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Have you ever had a fantasy of yuri and lolicon? Well, if you're that type of fetishist, this manga is perfect for you, I recommend it with all of my... hormones? Oh, and here's the thing. You can stumble across it even if the thought never crosses your mind (it did cross my mind several times, tho I was merely looking for a yuri manga, I swear; I'll even write this in my declaration when the FBI grabs me). And what's more beautiful than a little NTR and Forced to spice up a ... bizzare romance (was it even a romance in the first place?). Nothing, I tell you.

Kimi wa Shoujo is the story of Maki, a 14 years old girl who's moved with her mother from Tokyo into a small village after her parents divorced. Of course, the change in pace left her quite vulnerable, so she sought comfort in the first friendly person she met, a strange woman named Kousaka Natsume (not that her name matters, much like the protagonist's, they're forgettable anyway). It kinda all begin when Maki saw Kousaka naked bathing in the river and a nice friendship was starting to form.

Oh, you think it takes the classical route towards a romance thing? Nope. Maki's finding herself at Kousaka's place more and more often, one day even taking shelter from rain. Of course, she has to change clothes. Of course, Kousaka's the one dressing her up. And when the older woman saw the "pale white skin" of the 14 years old girl, her desire built up. After all, adults can be pretty submissive to their lust, right? Oh, that's right, merely a few scenes later, Kousaka's already on top of her. And if you think this is one of those girls you usually see in anime/manga who know about sex at 14, you're wrong. That's precisely why she just let the older woman do anything she wanted. Never mind the questionable consent, if it was a guy doing it, things could've gotten a lot messier.

Then comes in play some sort of Stockholm Syndrome. Could Maki fall in love with Kousaka after being raped by her? Absolutely. Even after she got a grip of what she experienced. Could she start a relationship with the woman? Is there any need to ask? Thing is, Kousaka then breaks up with her and leaves the village without a word. Great.

Then we have a time skip in Tokyo. They met again, adult Maki haven't gotten over that Stock-... those feelings, and Kousaka being implied to still have some sort of affection after all the years. And then the Maybe Forever After ending.

Props to the mangaka for writing such an original and beautiful concept as Kimi wa Shoujo. Best yuri manga out there!... Well, at least it wasn't boring. Not too much.

Autobiographic manga about a woman who has been dealing with depression, mental issues, social anxiety, poor eating habits, peer pressure, the inability to get a full time job and a serious mother complex. Who suddenly founds herself hogging up with a lesbian prostitute out of some sort of twisted desire to replace the whole momcon thing. A pretty interesting premise, right?

Bet you're thinking it's the perfect piece for handwork. I'm sorry to disappoint you (not really), but it's not, you can't get any form of sexual arousal from this manga. None at all. It's an autobiography, in other words, shitty reality. So don't expect ... someone dealing with a poor mental health and ongoing depression to suddenly experience a "Last Tango in Paris - lesbian edition". Not gonna happen.

However, there's this whole depth thing that borders on a psychological slice of life. First and foremost, I couldn't believe what I was reading. Rather, I couldn't believe I could relate so much to this Nagata Kabi. That there was a person in this world who was more or less like me.

She happened to have her fall after she dropped out from college, I had mine after I graduated middle school, where I was bullied. She was unable to find other work than part-time and grow up in a responsible adult, so am I. I mean, I had 5 jobs ever since I reached the legal age in here (18), all in a single year. She has/had a complicated relationship with her parents, so do I. I knew I couldn't be the person who suffer most in the world, but I didn't think I'd read about someone who could go through so much of what I've experienced (tho she's much older than me). It just left me rethinking whether should I try and relaunch my own life, seeing Nagata's managed to found some sort of a ray of hope in all of that sea of angst.

Of course, I said too much about myself. It's just I found too much about myself in this person. It's strange. But it's a beautiful story. The art's a bit pinky, but regardless, it's a great manga if you can understand it.

So, I'll give it a 9 and stop my letter here before it becomes too heartfelt and I find myself having another shower of angst.

