Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions.

Episodes:   12

How:   Amazon

Grade:   C


Summary:    Yuuta Togashi suffered from chuunibyou while he was in middle school. When he graduated, he put that dark history behind him and forgot about it... or he was supposed to. High school was smooth sailing and full of enjoyment—until the unavoidable, sad event occurs. The event that locks Yuuta into a contract with Rikka Takanashi and disrupts his desperately ordinary life.



Thoughts:  This whole show is about a group of teenagers playing make believe, some by choice and others have just been dragged into it.  It has it's boring moments, it's dumb moments and it's good moments which are mostly near the end.
        I almost didn't get past the first three episodes, but there was some part of me that really wanted to see what all the hype was about so I kept on...and on...and on... It was episode 7 when the show actually started to become less of a chore to watch.  When the group goes to Rikka's grandparents house and everything is really "revealed".
        Of course it's another, her father died and she is refusing to accept this type of story. Trying to stay in her little fantasy land so that she doesn't have to face the fact that her dad is truly dead.  Eventually with Yuuta's help she finally accepts reality and attempts to become a "normal" teenager, but really... that Rikka is more boring than the first half of the show was.
        In the end she returns to her delusional thinking, but this time in a little healthier of manner. This time it's not to run and hide from the real world,but to just have fun with her friends.

Who we have....


Yuuta Togashi-  Not really an original character, as with most main males in these types of show he's sort of just dragged along for the ride by his eventual love interest Rikka.  He'd actually be more interesting if he kept himself in the "Dark Flame Master" mode.


Rikka Takanashi- She's the nucleus of the show, she's the thing that brings all the rest of the crazies together.  There's really nothing special about her in terms of main characters, bad stuff happened to her in the past and now she's in denial.  Sure, her method of denial is a bit unusual... making up her own fantasy world and being in a constant state of Role Play; but in the end she's just another female that accepts her life and slowly finds love.


Makoto Isshiki-   Yuuta's best friend, the main male needs a dumb male to be his friend. Maybe to make him look better, I don't know. He's always getting caught by the girls doing things he ought not. Guess he's sort of comic relief...  He develops a crush on Kumin after joining Rikka's club fairly late in the game.



Sanae Dekomori-   The hyper girl, she's Rikka's friend and "Servant" she will always serve her or at least take her place.   She's younger then the rest of the group, still in middle school. Incredibly smart for being a Chunibyo though, she's top of her class.  She might just be the most insane of the party, using her pigtails for weapons which she has dubbed "Mjolnir".   Thor anyone? Heh.







Shinka Nibutani-  The hot girl trying to hide her past. In middle school Shinka, like Yuuta had an "Alter Ego" of sorts.  She was  "Forest Summer", and had a blog online.. a blog that Dekomori followed and even printed out blurbs from it and sort of made it into a tome.
       When Shinka finds out that Dekomori has her terrible past in print she decides to join the Club to hopefully destroy it once and for all.  Dekomori of course doesn't believe she Shinka is really Forest Summer and the two of them are almost constantly fighting....but not in public.
       Shinka's personality is completely different to the rest of the school, she quiet, polite and nice. The popular girl.













Kumin Tsuyuri-  Granted, she's sort of the boring character, but I really liked Kumin. Being a year or two ahead of the rest of the group she's the calm, sweet, light girl.  At first she was attempting to form a Club for Sleeping, the thing she likes to do the most. This of course didn't work to well so she was recruited by Rikka into the Far Eastern Magic Society.
        She really enjoys touching Makoto's bald head, who doesn't seem to mind..

Tooka Takanashi-   Rikka's sister, she's the "Priestess of the Deep Horizon".  Rikka believes her to be her enemy and the two of them "fight" quite often.  A ladle is Tooka's weapon and she's quite good at this "fighting" thing.
           Anyways, in the real world aspect Rikka lives with her sister who tends to be at work a lot as a cook. Tooka also likes to push Yuuta into helping Rikka with stuff.... she may have been the first to notice the two of thems relationship growing past more than friends.

Ninja Cadets

Episodes:   2

How:  Netflix Rental

Grade:   C-


Summary:   {MAL}During Japan's feudal era, there was a war between two ninja clans: the Byakuro and the Kabusu. One night, the Kabusu staged a fierce attack on the Byakuro castle in hopes of kidnapping the clan's infant princess. Their mission was foiled when a loyal ninja of the Byakuro flees the attack with the princess and disappears, eventually raising her to be a ninja. Several years later, six ninja trainees are given a mission to infiltrate the Kabusu-occupied Byakuro castle and retrieve a sacred scroll to complete their training. But their skills are put to the test when they encounter three members of the Kabusu, who use dark sorcery in an attempt to once again capture the princess - who happens to be one of the trainees. 


How it is.......

    The only reason this show gets a C is, I wish there were more episodes. It's REALLY incomplete and left me with too many questions...
    Really, above states it all... the six students going on their first mission get attacked by members of the Kabusu clan who are still going after the Princess.  They aren't entirely sure which girl in the princess, only going by the fact she has a scar on her shoulder or was it her back? I don't entirely remember.
    Anyways, the characters were pretty much...cliches.  Matsuri, is the hot bodied, fighter chick who is afraid of frogs: Hayashi, the quiet guy who gets bossed around by Matsuri and is talented in his own right: Pochi, the relatively useful yet young guy who hangs around Sakura: Sakura, the sword wielding, main character type girl: Kaoru, the dependable, older looking male of the bunch who is supposed to be the protecting the princess at all costs and Yume, the relatively useless, quiet girl who seems to be a better cook then anything.
    Nothing new there.

    The bad guys believe Sakura is the princess and with her use of the scrolls that they were going to get at the Byakuro Castle, who knows.. she just might be.  Yume and Kaoru are made into slaves by the main female Kabusu ninja {her name escapes me}, using some sort of spell to force the two to fight the other four and help them capture Sakura.  Which fails.
     Kaoru is not actually under the spell of course, just faking it to stay close to Yume who he seems to think is the Princess.  Uhg, I am not really sure which one is the Princess.  Sakura or Yume are both pretty obvious, but it would be a real shocker if it were Matsuri...Nah.
     The end is just the four students dragging themselves out of the rubble of what was once the Byakuro castle.  Yume, Kaoru and the bad guys are all gone and......
      Nice Start.
      Too bad there's not more.

Ponyo

How:  Netflix Rental

Grade:   C-


Thoughts:   This was probably the third time I attempted to watch this movie, the first being before it was released dub and the second while it was on TV while dubbed.  Having such a familiar voice in the movie that is Liam Neeson kind of hurt it for me. {I will find you, and I will kill you.}
        Anyways, I did watch it in both and I do prefer the sub over all. Now, to the movie itself..

