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 16 – Retasu gets Isekaied and Tragic Romance Memories
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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