I am a huge fan of Tokyo Ghoul. It's easily #1 on top of my favorite series, ranking above even some live action I enjoyed. That's the reason I keep watching this, and the reason I can't enjoy it. I mean, really... It feels like Studio Parrot are deliberately screwing up with manga adaptations, and this one they screwed big time; the art has gone from... ok in season 1 to what it feels like comics literally got animated this season, the soundtrack is... (as much as I appreciate the anime returned to having a song from TK of Ling Tosite Sigure as opening, since ... LTS' emo music is perfect for openings of psychological or drama series) mediocre, in lack of better terms, and the rushed pacing of a sore attempt to adapt +120 manga chapters in 12 episodes either sometimes makes the characters' decisions make no sense in the context (what context lol) or takes a lot of character development some had in the manga by toying around with the source material.

And the fact that yet this isn't by any means the worst season says a lot about this supposed anime adaptation. Let's not forget how Root A provided us with a cheap opening that made the last two episodes of Evangelion look decent in comparision (and the song they picked, man we're talking bout an earrape) and with a non-canon, deeply flawed plot that, by some herculean leap in logic, had Kaneki re-written as an edgy character with a Stockholm Syndrome joining the organization that kidnapped and tortured him [there were subtle hints of the storyline of Kaneki's gang being skipped or rewritten prior to Root A, as the season 1 finale showed Banjou and his allies freed by Tsukiyama instead of Kaneki, ffs], and totally skipped his quest for revenge in the manga. But let's keep it to this season only...

Among the things this season skipped so far: cutting off some important parts of the Rushima Landing arc (including Eto's arrest by the CCG which happened somewhere in between the Tsukiyama Extermination and Rushima Landing, Mutsuki's capture by Torso, OF ALL THINGS, since it's pretty much the catalyst of his future mental instability and establishment as an antagonist), Arima's full explanation on what the Sunlit Garden is, Irimi and Koma's survival, the CCG Lab Raid... and I could do this all day. The point is, so much of the original pacing was skipped that the storyline as shown in this season doesn't connect, all thanks to Studio Parrot's decision to cut everything that could've made it connect in the first place, and so if you might want to pick up the manga to understand whatever the fuck is happening here.

At this point, I can only hope the future will someday bring a reboot animated and screen written by a more serious studio, and honestly keep watching this only to satisfy my own curiosity as to how much can this series get screwed.

Zero no Tsukaima is a fitting anime to watch if you are a lolicon masochist with a S&M fetish and your greatest dream in life is to have your face pressed under a girl's boots. If you're not, you might find it as an overly sadistic attempt at a slapstick comedy with an absurd romance, a bit of ecchi and the average boy getting a harem formula.

Generic Ikari Shinji knock-off Saito gets summoned into a fantasy world to serve as the familiar of a zero-talent loser mage, Louise. This fantasy world has a Middle Ages social setting with nobles, who can use magic, and peasants, ... who can't. And feudal kingdom setting to build up some background political drama to avert attention from this show's main theme. Anyways, Saito is instantly labeled a peasant and finds himself forced to become Louise's slave. And except for a few magic tricks he uses, thus getting Siesta (a maid, best girl) and Kirche (noble girl, slutty but decent compared to the female lead) to droll over him, and a few situations where he makes a difference, Saito is nothing but a loser with a strong Stockholm Syndrome who doesn't even want to return to Japan that much. As for Louise, I can only say that if most main girls are irritating with their tsundere antics, she is downright the worst female lead I have watched in a while. Louise is not even a tsundere, she is just a spoiled child too indoctrinated by her feudal status that she fails to even regard Saito as a human being, much less try to understand his circumstances, coming from a world where humans are equal in rights and chances. Either too hot or too cold; she lets him see her naked or even dress her up while she would wipe or even starve him at the slightest mistake. Good luck in getting some cheap generical prophecy and politics for a plot to cover that up.
I was only able to find Siesta slightly likeable out of all characters, even though she is more or less the typical Japanese maid (she is of Japanese origin through a great-grandfather, as to have that trope make more sense 😂).

