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You heard about world's end harem? A fictional post apocalyptic world where no man resides and humanity is in threat of going extinct. Prevent that from happening is the plot.

This hentai is basically that, aside from this is a hentai, exactly why I don't have to be frustrated or disappointed for any confusing plot elements. A middle schooler brings new generation to a whole town full of ladies. A ceremony is hold, connecting this with an age-old custom, an old powerful clan's last descendant doesn’t want to stay as the last one so she brings out her best to reproduce. This act tries to ... justify the "holyness" of the ceremony, with a sole goal of making preparation to welcome your future generation.

Reading this I had a small thought popping up. I think everything "weird" or something that doesn’t fit with our common moral values has their ties with old customs, religions or belief. Or maybe a mad scientist's fantasy. So when we're writing a fantasy fiction we try to justify it with forging ties with belief/custom/religion etc. Is it just to fuck around with religious belief, or showing us how everything weird has its root in some belief?

In anyways there are nothing deep implied in a hentai plot, its just a random thing I thought. Here I loved the drawings, loved the weirdness (this is fantasy after all), kinda appreciated the wholesome ending. Unless you have some problems with reading a hentai with a shota protagonist, I can recommend.

(This is not a troll review by any means, I've tried my best to point out my problems with this manga)


The best way to enjoy "Haite Kudasai Takamine san" is by following 3 simple steps

1. Open a twitter account (easier to do than following this boring plot)

2. Follow the artist Yuichi Hiragi (You can find link to his profile in his introduction page in this site)

3. Enjoy the extremely erotic (and excellent) arts of Takamine-san he occasionally posts (and whole community goess berserk),without getting tainted by its poor attempt in characterization, same old cliche in narrative we've been witnessing in romcom genre for almost a ... decade now, more importantly I don't have to watch for what two cardboard characters are saying or doing

The same pathetic MC, who did a heroic noble job to help the girl a long,long time ago ; same person now has no identity aside from being "too kind for this world".
The whole character of Takamine revolves around what its target audience wants, manipulation in name of teasing. I must say I'm not one of those this manga is aimed for, simply because I never understood the appeal. So I want to explain myself.
The main character, aka Takamine has zero traits outside being a pseudo-manipulative "ojou-sama" who wouldn’t hesitate to sexually harass the boring kid of the class, because you know she's being a tsundere for no reason, she has been saved by the boring kid in the past hence she has to return this favour by threatening him for false rape accusation, questioning her status as a noble student. I can see in near future Takamine changing and acting like a "maiden in love", however that wouldn’t change the fact how it started and it leaves a bitter taste. Yeah I know this is what we call "sounds only in an anime romcom what could happen" but that doesn’t mean it's a good thing, specially when there are good romcoms/shoujo/simple romance who have utilized these cliches to new extent. This brings to my main problem with this manga, use of past events to determine the outcome.

If one new relationship is getting defined by a certain past event, that's already impeding the characters to move forward. Became worse when narrative fails to bring any new angle to view the relationship. This manga isn’t interested in doing that, they create a total bland MC for the sake of audience self-inserting and enjoying the ecchi. I can't remember a single thing this boy did, not because I lacked attention but because he hasn’t really done anything noteworthy (Aside from being that one time when Takamine threatened him for rape accusation, when I felt strong empathy for this poor kid and angered why this simply living being has to endure such pain).
For the blandness of the hero, Takamine also comes off as a bland heroine who would better be put into a hentai manga where I don't have to worry about anything except the erotica. But no, the story practically ends there and provides nothing else to offer. The one sided banter (it's not banter it's totally harassment) couldn’t convince me what cheap tricks it'd use in future to sell a couple which already was forged because of a false rape accusation, only a certain past event is directing the whole show. Which in my opinion, not just cliche but predictable too. (I've read enough Nisekoi).

To further clarify, I'm not against the idea of using certain past events to connect two characters. It can just be a coincidence, can be used to develop their feelings and sense of familiarity, however I'm totally against the idea that THIS past event will determine whether or not you would end up with the person involved. This becomes worse in harem where one girl gets certain privilege just because she'd met him before. Takamine might not be a harem but it's already using it to set the course for the manga, to sell the couple and I didn’t like it. Seriously, why not just start the manga from there if it's that important.


