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The summer of a man’s boyhood memories continue. Still on the cusp between childhood and being a man, he has linked with the ghost of a young woman from the World War 2 era. She, and the ghosts of other young ladies from that time, continue adventures alongside their linked partners, learning more about each other and travelling through time via their supernatural connection. While he struggles to see his crush on her come to fruition, meanwhile his friend- a girl his age, pretending to be a boy- seeks his attention as well. [taken from ANN] Well, to say it in short words they go on where S1 left off. Hajime still fails hard to realise that Jun is a girl. Even after seeing her basically naked he still fails… the is so bold. Poor Hajime. But there is even more to laugh and a lots of new parodies on older animes everyone knows. And as far as I can tell we probably get also here a S3 since the summer dont end with this season. But also we get to see chibi Arashi, she is so cute <3. If u enjoyed S1, you will definitly luv S2.

Opening

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Ending

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Have fun,

-Death

Thirteen year old Yasaka Hajime is a boy staying at his grandfather’s house during his summer vacation. One day, he meets a sixteen year old girl named Arashi at a café and it is love at first sight – at least for him. He decides to start working part-time there, in order to be close to Arashi. But Arashi is not just a regular girl; she claims to be a ghost possessing him. And if that isn’t enough, it turns out that with Hajime’s help Arashi can travel to the past. But she’s not the only one with a weird past; many other characters working in the café have a particular secret not everyone knows … [stolen from aniDB] First of all, i really enjoyed this one. It begins pretty straight without too much introduction, rather it lets u get to know the chars while the story unfolds. The team made of Arashi and Hajime make the show moving, and they a pair that u will like. Hajime is pretty outgoing, says straight what he thinks (I kinda like that). Arashi is a bit classy but still not too backholding girl either. She can keep it up to Hajime, through sometimes she is a lil bit dull, but that only adds to the fun factor. Hajimes outgoing characters goes to the Juns regret. During circumstances that happens in the beginning, when they all get to know eachother, she have to pretend to be a boy. They work out that fact during the series pretty good, and also use it good as source for various fun things. What also was very much to my liking was the way they series is drawn/animated as it reminds you (those who know it) of the good old animes from years ago but it also feature modern-day effects. It’s a lovly combination of the old and the new, not only limited to the animation itself but also the music does it’s part. One effect that I particular like as it’s rarly used is that they even animated the dust that gets visible in the sunlight, an effect when it gets right used (which is given here) can add very much to the atmosphere of the scene aswell it’s beautiful. They also included some “real life” effect scenes where they torture a lil model scene. Its may be a lil play on some other animes, like macademy wasshoi (they used modelling clay scenes as censorship) or maybe even on Honey & Clover, where they used modelling clay and various other things to make an animation with it (through this is just an assumption of mine). Another deeper parodie might is Jun. Some of you might remember Happyness! (i tend to call it trappyness), where one of the main chars also was called Jun, just that he was actually a guy that always dressed up as girl. Well there is even much more parodies to find and enjoy, some you have to figure by a specific catch-phrase or a description, others are very clear. The most parodies are to be found in ep 13 where the chars regulary change their outfits, and most of them are parodies on some other series. I figured a few but hell, its too much for knowing all. The anime itself tends also to parodie itself a lot, especially their time-traveling. They always end every few episodes philosphing about the “time-paradox” as in what happens when u do this in the past. Or what happens to the spoiled milk that u take back and exchange it for the one thats still good. Sounds weird ? Yes but its very funny made up. Sure even this one have its 2 more honest episodes but it all fits nice together so it makes a funny sometimes a bit weird feeling enjoyable piece of anime and I look forward to watch season 2 thats currently running. Enjoy this one!

Trailer:

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Opening (OP1)

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Ending (ED1)

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The Endings vary with very episode a bit so its worth to regulary watch them, also the before the preview some funstuff takes place.For those living within US/CA that wanna take a quick peek on it, u can watch it here at CR. All others sadly must find their own rips (I suggest SHiNJi).

-Death

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Its maybe not the best quality and dont show tons of stuff but still its a funny lil tease, thanks goes out to Jd-, who gave me the link. I think we all look forward to this one.

