An unfortunate turn of events unfolds as Wakana experiences some melancholy regarding her mother.
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Tari Tari – Episode 5 – Wakana’s Sad Memories
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Tari Tari – Episode 4 – Getting Angry and not Giving Up
Stalker! Stalker! He keeps following me!
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Tari Tari – Episode 3 – Death and Rebirth of the Second Choir Club
Wow, a Spanish man stalking Sakai? It can’t get any better than this!
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Tari Tari – Episode 2 – That Special Song
Ah Sawa, I can never get enough of you…
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Tari Tari – Episode 1 – When your Vice Principal Doesn’t Let you Sing, Start your Own Club!
It’s finally summer, thus we begin the anime of this season. First to air is of course Tari Tari. If you know some Japanese, “たり…たりする” usually lists activities. In English, it will translate out to be “do such things as x and y.”
As you will expect, this show is about two male characters, three girls and music. It sounds familiar, but I haven’t even shared my thoughts about the episode yet!
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Hanasaku Iroha – Final Review
It’s a known fact that PA Works is well-known for their original productions. In particular, True Tears, Canaan and especially Angel Beats had garnered a lot of attention. Although their production values are great, the stories get a bit too ambitious mostly because of the length. This eventually caused them to get a bit off track from the original premise as seen with Hanasaku Iroha. (Image Source)
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Hanasaku Iroha – Episode 26 (END) – Confessions and Goodbyes
The night of the Bonbari festival has arrived. With Ko finally making it there, how will Ohana react?
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Hanasaku Iroha – Episode 25 – Turmoil and Losing the Kissuisou They Love…
As the employee’s refuse to surrender, they start to work long hours to win the battle. Meanwhile, Ohana becomes increasingly worried about the changes happening around her. She fears that it won’t be the same Kissuisou inn she knew and love once the festival is over.
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True Tears – Episode 6 – The Growing Tension of Love
Things get problematic as the situation between Shinchiro and everyone else gets tense. In short, poo has definitely hit the fan.
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True Tears – Episode 5 – Shinichiro and His Annoying Lies
From Jun’s surprising request to have Shinichiro to go out with his sister, it seems like he doesn’t understand why. When he intervenes in Hiromi’s love life, well things get ugly rather quickly.
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Hanasaku Iroha – Episode 24 – The Fight to Keep Kissuisou Alive
At last, Ohana has confronted her feelings with Ko after he spent some time with Satsuki. At the same time, the employees of Kissuisou are not giving into Sui’s idea of shutting down the inn and taking things into their own hands.
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Hanasaku Iroha – Episode 23 – Ko’s Sudden Optimism
Takako decides to track down the con artist in Tokyo that ran away and took the money with her last effort to save the inn. Ohana also tags along to confront her mother about her future and of course, meeting her crush, Ko.
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True Tears – Episode 4 – Tears to the Sky
Shinichiro becomes dismayed over Hiromi’s revealing of her crush on Noe’s brother, Jun. This causes him to avoid her until a certain someone tries to cheer him up.
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Hanasaku Iroha – Episode 22 – Catfights over “Crushes” and the Uncertain Future
With Takako’s and Enishi’s wedding approaching, Minko has yet to resolve her differences with Ohana until now.
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True Tears – Episode 3 – Brief Thoughts & Hurricane Updates
Following Noe’s first meeting with Shinichiro, she became increasingly interested in him. Meanwhile, Hiromi becomes anxious of him getting a girlfriend that she needs to get a boyfriend too.
Additionally, there are updates regarding the hurricane below the impressions.
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Hanasaku Iroha – Episode 21 – Love = Double the Trouble
After focusing heavily on the side characters, plot finally returns when Enishi and Takako decides to marry each other. Unfortunately, the planning of their wedding sparks some love triangle drama between Minko, Ohana and Tooru. Poo has certainly hit the fan for sure!
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Summer 2011 Anime Midseason Impressions
Believe it or not, summer is more than half way done. Although I haven’t watched much from the summer lineup since I went on a two-week vacation late last month, the shows that I watched were very enjoyable. Out of the show from this season’s lineup, I have watched Ikoku Meiro no Croisèe and The iDOLM@STER along with two shows from last season. (Image Source)
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Hanasaku Iroha – Episode 20 – The Great Omurice Compromise
After the intense dispute between Minko and Yuki for not having Omurice on the menu, there is finally a solution within Nako’s obsession of having one for lunch.
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True Tears – Episode 1 & 2 (First Impressions)
For a while now, I wanted to watch True Tears, PA Works’s first production before they produced other anime such as Canaan, Angel Beats and the now airing Hanasaku Iroha. While the latter having a few similarities since Mari Okada worked on both series, the focus is primarily on the love triangle that slowly develops with Shinichiro and the two girls, Hiromi and Noe.
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Hanasaku Iroha – Episode 19 – Aloof Minko and her war against Omurice
With the school festival coming in a matter of days, Ohana is very excited about her class’s plan to do a Princess Cafè. For Minko, she takes it a bit too seriously…
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Hanasaku Iroha – Episode 18 – Nako’s Other Personality…
After Enishi’s disastrous movie production, Nako finally gets her time in the spotlight….
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Hanasaku Iroha – Episode 17 – Wait for it…
Enishi did not see this one coming at all… and fell into a SCAM!
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Hanasaku Iroha – Episode 16 – Enishi’s Movie Producing Dream
Since the class trip is finally over, the Kissuisou Inn gets an opportunity of a lifetime… a movie production!
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Hanasaku Iroha – Episode 15 – Yuina’s Jealousy…
From the last episode, it is apparent that Yuina wants to have her own career instead of working in an inn. With the part timers suddenly quitting, it pushes the Fukuyo Inn into crisis, which causes Ohana to become uneasy and wanting to help out. This is where Yuina’s decision starts to get questioned.
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