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Kyoshiro to Towa no Sora 3-12

Zyl — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 15:18:55 +0000

My blogging of this series stalled at the third episode because I found Kuu’s incessant, rampant cluelessness and whining to be very irritating. But I was curious to see how KyoTowa compared to Kannazuki and saved up the rest of the series for a marathon viewing. In a sentence: It made more sense than Kannazuki but had less dramatic impact for me. As such, I’d be happy to fork out for the three Kannazuki R1s as and when they turn up in the TSRI bargain bin. KyoTowa, I’ll be deleting my downloads to conserve harddisk space.

That’s not to say that I thought it was bad or that I regretted watching it but I just did not find myself rooting for Kuu or Kyoshiro in the way that I rooted for Chikane in Kannazuki. Even after the Bladerunner revelation for Kuu and Kyoshiro finally realizing that Kazuya-niisan is Not Nice, I still couldn’t open up my black shriveled little heart to them. The constant repetitions of ‘Let’s go. Together!’ felt hamfisted after the Nth time. ‘Go where? And do what!?’ Plus how the pun about Kuu (空) as sky and empty in the title of the final episode (and the series title) was simply orz-inducing and I could just imagine Osaka trying to make one of her uniquely excruciating jokes based on that.

I liked Mika-sama a lot as her backstory and motivation was revealed. MOAR yuri 4TW. But also share the opinions of Xebek, TedFox, Leon and Adun that Setsuna was probably the most interesting and sympathetic character. The blonde meido design probably didn’t hurt either. :3 Shirukii might have wailed at how she cut her hair at the end but it’s a common indicator of moving on as seen with post-Shiroi Sei Satou in MariMite and even Chiyo, at first, thought that Tomo had cut her hair because of a break-up ("No way that’s possible!", laughed Yomi). Speaking of Azumanga (again), I just burst out laughing at the Kuu x Kyoshiro reunion scene because of how the former was running with a Tadakichi-like big white dog in a field of flowers – for me, forever now an immortal euphemism (complete with its own guitar score) for Nyamo’s sexual exploits.

I was also impressed by the work of fansubbers Ayako which took up this series as their inaugural project. A great balance between the numerous factors of speediness of release, quality of translation, video/sound quality and so on. They’ve become my fansub group of choice for series I’m catching this season. Thanks guys for your hard work!

Kyoshiro to Towa no Sora 2

Zyl — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 19:25:03 +0000

Zettai Kuu priorities. School destroyed, was attacked by big robots but her real DAI news was firsto kissu! Zettai nekkid bathing fanservice. Good but still nippleless though, unlike say, SHUFFLE! or Siscon no Strain Ep 7. Zettai energy transfer kiss. Hrmmm. Where have we seen this before? Kaon’s reluctance to be kissed by Himiko despite their HAWT YURI PASSION indicates this is harmful to Himiko. Zettai love-love denial. Setsuna not like Kyoshiro? Kaon x Himiko not Y4L? Yeah right. Zettai Evil Psycho Lesbian Mistress Mika-sama. Himiko’s punishment is probably equal parts pain and pleasure. Kaon is, understandably, upset that she’s not gattai-ing it with them for a Zettai threesome.

Kuu KKC zettai reaction detected!

Kyoshiro to Towa no Sora 1

Zyl — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 14:58:20 +0000

There was once a loli who was approached by an enpatsu lolicon prince and went together with him despite mom saying not to talk to strangers.

I met my perfect prince…

But he shrewdly gave me the pu-ru-run check-ku in the
first episode and not in the penultimate one!

IYAA~~! I nearly got caught!
Where’s my male audience though?

“Got-cha! <3″ said Kuu. Full name: ▼ Show

You know what, Himiko? I’m not really a glasses woman…

Well, there was big anticipation for this series given that it’s based on a manga done by the same mangaka as Kannazuki no Miko, employs the same animation studio (TWK), the return of most of the Kannazuki voice cast and similar characters. Other than the fairly common reaction that the OP/ED is a bit weak and that it needs MOAR YURI, it seems promising as a series to make fun of.

Proper reviews elsewhere.