I’m so weak-willed.

I’ll have a more detail entry sometime this weekend, but to put it simply: It’s over.

Yes, I’m quitting the anime blogging world. To tell you the truth, it was bound to happen sooner or later. I’ve only been actively blogging for five-six months until I hit a major slump around last May. Even since then, I’ve been blogging pretty irregularly and nowadays with a 9-5 job (well really 10-4) I just don’t have time anymore. Maybe “old” age is becoming of me but it usually takes me anywhere from one to three hours to whip up a blog entry; especially the “recent” parody screencaps ones. If I hope to somehow keep up with my daily ‘net and anime watching activities, blogging has to unfortunately go.

I feel like a weight has been lifted off my chest ever since I semi-announced I’m quitting anime blogging. I always felt bad how I up and up stopped blogging certain series I initially thought I’ll do til the end. Tried even fixing that problem by going bad-humored screenshot caption style, but that was only a temporarily solution at best. Better now I announced that I’ve stopped rather than keeping my three and a half readers waiting for something that’ll never come.

For all the “burden” anime blogging has caused me in the past, it has been a fun ride. In the year or so of “life line by line” being up, I saw many changes in the anime blogging community. I won’t name names because I know I’ll be leaving out someone(s), but there were many rises and falls of anime blogs. Some of which readers of those blogs never expected. However, considering how anime blogging was a year ago compared to now, it’s starting to look like a “Golden Era”. For every one anime blogger that stops, five new anime bloggers will appear. And with that, new and innovative styles emerge. I can already see other more popular blogs taking on styles that I would personally like to think I had a hand in starting… like being a King of Anime Blogging Screenshots(TM).

There are way too many individuals I have to say thanks to. And to make sure I don’t accdentally leave anyone out, I’ll just simply say “Thank You” and hope those individuals know I’m talking about them It’s a cop out but rather that than tread on someone’s toes. Also, of course, I have to thank you the reader for sticking with my pitiful anime blog for so long! I wouldn’t have made it this far without any of ‘ya all!

For anyone (yes, all three of you) that enjoy my quirky blog entries I’m still posting on my personal blog 11~15% suki every now and then. If anything else, you can get a good laugh or be jealous over my “woe is me for spending money on anime” posts and pictures. LOL.

I may, may eventually take up anime blogging again sometime down the line. I don’t want to give anyone hope but who knows. If a specfic episode or series interest me enough, I might put something together that’ll resemble a competent anime blog post. Also wouldn’t mind doing a collaboration of sorts with other anime bloggers if the opportunity ever arises. Don’t worry, I’ll still be around haunting the anime blogging community at the usual places, so don’t expect me to totally disappear!

Once again, thanks to everyone for visiting for so long!

Before I write anything else, I have to mention that Maruto! Diary Room is where I’ve been getting the majority of my Mai-HiME and Mai-Otome fanart. Definitely check out the site as it’s a must bookmark for any anime fan!

Anyway, Sergay and Rouschach are in luv-luv suki-suki mode trading love letters and secrets no one should know about. Meanwhile for the underaged Otomes, exams are around the corner and it’s rather obvious Arika is ill prepared. After the majority of exams are over, only one is left: make 10,000 friends in one day survival/endurance test. For some reason most of the girls are scared but good old drugged up Arika is ready to give it a go!

Everyone arrives at the beach for the obligatory beach swimsuit fanservice scenes only to be disappointed they’ll be roughing it in nature. So while the younger girls setup base for CounterStrike, the higher uppers settle down at the local five star hotel with some extra baggage in the form of Mashiro, Sergay, and Nagi. Some flirting goes on with Nagi first hitting on Mashiro, Sergay, and finally John Smith but nothing much comes from his pimping. The following day the younger girls set off on a 100km hike as their survival test when in reality, Natsuki is simply too cheap to pay for the transportation. Also didn’t help that Natsuki spent the money on new bikinis for all the older Otomes instead; not like the students will ever know.

