1:51pm | Itazura na Kiss | | | aqilaqamar: “Not really a bad romance anime targeted towards girl, even if the plot is pretty typical. The best part is that while most shows stops when they become a couple or when they start living “happily ever after”, the story keeps going as more of a slice of life show with pregnancy,... | | |
4:11pm | Itazura Na Kiss: Anything Might Happen | | | Be warned. A little spoilers ahead.Itazura Na Kiss started with Aihara Kotoko being optimistic and brave, might I add, when she wrote her first love letter to the male protagonist, Irie Naoki. In a shocking encounter, Irie rejected her outright without even attempting to read her heartfelt words. Before... | | |
11:42pm | January 2013 Anime Previews: staff, cast, story, pic, trailer, manga, etc. | | | Last season was one of the best I can recall. So perhaps it's fair that this season doesn't look very promising.The show I'm most looking forward to is Sasami-san@Ganbaranai, a new offering from Shinbou and Shaft about a female hikikomori who only sees the outside world through a camera attached to her... | | |
1:09am | Sukitte Ii na yo episodes 6-7: The look of love | | | A reluctant Mei persuades Yamato to accept a modelling job with another girl Right. I admit it. This is now officially my ‘Guilty Pleasure’ anime of the season. Like my mother and her dodgy StarPlus doramas, I know that this is mindless fluffy melodrama that shamelessly caters to a specific female... | | |
1:09am | Sukitte Ii na yo episodes 6-7: The look of love | | | A reluctant Mei persuades Yamato to accept a modelling job with another girl Right. I admit it. This is now officially my ‘Guilty Pleasure’ anime of the season. Like my mother and her dodgy StarPlus doramas, I know that this is mindless fluffy melodrama that shamelessly caters to a specific female... | | |
1:09am | Sukitte Ii na yo episodes 6-7: The look of love | | | A reluctant Mei persuades Yamato to accept a modelling job with another girl Right. I admit it. This is now officially my ‘Guilty Pleasure’ anime of the season. Like my mother and her dodgy StarPlus doramas, I know that this is mindless fluffy melodrama that shamelessly caters to a specific female... | | |
1:09am | Sukitte Ii na yo episodes 6-7: The look of love | | | A reluctant Mei persuades Yamato to accept a modelling job with another girl Right. I admit it. This is now officially my ‘Guilty Pleasure’ anime of the season. Like my mother and her dodgy StarPlus doramas, I know that this is mindless fluffy melodrama that shamelessly caters to a specific female... | | |
8:09pm | I'll kiss you and you'll fall in love with me- Ramblings on Shoujo | | | starsamaria: Over at tokyojupiter Anna T. wrote a very nice post about the current running shoujo series. It’s interesting that all 3, Kamisama Hajimemashita, Sukitte Ii Na Yo, Tonari no Kaibutsu-kun feature a kiss in the first episode – I’m used to shoujo series taking a bit more time to get that... | | |
8:53pm | Summer 2012 Anime: full previews w/story, trailer, staff, cast, etc. | | | Chouyaku Hyakunin Isshu: Uta KoiAfter an amazing spring season, even the summer "off-season" looks pretty good. Some highlights:Chouyaku Hyakunin Isshu: Uta Koi -- Romantic stories loosely based on the lives and poetry of the great Japanese poets and poetesses of a thousand years ago. This is right up... | | |
10:27pm | 2012 Spring Season Preview | | | With the current season about to end, it’s time for the spring season preview! There are a lot of new series, and the return of second seasons (or halves) for shows like Fate/Zero, Korean Zombie Desk Car Kore wa Zombie Desu Ka?, Kimi to Boku, and Phi Brain. And some continuations of older ones,... | | |
11:34pm | Ryu’s Musings – Blood & Moon Vol 01 | | | ISBN-13: 9781569702079 Language: English Direction: Right to Left Pages: 72 by: Nao Yazawa Publisher: Digital Manga Publishing Type: Series Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Shojo Synopsis: Sayaka is in for quite a surprise. Sitting at the family breakfast table one... | | |
8:33am | Tennis and FanService of the Female Form in Anime | | | No this is not a post about Softenni. I did not last more than an episode of that show. They’re not even doing actual tennis. This sport that I love (and unlike basketball, I love to play tennis more than I like watching it) is pretty amazing. Why? Much like boxing, there is nowhere to hide on a... | | |
12:44am | Ryu’s Musings: Itazura na Kiss Vol 05 | | | ISBN-13: 9781569701928 Language: English Direction: Right to Left Pages: 328 by: Kaoru Tada Publisher: Digital Manga Publishing Type: Series Genre: Shojo, Drama, Romance Synopsis: High school senior Kotoko Aihara has had a crush on Naoki Irie since freshman... | | |
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