A little boy Sousuke is playing outside his house, near the beach and finds a strange looking goldfish... he puts her in a bucket and brings her home.  This is no ordinary goldfish though, she's the daughter of the sea goddess  "Granmammare" and a sea wizard Fujimoto.
     While with Sousuke she licks a cut on his hand, healing it in the process but... apparently since she sampled that human blood she can... magically start turning into a human.  This of course starts to occur after Fujimoto steals her back from Sousuke. He attempts to lock her into the goldfish form, but with the help of her goldfish siblings she escapes and goes back to Sousuke.
     Apparently, Ponyo using her powers to turn into a human form and such has created some sort of.... event.  A huge storm forms and floods the entire island that Sousuke lives on...

Goldfish!

Blah.

I don't actually want to write anymore on this one, the movie didn't really leave any great impression on me. In the end Ponyo looses her goldfish powers and becomes a human, to live with Sousuke who she loves{?}.
    Sousuke's father who works on a fishing boat or something gets home safe and all is happy... save for maybe Fujimoto who looses his daughter.
    Meh.

Ponyo does have a strange addiction to ham, which I found a little amusing...

 

Galilei Donna

Episodes:   11

How:   CrunchyRoll

Grade:  C-

Summary:    Three sisters, Hozuki, Kazuki, and Hazuki, are descendants of Galileo and have completely different personalities and tastes; they never meet eye-to-eye. One day, the girls are suddenly attacked by a mysterious organization. The organization was after the "Galileo Tesoro" which Galileo Galilei was said to have discovered. Still unaware of what was going on, the sisters escape on the airship they built after the sudden attack. But it won't be so easy for these three sisters to help each other out in a pinch when they're constantly at odds with each other. What is the Tesoro, and what is the organization after? And what about the relationship between the sisters? It's a threesome of cute girls, action, and mystery!


Thoughts:   The only reason I watched this show was for the gigantic goldfish airship. Yes, that's the only reason. Goldfish, Goldfish, everywhere in this show.  It was a bit entertaining and actually had what could have been a fairly good story line, but all of that went out the window the further into the show I got...
      It only gets a C- because part of the show was rather enjoyable, if you don't think about it too much. The speedy conclusion to the show really, really ruined it.


Who we have....



Hozuki Ferrari- The youngest of the three sisters, she's pretty much the main character of the show having been the one who found and built all the Galileo stuff. She's oddly the person who Galileo is talking about in his love letters on the moon sketches....

Hazuki Ferrari- The eldest sister, she's extremely protective of her younger siblings and is bit crazy. She's studying law in university and tends to go into rants when she feels the laws are being broken and such.
      She's actually fairly useless till the end of the show when the three girls are on trial for their "crimes", her lawyerish background comes into play and she sort of saves the day.  Sort of.


Kazuki Ferrari- The middle child, she's the epitome of a middle child. Useless. That was mean, but hey... She frequently looks at the image of some guy on her cell phone, this guy is never given a name or even a reason why he's there.  I can only assume she has a crush on him.
         At the end during her trial he's in the audience and she finally gets over her crush on him.
 Kazuki also freaks out quite a bit, wanting to get out of their situation by any means possible. Freak Out, Don't wanna die, BlahBlahBlah.


Anna Hendrix-  She's a Galileo Maniac, obsessed with his works and is also looking to find the Tesoro. At first it seems like she's on the girls side, helping Hozuki rescue her sisters from the crooked police and aiding them in trekking down the moon sketches.
     Anna is actually working for Roberto, seemingly having a crush on the crazy man. She's always feeding him information and then finally leads him to where they are so that he may get the Tesoro, Moon sketches and the girls.
     As with most people in this situation, she learns the errors of her ways and comes back around.. helping the girls with the trial and such.


Cicinho-  This guy could have been awesome, he's an air pirate captain type deal and he and his crew are after the Galileo Tesoro. Stalking the girls all over the place, he saves them from the bad guys on multiple occasions.
    Oh what could have been with this character, falls short. He does come in handy at the end while dressed up as a fake lawyer to defend the girls.
     He has this huge crush on Hazuki, calling her his bambina which just sounds silly since he's speaking Japanese except for that one word...

Sylvia Ferrari-  The girls mother, she pretends to have Amnesia so that she can steal information from the Adonimoon Company where she works.  The company has been stealing their own fuel and such to make the price go up...

Geshio Ferrari- The girls father, looks sort of like a hippy. He's apparently an aviation and space engineer and works at a University.

Roberto Materazzi-  This dude's an asshole, but after episode six it's sort of obvious why he's such an asshole. Roberto had very loving, kind parents that would give people on the streets their food and make less for themselves in the process... Until one day his parents died during some sort of bombings.
     Young Roberto ran out into the streets to find help in getting a giant piece of rubble off his father, but no one would help him.  Even the same men that his father had once fed while they were hungry..
    Later on, in what looks to be a hospital.. Roberto is adopted by the head of Adonimoon Company. This is why he's after the girls, he wants the Tesoro just like everyone else. The company wants the unlimited power that the Tesoro could give..
 

Grande Rosso- The greatest character in the show! Well, sort of character. It's the AI Goldfish of the Air Ship.  It tends to be comic relief from time to time...



The End:   Uhg, what an awful ending.  It was like the show was on a steady decline from about episode six onwards.  Once Hozuki went back in time to have some strange great-great-grandpa crush the show was just dead...  I mean come on.
       Then at the end when Roberto shows up and shoots his adoptive father, what the hell is with that?  No explanation.  He just kills him and gets arrested.  I guess it's nice that the girls did find the final moon sketch and the recipe for the energy source... but... Yea.  What a terrible way for this show to end up...
   So it seems, It was supposed to be a two tier show and Aniplex decided to cut it short.. Guess it wasn't getting enough attention?  This of course is the reason for the speedy, terrible ending.

Eden of the East - The King of Eden & Paradise Lost

Episodes:  2 Movies.

How:  Netflix {stream}

Grade:  C

Summary: {From MAL} King of Eden -  Takizawa prevented Japan's destruction - and then he vanished. Six months later, clues lead Saki to the Big Apple in search of her missing friend. Meanwhile, the remaining Selecao are plotting their final move. Some of them would prefer Takizawa dead and out of the way. Some might even be willing to help him achieve his goals. Unfortunately, some are prepared to destroy everything if it means claiming checkmate in Mr. Outside's puzzling game.

Paradise Lost -  The story of political and subversive intrigue in the series finally reaches endgame. Even as the law enforcement net tightens around Saki and her fellow Eden of the East associates over alleged terrorist activities, the complex web surrounding the mysterious Mr. Outside is finally untangled as the remaining Selecao attempt to outmaneuver one another. Takizawa's memories and identity are also finally revealed including his association with a former Prime Minister and his request to be the King of Eden.

How it went down and thoughts...

