Diary of a tard: Week 4, August 2012

Wednesday, August 29

Kokoro Connect episode 5: It's a confession episode starting with Aoki and Yui and then Taichi and Iori. Yes, I am fucking mad as hell with this development. I don't like them both anymore. Anyway, after Taichi confessed to Iori, Heartseed pretty much took control of Iori's body and sent her down the river. He turned up again at the hospital and asked the rest to decide who should die with Iori's body. Of course Taichi volunteered but he got denied. Then Aoki switched to allow Iori has one-on-one time with the rest of them. When it Taichi's turn, they fucking kiss. The truth is, Heartseed was just trolling them. Iori survived which fucking pissed me off further. Grrrr...

A boring episode of Kokoro Connect (episode 6). They don't swapped body but now they are unleashing their inner desires. It started with Inaba trying to rape Taichi, and it continues with the others but of course since Taichi confessed to Iori, I have lost interest with all the other characters except for Inaba. Anyway, Taichi can look after Iori and Aoki will looke after Yui. None actually worried about Inaba when she's the one who is suffering the most. I feel like I wanna give Inaba a long warm hug right now.

Thursday, August 30

In episode 7 of Kokoro Connect, everyone is on edge and they ended up hurting each other feelings but not as much as everyone hurting Inaba. They all assumed she's the strongest of them all well, fuck them. In particular, fuck Taichi. He's selfish as fuck too and has no right to be mad at Inaba.

What happened to the pace of Kokoro Connect? Episode 8 wasn't any better. Everyone can't talk to each other because they ended up hurting each other. Fujishima really shined in this episode though. Oh btw, Taichi, Iori and Inaba are supposed to go on a field trip. Let see how that goes.

Saturday, September 1

Tsuritama episode 10: The four guys finally reunited but JFX has already taken over the naval fleet before they could fish him out of the water. There were some unnecessary dorama between Yuki and Haru which made me dislike Haru even more. Also, I think Natsuki has lost his spunk after he got his hair cut. He wasn't as fun as he used to be imo.

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Diary of a tard: Week 4, July 2012

Monday, July 23

Tsuritama episode 9: the whole of Enoshima has been evacuated due to the mass attack on people by the JFX. Haru and Koko tried to stop the alien but Koko was killed in the process. Due to this Haru went back to Enoshima and helped with the evacuation. He sent Yuki away as well who is coming back to Enoshima to help Haru. Akira on the other hand has sorta left DUCK and is determined to help Haru as well. Natsuki isn't much of a help though >_>

this fanart has nothing to do with the context
(c) Haruma High Drop

Tuesday, July 24


Episode 3 of Kokoro Connect: Inaba sorta pushed Taichi to get together with Iori. Her reason being that Iori might be broke down at any given moment. I have different idea though. By the way she reacts, it looks like Inaba is the one who needs all the mental help she can get. In the mean time, the episode revealed that Yui suffers from androphobia, but nothing that Taichi can't help it, even if it means that he'll be loosing his manliness. And, the end of the episode got me hook like shit. Inaba lost consciousness in front of Taichi and BAM! TAICHI x INABA FTW!!

The microbes are seriously getting annoying, reminding Sawaki that he hasn't told Oikawa yet about his ability in every god damn episode so far. Episode 3 of Moyashimon is no exception. Sadly though, the microbes ain't the only one who gets on my nerves. Oikawa as well. Turned out the underground "secret passageway" that she suspected was just a brewing cellar used by the professor and Yuki. Speaking of Yuki, I want to see him in a man clothes again!

Sunday, July 29


Kokoro Connect episode 4: Apparently Iori has trauma too so Inaba asked Taichi to help her as well. Iori doesn't know who she really is since she's good at creating a persona to cater what people want of her. But of course Taichi promised that he will never let Iori lose herself in the process. I thought he said something to himself along the line of "because I love..." but was interrupted by Inaba's voice in his head calling him a selfless freak. This episode seemed to focus on Taichi helping out the girls. Inaba is not without worries either as she told him about her insecurities and not being able to trust anyone. Taichi convinced her to tell that to the rest of the club member at the price of telling her his biggest secret... that he masturbated to Inaba. BEST PICK UP LINE EVER.

now kissu!

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Diary of a tard: Week 3, July 2012

Monday, July 16

Moyashimon Returns episode 2: Oikawa is not giving up about the dungeon she found in episode 1. She dragged Sawaki to help her investigate, which in turn told the two nerds. Oikawa was touched that they believed her regardless. On the other hand, Hasegawa is being pressured by her dad about marriage and the professor ain't happy that Oikawa was sneaking around campus.

Wednesday, July 18

Episode 2 of Kokoro Connect: They found out that all this swapping personality phenomenon is caused by Heartseed who observed them and control when will it end. He used Goto's body to communicate with the kid. I am just loving the interaction between the characters especially when they swap bodies. This episode is philosophically more complicated than the first episode and set up something rather fascinating stuff for the rest of the journey. I'm enjoying this show a lot at the moment.

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First Impression: Kokoro Connect

When I did the preview for Summer, I was under the impression that Kokoro Connect will be about gender bender and honestly that what caught my interest about this show. I hope my expectation will be fulfilled and it is not just another generic slice of life anime that reminds me of K-ON.

Kokoro Connect is about five students who formed a Student Cultural Club because they don't belong or refused to be part of any of the existing club at their school. This show ain't about them having tea and have useless activities after school though (though that's pretty much what they are doing) but it's about them switching bodies with each others. 

Kokoro started out pretty normal except that it managed to intrigue me with the line of characters that they have prepared. Obviously these characters aren't your average one dimensional characters and that is probably one of the reason why I ended up so engrossed with the episode. It makes me want to see the characters layer by layer, to know what secrets do they have and to learn their inner thoughts. In that sense, I think that the production studios have successfully made this show somewhat mysterious.

I really like Inaba for the simple fact that she's tough which makes her a perfect pair for Taichi. Damn it there I go creating my OTP already.

The art and animation, as I have mentioned before in my preview, look a lot like K-ON but I am not going to complain about it. It wasn't a distraction or a minus point for me, in fact, I rather like it. Familiarity ain't always bad after all.

The first few minutes of watching Kokoro Connect kind of made me a bit melancholy. This kind of anime about friendship always hits me where it hurts. It made me misses my friends. It also makes me grateful that I accepted my old job back. Spending times with them boys have helped me through some tough shits.

This show is definitely going to be in my must watch list.

Episodes: tbc
Aired: Summer 2012
Genres: Comedy, Slice of Life

art & animation 9/10
story 9/10
characters 8/10
sound 8/10
enjoyment 9/10
overall 8.6/10

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