I won't comment on the animation, considering this is a 2006 anime after all, as for the sound, I wonder if it was there in the first place.

So, you're a masochist and want an anime to fulfill your domination fetish? Suit your needs.

Kore wa Zombie Desu Ka?, aka Korezom. Now that's a pretty interesting series. This review may contain spoilers along the way so if you're going to give it a read, do it at your own risk. With that out of the way, I'll admit, the series doesn't do anything to get out of the cliched ecchi harem based comedy/drama action packed anime, with pretty unoriginal characters and the formerly human MC who becomes some sort of a mythological creature. Thing is, most of the main characters fall into the same typo, more or less.

Now, the concept this anime introduced is pretty interesting. Said MC Aikawa ... Ayumu becomes a zombie after being murdered by unknown serial killer and revived by overpowered legal loli necromancer Eucliwood Hellscythe, aka Yuu, (who happens to be a pretty great character, I could say even a rare for a kuudere). Then again, what anime main character doesn't lose his humanity to switch race, with Issei Hyoudou of High School DxD and Ken Kaneki of Tokyo Ghoul being headlines for these types of transformations? Then again, the fact that the former human main character turns into a zombie out of all fictional races is rather unusual, and well, pretty much mocks the concept of a zombie being a mindless creature who can't live unless he eats a human brain. Instead, in Korezom, a zombie is an undead human who can use his body at super speed, strength and healing ability. It pretty much did the whole cliched thing of -boy meets girl, stops being human, starts kicking ass and gets chicks into a harem- differently. At least when referring to the race the main character adopts. Cause if you refer to the harem trophies, they are annoying at worst and boring at best. Especially tsundere magical girl Haruna and borderline yandere vampire-ninja Sera. Also, I must say Ayumu absorbing Haruna's power and getting Masou-Shoujo abilities goes beyond hilarious, especially when he is pretty much forced to use this transformation to defeat monsters since his body, with all the regeneration abilities, is not able to withstand tougher attacks.

As a character, I must say Ayumu is one of a kind MC. As OP as he can be sometimes, you can't take him seriously when you see him battling monsters while crossdressing as a magical girl, and he's also perverted to a near-Issei level (well, except the sister complex he has for Yuu, and he actually tries to deny it). Still, unlike other main characters, he doesn't lose his head in the battle and go overly emotional or spout cliche crap like "Imma kick ya ass" (despite, well, having more reason to do so than many other luckier MCs); and instead shows a serious and sarcastic stance when in battle (when he doesn't whine about his girl outfit, that is). And you could even pity him at times, since he is reduced to a dog in his own household, and constantly subjected to more or less comical bullying from Haruna and Sera. In a comedic way, his fate is quite tragic despite how much of a lucky bastard he is. And I'm not even ironic.
As for the other characters... Yuu: I see her as an interesting character. Well, being the forced emotionless kuudere that she is, she can at most deadpan or ignore Ayumu's antics, but she doesn't seem to mind his siscon delusions towards her. Cause if she did, she'd write it on paper, duh. Also, I find her the combo of that emotionless face and writing communication kinda cute. Tomonori: Heh, as cliched as the whole "I'm your wife cause faction custom" thing, I can't deny that she builds a cute romantic tension between her and Ayumu in trying to fall in love with him (absurd concept but she succeeds -_-). Not to mention her antagonistic moments were badass. Haruna and Sera: I don't even.

