Alternative TitlesEnglish: Traveller Yami, Hat and Book Synonyms: Yami to Bōshi to Hon no Tabibito, YamiBou, Traveller of Darkness, Darkness, Hat and Book Traveler, Traveller Yami, Hat and Book Japanese: ヤミと帽子と本の旅人
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Type: TV
Episodes: 13
Status: Finished Airing
Aired: Oct 9, 2003 to Jan 8, 2004
Duration:
24 min. per episode Rating:
R+ - Mild Nudity
L represents licensing company
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Ranked: #19702
Popularity: #686
Members: 6,045
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SynopsisHatsuki is a highschool student living alone with her classmate, Hatsumi, who she has a huge crush on. On Hatsumi's 16th birthday, she is suddenly surrounded by green light and disappears in front of Hatsuki. She manages to follow Hatsumi with the help of a being resembling a fat baby chick (literally), ending up in a place called the Great Library, which is full of different worlds stored in books. Hatsumi wasn't there, though, so the search for Hatsuki's great love begins and involves traveling from book to book.
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Related AnimeAdaptation: Yami to Boushi to Hon no Tabibito
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Ranivus
43 of 57 people found this review helpful
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13 of 13 episodes seen
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| Overall |
7 |
| Story |
6 |
| Animation |
7 |
| Sound |
7 |
| Character |
8 |
| Enjoyment |
9 |
::QUICK REVIEW::
Story: 6 (Constant alternate universe style)
Art: 7 (It's ecchi-tastic! Everything else is nice too)
Sound: 7 (Lots of girl groaning in this show)
Character: 8 (So... much... fanservice [/drools])
Enjoyment: 9 (I enjoyed the hell out of it)
Overall: 34/50 = 7.4 ~7.0 (It'll play with your emotions)
::FULL REVIEW::
Ohkay okay, its time for a proper review of this piece. Yami to Boushi to Hon no Tabibito (Yamibou for short) Is a heartwarming coming of age tale about a love between two super cute sisters. Their world gets torn apart when Hatsumi mysteriously disappears into thin air right in front of her sister Hazuki. But as Hazuki is about to find out, theres more to this adventure than she realizes.
The story itself feels something similar to an excel saga or magic shopping district in terms of overall feel with our main characters jumping into different 'books' and such. Don't worry it'll be explained to you pretty early. Hell in the first 6 minutes of episode one, you find out that theres girl love, incest, and drama. So this show knows that it's series is short and they compensate by trying to let you understand the Yamibou universe in detail. Of course this style of story telling is not immune to plot holes and inconsistencies, but they cover it very well with quite a gratuitous amount of fanservice.
If your a fan of large boobs you'll definitely love this show. If not, just be prepared. There are more than enough fanservice shots in EVERY episode. Even during the heat of battle, one is not immune to losing a top or having entire sets of clothes dissolve in to thin air. It obviously doesn't progress the story whenever things like this happens but it is a good indicator at how well they managed to produce a fairly good quality show ...from an artistic standpoint. Every one of the girls were drawn with sexuality in mind. Head to toe, and from costume to bare skin, its all there obviously to cause quite a stir from the viewing audience.
The characters are mostly made with a moe attitude in mind. You got your clumsy stupid girl, your tsundere, and even a silent type. Nothing is really new in the personality department (with the exception of the girl love), but you'll still feel intrigued as to what will happen next for Hazuki and company. Even the little side characters are cute as well. I laugh every time i hear that chicken :P Mind you, the characters aren't comparable to like a Key character (Kanon, Air, etc) But they are better than average.
Overall it was a good anime viewing experience worth the 3+ hours watching it. Although I was sort of confused as to who this show was being catered towards because the overall story is very girl oriented, but the fanservice is very boy oriented. Either way, if you like the Alice in Wonderland style of story with loads of skin give this a shot. It'll play with your emotions. read more
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Ookamihime
5 of 10 people found this review helpful
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13 of 13 episodes seen
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| Overall |
9 |
| Story |
8 |
| Animation |
9 |
| Sound |
9 |
| Character |
9 |
| Enjoyment |
9 |
This is all personal opinion, but...
I really enjoyed this anime. While I have not played the game, I still found it intriguing because there were so many little details that you have to put together. The episodes don't go in order either (at last I think they don't) so that adds to the puzzle. While the plot isn't very ingenious (person in love tries to rescue lover, etc) I still found the characters quite awesome. Hatsuki is probably one of my favorite anime characters of all time, because she is very dedicated and her emotions are very real. Plus she has some mad sword skills. I enjoyed it for the adventure too, because you never knew what kind of crazy situation Hatsuki would end up in next. Its like...shoujo-ai, badass, and crackish all at the same time. read more
Recommendations
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This is similar in the way the characters are drawn. The main character, Hatsuki, looks and acts a lot like Kurusegawa Himeko. This is the same for Hatsumi and Himemiya Chikane. If you look at this anime you will find yourself thinking of Kannazuki no Miko because of the characters and just because of the way the story generally makes you feel. I suggest it because of the magic in it, the comedy and because if you liked Kannazuki no Miko and the relationship between Himeko and Chikane then you will like this anime.
The charackters are allot simulair. The plot a little to. A girl falls in love whit here sister and searchs for a way to save here in the other anime they're 2 friends who fall in love and one need so find a way to save the other. Of course there's magic in to in bote.
Both series rely heavily on shoujo-ai as a plot device an emotional outlet. The main characters are almost counterparts in each series, Himeko (KNM) and Hatsumi (Yamibou) form a type that is played against Chikane (KNM) and Hatsuki (Yamibou), to the point that they even look alike. KNM has been hailed as Yamibou's successor and rightly so.
This definitely will give you the same great yuri pleasures that Kannazuki No Miko has.
Both a romance series and have action in it, whether it's mecha action or just adventure action.Both also shows the development of each other's feelings toward each other (Girls). If you enjoy Kannazuki No Miko, you will definitely enjoy Yami to Boshi to Hon no Tabibito.
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Its not a garantee that if you liked yami to you'll like utena, but the series are similair. they both have a strong tomboy-ish heroine that tries to save her lover though she's secretly betraying her. they also share the girls love element, the sword fighting, the magical worlds, the funny/annoying little pet and a lot of bishie characters :)
Both have:
- A strong and tomboyish female lead who's good at using the sword (Hazuki/Utena)
- A strange, kind, quiet, and seemingly innocent co-protagonist (Hatsumi/Anthy)
- A funny and/or annoying little creature (Ken/ChuChu)
- Magic and fantasy
- Shoujo-ai
- Incest
- Bishounen
- The same glossy appearance and feeling
- A plot which is confusing and complex at times.
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Opening Theme"Hitomi no Naka no Meikyuu" by Kayo Aiko (eps 1-13)
Ending Theme"Eien no Inori wo Sasagete" by Sanae Kobayashi
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