Here's my question,
Why is it that romcom authors, always attempt to thread the hero-heroine with certain past event which nobody remembers now but the plot compells to remind them? Why does a romcom couple have to have a shared backstory? I believe in luck but why that "lucky" event has to happen in the past? Why not now?
If Takamine's erotic body is the only selling point of your manga why should I bother reading a plot full of cliches where I can instead enjoy her illustrations author Yuichi Hiragi occasionally posts on twitter?

I want to enjoy Takamine. I couldn’t, hence I made my copium. Hope it helps

This will be a quick review


First of all, I've never played FGO. The only thing I knew before is that this singularity happens before Babylonia, which had received a wonderful anime adaptation that I love and adore so much. My knowledge on Type moon comes from watching previous Fate installments, and Kara no Kyoukai and interacting with some fgo and fsn vn players.

Aside from Ufotable aesthetic which has been synonymous to Fate, other studios such as Aniplex owned A-1 pictures and Cloverworks also has done some fate works. Various studio gave different output, not to say the plot had many differences ; but ... one thing remain unchanged, marvelous character design and excellent fight animation. Be it Zero or UBW or recent Babylonia, Fate franchise never ceased to amaze me with shiny, cool-looking and sexy characters fighting with their all while providing meaningful (or less) dialogue which never stops being exciting.

This movie however is the exact opposite of what I think Fate is, or at least I used to think.


This 90 minutes long movie took place in Arabian desert featuring 3 key locations, the holy city near Jerusalem, sun king's palace and the secret village. All of where fights between servants happened, and I regret to say, all of them sucked. From fight choreography to animation, both hand drawn or digital effect, looked so generic and dull that it might lose to any generic LN adaptation's sword fight. How they made a whole movie from one of the most popular mobile game and struggles in comparison with any typical TV anime?
A simple sword fight between Mordred and Bedivere had minimal dynamism, lack of weight balance, no perspective and basically "swords clash and they flash" type things. All of the new servants had less attractive design due to a lack of details, such as Caster priest. Some focused shots on her cleavage didn’t help the fact that they looked more like a bunch of lines than a proper design. Background art looked dull, sun-king's castle is as gloomy looking as his kingdom, CG debris felt like a slice of cake rather than made of stone, and the subpar effect animation only made me sigh thinking about HF 3rd movie.I'm not a huge fan of Ufotable's overabundant use of digital effects, but I'll happily take that over this dull looking mess .Above all, this movie doesn’t look or sound fancy, might be the most disappointing thing about this movie, but hold on the plot's there.

I've heard praise of Camelot's storyline, of how it's the most philosophically rich singularity. This movie put a question mark on this statement. Aside from the fact that Fate servants always required you to know who they are, this movie went beyond and failed to provide whatever they were trying to do. Not only they failed to bring out the best of the emotions servants are facing, specially Bedivere since he's a main character, it also caused me to feel nothing for his job. Like why he's so sad, acting like a heartbroken prince who just lost his kingdom. I can get behind his sadness but not throughly, it's like mourning for a random person's death. Like every death brings sadness but it becomes something special due to the person involved sharing something meaningful, a deep bond. This movie failed to provide me enough emotional context to his state of mind. It's not only limited to him,all the other characters faced same consequence, as if it lacked any heart.
Poor character introduction, then being stubborn to provide at least some context of why the characters are doing something or what. The movie did a poor job in handling the buildup to the climax, to the point that every supposed big moment felt very underwhelming. Dialogue wasn’t adding much, it's clear that they were skipping huge bulk of contents within this chapter. There should have been at least one exposition scene for a non player like me. Though it's clear they weren’t intending to attract new audience so I guess I was already doomed to begin with

Music wasn’t anything standalone, rather they were disappointing in a sense that they failed to bring out proper emotion to the scene. Like the ending scene where something heroic was happening, but the music they played had a sad tone and I was wondering if I should feel proud for this heroic deed or mourn for his spoiled death? I was confused hence just like rest of the movie played out I was being stoical, something I didn’t expect myself to be from a fate installment.

