The mindset someone has while viewing a piece of media – book, art, movie, anime TV show – will, obviously, effect how that person will react to that piece of media. My mindset doesn’t often visibly bubble up when I want to talk about anime; though, I’m sure it subtly does all the time. As [...]
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The mindset someone has while viewing a piece of media – book, art, movie, anime TV show – will, obviously, effect how that person will react to that piece of media. My mindset doesn’t often visibly bubble up when I want to talk about anime; though, I’m sure it subtly does all the time. As [...]
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Initial impression – revealing the truth Winter 2013 (12 episodes) (more info) Based on its art style and a three-sentence description I’d expected Kotoura-san to be a two-dimensional moe anime.  However, what I got was a rollercoaster ride of emotions that really caught me by surprise.  The first half of this episode encapsulates Kotoura’s rough [...]
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Kotoura Haruka was born with ESP, allowing her to read minds. But as she always blurted out what others were thinking, she became and object of loathing and inadvertently pushed away both her parents and everyone who ever met her. In the present she lives alone and transferred to a new school, but doesn’t escape [...]
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Mind reading is something that crops up from time to time, mostly in western comic books with super heroes who are psychic or those who possess other similar powers, although they do appear in manga and anime. The notion that reading peoples minds would someone be cool, or fun goes hand in hand with these [...]
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Summary: Kotoura-san was born with the ability to read everyone’s minds–a power she could not control. This got her into a great deal of trouble over the years, to the point where her classmates shunned her and called her a monster. Things get even worse, however, when her parents grow increasingly frustrated with her. The [...]
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Summary: Kotoura-san was born with the ability to read everyone’s minds–a power she could not control. This got her into a great deal of trouble over the years, to the point where her classmates shunned her and called her a monster. Things get even worse, however, when her parents grow increasingly frustrated with her. The [...]
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This was… quite the ride. I had no expectation whatsoever going into this. I didn’t even know what it was about. So the utterly depressing mood and setting creeped up on me. Those were some effectively soul crushing faces she made D: Kotoura can hear what others are thinking, an ability she can’t control. So [...]
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Suffice to say that this series surprised me and half the damn blogosphere. A wake up call via shock therapy if you ask me, and one that was needed. It’s not hard to see that many of us weren’t expecting much from Kotoura-san. It’s an adaptation of 4-koma (AKA 4 cell) manga that was supposed [...]
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Suffice to say that this series surprised me and half the damn blogosphere. A wake up call via shock therapy if you ask me, and one that was needed. It’s not hard to see that many of us weren’t expecting much from Kotoura-san. It’s an adaptation of 4-koma (AKA 4 cell) manga that was supposed [...]
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