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Title (English) Travellers Yami , the Hat and The Book

Title (Japanese) Yami to Boushi to Hon no Tabibito

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Fantasy Novel

Notes The title translation is taken from the fansub and has the merit of making some sense - seemingly Yami, Hat and Book are all character names.

Classification -

Synopsis An episodic series in which the characters have magical adventures in different worlds. A great library contains many books, each a record of a different world.

Review The first episode, set on a period steam train travelling across flat frozen countryside, with various soldiers and secret agents on board is quite good, and full of excitement, suspense and action. There are cutaways to the magical characters. However there is at least one production failure in this episode, when we belatedly realise that a character who was 101% obviously a woman is supposed to be a woman with her breasts bound to flatten them and disguised by wearing male clothes! The next three episodes are quite different, featuring the lethal misbehaviour of a disturbed boy, Gargantua. Another distraction is that the female magical characters tend to go about under-dressed in mens' magazine type lingerie and pawing each other in a lesbian manner. Their outfits seem little to do with the plot and more with the series' origin as a adult video game. (GC)
Thank goodness for fast forward on viewers, or else I would have never noticed the abrupt change halfway through the first episode of "Yami to Boushi to Hon no Tabibito" while scanning it the first time, and I might not have watched the whole thing through. And that would have been a loss on my part.
"Yamibou", as a number of fans are referring to it, starts out as if it is going to be one of those horribly pretentious and deathly serious fanboy fantasies that usually turn up as OAVs. Hazuki has long blue hair and a sad expression as she remembers the events of the past couple of weeks with great remorse � her unrequited love for the older, but petite, blond and mute Hatsumi has turned into despair after seeing Hatsumi kiss a boy. Now, with her heart aching in her bosom (and there are plenty of shots of ample bosoms of both girls for the fanboys), Hazuki goes into Hatsumi's room just before midnight to give Hatsumi a secret kiss as Hatsumi turns 16. But before the kiss can occur, the clock strikes 12 and Hatsumi starts to emit a bright green glow and transforms before Hazuki's eyes. The light floods the entire room, and even lights up the town for a moment, before disappearing along with Hatsumi.
At that moment, as if the channel has been abruptly changed, we find ourselves suddenly in what seems to be a magic girl show on very bad drugs. Into the room appears a small, fat, chartreuse bird-thing that is complaining about being too late to go with Hatsumi. In a scene somewhat reminiscent of something by Rumiko Takahashi, Hazuki grabs the bird-thing by the throat and threatens it with a letter opener unless it takes Hazuki with it to follow Hatsumi. The bird-thing finally agrees and they set off � right into another story.
Yes, as a narrator says during the transition, Hazuki and the bird-thing move into a different story line while searching for Hatsumi. This story line is set in sort of an "Orient Express" or "Siberian Express" type of world, with spies, bombers, secret police, femme fatales and the works. And in the middle of this goes Hazuki, still looking for Hatsumi. In the meanwhile, the bird-thing is sitting back in the baggage car with its vain mistress, who is wondering why they aren't out there looking for Hatsumi themselves. The bird-thing is quite pragmatic � it would rather have the secret police hassle Hazuki then hassle them.
So what we have here is something that appears to be akin to "Abenobashi Mahou Shotengai" as far as changing worlds goes. And since AMS was one of my favorite series of last year and of all time for that matter, I'm looking forward to see if "Yamibou" can continue to surprise and entertain me in a similar manner. I suspect that this will be the second series from this Fall that I will likely buy on R2 DVD.
(Dave Baranyi)
I just watched "Yamibou" ("Yami to Boushi to Hon no Tabibito") episode 5 and I've got to say that I'm slowly becoming disenchanted with this series. The little fill-in bits are still intriguing, but the "book" parts of the episodes are pretty banal, particularly the one in episode 5. Somehow, I've got to think that the writers of this series thought that they would do a variation on "Abenobashi Mahou Shotengai" crossed with Silkie's story line from "Tenshi ni Narumon", but they decided to focus on fan service instead of jokes or plot. Well the fan service is there, but that is getting pretty old pretty fast and the jokes and plot are going nowhere. I want more "meat" to the story, not just more skin from the girls.
(Dave Baranyi)

Credits Series Dir: Yuji Yamaguchi
Char. Des.: Ayako Nishida

Episodes

Release

TV Showing See the whole series for free? This series may be syndicated to regional cable, satellite or terrestial TV stations. For Europe click here.

Date 2003 Oct 6 -

Production Avex Mode

Broadcaster Mainichi B.S.

Animation Studio Deen

References & Help Look up the latest data on this title at:
Richard Llewellyn's Animated Divots, or
Anime News Network (see Encyclopedia section) ,
or in "The Anime Encyclopedia" (Clements & McCarthy, Stone Bridge Press, 2001).
Help & further information.

