Omamori Himari 04-09

Tis been a while but I didn't forget about this one even though no one else seems to be watching it either. It is just another generic fanservice filled anime after all. The "plot" isn't all that deep and it's kinda boring. Why must someone always have a lack of memory about their past? Or if they have this issue why not give a good reason for it. Himari wishes to change this by bringing Yuto back to where he grew up. She needs him to see his real roll in the Amakawa Family and slay the demons instead of becoming their friends.

Episode 5 not much happens but some fanservice.

Another demon slayer appears, Kuesu Jinguji from England. She also turns out of be a sudden fiancée. Surprise surprise... She invites Yuto to come to her hotel room when he is willing to join her side.

A battle between Kuesu and Himari takes place. After almost being totally defeated by Kuesu, Himari sees just how scary she may become if she looses her way. She is after all the very thing she wishes to kill. A demon cat.

Well those were some powerful attacks! After her "clear" loss Himari stumbles back to Yuto's room all beaten up.

Because of her injuries from her battle with Kuesu, Himari takes a pill that will turn her "wild" in order to make her better. This of course means her full on cat form will come out and of course Yuto must be the ever so strong master willing to endure and help her see this through.

Yuto finally goes to the hotel where Kuesu is staying to tell her what he has decided. An odd moment goes by as he explains where he stands. It felt very Eva or ef - a tale of memories like in how it was presented.

Kuesu starts to flip out during this explanation and tries to kill Yuto with a knife. His inner power comes out and saves him flinging Kuesu back crashing into a window and starts to fall from the skyscraper.

While he watches this from his failed attempt to save her from falling memories come flashing back to him where it was her in fact that grew up with him sharing that kiss. He remembers that it was he that said it would be fun to fight demons together and that he'll always protect her.

Episode 9 starts off oddly at school. It's time to draw pictures. Himari starts taking pictures with her cell phone which doesn't quite meet the standards. But this picture of her is very pretty. Wallpaper pretty one might say.

While she and Yuto are off doing that some other classmates get their loli needs in with drawing ___ in a fountain soaking wet!

Demon vampire sucks some of Yuto's blood uh oh! Afterwards a rumor starts to go around about a cannibal demon whom eventually shows up and attacks Himari because everyone thought she was after Yuto instead! Don't they know what cannibal means!

I wonder if an elf girl will show up next.

365 Days of Anime Characters: Day 68/365 Cat Lady

Day 68/365

From the anime Kuruneko, Cat Lady has no name that I know of. She is based upon the real manga/blog writer Kuruneko Yamato and now it has an anime adaptation of 2 minutes per episode.

Why I like her: She is your typical crazy cat lady. She drinks, works hard, and adds many cats to her "collection".

Why I hate her: Can't hate a lady who loves cats!

Overall: If you are a cat lover like I am you NEED to check out this short sweet anime.

365 Days of Anime Characters: Day 67/365 Kraft Lawrence

Day 67/365

From the anime Spice and Wolf, Kraft Lawrence is a 25 year old man who travels around buying and selling various things in order to make a living. He hopes to make enough money in order to open up a shop of his own. One day he meets Holo, who is a wolf harvest deity, and from then on they become traveling companions.

Why I like him: Smart and clever he can always think of a way to get the best deal. He doesn't let Holo get away with her tantrums either which was key to my enjoyment. He is a very "real" character.

Why I hate him: I don't. He knows what he wants to do and does it.

Overall: This slow paced fantasy with hints of romance didn't bore me thanks to Lawrence. He could always stand up to Holo unlike most male leads in many other romance anime.

Working!! 01 PreRelease

Oddly this is the show I've been looking forward to the most for the upcoming Spring season and I gotta say I'm still interested but I was expecting more for some reason. It's only one episode so far though so we'll see if it turns out to be a hit or miss.

Taneshima Poplar (17) is a very short high school student. She is ordered at the beginning of the episode to track down a new worker for the "family restaurant" by the assistant manager.

Takanashi Souta (16) is the new recruit Taneshima found on the street by randomly bumping into him. He took her for a 12 year old lost little girl at first.