When this movie came out and every fgo fans were losing their temper I thought like every other movie adaptation they left out a lot of contents. What I didn’t expect that it actually had left out everything good about possibly every fate installments. This doesn’t even look like Fate. Coming from the exciting TV anime adaptation of Babylonia I was expecting at least some decent fight animation, cool looking characters and a whole load of waifu. I can certainly live with all the contents left behind but I can't accept an uncool fate. This first Camelot movie didn’t have one single good character or their moments I could cheer for, it's just like a bunch of unrelated stuff conjoined together having no logic no reason and no thoughts behind. From every angle I can't imagine a single good thing I liked about this.

I'm utterly disappointed and heartbroken, want to erase this from my memory.Though I have a faint hope the next camelot movie will at least be better than this.

Vlad Love, a show full of simps, made for simps and brought into life by a genius team full of simps. This is, Mamoru Oshii shitposting on modern anime culture.

With constant spreading of otaku culture, we are now at a stage where consuming anime is not leered by surrounding, something which we can not imagine in late 90's or early 2000's. With the increment in audience demand, anime has delved into more and more varieties. There’s a demand of everything seeing animated by a Japanese studio. We are ready to evaluate ANYTHING drawn by them.
Despite however, how has this affected the creative talents? ... With keeping in mind the type of audience you are making anime for, what should be the proper attitude?
How many shows truly feels like an inspired product, where you can find love and caress poured into every episodes? I'm talking about the rewarding factor. A show made with your 100% and a show made with 50% of your intellect somehow ended up having same level of evaluation. Because you know, "this is just an anime", "anime is trash so am I",
This is how present day otaku looks like. A medium full of simp consumers who are ready to take anything that is, hand-drawn and animated by a Japanese studio.

"Vlad Love" is a show full of simp characters, just like viewers. They simp for a vampire beauty called Mai Vlad Transylvania (400 years old, worry not) who does nothing but sucks your blood. Sounds familiar right? She truly gives you nothing but the sense of watching her physical beauty unfolded before you. In return she'll suck your blood, and she does need a lot of blood. Not even just that, the types of blood she imbibes makes differences in her personality ; if she drinks a violent person's blood she gets violent, she'll get stinky if she drinks a stinky degenerate's blood (looking at you, weebs).
She is loved by everybody but you are not. She stays pure because you won't like another person tickling her. She takes everything from you (takes 500k yen to dance with her) but gives nothing (you are not allowed to touch her!)
She won't be yours because she is for everybody. You can’t stay still without seeing her because you are a simp.

In simple word, Mai Vlad Transylvania (coolass long anime name) checks every waifu standard. She'll give you the best smile you can imagine, will depend on you since she can't live without drinking your blood, will listen your blabbering but somehow she won't be yours, since she's for everybody. Oshii created a perfect metaphor of waifu culture, using Mai as the centrepiece, presenting how it lets you become more and more obsessive with something which has no returns. The main heroine Bamba presents her blood as favour, gets sucked up everyday and feels grossed when Mai drinks an ugly person's blood. Bamba has only one thing to do, pleasing Mai. Same as weebs who want nothing but her waifu's smile.

Characters in Vlad Love are more or less cantered around this theme. Most interesting of them is the Cinema Club president, Watabe Maki, who makes movie/documentary/PV featuring Mai. And she does a horrible job at making, being the knowledgeable on movies but naive on making movies. She knows "Failure is the pillar of success" so she isn’t afraid if her movie gets booed by audience. She's so confident on making the perfect movie that she ends up making nothing but garbage.
Sounds familiar? Currently the least-rated anime on MAL is airing, we all are familiar with the type of confident directors like Maki.

