KARAS: The Prophecy [HQ .RMVB DUB 250MB MU]

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Shinjuku, the near future. A wave of multiple murders has hit, shocking even for this crime-wracked city. The victims are always drained of their body fluids ... and there is always a sole survivor.

Behind the murders stands Ekou. For centuries, he was the Karas, the guardian of the town, but he no
longer heeds the will of the city, and is intent on destroying it.

There is only one hope for Shinjuku -- Otoha, the one who is to be the new Karas. He must now battle Ekou's forces to save the city and its inhabitants, be they human or youkai.

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Karas is a guardian of a city, born through a contract between a human with a Yurine, the spirit of the city. Yurine keeps the Yurine Relic, in which the human soul resides and becomes Karas.

The story started with a fight between two Karas, which ended with the demise of one among them. Two Yurines were present in a city, where it should be only one. The older Yurine was weakened, and the Karas connected with her was going nuts, he wanted to conquer the city and everyone in it, which then amplified with the fact that the modern city abandoned its belief in the existence of supernatural beings (Youkai) - and Karas as well.

The new Yurine was created to stop him - though it was not explained in detail how the "city" created a Yurine - thus a new Karas was born. So the epic fight begun : Otoha (the new Karas) versus Ekou (the former Karas) along with his army of mechanical monsters, Mikura.

One of the most noticeable theme of the fight scenes is the high-speed battle style of the Karas and Mikuras, portrayed as slow-motioned environment with "normal" high-speed movements of the two. A kind of bullet-time, perhaps?

The side stories made the story even better : A rouge Mikura made alliance with Otoha, whose brother - also a Mikura - was being under Ekou's control. A policeman caught in the middle of the fight, struggling to grasp the idea of the existence of the supernatural being, the police captain who believed in Youkais and found the horrible secret kept by her daughter involving a Mikura. And there's another Yurine-Karas pair present in the city to help Karas, just to add some comic to the scenes. Oh, and don't forget . . . there's always a nobody-girl tangled in between.

And, as always, it's a happy ending.

Great actions, good and fast-paced plot. An awesome integration between 3D and 2D animations.

The complete 6 episodes can be downloaded here (http://www.animea.net/download/1023/KARAS.html).