Space ~ It's Raining Flowers!

Naked Man Orchid

Not Sure

African Daisy

Don't Know.

Buttercups

Space ~ Meow

I do like my random cat girls......

Space ~ Critters!

Space ~ Flower Power!

Torch Ginger

Adenium

Flame Lily

Space ~ It's not what I want.

         Well, Okay.  It's all ready October and I haven't published anything since the 15th of July, Whoops.  I don't want all these months having nothing in them so, I'll just post space taking pictures..


           Yes, I'll start up again now that it's October and the weather is getting a little less... Friendly.

I My Me! Strawberry Eggs.

Episodes:     13

How:   Netflix {Rental}

Grade:  A

Summary:  {From MAL}  Amawa Hibiki is a young man just out of college, with an education to be an athletics teacher. He's been having a hard time finding a job since he graduated, so all his money has gone towards living expenses. When his landlady demands his first payment to live in her living establishment upfront, he heads to the local middle school to get hired as a teacher. However, the principal refuses to hire him without hesitation. She will not hire men as teachers and makes it clear that she hates all men, saying they put no love into their passions and work. Amawa does not give up and with the help of his landlady, he crossdresses as a woman without a second thought, and gets hired, so he can earn money and also prove the principal wrong. Now, he has to keep his real gender a secret, and avoid strange situations, including the affections of his students (from both genders). 
 



How it is....




     This was actually the second time I watched this series, the first was quite a while ago and I had basically forgotten everything about it.  Well, other then Hibiki's dog always being in fear of being turned into dinner.
      At first glance this series is really a normal, school comedy with a few perverts thrown in. By the end however it was quite touching...
      After being denied the gym teacher spot at the school by the man hating principal and vice principal, Hibiki goes back to apply for the job in drag.  As a female gym teacher he proves himself worthy of the position by "coaching" the clumsiest student in the school to run a few meters.
     Her coaching has an unexpected side effect however, the student Fuko Kuzuha falls in love with Hibiki... it builds and builds throughout the episodes as Fuko ends up in Hibiki's home room, Hibiki sticks up for Fuko and helps her with other gym related things.
     It's an innocent, confusing love for Fuko, at first not even realizing it is love but... by the end she confesses to Hibiki which leaves the teacher a little...flustered.  Maybe Hibiki has also gotten a little too close to Fuko through the weeks or months of teaching.
    There's also quite a bit of other love stories going on, in the normal school based anime fashion.  Fujio likes Akira, Akira like Fuko, Fuko doesn't like Akira in that way and it's just a little messy. Also, in a normal school comedy fashion there are two perverted male adults who are always trying to get pictures of the girls in uniforms or just Fuko in general.  This show is very Fukocentric.
     In the end, after numerous attempts; the vice principal gets her proof of Hibiki being a male and exposes him to the entire school. Everyone is in shock and at first thinking he's just another one of the perverts living at the Gochiso apartments the students and everyone shun him, the male him and the female him.
     His faking the female role also fuels the Principal and Vice Principals argument that the school itself should go female only and they attempt to use the situation to get the parents and students to agree that there would be no more male students accepted to the school.  This however backfires when Fuko and the other students start to remember all the good times they had with Hibiki as a teacher, how much he cared about them and helped them with things.  The motion to turn the school into girls only is denied and...all is happy. Sort of.
     Hibiki gives a touching speech from atop of Gochiso and then he gets on a train to leave, Fuko and company chase after him and just wave him goodbye's as he goes.
    In other news, it turns out that the Principal hates males so much because she was hurt by one {go figure}. It's also hinted that the Gochiso landlady is actually the man who broke the Principal's heart.

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.