| 6:07pm | Kimikiss - All about Mao X Kouichi X Yuumi | | | | Actually this post has nothing to do with Mao, Kouichi and Yuumi. I just didn’t want to sound negative on my post title but the truth is I’m not finding Kazuki’s portion to be worthy of Kimikiss. No, it’s not Asuka’s problem. I love Asuka and think she’s the only... | | |
| 5:48am | True Tears 03 - Pseudo-siscon drama? | | | | This ep gives the strongest hint yet as to why Hiromi distanced herself from Shinichiro despite being childhood friends - Sibling-hood. Important clues like “She’s our kid now” and “I sealed those memories after moving into this household” grant new perspective to Hiromi’s... | | |
| 4:20pm | My Kimikiss dilemma - Mao or Yumi? | | | | The romances that leave the deepest impressions are those that have me agonising over which haremette to support and Kimikiss presents one such impossible situation for me - to root between Yumi or Mao for Kouichi. Let me first say that Kouichi is the kind of guy I’d want my daughter to date.... | | |
| 10:01am | H2O ~ Footprints in the sand 03 - Hinata seduces! | | | | Every time I see a haremette picks up the harem lead for school, I wonder what I’d do if a bishoujo escort turns up daily to pick up my aspiring harem-lead of a son? Jealous? Proud? Tie my son at home and send bishoujo friend to school? Although chances are if I picked option 3, Mrs Stripey would... | | |
| 6:19pm | Anime injustice - Vitriolic first impressions | | | | Pretty please, give me a chance? As life burst gloriously forth onto the land during Spring, so is the aniblog-scene pregnant and overflowing with anticipation and oven-hot first impressions at the dawn of a new anime season. The aniblogsphere has come a long way indeed. The pioneering anime blog (JASCII)... |
| 11:50am | True Tears 02 - Noe loveliness continues | | | | Children tend to be brutally truthful, sometimes hurting others in their careless innocence. Adults prefer to wear masks, finding comfort in false conformity though sometimes hurting themselves. I suppose that why Noe is so admirable. In an age where social facades take precedent over sincere honesty,... | | |
| 5:05am | H2O ~ Footprints in the sand 02 - Takumi grows eye balls | | | | Thank Haruhi I can see now! Remote villages in Japan aren’t getting very good press from its games/anime exports. Hinamizawa and Fatal Frame II comes to mind when such villages are featured. An unforgiving place steeped in superstitions where the darkness of the human heart is blacker than anything... | | |
| 3:49pm | GAR for girls; MOE for men | | | | There is GAR in MOE One of my favourite anime fan in an anime has to be Grouseaux. (Was it future boy Conan he was watching in the FMP Tessa OVA?) Escaping from daily gore and horrors of war, he immerses himself in the sanctuary of feel-good anime to reconnect with his humanity. This may be the reason... |
| 7:46am | True Tears 01 - AIR incarnate? | | | | Here, into Stripey-nii’s arms A common mistake by harem series is the attempt to squeeze too many bishoujos into limited airtime. We understand the rationale of course - to cast that wider net to snag bishoujo enthusiasts. But like figure collecting and girlfriends, it’s quality not quantity... | | |
| 5:15pm | H20 ~ Footprints in the sand 01 - ZEXCS’ next great? | | | | When Zexcs does harem - expect greatness. Zyl said something memorable in our recent Hontouni conference : “Most harem (series) don’t do romance.” And indeed that is the problem with the slew of mediocre harems out there. They get distracted with fanservice and believe the pantsu... | | |
| 5:25pm | 盗んでリリス (Nusunde Lilith) - Siscon to the max! | | | | Have you ever had the distinctive feeling that a book/show was made just. for. you? I certainly felt like that when I learnt about Tinker’s manga ~ Nusunde Lilith. Those following my descent into 2D art would know that Tinker is my favourite artist with her out-of-print Tsukiyo no Chakai being... |
| 12:10pm | MEGAMI Creators vol. 10 - Paradise lost | | | | I never knew what MEGAMI Creators was all about. Unimpressed with its debut years ago, I had written it off as yet another diabolical attempt at relieving us of hard-earned cash. What a 2D philistine I was! Having received enlightenment with Zyl’s gift this year, I finally understood the slice... |
| 5:28pm | [Series aftermath] ef ~ a tale of memories | | | | If you had asked me about ef at ep 10, I’d tell you it’s a good but “could be better” series. Now that I’ve completed the series. I wished it had just been an OVA on Renji and Chihiro since by itself, the series would have been a masterpiece. I was one of those who was... | | |
| 2:18pm | Hair-em archetypes for tanukis | | | | Imagine this. Stripey has just won a million (amazon) dollars through Sea Slugs! 40th year giveaway contest. He readily tasks you to realise his dream - to make an eroge that would shame even the fabulous Yoakena franchise. Where would you start? Why of course, we begin with bishoujo designs that would... |
| 5:26pm | 2007 in review | | | | What better way to usher in 2008 than a post about 2007? This is not a top 10 list since a quick stocktaking made me realise I have completed less than 20 anime (discounting movies/OVAs) this year. While I would be reporting my financial damage, there wouldn’t be pretty graphs like Adun’s.... |
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