Flavor: Sour

Initial reaction: IT’S RAINING WOMEN

Wait, what? I thought this was supposed to be an eroge adaptation? Why the heck is there no male harem lead?! At first it doesn’t really seem like such a big deal, but… seriously, if the male protagonist from the game was so bad and useless that they had to remove him from the show, what can I really expect from the plot of the series and the rest of the characters? Also, the lack of a guy in the main cast totally nullifies any possibility of having romance on this adaptation… which leaves us with, what? Lame fanservice and a story that has been told numerous times before? Why, no thanks! So far, I think there’s only a single series on my anime list that contains an all-female main cast, and it’s probably gonna stay that way for some more time.

Bah, and to think I was actually looking forward to this one.

Also, after noticing this…

I couldn’t help but think of this…

Keep blogging? OH GOD NO

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I guess I should’ve just used “Someday’s Dreamers” as the title instead.

Flavor: Sour

Initial reaction: NICE BACKGROUNDS

I’ll be frank: I didn’t pay that much attention to what happened on the actual episode (although I’m sure I didn’t really miss that much since… I mean, we’re talking about a slice-of-life series here!). After Sora met with her mother, I kinda stopped caring about what the characters were talking about and, well, I probably spent the rest of the episode staring at the pretty backgrounds and scenery.

All I can remember from the whole thing is that Sora somehow managed to perform some kind of magic trick for her friend in order to help her a bit with her love confession, and that in the end she took a plane straight to Tokyo. I also have some foggy memories of seeing a bath scene, but I suppose that’s pretty much it.

Honestly, this doesn’t seem like a bad show… it’s just that I’m not sure if this is really something I could like. However, if I ever end up following this, it will be because I find it interesting… not relaxing or whatever.

Keep blogging? Not sure.

Flavor: Sour

Initial reaction: So, the story is set in year 2020, huh. I never understood why people bother with these dates.

Well, this ended up being the first show I decided to check out from the whole batch of new summer anime series… last season, if I’m not mistaken, it was To Love-Ru. Coincidence? Absolutely, what else could it be?

Anyways, all I knew about this series is that it had boobs… and, yeah, they’re really everywhere. As expected, every single girl in this show, be it Musubi or one of the random villian sisters giving chase after the main female character, has enormous breasts. This, alongside the idiot male protagonist and the numerous ecchi moments, are enough reasons for me to skip this show.

The only thing that managed to catch my attention out of all of this is that it has kissing. However, it seems like they’re simply using the kissing as a “method” for the Ashikabi or whatever they’re called to activate the Sekirei’s full power. So, yeah, since “kissing with no romance = fail” and because of the fact that later on the series Minato is gonna have an entire harem of Sekirei going after him, it’s clear that I won’t be enjoying any of this.

Which means… I’m not gonna bother with this show. Woo.

Keep blogging? Most likely not.

Well, after a few hours of gameplay, I’ve managed to complete this little Nintendo DS game called Cooking Mama 2: Dinner with Friends (which is actually the third one on the series since a sequel for the Wii came out before this one), and now I guess I can safely this: if you really enjoy cooking… avoid these kind of games!

At first, it feels like it’s gonna be a lot of fun since you’ll be able to cook a lot of different international dishes and stuff, but the truth is that most of the time you’ll find yourself feeling either tired of doing the same things over and over again, or annoyed at how the food always ends up looking like total crap no matter how well or badly you did on the minigames.

Also, Mama seems to think that pounding my own hand while making mochi is reason enough to give me a silver medal… even if I managed to complete the minigame on time. Maybe a little blood fell into the rice without me noticing and that ruined the whole dish, or maybe Mama is actually judging my levels of stupidity, but I don’t really care anymore since I’m finally done with this game.

Whatever. I think it’s about time for me to move on to better stuff… or at least better games (like the upcoming Higurashi no Naku Koro ni DS remake or that one JP-only game that’s actually like a recipe book and it shows you how to cook for real).

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.

Now, can you find what’s wrong with the picture above? Exactly, that smiley at the end of the translator’s note! Seriously, I think that using these is a serious offense towards the old anime fans who in their days didn’t have any of these fancy smileys and at most they’d only be able to come up with things such as :) or :-(

Next we have the annoying stylish fonts that fansubbers just love to use in their so called professional works. Really, just imagine if your favorite mediocre JRPGs were translated like that! OH THE HORROR.

Get these TL notes out of my gore and yandere action, please!

Translations in actual art?! Now that’s what I call blasphemy!

Here’s an example of what a good fansubbing job would look like. The text is barely noticeable and everything is completely translated to English!

Seriously, if we don’t do something about it soon, all fansubs will probably end up looking like this:

…Or not. But, yeah, just be sure to remember this: The present is past and our past is the new future! Say no to horrible fansubz and just watch the god damn RAWs!