Another character which takes my interest, is the disciplinary committee girl named Jinko. She's so obedient to rules, craves for perfection and doesn’t like it when it goes into unholy hands. She ends up taking the director position for a stage drama in school festival since everyone else was slacking off. With a cast full of inexperienced actors her project didn’t have a chance of succeeding. As it turns out, the serious stage play becomes a chaotic comedy show. Her perfect image was in stake, but plot twist, she received huge applaud because guess who was in the stage? Yeah, Mai, her charm swells over every negatives of an otherwise shit product. This leaves an impact on Jinko as her view of being obedient to rules gets challenged and she accepted the new meaning of success, leads to the hot sensei commenting "Finally she's on our team now!" (Team full of characters who don't take their job seriously)

With Mai as the waifu, Bamba as the simp viewer, Maki who's all for naught making a good movie and Jinko who understands efforts do not get acknowledged here, we got the image of how present day anime works.

Your project will be praised if it has a waifu like Mai
You shouldn’t care about quality because there are simps like Bamba who are all ready to buy your shit if it has Mai
You don't need to bother on making good product because you believe that your failure of this time will lead you to your future success
And you don't even need to put 100% of your efforts because they won't be rewarded with proper recognition.

This is the sad reality of anime, a veteran like Oshii understands it better. I call him a simp earlier, mainly because only a simp for animation can afford to make a bizarre shitposting on the medium. Unlike Bamba though, he's self-conscious of his love for this medium. Seems like producers at IG port gave him a budget to do whatever his mind wants to play with and that's how he created the gorgeous looking shitposting namely this, breaking his long hiatus from anime industry.


Talking about it's production side, this looks gorgeous. Character design is stunning (Mai and Maki have the most complimentary design to their character) , there are tons of comedic faces drawn which is a sign of creator's goodwill, background art and colour design managed to create the perfect atmosphere, from horror to comedy to casual life. Impressive and strong drawings, with countless reference to many old movies, in dialogues as well. There are two Opening, both of them are eye-catching and I liked "Winds of Transylvania".
One of the most impressive aspect of Vlad Love is the voice acting. Veteran seiyuu like Romi Park and a bunch of other popular seiyuu including Hayami Saori, Ayane Sakura, Hikasa Yoko and Miyake Kenta putting an unbelievably strong performance. Specially Sakura Ayane recently has been torturing her vocal cord with Gabi's screaming in ep65 of Attack on Titan and here Bamba takes a lot of vocal power. Everyone did a good job at showing their skills, this really is a blessing for any seiyuu fans in general.

However, this isn’t a show which can be enjoyed regardless of your mood. Not every episodes are as endearing as the others. There’s a lot of dialogues which hardly makes sense to any casual viewers like me. Not much to say about music, this is certainly not the most Impressive work of Kenji Kawai.

Vlad Love is meant for everybody, but certainly not to be enjoyed by all. Maybe after years of burning out with anime, you'll return to this show and laughed at how much it tried to tell. This is truly "Mamoru Oshii shitposting" which is better than most unfortunately uninspired anime and I'm all in for it. If not anything, you should watch this because it has beautiful sexy girls. Who doesn’t like them?

This is a quick review.

"Iwakakeru Sports Climbing Girls" is an interesting show, it tries to explore a relatively unknown sports called "Rock Climbing". I absolutely had no idea that even this game is played on highschool level. Rock climbing, well as the name suggests, is about climbing rocks. To achieve this, you need to have strong muscles as well as strong observation skill to know where you are stepping in next. You need to be physically strong as well as have to develop strong mentality. It interests me to this level, that I want to learn how a player can gain admirable skills to ... achieve his goals, aka reaching the peak.

That's of few positives this show has carried so far.

