The Ephemeral SoL

I got to know of next season’s anime pretty late, so here I’m just gonna list out those I’m interested in. I actually got the list from PinkuBentoBox, and Negative Zero’s commentaries may have gotten me a bit biased though.
Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2
I stopped watching halfway through the first season, and till now I wonder why. I liked the general feel of the show, mecha and strategy. So I’m probably gonna go finish the first season before the second.
Allison & Lillia
World War Two technology and fantasy intermixed into an anime? I’d like that.
Kanokon
Just to see how the plot compares with other fanservice shows. Really, I swear!
Special A
Mmm… Shoujo. Some probably already know I’m into these type of shows more than shounen. From the limited series I’ve watched, I noticed shoujo tends to have draggy storyline that ends dramatically. I’ll see how it goes then.

On top of these, I’ll be catching up on some older drama series like Gokusen and Honey and Clover. Yeah, I do have alot of free time on hand.

PS: Don’t be too expectant on a review of the anime listed above. I’m just too lazy nowadays.

Alright, I did mentioned I was only watching two series in my previous post, but that was just a ruse to hide my mainstreamity with Clannad. Today was an off day for me, so I was too quite free. Managed to catch the final episode of Clannad, episode 22.

I liked how the series has ended. It wasn’t very romance oriented, rather, the theme was more on family. I got rather shocked when Tomoya confessed to Nagisa in the end though. He didn’t seem like that kind of a person!

On a side note, I managed to get my copy of KOTOKO’s Blaze today! Blaze sounded good to me, just a bit mellow for my taste. Sociometry was kinda a love hate song. I thought it sounded a bit too disco-like(can’t find a better word), but I did like the tune of it.

On another side note, Mami Kawada’s Savia is gonna be released tomorrow, but it won’t be till 2nd April( or later) before I receive it, because I ordered it with Eiko’s Hikari Nadeshiko. Yeah, I’m scrimping on shipping, and I’m pretty broke already! No matter, I’ll download preview Savia first thing tomorrow!

Crap, I forgot. There’s work tomorrow.

I haven’t been watching much anime lately, as shown from my lack of posts. So far I’ve been catching only a few series.

Clannad - Cause everybody’s watching it?

Hayate no Gotoku - Sanzenin Nagi. Tsundere rocks.

Kimikiss - Romance and catfights(soon to come).

True Tears -  Isurugi Noe. I realise I watch anime for the characters.

And thats all! Pretty pathetic huh? I wonder what will become of this blog.

It has been a long time since I’ve written an entry over here, but what Aibu mentioned to me this afternoon got me thinking.

Was watching CLANNAD and SHUFFLE! today
and it gets depressing when the main character has to choose which girl he goes with

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I just finished watching Nodame Cantabile drama, and I have to say, its really nice! Its great to watch a live action about music. The last music themed live action I watched was Nana movie, and to date these are the only two shows to have made me shed manly tears of sorrow and joy!

The music is probably the nicest part of the show. Seeing how the actors play the piano, even though it might be fake, is still enthralling. Thanks to this show, I’ve been listening to classical on the radio, instead of my usual Gold 90 Fm lol.

Not that I’m losing interest in anime. I’ve still been getting my weekly dosage of Clannad, Kimikiss, True Tears, Hayate no Gotoku, just to name a few. I’m simply looking for more drama to watch now, any recommendations?

I admit I never was a fanservice fan. I dropped Goshuushou-sama Nimomiya-kun after the beach episode, and I never finished series like Love Hina and Ichigo 100% completely. While Rosario+Vampire is at first glance, another typical fanservice harem show, it did manage to catch my attention quite well.

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SaiGar is the more manly equivalent of Saimoe. However, Saimoe actually contains moe characters, Sanzenin Nagi for example. Well how about SaiGar? Lets take a closer look at some of the more interesting entries.

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I’ve been watching Kimikiss, for those who didn’t know. In fact, I didn’t tell anyone I watch this, cause its more towards romance, and guys who are into romance generally aren’t very manly. However, the plot in this fairly decent anime is getting so much better, so I’ve decided to do an entry on the character’s relationships and more importantly, which ones I think should pull through, and which ones should not.

(Post contains info up to episode 12, so spoil yourself if you want to!)

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As soon as I had started AIR (which was about halfway through watching Kanon, the week-long waits in between new episodes of Kanon were driving me insane like an addict desperate for a fix), it struck me that there were a good number of similarities between the two shows. In fact, it wouldn’t be too much of a stretch to say that Key was ripping their own work off when they wrote AIR (unlike the anime versions, with the visual novels AIR came after Kanon). And, unsurprisingly, many of those same similar plot elements carried on over to CLANNAD: but, you might be asking, what exactly are these recycled plot elements I’m talking about? Or maybe you’re wondering “if the stories are all so similar, why one would want to bother watching more than one?” Well, I’m answering both of those questions in this installment of Fairy Tale Love, so just click on that there “Read more” cut and all will be revealed.

(Note: I tried to keep things fairly spoiler-free, but some important plot details of AIR, Kanon and CLANNAD are discussed within. You have been warned.)

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As promised, another chunk of text up here. I’ve been rather busy with my newfound job and in the end I don’t have much motivation to do labor-intensive posts. I actually planned on writing about some of the new animes, but that requires screenshots bleh =X

Anyway, today’s post is about something that happened during my sales training. Our trainer, a guy of 22, was trying to talk to us, the trainees, while waiting to knock off. Apparently, he was asking whether anybody watches Naruto when a female trainee suddenly proclaimed “Ohmaigawd, NARUTO! That’s semi porn!”

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