It's six months later, some things have changed in Japan; but not enough.  Edens people, Saki and the Neets were all held and questioned by the police about the "Air King" and the Missle Attacks. Most of them knew next to nothing and were let go.
      Eden is now a small business, Panties has some Pants now and is actually working with the Eden Group and Saki is... well... looking for Akira. A log entry points to New York and off she goes, having a bit of gun troubles once again thanks to the other Selecao she finally finds the clueless Akira near Ground Zero.
      It doesn't take much for him to believe her insane story, his memories seemingly coming back quite quickly this time. Of course it probably didn't hurt that Selecao 6 was attempting to kill the two of them while trying to make a "Movie" by blowing up his apartment. The only reason the two survived was that Selecao 11/Kuroha had been watching over Akira for most this time.
     Kuroha is actually there on behalf of Iinuma's Widow, she wants Akira to come back to Japan so that it may be made clear if he truly is the Prime Ministers bastard son. Oh, yea.. Juiz had changed Akira's name to Iinuma so that his wish to become "King" could be fulfilled. At the airport however, it's noticed that Number 1 had started to make moves again...
     Mononobe is sending missiles after the Juiz Trucks, first taking out 12, then 2's {Tsugis} trucks and then finally Kuroha moves her truck into position to be the third target. Without her phone she's out of the game so, she lets Saki go to Japan with Akira.. and that's where the first movie ends.
    During the time in New York there'd been a bit of drama with Eden, the cops poking around them due to Mononobe being in a high position and Juiz actually using Eden to find and wipe out any and all existence of Akira Takizawa.. This causes the Eden Group to shut Eden down and move back to their college club room.
                       Start Movie Two.
     Iinuma's wife and her minions meet Akira at the airport, they have no interest in Saki and just take or attempt to take Akira back to her house. It's a bit of a bugger trying to get out of the airport though since it was somehow leaked that he was coming back to Japan and the pissed off NEETS are also there to welcome him.
     Akira has other things to do though, so he talks one of the NEETS he happened to bump into in the bathroom into taking his place {by hiding his face} and going with Iinuma's wife.
   

     Points from here on out...

- Akira jacks his own Juiz truck as Number 1 has his own Truck stolen, he keeps his Juiz as close to Number 1's as possible so that he can't blow up Akira's truck without blowing up his own. He meets up with the Eden group when the driver for Juiz 1 stops for a break and gets "Sis" to steal Juiz 1, since she's the only other person who can drive that sort of truck.
     Sis then follows Akira to Mrs. Iinuma's house. Once there he goes inside and has a chat with Chigusa {Mrs Iinuma} who is a bit pissed that he ran off earlier. Not long after he arrives Number 1 shows up and the two of them have a private chat, Number 1 wants Akira to drop out of the game so that Number 1 can win.  Akira won't.
       Akira ends up sending out another message through the entirety of Japan, a message that he pretends to be a terrorist again and gives the ultimatum to change how Japan's old people handle things, let the young people give it a try...blahblah.  Then he gives everyone 1 Coin via bank transfers and... that's it.
      Mr. Ato is impressed and decides to end the game, all of them are winners!  He then gives all the Selecao's a gift of a memory wipe... all but Akira since he's done it too many times all ready.

-Saki....Saki... During most of this movie she's with Osugi hunting down Akira's mother.  That's apparently where the little dog came from, on Careless Monday Akira runs into this woman that he believes to be his mother.  She must have recognized him as her son since she ran off and left her dog...
    Saki uses Eden to find if anyone was looking for a dog and, tada... found the woman.  She denies it adamantly, but gives herself away with pictures of herself and Mr. Iinuma in NY and the fact she knows how much money she gave Akira before she left him alone in the ice cream parlor.
     Denying is to the end, the woman does get her dog back though.  Saki shows up at Iinuma's house near the end to tell Akira of her findings...and apparently to say goodbye again because he RAN OFF! Uhg.

- Hirasawa, you played a bigger roll this time. He goes after Saizo Ato or Mr Outside when there are updates on the phone pointing to where he may be.  Turns out that Mr Outside is a cab driver, a hobby maybe?   Hirasawa gets in his cab and they have a chat, seems Mr. Outside found most the Selecau while operating the cab.  He'd ask his passengers what they'd do if someone gave them a lot of money and told them to fix the country.... he chose those with answers he liked the most.
     Except Akira, he was just a paper boy who Mr. Outside bought a paper from. What words of wisdom did this young boy impart on the old man?  I forget.  It was enough to make Outside believe he was worthy of being a Selecao though.


The End:  Well, it only moderately sucked. With Akira's broadcast the NEETs took over his old Mall home and made it into a giant bazaar of sorts. All the NEETs selling different wares and such.  Eden shut down to help the NEETs , but it's apparently back up and running.   Akira, he ran off again.. no lovelove ending here. He promise he'd come back, but yea.. You don't see it.
      You do see Akira finally meeting Mr. Ato though, he gets into his taxi and they have a chat... he also wacks the old man.  Then they drive off together.


Final:  These two movies were nowhere near as enjoyable as the TV Series itself, actually... I'd probably be better off if I had just not watched the movies at all.  Oh well.   The series as a whole is certainly not on my "Buy" list, not that much stuff is.
    

Chaos;Head

Episodes:   12

How:  Netflix {Stream}

Grade:  C-

Summary:  Shibuya, Japan, 2008. Takumi Nishijou, a high school student at the Private Suimei Academy, one day hears about the 'New Gen' murders that have been occurring around the city. Although dismissing the subject because it doesn't involve him, Takumi begins to experience strange mishaps around him, from a horrific picture he received while on his PC, to a mysterious Pink-Haired girl standing at a murder scene.

From there on Takumi struggles to cope with the events unfolding around him, and is soon unaware of what is real or a delusion. As his fate opens up before him, the perpetrator behind the 'New Gen' events attempts to find him, leading him into a world where nothing is as it seems.


Thoughts:   This was a mix bag, that I'm glad I never bought all those times I saw the pretty limited edition box. It was rough getting through the first half of the series, save for the question of who was killing these people it was just.... boring.
    Once peoples back stories started coming out and an explanation was given for all the crazy shit happening it was a nice, yet kind of out there series.  I really actually liked the whole idea that some peoples imaginations could make things real.  Their delusions...
    I'd be wonderful at this, but the world would be a bit nutty if I booted up some of my delusions.



Who we have.....

Shogun/The General-  He appears to be an old man in a wheelchair living in a hospital, but he's actually the real Takumi Nishijou.   He's a very powerful Giglomaniac that made his illusion of the younger Takumi "real" to carry out what he could no longer do.
    Apparently he suffers from an illness that causes his body to age faster then a normal human. His sister use to always come and visit him, but after making his second self he erased her memories of him and replaced himself with the illusion Takumi.
    In the beginning of the series he'd talk to his younger self on an internet chat,  he's the one who showed him things that had happened with the murders....

Takumi Nishijou-  A bit of a shut in, avoiding as much "3D" interaction as possible he's actually figured out how many days of school he can miss and still graduate.He lives in a large, metal shipping unit/pod on top of a building and enjoys talking to an imaginary friend that is actually a character in his favorite Anime {Seira}.
 

