Sad Usami is sad.

Flavor: Sweet

A new Misaki x Akihiko episode, hurray! This one didn’t feel as comedic as the previous ones, but it was fun nonetheless.

Well, the story basically started last week since, after the credits, they showed the scene where Misaki’s brother talks over the phone with Usami and tells him… that he’s planning on taking Misaki away from him! After the kid hears about this, he gets kinda shocked but he doesn’t really seem to understand why he feels like that. Usami doesn’t say anything about it either so Misaki ends up going to his onii-chan’s place in Tokyo after all.

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I’m scared!

Flavor: Sweet

In my last xxxHOLiC post, I recall saying something like “This show is awesome, I’m so blogging this every week!”. Well, for some reason I didn’t… and the show’s almost over. *gasp* I really enjoy this series so I’m not sure why I haven’t written anything about it yet, but w/e. Here’s the entry… for last week’s episode!

I guess I liked this episode because it sort of reminded me of all these stories from the first season where they had a bunch of insane girls going to Yuuko’s shop asking for help. I really enjoyed those kind of episodic tales and that’s obviously what got me into xxxHOLiC in the first place.

So, yeah, the character in this one wasn’t all that interesting but it was fun seeing her getting angry at Yuuko and being all like “STOP PLAYING WITH ME, YOU FUCKING BITCH”. The anime also made her look dumber because of how she’s shown coming back for more bells during several days while in the manga she got pretty upset on her third visit to the shop.

There was some other stuff that wasn’t really in the manga and that got added into the anime, such as the mention of Kohane being the one who was gonna exorcise the ghost and some parts during the scene where they go pay a visit to the girl’s house. I guess the latter was really a nice addition since in the manga I didn’t know what the heck was happening when they got into the ghost’s room until they explained it in the end.

Next episode: The one about Kohane which aired yesterday.

…is coming out tomorrow. (or maybe it’s already out, I dunno)

Now, I haven’t played any of the previous Hiiro no Kakera titles before… but I guess it doesn’t really matter that much since I’ve heard this is gonna include both the original “Hiiro no Kakera” and the “Hiiro no Kakera: Ano Sora no Shita de” fandisk (as well as some new additions such as minigames and a special scenario), so this should be a good place to start. As for the game itself, all I know it’s an otome game with full voice acting… which is a good enough reason for me to get this one for my DS. Woo.

Inspired, obviously, by this.

Flavor: Mild

You know, this episode could have been a lot better, but no… the shitty sutdio behind this had to go and ruin everything like they always do. The only parts I enjoyed were the scene where the Asakura sisters get drunk and when Yume goes all “Na…Na…NaNaNa~” because she had cut her finger and then Yoshiyuki went and grabbed her hand to lick the wound.

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Sad guys in the rain.

Flavor: Sour

The continuation from last week’s BL drama fest. I guess I should start by admitting that I didn’t really enjoy this arc. Like I’ve said before, I’m no yaoi fangirl so I guess that must be the reason of why a boys love romance dramatic story doesn’t really manage to capture my interest.

Anyways, this episode begins with Nowaki’s professor asking him to come with him to the airport since he needs to meet some dude there. When they arrive, Nowaki can’t stop thinking of what he told Hiroki about meeting with him at a restaurant to have a chat, and when he realizes that he’s gonna be late for the date he decides to abandon his professor and runs away. Unfortunately, when he arrives he doesn’t find Hiro-san since he had left the place a while ago.

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