| 5:18pm | Another season of honey and clover. |  | | | Well, I’ve been reindulging myself in the sinful pleasure that is Honey and Clover. Truly, classics are the best. Gotta thank my part-time job of reviewing manga to get me back in to the mood to watch it (just had to review the first volume of Hachikuro by Viz Media). Coming back to it after... | | |
| 1:46am | Honey and Clover Adaptation Battle: America vs. Germany | | | | From top to bottom: Japanese, German, English When I was in Germany last August, I bought the first volume of Honey and Clover and wrote about how Tokyopop GmbH was releasing titles noticably ahead of US licensors. Now that Viz’s English version has hit shelves, I bought one of those and looked... | | |
| 7:05am | True Tears Review - The Sum of All Tears (85%) |  | | | A few missteps and lurches into soap opera territory cannot spoil what was the most delicately balanced–and affecting–ending this season, capping off a show that quietly joined the ranks of the Great Game Adaptations. True Tears is one of those seemingly unique-to-anime coming-of-age stories... | | |
| 4:57am | Kimikiss Pure Rouge Review: Is It All Right To Be Average? (75%) | | | | The ending of this fine romance is either unsurprising or a cop-out. Is this show still worthwhile, though? Yes, mostly. There’s one thing that the staff of Honey and Clover and Nodame Cantabile proved with this show that makes it worthwhile: it is possible to do a compelling high school romance... | | |
| 1:00am | Final Exam | | | | I’m going to miss you, Kimikiss Pure Rouge. It was only six months, but I feel a little like I’m losing a close friend. A close friend I didn’t pay nearly as much attention to it as I should have. The past year has been a good one for romantic dramas, embodied in gems like Clannad... | | |
| 12:36pm | kimikiss pure truth: All you need is love (and parallels) |  | | | So my predictions in my previous post were wrong. I’m glad they were, for had I been right, it would’ve meant that kimikiss would have been unpredictably predictable, and we all know how well that would have went down. The masses need their closure, even if the more discerning among us can... | | |
| 4:00pm | A Kiss and A Tear: I Can’t Believe It’s Not Harem! (Part 2) | | | | This is the second part of an extensive dialogue that Owen and I conducted recently about Kimikiss and True Tears, where I ask most of the questions rather than replying. You’ll want to read the first part, where I do a lot of the talking, on his site! Michael: So would you say that you want... | | |
| 7:39am | The Catchup 3: Kimikiss Pure Rouge 17-20 | | | | Oh, Mao. You were my favorite girl in this show. How could you have become so dislikable? Before I go into that, though, I would just like to say that it’s been a long time since I saw such a satisfying confession scene as I saw in episode 20–Kazuki confessing to the (arguably undeserving)... | | |
| 6:53pm | Lesbian Comic: Honey & Honey | | | | One of the questions I get quite often is "Are the terms seme and uke used in Yuri (or do lesbians in Japan use them) the way they are used in BL?"Like just about every question I get, the answer is yes - and no. (I'm starting to sound positively Elvish these days, with my inability to provide straight... | | |
| 7:39pm | Clannad 18 - Uh, yeah I laughed instead of feeling… Sad, I guess? | | | | This reminds me of that one time in Honey and Clover II where they play a pop song right during the time when Hagu gets like shards of glass on her injuring her badly. It wasn’t very fitting for the scene at all. This scene where Kyou and Ryou cry was totally out of no where. Sure you saw some... | | |
| 2:25pm | Hirai Ken - Canvas (Honey and Clover Drama ED Theme) | | | | Hirai Ken - Canvas (55.2MB, for PSP/Quicktime) | YouTube version Released in time for Valentine's Day, Canvas is a song about one's inability to let go. Because of this, it's not surprising that the song is a perfect company for Honey and Clover's heart-wrenching moments, especially those involving... | | |
| 6:49am | True Tears / Honey & Clover? | | | | And like everyone else, I watched True Tears to see what all the hubub was about. I don’t understand why it has been heralded as an “invisible” entertainment. I think it is quite apparent how awesome this series is. Lol. True Tears is something that comes a very few times in the world... | | |
| 1:46am | A very special SAD point/counterpoint |  | | | By Nomadotto and Ottonomad Nomadotto: A very happy singles’ appriciation/awareness day to all of you folks out there in lesser animeblogistan. You know, singles’ appriciation/awareness day (SAD, for short) is usually an excuse for all kinds for stupid behavior. Generally, SAD is somehow... | | |
| 12:50am | Honey and Clover Spin-off Story 2 - More Yamada x Nomiya | | | | This is what happens when you get so many ideas for posts. You end up finishing nothing. Or at least, it takes you days and weeks to finish one of the posts, due to the lack of focus *points to self*This post just goes to show how I get easily sidetracked by spur-of-the-moment excitement / fangirling,... | | |
| 6:25pm | 10 Days of Ronery - Yamada Ayumi from Honey and Clover | | | | 4. Yamada Ayumi Honey and Clover is one of my all time favorite drama/romance/slice of life shows all around. Sure there are tons of high school drama shows out there, but Honey and Clover was one of the few that I saw that had a college setting and also I too was on my way into college for the first... | | |
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