Nanami Nishijou- Takumi's younger sister, she stops by his "house" on occasion to attempt to get him to go out with her. It's not until episode 9 that she plays much of a role in the show, she's kidnapped by NOAH and tortured in an attempt to make her Di-Sword appear.
     The sword eventually does appear which proves that she too is a Giglomaniac.  When the General finally makes himself known to the younger Takumi and herself, she finally starts to remember what he had taken from her.  Quite upset that he'd erase her memories, saying she would have stayed with him she says she will accept the illusion Takumi as her new brother.  Not to replace her actual brother though.

Yua Kusunoki- At first it seems that she is interested in Takumi, wanting him to help her order an Anime figure of Seira.  Rather quickly it's shown that she's a nutball, that is investigating the mysterious deaths around and city and believes that Takumi is the killer.
    Eventually she goes to the police with her "evidence", causing them to look even more closely at Takumi and yet never actually charging him with anything.
   Very late in the show, around episode 10{?} it's shown that she too is a Giglomaniac. Her Di-Sword appears when the enemy is attempting to use her dead twin sister to cause her to commit suicide. Well, I guess it's the enemy.  It could be her own mind causing her to go a little crazy at the time...

Ayase Kishimoto-  By day she's a third year student, by night the lead singer for the popular band Phantasm. On stage she goes by "FES" and the lyrics to her songs seem to have some connection to all the strange murders, making her too a person of interest to the police.
     Of course, it turns out that she too is a Giglomaniac. She's definitely an odd one too, she believes that all the Di-Sword users are some sort of knights and they are gathering to defeat the evil one for the Great Will. It was a little vague, but the great torture/stress she was put under to have her sword appear was actually being tied up and tortured... by someone.  Probably NOZOMI

Sena Aoi-  She always seems to have her sword or a blue popsicle in her hands.  Her sword even sort of looks like the popsicle. Out of the entire show, she may have the most fucked up past.
     Her father use to work for Nozomi and they used her mother and her baby sister as lab rats so to speak. I guess they were Giglomaniacs just like Sena and they were experimenting on the delusions that could be made or something...
    Through the entire show Sena is looking for her father, to kill him.  Turns out he's the homeless dude that is always sitting around with a sign through the show. When he finally does die, it's protecting Sena and she's none to happy about it.

Kozue Orihara- Kozzy! I love this girl.  She speaks telepathically and hasn't spoken out loud in years, something about the kids when she was younger would always pick on her and that caused her not to speak. I actually forget, Oh well.  By the end of the series she "speaks", finally breaking free of her tormented past.

Rimi Sakihata-  This one may be the most complicated female in the show, she's working with the Shogun for the entire show and she is the girl that Takumi sees killing the guy with the crosses.  It's something about his powers resonating with the other Giglomanics powers that are causing these strange occurrences.
       Also, every time he uses his powers it makes the Shogun that much more weak.  He's slowly killing his other self, Rimi wants to kill the illusion Takumi to help keep the Shogun alive longer but... the Shogun won't allow that.
       Rimi was also a victim of Nozomi, she was captured and tortured till her Di-Sword appeared. Somehow she escaped and met the Shogun.  Who helped her.
     She's not actually in the first episode of the show as Takumi's friend, but soon she shows up at school as his childhood friend that he can't even remember.  Others in his class remember her though which is a bit strange, all due to the Shogun's powers.

Norose Genichi- The evil dude, he too is a Giglomaniac, but he's attempting to make these powers go on a massive scale with a machine to control all of mankind.  Or something like that.
      He's the cause for everyone's woes and he dies, Takumi finally pulls out his Di-Sword and with the help of the girls they defeat him and... Everything goes back to normal?.
     Well, the ending was just sort of weak.

The End:   The good guys won?  As I said before, this show is a bit of a mix.. started off slow, was nice in the middle till almost the end and the ending was just... weak.  Kozzy starts to talk again, Sena gets her revenge, Rimi and Takumi end up "together" and the General/Shogun dies.

B Gata H Kei

Episodes:  12
How:   Netflix {Stream}

Grade:  C

Summary: Yamada, first name withheld, is a 15-year-old girl who has just entered Takizawa High School. Easily considered exceptionally beautiful, she has only one problem with her own body, she thinks her vagina looks weird and is very self-conscious about it. 

Upon entering high school, her dream was to have casual sex with 100 men but therein lies the problem, she believes an experienced partner will tease her about the way her vagina looks or simply the fact that she's a virgin. She stumbles upon the solution in the form of Kosuda Takashi, a fellow virgin, whom she believes will help ease the transition to more experienced partners.

There's only one small problem, Yamada doesn't know anything about sex or the ancient art of seduction, meaning her quest to conquer Kosuda will be a difficult one. 



Thoughts:  What the hell did I just watch?  I'm kind of surprised that Netflix put this up on stream, although most of it is pretty harmless romcom. The final episode was a bit more..."edgey" .  I guess that's why it's rated TV-MA.
     The show starts off with Yamada trying to find 100 fuck buddies basically and turns into her finding her first love, romantic rival and apparently an arch enemy.  It's almost identical to most other school life, romance comedies save for that one underlying factor.. Yamada doesn't want to fall in love, she just wants to have sex with 100 men.
    Does this happen?  Not even close.  She's really not even a likable character for most of the series, she's just the snoddy, hot chick in school, showing small pieces of likableness here and there. I'm still not quite sure why Yamada was so popular, other then the fact she's hot.  At least she's openly bitchy though, Kanejou is a fake nice, popular girl...
    Oh well, I made it through the entire series which was actually quite the feat.. Of course that may have had something to do with the fact that I switched to watching it subbed on the computer, from having watched eight of the twelve episodes dubbed... it was a breath of fresh air to get the Japanese voices.  The Dub was just too Americanized.



Who we have...


Yamada:   The lead female, she's attempting to have sex with 100 men!  She's a sex fiend and a virgin all at the same time;  having the drive to set out on the sex mission, but not the.... skill set. She seems to think her lady parts look wrong so, she wanted to find an obviously inexperienced male to be her first.
    Of course, teenage emotions get in her way.  Instead of a casual sex partner she ends up falling in love with her cherry boy.  It takes all of the 12 episodes for her to completely realize that yes... she likes this guy and that the two of them don't have to just jump into bed and do it.
     Personality wise, she is severely lacking.... she's an uptight bitch for the most part.  Deep down though she is really a kind, sweet girl who is just a little confused about stuff.  I'll admit her antics are quite amusing though...

One of the Few Sweet Moments.

Kosuda Takashi:  The poor, clueless, cherry boy that Yamada chooses to loose her virginity to. He's a "good guy", a gentleman really... just...clueless.   He's really good with photography and likes to take pictures of scenery more so then people, he does take some pictures of Yamada though.
    He lives with his older sister and.... has a fear of heights that leads to some awkward breast grabbing on a giant slide at a water park.  About midway through he knows that he's fallen for Yamada and of course has no idea that his childhood friend  Miyano has the hots for him.

