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  • lolikitsune crafted this last love song at 11:32 am on August 20, 2010. Permalink | Reply
    It's categorized as Anime, and it's tagged over nine thousand things, including: , , byousoku 5 centimeter, canon, , dmc, , , gunbuster, , , , , , , ouran high school host club, , , , , , uta~kata. What a slut.
    At least it only has 10 comments and 395 views.

    Lolikitean Canon 

    Not a “Top 10″ list… more like a list of works that I find important, and which together paint a good picture of “my” anime experience. Some entries below list multiple shows. This is not an attempt on my part to say “derp, I’m cramming in more than ten”—it is a way of saying “any of these will do.”

    Except for #11.

    That is me saying “derp, I’m cramming in more than ten.”

    1. Honey & Clover
    2. Gunbuster
    3. ( Aria || K-ON! || Sketchbook ~full Color’s~ )
    4. School Days
    5. Cowboy Bebop
    6. Byousoku 5 Centimeter
    7. ( Amagami SS || KimiKiss ~Pure Rouge~ || To Heart )
    8. ( Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuuutsu && Suzumiya Haruhi no Shoushitsu )
    9. ( Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu! || Ouran High School Host Club )
    10. Mai-HiME
    11. Bonus: If you want to be the little girl. ( uta~kata || Nanoha || Umi Monogatari )
    12. Bonus: If you are a rapist. ( DMC )

    Why is this an ordered list? I’m bad at counting, so when I put this together I numbered them to make sure I was staying within my constraints. Of course, I failed to do so (see: #11), but failure is an important part of my character, right? Just wouldn’t be the LK without it.

    In any event, do not let the numbers above trigger any sense of priority or anything like that. God forfend.

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  • lolikitsune crafted this last love song at 10:06 pm on August 18, 2010. Permalink | Reply
    It's categorized as Anime, and it's tagged over nine thousand things, including: amazing, , , , , , slice of life, . What a slut.
    At least it only has 1 comment and 263 views.

    U&I 

    At risk of there being too many K-ON!! 20 posts on this blog in too short a period of time, I have a short public service announcement regarding the HTT song “U&I.”

    It is not, as I originally misunderstood—or rather, as it was originally conceived—Yui’s love song to her younger sister. Sure, it’s about their relationship, but it means a lot more than that to the show. Would HTT’s final concert end by focusing on Yui and Ui? Hell no. The final song of the final concert is a song about K-ON! itself, about the members of the club and how they live their lives.

    It’s not just Yui who’s helpless by herself: remember, she’s the one giving energy, according to Mio.

    No, “U&I” is more than all this: it is friendship, plain and simple a kind of friendship that is actually fairly complicated.

    If K-ON!! isn’t slice-of-life for you, I highly advise you do something about it as soon as possible.

    Go support someone and be supported back.

    Go make friend to whom you can sing “U&I.”

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  • lolikappa crafted this last love song at 9:28 am on August 18, 2010. Permalink | Reply
    It's categorized as site news, and it's tagged over nine thousand things, including: , , , , , . What a slut.
    At least it only has 5 comments and 277 views.

    K-ON!! 20 and NO FUCK YOU 

    What. Went. Wrong?

    Lolikit. LK-niisan. Where did you fall so hard? What happened to the trolling? What happened to the violence, the hate, the rage? How is it, that these many years on, I am the sole surviving LK that legitimately dislikes Lucky Star, K-ON, all of it? You had to have known. You had to have suspected. Your irony will only carry you so far, LK-niisan.

    I still rage. I still protest. I still leave in rage when my anime club at school puts on Lucky Star. (No, seriously, guys. They made me sit through the first episode. It was SO BAD. What the fuck do you see in this show!? Other than Shiraishi Minoru. Minoru-sama is still god.) I still make obscene jokes about YFR and CJ. I still bitch about Jason fucking Miao. I still fuck up my tags. Nothing will change, in my soul. Call me a dinosaur if you will! A relicant! A fossil of a by-gone era of trolling! But I will hold out. I will make my random unpredictable violent posts that no one gives a shit about. I will keep following the twitters of a dozen anibloggers whose blogs I don’t read. I will keep hating on what I signed on to hate, back in 2005.

