Hina? Maria? Everyone wins!

by RP May 10, 2009
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There’s something about Hayate no Gotoku that brings out the shipper fanboy in me. I liked the first season despite the plethora of fillers, but I’m loving the second season so far. It’s like they’ve cut out the unnecessary crap from the first season and pumped up everything that was already awesome (i.e., the wonderfully [...]

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Happy Mother’s Day! – The best and worst anime moms

by RP May 10, 2009
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I’ve been thinking that anime generally underutilizes parents. Why are they never around? What if Touma had a mom instead of being screwed up by her brothers? How come Ui seems to be Yui’s mother figure? Where are their real parents? How come parents are always on permanent business trips? Why do the kids always [...]

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K-ON! episode 6 – Nurses, Suzumikus, oh my

by RP May 9, 2009
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This week’s school festival performance certainly was no GOD KNOWS or LOST MY MUSIC. I’m really disappointed that we’re six episodes in and KyoAni keeps cutting out on the group as soon as they start playing. The music video was poorly done. Seriously, just show the girls playing their instruments. How do we know the [...]

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Saki is F-ing up Eden of the East

by RP May 9, 2009
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Every Saki scene: My reaction: If I have to see Saki’s pathetic, hang-dog, self-defeating, high-school crush angst, perma-depressed face again I’m going to claw my eyes out. Every scene she’s in is a complete bomb. She’s the biggest waste of digital ink since Taiga Aisaka. Oh and for standing up Ohsugi, may a thousand beef [...]

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A video game bonanza

by RP May 7, 2009
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I’ve been meaning to post reviews of games I’ve been playing for a couple months now. But things came up and one thing led to another and… So instead here’s a cornucopia of non-review impressions instead.

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Sengoku Basara, episode 5 – All thriller, no filler

by RP May 6, 2009
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Back to the action in this episode. Unfortunately, there’s no new tricks this time around – unless you count Honda the samurai Gundam – but there’s plenty of old favorites to enjoy. And the wait continues for both Kenshin and Nobunaga to get in the action. Massive numbers of soldiers only exist to be blown [...]

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Melancholy of Haruhi-chan 23, 24 and Nyoron Churuya-san 12… and a Haruhi-chan OP?

by RP May 4, 2009
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Haruhi-chan ONA 23, ONA 24 and Churuya-san 12. I didn’t realize ONAs got their own OPs too. But this is Haruhi, so Kadokawa must realize that anything remotely Haruhi-related is merchadisable. It’s called Ima Made no Arasuji and features the whole cast. It’s ah… probably what you’d expect to hear from Haruhi-chan, hectic and pretty [...]

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Spice and Wolf II, episode 00 – The OVA

by RP May 2, 2009
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My favorite animated female not named Haruhi Suzumiya is back in this one-shot OVA bridging the first and second seasons.

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K-ON! episode 5 – Mugi x Sawako flag triggered!

by RP May 1, 2009
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Yes! Recycled joke! I’m going to keep this joke going until KyoAni stops triggering flags. What if KyoAni decided to take all of their visual novel experience and turn K-ON! into a yuri romance shoujo comedy? Mio x Yui. Mugi x Sawako. Ritsu x Ui. It’d be a harbinger of otakus gone wild. I’m amused [...]

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Sengoku Basara, episode 4 – Drawing the lines

by RP April 29, 2009
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There were zero battles in this episode, unless you count Takeda’s punching of Sanada or Nobunaga’s quick humiliation of Azai, but I still enjoyed this episode quite a bit, because of the buildup. Not every episode can break new barriers of GAR, but that’s ok, as long as the story’s moving to a conflict or [...]

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