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Title: Shoujo Meiro de Tsukamaete | Artist: Aki Misato | Show: Strawberry PanicRead more...
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Well, Spring is on its way to brighten up your life! Unless you live in Colorado, like I do. In that case, third winter is on its way to freeze over your car every morning. Ugh, I am so done with snow [...]
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Can I see panties? Welp, not quite. As you may be able to tell, based on how quickly this review is following my review of the previous volume, I am making my way through the Strawberry Panic light novels pretty … Continue reading →
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Can I see panties? Welp, not quite. As you may be able to tell, based on how quickly this review is following my review of the previous volume, I am making my way through the Strawberry Panic light novels pretty … Continue reading →
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“Girls school in full bloom.” With a subtitle like that, what’s not to like? I have long given up on getting any more Strawberry Panic anime (not even an OVA was ever made!), long decided I wasn’t interested in bothering … Continue reading →
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“Girls school in full bloom.” With a subtitle like that, what’s not to like? I have long given up on getting any more Strawberry Panic anime (not even an OVA was ever made!), long decided I wasn’t interested in bothering … Continue reading →
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Day 8/366 Strawberry Panic solely takes place at 3 prestigious female-only academies known as St. Miator, Spica, and Lulim. They are all right next to each other on a hill and share a campus and dormitory. The girls that attend these school just can't keep their hands off each other! Nagisa's uniform is a long black [...] Related posts:366 Days of Anime School Uniforms: Day 5/366 Full Metal Panic 366 Days of Anime School Uniforms: Day 3/366 Best Student Council 366 Days of Anime School Uniforms: Day 2/366 School Rumble
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http://lpsutopa.wordpress.com/ I’m going to do something weird with this post. Basically I’m promoting Panicker’s blog. This is a blog dedicated to LP’ing the Japan exclusive PS2 yur/shoujo-ai visual novel, “Strawberry Panic: Girls’ School in Full Bloom.” Think about it like … Continue reading →
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Quick review of the anime series Strawberry Panic featuring wallpapers from the various characters in the series like Nagisa Aoi, Tamao Suzumi, Shizuma Hanazono, etc...
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English-speaking Strawberry Panic fans have really lucked out. We have the anime on DVD, the light novel omnibus coming up, and the manga, with the two extra chapters that didn't come with the original two manga volumes included in this omnibus.  Strawberry Panic's premise is already familiar to yuri fans. Naïve, cheerful Aoi Nagisa transfers to St. Miator Girls' Academy, where she catches the eye of the coolest, most popular (and most fickle) Onee-sama (I giggled while typing that, just so you know) Hanazono Shizuma. Nagisa's roommate Tamao and underclassman Chiyo also carry a torch for Nagisa. Shizuma wants Nagisa to compete with her in the Ètoile competition, which is essentially a contest among Miator, St. Spica Girls' Institute, and St. Lulim Girls' School, all located on Astraea Hill, for the best couple. (With one girl in each couple called the "aȋnée" and the other the "cadette.") Their stiffest competition comes from Spica's "Prince" Otori Amane and her cadette, shy transfer student Konohana Hikari- whose hyper-aggressive roommate Yaya is in love with her. The manga follows the light novel, as far as I've read, more closely than the anime adaptation. The competing couples get through the first round of the competition, which involves placing the cadettes in a tower where they wait to be rescued by their aȋnée/Onee-sama/tachi/seme riding on horseback, and the first couple that reaches the finish line wins. Of course, since you have a large crowd of girls squeezed onto a high platform with no railing, one of them (Nagisa) falls off and is left clinging to the side hoping that her Onee-sama will save her on time. Nagisa also finds out that Kaori, the girl Shizuma originally competed with for Ètoile the previous year, died from a terminal illness after Shizuma fell in love with her, so she isn't sure how sincere Shizuma's feelings for her now are. (At least that issue's resolved before this series wraps up.) In the two bonus chapters, a new student, Kusanagi Makoto, arrives back at Spica after studying abroad in Russia, after being summoned by Lulim's Student Council President Chikaru to upset the competition. The two bonus chapters don't provide any resolution to the competition, but they were still pleasant to read as extra material. I would probably complain more about the unfinished ending if the story weren't resolved in the anime and light novels. As it is, it's an amusing, light-as-air little series with loads of yuri and some nice wink-wink-nudge-nudge references to other yuri titles for hardcore yuri fans. It moves more quickly than the anime, and it has some cute SD humor. It's really pretty stupid, but it's so cheerfully soap-y and over-the-top (and the characters so familiar) that it made me smile several times while reading it. As someone who first encountered SP via the anime, the manga is a nice way to re-visit the same setting with the characters and events tweaked up a bit. (Tweaked a lot, in the case of Kaname and Spica's student council.) Extras include an "Astraea Directory" with profiles on all of the characters, a cute "Astraea Hill Tri-School Relationship Chart", a map of Astraea Hill, and a guide to the honorifics (which are all left intact- yay!!) and series terminology. And finally in the back, there's a preview for the first Hayate x Blade omnibus. Story: "Onee-sama!! *blush*" Art: B- Overall: B for me.
