Anime Dreams

18th March, 2010 (Thu) Category: anime Be the first to comment

Amongst my many eccentricities, writing down the dreams I have every single morning is probably the most striking one. So far I’ve compiled 500 dreams in 164 days, of which 96 have to do with anime, which ranks first -since …

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Ladies vs Butlers 11

17th March, 2010 (Wed) Category: Ladies vs Butlers Be the first to comment

We go back to the moment just before Flameheart and Tomomi meet at the fountain. Akiharu got 2 tickets for an amusement park from the mahou shoujo girl, and decides to look for someone to go with, and it turns …

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Chuu-bra 11

16th March, 2010 (Tue) Category: Chuu-bra Be the first to comment

As the Cultural Festival approaches, Nayu seems to be exerting herself with the preparations, which makes her friends worry if there’s something the matter with her. Kiyono, the only one who knows that Nayu will move to Kyoto next year, …

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Hanamaru Youchien 10 – BOKEEE!@!!!!!@

15th March, 2010 (Mon) Category: Hanamaru Youchien Be the first to comment

In the first part, Koume wanted to impress her onii-chan during the sports event, but she tripped just when she was about to win. But the effort counts! In the second part, while drunk at a karaoke, Tsuchida-sensei finally manages …

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Hidamari Sketch 10 – The Key

14th March, 2010 (Sun) Category: Hidamari Sketch Be the first to comment

Since it is too obvious, I will not make any sex/lesbian jokes about this episode. While Yuno was cleaning the toilet, she dropped the key to her apartment and in the confusion she flushed it, and the landlady, paramount of …

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Essay: The third axis – Entertainment (Part 2)

14th March, 2010 (Sun) Category: Editorial Be the first to comment

Part 1 In the first part I argued about how we shouldn’t expect anime to have a message. But how do we go beyond the social function? Traditionally it often has meant art for art’s sake, or, since I don’t …

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Baka to test 10 – Love Letter 101

12th March, 2010 (Fri) Category: Baka to test Be the first to comment

Himeji is trying to learn how to give a love letter to Yoshii, but she fails miserably. When Yoshii is made to carry some boxes to the school’s vault and he and his beast fall and get all the stuff …

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Essay: The third axis – Entertainment (Part 1)

11th March, 2010 (Thu) Category: Editorial Be the first to comment

As usual there seems to be some controversies about lolicon stuff, and I’ve read several discussions on Twitter. Well, my opinion about lolicon and censorship is here, so no need to repeat myself. However I want to follow some other …

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“Kämpfer” Volume 1

11th March, 2010 (Thu) Category: Kämpfer Be the first to comment

The probably most interesting thing is that the novel is narrated in the first person by Natsuru him(her-?)self, which was a really interesting change of perspective. So having access to his thoughts, he doesn’t seem as slow-witted as in the anime. He is quite aware of the things going out around him and can be really sarcastic at times. He also realized very quickly that there was a relationship between the creepy plushies and Sakura, who was giving them out.

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Ladies vs Butlers 10 – Honest feelings

10th March, 2010 (Wed) Category: Ladies vs Butlers Be the first to comment

As the relationship between Flameheart and Tomomi deteriorates, reverse trap Daichi receives a love letter from a girl (Daichi seems to be pretty popular among the members of her own sex), which seems to be a problem (actually, why is …

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