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Review - Ray ~ the animation
Ray ~ the animation
Original Name: RAY-レイ-
Translated Name: Ray ~ the animation
Episodes: 13eps
Vintage: 2006
Style: Drama Romance Mystery
Ratings (6 Members rated) List all:
Popular Average:
65.91% Good
Critic Average:
73.17%
Characteristics:
Cliché
Subtleness
Continuity
Seriousness
Ecchi/Fan-service
Violence
Emotion
Related studios:
Preview

Ray has a unique ability: She can see thru objects, and even more important, through the human body. Wanting to help people, she graduated a doctor, and now uses her ability to perform dangerous surgeries that only she is capable of on terminal patients or weird never-heard-off diseases. Meanwhile, Ray searches for the mystery of her childhood and cause of her ability: she was grown in an institution that literally raised children to donate their organs when needed: when required, they just stripped the organ and killed the child - and that's how Ray lost her eyes. However, thanks for the skillful world famous surgeon Black Jack (anime from which Ray is an spin off), she received her new mysterious eyes and was rescued from the criminal organization that she now seek vengeance.

Pacing

The title focuses a quite bit on Ray and her ability, with the pacing being almost "patient of the week". However, all the patients, the hospital in which Ray works, and her friends, are always collecting information and tips about the organization that abused Ray as a child, and eventually start to find out more connections with their patients than they wanted to.

As the mystery unfolds, a pleasant subtle romance also develops between Ray and her best friend and "partner" Shinoyama, and in the middle of ethical and personal interest problems, it ends up adding doubts about Ray's belief that anyone pursuing high goals in medical science (as Shinoyama, as a prominent robotic-medicine engineer, creator of the most advanced artificial heart to date) is in fact only after the money, as those who once used her. Is that true?

Conclusion

A small and interesting title, Ray show us a solid and meaningful plot enough to leave us curious about it, and charismatic characters that involve us into the romance, making it actually "work". With a nice and conclusive ending, Ray will probably not leave anyone disappointed. Check it out.
Staff & Crew
Songs:
OP - Zero-G (Masami Okui)
ED - Yuunagi (Tomoe Oumi)
Staff:
Director: Naohito Takahashi
Character Design (art): Hisashi Kagawa
Singers OP/ED: Masami Okui,Tomoe Oumi
Creator: Akihito Yoshitomi
Voice Actors (Seeyus):
Ui Miyazaki as Akaribbon
Sakura Nogawa as Ray
Hiroki Takahashi as Shinoyama
Jin Yamanoi as H-ring man
Hitomi Nabatame as Rie
Shiho Kawaragi as Rumi
Yuusaku Yara as Sawa
Saeko Chiba as Anna Takekawa
Yoshiyuki Kaneko as Asada
Akio Ohtsuka as BJ
Houko Kuwashima as Kanna Takekawa
Rie Tanaka as Kaori Sakai
Miru Hitotsuyanagi as Kasugano
Megumi Kubota as Kenji
Daisuke Namikawa as Koichi
Satomi Arai as Mami
Youko Honna as Misato
Tomoe Oumi as One
Masumi Asano as Saeko
Yui Horie as Sumire
Kenji Nojima as Takumi
Takaya Hashi as Tetsuzo Omoribe
Hiroki Takahashi as Toshiaki
Hiroyuki Yoshino as Yuusuke
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