Speaking of the students, the system of pairing each of them off has done its job well as the only competent group seems to be Nina and Tomoe. Irina is the next Ryoga/Zoro in-training while Erstin’s heavy baggage eventually lags her and Arika behind. Things don’t get much better for the students as poor choice in food source, inability to cook, idol worshipping, sabotage, and forced yuri-ness slowly take its toll on them. Erstin takes the worst of the punishment having to get naked after a fever sets in with Arika the only hope of being rescued! Too bad for Arika, just when she thinks she found help, it turns out to be one of Midori’s Sentai of Evil ™ members… a crossdressing one at that! Arika not complimenting him on his horrible awesome fashion sense unfortunately ends up being her downfall, literally, as she falls off the cliff hitting the sea soonafter thereby ending the rest of Mai-Otome ending the episode.

The returning Mai-HiME female cast in swimsuits, need I say more? Actually yes I do, as this was a rather good episode that only makes me want more as pieces of drama and plot are slowly being revealed. Will Nagi turn to the Dark Side Schwarz after his one night of passion with John Smith? Will the Haruka versus Midori showdown be as hot as I hope? Will we ever see more Arika X Erstin, Erstin X Nina, Tomoe X Nina, Tomoe X Shizuru, or Shizuru X Natsuki? Will the girls ever be in swimsuits again? Where did Nagi and Sergay get their kick arse Hawaiian shirts? Most importantly however, will we ever physically get to see where exactly Shizuru gave Natsuki some tender loving!?

“Sergay is two-timing Nina with a man!”

“the sad thing is Arika took 20 lessons to get this good”

“Garderobe wants YOU to join the WindBloom Army! Sign up now! Meet Underaged Girls! Lolicons do not apply.”

“we were suppose to play this thing? Not throw it? Oops”

“Food-Fu Technique: The Oops I Accidentally Tripped but In Reality Meant to Do That Attack”

“Anyone would be like this after watching all of Evangelion in one sitting”

“Super Arika-jin Level 1.5 aka SAJ1.5″

“now that’s gotta hurt! *points to Arika’s behind*”

“Sakomizu got replaced by a huge floating device. Sadly no one ever noticed the difference”

“we’re on our honeymoon you know?!”

“I can’t wait for tonight! *giggles*”

“unfortunately to use the warp, you have to first defeat King Bowser and save Princess Toadstool”

“remember extra points for every person you get a headshot on”

“I still get screwed over in the manga version! argh!!!”

“product placement… heh-heh… what are you talking about!?”

“crap! I left the webcam on! With no new content, my Secret Lives of Otomes site will lose hits!”

“Shizuru’s game face is on!”

“Now to warm things up alittle”

“Natsuki likes… a lot”

“couldn’t you guys have waited until later… geez… the neighbors are looking too!”

“For the last time, YES I *do* have breasts! …even if they’re small”

“One day I’ll have a bust as big as Sakomizu this pool toy!”

“Whatever ‘cool’ points Nagi had went out the window after seeing this”

“plus Nagi still has some plug outlets from his time in the Matrix”

“Mashiro with breasts… impossible! I have a better chance of getting some than you”

“….What….the….FFFUUUUUCCCKKKKK!!!!”

“Whack-A-Nagi”

“Shiho should honestly take her maki-maki talents on the road; she’ll make millions!”

“this is what Mai-HiME needed more of!”

“When Arika wants to do it, she sure gets gunho about it”

“Shiho E. Coyote up to her old tricks again”

“Now Shiho has two things to fear: Miss Maria and Arika’s Cooking”

“Eyeballs covered in snot… yyyyyuuuummm!”

“taste like smelly sock covered in mud and fetus with a little bit of week-old garbage added for that extra kick”

“Even in the middle of nowhere, Shizuru only eats at five star forests with excellent service”

“… and then and then everyone came back alive and lived happily ever after! *telling the ending of Mai-HiME*”

“it may be small but it sure packs punch! Just look at…”

“… how satisfied Erstin is with it!”

