Summary: Disgusted with the current Ioryogi, Ginsei visits Genko to try to figure out what Ioryogi is thinking.
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It seems that I won’t blog about Ladies versus Butlers. But I will watch it. The first half had me going AWESOME, and after the second half, I was saying, “My God, I am SO excited!” Ginsei arrives at Genko’s bakestore and asks about Ioryogi. Genko shares a story, involving the human world, the heavenly world, the [...]
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This episode of Kobato starts off with Ginsei watching over Kobato and Ioryogi while they are sleeping. I thought the ribbon that was tied to Ioryogi in this episode provide both comedy and drama in this episode. As this episode is entitled ‘Silver Eyes’, the viewer learns the significance of this in this episode in [...]
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Happy New Year everyone, yoroshiku onegai shima~su! Isn’t it great, we all made it into the new decade! Looking forward to the awesome stuff we’ll be getting (and making) for 2010. And for myself: college in a matter of months! I am sooooo excited! Sorry I hadn’t animeblogged yesterday; I had picked up a new project: polymetrica’s [...]
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Hide and seek, weird animals, no comments, uu, uu! Before departing on a field trip, Kobato takes a phone call from the debt collector, who tells her that he will close down the daycare. She was to relay it to Sayaka, but Fujimoto forbids her. Ioryogi does not accompany Kobato, and instead visits a…bear, named Genko. [...]
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She’s actually trembling in this scene. At the Yomogi nursery, Ioryogi overhears a phone call wherein Sayaka-sensei declines an offer. Kobato takes home a book called Hotaru no Hikari and practice her reading on an outdoors bench when a mysterious man comes and tells her not to continue. When Kobato returns to the nursery, she finds a [...]
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It’s Kobato episode 11, and Kobato decides that she’s going to find a part time job to help out the nursery. While leaving the nursery, Kobato sees a brochure for part time jobs and decides that she’s going to get one. After asking Chitose for some advice, Kobato lands at Tirol, where Kobato once again [...]
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It’s Kobato episode 10, and Kobato decides to help air out the futons at the nursery, since it’s such a nice day, and ends up learning about Fujimoto’s past from Sayaka. Kobato is spending her Sunday morning singing and cleaning her room, but Fujimoto tells her that she’s being too loud, before leaving. Kobato decides [...]
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It’s Kobato episode 9, and Kobato finds two school girls whose friendship appears to be becoming strained. Kobato is washing Ioryogi when she sees a flyer for a summer festival in her mailbox. Kobato grabs it, but it blows away. A girl, Natsuki, ends up catching it and gives it back to Kobato (along [...]
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It’s Kobato episode 8, and Kobato finds an abandoned kitten and wants to find a new home for it, but she finds that that’s easier said than done. Kobato sees a cat left out for someone to take and, feeling sorry for the cat, she decides to bring it home. Fujimoto passes her at the [...]
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A bad score and set time limit…Kobato’s not giving up! During a morning stroll, Kobato finally meets Kohaku, whom she sees crying before a green tree. Ioryogi implies that she is Kohaku from “Heaven,” while Kohaku recognizes Ioryogi as “Iorogi”. For the rest of the day, Kobato wonders why Kohaku cried while looking at green leaves, [...]
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It’s Kobato episode 7, and Fujimoto forgets a college report at the nursery, so Kobato tries to search the college campus to return it to him. Fujimoto is repairing broken chairs at the nursery, and Kobato wants to help him, which she doesn’t do a very good job at. However, Kobato wants to help out [...]
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It’s Kobato episode 6, and the nursery kids go on a field trip, but Kobato answers a phone call from a loan shark who threatens to shut down the nursery. As a result, Ioryogi decides to meet up with some old acquaintances to find out what’s going on. The nursery is taking the kids on [...]
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It’s Kobato episode 5 (finally), and Kobato runs into a remorseful author and wonders why he doesn’t want her reading a picture book that he authored. The kids in the nursery ask Kobato to read a story to them, but Kobato doesn’t seem to good at it and keeps accidentally skipping pages and is otherwise being [...]
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Kobato earns another konpeitou…This episode is so reminiscent…and it isn’t just because of the [heavy] Chobits implications. Kobato is still homeless, but it so happened that Sayaka finds her at the park and takes her to an apartment, wherein the landlady is…CHITOSE! Yay! But her last name changes from Hibiya to Miharu. After being shown to [...]
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It seems that “Ganbarimasu!” is Kobato’s signature statement, while Ioryogi’s is his fire-breathing habit. Cool. After acquiring the bottle, Kobato now has a new objective: to fill the bottle with hearts she had healed. Ioryogi also mentions that she cannot talk to him in the presence of other humans, and states that she lacks a memory. [...]
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Hence begins my official career as an animeblogger! (omg, I’m gonna die~) Since I’m taking anime to a very serious level only by next year, I have to admit that I know little about Kobato. I don’t know if that’s a shameful thing or not. Therefore I’m learning as I go… Though the claim is the illustrations [...]
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Sunflower defense, Grumpy young Fujimoto: Recipe for home.
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Not much happened, but it was a pretty fun episode. Kobato gets to wear a waitress outfit that shoot moe levels up to the roof… and the outfit seems like something that CLAMP won’t come up with. The story is pretty simple. Kobato decides to take a part time job at a bakery since she want [...]
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I’m going to cheat this review, simply because it’s Christmas and I need to work on my annual year in review article for this year, so this episode of Kobato is another episode that brings a smile to one’s face. 100 points to Kobato. Episode Rating: A-
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