School is killing me…very soon I’ll be back for some semi regular posts. I may do these kinds of posts for the other Fall series, if I feel like doing it. November summary will be up soon! I’m the kind … Continue reading →
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Splitting episodes in half seems to be a popular thing to do nowadays, and Tonari no Kaibutsu-kun is just as good as the rest of them. I’m a fan of the bitter-sweet.  All happy and easy-going in the first half and then the sudden turn into the serious is something I quite like to watch, so … Continue reading »
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After Yamaken’s advice during the cultural festival, Shizuku finally decided to face her feelings for everyone. Especially for Haru. This episode started with Golubaeser Asako’s. She briefly explained, with a lot of typos, what happened after the festival and… oh what important is she already considered Shizuku as her bestfriend. What surprises me is that, … Continue reading »
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What is up with this story? These people are slowly falling in love with Shizuku and Haru…it’s kinda sad. It’s not like I see them succeeding, but they can’t really help themselves. It’s like they’re setting themselves up for failure. And like I said before, it makes them terrible competition because their feelings are too [...]
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Five weeks, three pages of notes, and two all-nighters later, a masterpiece is born (or so Hoshi thinks)~ So after five weeks I am back with more Tonari no Kaibutsu-kun! It’s been a busy and stressing November that’s also been filled with a lot of unnecessary procrastination (and a few Teen Wolf and Supernatural marathons), [...]
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Summary: Haru meets Shizuku at her home during a school holiday, leading the two to find out that Mr. Mizutani has become unemployed (again). Shizuku phones her mother to let her know about the situation, which reveals that she is never home because she is always working for the sake of the family. When Shizuku [...]
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Summary: Haru meets Shizuku at her home during a school holiday, leading the two to find out that Mr. Mizutani has become unemployed (again). Shizuku phones her mother to let her know about the situation, which reveals that she is never home because she is always working for the sake of the family. When Shizuku [...]
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A month after the cultural festival, Haru and Shizuku still aren’t getting anywhere, frustrating Asako. Shizuku’s dad’s store goes under, reinforcing her drive to become a successful businesswoman like her mom. When she tells Haru about the goldfish, he promises to catch her a crayfish. She bumps into Yamaken at the library and asks him [...]
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「０と１」 (Zero to Ichi) "Zero and One" The tensions have faded between Shizuku and Haru, but other dynamics are starting to spark up!
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Shizuku finally bridges the rift between Haru and herself, but not before mending another one with Natsume. Mending the Rift Well, it seems like this huge misunderstanding between Haru and Shizuku has been solved. Shizuku comes out and explains herself clearly to Haru, leaving her policy of detachment. It took a while, but I’m glad [...]
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Every school-life romance anime have their own dose of festival episodes. Tonari no Kaibitsu-kun is no exemption. Class 1-B is having a Zombie House of Terror. Yamaken’s group arrived at Syoyo and entered the house being greeted by Mizutani Shizuku on her zombie-nurse-with-huge-syringe costume. She toured the group inside the house and played her role … Continue reading »
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The only thing better than an immature male lead is an equally immature female lead. One of the biggest reasons I got hooked on the Tonari no Kaibutsu-kun manga before the anime aired was Shizuku.  There are female leads that are strong and interesting, and then there’s Shizuku: the emotionally immature girl with tsundere tendencies. … Continue reading »
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You know…if these two characters are supposed to act as competition for Haru and Shizuku, they’re not really doing a great job. Neither Shizuku nor Haru really notices them doing all that much…I guess there was a little bit of shock with Oshima, but it didn’t end up doing anything. Not really much point to [...]
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Volume 1 of the anime series Tonari no Kaibutsu-kun will be out on 21 November 2012. Contains Episode 1. Three editions to preorder: Blu-ray [Limited Release], [...]
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The day of the school festival arrives, and Haru, Shizuku, Asako and Sasayan are running a house of terror. Yamaken bumps into Shizuku while she’s breaking, and when Haru sees them together, Yamaken teases him and Haru accidentally punches Shizuku, who gets angry. Asako tries to offer her advice, but Shizuku blows her off. Yamaken [...]
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