Inspired, obviously, by this.

This show ended while I was gone so I didn’t have the chance to write some kind of a final impressions post for it. But now that there’s nobody who cares about this series that much anymore, I might as well write everything I didn’t feel like saying when this show was all popular and stuff.

Okay, I admit it. I have something against this series. But it’s not because it’s so bad I hate it with all my heart… but because PEOPLE. FREAKING. OVERRATE. IT. TOO. MUCH. Seriously, the anime hadn’t even gotten to the good part yet and people were already saying stuff like it was the best drama they’ve ever seen. I’d frequently find posts in blogs and forums mentioning things like “HIROMI IS NOT A BITCH AND I CAN PROVE IT” or “I CAN’T BELIEVE TRUE TEARS IS NOT A KEY ADAPTATION BECAUSE IT FEELS LIKE ONE!”. It was really irritating but, nonetheless, I kept watching it every week and I didn’t let it bother me. Then, the last episode finally came out and I was suprised to still find a lot of fanboys who absolutely loved the shitty ending and labeled this as a masterpiece BIG LOL. Well, opinions are opinions and you can’t be wrong with them, right? How about no.

So, I’m sure a lot of you aren’t going to agree with me, but whatever. Here, let me point some of the flaws the anime has. First… let’s start with the characters. All of the male characters were pretty dislikeable, but I guess that didn’t bother me that much since it’s the same in all of these kind of shows anyways. But, what about the girls? Noe… she’s just plain dumb and I always saw her as a failed attempt at making a moe character. Both Hiromi and the filler heroine Ai were horrible bitches, especially Hiromi… yet I’m sure she has a lot supporters who fapped at her victory in the end of the series. Yeah, that’s there to show that a lot of fanboys will believe a character is good as long as it has boobs and they are able to find some kind of cute girly trait on her.

Next, the drama/plot. I suppose I enjoyed the emofest and the flood of plot twists we got during the mid-point of the series, but during this time the characters got extremely annoying that I didn’t care if Jun wanted to have hot siscon sex with Noe or not anymore. Also, they kept on using these crappy cliffhangers every week (like when Noe fell from the tree for no reason whatsoever) to keep the audience absorbed on the show but sadly it wasn’t enough to make me die of excitement while waiting anxiously for next week’s episode.

Ah, and don’t even dare to give me any of that “this show is deep” crap. Guys, the fact that it sometimes gets boring or all emo doesn’t make it deep. Besides, It’s hard to take a show seriously when it has chickens as some kind of a weird motif for the series, as well as stupid scenes such as the cliffhanger mentioned above.

Now, I’m not saying True Tears is total garbage (well, it is)… I just don’t see how it managed to get all that much praise from its viewers. When I get to see these kind of “this show is awesome, godly, exciting, flawless, etc” comments, I feel like I’ve been watching a different series all this time or that I should probably have watched every episode three or four more times in order to understand the “complexity” behind it.

Flavor: Sour
Initial reaction: Is this yaoi?

Huh? Either they went overboard with the BL jokes or this is really yaoi, orz. I mean, I actually watched the first episode of that other show with ninjas, and that one also had a few of these kind of jokes, but in this one they were all over the place and there was even a gay kissing scene. I actually don’t mind yaoi, though… it’s just that everything came out so unexpected because nobody had mentioned anything about this show having that sort of content.

Anyway, aside from that, I don’t think there was anything else that managed to catch my attention. The action scenes were pretty average and the overall episode seemed pretty boring to me. From what I’ve seen so far, I wouldn’t even recommend it to yaoi fangirls, though it’s obvious that there are a lot of them who would actually watch any kind of crappy show as long as it has gay material on it.

Keep blogging? Probably not.

Flavor: Sour
Initial reaction: ….Boobs? Again?!

Woah, that was certainly… weird. All I knew about this series was that it was based off of some comedy manga about a masked GAR maid, yet I never imagined everything would be that… eccentric. So, after all, I did end up laughing more than once, though ultimately the bad animation, the random usage of bizarre BGMs and the horrible fanservice ruined the episode for me. Meh, whatever, I wasn’t even planning on following this show anyways.

Keep blogging? I think not. HOW MANY UNFUNNY FANSERVICE SHOWS DOES A SEASON NEED ANYWAYS

Flavor: Sour
Initial reaction: Fanservice! What else?

Let’s see, um… random boob/butt shots during the OP, lots of girls, several boob shots throughout the episode, a sucky male protagonist with an annoying perverted friend, a bath scene, more boob shots in the ED… yeah, this is one of these shows, no doubt about it. So, will I be following this? Most likely not. Sorry, but I think all these obligatory sex scenes in the eroge/otome games I play are enough porn for me.

Keep blogging: Hell no. Doesn’t have a good story + Doesn’t make me laugh = Epic FAIL