Flavor: Sour

Seriously, no matter how you look at it, this wasn’t a good way to end Kohane’s arc. It seemed like nothing really happened and the whole conflict solved by itself. Also, the anime adaptation didn’t give any explanation to most of the events that happened on this story, so it’s like everything occurred with no reason whatsoever.

I mean, yeah, I know they couldn’t show all these annoying crossovers that CLAMP made between TRC and this series so that’s why they skipped the part where they explain that Kohane’s power came from one of Sakura’s feathers… but why could’t they at least show Kohane’s past with her mother and how they ended up with such an unhappy life? Or why couldn’t they, you know, just leave the ending as it was? It really pisses me off, and now I’m worried that they’ll ruin my favorite arc (the one focused on Himawari) which starts on the next episode. =/

Fortunately, there wasn’t any kind of sex in this episode.

Flavor: Sweet

Well, this episode pretty much covered the first three chapters of the manga’s side story called Junjou Minimum. The only chapter they missed was the last one where we get to see a shota Misaki and a young Takahiro. The final scene after the credits where Misaki checks Akihiko’s computer while the guy is sleeping and there he discovers a folder with a bunch of photos from his childhood days was actually how that fourth chapter started in the manga.

Anyways, I guess it was a really cute episode and it was nice to see how Hiroki and Usami met. It sorta loses its cuteness factor when you think about how things ended up between these two after all those years, but it was still good nonetheless. It looks like all this time the only one who really fell in love was Hiro… and even if Usami was the one who kissed him, hugged him and let him hold his hands, he never realized Hiroki’s feelings for him, or maybe he just completely ignored them because during that time he was already infatuated with Misaki’s brother. ^^;

Next episode: Finally… Junjou Terrorist!?

Flavor: Sweet

Well, looks like this series is finally coming to an end. There are still like three episodes left, but a lot of important stuff happened in this one, so I’m not sure if there’s still that much material left for them to cover.

Anyways, it starts out with Yoshiyuki searching for Otome all over the town, since nobody has seen her for a while. In the end, he isn’t able to find her, so he heads off to the Asakura sisters’ place where Yume is the only one around. There, for some reason, Yume accidentally begins telling him about how she likes him even though he’s always seemed to care more about her sister than her. Luckily for her, Yoshiyuki is an idiot, so he didn’t pay attention to any of this and just fell asleep. Read more

By the way, I just don’t like Kohane’s voice… it simply doesn’t suit her!

Flavor: Mild

Err, I think this has been my least favorite episode so far. Maybe it’s because I’ve already had enough of Kohane’s arc in the manga (good thing it looks like it’s pretty much over) but, yeah, I didn’t really enjoy this one. That scene where Kohane’s mother throws hot tea at Watanuki felt like it had more impact the way it was shown in the manga, and all the filler stuff they added in the end pretty much left me confused for the rest of the episode. Wait, I thought Watanuki was supposed to stay in bed and start ‘dreaming’? I’m not really sure but I remember that some important things happened during these chapters… so I was quite surprised to see them skipping to more Kohane stuff… but, well, whatever floats their boat. =P

Next episode: I don’t remember anything about all that haunted mansion business in the manga, so I guess it’s gonna be more filler stuff.

Flavor: Sour

In this episode, Yahiro brings Hikari to his beach mansion and then he decides to use her as a “bait” to make Akira come over to his place, but in the end Kei is again the one who goes there to rescue her. But, really… who cares! The only thing that matters is that this hasn’t really been a good show and that even though I haven’t read the manga, I’ve found myself feeling pretty annoyed at how they’ve handled this series so far.

Sure, these past few episodes didn’t seem to follow that tedious “Hikari tries to defeat Kei in some random challenge” format (which was my main complaint with the first ones), but it doesn’t really matter since what I disliked the most about these kind of episodes (that being Hikari’s unawareness of Kei’s true feelings) is still there. Seriously, I hate Hikari so much that I don’t think I’ve even enjoyed all these pseudo-romantic scenes (such as the ‘kiss’ from this week) they’ve shown so far. Also, the fact that 95% of the jokes don’t make me laugh doesn’t really help either.

Yeah, I hate them so much that I just felt like trolling a poor, defenseless fansubbing group! However, since I couldn’t find any bad fansubs on my computer, I decided to go and create my own fansubbing examples so I could flame them myself and explain what’s clearly wrong with every kind of fansub group these days.

First, we have that horrendous karaoke thing that’s commonly placed in both the OP and ED sequences. Seriously, even if I think that Doraemon’s OP theme is cool and spicy, I’m sure I will never feel like singing it since I’d most likely look like an idiot. Also, let’s not forget that fansubbers tend to use these animated, coforful, distracting fonts that often prevent us from enjoying all these fanservice shots that most opening sequences usually have on them nowadays.

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