Manga and Anime reviews 2

Review 9: Towa No quon (Welcome to the garden)!

A new one, that my boyfriend has already seen a few times before; his friend Jessica gave us the box set and we spent last Saturday watching the first season... Was it as good as my boyfriend made it out to be?

Seeing as it was David who had recommended the show, it was obviously going to be good since he always knows about the awesome new shows that I still haven't seen yet, and he has watched a lot more shows than me! I wasn't too sure to begin with, it seems so cliché to just have a bunch of children with "special abilities" these days, every anime just seems to revolve around that since it's what everyone enjoys. But this one was not too different, but there was just something about it that I thoroughly enjoyed.
Probably because the way the show played out wasn't like a lot of other shows that I've recently watched.

For starts, each episode is about an hour long; which means that every episode is like a small film, which then leads on to more films and more films... You get the idea. since we had the DVD's with us, the episodes flowed quite smoothly and it felt like I was just watching one giant 6 hour long film that flowed smoothly and made sense... well sort of anyways.
In the first three episodes, I just kept asking questions about the show and what was happening, why the guy looks like a fish, why are there cyborgs, why are they trying to kill everyone... He just eventually told me to try and shut up and just watch the show since I was REALLY starting to bug him.The show has a bizarre and well structured mysteries and plot twists, many of which where quite fun to come up with theories for them as the show went on... But that also made me ask even more questions about what was happening and David was getting slightly annoyed with me again. But then again, he does try his best not to spoil all of the good parts, but he still doesn't know that it'll just make me ask more questions about the show... when will he learn?

Our main story revolves around the amazing theme park, Fantasium Garden (not too amazing really). The main building is built around a large tree, which has been stood in place for over a 1000 years; the tree links in with the main characters back story.
Within Fantasium Garden is a series of children all of which have "special abilities" that they where born with, when found by our main protagonist, he'll hopefully take them back to Fantasium Garden where they can work and live without any worried of being tracked down and tested on... Get to that in a moment.

The people with special abilities call themselves the Attractors, and the people who the want to capture them belong to an organization called Custos.
The Attractors are descendants of a clan, whom of which had these special abilities and lived together away from anyone who could cause them any form of harm because of their abilities. Then Custos work under something called the "order" who believe that the Attractors need to be caught and most probably killed. They also test have cyborgs that work for them, as the Attractors are stronger than just regular humans; they keep track of the Attractors, and whenever an attractors powers are activated it appears on their scanning systems so they can hunt them down again. They also call the Attractors, Larvae and they're seen as monsters with no thoughts or feelings to the Cyborgs, otherwise the cyborgs wouldn't hunt them at all.

The Attractors clan however; and a quick warning for spoilers...

Spoilers...

Yeah, we all good?
The, now known as, Attractors came from an ancient clan of people who lived together in peace with only others who possessed the same powers. This clan wasn't really connected to the outside as they didn't want to scare away other people by using their powers or having their powers activated by accident. Quon is our main character and he lived peacefully within the village with his brother Towa, they both possessed powers from the clan but Towa's scared him. One day, a man injured his leg and Towa instantly healed it for him; the man was petrified and ran away. The same evening when there was a ceremony, the man had bought people from his village to attack the clan and ended up slaughtering them all apart from Quon and Towa. Quon survived and took revenge for his clan whilst Towa hid himself in a crystal that they offer to a "sacred tree"... His powers scared him so he sealed himself away in the crystal.