Meet Saito Sumire…the new K-ON girl who looks like a godly combination of Mio and my tea-brewing ojou-sama goddess Mugi. A delishuz and well-received addition to Azu-nyan’s Light Music club, and I am most certainly looking forward to what kind of dynamics she’ll bring to our beloved club. (Heck, I think I’m in love with her already….^w^)
Simply inspired.
I feel some really good things here...
Once in a while, there comes a time in our earthly existence that we suddenly hear a choir of angels when we come across something we feel is genuinely blessed by the divine hand of the gods. We feel an overwhelming happiness within us, a sense of purpose, a touch of intoxication, and the sudden fear of death which comes so indiscriminately to us mortals ending it all, for fear that mere man should not be allowed to experience such bliss…
That is how I felt when I started reading Rika…
I’ve only read the first chapter and as of this writing the second one is yet to come, but from the first chapter alone I already have some very high hopes for this, and hopefully it will meet my expectations in the end. The story follows 2nd year middle school student, Nishizawa Kazuya, a boy who’s said to be good at many things, earning him the praise and admiration of his parents, and students alike. He is put in contrast with his younger sister, Rika, who is not as talented and is always being compared unfavorably to her brother. However, Kazuya has a secret that he dares not tell a soul…his greatest joy in his young life…
Is peeking at his sister while she changes her clothes…
Thoughts:
…And so, another delishuz and potentially sinful epic begins…
Now it’s quite obvious I’m already loving this. From the first chapter alone this already appears to be a masterpiece, and I’m going to be devotedly waiting for the much appreciated updates. Aside from the usual reason of my steadfast devotion to the Imouto Gods, there are quite a lot of things I like about this series.
One, let’s get into the characters:
Nishizawa Kazuya is, due to his interactions with his imouto, now being named as the latest candidate for the title of Siscon King. I like him. He’s a healthy, hardworking, athletic, and from the looks of it, pretty popular boy who seems to be making a conscious effort to meet everyone’s expectations of him. But there seems to be more to him than a mere overachiever when in the very beginning after he lists a bunch of admirable things about himself, he then claims his only real happiness is that he enjoys a private skin show from his sister every morning without her knowledge. (Which I say is pretty understandable if you’re in his situation and said sister looked as good as Rika) It looks like he wishes to keep that last tidbit top secret and so far he’s doing a fine job at not making his attraction to his sister obvious. He’s also pretty cool and as a manga male protagonist, though I can’t say he is entirely unique, he seems to be a very competent and interesting one.
As for the titular Nishizawa Rika, she’s a young girl who from the looks of it seems to have something of an inferiority complex. She’s always being compared to her older brother, and is probably feeling a little envious. Still, being that she does still call him “onii-chan” they appear to be on friendly and equal speaking terms with each other and despite her complaints she does seem like she still has a lot of respect and admiration for Kazuya’s talents and sees her brother as someone she wants to catch up with.
As for the story, it looks like it’s being played realistically: the scenes are subtly funny, there are no over-the-top face faults, and I can easily sees this shifting easily from ecchi romantic comedy to drama with little trouble. As of the first chapter, no circumstance feels too far-fetched, everything seems to be understandable and believable, and I say this touches both the Type A and Type B otaku that dwell within me. Also, it gave me a few welcome bouts of nostalgia as it reminded me of a some of the first animes that introduced me to this potentially-maddening-yet-twistedly-beautiful-world of the anime otaku.
All in all Rika was a very enjoyable read and in the name of the gods I serve, I pray that this gets updated regularly and may it have a successful run.
OK, so yeah…I haven’t been posting for a while. Really sorry about that, aside from commenting around the internet, I didn’t really have the time nor the mental state to juggle both this blog and the stuff I had to write elsewhere.
But now I’m on vacation…(for a while at least since I opted to go to *shudder* Summer Class…) I’m going to be posting stuff again. I’ve also decided to change how I do things in this blog and here are my new resolutions:
1)I’m no longer going to do episodic reviews. Too much work for me…Shame really, since I really want to go crazy whenever I watch something awesome. But, alas…my time just won’t allow it. So instead I’m going to review an entire season of a specific anime when it’s over. Also, I’m going to be doing it at my own time.
2)There a bunch of other stuff I’ve always wanted to do here, but I just couldn’t find a good timing for. One was a segment in my old blog that I have feeling will catch on, and the other Bi-annual contest with roughly the same concept.
3)EROGE REVIEWS! DAMN IT! This was my original reason for wanting to start a blog and I’ll be damned if I forget it! Anyway, yeah Eroge reviews. But I also intend to write impressions on figures, and all sort of other stuff.
4) I also intend to be a little more active in the Moe Coalition…I’ve been neglecting my duties…such a poor soldier I turned out to be.
5)I’ll be writing every passing fancy that strikes my mind at the moment. I’m an idiot, so I hope you’ll find my stupidity as remotely entertaining as me writing it for all to see! ^_^
For now…that will be all.
May the Imouto Gods protect you always.
The hell-?
I DID NOT expect this to be possible!
1.Yosuga no Sora
What I consider the biggest surprise of the Fall 2010 season, and it was fucking SWEEEET!
Yosuga no Sora was based on a an eroge of the same name, that I never expected would ever be animated. It tells the story of the Kasugano twins, Haruka and Sora, who, after their parents died in tragic accident, have decided to live in a small rural town where their grandparents once lived and attempt to build a new life there afresh. And while they’re there they meet up with some old friends, make new ones, and in Sora’s case: resurrect old bitter memories.
