Rikka’s imagination cannot get any farther from reality.
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Chuunibyou demo Koi ga Shitai – Episode 2 – The Fight over Cats
Papa no Iukoto o Kikinasai – Episode 10 – Sora’s Difficulties and Raika’s Encouragement
I suddenly realized that I have nothing to write about for the next few days. So, I decided to start chipping away my ever-growing backlog.
With this episode, the spotlight is on Sora as she faces more stress than usual.
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Little Busters – Episode 1 – Baseball, Recruitment and School Food Fights
At last, the most anticipated visual novel adaptation, Little Busters has finally landed, but does it meet expectations? Well, it sort of.
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Dog Days 2 – Final Review
When I first watched Dog Days on my Macbook Pro while heading to Minnesota back in 2011, it was a fun show. However, the story was average and the injection of drama did not fit well with the lighthearted feeling of the show. A year later, we now have Dog Day’s Dash, which is the sequel where Shinku returns with his childhood friend, Rebecca to the fantasy world of Flonyard. Also, his older cousin, Nanami joins in the fun. With Seven Arc’s track record on second seasons being better than the first, I wonder if the same can be said for Dog Days. Let’s find out! (Image Source)
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Chuunibyou demo Koi ga Shitai – Episode 1 – The Dark and Embarrassing Secrets of Togashi Yuuta
Since summer is finally over, it’s time to focus on the first show I’m watching this fall. Just like Hyouka, it seems that Kyoto Animation was busy working on another project that got announced last year. This show is Chuunibyou demo Koi ga Shitai (中二病でも恋がしたい, lit: I have Middle School Second Year Disease, but I Want to Love!). It has a male lead and this weird girl with an eye-patch. Seems interesting enough until I actually watched the first episode. After that, my mind simply got blown away.
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Dog Days 2 – Episode 13 (END) – Farewell for Now
As the Union Festival and summer come to a close, the respective kingdoms throw their own farewell ceremonies as the heroes return to earth.
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A Year of Self-Studying Japanese – Some Experiences
It’s almost a year since I started teaching myself Japanese and I think it would be best to share some of my experiences in certain aspects. Obviously, learning a second language takes a lot of commitment and it’s not easy like buying Rosetta Stone (which is a big waste of money) and expecting instant gratification. It took a lot of effort since it’s learning by doing.
On the surface, Asian languages tend to be difficult since most of them use logograms, also known as Chinese Characters along with different grammar rules. With practice and constant studying, it’s just like learning any other language, except it takes a bit more time to have a basic understanding
Aside from that, here are some observations I had after one year of studying.
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Kokoro Connect – Episode 13 – It Ends Abruptly…
It finally ends with Taichi spilling the beans along with other stuff regarding Iori’s past.
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Nogizaka Haruka’s Secret ~Finale~ – Episode 1 – Time for More Disappointment
I’m dreading every moment of this considering how bad the second season was. Still, I’m obligated to finish it, which is why we have four original video animations to finish it. As a matter in fact, the original source material concluded several months ago, which can explain why they wanted to finish the Anime. Believe me, there will be a lot of fireworks going once this is done and it took only three years in the making to get here.
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Tari Tari – Final Review
For a while now, PA Works have earned a reputation for it’s excellent production values, probably to the point where it can rival Kyoto Animation. They have done mostly original stories, which is one of the reasons why their shows tend to start on a good note. However, they also have a tendency to go sour at the middle and it was especially apparent with Hanasaku Iroha where it looses track of what it originally set out for and goes to the uncharted territory of uneasiness like unnecessary crossdressing and senseless love triangles. With Mari Okada completely out of the equation, will Tari Tari address the issues that the studio’s other works had? We’ll just have to find out. (Image Source)
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Dog Days 2 – Episode 12 – Underground Maze Survival and Adult Becky
It seems that someone got a bit careless…
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Tari Tari – Episode 13 (END) – The Musical to Remember Forever
While the relentless school administrator wants to shut down the unauthorized festival, he is in for a nasty surprise.
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Kokoro Connect – Episode 12 – Confronting the Past
The drama settles in as Yui’s troubles hit a fever pitch.
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Dog Days 2 – Episode 11 – End of the Festivities and Unexpected Body Swapping
Wow, the war ended rather quickly! What we got instead is some hilarious body swapping.
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Hyouka – Final Review
For this year’s project, Kyoto Animation decided to adapt Hyouka (氷菓, lit: Ice Cream), a set of teenage light novels involving a Classic Literature Club. While the show is slightly different from what they usually do, it is rather unique on how it uses Mystery to develop the characters. In turn, it creates an enjoyable experience for various reasons. (Image Source)
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Tari Tari – Episode 12 – Despair and Hope
Defying the Student Council’s decision, Konatsu plans to go ahead with the plans to sing.
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Hyouka – Episode 22 (END) – End of the Energy-Saving Lifestyle and the Future
As the show comes to a close, the focus is now on Oreki and Eru.
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Kokoro Connect – Episode 11 – Inaba can’t be this cute!
Cuteness overload incoming! My body wasn’t ready for this!
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Anime Adaptations and Why Good Ones are “Difficult” to Produce
When we review Anime, one of the common factors is how well a studio adapts the source material. This can range from Manga, Light Novels, Visual Novels, and Video Games since the whole industry rides on it to sell related merchandise. Since production committees have different approaches to achieve this, expectations will never be the same since printed media doesn’t have any voice actors to begin with. This is why I wanted to share my thoughts about adaptations since it has always been a hot topic. (Image Source)
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Dog Days 2 – Episode 10 – Second Half of Amazing Battles
As Éclair miraculously won the important duel of her life, stuff heats up on the other front.
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Tari Tari – Episode 11 – The Dream That is Almost Lost
Sadly, good things come to an abrupt end.
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Hyouka – Episode 21 – Getting Upset Over Valentines Day Chocolates
As one would expect, it’s all about chocolate. It’s not just any kind of chocolate, Valentines Day chocolates!
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Kokoro Connect – Episode 10 – Inaba’s Love Dilemma
Finally, the shocking conclusion to “unleashing personal desires.”
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Live Blogging – Natsuiro Kiseki OVA
Wait?! Natsuiro Kiseki has an Original Animation? Well, yes as it got handed out as part of a festival event that happened on August 29th. Since this is very short in nature, I want to experiment with something new.
Just recently, Automattic, the creators of Wordpress created their own Liveblogging Plugin that makes it easier for people to post updates on the fly. Typically, I done live commenting on Melative, but I no longer do that since I don’t have the time and nobody really uses it. Just glancing at this plugin, it brought me a good idea of possibly liveblogging certain shows that I percieve difficult to blog like Nichijou. However, I will still be writing episodic posts for most of the currently airing shows. With that, I’m going to try this out with this OVA.
To view the Live Feed, press Read More. Do not refresh the browser as updates will come automatically. Once I finished watching, I will write my brief overall thoughts above the livefeed. (Image Source)
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