-Death

Based on a shounen manga by Haruaki Katou. Hyakko is a manga whose main heroines were four girls when the story started. But as the story goes, many unique classmates show up. Those girls sometimes twist the heroine around their little finger or vise versa. In many situations, they all have noisy get-togethers with each other, and that is really fun. (stolen from AniDB) Hyakko is kinda weird in the beginning, since unlike other animes of this kind we dont start in the middle of the whole thing but really at the beginning of it. The 4 ends up all together cause they’re lost and finally beat up the teacher with glues em even more ^.^. The chars are colorful and differes from the usual pairing. Sure u have the shy one and the more agressive one but here u got 2 straight forward ones instead of the usual single one. Then u got the silent but .. hmm… “useful” is probably the best description for Suzu, boy she’s a glutton. But this fresh combination give the thing more intrest, at least i like it pretty much when those anime types still come up with something new. But this also was the first anime with a girl openly admitting she’s bi-sexual, which also opens a lot space for funfactors. I mean why not ? We live in a modern world, besides this was a nice why to evade too much contact with the guys and the need of a open romance. OK, here in different to similar type anime like Hidamari, u got guys, but in my eyes they play just a side roll to fill a bit and open new rooms for fun. It’s not like there is any serious romance coming up, which is better this way. I can’t stand romance stuff too much latly, so i tend to evade stuff with that kinda genere attached. But dunno, i cant get Suzu out of my head, she is a fun character. Great was that episode where u see her making a kind of “tour” around in school, and get just by showing up already all kinda sweets and candy, i mean it was totally lulz for me. The end brings a bit drama along but nothing too serious, its ok, uncalled for or better said unneeded but well… that must everyone decide for himself, right ? So without further words we go over to the Trailers and stuff, then its up to you if u wanna see it or not ;).

Hyakko PV

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Hyakko PV2

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-Death

When I was watching episode 19 of Index I kinda got “wtf??”. You had this scene with the girlie president and she goes “Yes, we can!”, which gave me flashbacks on the Obama spam in the news (I personally dont have anything against him but at some point all this stuff begins to get annoying if u dont have real intrest in it, dont ya think so too ?). Anyway, without further comments and rather with the new “tube” plugin, we go:

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Its a longer version, bringing along some context. I thought its probably better in order to fully enjoy the scene. And i found this other vid where they overlayed the speech scene with some obama and music^^.

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And here, from Air Gear we got another incoming Obama:

Have fun with it.

-Death

Based on a shoujo manga by Maki Minami serialised in Hana to Yume. When Hikari was little, she and her father liked to watch pro wrestling, and she became very good at it. She was the pride of her family until one day she was introduced to Kei, the son of her father’s friend. He instantly defeated her in wrestling, and started what would become Hikari’s major ambition to one day beat him. To do this she enrolled in Kei’s school, an ultra elite school that costs her father a lot of money. This unusual school created classes according to grades, and the top seven students become members of the “SA”. They have their own building, and can optionally attend class. Hikari is usually the only one who does so, since she desperately wants to beat Kei with test scores. The members of the “SA” have been close friends since their first year. (yep, like u guessed, i stole it from aniDB again^^) Hmm, special it says in the title but still its a romance comedy. It have its good points and its unusual points, like having that extreme rivality between Takishima (Kei-chan) and Hikari. Sure u say we got other anime with that but its somehow different. Funny was that the other characters made their proposal way earlier then our main couple and sometimes u got nice “games” that get played with the main chars. But they dragged it way too much out of my taste, they could have them come together much earlier so we could have a bit fun with they as a couple. The chars are an interesting mix, thats again one of the better points. You get a Animal Lover, the girl who is all over Hikari, the boy who trys to play the violien but its horrible at it and aside from that rather shy, his silbing? (i think she was, i forgot already, had a lil gap between the last episodes^^) that wish to sings but her singing have the impact of a small nuclear strike (no joke, u see why i call it that when u see the animation), the dude that looks kinda homeless and always is after something to eat, and our main stars, Takishima, super rich and sucessor to a big company group, and Hikari, the compared to the rest pretty poor but hard working girl, and have a constant fight with Takishima. Its an intresting mix, that have to withstand much bad blood and maintain their friendship. It becomes pretty deep (not just because of the building of couples) but that gets explained later in the series^^. I probably spoiled a lot, and i wanna apolpogize for that. If u’re into this topic, or just need a filler u can try it. Some episodes i suggest to leave out, at least i considered them not important for the story and way too cheesy. Seems i’m not that easy with such stuff anymore^^.

Promo Trailer(eng subbed by Rozen):

Opening:

Well, thats it for today. Hopefully i manage to finish off Mnemosyne these days, but i’m rather on “Grim Tales of Billy and Mandy” trip, so it can eventually take longer. Anyways, have fun

-Death

Based on a series of light novels written by Tanaka Yoshiki and illustrated by Kakinouchi Narumi. The story revolves around Ryouko Yakushiji, a 27-year-old multilingual investigator that graduated from Tokyo University’s elite Department of Law, and the bizarre cases she faces while working for the Tokyo Metropolitan Police. Yakushiji not only has to deal with supernatural beings in her line of work, but also her rival Yukiko Muromachi, another equally talented and beautiful police investigator. (from anidb) I really enjoyed this one, it’s long ago since i last had such a good detective anime. Also enjoyable was that little touch supernatural they added to it, it gave this anime the spice. Also the Characters was quite colorful and had a good presence. They’re have all their own identity, and some… personalitly i would say. While Ryoko is more a wild, powerful and straight forward woman (i mean it wordwise, straight forward!), is Izumida more the her counterpart. He is more cautious, and not as reckless as Ryoko, still he can be straight if the situation calls for it. Another intresting pair in this series was the maids of Ryoko which not only played a side role, they 2 french maids (yea, frenchy, Ryoko speaks french with them^^) but not only that, they’re also experts in weapons and various other things (dont wanna spoiler further^^). There are more characters but i keep it at this to not kill the fun of watching it for oneself. The scenarios are intresting, some feels like “i saw similar” but also u got some innovative stuff. Also some stuff u knew from earlier gets reused later, which give the individual episodes a good relation to each other. All together an enjoyable, action filled detective anime.

