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Tokidoki Balloon Made Me Cry

This is so fucked up, I’m sorry, I’ve been trying not to cuss on this blog, but I’ve been in a bad mood for the last four hours (actually I was crying for most of them) because this is just so very fucked up. Mimiko is dead. She’s as dead as the cat that her FUCKING HEAD WAS EATING.

What the fuck is wrong with this show and it’s creators? This is so wrong, I think I’m going to cry again just talking about it. I need to go lay down.

I don’t even think I can continue this show. The only thing that’s making me have any interest in watchin gthe next episode is the faint hope that things will go back to normal. IT’s a faint fucking hope.

Hayate Catching Up

Now that I’m done with all the boring stuff, I can get down to the reason you’re probably even reading a blog like mine. Hayate! I just picked up volume four of the Hayate manga, the one where the school arc starts. I find it interesting that by the end of the third volume, I felt like an idiot for being so far ahead of the anime while also being behind, since the anime mixes the school stuff and rich-people stuff together. Interestingly enough, volume 4 not only starts the school stuff, but catches right up to my place in the anime (if you’re reading along, you know that means I’m a few episodes behind ^^;;) Now I can look forward to both the manga and anime being a unique experience as I continue reading and watching, which is great cuz it’s one of the reasons I was behind on the Hayate anime. Now I have to catch up ^^;;

As for my opinion on v. 4, it’s rater mixed. Wen it comes to the school, I like the setting more than the mansion, but not the characters. Nagi remains the best of the girls in Hayate, but when we switch to the school setting, they don’t show her as much. Thankfully, though, some more great characters show up at the end of the volume, eing the other badass butlers and the silver-haired girl who rivals Nagi in awesomeness as well as love. With the ever-expanding cast, things are bound to pick up.

No More Reviews

I said I was going to start doing review style before and did a couple of posts like that but I’m stopping now. Writing reviews takes way too much time and I can’t bring myself to do it. I was trying to write a review for the show Shakugan no Shana for a whole week but I just couldn’t get around to finishing it, so I’m gicing up on reviews. Sorry about doing so many boring posts like this about my blog plans.

Tokidoki Balloon New Episode

Mimiko didn’t show up even once in this episode WTF. I’m really disappointed because she’s my favorite character in the show. Otherwise this was a great episode but I really want to see MORE Mimiko, not less.

REC Anime Review

REC is a romantic comedy that is sure to warm your heart and keep your attention throughout. The story is told best by Wikipedia(for once). (though it basically kills all of ep 1)
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At the beginning of the story, Fumihiko Matsumaru is outside a movie theater waiting for his date to arrive. When it becomes obvious that he has been “stood up,” he crumples his tickets in frustration. As he is about to toss the tickets into a trash can, a girl approaches, and in the “voice” of the tickets, implores him to not waste them. Dumbfounded, he sees the movie with her, which is Roman Holiday. During the movie, he notices that the girl is reading the subtitles out loud. When he asks her about this after the movie, she says that she was practicing the lines, and that she wants to be Audrey Hepburn. At dinner, she explains that she is a 20-year-old novice seiyu.
Going home, they find that they live in the same neighborhood before they part ways. (In the anime, she recites appropriate lines from Roman Holiday.) Matsumaru goes to bed, but he can’t sleep. In the darkness, he hears the sounds of sirens; there is a fire in the neighborhood. When he goes to investigate, he discovers that the girl’s apartment has burned down. Since she has nowhere to stay, Matsumaru asks her to stay at his apartment; she dazedly accepts. Due to the circumstances, they end up falling into bed together. She introduces herself as Aka Onda just before they make love.
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REC is only 9 episodes long, and each episode is only 12 minutes is you include opening and ending songs. So really, there’s no excuse not to watch it And if you’re like me, you’ll watch it all at once.

The animation in the series is, of course, superb, having been done by the studio SHAFT (Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei, Hidamari Sketch), and you can see just how lovingly crafted it is. Not to mention there are great sound effects and music (addicting OP) and the vocal cast is great (fitting for an anime about a voice actress.)

The chracters are what makes this show, and since I instantly fell in love with the charccters, you can guess how I felt about it. REC is a mature anime – it’s realstic with it’s characters and their development, ywt simultaneously has a lot of odd situations that you really dont expect from real life. This combination of realism and unrealism was done perfectly in my opinion.

And I don’t thing there’s much more to say. The series is just plan endearing – it’s probably impossible not to like. Within such a short time it captures and holds your attention and tells a memorable story full of charm and all-around fun. At it’s most lighthearted, it is funny and exciting, and at it’s most depressing it is heart-wrenching and leaves you glued to the seat. Truly a gem of a series.