    I’m not giving up. Never will my hate fade. K-ON is nothing but fucking moeblobs doing what moeblobs do worst: aspire to quality.

    So fuck. That. Shit.

    .lolikappa

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    • Ryan A 9:50 am on August 18, 2010 Permalink | Reply

      Super trolling isn’t how hard they troll, but how subtle and effectively they troll. You are just leveling up!

    • Baka-Raptor 11:55 am on August 18, 2010 Permalink | Reply

      The best thing to come out of this website over the past two years is proof that Anime Nano removed its Fuck filter.

    • lolikitsune 4:59 pm on August 18, 2010 Permalink | Reply

      Glad I could count on you, LK mk-3.

      But you knew this would happen, didn’t you? When I watched Aria. Set myself on a road of love.

      You knew this would happen.

      And you let it happen.

      Because you sir are the biggest attention whore of them all.

      Good night, and good luck.

    • j.valdez 8:04 pm on August 18, 2010 Permalink | Reply

      I’m an anime blogger and what is K-ON!!?

    • lolikitsune 9:16 pm on August 18, 2010 Permalink | Reply

      Wait I totally just understood what was going on here.

      Fuck.

      He’s not calling me out for betraying our creed.

      He’s parodying me. Satirizing me. Making fun of me.

      All the things I do.

      Comical.

      All the things I say.

      Jokes.

      Fuck.

      Life is no longer worth living. /wrists

  • ghostlightning crafted this last love song at 7:01 am on August 18, 2010. Permalink | Reply
    It's categorized as Anime,Episode Report,K-ON!!, and it's tagged over nine thousand things, including: Azunyan, , Mio, Mugi, Nodoka, Ritsu, Sawako, Yui. What a slut.
    At least it only has 2 comments and 257 views.

    K-ON!! 20 and Let’s be Honest Here… 

    lolipussy is being honest here:

    Would we cry when Alice loses her second glove if we had not been with her for 47 episodes? No. Similarly, HTT’s final concert would not impact us the way it does if we were to skip ahead to it. So episode 20 of K-ON!! is not a standalone best episode of all time… much like Aria the Origination episode 9, it is only as great as the sum of the preceding installments.

    First off, yes. Let’s all be honest here.

    I really shouldn’t have been surprised by this episode. It was going to be their last performance in school, so it would have to be some kind of triumph. The hype surrounding it as people started watching and reacting should’ve increased my expectations but it somehow didn’t — though I was very excited for the episode.

    And then I started watching, and I immediately felt there was something mythic about how the things unfolded. It was as if each small thing was something to be carved into the memories of all involved: the three cheers and the predictable cake joke, the curtain rising to reveal Yui on her ass…

    …and so many other things that would clutter this post beyond readability if I put them all here.

    One of the triumphs of this episode is how the show seriously allowed me, the viewer, to play so many different characters. I was Sawako who did all the shirts, I was Nodoka wanting to do this last thing for not only Yui and the club, but also the Mio fanclub; I was Jun-chan getting bored by the tedium; and by GOD I was Ui being a fucking stage mother off-stage for her sister.

    It was so successful with me that I utterly felt the non-letdown when Sawako found the girls huddled asleep in the afterglow of their concert. It was amazing how their afterparty was an orgy of sudden dread and melancholy, and so very much without cake… another promise Yui got them to break to themselves.

    To keep with the role-playing theme of this post. I’ll pretend I never got to hear the intimacy of their afterparty. It was a moment that was just for HTT, not even for Ui, Nodoka, nor even Sawako.

    But of course I, and every other viewer got to witness it. It’s fanservice after all. But I feel like I’m honoring the moment by not spelling it out. If I’m honest, it’s the best moment of the year.

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    • lolikitsune 7:08 am on August 18, 2010 Permalink | Reply

      You can be the peanut gallery and I can be HTT and every glorious second of their Honey & Clover tragedy.

