Sweet Temptation: Brave to Yourself -- Chrome Shelled Regios

Konnichiwa minasan! I am watching an animation series on the Animax Channel on Astro (channel 715) currently. It is called “Chrome Shelled Regios”. It is airing from every Monday until Friday at 11pm.

“Chrome Shelled Regios” is adapted from a Japanese light novel series by Shūsuke Amagi, with illustrations by Miyū. It is also adapted into the manga series. The story is about in a post-apocalyptic polluted earth overrun with mutated beasts called Filth Monsters (Contaminoids in Funimation's translation), humanity is forced to live in large mobile cities called Regios and learn to use weapons called DITE and harness the power of Kei to defend themselves. In the Academy City of Zuellni, Layfon Alseif is hoping to start a new life without Martial/Military arts and forget his past. However, his past has caught the attention of Kalian Loss, the Student Council President and Nina Antalk, a Military Arts student and Captain of the 17th Platoon, who instantly recognizes his abilities and decides he's the perfect candidate to join her group. The series follow Layfon's life in Zuellni and occasionally has flash backs of his life in Glenden.

This animation series has 24 episodes. This is a sci-fic, fantasy and adventure anime series. I like the Opening song: "Brave your truth" by Daisy × Daisy as I think it is a nice song. Moreover, the arts of this animation series is beautiful too. The fighting scenes are very good too. There are few closing songs for such series too.

So, let me introduce some of the characters of the “Chrome Shelled Regios” to you.

Layfon Wolfstein Alseif

Weapon of choice: Sword, Broad sword, Guan Dao, Steel threads and Katana

The main protagonist of the series. He is described as having tea colored hair and blue eyes. He was one of the twelve wielders of the Heaven Blades and also held the title of Wolfstein at the age of ten. In the Academy City of Zuellni, Layfon Alseif is hoping to start a new life without Martial/Military arts and forget his past. However, his past has caught the attention of Kalian Loss, the Student Council President and Nina Antalk, a Military Arts student and Captain of the 17th Platoon, who instantly recognizes his abilities and decides he's the perfect candidate to join her group. He is a very strong fighter and he is very honest with what he talks. Many girls like him.

Nina Antalk

Weapon of choice: Iron Whips

Nina is the leader/captain of the 17th Platoon and forcibly recruits Layfon into her platoon at the start of the anime series. She has blond, golden hair and blue eyes. Her dedication caused her to get angry a lot in the first part of the series, especially when one of her squad members are late. She was born to a martial artist family and wanted to see the outside world, causing her to run away from home. Her DITEs are a pair of singlesticks, labelled as "iron whips" in the novels, made from black DITE. Nina has promised to protect Zuellini, and thus felt that losing any battle is not an option. This causes her to over-exert herself time and time again.

Felli Loss

Weapon of choice: Wand

The psychokinesis user of the 17th platoon and a 2nd year. She has silvery hair and grey eyes. She rarely speaks and shows little emotion due to the habit of a psychokinesis user, the brain of a psychokinesis user automatically rejects unnecessary or irrelevant information other than the required ones. Like most psychokinesis users, Felli's brain receives a great influx of information, and is able to handle the strain of responding to every bit of information. Layfon stated that the psychokinesis users have a different brain structure that allows them to process and simulate the huge sum of information in a short period of time. Because of this, she has a hard time making common facial expressions, such as smiling. She is also the sister of the head of the student council, Kalian Loss, whom she despises for making her attend the Military Arts section, just as he did with Layfon. She works part time at a cafe which Sharnid recommended, where the waitresses dress up as maids. In the anime, she kicks Layfon in the shin every time he does something wrong and will also hit her brother whenever he's being too noisy. After learning of Layfon's nickname "Lay-ton", she insisted on calling him "Fon-Fon." And becomes mad if Layfon call her "senior" (English) / "sempai" (Japanese). (She insists on being called Felli). She also has taken a liking to Layfon in a romantic sense, showing clear signs of jealousy by copying Shante's little act by riding on Layfon's shoulders and blushing while Layfon teaches her how to swim. When she discovers Leerin's letter, she shows slight jealousy and attempted to press the matter but was to reluctant in the end. Additionally, after Layfon is hospitalized, Felli comes with flowers. She ends up keeping them because she spots flowers already delivered by Nina, making Felli react in a childish and jealous manner. She tried to make desserts for Layfon at Valentines and forced Kalian to try it; the unfortunate brother had a day off miserably sick with Felli exclaiming "Brother is too fragile.

Felli is described as one of the most talented psychokinesis users. Her DITE is a wand which holds many petal shaped pieces that are grey when inactive and are pink when active. These petals are utilized to send out telepathic messages to others. They can also transform into offensive daggers or explode, an ability named psychokinesis mine, if necessary. Felli is also capable of synchronizing with other people's pins to make up for distances she cannot cover.

Sharnid Elipton

Weapon of choice: Sniper Rifle, Dual Pistols

A fourth-year student and oldest of the 17th platoon. He has strawberry blond hair and green eyes. Sharnid is an excellent sharpshooter who is usually laid back and enjoys teasing other people. His ability to conceal his kei is excellent among the student of Zuellni, however he was unsuccessful when he tried to tail Layfon and Leerin. He appears to have playboy-tendencies saying stuff like "you won't understand the night life of an attractive man". He is usually late for his platoon training. His main DITE is a rifle, but he later obtains two close quarters pistols from Harley in order to take up multiple roles in their small platoon. He wields his dual pistols in Gun Kata-like stances. It is revealed that he was originally a part of 10th Platoon, but left because he felt as though he would have lost them. Sharnid asked his former teammate, Siena, to help him in a match after Layfon's injuries. Although he is a playboy, he does seem to care and have genuine feelings for Siena.

Harley Sutton

The same age as Nina, and DITE-mechanic of the 17th platoon, who does not participate in combat. He has green hair and grey eyes. He is Nina's childhood friend. Harley is also in charge of creating DITEs for the platoon in the anime, including Layfon's turquoise sword and Sharnid's dual pistols, and the adjustment for DITEs. He and Chilieck created the adamandite and is currently working on improving it so Layfon can fight with his real strength. Harley specializes in weapon adjustment so weapons best fit their owners. In Grendan, Harley's specialization would class him as a Dite Engineer.

Kalian Loss

Head of the student council and Felli's older brother. He is willing to do anything to protect the city, even sacrifice his own sister to accomplish his goal of spreading Zuellni's influence. Kalian's leadership skill is very good, as seen in his ability to give excellent speeches. It is shown that he does genuinely care for his sister, but his worrying over a possible relationship between Felli and Layfon caused him to greatly overreact.

Leerin Marfes

A childhood friend turned girlfriend of Layfon, who currently resides in Grendan. Both she and Layfon grew up together at the same orphanage. Layfon cares for her dearly and is the only girl he treats with gentleness (also the only girl he kisses). She supported Layfon even after his gambling incident was found out and distanced herself from the orphanage as a result.

There are many more characters are appearing in the anime series and those above are the main ones. Among all the characters, I like Layfon the most, of course. He is a very hot guy I think and he is very serious when comes to the fighting and he always protects the people around him. The other character I like is Felli-senpai. She is a very petite person. I think she is very cute and when she gets angry at Layfon, she always kicks him. Sometimes Layfon also could not understand why did Felli kick him for. I like the way Felli called Layfon as “Fon-Fon”, as I think it is very cute! :P