Now, let me tell you I could only hope for this to be animated since the topic and content seemed a little too risky for it to ever be granted an anime adaptation. But goddamn it, the anime EXCEEDED expectations and gave us something that is trully worth remembering. Really I can’t say enough good about this show. Hence the reason it’s in my number one.If you haven’t seen this you really got to try it out yourself: every single one of the girls is mouth-wateringly delishuz, the story is told and constructed quite well considering the small amount of episodes it was allotted, and it has Sora. SORA! The White Imouto-Goddess herself to grace your screens and prove to this wretched unenlightened world that:
Wincest truly is best.
2. Ore no Imōto ga Konna ni Kawaii Wake ga Nai
Haven’t I said enough about this already?….
….Well, NO.
Ore no Imouto ga Konnani Kawaii Wake ga Nai is quite possibly one of the most ingenious concepts for a story every conceived by mortal men. The titular character, Kousaka Kirino, also known as one of the patron deities in the Imouto Pantheon(and the holder of the blessed title of “Peerless Imouto General, Tsun-Tsun Protector of Moe Who Dwells on Two Worlds” who presides over loli-loving girls, eroge players, siscons, brocons, underwear sniffers, and watches and protects lolis and all imouto characters themselves, as well as the one who mediates between Grade A tsunderes and the Imouto Gods), is an imouto who loves imouto-ge, which in my humble opinion, is so mind-blowingly awesome I could not find the right words to describe it even with inspiration from the Muses. Also, being that I, am a man, who adores everything imouto-related this was just too good for me to pass up. (I was sold when I saw the how cute she was, I fell in love when I read the premise, and I saw a divine calling when I got into the series)
So Kyousuke…you damn boy, I already have the perfect title waiting for you, so please, fulfill the prophecy, take Kirino for your own, and finally become the long awaited Siscon King!
(She’s waiting for you to cream her like crazy, to fall to your clutches and do with her what you will and whatever you can conceive in your deepest, darkest, most disgusting fantasies…she wants you to subdue her, break her, take her, and at the same time honor her with your passionate love to the point she starts seeing Paradise in your arms…she wants you to love her Kyousuke…love her like no other…..DO NOT miss the fucking chance you twit!)
3. The World God Only Knows
The World God Only Knows tells the story of a young man’s utter devotion to his chosen path that he has become nothing short of a god amongst men. His divine capabilities have brought his even the attention of Hell itself, which seek to make use of them. Hell’s officers presented a challenge upon the hubristic young man who dares call himself a “god” to aid them in their plight and by extension prove his claim, and being God, he readily accepts knowing in his infinite knowledge that he can’t possibly be beaten, thus entering the “young god” into a Faustian contract with a demon sent to make sure he follows through or he loses his head.
What follows is a godly tale of faith, strength, and love of legendary proportions.
OK this time…I’m serious about what I said above. Keima is God. And once you get around to watching the anime you’ll know what I mean. Only I forgot to tell you that the chosen path which he has absolutely mastered and attained god-like proficiency in was the ever fruitful field of galge and video games, and the demon sent to aid him and see through his fulfillment of the contract also doubles as possibly the one of the cutest, loveliest-and downright moe-est(if that’s even a word) demon girls ever to be produced by the mind of man ever since Dante wrote The Divine Comedy.
4. Baka to Test to Shokanju
Not since Lucky Star have I enjoyed watching an anime again and again and again-and again. BakaTest is what moe shows are great for: there is nothing better than the feeling of coming home after a tired day, and unwinding with a nice “HHHNNNNNGGGGG!” session and feeling the moe arrows pierce through your body-completely pinning you in place; unable to move…the power of moe compels you. Do not resist.
BakaTest is a story about a certain “class”. A class that is discriminated and has suffered much persecution from those who have been designated as their “superiors”-who look upon them with eyes full of contempt and pity. And the reason for this is because…
This class…is populated by idiots.
But those idiots…are up to prove something to the world. And the result:
Is effing cool.
BakaTest is fun, colorful and has a very refreshing feel to it-that never fails to make me smile. The characters are also very likable, and you find yourself attaching to a favorite almost instantaneously. Overall; BakaTest currently stands as one of my favorite animes of all time.
5. Ookami-san to Shichinin no Nakamatachi
I absolutely love fairy tales. Even now, I still read a big book of fairy tales my late grandfather gave to me when I was a little lad-and honestly speaking, I don’t think my love for them is going to change.
As a matter of fact, thanks to this little gem of a show, my love for them has taken an entirely delishuz direction…
Ookami-san to Shichinin no Nakamatachi is a delightful little romantic comedy/school-life parody of the fairy tales most of us have probably heard in our childhood years and grown up with. It revolves around the exploits and the daily adventures of the members of a “loan” organization called the Otogi Bank. The Otogi Bank is an organization that trades favors in exchange for favors to be fulfilled when the Bank requires it. (Sort of like an “amici degli amici: sort of deal-we help you; you help us, and also gave the story a touch of student Mafia or even Yakuza-esque sort of feel for me-which I liked quite a lot)
I wish you all a most joyous holiday season and I pray you all happy days for the coming year.
May the Imouto-Gods continue to smile on all my endeavors.
