Natsu no Arashi Volume 03 Manga Review 夏のあらし！ Summer Storm Welp, it is time to return to the world of time traveling “ghosts” and their human companions. Shame this manga was never licensed (well, [...]
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Natsu no Arashi Volume 02 Manga Review 夏のあらし！ Summer Storm I’ve long wanted to read the Natsu no Arashi manga since I really enjoyed the anime adaptation. I started working on a volume 1 review, then [...]
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Remember this show? It aired in 2009, a season before Bakemonogatari. It’s an adaptation by Jin Kobayashi of School Rumble fame. The production team is SHAFT. There’s supposed to be at least a legitimate interest for this. Mysteriously though, no … Continue reading →
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The summer never truly ends.
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As I go four episodes onward, there appears to be a surplus of kissing and blushing with a side of pie in your face.
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Spiral! Summer hurricane!!
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The return of the storm of summer finally hits!
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夏のあらし���春夏冬中 ReviewSummer Storm! Open for BusinessSHAFT is always hit-or-miss when it comes to comedy anime titles. When they get a hit, they can knock the ball out of the ballpark. When they miss, it can be so bad sometimes as to have the bat fly out of their hands, sail into the stands, and whack multiple people in the crowd as it moves like a boomerang. Such is the case with Natsu no Arashi!
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The second season of that Natsu no Arashi cartoon concluded a little while ago, and it had a pretty awesome last episode! In retrospect, the whole show was pretty good, but what held it back was a smattering of okay to downright dumb episodes in the middle. Something that had me confused for a while was [...]
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夏のあらし���春夏冬中 Episode 13 Review Summer Storm! Open for Business Ep. 13 (Final Episode)SPOILER Summary/Synopsis: Hajime works on a story where five years in the future, Arashi kisses him as completion of her promise after he helped her when she was a child. In the present, Master has Murata bring in a case of kiwi fruit, leading Hajime to decide to pull a prank on Takeshi for flirting with Arashi so
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夏のあらし���春夏冬中 Episode 12 ReviewSummer Storm! Open for Business Ep. 12 SPOILER Summary/Synopsis: A female manga-ka visits Hakobune and when Yayoi goes to serve her, the manga-ka speaks of kissing. This shocks the ghost-girls so Arashi heads over to set this manga-ka straight, only to be taken aback by the girl's apparent strong desire to kiss. Eventually, she explains that her desire is to capture
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夏のあらし���春夏冬中 Episode 11 ReviewSummer Storm! Open for Business Ep. 11 SPOILER Summary/Synopsis: Kaja sneaks into Jun's room and shuts off her alarm so that she oversleeps. When Jun wakes up, she finds that she now has the body of an older teen girl and doesn't know what to do. She attempts to find Kaja, hoping to avoid Hajime, when she runs into Arashi outside of Hakobune. She makes Arashi
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「君たちキウイ・パパイア・マンゴーだね。」 (Kimitachi Kiui Papai Mangoo Da ne.) "You Guys are Kiwis, Papayas, and Mangos." It's the return of Hajime's spicy food pranks. This time it's a "Cutie Kiwi-chan" topping out at two million scovilles, which would make it two times hotter than the hottest pepper in the world, the ghost chilli. This isn't quite the way I imagined them to conclude the second season even though it's similar to the first's, but the salt guy did get his salt!
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After teasing us with what looked to be a glimpse five years into the future of Arashi and Hajime's relationship, only to realise that it's anything but, normal service is resumed for this final episode of Natsu no Arashi as the series comes to a close.In short, yet again we're offered up an episode filled with fruit... fruit which is in turn filled with a veritable cornucopia of hot spices.
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「レーダーマン」 (Reedaa Man) "Radarman" "A professional manga artist and a pervert!?" Why Hajime acted so surprised about that I don't know, because those sure seem to go hand-in-hand a lot lately. I got a good chuckle from that, but this episode really shines with Kobayashi Yuu and Koshimizu Ami making guest appearances. Knowing Yuu's role as Mariya in Maria Holic, the craziness she can exude is well-suited for director Shinbou Akiyuki's works, much like it is here.
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It rarely takes much for the Hakobune café to be thrown into chaos, but this time around all sorts of scandal and insanity breaks loose thanks to the visit of a girl who seems to have an unfounded desire to kiss whoever tries to serve her.It turns out that the woman in question is in fact a manga artists, looking for inspiration so that she can draw the final kissing scene required to finish her
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「ハイスクールララバイ」 (Hai Sukuuru Rarabai) "High School Lullaby" The stars magically align and Hajime has a good feeling about the return of the pretty maid girl warrior Yamazaki Kanako. As hilarious as it was seeing Kanako's reaction to the thought of that, we get another unexpected development -- a grown-up, well-endowed Jun in hotpants!
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