(if i dont forget it i add later a trailer here, youtube fails on that topic… not even an op/ed to be found…)

-Death

This anime is about three sisters who live together with their maid in a house that seems to travel from place to place.
The sisters are Ai, the typical big-breasted oldest sister, with the power to talk with flowers, Mai, the typical athletic high-schooler, with the power to, well, do impossible athletic stuff and Mii, the typical cute little sister, with the power to heal. Their maid is Mare, who looks kinda robotic.
Every episode involves the girls making friends at a different place while they are ultimately seeking something, that only the Popotan (their name for dandelions) hold informations about. (stolen from anidb, blabla). Actually the anime was not satifying me. I mean the setting was kinda weird, a bunch of ppl that try to ask dandelions for kinda “directions”. I mean i got the idea for the drama part with the “make friends every where” and the time-problem, but still i search for the deeper message this anime tries to deliver to me. At least it give u a feeling at the end that there is some hidden deeper meaning to all of it. And i think its behind the “time prob” (i wont explain it here or i spoil) stuff, maybe i interpret too much into it. The plot also had the problem that it the more near it got to the end of the story it got the more… well… simple got it. I mean it didnt had any real new highlights anymore, no real development in my eyes. I think this is one of the animes that i didnt really understood, it felt as a funny, comedy/ecchi style anime with a bit school added maybe and madio also, but god knows what it really should be ??! If anyone have an idea what this anime should say us, tell me and relieve me from beeing confused and disappointed! But it wasnt all no good, there was one really big fun point for me. The voice actor for Mii (the lil one) is the same as for Komugi-chan in Magical Nurse Witch Komugi-chan MagiKarte. She have a special kind of voice, i never heared any other voice actor with a similar voice. I like it somehow, its funny, and it matched the char she voiced pretty good (regardless of the series).

Trailer

GAOOOOOOOO~ (i like mii and her idea of puni puni things^^)

Opening

Ending

Some Random AMV (Caramelldansen / U-U-U-Aua Dance)

Enjoy, Death

The story, set in a seaside town, revolves around a 5 year old boy, Sosuke, and the Princess goldfish, Ponyo, who wants to become human.

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This time Miyazaki will tell a story drawn freely in watercolors and pastels about a 5 year old boy Sosuke and the princess goldfish Ponyo who wants to become human which of course will promise much good! An extra interesting thing is that the Goro Miyazaki (Hayao’s son) of when he was 5 years old has been chosen as the model for the main character Sosuke, which is interesting because in the summer of 2007 Goro Miyazaki made his director’s debut with Studio Ghibli’s “Gedo Senki” and Miyazaki senior was fiercely against it.

[stolen from Ghibliworld]

Due to family troubles, Ren Uesugi and his sister, Mihato, leave their home. They end up moving to the city but find themselves with a lack of money. Somehow they are able to find work in the form of the Kuonji family’s mansion, being employed as servants to the three sisters of the Kuonji family: Shinra, Miyu, and Yume. Being a servant also associates Ren with the mansion’s additional servants and the Kuonji sisters’ friends. (taken from ANN) To say it in short words, it was great. Its one of the less butler/maid animes, where i can say its good. Most the others got too centered around one character, too long or just dumb and perverted. No, this one have a funny staff, 3 intresting masters, and aswell a entertaining group of friends. Mii (a friend to our masters) is a good example for beeing different, as she always asks for getting slapped and stuff as she is in S&M. Or from the masters,  Miyu, she have a loli complex (yes, this is no joke, a girl with a loli complex). But its not only that, there is more, like a bit (not too much) of romance. A forbidden fruit, a relationship between master and servant. They never admit it open but its there. Hatsune-nee is also a unique considering how much tools she have hidden on her body (she calls it “onee-chan’s 100 hidden tools”). It makes a great anime, also they elaborate good the problematic father-son relationship. They make up a resonable and good solution to that, not an agressive and violent like other series sometimes have. I really wish for more of this series, it was nice and had the ecchi parts integrated in the flow of the series without beeing annyoning like many newer series. Its nice to see the daily adventures of Ren and the rest of the gang. Alltogether a nice series to watch.

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(ah and yes, its based on a h-game as far as i can tell^^)

-Death