B Gata H Kei

So, because I heard about this anime on Glo’s ISSS, I decided that I should give it a try. There are only twelve episodes I think, and each of them are pretty funny. Admittedly, I was too distracted by a certain someone while watching them, but I could glance over and laugh on occasion.

So, the show is basically about this girl, Yamada, who wants to make what I think was 500 “sex friends” during high school. She meets this total derp named Kosuda, who is what she refers to as a “cherry boy”. She wants his virginity, but as expected, is extremely sensitive when it comes to her nethers and flips every time she gets the chance. Needless to say she’ll probably never reach her goal.

So. Things I liked about this show. I liked the little her on a cloud with a mustache who gets as exasperated with Yamada as I do, and I love her friend Miharu and the ridiculous rivalry she has with that incestuous Kanejo. But overall, there was just one problem:

She ended up falling in love.

I have no problem with anime characters deciding to fall in love. I just have a problem with HER and falling in love. When I read the discription I thought: “this is great! A funny comedy about a girl who just wants sex and nothing else. No drama. Fini”. That’s what I thought. Instead the anime is filled with painful reminders that she has NO IDEA WHAT THE FUCK SHE’S DOING, and each episode ends with a failed attempt on her end to get some penis. It actually became so pathetic, despite her intense emotional growth, that I got bored. Even when Kosuda gets right there to stick it in, I don’t even care, because it’s inevitable they’ll stop.

Overall, maybe a 7 out of 10 on awesomeness. I just got bored. It’s a good anime to watch in your spare time.

The Japanese Cold

So, we’ve all seen colds in anime, right? People are practically digging your grave for you right then and there.

Some people use their imminent death as an excuse to get some.

Let us look at the symptoms: it begins like any other cold. A little hack hack, a little sniffle. Of course, if Kagome up here is any indication, you get so dizzy and out of it you somehow become like a drunk. Having an anime cold is an excuse to cuddle and make out, all because your target feels too bad to actually shove you off and demand to know what the fuck you’re doing.

Then comes the less conventional symptoms. You are in the middle of something deathly important. Whether it be fighting in a battle that convieniently only occurs while you’re feeling like shit, or in a school play/having sex/confessing your love, you are guaranteed to faint. This is due to the extremely horrible fever you have contracted, which is also not noted by yourself or anyone until after you faint.

Afterwards people put you down on a cot, where you lie there and pant as they surround you, giving you your Last Rites. Sometimes it can take as much as 78 hours for you to escape Death’s clutches, and even then, people are eyeballing everything you do, refusing to even let you walk on your own so you don’t “push yourself”. InuYasha is a prime example of this. We all know he just says that so he can get Kagome’s boobs on his back though.

 

In the end, I am here to both mock and explain the Japanese cold. I actually learned this from my Japanese teacher the other day: “kaze” is the word for cold, but it does not mean “cold” in the sense it does in English. In Japanese, a “kaze” can refer to a cold, and a stomach ache, and even a fever all at once. It’s more like a stomach virus, or the flu. There’s the explanation. That doesn’t mean I’m not still going to make fun of it in the future though.

A little bit of excitement on my part, because only AWESOMENESS gets my attention: GlotheLegend is once again in the Aniblog Tourney. Don’t ask why I’m not; it’s obvious they couldn’t handle this particular awesome right here. My righteous stalkeree is going to kick ass. I also support kluxorious, just because I wanna see the awesome battle that will ensue. Not because I think hot sex will happen. I don’t. I don’t think it’ll happen….STOP LOOKING AT ME.

Bakuman and My New Popularity

No, I am not popular, that was a lie. I just got two new comments from people, one of which is on my blogroll. Thank you guys for commenting. Of course, Glo will always be my favorite, but I’ll remember you guys…Yeah.

So! This post today is going to be about Bakuman, which I discovered about three weeks ago but have been watching very sporadically.

And this is the cast. Don’t ask me what their names are because I’m too goddamn lazy to remember. They don’t even call each other by their names, because they think it’s cool to read each others names differently because the kanji can be read differently. Douches in my opinion. Let’s see… Glasses, Artist, Ponytail, the girl on the right, who will be Bitch, and the dude on the top, who is Crazy.

So one day, Glasses finds Artist’s art, and asks him to write/draw a manga with him, and after thinking about his dead artist uncle, he agrees. Glasses convinces Artist to go see Bitch, and after about five minutes they agree to get married after they achieve their goals. Also, they aren’t allowed to talk to each other until that time…

 

What kind of bullshit is that?