Shirafuji Kyouko (28) assistant manager she's kinda lazy and gives off the impression that she doesn't really care about what's going on. She mostly lets taneshima do everything

Satou Jun and Souma Hiroomi are cooks. I can only imagine what trouble these 2 guys will get into. Satou seems distant yet awesome and Souma seems to be a happy go luck kind of guy.

Todoroki Yachio a bubbly happy girl who is the main chef. She just happens to have a samurai sword... Interesting and weird. Wonder when she'll use it on Souta.

After some introductions and some training the characters start to blend together in an interesting way and odd personalities start to shine through. Especially with Shirafuji Kyouko. She turns out to be super awesome yet has a very cranky side to her. Souta randomly asked her her age. When she said 28 he called that "old" so now he gets to work everyday as punishment for like 2 weeks. Never call a lady old. Remember that boys.

"But anything over 12 is too old"

She then comes to the rescue of Taneshima whom was being harassed by customers. They were pulling on her hair and calling her a child... WHO DOES THIS?!?! Manager sees this and goes barging over with a huge kick to the face for one of them simply saying "Violence is bad". She is definitely going to be my favourite character of the series. She reminds me of a cross between Mitsune (Love Hina) and Nobue (Strawberry Marshmallow).

Inami Mahiru has a HUGE fear of men and is what seems to be the last character introduction for the first episode. She will hold much laughter I'm sure.

"Will a normal person be able to survive in this environment?" says Souta.... Yet he is far from normal himself! This anime holds potential! The ED was cute but forgettable. Bring on episode 2 in a month or so!

365 Days of Anime Characters: Day 66/365 Suzaku Kururugi

Day 66/365

From the anime Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion, Suzaku Kururugi is the son of Japan's last prime minister, Genbu Kururugi. His existence was kept a secret from the public until after the war due to "interesting" circumstances. He pilots a Knightmare Frame known as the the Lancelot.

Why I like him: His ideals match mine for the most part. Watching him fight battles in his Lancelot (very fitting name) was always fun, along with that silver tongue of his too. He is very determined to do things his way.

Why I hate him: His pride got in the way of a lot of things that he should have done.

Overall: A character very well done. If he wasn't in this anime I might have not bothered with it.

365 Days of Anime Characters: Day 65/365 Konata Izumi

Day 65/365

From the anime Lucky Star, Konata Izumi is a girl that lives only with her dad because her mom passed away. She goes to school everyday and does very well in sports even though she stays inside most of the time. The most important thing about her is her love for all things otaku. She loves anime, ero-games, manga, going to cons, and plain old video games.

Why I like her: For me only probably, the funniest part of the whole show was that 10 minutes in episode 1 where they talked about her love for chocolate cornet. The way she related pretty much everything in her life to anime was pretty funny. I know a lot of people that do this too.

Why I hate her: The bickering with Kagami was rather annoying to watch. Other than that she is the one that annoyed me the least in the entire show. Quite an accomplishment. ^_^

Overall: Otaku inside anime make me laugh. I really need to watch more shows that have them in it and maybe someday I should re-watch Lucky Star and maybe it'll grow on me a little more than the first impression it left on me. Screw you Lucky Channel! >.<

Hanamaru Youchien 06-08

It's pool time!

I only recognize her suit because of the anime Kappa no Kaikata Her shark suit was adorable as well though. I'll never tire of these outfits. Since Tsuchida only seems to have eyes for Yamamoto while at the pool side this makes Anzu sad and want attention anyway she can get it. They come up with many schemes to get Tsuchida to see Anzu instead of Yamamoto's huge breasts. They start off with a water dance.

Now it's a shark attack! Fake trouble means Anzu gets into trouble!

Children need to be careful with their wolf crying. As when something really terrible does happen adults might just think it's another false alarm and ignore it. Either way though Anzu did get the attention she wanted even if it wasn't exactly what she hoped for.

Next we have Tsuchida's sister Satsuki randomly show up... I knew they couldn't just keep this anime to adults and kindergarten... They HAD to add a high school girl in there somewhere. And of course she gives Tsuchida a hard time like all teenage sisters do to their older brothers. She is here to observe if Tsuchida is doing a good job or not being a teacher for children.

