Wow, this must be some kind of record... A beach episode as the first instalment of a new series? Oh wait, I've just used that line for Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu - Purezza. Moving swiftly on...Back in the Spring and early Summer, I had rather mixed feelings about Natsu no Arashi and what it did well and poorly, but come the end of that series (or rather, what turned out to be the first half of
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Sora no Otoshimono Short Synopsis: Our lead character gets his own god-mode android angel servant. Well hello… fanservice. Well, at least this shows knows its target audience, but it still puzzles me why they don’t just turn these concepts into hentai-series. Here we have a series in which an android angel servant falls from the sky, [...]
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「夏休み」 (Natsu Yasumi) "Summer Vacation" As the pro-Natsu no Arashi voice in the Fall Preview, it's probably my place to say a few words about the sequel. So without further ado...
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Natsu no Arashi! Akinai-Chuu Short Synopsis: Our lead character is surrounded by lots of cute girls. Like White Album, I’ve been heavily debating whether or not to blog the second season of Natsu no Arashi. Sure, the first season was very good, but this is Shinbo, after all. No matter how good the source material, I [...]
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Hey, Natsu no Arashi’s back! Though, really this post is likely to follows Author’s mantra of “No post’s too short”, as there isn’t really all that much to say about the actual content of the episode – they go to be beach, where hi-jinks of an associated fashion occur. Still, I’m kind of disappointed that the [...]
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Do you get exercise regularly?  It’s been on and off with me… and specifically most of the past year… off orz.  However!  These past 3 weeks I’ve finally gotten back to a daily routine which means daily anime again (watch while working out) ^^ 一石二鳥���(isseki nichou == killing two birds w/1 stone).  Daily anime means [...]
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Crunchyroll sent out yet another press release today (seriously, perhaps we can condense these down a little to benefit those of us who have to read all of these?) to announce their latest fall simulcast. And the latest winner is? Natsu no Arashi 2 from SHAFT which isn’t entirely surprising since the first season was [...]
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Proving just how much they love filling my email, Crunchyroll has sent out multiple press releases for multiple series that have been added to their simulcasts. Today's victims include Natsu no Arashi and Asura Cryin'. Both are the season seasons of shows Crunchyroll already releases, so it shouldn't surprise anyone to see the dice fall as they may. Though, while neither of these shows rocked my world from what I saw, I still enjoy waving my hands in the air and clapping for more simulcasts.
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I guess it’s no secret that I’m extremely fond of Japanese oldies, ranging from folk to enka to kayōkyoku (歌謡曲). So it was a hugely pleasant surprise for me to learn that the Natsu no Arashi character song album would feature covers of huge Jpop classics by people such as Yamaguchi Momoe, Tulips & Inoue [...]
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夏のあらし���Summer StormNatsu no Arashi is the latest anime adaptation from manga-ka KOBAYASHI Jin, creator of the popular School Rumble series. Since the anime is produced by SHAFT, we have a classic example of how SHAFT can make things outrageously funny at times and mind numbingly idiotic at others.The story centers around young junior high school student Hajime and a summer he spends working at a
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[ Episode 12: Let Your Body Ride on the Flow of Time ] [ Episode 13: Playback Part I ]   "Shio kudasai..."
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I finished watching Natsu no Arashi last night, the first series I’ve completed using Crunchyroll’s simulcasting… I enjoyed Jin Kobayashi’s other series, School Rumble, so I decided to give Natsu no Arashi a try. The first episode is a stand-alone filler episode, with the characters getting involved in a misadventure that very much sets the tone [...]
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夏のあらし��� Episode 13(Summer Storm) SPOILER Summary/Synopsis: It is a summer morning with Arashi waking Hajime up. He has his "homework" project where he made a Sakura Bakudan -- taking a cherry and making it explosive to taste. Arashi decides it should be named "Cutie Cherry-chan." At the Ark, Master again attempts to get someone to go into the past with milk, only this time she wants to
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Everyone was hating on this show. I’m not sure why. Natsu no Arashi! What was so bad about this show? Before you answer what is certainly a mind boggling question, let me first point out some of the good points that this show brings up: Time Travel. Time Travel is awesome, and it’s even better when a show [...]
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[ Episode 10: Foreigner ] [ Episode 11: The World Exists for Us Two ]   "I'm Kamigamo, dood!"
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[ Episode 08: Do What You Like ] [ Episode 09: Now's the Time for You to Become a Hero! ]   "I'm Kamigamo, dood!"
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夏のあらし��� Episode 12(Summer Storm) SPOILER Summary/Synopsis: Now that things in the past have been resolved, Kanako, Yayoi, Hajime, and Hideo return to the present. Yayoi and Kanako return the energy taken from Arashi so that she is restored to life. However, this causes both Kanako and Yayoi to nearly fade from existence. They are ready to accept this but Arashi is not. She takes Hajime's hand
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夏のあらし��� Episode 11(Summer Storm) SPOILER Summary/Synopsis: Hajime and Yayoi have connected and gone back into World War II Japan. The shock of things has Yayoi unconscious and with the radio announcing a massive air raid coming, Hajime feels he has to do something. So he wheels Yayoi into town to head to the factory where he knows Kanako and the others worked. A mother and child recognize
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Via John come the news of Arashi 2. I’m going to go on a limb and declare that I’m not watching any more of Jin Kobayashi’s artistic bankrupcy and Akayuki Shinbo’s attempts to paper it over.
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Natsu no Arashi!, or how to make me love reverse traps and DFC (even more). Natsu no [...]
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