Keita shows more and more interest in Kotoko and gets upset seeing the way Irie acts towards her.
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Yeah Naoki isn’t still supposed to be sucking. Ah yes so finally the Keita vs Naoki arc ends with a Kotoko victory, Naoki is so very lucky to have her even if he doesn’t deserve her in the first place. I really sympathized with Kotoko this time since she felt things had just gone back to [...]
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To be honest, I'm surprised that this instalment of Itazura na Kiss wasn't subtitled "Battle of the Assholes", as it would have seemed like a pretty appropriate title - On the one hand we had Naoki, whose ability to be a disgusting excuse for a human being is already legendary, and on the other we had Keita, who thinks nothing of spending all his time trying to convince a married woman to leave
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Kotoko goes to her first day of nursing school and finds out all the other girls are infatuated with Irie.
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Yeah, because Keita is into stupid girls and not necrophiliacs… Another week another episode of Itazura to watch, sorry for the lateness of this post but school has been kicking my ass and I have to work roughly 12 hours a day for Uncle Sam… (Incidentally writing an InK post is a great way relax after [...]
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That’s right–Irie! This has been a hilarious rollercoaster of an evening–first I wrestle with my sound card drivers for entirely too long only to discover that the problem that was bugging me was that my headphones were plugged in, and then, to chill out and relax and forget that computers are made of pure Satan, I [...]
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Considering that Kotoko and Naoki got married about half a dozen episodes ago, it seems a little late to be introducing a full-on love triangle to proceedings, but that's exactly what has happened here. As ever, Kotoko is completely useless at being a nurse, and Naoki is similarly useless at being anything approaching a decent human being. But what's this, a nice character in Itazura na Kiss?
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Chris tries to win Kin over with the help of Kotoko.
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Indeed. Kotoko you ready to kick some ass? Great war face by the way. Well with the start of this new arc we finally have a challenger that will make Naoki squirm. Kamogari Keita has stepped up to make Naoki feel the suffering that Kotoko felt when she was chasing his sorry ass. I like that! [...]
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Episode seventeen of Itazura na Kiss introduces us to the real beginning of Kotoko's nurse training, and thus also introduces us to a handful of new characters... and whaddya know, they almost all turn out to be nasty, self-centred pieces of work. Is there some kind of unwritten law about this series stating that every character who isn't Kotoko has to be as instantly unlikeable as possible?
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Kotoko and Irie go on their honeymoon together, but aren’t able to spend much time alone.
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What a great way for two people to start a relationship - succumbing to peer pressure… Watching this show requires me to internalize my inner 12-year old in order to enjoy it. But my head is all fuzzy and my sinuses are stuffed so I couldn’t do it this time. So karma finally hit Kin-chan when the [...]
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Man this makes me feel triumphant for some reason. Indeed there is no substitute for victory. So other than Kin-chan acting like a douche it was almost a very momentous episode, but it seems that even the almighty Machiko can be wrong sometimes… Dang I was looking forward to a new addition to the Irie Family. [...]
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First of all Im going to quickly sammarise what this series is about. (no effort leads to no results. With effort success will come) Back to the episode. Simple minded Kotoko always has no clue what is happening around her (expect Irie, when I refer to Irie I mean Naoki). She wants to become a nurse to [...]
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After just writing about how Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu manages to trump an average plot with lovable character, it's rather ironic that my next task was to tackle the latest episode of Itazura na Kiss, a series with more in the way of a plot, but a bunch of characters that you can't help but hate. Once again, Naoki's shambolic marriage to Kotoko has to be seen to be believed - What kind of
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Irie tells Kotoko how he actually feels, following the traumatic events she just went though.
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Last week saw Itazura Na Kiss toss a complete shutout victory.  Will Itazura get shutout again this week or will it slip from it’s dominating performances? Rivals and Lovers // –> // –> Comedy Since both shows are technically romantic comedies, we have to grade the level of funny each show brought out this week.  Which is to [...]
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After fourteen episodes of nastiness from Naoki, the inexplicable man of her dreams and Kotoko got married in what I can only describe as the fastest wedding in history. Surely, the series from now on will be a bed of roses, happiness and kittens? Err... no. Husband or otherwise, Naoki is still an absolutely insufferable asshole of the highest degree, who once again succeeds in spending most
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I just finished watching episode fifteen of this series, and I’ve got too many thoughts about this series and I don’t feel like waiting for this series to end to share them. It’s just too much of a shame to see that a series that I once loved for its witty humour degraded so much [...]
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That’s right we’re taking the pudding fight to the next level.  We’ scrapped the weekly highlights of Itazura na Kiss in favour of a weekly battle with between it and Special A.  Don’t be too upset fans of highlights & lowlights, you can still expect to see the same nonsensical, incoherent ramblings here. // –> Comedy Now [...]
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