So anyway, the anime is about their ups and downs as a manga writing duo, as they try to get published and serialized in Shonen Jack, which is suspiciously similar to Shonen Jump. I recommend it. Now to go eat pizza.

The Enchained Spirtual Beast Ga-rei (or just ESBGR)((Or just Ga-Rei)

So after finishing Samurai Deeper Kyo in three awesome days, I decided that I wanted to try to finish Ga-Rei, which I’ve honestly been trying to finish for something like four years, never getting past chapter eleven.

Left to right: Izuma, Shizuru, Kensuke, Kagura, and Kyouko. Is anyone noticing a K theme?

So yeah. The plot almost seems ripped right from Bleach at first. Basically, Ken is an average guy who happens to see ghosts, and is tormented by them, their antics making him freak out publically and freaking out the ladies. As he’s sent flying out a window (or something), Kagura is riding by on a motorcycle, and their lips touch. She ends up finding him and asking him to help her, since she finds his predicament interesting. She saves his life, in quite a cool way, from an evil soul, and in the end gives him a super cool sword and asks him to work with her, as she’s employed by a government agency to keep the peace.

Sound familiar yet?

Anyway, this story actually gets pretty awesome. It’s always hilarious at the right moments, and Ken is never really too much like Ichigo. He really is a normal guy, and Kagura isn’t a cold bitch like Rukia, though we find out that there’s a lot more to her than a smiling face. The show centers around the battles they face against groups fighting for control over the world, and the bizarre and almost tragic romance that they share…if you can call it romance. There’s a lot of blushing and all that, but neither of them thinks the other likes them. What a horrible predicament…

There’s an anime adaption of this, called Ga-Rei: Zero. It’s actually a prequel, and I think it tells the story of Kagura’s sister-figure, Yomi. Anyway, I recommend this. A pretty good anime when it comes to all categories. It’s dramatic. Funny, romantic, somewhat gory, and ecchi in some ways.

Recorder to Randoseru

So this anime came out like a week ago, and I’ve only been able to see about 4 minutes of it. Believe me when I say this isn’t my fault.

This is a really cute show. It chronicles the life of Atsushi (Okaiyu Ryotarou), and his elder sister Atsumi (Kugimiya Rie).Atsushi is something along the lines of 172 centimeters, and happens to have a really adult look despite the fact that he’s only eleven. Atsumi is in high school, but she is only 136 centimeters and is always mistaken for a child. The series is about the problems they face because of their height.

The reason I’ve only seen four minutes of this show is because the episodes are only 3 minutes long, since they’re based on a comic strip. Take one minute from the ending song and it’s about two minutes. It sucks because I was already getting really excited.

The one with the most obvious problem is Atsushi. Even though he’s a little boy, he looks like a man, and that obviously gets him into trouble. High school girls kinda fawn over him, which will probably end up freaking them out when they find out he’s actually 11. He has friends at school, but he can’t really hang out with them since he gets taken into custody by the police for looking like a pedophile.

This is honestly really funny. I recommend it!

Toradora!

So I just finished Toradora! the other day, and I have to say that it wasn’t half bad.

The show is about a guy named Ryuuji, who a lot of people consider a deliquent because he has an angry looking expression with his squinty eyes, which is kind of odd considering he’s the only Japanese person in this show with normal Asian eyes. Ryuugi likes this girl named Minori, but isn’t able to confess to her. As he’s walking into class (or something), he runs into Taiga, also called the Palmtop Tiger because she’s so small. She’s a total tsundere character, who happens to have a huge crush on Ryuugi’s one friend, Kitamura. Because Taiga happens to be friends with Minori and Ryuugi is friends with Kitamura, and both of them find out that they like them (in a hilarious way), they agree to help each other, “kiss the girl”, as it were.

Does anyone find it weird that Rie Kugimiya voices characters that are in love with guys with “uugi” in their names? Ryuugi, the other Ryuugi, Yuugi… hmm. Well whatever.

This show reminded me of Chobits a lot, perhaps because it’s a shonen centered around romance. I prefer romantic shonens, in all honestly, since they usually have less unnecessary drama than the kind centered around shoujos. Take Samurai Deeper Kyo, which I’m supposed to write a post about…Sometime…

Shina Yuuya

Kick. Ass

I can honestly say without a doubt that Yuuya is most likely the most kick-ass female character in any historical anime/manga I’ve read in forever. Kyou got lucky with this one… She’s awesome. This has inspired me to write a post on Samurai Deeper Kyou.

Which I will do later, but first, another picture to convince you to watch this show:

He's such a charmer.

Believe me when I say that I find his character incredibly attractive. I was giggling like a little girl…