Curiously enough, it's not Torako's fault.
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[Posted @ 9:31 PM]Hyakko Episode 6 - Chapter 10 and Evangelion parody for the last what 5 mins? It's quite amusing to watch actually lol, to put Torako's ... *spoilers* lol nah, you'll know it in the next episode [maybe] well the guy who's the fox in the chart as the baddie. He kinda reminds me of Gin from Bleach with those slanted fox-like eyes lol.Literally, Nene said, 'It's my hobby/interest.' but the 4chan in me made me type out that line. Well, this chapter is all about Tatsuki, her raging over Torako (once again lol) and her housekeeper Toshiko-san. Hm a little about her familt background and of course her childhood albums. LoL @ the TrickstAr *reminded of Mizuki Nana's Trickster* XD. It's really funny to see Suzume going star-eyed over Tatsuki's ehem ehem, 'Adult Underwear' lol XD. Well, I'm not really fond of Tatsuki ... but it's a heartwarming episode I guess ... =].What's Hyakko without some yuri undertones?[Signing off @ 9:51 PM]
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Ayumi receives a confession.. Summary: As Yanagi Kyogoku prints out pictures of students, he remarks how wonderful it is to love from afar and that if it wasn't for such love, his business satisfying a certain market would no longer exist. His friend, Shishimaru Sengoku, approaches him in class to learn that "Photoshop Yanagi" is back to his old schemes of taking
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After a one week break, Hyakko is back, complete with its mildly amusing but never quite entirely funny plots and mildly likeable but never quite loveable characters. Episode five of the series if basically segmented into two chunks. The first sees some further results from the last episode's selling of photographs of all the freshman girls, with one individual in particular seemingly garnering
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[Posted @ 8:02 PM]Ah, sorry, I got busy with studying last week ... >_> *looks away* But-but, I'm really free now lol, man, suddenly, I'm filled with some sense of emptiness after all the exams and I can't help but feel ... HA!!!!!!!! YEAH RIGHT LOL. *WOOTS* I'm so excited, I'm really going home soon!!! I can't wait to go home, see my family, my parrots, my mangas and ... and buy more mangas!!!! XD. I miss the feeling of going to CC and Kinokuniya to snook around for mangas in corners ... sigh. Nothing beats brick and mortar shopping ... well online shopping maybe =P. Alrighty, enough of my rants;Hyakko Episode 5 - Combi of Chapter 7 and Chapter 5.'Oh, My Angel.'I'll be straight, I practically zoned out at the first what ... 3 minutes? LoL, wasn't really interested in what Yanagi's saying ... On the other hand, Shishimaru's soo cute and funny lol, he reminds me of Hosaka from Minami-ke LOL. On top on that, he used Ayumi to confess to Torako lol, what a klutz. LOL @ him nose bleeding at the photo of the alluring Torako XD. Oh well, I really preferred Chapter 5 XD, I just love Torako x Ushio moments lol. Ohh Ushio's seiyuu is Kaido Yuuko (Also Seiyuu for Ootori Amane in Strawberry Panic!), no wonder the voice sounded familiar ... lol Kinda weird to imagine Amane going yankee-like with a sneer, 'Whacha looking at HUH?!' XD.As mentioned, lol I have no idea how many times I've repeated the karaoke scene ... ahh, it's just so funny haha XD. Which reminds me, Koh-san mentioned in the previous blog post comment about the song 'Twelve Beast Gods' being an elaborate Japanese/English pun on the twelve animals in the Chinese zodiac. Very very interesting read and more info here; http://tinyurl.com/6qppzf and in shoujoai forum. Thanks to Koh-san once again XD.Maybe this chart will be clearer? I got it from the Hyakko Volume 3 Chinese scans, yeah and the size is originally that small, I don't have a bigger picture of it.I thought to myself that seiyuu of Torako has a nice singing voice, despite her trying to go out of tune by screaming LOL especially at the '朱に染まる ほほ~~' *SMACK* lol. Ah, Torako's seiyuu, Orikasa Fumiko sung 'Rinne no Hate Ni...', the ED of Shingetsutan Tsukihime anime ... ohh nice.XD, I love Ushio's moed expression and Torako's 'I know your secret now' expression haha XD. Ah, I just watched Ep6 too ... hm, I'll talk about it next time =], off to work on my secret project heh.[Signing off @ 9:17 PM]
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Hyakko takes it slower this week and does a Tatsumi-centric episode. I just love character development episodes like this where they show the impact of the “boke” on the usually lonely “tsukkomi” character. Guess I’m a real sucker for tsun-tsun tsukkomi relationships. Evidently the material wasn’t enough for one episode so after the ED there [...]