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Strawberry Panic! was the anime that showed me the yuri genre. I didn't even know such thing as yuri anime existed. Until today, Strawberry Panic! continues to be my favorite yuri anime, I find it to be the most emotional of them all. It is also one of the Modern Yuri Trinity, along with Maria-sama ga Miteru and Kannazuki no Miko, so it's a must watch classic. No related posts.
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Set in a prestigious all-girl school, Strawberry Panic! is a rather predictable yuri anime. Following the steps of Maria-sama ga Miteru, the characters all fit into a familiar mold. Shizuma is the oujo-sama admired by the entire school while Nagisa is the clumsy commoner, who surprisingly catches Shizuma’s fancy. The use of lilies, Catholic churches, [...]
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I’m a regular visitor of Tranquil Spring’s website. They scanlate various yuri works – manga series, one-shots and even a drama series (Mendol Ikemen Idol)!! At the moment I’m only reading the manga series, Octave, which is actually on two adult girls (these are rare…). However, I must admit that I’m not a fan. I [...]
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Last time I read a book, I had to push the limits of human creativity to fit lesbians into it. Not this time. Why bother reading when I could watch anime? Unfortunately, I’ve been suffering bouts of eye strain lately. I’ve been dropping glasses and everything. I am such a dojikko. So I’ve turned to reading as [...]
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I'm not much into yuri themed (girl x girl love) animes (I prefer yaoi instead :P) but by accident, I have seen Strawberry Panic and I liked it. Nagisa and Shizuma made me. Ah, shoujo-ai!I especially like the first opening song and it gave me goosebumps. Shoujo Meiro De Tsukamaete. You can appreciate this song without even seeing the anime since Misato Aki's done a good interpretation of it. You can relate more better after you have watched the whole thing but I know there are a lot of people who doesn't approve of this because of blah, blah, blah!Okay, Ryvi I'm cheesy! XD<object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/JTHisXuAkZU&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0x234900&amp;color2=0x4e9e00&amp;border=1&amp;ap=%2526fmt%3D18"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/JTHisXuAkZU&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0x234900&amp;color2=0x4e9e00&amp;border=1&amp;ap=%2526fmt%3D18" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object>The song has an amazing feel to it. It's like yearning for something or someone to reach or a strong kind of emotion waiting to pour out, though in this case, towards a girl!Feel like downloading? Here's the link: [ Strawberry Panic OST ]Or would you rather have the lyrics instead?Lyrics (Romaji):Yureru HAATO ga furiko no you niMigi de tokimeku hidari de sadnessAmaku torokete ima setsunakuMitsume aimashouOtome junjou ki tsubomi da nanteSonna KOTOBA ja ari fureteruDatte bimyou na modokashisa wo dareka wakatte!Maze adokenai KIMOCHI demo otona no koi niYes yoku niteru TOKO mo aru kono atsusa waAkogare yori akogare ijou noYume wo idaiteruDakara shoujo ja irarenai hodo ai wo yobuWatashi dake ja watashi dake ja naiMinna hajiraitsutsu tomerarenaiNaze aitaku naru no?Lyrics (English):My swaying heart is like a pendulumWhich throbs on the right and has sadness on the leftIt's sweetly enchanting, yet painfulLets gaze at each otherA maiden's pure heart is like a flower budSuch sayings are commonBut anyone knows this delicate impatienceMaze, it's an innocent feeling, yetYes, it somehow resembles an adult's love, this passionI embrace this more than dreams of yearningMore than yearning itselfI'm no longer just a maiden, I'm calling out my loveIt's not only, it's not only meEveryone feels this shyness, it won't stopWhy do I desperately want to meet you?
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This show was retarded. I loved it.
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