Some time ago I did a review of a game for the Playstation 2 called
Shining Tears. It was a simple Japanese role-playing game that I felt had a lot of neat features and ideas that rose it above a lot of the (let's be honest here) mundane RPGs that were flooding the market in those days. What I didn't learn until much later was that the world was deeper than just one game, and other games and animated series linked to it were steadily coming out in Japan and not making the slightest effort to make their way over here.
Seriously, I will
pay someone to sit beside me and translate
Shining Wind for me as I play it.
One thing that did make its way over here, however, was an animated series called
Shining Hearts, and seeing that it had some of the same things I liked about the original game I played (amnesiac swordsman, Tony Taka's artwork), I figured I'd give it a watch.
Never before has bread mattered so much to a story.