Story. Starts with a cliche, but well, a guilty pleasure of mine is that I actually enjoy how the plot goes on from that point. With the crossdressing zombie meeting girls and kicking evil monster Megalo ass until some resemblance of a plot shows up. And this is where the most enjoyable, episode 7, is when Ayumu defeats Kyoko, the serial killer who murdered him, and kills her down to her last life which... he spares! Oh, and it's revealed Kyoko wasn't actually a yanigiri, she was just possessed by an evil spirit who was forcing her to do all that stuff. Great! Then the Evil from the Past arc with Yuu running away and her former apprentice King of the Night, fellow zombie, threatens to burn the world down unless he dies (gotta love this absurdity but hell being undead kinda gets boring). Ayumu's character development is also interesting in the said arc. Ever since that scene when Yuu doesn't take his hand so she flies away instead. Suffering a Disney death while taking a bomb on his head and explodes midair, getting pieces of his body put back together but he's too stuck in a Kanekish mindscape to actually wake up. So Haruna has to invade his subconsciousness and knock some sense into him. Before he goes to have Yuu return to him and kick the shit out of his fellow zombie. Oh well, said zombie gets beaten by Ayumu and his death wish is fulfilled by Yuu (RIP). Then Yuu speaks for the first time and swears to stay with Ayumu forever. Awww...

The animation, well, is as good as a 2011 series could go, and the sound... who even watched this series and heard the soundtrack should actually be rewarded a medal. Enjoyment?...

Besides all the stereotypical stuff, Korezom is actually an enjoyable anime for providing some good comic relief and interesting resemblances of a plot. It's a perfect anime to watch if you run out of ideas.

Welcome to True Tears [of frustration]. I might add some spoilers along the way in my little rant, so, if by any chance you're reading this thing, beware.

When I first started this show, I had no expectations. I mean, this romance/drama packed slice of life setting seemed pretty common. Then it introduced the whole Japanese animated telenovela plot, with Shinchiro the main character and Hiromi the adopted sister living under the same roof and having obvious feelings for each other, but being pretty unable to act upon them with the whole forbidden romance thing; so to add some more spice, there's Aiko, who has feelings ... for Shinchiro, but is unhappily in a relationship with Miyokichi, aka the mc's bff. I did hear this isn't really your regular adaptation of the visual novel, and pretty much everything written in here is anime-original, but I still have to ask if PA Works actually contacted Telemundo asking their help in building this plot. Ok, moving on, this is where best girl Noe shows up, and she seems to have developed an interest in Shinchiro (besides her interest in regaining her ability to cry which she lost after her grandma died and her weird fetish for roosters). Yay, mc gets all the girls in a harem setting! Did I mention watching on and on I slowly got the feeling this Shinchiro resembles Makoto Itou of School Days more than you could imagine? He is actually that kind of regular high school protagonist who is plain and uninteresting but somehow the universe works to have all the ladies after him, so he's undecided what to do next. Well damn.

Long story (as) short (as possible), Shinchiro befriends Noe, Noe falls in love with him, Shinchiro sees Hiromi drifting further and further away from him, even going as far as to claim she likes Noe's brother, Jun. Who seems to be enough of a siscon to actually offer to date Hiromi in exchange for Shinchiro dating Noe, so there we go setting up two artificial couples (ah, my little sister can't be this cute). Shinchiro and Hiromi are further split apart by the possibility of them being half-siblings, so under this belief Shinchiro arranges to enjoy his mock relationship with Noe and things seem to build up towards them eventually ending up together, after all he can simply work at his picture book and fake any sort of romantic feelings...

Ha, ha, ha, only for episode 9 to come along and for all of this to be revealed as a simple lie told by Shinchiro's mom out of resentment for Hiromi (cause she resembled her biological mother blah, blah, blah kind of stuff). Shinchiro sees the open route and goes on to pursue it in the next episodes, which honestly sets every development this show might have had into complete mess. This is where True Tears becomes an incestless Oreimo, with Shinchiro as Kyousuke, Hiromi as Kirino and Noe as Kuroneko (in roles, not actual traits or anything). Oh, and Aiko and Miyokichi have broken up, as if someone cares. With plot I don't even care to explain next, the final episode actually has the Shinchiro - Noe endgame scene bearing massive resemblance to Kyousuke and Kuroneko's final development (including the ripping paper stuff) and Jun breaking up with Hiromi, as if that was to cause some impact. Wee, and now Shinchiro and Hiromi can leave happily ever after in her apartment and guess what... at the cost of suffering a love deception, Noe can now cry again!

