Blah, not again. As you may know Aria's subbing has been slow lately and once again I end up comparing every slice of life anime I see with Aria. Half of time I just think when I can watch that masterpiece again and not episode itself. That isn't really fair to other shows, but the feeling comes without particularly trying. BSM is great series, but I just feel so distracted that I can't fully
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*Project Raw I swear, I was trying very hard to listen to the dialogue. But I sensed a distracting pattern. Maybe it’s because there are no subtitles to read. I’ll try to write a proper summary (if ever I do), after I’m finished poring through all of my Shin Nihongo No Kiso books. [...]
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         Kyou@Maaya Sakamoto (15) and Asu@Tomoko Kaneda (9) live by themselves in a one-room apartment with not much in it. Their father built up a huge debt and left, and their mother is in heaven keeping watch over them. Kyou wakes up early to go deliver newspapers (yes, somehow she can work even though she's only a middle schooler), and Asu gets up after she leaves, ready to make breakfast -- she's the one that takes care of things around the house. Asu's very excited about the upcoming festival that night -- there's plenty of money in the piggy bank so they can buy this and that, and her favorite, candy apples. After Kyou gets back, Asu runs off to the festival grounds to make a plan for what she and her sister will do that night. When Asu arrives back home her sister isn't there and the piggy bank is empty. Kyou comes in with a new yukata just like hers for Asu.... Asu calls her sister "baka" and runs off...
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*This is a Project Raw summary. Kyou and Asou are sisters living on their own. Kyou is 15, and Asou is not yet 9. In this episode, Kyou, the eldest wakes up early to go out to work. She leaves Asou a letter, which reads: Good morning Asou! The fireworks festival is today. [...]
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I got my new 300-gig HDD set up for external use, just in time for the summer season. As of my writing this, I’ve watched the premieres of three shows, raw. Now, I usually don’t watch raw anime episodes. But…I’m anxious of some reason. I know I could wait for the sub groups make the [...]
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Despite how it sounds, Binbou Shimai Monogatari is not an anime about a bunch of bimbos. It's actually about two poor sisters working to make ends meet. So is this anime uplifting and happy, or super depressing? Or both?
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One of the more attention grabbing shows this summer, no thanks to Maaya Sakamoto and the slice of life thingy going on with it, the first episode of Binbo Shimai has it’s ups and downs. For the unintiated, the story is about Kyou(15) and Asu(9) Yamada, sisters whose mom had died and their father ran [...]
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It seems I lied at the other blog, this isn't completely happy slice of life series. Sorry about that. =) Having seen manga a bit I had mixed feelings about this, but fortunately first episode cleared those. The plot isn't most complex one, two poor sisters living without parents. Both seem to blush constantly which reminded me about another great slice of life anime, Kamichu. I expected
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I have never been a fan of depressing shows. They're sad. And based on the description of Binbou Shimai Monogatari, it sounds like it could be a pretty depressing show, even though it's only 10 episodes or so. At any rate, animate.tv is hosting a Windows Media trailer for the upcoming story about two poor [...]
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