Crystal Blaze


Glass Maiden

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Alternative Titles

Japanese: クリスタル ブレイズ
English: Glass Maiden
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Information

Type: TV
Episodes: 12
Status: Finished Airing
Aired: Apr 9, 2008 to Jun 25, 2008
Premiered: Spring 2008
Broadcast: Wednesdays at 01:15 (JST)
Licensors: Maiden Japan
Studios: Studio Fantasia
Source: Original
Genres: ActionAction, Sci-FiSci-Fi
Duration: 24 min. per ep.
Rating: R - 17+ (violence & profanity)

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Score: 6.131 (scored by 54485,448 users)
1 indicates a weighted score.
Ranked: #89672
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Popularity: #5183
Members: 16,882
Favorites: 10

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Synopsis

Rags Town is the garbage dump of Japan. The place where people who want to forget their pasts run to. In this town, where the rules strictly forbid asking about the past or getting to know people, there is small detective agency called S&A Detectives.

The story revolves around Ayamana, the inseparable pair of misfit wannabe detectives, the case Manami takes on impulse, and the trouble that arises from it. On the case they find a woman who is abnormally hot, and who is being chased by a bunch of women with guns. After being dubbed Sara, the detectives try and figure out just what is going on with her. At the same time, all over town teenage girls are burning up and turning into glass. The government is covering everything up, but the detectives, as well as a nosy reporter and the local police, are determined to find out what is happening.

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Characters & Voice Actors

Ayaka

Main
Takahashi, Mikako
Japanese

Manami

Main
Arai, Satomi
Japanese

Akira

Main
Ueda, Yuuji
Japanese

Sara

Main
Kobayashi, Yuu
Japanese

Porilyn

Main
Rokkaku, Seiji
Japanese

Shu

Main
Miki, Shinichiro
Japanese

Monica

Supporting
Itou, Miki
Japanese

Kito

Supporting
Inoue, Norihiro
Japanese

Kyrie

Supporting
Sawashiro, Miyuki
Japanese

Job

Supporting
Matsuyama, Takashi
Japanese

Staff

Kase, Mitsuko
Director, Episode Director, Storyboard
Kameyama, Toshiki
Sound Director
Shimizu, Kazunobu
Episode Director
Satou, Keiichi
Storyboard


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Opening Theme

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"Never looking back" by Rie
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Ending Theme

1: "qué sera-sera" by TASO (eps 1-8)
2: "Kokoroyo Kaze ni Nare" by TASO (eps 9-12)




Reviews

Jun 18, 2016
This a great example of noir in anime. If you like film noir, or even more modern noir inspired movies like L.A. Confidential, then Crystal Blaze is definitely worth your time to check out. It was enjoyable, but I also found it almost lost my interest at several points in the series.

I enjoyed the story, but I think that it since it really only focused on one main overarching plot it burned a little to slow at times which may cause some to give up on this one and drop the show.

The art was nothing special, but did incorporate some of the defining noir ...
Jul 4, 2010
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Mixed Feelings
…you are walking down through the foggy wet night of an old badly lit neighborhood when you suddenly spot a humming neon sign on top of a brick thorn wall with a small wooden door by it. Walking steadily towards it the echoed water splashing sound caused by your steps against the water on the pavement, give place to a still stuffy mellow deep bass from inside the place. As soon as you open the door your eyes instantly loose themselves on the tick mist of smoke against the small green lamps on each table, which provides the only light to the small cramped ...
Feb 18, 2016
This was one of very few shows that I actually think would have been executed better as a movie. I just didn't feel like it needed to be stretched out across 12 episodes.

Where to start... Well, I like to begin with what a show did well, and unfortunately there's not much to say here. I thought the plot was interesting enough. Pretty typical for a human-experimentation centered sci-fi, but interesting nonetheless. When it comes to the story and any attempted plot twists, it wasn't that Cystal Blaze was boring, just very predictable.

Okay, let's just say it. This show's biggest flaws: the characters were ...

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