“Arika is my Hero”

“You guys still haven’t found how to remove this super glued mask?! Stupid Youko and her April’s Fool joke…”

“you wouldn’t believe how many stopped cars the two girls got, asking if they wanted a free ride”

“maybe leaving Erstin with that 30 year old guy with a underaged girl with big breast fetish wasn’t a good idea”

“Hold up! Blasted old armor! I have to re-start it every five minutes! Can you help me pull the restart handle?”

“As thanks for helping me, I’ll let you decide which end of the whip you want *evil grin*”

Now that Natsuki’s bong has been found, she and Shizuru start to make preparations as other druggies fractions begin to make their move towards it. The source of half their troubles, Arika, has been punished by making her learn the finer arts of Janitor-Ken while cleaning Fumi’s memorial site. The other girls drop by to see a hot and sweaty Arika in all her underaged glory, also offering useless help and good food.

Arika is later at the library trying to figure out how to break the contract, as Mashiro’s nightly S&M sessions are starting to take a toll on Arika’s body. In comes Shizuru, swooning girls left and right, as she pimps her game to Arika easily finding the truth about what happened the day before. In the background Tomoe looks on longingly wishing she was Arika instead…

In the evening, Arika runs into her longtime childhood friend slash potential love interest Miyu (along with her emergency food rations, Alyssa). The two catch up on old times until Mashiro rudely interrupts the two; she’s here because she can’t sleep without her Arika hug pillow. Actually, the two are still stuck to the contract without any ideas what to do next. Arika and Mashiro run into some luck, however, as Miyu apparently makes an excellent jewel thief, taking out the GEMs neither of the two could do themselves. Unfortunately the contract is still in effect and left with little choice, Arika must now turn to a life of crime to be free.

The next evening she gets the rest of the Arika-gumi to help her sneak into Fumi’s memorial site, which also doubles as the school’s database library, graveyard, and emergency brothel. The group, after overcoming many obstacles the cheap security system, make their way into Nagi’s personal porn library the school’s database system only to be denied access since no one is a l33t h0×0r. Luckily they do find the room with grave markings of past Otomes, which is also Miss Maria’s hiding place when she loses confidence in her sex appeal. Miss Maria gives the youngin’s an history lesson involving her ex-lover Monica and some cock-and-bull question about fighting friends. Arika gives the secret third choice answer correctly, but then Miss Maria notices Arika’s GEM is gone so…

…the Arika-gumi are punished by cleaning up Fumi’s memorial site of the mess Mai did that one time she got hammered when she used to be an student there. And if life can’t get any more fun for Arika, her chain-and-ball lover Master decides to drop by to yell at her again!

Oh yea, evil bad guys are revealed and Midori is apparently the ring leader of the group. Rip off Char mask included. Go fig.

Good episode that setup a lot of potential plot. I just needed more Miyu and Midori to make the episode even better. Speaking of Midori, I’m sourly hoping when her group engages the Otomes, Midori will have a kick arse “evil villian speech” ready to say! Even if Midori is evil, she just wouldn’t be Midori without some over-the-top monologue speech!

“my popularity… is rising?!?!”

“learning Janitor-Ken was a bad idea afterall”

“same time next week Daddy for my ‘Special Little Girl Kiss’? *giggles*”

“apparently the uniforms double as vacuum sealed containers for food”

“I knew I shouldn’t have used hemp for the tubing material!”

“Arika showing off some of her Janitor-Ken techniques”

“the true path of a Janitor-Ken student is fought with many hardships”

“no… this isn’t the newest issue of Yuri Otome featuring fanfictions of you and Natsuki *whistles innocently*”

“Shizuru’s yuri powers harem grows day by day”

“that fictional story… all true. You wouldn’t believe how much of a wildcat Natsuki is in bed”

“Suigin Tou plans for revenge”

“you wouldn’t believe how many days it took Miyu to perfect her dark mysterious entrance”

“A-HA! I always knew Nina was a Nao fangirl!”

