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Stuff OtakuAnthony bought this week May 6th
Kanokon: The Girl Who Cried Fox DVD Complete Series:
Plot Synopsis: “Kouta, a country boy who lives with his grandfather, is moving to the city to attend high school. Changes come with his new home and new school, but nothing could have prepared the gentle young man for girls, specifically a bombshell fox spirit named Chizuru! As if her aggressive advances weren’t enough, he also catches the attention of a frosty wolf spirit named Nozomu.
Kouta is dragged into supernatural events as a result of his contact with the two girls, and his school life only gets more chaotic by the day. But with a girl who gives “foxy” new meaning and another howling after him, things are looking up for his love life.”
Now I bought the first volume of Kanokon back last summer. Of course Media Blasters had to go cancel volume two and three later in the year instead option to go with a complete series set. Now I should be mad because I have a single DVD that I cannot sell. But, I am not upset. I did enjoy what little of the show I watched so I wanted to add this to my collection.
Kanokon: The Girl Who Cried Fox DVD Complete Series can be purchased at Right Stuf
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Kashimashi: Girl Meets Girl DVD Vocal Collection:
Plot Synopsis: “Hazumu was a shy boy who enjoyed gardening, collecting herbs, and long walks in the mountains. One day he finally worked up the courage to confess his love to Yasuna, but she rejected him. Depressed, he wandered up Mt. Kashimayama, the place where they first met, to reconsider his feelings. After getting lost, he wished upon a shooting star and received a bizarre twist of fate. Now he is a she, and she stumbles headfirst back into social life and relationships only to find that the entire landscape has changed!”
I rented this show a few weeks back and I liked what I saw. I heard that the series was getting a dub some months ago and I decided to jump at the chance to get the new release
Kashimashi: Girl Meets Girl DVD Vocal Collection can be purchased at Right Stuf
Otaku in Review Podcast – Shinji’s Erection
This week’s guest is Scott Frye, who you may know from Twitter and/or his blog Café Afternoon. On this episode we discuss the wonders of fanservice, both in the broad sense and the sexual sense. We analyze various examples of fanservice and discuss the ongoing debate of what exactly can be classified as fanservice. And at what point does a series “cross the line”? Listen to our thoughts and more on this episode.
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Anime Review: Highschool of the Dead
Highschool of the Dead is the most overrated show of this entire season. While it does have a satisfying beginning and conclusion, a few exhilarating fight scenes and a dark atmosphere, the overabundance of fanservice, painfully slow mid-point, and a lot of poorly acted scenes really do a lot of damage to what could have been a fun show about the zombie apocalypse. It also doesn’t help that the show suffers from an identity crisis, as it tries to be both a horrifying story of survival and an over-the-top testosterone fest, resulting in a show that fails at being scary or thrilling.
HOTD follows Takashi Komuro, a high school sophomore who is depressed over losing his girl friend Rei Miyamoto to his best friend Hisashi Igou. Unfortunately, he doesn’t have time to mourn over his loss, as the zombie apocalypse begins for no adequately explained reason (It’s a show about zombies! Who cares?). In the midst of an attack on his high school, he groups up with various survivors, such as Rei, Hisashi, Kouta Hirano, a gun otaku, Saeko Busujima, a psychotic kendo master, Shizuka Marikawa, the useless nurse, and Saya Takagi, the arrogant, if intelligent, student council president and escape the high school. The rest of the show has the survivors trying to survive in a zombie-infested Japan.
Anime Review: Strike Witches – Complete 1st Season
I first heard about Strike Witches at New York Anime Festival 2008. I was on the line to get Rie Tanaka’s autograph and I was asking people what they were getting signed. One particular person showed me a postcard with this character on it. When I asked who that was, he responded “You’ve never heard of Strike Witches? It’s a show about a bunch of girls that fly around and fight aliens. Oh, and they don’t wear pants.”
Yes, that’s right. Strike Witches is a show about a bunch of cute girls that grow animal ears & tails, fly around with big guns, and battle aliens in a post-World War II era. They do not wear pants and the show takes no shame in constantly reminding you of this. After reading that, chances are you think one of two things: (A) this is the stupidest and creepiest idea for a show ever, or (B) this is an AMAZING idea for a show. If you’re in group B, read on…
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