Back when slice of life still meant more than girls pointlessly talking and drinking tea, Binbou Shimai Monogatari was released. A perfect example of its genre, a stunningly beautiful slice of life [...]
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Binbou Shimai Monogatari , which translates roughly into something like "The Story of Poor Sisters", is a 10-episode anime based of a seinen manga of the same name.  The general premise of the story is that two girls, the older being in middle school, live alone in a rather modest apartment (think Maison Ikkoku).  They live in relative poverty without parental support, as their mother has passed away and their father has left them for his gambling addictions.  The older sister takes up a part time job while the younger one devotes herself to housework, and by depending on each other, they are able to live independently......
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Binbou Shimai Monogatari is your typical slice-of-life series. Kyou and Asu are two sisters. Their mother died when Asu was born, while their father ran away and left a huge debt. This means that they’ve been living most of their lives together. And that’s basically it. The ten episodes of this anime basically follow these [...]
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*Project Raw Kyou remembers about the promise she made with her mother when the latter was pregnant with Asu. Their father was still with them then. Then Asu wakes her up, it was a dream after all, and she’s sick. However, Kyou still insists on doing newspaper deliveries. But her body is [...]
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*Project Raw This post is late since I had to ‘recover’ from the 10+ hours of overtime in two days. And then I have to blog about this episode, which seems to be the worst one. So, what’s bugging the sisters in this episode? It revolves around them getting their first cellphones. This is [...]
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*Project Raw The skies are dark, I’m not doing overtime today, so ’tis a great day for blogging! Now on to BSM proper. Our slice of life problem for today is: Asou can’t sing! Or rather, her rendition of songs leaves much to be desired. The pressure is on her, since her classmates [...]
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I'm not going to waste another hour to finish this, BSM is very good example how to overdo moe and fail. Sisters's IQ is lower than average lesbian's in Strawberry Panic, they seem to blush 24/7 and really need some common sense. I didn't care those in the beginning, but slowly it was more and more annoying. I think sixth episode was the breaking point for me, it's impossible to watch slice of
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*Project Raw I’ll make this summary really short. Just one paragraph. Our little Asou makes a heart-shaped chocolate for Kyou. However she gets tired of waiting for Kyou to come home and so goes out to find Kyou. However she witnesses her sister giving chocolates with a letter inside to a boy. She [...]
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Yeah Ginko, you are right. Answer to your question would be right now. I don't know if it's just me, but when rich people act like poor and try to find cheap food it's not funny, far from that. And seriously, they bought computer and other stuff just to spy neighbour? When happy happy slice of life show like this manage to cause such a strong dislike it's not really good thing. After this one
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*Project Raw My favorite Asou rival reappears! The mansion that was put up actually belongs to the family of Ginko. Now the first scene is of Ginko on the rooftop of their super big house, and thinking about how her sister must hate a failure like her. The next morning, while on the way to school, Ginko [...]
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*Project Raw Finally, somebody released a raw and I’m finally able to once again destroy my ears little by little through listening at a high volume. But this episode is probably the best by far, in that there is actually less of the petals galore. I did notice one, and it was a useless [...]
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The Summer Season continues once more with a huge load of garbage. Thank goodness Binbou Shimai Monogatari managed to change the flood of bad anime, but I’m really getting impatient now. Much of the gems of this season have yet to either air or get subbed, so I’m hoping for Kemonozume, Flag and quite probably [...]
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“A Day for Yukatas, Fireworks and Candy Apples” Poor sisters clearly live in some alternate dimension where 25 minutes feels like an eternity. Kyo and Asu are impoverished sisters who have made a vow with their deceased mother to forever watch out for each other. On the day that the story begins, the fireworks festival comes to town. [...]
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*Project Raw So basically the focus here is on the poor sisters’ lack of parental guidance lol. Asu throws away the invitation(?) for this school activity where the students read a piece and then their parents watch. Kyou sees this paper and worries about what to wear when she attends this activity. The next day, [...]
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Aaaah this is soooo cute, but will they blush a little less? Their cheeks will surely explode. Kyo and Asu are really scared of the owner, they see him as a demon that comes to collect the rent, and huddle in fear when it’s ‘that time’. Aaw it’s so cute. On top of this the poor [...]
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For the benefit of everyone who has not experienced this manga, I have managed to single it down to the most representative chapter in the whole volume, Chapter U for Ultimate.
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Finally, another series I was looking forward to finally gets the subbing treatment -by those speed demons [Doremi] no less-. Did all that anticipation go to waste? It didn't blow my mind like I was hoping it to, but it was an amusing 20 odd minutes. Plus it had some festival action and any episodes [...]
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Finally, another series I was looking forward to finally gets the subbing treatment -by those speed demons [Doremi] no less-. Did all that anticipation go to waste? It didn’t blow my mind like I was hoping it to, but it was an amusing 20 odd minutes. Plus it had some festival action and any episodes with [...]
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Kyo (15) and Asu (9) live together in a small room. Their mother died just after Asu was born and their father disappeared leaving his gambling debts behind. This episode revolves around a misunderstand between the two sisters over the piggy bank money and the firework festival. Poor Asu!! I found the two main characters to be [...]
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*Project Raw I’ve been thinking for some time, what is the purpose of BSM? What can we get out of this anime? And then, episode 3 comes along. Yes, sirs! This episode teaches us lessons! Now without further ado, on to our class on this subject called Life. Lesson #1. When [...]
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