“*thinking* please let them not see the photo please let them not see the photo please let them not…”

“how much you wanna bet Miyu is naked underneath the coat?”

“mmmmhmmmm… chicken nugget…”

“Arika’s great great great great grandfather was Gohan”

“who dare steals my potential make out session with Arika?!”

“just like a monkey”

“…’make out session’…. Arika’s mine damn it!”

“If only I could attract as many women as Arika does”

“Jewelry is a girl’s best friend; Miyu is no exception”

“Irina if you don’t close that mouth, Alyssa might make a nest there”

“raise your hand if you want to have a threesome with Arika and Nina”

“ninja master Arika is not”

“… but but I traded nude photos of Nina for this cool ninja scarf!”

“you honestly don’t want to know what else that key could be used for”

“HA! Nagi does play for the other team afterall!”

“so which love motel is good for you?”

“Nina found out Nao bought those nude shots of her”

“*gasp* could it be…”

“… the forbidden Gundam SEED Destiny scripts?!?!”

“come on, pull my finger… ppplllleeeeaasssseeeeeee”

“having Neon Genesis Evangelion flashbacks”

“You’re My Bitch Tonight Smile ™”

“look just because I said Sakomizu had more sex appeal than you doesn’t mean you have to pull my ear!”

“*hears her punishment* wait… can I even fit that many?!?”

“Arika stood up her date with Mashiro”

“and training in Janitor-Ken continues”

“()#*$*@#& whoever this Mai person is… I swear if I ever meet her…*#8*ER&*(”

“doesn’t the guy look like he’s about to take a massive big one?”

“ooohh there will definitely be revenge for making me wear this mask! I wanted it in red gosh darn it!”

Mashiro dreams of moutains of ice cream and whipped cream until a nightmare that she might be a man a fake princess suddenly plagues her. She soon wakes up from the nightmare, finding out using Mikoto as a hugging pillow was a bad idea. Quickly going back to sleep thereafter, Mashiro dreams of throwing pies at the newly appointed court jester, Arika.

The following day, Arika heads off for some actual work, doing construction, while everyone else enjoys their time off. A bitch slap by Mashiro to Arika, another love letter by Black Valley, and Nagi almost getting to second base with Mashiro eventually lead the female dynamic duo to hidden ruins underneath the castle. Arika and Mashiro stumble upon the world’s biggest bong, but before they get a chance to smoke up, the two cause all glass-like material around the area to break. Mikoto then pulls an Wizard of Oz on the two girls saying they need more harmony and members if they ever plan to start their all-girl idol group want to use the bong freely.

Pondering who they can get to join their idol group, Arika and Mashiro are interrupted when a Bugrom from El Hazard decides to drop by. Finally realizing the big arse pendant around her neck isn’t just cool bing-bing, Arika calls forth the power of the blue sapphire GEM to go magical girl… Strike Freedom Meister Arika arrives!

After a quick battle that included some S&M and Magical Lyrical Nanoha A’s plagiarism, Mashiro and Arika eventually find a way back to the castle much to no one’s joy. The two by now have become lovers good friends after their forced Master-Otome contract; evening share a kiss at the end!

HGMS Strike Freedom: Version Arika was very cool. I thought we needed more chibi-Mashiro and Mikoto though. Also, apparently working under Mashiro will make an individual gain a few pounds through the years, as exemplifed by Sakomizu and Mikoto

“told she could become the #1 idol for lolicons everywhere”

“ironic that Mashiro’ll be in the same situation 10 years later *wink*”

“pre-Mashiro induced stress years”

“once again, ironic Mashiro’ll be in the same situation years later”

“overhearing her popularity as #1 loli is declining”

“blown away from seeing Nagi’s piece”

“enjoying the peaceful non-Mai era”

“Arika was unfortunately told of the orgy ritual they have for newbies”

“son of a… I knew I should have joined Backstage’s cabaret girls instead”

“love lettter from Mashiro; obviously not interested”

“too bad Mashiro doesn’t take rejection very well. Later on they would find the guy’s body in the local river”

“happy about finally getting a copy of the rare Mai-HiME XXX: Strawberry Mashiro Limited DVD”

“so it was you who took my panties last night?! I better apologize to Erstin later…”

“Nagi is an playa 24/7″

“… if you don’t want the others to know about Mai-HiME XXX: Strawberry Mashiro then…”

“whoa… your ass has gotten fat huh Mashiro?”

