Diary of a tard: Week 2, March 2012

Tuesday, March 6

Episode 2 of Ai no Kusabi: The one thing that I noticed the most about this episode is the animation. It makes the wait worth it. Anyhoo, Riki is back at the slum and he met his old friend Guy and the others. Then 10 minutes were wasted in order to let us know that Riki was a former leader of Bison etc etc etc but in the end Riki, Guy and Bisons are all losers. Dafuq? Apparently none of them knew that Riki was a pet once and Kirie, for some reason, puts Riki on edge. Well, maybe because Kirie wanted to be pet when Riki just ran away from that life. Urgh, still no BL action. Fuck this I'm frustrated!

I don't like Riki much but this... hot dayyum!

Kill Me Baby episode 4: It's summer and the gag starts with Sonya and Yasuna eating Popsicle. As usual Yasuna is an idiot. She bought a whole bunch of different ice-cream just so she can win one ice-cream. Naturally Sonya has all the luck with that. The next day, Yasuna still whines about how hot it was so they ended up at the sea with a watermelon and stayed there until night fall. One day, an assassin was after Sonya even at school. Yasuna was dragged into the mess. Luckily Agiri was around to help them out. The assassin came back the next day disguised as Yasuna. I lol'd especially when the real Yasuna played along with them.

she's basically begging for it

Friday, March 9

I decided to watch Spirited Away to end the remaining hours of my bornday. I think the last time I saw the movie was back in 2003. That's almost 10 years ago. Spirited Away was the first Miyazaki film for me and as such I have such fond memories of it. I remembered being head over heels in love with Haku back then and after rewatching it tonight, I think that love has been rekindled. Spirited Away is about Chihiro who stumbled upon a spirit world with her parent. They ate the foods and turned into pigs. It was Chihiro's mission to save her parent and turned them back to normal. She has helped from Haku, a river spirit that once saved her from drowning. Their love for each other what moves me to love the movie so much. Or maybe I'm just a pedophile when it comes to Haku ♥

(c) cartoongirl7

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Diary of a tard: Week 4, January 2012

Monday, January 23

Recorder to Randoseru episode 2: Shows Atsumi in her everyday life chores like drinking milk hoping that she will grow taller or bringing Atsushi along when she is doing some shopping so he can help her out getting stuff from the high shelves. In episode 3, Sayo treated Atsumi like she's a kid and then proceed to discuss the kind of guy that they like. Sayo obviously has a crush on Atsushi. I wonder if she knew he is Atsumi's little brother.

Episode 3 of Kill Me Baby: Yasuna was easily influenced. This time she believes that she has esper power just because a guy in the TV said so. As usual, she forced Sonya to take part. From esper to voodoo to fortune telling. Best thing about Yasuna is, she NEVER gives up LOL. In second stint, Yasuna came up with different things to do when it's raining outside from playing puzzle rings to making Rain Doll. When the sun is finally up, they introduced a seemingly unused character, Kyara, that keeps looking for Yasuna and Sonya. Rie Kugimiya is her seiyuu, btw.

Thursday, January 26

Episode 3 of Another: Misaki showed Kouichi what is underneath her eye-patch. Well, nothing creepy like Nnoitora's empty eye socket but only a different color pupil. Misaki is a heterochromia but not really since that eye was artificial. She uses doll's eye and that somehow gives her the gift to see things that should remain unseen. She warned Kouichi: the doll shop isn't a good place for him to hang out since the dolls are seeking to fill their hollowness. She also told him about the class 3 story. It sure was creepy telling ghost story inside the doll shop. It was as if the dolls were eavesdropping. When Kouichi ased his classmates and aunt about it, everyone was jumpy and even warned him not to mess with things that don't exist. He didn't heed their warnings though. He then found out the name of the girl who died at the hospital was Misaki Fujioki. When he told Misaki, she said that Misaki was her cousin and admitted that she didn't exist. Just then Yukari was about to go home but I think she saw Misaki with Kouichi and ran quickly away. As she ran down the stair, she slipped and was killed by the sharpen edge of the umbrella she was holding. Jeebus. That was cruel O_o

I don't like her much now :S
(c) Aranmax

Friday, January 27

Hunter X Hunter episode 12: Phase 3 examination continued. They have to serve the 50 hour penalty. Tonpa trying to make Leorio feel guilty about it but didn't work. When that 50 hours were up, they only have a balance 10 hours to complete the phase. At the end of the exam, they were supposed to fight and only 3 should pass but Gon came up with an idea of hacking through the short cut wall with the given weapons. Thus they passed along with other 19 applicants.

that butt crack...