I've seen a couple of anime based on visual novels with original plot, but not even School Days with its bloody endgame can compare to what True Tears. A girl can't cry anymore so let's make her interfere with two star-crossed lovers so she can suffer a love deception and shed tears again. And if you call this a realistic scenario, I can tell you not even the most messed up people could ever do something like this. Have a naturally blooming romance that could satisfy both parties and the audience? Why the hell we'd want that when we can have an unhealthy relationship simply thrown in our faces for the sake of a girl's tears? Right?

To conclude my little writing over here, I'd say True Tears is just one of those shity adaptations of its visual novels, with an overly dramatic excuse for a plot.

What Kiss x Sis tries to be is a love/romcom story; what it really is: just another harem show with softcore sexless hentai, and "incest". I don't actually buy step-sibling romance as being incest, it's just people being oversensitive and overjudgmental with terms they don't even try to understand; the practice of incest is prohibited in most countries in real life for the risk of malformed children born of inbreeding, while two step-siblings don't share DNA, and thus can conceive a healthy child. It's just some borders put by society out of its need to expand their prejudice. Of course a review on Kiss x ... Sis must also contain an opinion on incest, but moving on... While I'm fine with step-siblings romance, this show has found the worst way of portraying it.

This story revolves around Keita Suminoe, whose goal is to enter the same high school as his step-sisters, Ako and Riko, and of course, live a normal life. However, Ako and Riko are in love with him, in quite a yandere fashion, going as far as to becoming infamous in Keita's middle school, for constantly coming to confess their feelings. Over and over. To make the harem picture complete are: Miharu Mikuni, a... meek girl introduced only for fanservice (in lack of better terms); Yuzuki Kiryu, Ako and Riko's young homeroom teacher, who is desperately trying to keep the step-siblings from getting together due to her belief that they are blood siblings, but later founds herself smitten with him; and Mikazuki Kiryu, Yuzuki's younger sister and Keita's underclassmen, cause there has to be a loli character for an anime harem.

Basically, everything about this anime is Ako and Riko trying to get in Keita's pants a little harder than the other girls. This, to the point flashing their lingerie or even bare breasts in front of their younger stepbrother comes as the most natural thing to do, and would sometimes try to engage in sexual intercourse too. This can't even be labeled as a comedy, despite all the embarrassing situations in which our characters find ourselves into, for they are mostly sexual. And frankly, at one point, the sister's desperate attempts at their brother become annoying in time.

If I was reviewing a hentai, I would have given it 10. But, as an anime, Kiss x Sis provided me little to no enjoyment, so I'm giving it a 2.

Oretachi ni Tsubasa wa Nai, or OreTsuba as it's known more commonly, is one of those bizarre anime which leaves you with a weird aftertaste. It's one of the most confusing series I've ever watched in television overall. What makes OreTsuba so interesting is its way of dealing with the subject of Multiple Personality Disorder, wrapped in your average harem ecchi show with comedy, drama, psychological and slice of life elements and more or less expected twists. That alone makes this series underrated when compared to more popular anime in the ecchi genre.

OreTsuba doesn't follow the (average guy + special circumstances = harem of 3+ ... girls) pattern as much as a regular harem ecchi anime would. Now, of course, the male leads in the three vignettes do have the characteristics of stereotypical anime protagonists and the usual special circumstances used to build up the story plot. You have Takashi Haneda, who is the regular soft main character with chuunibyou tendencies who believes is a hero of a mythological world (later revealed to be created from a video game); Shusuke Chitose, the typical cheerful and good-natured protagonist who, being poor, mixes working part-time at a cafe bar with book reviewing and freelance reporting; and Hayato Narita, the typical anti-social and foul-mouthed main lead, a handyman with connections to (more or less) criminal street gangs in the city setting. What makes it so different from average ecchi harem shows is that the harem in the story is built in perfectly normal circumstances, such as the truth-emerged-from-a-lie relationship (in Haneda's case), bonding between co-workers and/or associates (in Chitose and Narita's cases, respectively).