“Provider Of Food Must Live!”

“never knew Arika was a lolicon AND into bestiality”

“both are still a bit amazed at how good it was”

“biggest bong E-V-E-R”

“Crap! They found my hidden stash!”

“Vampire Hunter D would be proud”

“apparently Natsuki’s marijuana works really well”

“*pout* the kick is already gone!”

“Arika was a part-time rave goer before coming to WindBloom”

“Mashiro is still a tad mad that Arika took the last puffs from the bong”

“… just when I thought my raving days were over…”

“Arika either has helleva skill as a raver or the marijuana is still working”

“me thinks Arika might be a closet Gundam fanatic”

“ssswwweeettt… now where are my Wings of Light!?”

“old S&M injury flared up again”

“pipru~”

“Not as strong as Strike Freedom… but…”

“leftover unused prop from the first season”

“if I only had this LAST episode… @#$@#*$”

“wonder if you can get text messages too?”

“you wouldn’t believe how many times Arika fell over trying to maintain that pose”

“200th take… thank god it’s over!”

“now we know who’s on top and who’s on bottom *snickers*”

“just had popsicles and wanted to see if their tongues are still colored”

Writer’s block over her latest yuri fanfic, Arika decides to get some new ideas by experimenting on Nina. Confused over liking being touched that way by Arika piled with her lack of getting some father lovin’, Nina takes her anger out on Arika during training the following day. Unforunately this only earn the two ’special lessons’ by Yukariko. Things gets even more worse for Nina once everyone finds out she might be bi, and with her sexuality getting tested, she’s forced to team up with Arika in being Nao’s underlings.

Luckily Nao is a kind mistress so not much happens between the two, until during the annual Miss Garderobe Academy swimsuit event when tentacle monsters drop in for some fun. In the first unknown battle against the monsters, the girls easily lose as team leader Nina hits cloud nine while in front of an audience. Erstin, on the other hand, has the best day ever in her life. Arika, meanwhile, unfortunately learns diving belly first isn’t the smartest idea. And Mashiro becomes the number one lolicon in the nation. In the background the true cause of the problem, mastermind Shiho, laughs as another plan succeeds.

Losing face and her virginity, Nina wants payback bad. She enlist the help of her slaves as they eventually find the cause of the tentacle monsters. After making Natsuki recall painful memories of a similar past life event, the principal allows the girls to take care of the problem. Unfortunately someone has thought ahead and puts a wrench in Nina’s plan, instead making the monsters problem even bigger! Typical hentai tentacle monster scene later, half the girls are stuck in ecstasy while the rest tries to save them. Nao comes in the nick of time to take care of the monster like only Nao could, enjoying every minute of the ordeal.

After everything is said and done, all is well again at Garderobe. Shiho, who was behind the scheme, learns another valuable lesson. Nao gets some kicks and giggles plus another servant. Arika learns how to swim while also getting new material for her fanfics. Nina gets comedically screwed over again. And best of all, Erstin finally gets the loving action that Nina has been denying her since day one

“what happens when Arika doesn’t shave her mustache’”

“Daddy! Take me now! Yes yes yes! *practicing her lines for the faithful day*”

“just like the pillsbury dough boy”

“I have a perfect method to increase your bust size Nina *hehehe*”

“Arika… no… panties…”

“squeeze grab pinch… squeeze grab pinch… squeeze grab pinch…”

“on cloud nine”

“jealous but learning at the same time”

“Mai-Otome: the Game. Coming to PSPs in late-2006″

“catfight! *meow*”

“she’s actually my younger cousin’s friend’s friend’s little sister I babysit once in awhile”

“left her little friend on for too long”

“girls on top of the locker? This some cheeky music video in the making?”

