| 5:01pm | Tsundere for Tsukihime? | | | | This purchase is no coincidence. Bought 2 days after Zyl put up my ancient review of Tsukihime, I’m certain my good comrade-in-anime revived something more insidious than just a forgotten relic of the past. Flooded by memories of the bishoujos of Tsukihime (especially the meido-twins), I found... | | |
| 8:33am | Tsukihime | | | | This review was originally written by Stripey on 2004-04-21 but somehow wasn’t exported from the old blogspot site. I’m putting it up again for the sake of completeness and for my final ‘from the ancient times’ post to link to. Tsukihime is one of the two animes that I REALLY... |
| 1:23pm | KyoAni does imouto right | | | | If made-to-order imoutos are available, I’d commission KyoAni to fashion mine. Kyon’s sister, Sunohara Mei and now Hirasawa Ui are powerful testaments to the studio’s impeccable imouto-craft. At this moment, I need to come clean and declare that like almost every otaku on the planet... |
| 5:52pm | 10 sibling rivalries - Stripey picks sides | | | | Tenjou Tenge is the latest of anime series to join the ranks of my growing DVD stash. Bulldozing through the show, I’m once again held enthralled by the babelicious Maya and fully support Souichirou’s choice over her sister Aya. In fact my love for Maya exceeds Aya by so much that I’m... | | |
| 5:48pm | On Toradora and siscon shows - Denying your love | | | | Have you ever denied your love? Tried to smother those overwhelming, bittersweet emotions because it seems ‘the right thing to do’? All my love life I’ve been doing that. For some inexplicable reasons, I kept meeting the right girl at the ‘wrong time’ or simply getting... | | |
| 3:51pm | Why I love Toradora so | | | | After marathoning Toradora over the weekend, I finally understood what the fuss/buzz was all about. It is indeed a superb series - one of the best anime romances I have seen. Melding great writing, intriguing characters and focused storytelling, Toradora has been a truly memorable. In fact it was... | | |
| 4:46pm | Da Capo IF 2 ~ DCSS all over again | | | | It must surely be intentional. When D.C.if 1 was released back in last Christmas, I hailed it as a most worthy vehicle of Kotori goodness; inheriting all the emotional poignancy, character charm and musical brilliance that was Da Capo season 1. Today, it breaks my heart to report that D.C.if 2 (released... | | |
| 3:54pm | Toradora 7 - Why I STILL want to be male in my next life | | | | While I don’t believe in reincarnation, I’ve always maintained that I would STILL want to be a guy in my next life. No offense to the other half of the world but being able to stand and pee beats the daylights out of multiple orgasms the female body, though an improvement over the male... | | |
| 5:14pm | 10 bishoujos I don’t want to be trapped in a gym shed with | | | | Dark Stripey would probably have another title for this post but for the fiercely chivalrous/honourable tanuki race, getting trapped in a gym shed with the hottest girls in animedom (in a bloomer no less) could still pose a moral dilemma. (Hey we’re still only animals mammals!) Of course some... | | |
| 3:51pm | So many worthy bishoujos, so few OVAs | | | | Having just seen the most excellent Tomoyo centric Clannad OVA (ep 24) and (less recently) D.C.IF, I’m of the opinion that the world needs MOAR of such OVAs for the worthy beauties who got shafted in their original TV series. It needn’t be an alternate retelling that results her ‘victory’... | | |
| 2:00pm | Vigilante action for Vigilance | | | | Hi, Zyl here, using Zaku admin privileges to post on Hontou ni Taihen desu. You might have noticed that HNTD has also been shifted to Vigilance. Basically Stripey didn’t have a choice since I run the backend of Hontou Ni and presented him with a fiat accompli. Though having the same theme increases... |
| 5:01pm | 10 Tinkle outfits I’d like to buy | | | | Tinkle really needs to start her own label. Byakuya Chakai has convinced me that Tinkle is not only an accomplished artist but also a fashion genius. If only her designs could be manufactured into 3D apparel, I’d buy up her entire range even if it meant selling off a good friend’s gyro-stabilisers... |
| 4:11pm | S$340 Hontouni economic stimulus package ~ Tinkle, Saber, MEGAMI saves Japan | | | | I don’t like to brag but I’m pretty sure my injection of S$400 into the Japanese economy (via artbook purchase) over last weekend, kept the 2nd biggest economy in the world from sinking into a full-blown financial meltdown. The Japanese now has Tinkle, MEGAMI and Saber to thank for the bailout.... | | |
| 4:41pm | Byakuya Chakai (白夜茶会) - The ‘cheapest’ artbook I’ve ever bought | | | | If there was only ONE artbook you can have in your entire life, it had better be Tinkle’s Byakuya Chakai (白夜茶会) since nothing else comes close, not even Tinkle’s own previous illustration collection. Yes, I finally received my Yahoo Japan Auctions package yesterday and was delighted... |
| 4:24pm | Shipping woes - Bringing home the YJA trophies | | | | One of the reasons why I love my country, beside the food and free internet, is the availability of Japanese 2D merchandise. KKnM/Kinokuniya easily meets 2/3 of my 2D needs. With their books/figures selling close to the Japanese retail price (with of membership discounts of course), I’ve always... |
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