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Now that I am finished with finals, I have no excuse to not trudge through my backlog of unwatched and unread anime and manga. The first of these is Moeyo Ken OVA, released in January 2005 by ADV Films. I bought this DVD in Japantown during the Cherry Blossom Festival in April for 5 bucks from a video store that was selling off previously rented anime. I bought it and figured I would give it a shot. I finally got around to watching it this past week.
Today I watched Pale Cocoon and found it very interesting albeit slow for something that has a duration of 23 minutes. The setup is that it’s the 2600s and a man named Ura works in the Excavation Department, inspecting and restoring visual media from the time when the Earth’s surface was still green. His co-workers, including the somewhat aloof Riko, have grown disinterested in working to preserve and categorize images of things that don’t exist anymore and consider it a waste of time. That is, until an unknown video surfaces in Ura’s workload.
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How not to show off an elfgirl poster
I ordered the Genshiken box set in late December as part of RightStuf’s Christmas sale, got it about a month ago, and finished watching it over the weekend. Before I got the anime in the mail, I had already started reading the manga and recently finished volume 2, the plot points of which are covered in episodes 2-7. It was very entertaining for me to watch as I was familiar with the various subcultures of fandom, like cosplaying and figure building, as well as the societal stigmas that such practioners may encounter in public situations.
Fujiwara Sunao is a girl who dresses like a guy, casually rebels against the principal, and has the ability to manipulate water. She tries to keep her secret hidden while solving problems like dying birds and a single father unable to control his little daughter. Meanwhile, the class president Ikushima makes “advances” on her and the school nurse “Mr. Shizuki” has playful stalker tendencies.
I liked the stories and their morals as well as the art by author Setsuri Tsuzuki but most of the little comedy there was didn’t really connect. Then again, I didn’t expect much as it was labeled “Fantasy/Romance” so it doesn’t negatively impact it too much. I was already accustomed to woman-in-men’s-clothes gender subversion with Ouran so I didn’t have problems following Sunao but having to remember that the nurse was actually a man took a bit more work considering his pigtails. The rating of “Older Teen 16+” is applied because there are a couple pages where Sunao is naked and there is some contact between Ikushima and a fellow student.
My damn scanner was being cranky so I had to go the analog route.
I stayed up all Sunday night trying to write a paper so I read the first volume of Chibi Vampire (aka Karin) while eating breakfast at about six Monday morning. I thought it was an enjoyable introduction to the romantic comedy story of a high school girl who is a “reverse vampire”. That is, the main character Karin likes the day, hates the night, and produces blood rather sucking it from people. Her “victims” become more energized than before when they were stressed out due to her infusions. Why she is different from the rest of her vampiric family has yet to be explained but I think it will be as the plot progresses further.
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