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Episode 6 of Hyakko, “Tiger on both sides of three houses over there”, begins with Torako, Suzume, and Ayumi hurrying off somewhere when school ends. Tatsuki feels somewhat excluded, despite being annoyed by Torako the other times she was dragged somewhere, as she thinks to herself. Or actually, Nene narrating what Torako should [...]
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bissexual class reps and mecha constructors   This episode was done in style of Saynonara Zetsubou Sensei, it was split into two parts, each concentrating on one crazy girl from the class.   The first girl: Andou Nene was serious lols provider. Starting from how absurd it is for somebody dressed like being the class rep and attempting to [...]
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The girls head to the cafeteria and later go to art class where they sketch each other.
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The first half of Hyakko episode 5, “Meeting connection, tiger connection”, starts out with a boy creepily printing out pictures of some students at Kamizono High School. It’s all for the sake of satisfying a certain market that exists in the school: love-struck students who want photographs of those they have a crush on. [...]
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My echo chamber is quite comfortable, thanks. How about yours? Hanners: After watching the last episode [03] of Hyakko, I commented on how far short this series falls of the true classics of its genre, despite being easy enough to watch in its own right. To be fair, episode four improved things a little along these lines, [...]
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After watching the last episode of Hyakko, I commented on how far short this series falls of the true classics of its genre, despite being easy enough to watch in its own right. To be fair, episode four improved things a little along these lines, while still not looking like a challenger to Hidamari Sketch and the like. The first half of the episode sees the girls take to the dining hall for
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여름하면 바캉스~! 바캉스! 바.캉.스!!! by 료타 (케메코DX에서...) 드디어 여름방학. 소녀들은 쉑시~한 수영복으로 갈아입고 바다에! ... 라고 하고 싶지만... 묘하게 리얼한 구석이 있어서 그닥 색기는 없다는...;;; 아니, 솔직히 스즈는 완전 남자로 그려놨어... orz... 이 무슨 천벌받을 짓인가! 작가는 반성하라! 그나저나 여전히 재밌군요. 슬슬 커플관계도 형성돼는 듯 싶고, 캐릭터들의 개성을 살린 개그도 여전합니다. 하지만 1..글 전체보기
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Torako is informed that she has been appointed to be a morals officer by her class.
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The girls all try out together for the different clubs that the school has, and get into a competition with each other.
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A group of girls get lost in their huge school on the first day.
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Wreaking havoc in every club they go to.       This episode follows the same pattern as the previous one: take a small mundane activity, then twist it and inject with enough craziness to fill the whole episode. In episode 1 the girls were looking for their classroom, this time it’s about finding the right school club. This [...]
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Ep.02 is about Hyakko antagonizing Tatsuki and not receiving any comeuppance (while they hop school clubs). I guess creators extracted wrong lessons from Tomo/Yomi and Konata/Kagami. The best part of the show is the commercials. I noted especially the LadyGuard: the drug that makes women pee less. I hope the users don’t poison themselves, and there’s [...]
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[Posted @ 9:00 PM]XD woots, a combi of Chapter 3 and Chapter 6 XD.Torako got pushed down by Nene XD. Scoop! Scandal!!! *snap snap snap*Screenshot these cos the mediaplayer thumbfile function doesn't do this episode justice.This episode is full of win, the flow is way better now, lol I like the scene where Torako was taunting Tatsuki's 'small serving' of spaghetti and it flashed back to the scene where Tatsuki was preventing Torako from pressing the 'big bowl of combo button' XD. Hmm, ah I also loled at the Ayumi licking ice-cream scene lol [It wasn't in the manga], glad to see that the anime expressed it better and funnier here. o_o Suzu gropes Ayumi. LOL, I like how Nene's expression was Lupin-ish when she was about to pounce on Torako. Of course, my favourite, Torako's sketch of oni-Tatsuki XD lol, it's just so funny hahaha, especially when Koma did the fold LOL. [I've tried doing it on the Singapore dollar LOL, it's ... totally funny XD.] Torako was like 'Sorry (Laughs).' LOL.Next episode, Chapter 5 and 7! Ushio appears! And we have a guy in love with one of the girls! Guess who! [Signing off @ 10:00 PM]
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Hyakko thus far has pretty much set out its stall as a decidedly average school-based slice-of-life anime series, which certainly hasn't managed to command the laughs of some of the other notable shows in this genre. Can episode three fare any better? In all honesty, not really, with episode three giving us more of the same. The first half of this episode introduces us to class rep Andou, who
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