Miharu Takeshita:  Yamada's large breasted best friend, she's normally the voice of reason even though it falls on deaf ears.   She seems to be in a committed relationship that she hasn't really given Yamada much or any information about.   Her boyfriend kinda of feels sorry for her due to having to put up with Yamada and he has on more then one occasion gave Kosuda advice...

Mayu Miyano:   Kosuda's childhood friend, next
door neighbor and just all around sweet girl. She's not so secretly in love with Kosuda, everyone but him seems to realize this and Yamada actually feels threatened by the relatively plain looking, large chested girl. She is however the perfect wife, she can cook and take care of a man... sadly she's just too timid to really act on her desires.
       During the end of the series, at Kyoka's Christmas party she gets lost in Kyoka's mansion and ends up in her... Brother Love Room.   Of course she's a bit naive so she really doesn't seem to think much of the room...


Kyoka Kanejou:   A rich, beautiful, seemingly kind girl who transfers into Yamada's school from America. On her first appearance she looses a pageant to Yamada and becomes extremely obsessed with crushing her.
       She's really a bit psycho, and at her house she has a secret room fully devoted to her older brother. Who she loves...deeply....more then anything.  To the maids disapproval....

Keiichi Kanejou:    Kyoka's older brother, he doesn't show up till late in the series and of course... when he does... He falls for Yamada.   He's hot, says he's still a virgin {may actually be since his sister is a psycho} and asked Yamada on a date... right in front of Kosuda {rude}.  Of course she adamantly denies him and he's still after her... much to his sisters dismay.

The Ero-Gami;  Yamada, Miyano and Kosuda all have their very own Lust Gods.  No one can see them, but they are there to guide their humans to the glory of sex. Well, not Miyano's she seems to be just as innocent as the real Miyano.
      Kosuda's may be the most amusing, certainly when he's put in place of his penis in a few scenes.

The End:  Noone got laid, well...other then Takeshita maybe. Yamada and Kosuda seem to finally be a "couple", the parts with Kosuda in the hospital and Yamada playing nurse were probably the best parts of the show.  Well, when the bed at the Love Hotel went berserk and threw Kosuda off breaking his leg right before they did the deed was also quite amusing...  haha.
      Kyoka still has it out for Yamada, even more so now that her brother wants to loose his V-Card to her. I kind of wished that Keiichi would meet Mayu and the two of them would hit it off.. This would leave Kyoka with noone but.. That doesn't really matter.

Misato and Keiichi

Favorite Character;  Mami Misato -  The small build, tiny busted loud class mate.  She's always out to get an attractive guy even though most...all of the males in the show pretty much ignore her. She's extremely amusing when she's on the screen and spent a good portion of the Christmas Party episode riding around on Keiichi's back...
        She sort of gets him to agree to marry her, even files the papers but... then gets into quite a bit of trouble.

Highschool of the Dead

Episodes:  12

How:  Netflix

Grade:  C+

Summary: {from MAL} A mysterious, lethal disease is on the loose worldwide, resulting in a catastrophic death rate of humanity, and the increasing rise of attacks, caused by the living dead.

In Japan, several high school students and a school nurse have banded together to escape Fujimi High School shortly after it was attacked by zombies. The group now attempts to figure who or what was responsible for this plague, and in the meantime, attempt to survive the present apocalypse.

The story is initially narrated through the eyes of Takashi Komuro, one of the students who had survived in the initial outbreak.



Thoughts:  Boobs. Yes, Boobs. Lots of them and they are huge and sometimes naked. There....  I got through that, now that I am past the boobs I can go onto other things.
    The first time I attempted to watch this show I couldn't get past the first episode, I'm not sure what changed but this time.. I just marathoned it. 12 Episodes in one night.
     There's nothing actually that special about this show, it's just another zombie vrs human situation. Focused on a High School and the struggles the few students who survived are going through to figure out what's going on and what's happened to the rest of their families.  Which for the most part you don't find out..
    Just another Zombie Show.
   


Who we have....


Takashi Komuro-  He's the first student at the school to figure out something's wrong, He's skipping class on the roof when he see's some of the athletic teachers near the gate coping with some person trying to get into the school. One of the teachers are bit, then he turns into a zombie and so on and so forth.
      After seeing this he rushes to Rei's classroom and pretty much drags her out of the room, following closely behind is Hisashi {Rei's boyfriend}.  Hisashi doesn't last long which is all well and good, seeing that Takashi is or was in love with Rei at one point.
      Anyways, Although it seemed as though Takashi was a slacker in the start he really stepped up throughout the series and really took a leadership type role. Of course he's the one "hot" guy in the mess of things so three out of the four females are going after him with the fourth occasionally making hints.
     He's probably the most determined one out of the group to find out what has happened to his parents and really sucks at using guns.  Yep, He should just stick with the baseball bat.


Kouta Hirano -  I love this guy, favorite character by far. The rather chubby, gun otaku knows pretty much everything about every piece of firearms or military equipment the group has stumbled across. His first weapon in the show was actually a nail gun that he rigged up to have a sight thing..
     At first he was running around with Saya, attempting to protect her even though she was a major bitch to him.  She's one bossy lady.  It seems like a one sided crush seeing that Saya seems obsessed with Takashi, but you never know...
     I find him to be much more useful then Takashi in most of the situations, of course he's not really much of a leader but... killing zombies really seems to be his calling.

Saeko Busujima-  The president of the school's Kendo club, she makes short work of the Zombies really. She seems to be scared of herself in ways, seeing that a few years before the epidemic she's attacked by a stranger and instead of just laying him out directly she waits...for just the right moment and... beats the shit out of him.
     She likes this, loves this even and this fact scares her. It's exhilarating and it's as though she never wants to stop and now... in a way she doesn't have to.  Afraid of loosing herself and really, I think it gets her "excited".

Rei Miyamoto-   She's been close to Takashi since kindergarten, she even promised to marry him one day. This didn't go quite as planned since Takashi is a bit "meh" on the whole relationship front and she ends up dating one of their friends {Hisashi who is now dead}.  The fact they aren't BF/GF doesn't stop her from worrying over Takashi though or getting onto him for doing stupid stuff.
      At one point she was in the same grade as Saeko, but due to her father {a police detective} investigating one of her teachers fathers {Shido} the teacher holds her back a year.  For no Reason. This causes an everlasting grudge against Shido who is just a skeezer anyways.

Saya Takagi-  The "smart" one of the group, a genius or at least she thinks she is.  She's the one who likes to point out how other people are stupid or just plain wrong about basically everything.  Incredibly irritating at first, but in a strange way she grows on you after a while.
      Her father is a high ranking political type who is pretty much by the sword-ish, her mother is very skilled with guns and such herself (a better shot then her father). At first Saya believes her father had forgotten about her in the crisis, but it's her mother and a group of armed militants that save the group from the zombies and bring them to their compound near the end.
      Though obviously obsessed with Takashi, Saya has some connection to Kouta.


