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This is bland. Nothing happens. When he's excited or flustered it snows around him and little snowmen pop out. It's cute the first couple of times. When you realize it's the only thing that will ever happen you might start getting annoyed. Oh, and when he's sick he turns into an 8 year old. That's it. If you like shows where nothing happens, this is for you.

For the record, I love slice of life anime. This to me was a slow death.

OMG this review needs more information... About an anime where nothing happens. OK, the ... colors are pretty. One person owns a cat and a couple episodes involve cats, and they don't do anything either. Anyone with a cat knows that's a lie, but the cat can't be more interesting than the main characters so they had to do that.

Hmm, there are 4 supporting characters. Two are really annoying. The other two may as well not be alive.

Um, they use every anime cliche imaginable, a summer festival and fireworks, Christmas date, beach episode blah blah.

Please tell me I've hit the minimum words....

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. ...

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary? ...

Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away, now it looks as though they're here to stay, oh I believe in yesterday...

Freebird!

I've seen a lot of shows with a bunch of pretty guys in them but this one seems different than the others. It's because it focuses on the different aspects of all the Buddhas, and each of the characters pretty much sticks to what they're considered to be in the religion. The argument that the characters are flat is pretty silly considering that they been determined by people worshipping them for thousands of years. They are what they are, aspects, not people.

The show is mostly about removing sin from the world and each of the Buddhist has a different way of going about ... that, some by healing, some by joy, and a couple of them by out and out fighting the sin which when big enough can turn into monsters and it that point it's generic anime.

The main conflict is between one guy and his former partner who work for the... Anti-Buddha? (I have no idea who the bad guy is but I'm sure people familiar with the religion would know) and it's a spoiler what came between them but the episode showing it is quite good.

Is the average shounen watcher going to like this? Probably not. But I think that anyone curious about the 13 Buddha's and slice of life shows might like this. It could probably be done better but it's not bad.

This is based on second half of one of the greatest manga ever written. They left a lot of the story out because they only had 24 episodes total, and while that included some of my favorite parts the heart of the story is all present.

Let's just get this part out of the way. The animation sucks. All the CGI from the first season is gone and everything has been replaced with stills for the most part. They show motion by overlaying some moving bubble layer on top of the audience and pianist whenever music is being played, and by panning over still pictures. ... There's very little actual animation.

The best part of this is the performances. They got some of the best young pianists from around the world to stand in for each of the different performers and they did incredible jobs. If you like classical piano this is worth watching for that alone. Or maybe buy the CDs.

I'm happy that they finally animated the entire story, if you can call this animation. But really I think what would be the best way to experience this would be to read the manga while the music from the anime is playing in the background.