Rather than the special circumstances building the harem, these special circumstances, such as the actual connection between the three and the characters' backstories, surround the three young men, slowly building up the pace for the plot twist occurring in the last two episodes (which is both relieving and disappointing at the same time). In referring to the story, though, this doesn't help at all, due to the pacing this anime is taking, with poorly built crossovers of the three vignettes along the way (even if they provide a slight comic relief), and certain flaws, such as an actual character development. That being said, the anime is also remarkable for its rather large cast, something unusual for a 12 episodes series. The supporting characters are more or less ordinary, consisting in cafe maids, lolis, regular school girls, and a less significant split personality of the main character (who also happens to be extremely violent, yet innocent and hilarious, making me think he deserved more screen time than he actually got).

OreTsuba is definitely an unique kind of anime, for mixing the psychological aspects into a comedy/drama packed harem show with fanservice, and doing it in a pretty decent and interesting way at that. Which makes it actually quite enjoyable, in my opinion, but the certain flaws in the plot keeps it from being outstanding.

Review contains spoilers.

Kill la Kill definitely defies the cliché of recent anime, and while I wouldn't go as far as to call it the genre's savior, you can't deny it stands out for a lot of reasons. First of all, I actually see Kill la Kill as more of a Japanese style Western cartoon with fanservice and occasional blood splatter, for its animation (more or less) and its scriptwriting, which frankly, is childish, especially the way of dealing with the comic relief, which is provided mostly by the ever cheerful Mako and the Mankanshoku family, and the minimal character development.

Second, Kill la Kill takes ... the school action-packed comedy/drama anime to a whole different level. While as a female protagonist, Ryuko Matoi doesn't particularly stand out (the tomboy seeking vengeance for her family murder is more or less a typo), it's really great to see an anime which focuses more on emancipated women possessing a certain amount of strength, not to mention it comes in stark contrast to anime in which the male MC starts off weak and frail (that's been an overused typo ever since Neon Genesis Evangelion). Kill la Kill comes off as a parody to the school genre, subtly mocking it with the concept of Honnōji Academy, as its ruled with an iron fist by Satsuki Kiryuin. Sure, having a school ruled by a tyrant in certain circumstances or having an unusually unfair system at its core it's not a new thing (Guilty Crown and Assassination Classroom having particularly exploited on that), but it comes off in an even more spectacular fashion with the plot twist at the end of episode 17, where the truth about Satsuki's true intentions is revealed.

As for the action, the idea of a supernatural concept based on clothing its truly noteworthy. Though these uniforms seem, at first, to be a fanservice fueled way of characters getting superhuman abilities (well, notably the Kamui uniforms at that), you actually come to the conclusion that there's more to it as the plot progresses. And I must add, the relationship between Ryuko and Senketsu is as special as a relationship between a girl and her uniform can get.

It is notable that, apart from Ryuko and Satsuki, no other character has a development, having stayed pretty much the same as when they were introduced. That includes the Mankanshoku family being used mostly for comic relief, the Elite Four and the Nudist Beach's goals staying the same despite the plot evolution, and Nui Harime being the annoying character through her childish way of being sadistic. That being said, the development of these two characters is enjoyable, with both girls coming to a genuine care for the people who supported them throughout the story, despite their initial personality or goals pretty much rendering them unable to do so. However, the lack of development is also... unusual to say this least, especially in the relationship between Ryuko and Mako. Even that comes into a contrast with the relationship between Satsuki and her underlings.

The plot is the one thing that has a genuinely enjoyable development, giving at first the impression of girls who are going to fight each other for the entire anime, only to further wrap it in plot twists, with Satsuki's rebellion against Ragyo, the reveal about Ryuko and Satsuki being, in fact, sisters, Ryuko going berserk, and obviously, the endgame.

Overall, I'm giving this anime a 9.