Shizuka Marikawa-  The schools nurse, the ditzy one of the series really.  Pretty sure she may have been put into the show for eye candy and comic relief.  She's the only adult in the group, her apartment is where the group end up for a while to clean up,rest,eat and load up.  Load up being, her roommate is a member of Japan's Special Defense Force... a sniper even.  The apartment is loaded with tons of guns and other weapons along with a giant Humvee.


Alice Maresato- How she joins the group is just sad, She and her father are running around on the streets trying to find somewhere safe from the Zombies. They go up to a persons door and her father is knocking and stuff, the people inside tell him to go away and they end up opening the door just to stab him. They left her outside to watch her father die and to die by the zombies.
         Uhg, Humans are worse then the Zombies.
   Kouta and Takashi witness the happenings and Takashi goes down and saves her, she's the cutest member of the group.


Saya's Parents-  Soichiro Takagi and Yuriko Takagi -  Soichiro is the sword wielding, leader of the right-wing nationalist group in the district and he's quite the hardass, Yuriko was once a wall street broker and is now the proper wife...well..the proper gun toting wife.  She's a better shot then her husband even.
     Together they have used their estate to house survivors, until the end where it's overran.

The Asshole - Koichi Shido - This guy's a creepy, pedo, jackass that was responsible for holding Rei back a grade because his father wanted a way to screw with her father.  During the chaos he's like some freaky cult leader with some of the other students who he "saved" from the Zombies.
    The main group let him and his followers on the bus back at the school, but his being there is what caused Rei to get off the bus and of course Takashi followed.   Later the rest of the group leave him with the bus, even after he attempted to keep Shizuka {she's value being a nurse}.
     It's at episode 11 where it's revealed why Rei hates him so much when he and what's left of the students he was leading show up at Takagi's mansion. Saya's father allows Rei to decide what she wants to do with Shido and instead of killing him, she decides to let him live.  Saya's father then tells him and his tainted students to leave.

The End:  What can I see, The end is a Cliffhanger.  The US had launched nuclear missiles at multiple countries thinking that the whole Zombie thing was an attack and they needed to protect the country from all the other countries.  As the missiles approached the combined navel units of Japan and the US shoot them down, however one is close enough that the EMP burst takes out all the electronic items.  Now their in the dark and nothing works.
       If that wasn't enough, the Takagi Mansion is now being overrun with Zombies.  Saya's father tells the group to leave, most of them were looking for their relatives still anyways so they fight their way back to their Humvee while Saya's parents and others at the mansion fight the Zombies.
       They drive off into the chaotic mess.

Was the ending good?  Not really. I guess it was proper though given the situation in the show. Maybe there will be a second season someday.

Tasogare Otome x Amnesia

Episodes:  12

How:  Fansub

Rating: 3.5 out of 5

Summary:   60 years ago, a young woman was left to die in the abandoned school building behind the exclusive Seikyou Academy. No one knows why. No one knows how. But the horrifying tale and the legends of the ghostly haunting that followed live on to this day. Perhaps it's not so surprising then, that among Seikyou's many school clubs is one for students interested in "paranormal investigations." What might raise more than a few hairs, however, is that the founder of the club is the ghost herself. Unable to remember how she died and trapped in the grey land between life and death, Yuuko latches onto Teiichi Niiya, a freshman who can inexplicably see her, and together they and the other unsuspecting members of the club begin to unravel the many dark mysteries that surround Seikyou. Will unlocking the secret of Yuuko's gruesome death finally free her? Or will her sudden close association with a mortal have even stranger repercussions on both of their existences?


Thoughts:  I'm a sucker for ghost stories, With the breast grabbing in the first episode I was a little worried about it turning into some strange, pervy story but.. That was not the case. Well, Not entirely the case.. The show was really, lighthearted until half way through. Things started to get more "serious"..


Who we have....

Teiichi Niiya; The main male...only male in the story.  While wandering around the school he happens by Ghost Yuuko, He rather quickly discovers her body behind a mirror in one of the old rooms. It looks like she had somehow fallen down stairs and broke her leg... When he finds out that she has no memories of what was done to her before her death, He promises to help recover her memories.
     He's a bit of an odd duck, Through the show he slowly falls in love with Yuuko even with two perfectly live girls hovering around him.  At the end it's revealed that he is the grandson of a little girl that Yuuko had saved before her death.

Yuuko Kanoe;  She's a Ghost, She's been a ghost for around 60 years..or was it 40? It's been a while. When she's first introduced she's a carefree, roaming spirit that has lost her memories. Slowly or not so slowly she falls in love with Teiichi... Helping him with "cases" for the Paranormal Investigation Club and stalking him around in general.
    It's eventually discovered that she has split herself in two, Sending her hatred, fear and other more hostile and painful memories into another self. Which is the dark presence some have seen around the school.. In the end Teiichi helps her come together with her darker feelings and accept what had happened to her.

Momoe Okonogi;  The annoying, loud, overactive girl who can't see ghosts but is obsessed with ghost stories and the like.  She also has feelings for Teiichi and by the end of the show she realizes that he's in love with a ghost.     She's also a member of the Paranormal Investigation Club.

Kirie Kanoi;  Rather angry, unsure of herself, upset about her small breasts, grumpy girl that can see Yuuko. How?  She's the granddaughter of Yuuko's younger sister.  She too has a liking for Teiichi, She also seems to be a bit... smarter then the others in the group.
       At first she believes Yuuko is a malevolent spirit come to take Teiichi away... She eventually sees the situation for what it truly is...  I weird romance.   >_>      She joins the Paranomal Investigation Club to find out more about Yuuko.

How did it happen?

      It turns out that Yuuko was a sacrifice, Many years ago there was a plague spreading through the village. Fearing the plague was actually a curse brought on by  building the Seikyou Academy on a spot that a shrine use to be, The elders determined that a sacrifice was in order.
      Yuuko and her sister overheard this conversation and barely escaped without being caught. When they did get home Yuuko allowed a little girl she had been taking care of {Asa} to come and stay with them. {Her relatives had died from the plague}.
     Sometime that night, Asa was taken by the Elders.. Fearing the girl was to be the sacrifice Yuuko rushed to where they had been earlier to save her... only to be turned into the sacrifice herself. The men threw her down the stairs {to where a shrine was left}, Which in turn broke her leg.. scared.. in pain and in the dark Yuuko died.  Alone.

The End:  Kiries grandmother, Yuuko's sister is a higher up at the Academy. Well that's not a huge deal but anyways. Kirie and Teiichi go to see her grandmother and find out that Asa is Teiichi's grandmother, Which is probably why he can see Yuuko.
    There was quite a bit of drama through the final episodes, Yuuko blocking out Teiichi even and finally they reunite. In the end Yuuko accepts her painful memories, becomes one with "Shadow Yuuko" once more and all is good.  Not.
    Yuuko's body is finally removed from the cursed shrine and is given a proper burial, With this comes a last date with Teiichi... a lot of crying and Yuuko finally disappearing.    I wish it had ended there.
    Days, Weeks maybe after Yuuko is gone Teiichi finally goes back to the club room and finds a box stating if it's opened the person would be cursed.  He opens it, She shows back up... She can't go to heaven with regrets and the one not so kiss was her regret and now she's there to haunt Teiichi forever.
      The ending is a bit generic, Even if it opens up another season for the show.   Just it'd be so much better if he found one of the living girls who had been drooling over him during the series.  Oh well.
 