Hayate no Gotoku Volume 4 Review

Hayate the Combat Butler is a story of a young man named Ayasaki Hayate who, since age 9, has had to work tons of part-time jobs to support his worthless, slacker, gambler parents. The story begins when Hayate is fired from his job as a bicycle delivery boy because the boss discovers that he’s only 16. When Hayate gets home, he finds a not from his parents that they have left him with a debt of over 1.5 Million yen (around 600,000 bucks) and that they have sold his organs to the yakuza.

Hayate escapes the yakuza’s clutches and in a moment of depravity, attempts to kidnap a 13-year old girl named Nagi Sanzenin. Via semantics, Nagi mistakes his threat to kidnap her for a confession of love, and when she is kidnapped by a pair of real kidnappers, Hayate ends up saving her with his amazing Gundam-like strength and skill.

Hayate ends up working as Nagi’s live-in butler because he is in her debt, and Nagi is absolutely ridiculously rich. Hilarity and madness ensues.

The first chapter of volume 4 finishes where volume 3 left off, and the second chapter begins the second logical ‘arc’ of the story. For those following the anime Hayate no Gotoku, everything in volume 4 has already happened, but earlier in the story because the animators wanted to introduce the more popular characters from the beginning.

The basic plot of volume 4 revolves around Nagi’s school, Hakuou Gakuin. Nagi hasn’t been to school in a long time out of general disinterest, so Hayate convinces her to go at the start of the next semester. After an adventure involving bringing Nagi her lunch, Hayate begins to realize how much he misses his own high-school days and finds out that he is no longer enrolled at his old school, but a certain student has not forgotten him. Then, Maria and Nagi try to get Hayate enrolled at Hakuou Gakuin.

Hayate the Combat Butler volume 4 continues the silly, wacky, and often hilarious adventures of Hayate and the gang while adding a whole new layer to the plot. Whereas the first 3 volumes were focused only on the group of rich folk with connections to Nagi, volume 4 takes an entirely new direction. It introduces a whole new set of characters and new environment to show them in. The only problem with this is that rather than balancing between the school and rich folk settings, almost none of the rich folk show up at all in volume 4.

That is most likely due to the fact that the school characters are commonly noted as being far more popular than the others, and so it is obvious that the author would want to feature them as much as possible, and since volume 4 lays all of the groundwork for the new setting, it leaves room for both stories to be active at once in future volumes.

Volume four thankfully tones down the references a little bit, which is helpful because the references in Hayate are often forced on the reader and only tend to subtract from the experience for anyone who doesn’t get them (it’s hard to, since most of them are bleeped.)

Hayate is always an incredibly absurd story, with cheesy robots, talking tigers, mechs, the occasional cross-dressing, and a room full of monkeys, but as the series has progressed, there have been less silly gags, and a lot more focus on character development, and this is especially true in volume 4. Aside from Hayate pulling out a machine gun to fight a mech and the occasional absurdity, Volume 4 goes more in the direction of a harem-comedy.

Overall, if you have read any of Hayate and enjoyed it, volume 4 will not disappoint. It’s also a good idea to watch the anime, Hayate no Gotoku, along with it since there are a lot of differences that are greater appreciated having witnessed both.

 

Switching To More Review Style

Lately I’ve been looking at some websites where people do reviews of episoes of anime and volumes of manga and I decided I want to try writing like that, so starting with my next post I’m going to do some review stuff. I’ll start with Hayate since it’s my favorite and I just reade volume 4.

Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei Episode 2

I had like 3 things I was supposed to write and kept thinking not to post till I was done with one of them, but since that never seems to happen…

best show ever after episode 2! Seriously, I havent loled this much at anything in a while.

First of all, the dynamic between Fuuka-chan and Zetsubou-sensei is hilarious. While they contrast in world views, both of them have very similar personalities and levels of intelligence, especially in that they both take thigs way too far. I love how easily she convinced him that the hikki girl was an evil creature XD

Like many comedy of this type, a lot of the humor was based on the misconceptions of the individual characters and this show does that aspect very well, IMO. The troubles with each of the three girls were enough already, but then they all form together for a climax of immense proportions! I get the feeling every girl in this class is going to end up after the sensei XD

Some of my favorite parts were Zetsubou-sensei’s ‘Travel List’, the hikikomeri girl, the stalker girl showing up in an outfit similar to the teacher’s and her wall of pictures, and of course all of the suicide attempt stuff.

Tokidoki Balloon Episode Three OMG

I actually got to see an episode right after it came out and post about it for once, because this episode was just SO weird that I had to mention it. Okay, Up until now this show has always been very cute and funny, but all of a sudden now there’s blood and guts thrown in. Out of NOWHERE! And it’s just over, just like that!

I think maybe there’s a chance that someone accidentally mixed a couple of pictures from Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei into the episode on accident. That’s the only explanation I can think of.