After a setback, the girls finally collected all the wood needed again. It’s time to see how the tree house comes together.
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Do it Yourself (Live Action) – Episode 8 (END) – Building the Treehouse and Fulfilling the Promise
Yuru Camp (Live Action) – Episode 3-4 – Nadeshiko Treats Rin to Food, Rin’s First Far-away Camping and Outdoor Activity Club Goes Camping
Rin is surprised after Nadeshiko shows up and Rin out of her seat. Nadeshiko wants to repay her for the Cup Ramen. Also, Rin finally uses that iconic scooter to go camping in Nagano. That is while the Outdoor Activities Club does their own camping.
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Yuru Camp (Live Action) – Episodes 1 and 2 – First Impressions
Now that I have registered for the JLPT N2, it’s time to start immersing myself in full-throttle all the Japanese media I’m interested in. This comes in video games, manga, and even Jdrama.
Since I will be finishing up the Do it Yourself live-action, which I have been covering and watching with Japanese subs, another one that came to mind is the Yuru Camp live-action. With that, I watched the first two episodes and plan to cover them. Believe it or not, as mentioned earlier, the same director from the show worked on this J-drama.
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Do it Yourself (Live Action) – Episode 7 – When Your Supplies Disappears, You Gather More
Sadly, when Serufu and her friends leave, the DIY club experiences a considerable setback. However, they don’t let that end their plans of building their tree house.
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Do It Yourself (Live Action) – Episode 6 – Blueprinting and Miku Finally Defrosts?
At last, all the materials for the tree house is finally collected. Now it’s up to Sefuru to develop a blueprint, but this might be a bit difficult. It’s up to Jobko now. Also, can Sefuru make up with Miku?
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Do It Yourself (Live Action) – Episode 5 – Stage Performance, the DIY Way
Now that the girls raised enough money, they finally sold their DIY creations to earn money for tree attachment bolts for the tree house. Of course, Takumi decides to help out the drama club.
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Do It Yourself (Live Action) – Episode 4 – Miku doing “Outdated” DIY?
At last, Kokoro joins the cast, but only with a small introduction. While the DIY club plans to build a tree house, there is quite a difference since this is the abridged version. But at least there is a beach scene, though.
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Do It Yourself (Live Action) – Episode 3 – Queen Juliet Appears
Juliet finally appears but cries outside the DIY club since she enrolled in the wrong school. It’s obvious where this is heading.
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Do It Yourself (Live Action) – First Impressions (Episodes 1 and 2)
Did you know there is a live action adaptation of Do It Yourself that is airing right now? Well, I decided to check out two episodes and here are my brief thoughts about the first two episodes.
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Tokyo Mew Mew New – Episode 21 – Minto Reveals Her True Identity and Deep Blue
Leaving off from the last time, we see Quiche, Pie, and Tart try to awaken the being inside the “Blue Knight.” It becomes apparent what he is as Aoyama/Blue Knight looks like them. Also, Minto finally reveals her identity to her older brother to help stop the air-cleaning airship from going haywire.
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Tokyo Mew Mew New – Episode 20 – Aoyama’s Identity Revealed and Alien’s Final Stage Plans
I was off last week since I decided to take a short break during Memorial Day. So, of course, this Tokyo Mew New episode is straightforward as the show heads to the climax. It becomes obvious what is the identity of the Blue Knight really is.
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Tokyo Mew Mew New – Episode 19 – Crossroads in Revealing Ichigo’s True Identity.
Ichigo is feeling under the weather lately as something bothers her. It’s about her relationship with Aoyama and hiding the Mew Mew secret from him. Yes, the thing is that superheroes and superheroines conceal their true identity. That ends in this episode, but does he already know?
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Tokyo Mew Mew New – Episode 18 – The Mew Mew Project Origins
After Shirogane kisses Ichigo while in cat form, now he has to explain himself to Ichigo.
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Tokyo Mew Mew New – Episode 17 – Zakuro and her Friends Make a Music Videos
At last, we have the Zakuro episode, as she wants her friends to help her create a music video. She seemed tired when she came into the café and showed them the script book. It’s funny to see the reactions of Ichigo, Minto, Retasu, and Bu-ling.
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Tokyo Mew Mew New – Episode 16 – Retasu gets Isekaied and Tragic Romance Memories
At last, we have a Retasu episode as she and Shirogane investigates a Mew Aqua there. Then, of course, Quiche shows up and throws their mission into a spin.
