Monthly Archives: June 2006

With Friends Like These (hnKd 7/2006)

Chinese-style wedding dinners can be such a drag. Hordes of very distant relatives and colleagues you don’t even know, same old routine, same old menu, same old venue types, same old red packet tax. However otaku could do have friends-only … Continue reading

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Pani Poni Dash! 7

Pool cleaning episode in which Ichijou’s little sister with her “Pui!” and sketchpad is introduced. A great excuse to see the cast in the classic blue school swimsuit with the white name tag on the chest. Ichijou, being Ichijou, has … Continue reading

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Pani Poni Dash! 6

The Miyamoto Research Lab episode. Becky gets her own private office to be herself in, Himeko fantasizes about her experiments and a whole bunch of stuff happens, particularly with respect to that monster-laden trapdoor in the ceiling. Watanuki of the … Continue reading

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Pani Poni Dash! 5

School camping trip episode consisting of several threads that somehow managed to get weaved together. There’s the Becky-Kurumi group, the search for kappa and missiles by Serizawa and Miyako respectively, Rei’s Chinese cooking and Class Representative Ichijou’s rainmaking.

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Pani Poni Dash! 4

Becky springs a next-day test surprise on her class. Their overnight study session inevitably becomes a pajama party. We finally get a chara-stats intro to Igarashi-sensei whom I liked immediately because she is a drunk and a disillusioned teacher. Nowhere … Continue reading

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Strawberry Panic 13

I thought this was just going to be just a Hikari x Amane date episode but it turned out to be much more interesting. Right at the end of the episode, I had to pick my jaw off the floor … Continue reading

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Ich bin ein perv (hnKd 6/2006)

*NSFW* Many years ago the proudest boast was boku wa otaku de arimasu [I am an otaku]. Today, in the world of anime fandom, the proudest boast is ‘Ich bin ein perv.’ All free anime fans not yet captured by … Continue reading

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