Random observation, I think these days people would freak out with a male teacher taking a girl to the bathroom like that.

Ending picture I just had to include! I love beluga whales! <3

Awesome cute ED yet again!

Summer break = Trips together!  They go to where Tsuchida and Sakura grew up by train.

Once they arrive it takes Hiiragi no time to start exploring the area and find all kinds of interesting creatures.

Sakura decides to take the children to a near by riverbed where her and Tsuchida use to spend a lot of time when they were kids just talking about anything and everything.

BOOB WARS!

Hiiragi again has a new outfit! An adorable little flounder swimsuit!

After much fun outside all day, Satsuki wishes to surprise Tsuchida with a difficult meal including gnocchi (yum!). Despite praising her when she visited him at school for her cookin,g he turns out to be dumbfounded by the gnocchi and can't figure out who made it and guesses everyone but her. This of course makes her very upset and she runs away to her room and pouts.

Summer getaways wouldn't be complete without a festival to go to. Everyone gets dressed up and hits the town in style.

And yet another ED! This one is a little odd

Their first task is to draw what they did all summer. Most draw cute pictures but one girl draws her parents working. She didn't go anywhere and just wanted to help her parents with their fish business. The children wish to learn about work so they go to her fish place to try and make him see that children can help out in the workplace as well. Super cute.

The second part of this episode Tsuchida meets Hinagiku on the street. She needs help because her shoe broke! Tsuchida helps her out and brings her to her home and now she wishes to get married to him and to be put into his class at the kindergarten.

Anzu tells Hinagiku after her meeting with Yamamoto that she should never give up on her love for Tsuchida because someday she'll grow up and be able to compete with Yamamoto (meaning her boobs).

In the end she still gives up (for now) and goes back to her home to her wonderful father that will do anything for her sweet Hinagiku.

This episode was the most boring one so far. It had it's cute moments but there just wasn't that cute wow factor in it that the rest of the episodes have had for me. This ED though is my favourite of these 3 episodes... I think it's cause of the cat and the mellow song

365 Days of Anime Characters: Day 64/365 Chinami Ebihara

Day 64/365

From the anime Code-E, Chinami Ebihara starts off as a shy, nerdy school girl who just happens to send off electromagnetic waves which disrupt or destroy nearby electronic equipment. Everyday she works to control this strange ability from causing problems for those around her. In Mission-E she has embraced her power and works for a company called OZ that studies and saves girls that also have the "Type-E" ability from their rival company Foundation.

Why I like her: For the most part I don't like her until Mission-E where she suddenly grows "balls". She makes me think of Yomiko Readman from Read or Die but definitely not as cool.

Why I hate her: In Code-E she is your typical boring schoolgirl with "issues" character. Sure her issues are a little strange but so are SO many other anime girls out there. Magical girl anyone?

Overall: Pretty much no one has even heard of this anime but it's worth a look if you like the weird super power type of anime.

365 Days of Anime Characters: Day 63/365 Higepiyo

Day 63/365

From the anime Higepiyo, Higepiyo (lol) is a chick with a beard that gets brought home from a fair by Hiroshi, a elementary school student. Together they go on many "manly" adventures!

Why I like him: He's a chicken.... with a beard! What's not to like. Somehow even though he's a chick he has wisdom that helps Hiroshi out in his times of need.... Or just messes things up further for Hiroshi!

Why I hate him: Some little things get taken WAY too far at times. But not really an issue to be honest.

Overall: Higepiyo's anime has just ended and that makes me super sad. Those 5 minute episodes made my day for a long time. They will be re-watched whenever I need my bearded chicken fix.

Cults: March 8-12 Anime-Planet: Monthly Marathon

It's cult time! Anime-Planet has a club named "The Anime Cultist Club" where you can nominate some of your favourite under viewed anime to hopefully gain more watches! Click on the image below to see the anime list for some anime that need more people to watch (or maybe not). Kindly put together by my partner TheOmnipotentLemur.

I won't be doing this marathon as I have a lot of other stuff to be catching up on like Macross and Gundam. Curse you Olymipcs you stole away my February goal of finishing ALL of Macross! Yay Canada though ^__^" I highly suggest Rose of Versailles for a viewing pleasure.

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