
This is… exactly what it looks like. Whatever you think that is.

Welcome to the 12 Days of Anime, or the 12 Moments of the Year, or whatever the heck it’s supposed to be called. But this is actually CCY’s brainchild and the only way to celebrate the twelve chibis of Christmas! Drama is easy. Melodorama is hard.

It’s CCY’s brainchild and legacy and the aniblogging way of celebrating the twelve days of Christmas!

CCY has come out of retirement for his yearly holiday project, so of course, I had to oblige. Even though I had the most bastard of times trying to come up with 12 memories. Either I’m going senile, or this past anime season just wasn’t very memorable.

Kyousuke Kousaka, I salute you and your heart that is clear as the Windows XP blue sky background.

Bakuman has settled into a nice, little groove. It’s not quite the can’t miss hit, I was expecting, but this was the latest in the string of solid episodes.

The real Shujin-Kaya relationship is a lot more interesting than the make believe Mashiro-Miho non-relationship. Of course, that’s not saying that much either.

I used to do Shotokan Karate. When blocking, they taught me to wait for the last possible moment and then block. You do this so your opponent can’t react and change their attack. The block is meant to be both defense and a counter. Knocking away the incoming punch/kick, and ideally doing some damage as [...]

Once we get past the boring and slightly depressing Mashiro mope-fest and the crappy support from his mute future lover, the episode ends pretty nicely with Takagi’s love triangle coming to a head. Wait. What love triangle? Yep, you got that right.