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Title (English)	Travellers Yami , the Hat and The Book
Title (Japanese)	Yami to Boushi to Hon no Tabibito
Advertising Fantasy Novel
Notes	The title translation is taken from the fansub and has the merit of making some sense - seemingly Yami, Hat and Book are all character names.
Classification	-
Synopsis	An episodic series in which the characters have magical adventures in different worlds. A great library contains many books, each a record of a different world.
Review	The first episode, set on a period steam train travelling across flat frozen countryside, with various soldiers and secret agents on board is quite good, and full of excitement, suspense and action. There are cutaways to the magical characters. However there is at least one production failure in this episode, when we belatedly realise that a character who was 101% obviously a woman is supposed to be a woman with her breasts bound to flatten them and disguised by wearing male clothes! The next three episodes are quite different, featuring the lethal misbehaviour of a disturbed boy, Gargantua. Another distraction is that the female magical characters tend to go about under-dressed in mens' magazine type lingerie and pawing each other in a lesbian manner. Their outfits seem little to do with the plot and more with the series' origin as a adult video game. (GC) Thank goodness for fast forward on viewers, or else I would have never noticed the abrupt change halfway through the first episode of "Yami to Boushi to Hon no Tabibito" while scanning it the first time, and I might not have watched the whole thing through. And that would have been a loss on my part. "Yamibou", as a number of fans are referring to it, starts out as if it is going to be one of those horribly pretentious and deathly serious fanboy fantasies that usually turn up as OAVs. Hazuki has long blue hair and a sad expression as she remembers the events of the past couple of weeks with great remorse � her unrequited love for the older, but petite, blond and mute Hatsumi has turned into despair after seeing Hatsumi kiss a boy. Now, with her heart aching in her bosom (and there are plenty of shots of ample bosoms of both girls for the fanboys), Hazuki goes into Hatsumi's room just before midnight to give Hatsumi a secret kiss as Hatsumi turns 16. But before the kiss can occur, the clock strikes 12 and Hatsumi starts to emit a bright green glow and transforms before Hazuki's eyes. The light floods the entire room, and even lights up the town for a moment, before disappearing along with Hatsumi. At that moment, as if the channel has been abruptly changed, we find ourselves suddenly in what seems to be a magic girl show on very bad drugs. Into the room appears a small, fat, chartreuse bird-thing that is complaining about being too late to go with Hatsumi. In a scene somewhat reminiscent of something by Rumiko Takahashi, Hazuki grabs the bird-thing by the throat and threatens it with a letter opener unless it takes Hazuki with it to follow Hatsumi. The bird-thing finally agrees and they set off � right into another story. Yes, as a narrator says during the transition, Hazuki and the bird-thing move into a different story line while searching for Hatsumi. This story line is set in sort of an "Orient Express" or "Siberian Express" type of world, with spies, bombers, secret police, femme fatales and the works. And in the middle of this goes Hazuki, still looking for Hatsumi. In the meanwhile, the bird-thing is sitting back in the baggage car with its vain mistress, who is wondering why they aren't out there looking for Hatsumi themselves. The bird-thing is quite pragmatic � it would rather have the secret police hassle Hazuki then hassle them. So what we have here is something that appears to be akin to "Abenobashi Mahou Shotengai" as far as changing worlds goes. And since AMS was one of my favorite series of last year and of all time for that matter, I'm looking forward to see if "Yamibou" can continue to surprise and entertain me in a similar manner. I suspect that this will be the second series from this Fall that I will likely buy on R2 DVD. (Dave Baranyi) I just watched "Yamibou" ("Yami to Boushi to Hon no Tabibito") episode 5 and I've got to say that I'm slowly becoming disenchanted with this series. The little fill-in bits are still intriguing, but the "book" parts of the episodes are pretty banal, particularly the one in episode 5. Somehow, I've got to think that the writers of this series thought that they would do a variation on "Abenobashi Mahou Shotengai" crossed with Silkie's story line from "Tenshi ni Narumon", but they decided to focus on fan service instead of jokes or plot. Well the fan service is there, but that is getting pretty old pretty fast and the jokes and plot are going nowhere. I want more "meat" to the story, not just more skin from the girls. (Dave Baranyi)
Credits	Series Dir: Yuji Yamaguchi Char. Des.: Ayako Nishida
Episodes
Release
TV Showing	See the whole series for free? This series may be syndicated to regional cable, satellite or terrestial TV stations. For Europe click here.
Date	2003 Oct 6 -
Production	Avex Mode
Broadcaster	Mainichi B.S.
Animation	Studio Deen
References & Help	Look up the latest data on this title at: Richard Llewellyn's Animated Divots, or Anime News Network (see Encyclopedia section) , or in "The Anime Encyclopedia" (Clements & McCarthy, Stone Bridge Press, 2001). Help & further information.