Keeping up with doing shorter, but more frequent updates, here’s today’s. Nothing new watched, but started a new Manga.
Medaka Box
"I'm the student council and I'll do stuff for y'all" = the basic premise.
So this hawt genki girl which is good at everything runs around doing wacky stuff while dragging her generally uninterested but indispensable friend. Sounds familiar? Aha, but there’s more to it.
Our main girl Medaka, as seen above, is just doing it for the greater good, she loves humanity and wants to use her m4d sk1llz to help everyone. (in contrast to other usual reasons.) She (usually) is sensible too, so stuff goes just as planned, most of the times. And she can show her cute side to our main dude. (Also she has a huge cleavage, lol) (Also her lastname is awful; Kurokami using the black and god kanji, wtf)
Speaking of him, while our main dude is initially reluctant of joining the student council, he eventually admits he likes our main girl, and wants to protect her. (as he’s the only one who truly cares about her, as Medaka herself put). Plus he’s not as sarcastic and dry, making him wanting to do things by himself too.
Of course there's the childhood friend factor involved.
So while they might seem incompatible, she actually expresses she likes him, and he’s not a that much of dry character, fitting together well with each other. I liked this deviation from the usual loltsundere couple cliché that comes with those types of stories. Makes the characters much more likeable.
As this is a new-ish (Feb 2009) series, characters are still being introduced to join the student council team, so I won’t be able to introduce them all. There’s a character from our dude’s class, however, that I have to mention. A smaller girl that seeeeeems to be interested in our main hero, they’re friends and all, but acts as the informant character.
She's going to be the final boss I can tell
Her actions make it look like she’s the one planning it all, and she’s only involves herself when she thinks something will be funny or someone offers her food, she gives tips and timely commentary, sometimes even predicting what will happen in a chapter. And that’s awesome.
Besides those core three characters, there’s a girl trying to get our hero for herself, a dude trying to get our heroine for himself, and a character is taught about the true power of teamwork and friendship (or something!??!?!) as good manga needs to have at least some cliché situations.
So, even though the main premise sounds a liiiittle too generic shounen, I liked it a lot, and will keep up with it. The writing is pretty good too. (It’s by Bakemonogatari’s NisiOisiN, which quickly became my favorite d00d evar.)
Nagato Yuki-chan no Shoushitsu Manga
The much talked about spinoff series begins! Something I had forgotten to add on the last post, as I hadn’t added it to myanimelist. (I have terrible memory) The first line on the first page sums it up, it’s disappearance Nagato’s (ﾟ∀ﾟ) story, a what if Kyon had chose to stay in her alternative future. It has Asakura (ﾟ∀ﾟ) as part of the club, it’s drawn by Haruhi-chan’s Puyo (ﾟ∀ﾟ), it looks like Tsuruya + Mikuru will be the “villains” of sorts (ﾟ∀ﾟ).
No way I wouldn't keep up with this, just look at it!
Rosario+Vampire
Welp, I finished it. It had everything that caused me to drop To Love Ru, but I only realized it when it was too late. Villain of the week format, capture foes to your party, excessive pantyshots, and no real plot.
Akane-iro ni Somaru Saka
Watched 3 episodes already, I keep my impressions from the last post, I can tell I’m going to love this. They’re all nakama (lol) already, and she’s learning about the common life, and they’re warming each other up (wat), and nobody is really taking the fiancee thing seriously.
Plus they're just too cute (awesome hair itt)
And the side characters are great too, the supernatural (?) talking girl, the student president with even awesomer hair, the blonde girl which feels threatened by Rie.
On the harem side of the series, right now I’m rooting for the Rie Kugimiya character, they both fell for each other on the first episode, it would be perfect if not for the zany hijinks that happened after that (lol japan).
Bonus line: Notice how the only character of the new stuff I picked that I mentioned by name was Medaka (’cause her name is on the manga’s title), that’s how bad I am with names.
