Do me a favor and tell me how long you can stomach this video. Not long, right? I've loved Vanilla Salt, the first ending theme from Toradora, ever since Digital Boy used to play it all the god damn time. However, the two of us came to the consensus that the music video was a sin against all things righteous and should be blocked from our collective minds. Easy to see why: Yui Horie is creepy. I always find plastic surgery unnerving and noticeable, but this is crazy. Her face looks like it's made of plastic. You can feel the sense that she either thinks that she's cute, or wants to think it, but she is totally not. [By the way, she is a member of Kikuko Inoue's 'forever 17 cult'. I'm pretty sure Kikuko Inoue is joking when she claims to still be 17. Yui Horie is less convincing.]
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What I love about Kanokon is that the series is very sexually 'open'. The characters deal immediately with the fact that the way they behave is not accepted in their surroundings, but they are in love enough not to care. In the series, it's rather obvious that Kouta really wants to bone Chizuru. When he tells her 'no', it's in the 'no means yes' way that Japanese women always use in bed. He doesn't really resist her (even in the first episode he explains to the class rep that 'it's not like I don't enjoy it.') That's what makes Kouta fun - he's trying his hardest to not be seen as a pervert, but he IS a pervert, as all men are, so he can't help but be drawn in (to Chizuru's tits).
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It can't be avoided. It can't also be helped. Sometime, someday, you'll eventually have to categorize your anime, manga, and game characters. Sure, we can do that. But can we do that WITH HAIR? We'll see.
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t's been a few years since I first laid my eyes on a chapter of Sekiya Asami's works, that being a chapter of Your Dog. Yes. Your Dog. That's the title. Don't even think of sporting an "Uh... what?" face on me. I don't know how it was named, nor was the idea behind it plausible. No, really.
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I've always had one problem with traps and the people who love them, which is that traps are, for all intents and purposes, usually female. They tend to look like a (hot) girl, act like a girl, have a chirpy female seiyuu, and are completely gay. Now, how hard is it to fall into that trap, really? It's not even a trap, because it's easy to defend your sexuality when the character might as well be a female anyway. For instance, one of my favorite traps is Peppo from Gankutsou, but Peppo looks, sounds, and acts so much like a girl that I'm half-convinced she's not even a real trap at all! The Animanachronism once made a great point that traps are only really 'men' insofar as the canon demands it, as if we just ignore that it's a boy (or don't even know) then it would be pretty hard to be called gay for finding it attractive.
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I learned of Otoyomegatari yesterday from 2-D Teleidoscope, who briefly riffed about it's plot and astounding artwork, and particularly caught my interest with the note that the series starred a married couple of a 20 year-old woman married to a 12 year-old boy. No, this isn't a shocker or smut rag, it's a slice-of-life story from 18th century nomadic Persia, and it is wonderful.
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man, is this the show that had me so apprehensive at first? It's gotten good. Remember when I said 'I hope it goes in Manabi Straight directions'? Well, it may be just that! I think we could have real school revolution going on here, and what's more, I support the out of the petition.
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For lack of a better way to begin this post, I’m just going to say once again that I really love this anime, for a great many reasons. In his recent post on this very same episode, DigitalBoy spent a good bit of time obsessing over Hiiragi, (not that I can blame him, of course.) then [...]
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Trying to say ANYTHING about Omamori Himari that you can't say about any other show is like trying to assassinate a dead man with your penis. First of all, he's already dead, second of all, someone beat you to it, and third of all, the man is gay, and he really wouldn't have been all that hurt by what you were planning to do.
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The first episode of Sora no Woto was astounding, but the second truly just blew me away. It was a masterpiece of animation for a laundry list of reasons, ranging from character depth to unique humor, then back again. I'm ranking this one as my second most anticipated show of the season, and it's only losing to Hanamaru Kindergarten by a small margin. There's not much else to say, except that I'll be anxiously awaiting the release of the third episode. On a side note, taking the time to write out a diary entry was really a blast, even though I felt like I took a few too many liberties with the character. It really allowed me to get inside this character's head, and whereas I'd originally overlooked her as being my favorite character, I'm beginning to get the feeling that she just might be.
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