Wow.. that was quite chaotic. It looks like this week was almost some sort of a filler episode about Otohanata (Otoha + Hinata) creating some weird world where she was Hirose’s “fiance” and Hayami and Hotaru were his sisters x_x; They even have magical girl otoha transformations, some kind of fake parody opening theme but in the end they tried to make it all serious by showing Otoha kissing Hirose and then disappearing. I kept thinking “ok since she’s gone now does this mean he’s going blind again?” I mean really what’s the deal with his blindness? It was there for like less than 1 episode and since Otoha is gone, is he permanently able to see? Talk about loose ends.

And speaking of chaos, it really got out of hand when they showed this image:

Yea that was definitely something ..else.

Well I checked the Kinokuniya online site and it said that the book was finally in the store so I picked it up. I got the special edition as well which came with a little booklet that contained an “omake” story just like my other special edition did. What I didn’t get is why there was only 1 special edition book left on the shelves. They need to restock more often! I almost picked up the normal edition bah. But anyway…all this excitement was to be short lived as this turned out to actually be a pretty disappointing volume. In comparison to the amazing work that was Pita Ten, Kamichama Karin is not living up to it and in volume 6 it hit the ultimate pit of generic shoujo story - and not in a good way. Continue Reading »

Unlike the former tjhan (who’s now too whipped to take upskirt figure photos) I don’t spend more than $12 on a figure and I don’t especially go out to take specially composed photos of them. I also try to not buy figures because they end up dust fodder on my manga bookshelf so along with today’s figure, I have a total of 3 and 3 sailormoon nendoroid figures. I also have really bad luck when it comes to trading figures - I never get the one I want (or maybe you can think of it as good luck because 2 of my 3 figures are the “secret” ones ??)

Anyway today at Kinounkiya I was hoping to get the Sumomo figure seen above, but as my luck would have it I got a Shana. It could have been worse: I coulda gotten Wilhelmina Continue Reading »

So I am up to chapter 133 of the Neuro manga which means this is the first episode I’ve watched where I’ve read the manga before hand. And let me tell you, what a sinking feeling it is when you know what’s been cut out and the disappointment is probably equivalent to my disappointment with Shugo Chara. They generally followed the story but I guess in order to fit everything in, they had to cut things out. One thing that the Neuro anime does, which the manga often doesn’t, is it pretty much throws characters out. So the Yuka girl, from the arc with Sai fighting Neuro, you haven’t seen her since, same with Aya. In the manga however, Yako often goes to Aya for advice and sometimes to Yuka for help as well. Needless to say, in this episode she made no appearance. Continue Reading »

I’m really confused but I think this was supposed to be the last episode? Their official blog has “Saishuukai” all over it and there was no next week preview at the end so perhaps it really is. That’s a shame because I was hoping they’d make it at least 10 or 11 episodes. :/ This week it looked as if she had confessed to her boyfriend that she’s a fujoshi, but when she did, apparently he passed out and missed everything. Also at the beginning the wedding she saw was actually one of his 4 twin brothers. Figures they’d end it openly like that. :/ Well it was fun while it lasted.

So a couple weeks ago I wrote a post in an LJ community on why people ship Neuro and Yako when all Neuro does is smash her head against walls and ceilings, down her in gas and make her balance a candle on her head and use her as his chair/mop. After reading more of the manga (I’m on volume 12 now) something occured to me: Neuro and Yako are almost like Hamel and Flute from the Violinist of Hameln. You got the hero, who’s a monster (or half monster) who finds a plain old girl and forces her somehow to follow along with what he’s doing. In the meantime he abuses her in a gag kind of manner (Flute Missile anyone?) but near the end it’s because of the girl is the hero able to conquer his final foes.

Needless to say I feel Yako will play an important part to Neuro near the end, similarly to like she did in the HAL arc. But even if NeuYako is my fannon, I’m down with it. The other fanarts I’ve seen are so freaking adorable that it’s enough to convince me to support this pairing.

And on a note of fanart, here’s a 描いてみた Part II:

Also to my Japanese visitors: 「描いてみた」ビデオアップロードためプロにしなくちゃならないですか？べつにプロじゃなくてもいいんじゃない？自分の絵すこし下手だけどべつに気にしてない。プロになるつもり全然ないからただビデオ作りたかっただけ。それ悪いですか？
わけわかりません。(´へ｀●)

P.S. The Hameln I’m referring to is the manga, the anime sucks terribly. Good luck trying to find copies of it though - it’s forever out of print.

P.P.S. Holy shit there’s a sequel to this now? Must buy!

Wait this show has a plot now? I thought the point of this show was to be random 1 shot episodes…but this week it seemed to take a different direction. It started out in their usual random manner - hell even the Johnny’s shota singers that Miyu was moeing over made me laugh. I had no idea Ageha would suddenly appear and make her move considering how many women already live with Ren to begin with! Also not only that, it was his AND her first kiss, and it appears to be a continuing arc into next week. O_O My guess though if Ren “ends up” with anybody (which is rare in harems anyway) it would be Shinra anyway. Also lol @ Ageha’s injured manservant being attacked by slutty nurses. xD