“Mai must have royally pissed off Shiho to have so many swirls!”

“Tate got replaced by a wooden doll and phallic microphone. How sad”

“now that’s some good advertisement!”

“bow down to us as we are the rulers of your life!”

“HA-HA! That’s what you get Arika! Plus my breasts are bigger than yours!”

“someone has some magical fingers out there”

“blast that sour milk!”

“T minus 3…”

“…2…”

“…1…”

“watching in excitement”

“LIFTOFF!!!!!!!!!!!!”

“… they could have paid to watch me at least… *sniff sniff*”

“you know this day will forever be written down in Erstin’s blog”

“*sniff sniff* Daddy was suppose to be the first….”

“missing the old easy days of Mai-HiME”

“proving to the girls why she’s #1 in everything”

“realizing watching guy-on-guy action isn’t their thang”

“it would be so much better if it was girl on girl… like me and Nina…”

“Nina in the background debating whether going lesbian would be a good choice or not”

“Hey! Erstin is my pet damn it! Arika get your own!”

“good old tentacle monster going for the biggest breasted girl in the group”

“the monster is doing its forefathers proud”

“both holes… ouch”

“if that’s what she does to tentacle monsters… *cover privates* OMFG… ouch!”

“ironically enough Nina was watching a hentai exactly like this the night before”

“at least someone was a happy customer”

“hair drills strong enough to break even diamonds!”

“poor Nao trying to increase her bust size”

“you know those are really just used x-mas lights”

“unfortunately most of the budget went to hiring back Mai after she asked for a huge pay increase”

“tentacle monster or just blocks of colored jello?”

Arika’s dream of being a mahou shoujo with great powers are shattered as Erstin forces her up to the harsh reality of being an Otome with great powers, who can’t have sex with men. Not being able to ride the meat pole aside, Arika quickly learns her elementary school level of education isn’t going to cut it at Garderobe Academy and debates whether to hit on the smart girls so she can graduate. Before Arika has a chance to get her game on, Shiho bum rushes her away for some sisterly love with the Trias.

The Trias thoroughly work over Arika. Between a lot of tongue lashing and screaming Arika finds out the uniform fetish thief not only sold off her uniform but damaged it too! The other girls think Arika sold her uniform just because she couldn’t make enough as a cabaret girl but Arika denies she’d ever stoop so low. Meanwhile, Sergey and Nagi are discussing Arika’s excellent services while debating whether or not they want to sponsor her for the Miss Otome 2006 Beauty Contest. Sergey goes on to shows the Otome fanboy in him as he tells Nagi about Backstage, a gay bar slash Otome otaku wet dream come true. The two start to wonder how much they could sell Arika and Nina’s underwear…

After the tongue lashing by the Trias, Arika gets into deeper trouble as Natsuki and Maria find out about her sold uniform. Arika is punished by having to watch and dissect all 100+ episodes of Gundam SEED and Gundam SEED Destiny much to her charging. A pick-me-up letter by her stalker and encouraging disses from Nina eventually knock some sense into Arika as she starts to search for the uniform fetish thief.

Promising Erstin, Irina, and the Trias to share her collection of Mai-HiME XXX DVDs the group gets down and dirty looking for clues. Nina starts her own investigation after kicking down Nao’s favorite sleeping spot and begging for help. Arika’s team doesn’t find much besides Akane’s boy toy but Nina and Nao hit pay dirt after hitting some bars while dressed up like gay sailors.

A last second hint from Mikoto gives Arika’s team an idea of what could have happened just as the Queen of the country stops by to make fun of Arika. Everyone gathers to hear Irina’s far-fetch theory that Mikoto manhandled the uniform and much to the shock of 99% of the people in the room, Natsuki takes it as an logical possibility. Mashiro with her tail between her legs runs away in defeat while the other girls plan to throw a late night orgy to celebrate Arika’s stay. Nina declines the invite instead finishing business by telling the true culprit Miya to lay off Arika as she’s Nina’s bitch. Miya does a perfect re-enactment of Mashiro only to be caught by her mistress Tomoe. Tomoe lays down the law on her slave punishing Miya by not letting her join the nighty orgy with the girls.

