made into an anime by Shaft Studio. This Series is about Koyomi Araragi a last year high school student who survived a vampire attack and is trying to live a normal life despite being half vampire , he later starts helping a group of girls who deal in apparitions, mythological beasts, and spirits.
Further as the story advances he discovers a case of a weightless girl called Hitagi Senjougahara who refers him to Meme Oshino who helps to restore Koyomi back to being a human again after his vampire attack.

11.) Bleach: This Anime has been quite popular around the world after Adult Swim started airing the show in The United States on 9th September 2006, it has also been dubbed in many other languages including French, German, Spanish and Portuguese because of its immense popularity.
The story showcases the adventures of Ichigo Kurosaki a normal boy who gets the powers of a Shinigami after Rukia Kuchiki makes him a substitute soul reaper, further he discovers that some of his friends at school named Sado Chad, Uryu Ishida and Orihime Inoue possess unique powers of their own. Together they carry out the mission where they break into the soul society to save Rukia who is on a death sentence for breaking the rules of the Shinigami.

12.) Witchblade:
Loosely based around the American Comic Book "Witchblade", this anime series features an entirely new story with new characters. The Story baseline is the same, when the world was made there was an artifact which was sought by many greedy men for the enormous power it possessed, but it chooses the bearer by its own will and usually it only chooses women. It is not clear whether it is a weapon of God or the Devil, The Bearer of the Witchblade must find the answers herself and maintain a constant balance between ecstasy and ruin.
The Story begins when Masane Amaha a kind-hearted but not very smart woman looses her memory in a Earthquake that devastated Tokyo, but is found unharmed holding a baby in her arms and the witchblade bracelet locked onto her right hand. Many years later she discovers that bracelet is legendary artifact known as the Witchblade, and big corporations and government agencies are trying to get their hands on it.

13.) Elfen Lied: Elfen Lied is a Japanese manga which has been incorporated into a Anime series, it is set up in a world where humans interact with Diclonii a mutant Species that looks similar to Humans but can be distinctly identified because of their Horns called Vectors, they also have transparent arms full of telekinetic energy that can manipulate or easily destroy objects within their reach.
The story is about a teenage Diclonii girl who is rejected by humans and is seeking subsequent revenge, she is tracked down and hunted continuously by "Kohta" and "Yuka" and their special assault team.

14.) Requiem of the Darkness: The Story takes place at the end of the Edo Period, a young writer "Momosuke" who is bored in life decides to write a book of a hundred ghost stories and encounters with spiritual beings.
He sets of on his research for the book and encounters a mysterious group on three people called the "Ongyou", these people turn out be detectives who are trying to reveal their own truths and bring justice to those who have wronged them. When the writer meets them he faces unbelievable truths that challenge his morals, and he starts seeing things that are far from normal.

15.) Another: The Anime series is based on a Japanese Horror Novel written by Yukito Ayatsuji, in which Koichi Sakakibara is transferred to a school where years ago a student named "Misaki" studying in class 3-3 had suddenly died. The Students and Teachers behaved like she was still alive, and this was followed by a strange figure appearing in the graduation photo that year.
Koichi finds a girl called Mei Misaki who is ignored by everyone in the class, later some students and their relatives start dying in mysterious ways. Koichi and Mei try to get to the bottom to these mysterious killings and find connections to the Death of "Misaki" that occurred many years ago.

Thursday, 3 December 2015

The Best Studio Headphones for Mixing 2016

Many people are are investing in headphones to stay in grove with the ever booming music industry. There is a confusion in the market about studio headphones because of the vast popularity of the Beats by Dre and some others, every second headphones is being named studio reference and people are buying them blindly. It is crucial to know what you are buying and get into nerdy speculations, we have made this work easy by classifying the top best best studio headphones for mixing.
This will give you an idea what exactly you need from your headphones, check if its matching your budget and most importantly it will show you the opinions that have been created by user experience.

Top Studio Headphones In The Market Today:

1. AKG K 701 Studio Reference Headphones - Open Backed







Pros: It Produces an excellent low end sound ideal for Classical music, Movies and crisp & light music in general.


Cons: Bass is not as impressive as it should be, due to this rock and heavy music may not sound appealing with these headphones.

The Basic Headphone: All in all these pair of AKG are excellent in terms of built quality and sturdiness, the self adjusting leather headband gives a perfect fit but it may need some time to get adjusted with. This line of headphones has been immensely popular among some of the older audio geeks because of its relative similarity with the AKG K1000 that was once termed as the best headphone available. If they are used to listen to jazz, chill- ambient, minimal and classical music they perform incredibly.


2. The Sennheiser HD 650 Open Backed Professional Headphones







Pros: Well balanced sound delivered, comfortable even for long hours of usage and good value for the price.

Cons: It need to be used for quite sometime for it to acquire its potential sound, an amplifier is need to compliment the sound.

Good Value : These headphones are specifically designed to deliver superior acoustic sounds, and the clarity delivered is unmatched at this price. Quite popular with the professionals and well as audiophiles because of its fantastic mid-range details and clear high and lows. They work better with an audio system or an amplifier, as the true potential of its clarity can only be achieved with good amp but overall its excellent for acoustic music.



3. Shure SRH1840 Professional Open back Headphones:



Pros: Its comes with premium quality earpads to deliver high comfort, light-weighted but quite sturdy, also comes with replacement earpads and an extra set of detachable cables.

Con: Its is highly priced, and not ideal for a recording studio.

Audiophiles Choice: Despite is high price tag the Shure SRH1840 is known to be popular among many audiophiles, as it has a significantly higher frequency compared to average headphones. The Noise Cancellation feature makes it a good pick for Mixing Music in noisy backgrounds, and delivers great quality even at low volumes.


4. Beyerdynamic T5p Tesla Audiophile Headhone:

Pros: Excellent Bass impact, effective noise cancellation and superior comfort.

Cons: Large in size and also quite fragile.

World Class Quality: Can be used as a home front or as a portable headphone, the durability is impressive and these headphones can last for many years. They are also pretty loud because of the 32 ohms impedance making it ideal for mixing, it even works pretty well without an amp.



5. Hifiman HE560 Planar Magnetic Headphones:

Pros: Ultra-Clear sound and unmatched details, light weighted and comfortable and has Planar magnetic drivers.

Cons: It mostly a home headphone, need an amplifier and a good audio system.

Elegant Design: The brand Hifiman is dedicated to producing premium headphones and the He-560 falls nothing short of it, with Planar magnetic drivers it delivers crisp sound and makes even the tiniest details in the music audible. The Mid-range is exceptionally good and the bass is also quite impressive.



6.The Sennheiser HD 800 - Circum-Aural Dynamic Headphones:

Pros: Top notch build quality and design, accurate sound and detachable cables.

Cons: Very Expensive, and doesn't go well with smartphones or iPods.

Top of the Line: This is the most expensive headphone made by Sennheiser and has truly HD output, it is known to sound like a complete home entertainment system instead of a studio headphone. It is aimed to be the best sounding headphone along with a striking appearance and hence it is very highly price.


7. The Hifiman HE1000 - Planar Magnetic Headphones


Pros: Unmatched output, the sound quality is alive and balanced at all ranges.

Cons: Very Expensive and built and finishing could be better at this price.

The King of Headphones: After a long production period Hifiman has delivered a masterpiece, and this headphone has no competition to its glorious sound quality. The Drivers perform exceptionally due to a new nanotechnology in which makes the output substantially responsive.
Designed mainly or in-house use it also has protective mesh to keep dust and others things away from the drivers. Even the box is made with high quality grain leather that is designed especially for these headphones.