I found myself belatedly developing an interest for and liking of Ryoko Asakura after the initial airing of Haruhi. It had been sparked off by the yuri content of Ryoko’s creepy stalker Shizuru-like crush on Yuki in the fourth novel, The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya but continued to grow with exposure to Stripey’s fanboying.
The critical limit of self-awareness was finally breached when I found myself purchasing a few Ryoko doujins and the Ryoko chara-CD (not to mention browsing of numerous Yuki x Ryoko doujins at ComiKet 72).
Continue reading ‘♥ing the heartless’
I’ll just dip my toe into the minefield that is the debate whether the ending was the suck or not before getting to the main point of this post. I haven’t read the manga so perhaps ignorance is bliss - I didn’t think the ending was that bad though I completely agree that Raki was so annoying and would have cheered if he had been put onboard the Nice Boat.
My main dilemma, though, was: Who was my favourite Claymore-oneesama, Miria or Galatea?
Continue reading ‘Claymore: Big Sword for the Big Sister’
On Day Two of the Tokyo expedition, this Zaku took it easy. Slept in to nurse my worn out leg servos and gyros, blogged yesterday’s happenings before having lunch with an old university friend and only after that did I launch off towards Nakano Broadway via the Tozai line. Less photographs than yesterday because of the high staff to area ratio, making it much harder to get away with snapping close-up pictures of stuff and thus having a high risk of breaking the 11th Commandment.
Continue reading ‘Fool Metal Zaku Fufufu in Nakano’
While Clare’s firm resolve is cute in a Loveably Stupid Saber sort of way, I just couldn’t help but imagine her being chased through the streets by Gloria Gaynor a la Ally McBeal (youtube).
Enjoying this series very much at the moment. Not least because of Clare-nee and the importance of dietary fibre. Yet I can’t help but suspect that I would enjoy this series soooo much more if Lucky was a girl instead and addressed Clare as “Oneesama~~~ ♥” :3