Once again the power of friendship solves all!

“the day after turning to the dark yuri side”

“if only to be that pillow ”

“Erstin and Nina were too much for Arika on the first night”

“Eating that burrito for breakfast was a horrible idea after all”

“aaaaahhhhhhh… feels like I lost 10lbs!”

“*looks at Erstin & Irina* You know, suddenly I feel like eating some Skittles”

“gave away Shiho’s secret that she stuffs her bra”

“*sniff* why does your hand smell like tuna fish…”

“ahh… Mini Tate is actually this small huh?”

“2nd cousin of Mamoru Chiba”

“Definitely my type of store!”

“1500yen for each PVC?! Damn… I wanna ‘em all!”

“excited after hearing they’re going to Disneyland”

“Trying to one up Belldandy’s place as #1 Goddess”

“after seeing Nao is beating her in popularity ranking”

“you know Nao used to be a guy right!?!?!?”

“Unknown to Shiho, Maria is vice president of the Love Love Nao club”

“there’s THAT many members in her fanclub?!”

“eh… I’m fired from the show?!? I knew I should have had sex with the director!”

“Nagi died while riding the Dumbo ride at Disneyland?! *dances with joy*”

“che… that’s what he gets for trying to take over my show”

“…if you’re reading this letter, Mashiro has killed me just because I called her flat-chested…”

“shoot… Nagi was cute too! *little boys fetish*”

“what?! Daddy was hurt too…”

“That bitch Mashiro! If she injuried one hair on him…!!!”

“Nagi made this look so easy! Whoa… *falls*”

“MWHAHAHA! TAKE THAT TATE AND REITO!”

“the things they do to get some ass from Nao”

“come on, can’t you make the price cheaper!”

“fine fine fine. Since you’re Nina’s father, you can have all three of us for only 1,000,000yen!”

“still laughing in joy over Nagi’s early death”

“… come again… Nagi is… ALIVE?!? Son of a…”

“Mikoto let loose a big one”

“I get a pay raise if I do what to whom again?!”

“*hears what Natsuki has to do* is that even… humanly possible?!”

“*Natsuki demonstrating her abilities* whoa”

“none of them knew the female body could bend like that”

“tonight I’m gonna ride you like the little bitch you are”

“No no no… anything else but that! Not all of Gundam SEED Destiny in one sitting… nnnnooooooo”

“Stupid hitmen can’t do a simple job. Next time I’m hiring Ai Enma to get the job done!”

Haruka makes a grand entrance not only saving the day and Arika’s stripping career, but ensures Arika has a place to stay after bribing Mashiro with promises of a life time supply of free chocolate. Some Haruka gropping Arika and Mashiro being jealous scenes later, lead to Arika officially being an Otome on the rule she can never do the diddy, unless she wants to lose her powers. Also something about if either she or her master get into too much S&M play, both will feel the other’s pain. Not like that’s that important anyways.

Arika soon gets introduced to the rest of the class only to unfortunately find out she’ll have to become a cabaret girl to pay for schooling. Depressed over not being able to get any male action and having to maybe start a new career, Arika gets n00bed by Mikoto after the cat steals her food! Luckily Tomoe comes in to give Arika some tender lovin’ care before being called to help her onee-sama in the baths.

A lot of female flesh and flashing later, Nina is alone pondering how she can get into Sergay’s pants when along comes Nao. Nao in the most tacky outfit found in the series yet, the student’s uniform being #2 btw, offers some pointers to Nina while also hinting Arika might get bullied soon. The person in question is recharging her batteries as the nano-machines do their magic whilst she ponders her start as an Otome. Behind the scenes, someone steals Arika’s outift as an outcry of having a uniform fetish.

Good episode but needed more Haruka and nikked females in my opinion.