Favorite Character{s}-  Kirie ~ I'm really not sure why but, She's the one that clicked with me, Not that there really a whole lot of characters to choose from.

Least Favorite Character{s}-  Those old elder guys; Also didn't like Yuuko's sister much. All these years and she never found the body....


Favorite Episode{s}-  Episode Five ~ Kirie with cat ears!
                                  Episode Ten ~ Get to see what happened to Yuuko.

Weakest Episode{s}-  Episode Eight ~ The pathetic Teiichi episode.  Yuuko "forgets" him because he knows what happened to her and he just... gives up. It takes Kirie to push him back into the fight.

Freezing

Episodes:  12

How: Fansubs

Rating:  3 out of 5

Plot Summary: {From Wiki} Set in a slightly futuristic world, Earth has been invaded and is at war with aliens from another dimension called the Nova. In order to counter them, Pandoras and Limiters, genetically modified girls with super fighting skills and their male partners who use special "freezing" powers to limit their opponent's mobility, are made to fight against the Nova. The series focuses on Kazuya Aoi, a Limiter whose late sister was a Pandora, and Satellizer el Bridget, a powerful Pandora with a cold personality, both who are enrolled at the West Genetics Academy, one of the many academies where Pandoras and Limiters are trained. In spite of the warnings of all his friends about Satellizer, who has intense aphephobia {fear of being touched} , Kazuya decides to be her friend and Limiter. The story follows Kazuya's friendship with Satellizer, the students of the Academy and Earth's war against the Nova.


Thoughts:  Even with all the nudity this show wasn't all that bad.... I had initially dropped it at episode two but gave it another chance when six episodes were out..... The following is a post I had done at the half way point....

Half Way Mark.

Earth has been invaded and is at war with a race of Aliens called the Nova.  Genetically enhanced females called Pandoras and their male partners Limiters are the only defense against the threat.

Kazuya Aoi

-Younger brother of Kazuha Aoi, A very talented Pandora who gave her life to destroy a Nova
-Newly Enrolled in West Genetics Academy.
-Has a bit of a sister complex.
- Causes Satellizer to loose her Number One Rank when he pounces her in the beginning, Allowed Gennesa
    Roland to defeat her and take the Number One position.
- Persistent. Bent on becoming Satellizers Limiter.
- Uses the Limiters skills {at a very high level} without being Baptised.

Satellizer el Bridget

- The Untouchable Queen, She hates being touched to the point of killing most who do so.
- Has a strange soft spot for Kazuya.
- Wears glasses when not fighting.
- Very anti social.
- Loves to eat Hamburgers....
- Thinks of the Baptism as Dirty, Doesn't have a Limiter because of this.

Little Bits,  Most of the show has been Kazuya trying to become Satellizer's Limiter and her slowly warming up to him.  As of episodes five and six however there is another girl who wants Kazuya to be her "Soul Mate" {Limiter}.

Rana Linchen

- Enrolls at Second Year Level, Even though she's new.
- Physical fighter.
- Has six stigma's or "Tears of Kunlun"
- Wants Kazuya as her "Soul Mate" Limiter.
- Can hold her own against Satellizer.  {they fight for Kazuya in episode six}
- Seems very friendly so far...


Why?  Surprising enough there's more to the show then chicks kicking ass while getting their clothes ripped off.  With episode four, Ingrid Vernstein a third year student who lost a very close friend against a Nova a year ago.
     While they were still second year students, Marine {her friend} gave her life to protect the first year students from a surprise attack by a Type S Nova. Ingrid had always been angry and believed that the first years ran away and abandoned Marine but that wasn't really the case... Marine knew the first years didn't stand a chance so she basically sacrificed herself so they could escape.
     The episode made things feel a bit deeper, Gave better character to Gennesa, Kazuya and a number of the other characters.

The End 7 to 12
      It's been a while since I've watched these episodes, I stopped around episode nine and then restarted just recently... The whole series almost seemed like character building to lead up to more episodes but all we got was a three episode Nova battle.
     In the end?  After some of the students were absorbed by the Nova and turned into Nova Form Pandora Slaves, A fight ensued...  Most people survived.  At least the important ones.   Satellizer finally wants to preform the baptism with Kazuya and all is happy.... Okay. Bad explanation.
     I'm still not sure why I liked this series.

Favorite Character{s}:
                 Chiffon Fairchild ~ The Smiling Monster; Fox Like even.
                                 
                Cassie Lockheart ~ She wanted to be a writer but, Her father forced her to become
                  a Pandora. She's the highest ranked third year fighter but doesn't "feel" or act like
                  she is...

Least Favorite Character{s}:   Most the Limiters ~ They were just kiss ass little boys in most cases, Kinda useless too...

xxxHolic

Episodes:  24

How:  Netflix

Rating:   3 out of 5

Summary:  {From MAL} Watanuki Kimihiro can see spirits and other assorted supernatural creatures, which is quite a bothersome ability he strongly dislikes. On the way home one day, while plagued by some spirits, he is inexplicably compelled to enter a strange house. There, he encounters Yuuko, a mysterious woman who claims to be able to rid him of the ability to see and attract the troublesome creatures – for a price. She demands that he work at her “store” that grants wishes to people, and thus begins Watanuki's adventures through weird and wonderful events.


Thoughts:  They have really long legs and arms, Very deformed.  Okay, Got that out of the way. I can see why it took me so long to watch this show.. it's visually intimidating.  It's unique that all the unimportant people in the show are kind of just blurred out silhouettes.
      The fact I watched this on Netflix means, It was dubbed. I can't really say the dub was "bad" since I've not heard it in it's original form but the guy who voices Watanuki... Uhg.  I just wanna die during his hysterical moments.
     As for the good, The character interaction was great certainly Watanuki and Doumeki. The way they "argue" was good for a laugh certainly in somewhat serious situations. Most of the people who came to the shop for their wishes to be granted were just sad.  I'll admit some of them really touched base with me.. Certainly the episode with the twins when one girl had no self esteem, always thinking the worse was going to happen...


Who we have....

Kimihiro Watanuki;  Watanuki is the sweet yumyum of the spirits. Well, Sort of.
   He's a high school boy who can see spirits, both of his parents are dead and he has no/very few friends. In the beginning he happens by Yuuko's shop and enters a "contract" with her that if he works for her, She will grant his wish to not be able to see spirits.
    Throughout the season Watanuki grows, Though I don't really think he even notices it. Always trying to help the people who come to Yuuko's shop, Even when they are beyond helping.