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Tokyo Mew Mew New – Episode 15 – Bu-Ling’s Mother Revealed and A Birthday Present Ruined
At least, we have a Bul-ling episode as she throws 5 siblings a birthday party. In addition, as usual, there are some funny moments as Tart tries to execute his plan to make Tokyo into a sea of magma.
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Tokyo Mew Mew New – Episode 14 – Minto’s Environmental Ambitions
While the mystery behind the Blue Knight continues, Minto runs away from home. It becomes obvious why.
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Tokyo Mew Mew New – Episode 13 – Quiche’s Revenge and Ichigo Brings her New Boyfriend Home
After Ichigo finally gets out of her cat form and joins her friends to defeat the thing at Tokyo tower. Either way, the alien’s plans were thwarted, and Aoyama and Ichigo are now dating. I expected this to happen, but at least Zakuro and Mint are canon.
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Edomae Elf – First Impressions – The Elf that Loves Video Games, Anime, Manga, and Other Otaku Stuff
Edomae Elf or Otaku Elf intrigued me since it was a Miko girl looking after a 600-year-old something elf lady named Elda. Koganei Koito, the new shrine maiden, discovers that Elda spends her time doing otaku stuff.
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RPG Fudousan – Vol 2 Review
While I read the first volume of RPG Fudousan (RPG Real Estate), it’s pretty close to the anime. So let’s focus on the second volume.
Author: Kenmotsu Chiyo
Publisher: Manga Time KR Comics (Serialized in Manga Time Kirara Carat)
Original Release Date: April 15, 2020 (Japanese)
Genre: Fantasy, Real Estate
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Kizuna no Allele – First Impressions – What Did I Watch?
Typically, the shows I usually pick meet expectations, but the first episode of Kizuna no Allele leaves me very perplexed, and I will probably drop it. Kizuna Ai has been primarily on hiatus for a couple of years. Since then, the VTuber scene has evolved with indies and even Hololive coming in. They aren’t always about VTubers being idols, as they live-stream video games and talk with the audience about stuff. However, they make songs for Anime (e.g., Jahy-sama wa Kujikenai for one of the ending themes with members of Hololive singing it).
This feels more like an idol show, and Miracle does feel like a cliché-fest. She takes a detour and, of course, sees a handsome-looking guy drinking tea in a greenhouse. Yep, how Miracle reacted kind of makes me want to stop here, but let’s give it the benefit of the doubt. She also does a performance, and of course, she tries to ask advice from a prominent Vtuber for a collab just to get rejected.
While I admit that I don’t follow too much on the VTuber stuff. I watch some occasionally, and they mostly live stream games and talk about things with the audience from what I saw. But I will probably have to agree with Clare’s impressions of the first episode from Beneath the Tangles. It didn’t grab my attention besides Ai’s performance, which is probably the best part of the episode.
I will probably watch the second episode, but I am not confident it will change my initial impressions.
Welcome to Kireina Yuri
I have this domain sitting here since my failed project didn’t go anywhere trying to create an anime community from scratch. Since Sakurajima took over the “Twitter alternative,” this domain has been sitting there. Eventually, my Japanese study log moved to this domain, but it didn’t fit the “yuri” theme.
Since I’m reading more Manga in Japanese, I would put them here instead of sharing my thoughts on Mastodon. It’s primarily because of the character limit. I don’t want to adjust it to fit more thoughts about Manga when a blog format suits me better. So here we are. I will make another side-anime blog focusing primarily on CGCT and Yuri Manga. Most will only be titles that are Japanese. I may put manga titles with an English translation on my main blog, but most will go here. My main blog will still cover shows I plan to watch, editorials, and reviews of Japanese-related stuff (along with select manga reviews).
In addition to manga reviews, I will post short anime impressions here. The problem with sharing impressions of what I watch is that posts on Mastodon get buried as time passes. On a blog, it’s easier for readers to go back and read my impressions on a particular title well into the future.
On the flip side, this blog will serve as a bridge from the Aniblogosphere to the fediverse. I will have this blog-only ActivityPub enabled. Reading what the plugin does, users on Mastodon, Misskey/Calckey/Foundkey, and Akkoma can reply directly to the post there, which will appear as a comment on this blog. We do block the bad instances like on Mastodon, as the Alt-right doesn’t deserve a platform at all. It will allow for more interactions with the readers as they don’t have to fill in the comment form just to say whatever they want.
With that, I plan to whip up a temporary header image and finish the design sometime this weekend.
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