“this was so not in my contract!’”

“Haruka knows how to woe a girl; nothing like looking at the beautiful sky… at 10,000ft above the ground”

“The many…”

“…faces of…”

“…Haruka”

“pissed because the committee denied her request to convert the castle into an candy factory”

“could have so beaten Willy Wonka too”

“good child bearing hips”

“could use a little work in the breast department”

“Unlike Shizuru’s, mine are all natural!”

“Please tell me Nagi just didn’t whip *that* out…again…”

“oh god Mikoto! No being alive should be allowed to make that smell!”

“after hearing she can’t hold all night keggers and orgies”

“Crap! I knew that one time with the donkey, whip cream, and clown would come back to haunt me!”

“Otome Burgers: offering the best burgers by underpaid and underaged girls”

“With too much on her mind, Arika said ‘no’ to the lesbian orgy happening that night”

“I specifically said I wanted streak, not cat! Worst food service ever!”

“Don’t forget girls, I’m the real star here”

“Tomoe’s first step in her twelve step plan to bed Arika”

“Erstin asking if Arika likes being on top or bottom”

“I would be staring at them too Shiho”

“Shizuru’s body double in the background”

“watch out! Those things are dangerous!”

“Akane’s oozing confidence over her assets”

“Whoa.. those are bigger than my head!”

“WTF?!! She has a dick too!?”

“Hmm… How to become Daddy’s ‘Special Girl’ in 30 Days…”

“if only daddy was a lolicon”

“There are just some things even Nao can’t make work”

“low battery. please save all work before automatic shutdown. bbbeeeeepppp”

Fate/Stay Night anime! Enough said.

Probably the only time I’ve done this, click on any of the thumbnails to get a full size version of the image

I’m in too much of a TYPE-MOON fanboy mode to actually review the short four minute prologue but much to say, it rocked on many levels! Sure it can’t compete with the CG of the game, but who in their right mind expects the anime quality to be exactly the same as its game counterpart? I know I don’t.

Even still, the animation quality is definitely better than some current anime out there. For one, the fighting scenes were just plain awesome. From the Archer versus Berserker graveyard battle to Lancer versus Saber at Emiya’s home, everything was a treat for the eye! I also can’t forget to mention the short added section of Fuj-nee, that even with the slight quality drop, was still a fun treat to watch.

Seiyuu wise… well I couldn’t be happier. Basically every character is voiced by a known japanese voice actor/actress. From the short prologue, I’ll have to give instant props to Kana Ueda (Rin), Ayako Kawasumi (Saber), Junichi Suwabe (Archer), and Miki Itou (Fuji-nee)… basically anyone who had more than one speaking line ^_^;; Good to see Kana Ueda in a more serious role that doesn’t necessarily require her to do an accent and I thought her part in the prologue was pretty spot on. Ayako Kawasumi also does a fine job, like she ever does less, especially during the scene her character Saber and Emiya Shirou meet. I know F/SN fans were jumping in joy over that particular scene! Junichi Suwabe, the man who plays so many villians finally gets to be a “good guy” of sorts for once! He definitely brings a new level of arrogant cool to his character Archer during his introduction scene; though hearing Junichi Suwabe’s engrish brings tears to my eyes. Finally but definitely not least, Miki Itou rocked it as the comedical Fuji-nee. period.

Pretty bad review right? Sorry but it’s extremely hard for me to write anything sensible considering I’m a decently big TYPE-MOON fan and have been waiting months to see the prologue. Only have to wait another month or two before the anime start and god knows until the DVDs come out. It’s already pre-licensed in the US by Geneon (I think) but odds are I might double dip and get both the R1 and R2 DVDs of the series. Me double dipping for the first, and hopefully only, time will without an doubt kill future purchases but I’m too big of a fan not to get both. Plus most of the time the R2 come with better goodies than their R1 counterparts so…

For those loyal readers still checking back on this blog, I present some nice eye candy images (not safe for work) of the females of Genshiken. Enjoy!

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