To talk about the negatives, just reminding you it is an anime, means you are getting to use both audio and visuals for your storytelling. Unfortunately, Iwakakeru fails in both category. Visuals are cheap, and it doesn’t help elevating its storytelling. Audio is rather forgettable. Rather good visuals, we get some good fanservice. Muscled girls with strong legs and busts, it is sexually arousing. The focus on cleavage and butts can easily distract you to concern with the characters.
Talking about characters, the design is so ugly! I don't know if it's intentional or not, since I will remember their design more than generic anime designs, it doesn’t help to enhance my enjoyment. Rather it's disturbing. Characters themselves aren’t anything special. Lead protagonist,Kasahara Konomi is an ex hikikomori, and a national champion on Candy Crash 🙂 with enrolling into highschool she wants to change herself. Why she wants to change her lifestyle, why she ran out of interests with mobile games, is surprisingly unknown. We are just asked to believe it since everyone knows what development means to a hikikomori. The 2nd main girl, Jun (voiced by Ishikawa Yui) is so serious on rock climbing that she poses strong problems to newcomers in order to prevent any vagrant kids to join. Like many characters voiced by Ishikawa, she is another emotionless teen ager whose asked development will be, learning emotions. Amongst the 4 main girls the president attracts me the most, I feel there are lot more hidden with her abilities and it is engaging to know more about her. Side characters are forgettable too, except for one that's so scary to look at and another (voiced by Dio) who is the only male character in the show and is too hot for any girls, despite being a father of a 10 year old girl.

Animation, is quite good compared to its low effort on visuals. There's a cut in first episode where Konomi tries to solve a rock climbing route using her knowledge with Candy Crash which was impressive. Camera movement is nothing special, usually it stays focused on busts and butts, though it moves and that makes it better than most ecchi shows.


My final verdict for this show is it brings something new to table, it's refreshing to know more on athletic sports and how it ensures growth in its players, how they become a better human being and how it helps us to understand more varieties among humankind......but It's ugly character design, bad visuals and forgettable soundtracks surpassed the few good things. You can say it has good concept but the execution is lackluster.

*CONTAINS SPOILER*

This is a sequel movie of "Hibike! Euphonium" as you know ,Oumae Kumiko is the main protagonist of this show,continues her journey on her 2nd year,now that previous 3rd years have left the school,Kumiko has to show what she is capable of without taking any advice from her senpai,specially Asuka.Yes,this is the story of her 2nd year in Kitayuji High,crammed into mere 100 miniutes .


I have to consider it's a movie,it's pointless to complain about that,specially I didn't feel any loose plot threads. It stays focused on Kumiko ,how she handles her club and Eupho after Asuka's departure .Asuka was like a storm in ... everyone's life including Kumiko.She grabbed everyone at her time,she was a special entity for everyone,an inspiration both as a club member or as a human being; and now that she is gone,Kumiko is bound to be affected, she learned the most things from Asuka and relied on her most of the time.Now that she is gone,Kumiko has to gain maturity for her ownself.

Think of this movie as an extension to the previous series,we know how Kumiko is,we know how the other characters felt ,both as individual or as a human on Kumiko .

S2's main event was Asuka pointing out Kumiko's personality traits,it was so important because it's the story of Kumiko and her progression .She has come around a long time,now has to act like a senpai and has to pull through her juniors.It felt refreshing,as previously Kumiko only received,now she has to deliver .And she delivers,yeah I know some might be bit disappointed because she isn't the cutest girl acting now,now she thinks on her future,something she probably never considered before.She is slowly maturing,probably her growth isn't that surprising or noticable,but she has good traits and can overcome her dark side .

There were two important characters introduced both first year and part of Brass section.They imposed the biggest problems to Kumiko ,as one of them is basically what Kumiko tries to act and another is how Kumiko acts,before meeting Reina and Asuka.They threw the final question to Kumiko ,"Are you happy of what you are? Do you have any regrets ? Don't you want to change ? Don't you be more mature?"
Kumiko's answer is simple,she realised her faults in last season,but now she gives the answer " I know I'm not good now,I have regrets in past but now I don't want to lose any chance of improving.I will improve and make sure I don't have any regrets in future"
This movie was like a reply to what Kumiko has been through in her first year.She is more mature now ,and obviously reliable too.

My only disappointment was how they handled Tsukamoto part,I think he deserved more screentime.Chemistry between Tsukamoto and Kumiko is very good,they can be compatible in future.Best friends,probably not,but surely he is a close friend whom Kumiko can rely .

The last performance was the best amongst this series,wonder why they didn't qualify,probably there were better opponents .

I'm sad now,when season 3 would come I don't know . I really love Kumiko,and though the story was a bit easy on her,it's clear who she is ,what she can do or not,and what she can challenge next .
Love Hibike Euphonium ! Goodluck to KyoAni !