Himitsu – The Revelation 秘密 トップ・シークレット, based on a manga by Shimizu Reiko 清水玲子 has started showing since 8 April 2008.
Summary (edited from Anime News Network)
The ninth forensic lab of the National Research Institute of Police Science, called Dai Ku (the 9th), uses technology to reproduce images from memories residing in the brain of dead victims to solve difficult cases. This is the story of Maki, the leader of Dai Ku, and Aoki, a newcomer.
Everybody have secrets. This anime shows the agonies of the investigators who have to know these secrets unwillingly.
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For anyone who is not familiar with Shimizu Reiko, she is the mangaka of Moon Child (Not the GacktxHyde vehicle ^^”), Jack and Elena series, Kaguya Hime and various Sci-Fi themed shoujo manga. I love her works and art tremendously. Her style is very delicate yet detailed and her stories have always been able to touch me. Two of my first all-time-fav shounen-ai couples come from her shoujo works ~sigh… so nostalgic… :) I had wished so much that there are animations of her works (only Moon Child had an image video, which is like a music PV of the manga. Does anybody have it? I want to see it!!! T-T) To discover that Himitsu is now an anime is quite a nice surprise.
Himitsu is a very intriguing psychological thriller and I enjoyed reading it. There are some BL elements as well as highly slashable characters. I’ve not watched the first episode of the anime but looking at pictures from the official website (http://www.ntv.co.jp/secret/), I’m rather disappointed that the producers weren’t able to reproduce the original character designs… which were so much more beautiful than the anime version… The main seiyuus are Seki Tomokazu 関智一 and Namikawa Daisuke 浪川大辅 (I like!!! xD) Anyway, I’ll definitely put this on my to-watch list as well.
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@sigma: Manga Maki is more bishi XD but I got used to anime Maki too. I’ll try to catch Paranoia Agent if I can :D btw, I finally watched Itazura no Kiss and loved it. It’s such a cute romantic comedy! XD
Hmm… I’m not sure about that blindfold scene but if it is according to the raw manga, Maki did have sex with somebody. We don’t know if it is a man or a woman (but most likely a man cos of what was shown in the anime) He wanted to be blindfolded because if one day after he dies and his brain needs to be read, he doesn’t want this aspect of his sexual secret to be shown to the world. He has seen too many of that during his investigations of brains at Section 9. We are left to speculate if the man is Suzuki or not :P but I think it is unlikely cos that person who had sex with him didn’t seem to know him well. So he is probably a one-night-stand or stranger. Not sure why the strangling bit came out in the anime cos it wasn’t in the manga, right?
Person: “Blindfold? Is that your interest (or you like it that way)?”
Maki: “No, I just don’t want to see anything that’s all”.
Maki is also very fearful that his thoughts may surface in his dreams because it is something he cannot control. From that, maybe we can speculate that he did have romantic feelings for Suzuki. The story also seemed to hint at his attachment to Aoki partly because he is very similar to Suzuki. Even the forensic doctor also found herself attracted to Aoki because of his similarity to Suzuki. So maybe Maki loved Suzuki secretly and then Aoki too.
I think the translations are only up to Vol. 3 Chapter 5? http://dragonvoice.org/dv_himitsu.html I haven’t read Wild Cats yet ^^ It’s been a while since I read Magic but I remember I liked it too.
Yeah seems like Glass Fleet is an original and not based on manga :)
you watched Itasura na Kiss?*v* i loved that anime~ I remember trying to watch the drama….i just couldn’t get into it;
The story is really cute how it shows the many hurdles of there relationship through out there life.
yea the strangling part wasn’t in the manga in fact i don’t remember if they even shown another person in the scene; *bad memory*;;
Maki has a sad life. :(
i’m thinking now from what you said about him having a fear of his thoughts arising in his dreams, that maybe the strangling played towards that reason. When your strangled you don’t get oxygen to the brain/pass out an so forth. If it’s done during sex than maybe it cancels out feeling/thoughts at the time? Just a thought i don’t know.OTL;;
I really like the pairing of Aoki x Maki as much as i like Suzuki x Maki.
Really while reading this manga i got the chills a bit. It’s a first coming from a book.o-o;
Thanks for the link~!
i’ve been reading moon child at the moment. it is really so good! I LOVE it!!
The plot and characters are great an B-bishonens every were! so much eye candy!
I’ve been reading a lot lately. XD
I had semi-surgery to take four teeth out to make room for when i get braces. Bleeding heavily for hours i couldn’t do much. So i sat an read Kaugya hime/watch some kuroshitsuji (btw you were right it does get really good). It is really good too but it is very confusing to tell apart the main heroin an Midori in the RAW scans. Plus there is to much Heroin x Everyone!! *gouges eyes out*
@sigma: oh dear… hope you’re feeling better X3 Have a good rest! Gosh 4 teeth at one go!!! @_@ your wisdom teeth right at the end of the jaw? *HUGZ*
Yep, I enjoyed Itasura na kiss very much! <3 I'm really glad you recommended it :D The characters are so endearing :) I love Naoki's mum lol~ Yea, love is not all fun and romance. It takes effort to get to know and to be there for the person (and his/her family) whom you're going to live with for the rest of your life. Old school romantic comedy. Very sweet! The anime is so cute… well, they're making Itasura na kiss into a Korean live action drama now. The male lead is very cute. can't remember his name tho' But then again I seldom watch live actions nowadays.
In a way yeah… but Maki made his choice to be in Section 9. Hmm, that's possible… The strangling and pass out bit. (Tho’ I read before that when done right, it can also heighten sexual pleasure :P) Or maybe in the anime it’s a metaphor of Maki being consumed by his investigations? The mangaka draws very detailed images right… scarily realistic and eerie.
XD Glad you enjoy moonchild! Reiko Shimizu draws very adorable kids and girls ^^ But she also revealed in Kaguya Hime that she loved to draw beautiful femme fatale characters with ample bosoms lol~ But Kaguya Hime dragged on really long and the heroine, Akira was made to do so much fan service OTL;; It's pretty much reverse harem with all the boys and girls falling for her. I love Akira and the actor character too. Miller X3. I mega-ship Yui x Midori but everybody only have eyes for Akira lol~