Yuuko Ichihara;  The owner of the shop, She's a witch of sorts...maybe..  She grants "wishes" with an equal exchange price.  With Watanuki she really seems to have become a mentor or almost motherly figure, Which is a little creepy.  She drinks a lot and is quite often drunk, Always using Watanuki as a butler of sorts or even a go-getter it's obvious that she never really plants to make his wish of not being able to see spirits come true.
      It's like she is grooming him.  She cares about him though, Pushes Doumeki on him since she knows that he can keep the smaller spirits at bay and seems to know what exactly is up with Himawari {although she never really mentions what it is.}
     Anyways, She's basically the only adult figure in the whole show so yea...

Shizuka Doumeki; Spirit Repellent!  Watanuki's classmate/rival/best friend, He can't see spirits but he certainly can keep most of them away.  He's in the schools Archery Club and can use his bow to shoot spirits without a "physical" arrow.
    He seems a bit on the slow side, quiet most the time and not easily excitable.  His grandfather use to tell him stories about spirits and what not, giving him at least some insight into what's going on. He currently lives in his grandfathers temple and you never really see his parents during the season.
   In episode 7, He digs in the rain for hours and hours trying to save Watanuki who had disappeared under a Hydrangea bush. In 23; He makes the choice to "kill" the spirit that Watanuki had been visiting in the park so that Watanuki would not disappear.  Stating that he made the choice to do it and now Watanuki had the choice to be angry with {hate} him for it.
    So, There is definitely some  Bromance going on here.  Even if Watanuki would never admit to it.

Himawari Kunogi;  The most positive girl in the world.  She's Watanuki's love interest though, Nothing ever really happens. She really seems to see the bright side of everything, Even when Doumeki and Watanuki are "fighting" she sees it more as them being playful with one another.
     I know there has to be something more to her, she can't possibly be that happy and positive all the time. Though really during the season there wasn't a lot given on her.

Maru & Moro;  Two Little Girls.   Not a lot is said about them, They work in the shop and are cute. Yep, That's basically it...  Other then they can't leave the shop.   Ever.

Mokona;  Nothing like the White Mokona, This guy is loud and loves to drink and eat. He's always getting into little fights with Watanuki and really seems to like Himawari.  He can see spirits, He can even eat them! I don't remember which episode it was but he just sucked down a whole bunch of them...
    Strange Little Critter.


Zashiki-warashi;  An innocent, sweet, slightly ditzy spirit girl who has a crush on Watanuki, When she first shows up in Episode 11 she accidentally takes Doumeki's soul while trying to find a good V-Day gift for Watanuki. She shows up in a few episodes, Watanuki even gives her hair pins in one of them.
         She lives on a Sacred Mountain with strange little Tengu Guardians that like to attack Watanuki anytime she cries {which is a lot} or they think he's hurt her.

Ame-warashi;  A water spirit/sprite that first shows up in Episode 7, After days and days of rain she asks for Yuuko's help to apparently rid a large hydrangea plant of a dead body that had been buried under it. The decaying body was poisoning the plant.
       She doesn't really like humans much, Due to them having no care for nature. She really seems to care for Zashiki-warashi since she's normally seen escorting her around while in the human world.
       She also makes an amazing Snowman.


The End:  I want more!! I want more!  There is more, I just had to download it. Season 2, Yey! It's sitting on the hard drive waiting to be watched.  Anyways.
      The final episode is mainly a flashback to when Watanuki was younger, He meets a boy who can also see spirits while he's being chased by this strange hand monster thing.  They become best friends but, On Watanuki's birthday the boy reveals to him that he too is a spirit.
    The spirit of a boy who had been taken away by the hand spirit thingys a year or more before, They promised they'd always be best friends even though the boy had to leave. Under the same cherry blossom trees on his birthday... Yuuko, Himawari, Doumeki and Mokona show up with a surprise picnic of sorts.
    Of course, Even on his birthday they make him do most the work but... He seems to enjoy it.  Even though he's still loud and over-reacts to everything, He's grown a lot through the season...



Favorite Character{s}:  Doumeki ~ I'm not sure why. He's just...quiet..and actually kind of amusing.
         The Pipe Fox ~  I love that little guy, I'd love to have one for a pet myself.

Least Favorite Character{s}:   I really don't dislike any of the characters but, the dub voice for Watanuki makes him more annoying then he actually is.


Favorite Episode{s}:  14 and 15;  The twins, One with lots of self confidence and the other practically none. In the end the older sister is helped by Yuuko to break her negative way of thinking and the younger twin learns to not put the older one down all the time.  Of course, Both of them get shot down by Doumeki in the end.. He really seems to have zero interest in girls.

Least Favorite Episode{s}:   None

Ore no Imōto ga Konna ni Kawaii Wake ga Nai

Episodes:  12

How: Fansubs

Rating:  3 out of 5

Summary: {From Wiki} Kyosuke Kosaka, a normal 17-year-old high school student living in Chiba, has not gotten along with his younger sister Kirino in years. For longer than he can remember, Kirino has ignored his comings and goings and looked at him with spurning eyes. It seemed as if the relationship between Kyosuke and his sister, now fourteen, would continue this way forever. One day however, Kyosuke finds a DVD case of a magical girl anime  which had fallen in his house's entrance way. To Kyosuke's surprise, he finds a hidden eroge (an adult game) inside the case and he soon learns that both the DVD and the game belong to Kirino. That night, Kirino brings Kyosuke to her room and reveals herself to be an otaku with an extensive collection of moe anime and younger sister-themed eroge she has been collecting in secret. Kyosuke quickly becomes Kirino's confidant for her secret hobby.


Thoughts: This series really surprised me, I went into it thinking it was going to turn out to be some sick incest show and ended up with something entirely different. Sure... You can tell Kirino has a bit of a liking for her brother but it wasn't on the level of Yosuga no Sora, Which was just absolute ick....

The main drawback to the series was, Kirino is not all that likable. I can't say she's spoiled or anything because she really does seem to work hard for what she has {Even though it seems to come so naturally.}.  She models, has great grades, writes novels is athletic... she's practically the whole package.  Though she's also living two lives.....

One the student/athlete/model and another the young girl obsessed with Eroge and little sisters..  Even the novel she wrote has "little sisters" in it.  Always trying to hide her secret her brother saved her numerous times.. With how her best friend {Ayase} reacted and even her fathers blow up... The idea of Kanako or others finding out could get scary... or funny.

The show was quite enjoyable...  Wish they had actually shown Saori's full face without the Cosplayish outfit on. Also wish they had a little more Manami and her family.

Weakest Episode{s}- Episode 7 - First part was fine, The second half with Kirino researching her novel was part creepy, part boring. Looked like she was on a date with her brother. :(
            Episode 8 -  Kirino's novel is turned into an Anime.... It just felt out of place somehow.

Favorite Episode{s}-  Episode 6 - When Kyou goes over to Manami's house for Halloween.
             Episode 10 - Ayase needs a present for Kirino's birthday and Kanako cosplays Meruru.


Favorite Character-   Kuroneko - She's cute, she's quiet, she has cat ears.
Least Favorite Character-  Kirino - She's just irritating...