Sora turns out to be the tsundere and not Miu. I found out in episode 2 of Papa no Iukoto wo Kikinasai! that Yuuta will be the legal guardian for all three of them since the plan that his sister took with her husband crashed. Other family member wanted to take those siblings separately but Yuuta was against the idea because of his own experience of losing his parent earlier on.

Papa no Iukoto wo Kikinasai! episode 3: Yuuta pretty much ran away with the girls. He didn't think it through so when his aunt asked how is he going to raise the kids and attending college at the same time, it finally dawned on him of the magnitude of his responsibilities. He is not chickening out though. They might face some difficulties trying to cope with the changes but they'll manage.

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Diary of a tard: Week 3, January 2012

Monday, January 16

Kill Me Baby episode 2: (1) Yasuna kept pastering Sonya to teach her martial arts move so she can countered them the next time Sonya has her head in a headlock. Sonya just made Yasuna even more of a fool then. (2) Yasuna brought a nun-chuck just so Sonya could hit herself with it. Fat chance that it's going to happen. (3) There was a bear at the park. Sonya ran away so Yasuna has to deal with it herself. At last, she accidentally fell on top of the bear's head and knocked it unconscious. (4) They ended up playing hide-and-seek at the park so naturally Yasuna hide but Sonya didn't bother to seek her.

Tuesday, January 17

Episode 2 of Another really creep me out. Those BGM managed to scare me a few times, especially during the hospital and the doll shop scenes. Kouichi classmates still haven't said anything about Class 3 but he keeps seeing Misaki, and as if possessed, always followed her. He even met with the nurse to check whether a girl died and she confirmed it later that a high school girl did die and her name is Misaki. If I was him, I would probably head home but Kouichi went into this very suspicious looking doll shop called Studio M where he met Misaki. He acted like he didn't know that she's dead, or maybe he thought Mei and Misaki are two different girls. Anyhoo, just before the episode ends, Misaki tempted Kouichi and she showed him what's underneath the eye patch that she's wearing. To be continued.

Madoka's mecha or Ovid (Vox Aura) changed color in episode 2 of Rinne no Lagrange. It is definitely looks cooler than before. Anyway, Izo set out to save Array since his Ovid didn't respond. Izo is supposedly the best pilot for the bishies people. Madoka was forced to fight him too and since she was pressured by the expectation, she didn't pilot it well enough like she did the first time. That is until her sister put some sense back into her. At the end of the episode, she has to face Kirius too, who came to fight with his comrades. Dare I say it that this show is a tad more interesting now...

she's growing on me
(c) Nilitsu

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First Impression: Kill Me Baby

Episodes: Unknown
Producers: J.C. Staff
Genres: Comedy, School

For some weird reason, I have this illogical thoughts that Kill My Baby will be brilliant with it's humor and witty comedy. I have no idea where did I get such thought when I didn't even watch any of the preview (if they had one). I usually will brush off this kind of shows so I was wondering myself what makes me thought that this one will be any different. Let's find out shall we whether I was right, or I will end up killing myself after 24 minutes.

(c) Youkan

Kill Me Baby is a story about two friends, Yasuna and Sonya. Yasuna is the happy-go-lucky type of girl while Sonya is more serious in personality because her job requires her to be so. She is an assassin and is always wary of contact. Unfortunately though, she is pretty much scared with everything else. There is also Agiri, someone Sonya knows from her group of assassins. Agiri is a ninja but she's more like a con artist rather than anything else.

The stints are most like gags which added to the fun. Though it wasn't thought-provoking show, it is not trying to be what it isn't. It stick to what it do best, which is the comedy that transpired/caused through the interaction between Sonya and Yasuna. Nothing more and nothing lss. The art was simple and I actually really like the chibi feel of the character designs.

The repetition of "kill me bebeh" in the OP can either annoy you or makes you want Sonya to really kill you, which is a good thing. I wonder how simplistic a person must be to create song like that? But the ED is pretty hypnotic with the disco music beat and the singing which was done both my the protagonists: Mutsumi Tamura and Chinatsu Akasaki. Speaking of these two seiyuu I really like the fact that both of them managed to embody the essence of their characters respectively. They made them believable when they communicate and being friends despite the difference in personalities. Though Sonya looks sorta like Nagi, she quickly becomes my favorite character between the two friends mainly because of the job well done by her seiyuu, Mutsumi Tamura.

So far Kill Me Baby does not disappoint me with the delivery of it's first episode. I hope J.C. Staff can keep this momentum going because I am certainly looking forward to watch the next episode.

art & animation 7/10
story 7/10
characters 8/10
sound 8/10
enjoyment 8/10
overall 7.6/10

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