      I can be Azusa tending to Mugi instead of Yui because holy crap, Yui was the best prepared for this.

      I can be Ritsu being Morita, and I can be Mio telling her that it’s okay not to pretend everything’s fine.

      And I will cry again the next time I become these people I love.

    • DonKangolJones 7:21 am on August 18, 2010 Permalink | Reply

      Great post. I have seen my fair share of great moments so far this year from several series. But I can completely agree with the statement about this being a culmination of the series as a whole. That moment was great not because if moved the K-ON community, but because it moved the K-ON fan personally.

  • ghostlightning crafted this last love song at 5:23 am on July 30, 2010. Permalink | Reply
    It's categorized as Commentary, and it's tagged over nine thousand things, including: Anime Industry, Casual Viewers, , Fans, . What a slut.
    At least it only has 8 comments and 553 views.

    The Ton-chan Effect 

    There is this speculation that the insular nature of the Japanese anime industry becoming even more so. I can neither validate these speculations nor resolve them here, I’ve pretty much kept to the sidelines when these are discussed in the various fora I frequent (blogs, twitter, google reader shared items).

    Arguably, this will keep fans like me, even if I watch and enjoy some of the contemporary (and popular shows, like K-ON!!), on the outside. Instead of looking forward to shows that appeal to my tastes (a lot of such shows were popular in the past; mostly robot shows and science fiction), I’ll find myself having to adjust my tastes more and more “to keep up” with that of the Japanese audience, if I want to remain interested in anime going forward.

    I imagine this in terms of K-ON!! episode 16, wherein I get to be Azusa wanting music (anime) to be a certain way, to have some level of seriousness (so to speak) but instead become carried by the current of indolent cake-eating. Azusa CAN enjoy herself this way, and DOES (like I do enjoy K-ON!! a lot), but this isn’t what she wanted to begin with.

    Jun-chan is even further removed, a near-complete outsider but interested in the light music club — like many casual anime viewers I’m acquainted with. They unfortunately wouldn’t get into the K-ON!! kinds of shows — and pretty much act like “tell me when there’s a new Gundam show again, or another TTGLI, or Samurai X, or Ghost in the Shell.” It’s quite a challenge explaining to them what I get out of cake-and-tea girl cartoons where “nothing” happens.

    I understand that the Japanese anime industry doesn’t exist for me, much less for my acquaintances who are hardly even invested in it. I’m just sharing this moment when I feel like I understood something about where I am in the scheme of things — which is nowhere of consequence at all.

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    • schneider 5:36 am on July 30, 2010 Permalink | Reply

      While I have not started K-ON!! yet, I will have to agree with you. I wasn’t a moe fan to begin with, but the more I realized that such shows were to stay, I decided to swim in them rather than sink.

      Thankfully, they weren’t bad at all. In fact, I found my horizons broadened as a result. I don’t regret this choice.

      Azusa resonates a lot with me, because while I like my anime to be a certain way (mecha), I get carried away with cake, because it’s just as fun, too. If I don’t find anime fun anymore, I could just outright leave. But that won’t happen anytime soon…

      • ghostlightning 2:42 pm on July 30, 2010 Permalink | Reply

        Yeah, there’s this thrill in discovering value in something that “you’re not supposed to,” at the same time there’s the letdown of attempting to watch all these shows from the ’80s and “you’re supposed to” like but end up not liking as much (e.g. Votoms, 32 eps in). There are stresses not only on one’s desires, but also on one’s identity.

        I think Azusa can represent many of us.

    • lolikitsune 6:45 am on July 30, 2010 Permalink | Reply

      Good post, very good post. Agree.

    • Robert Weizer 6:28 pm on August 4, 2010 Permalink | Reply

      I’ve resigned myself to the (not altogether unpleasant due to my relative “newness” to semi-regular anime watching [I started it with I believe Cromartie in February 2009, before that was Adult Swim and was infrequent]) fact that I’m much better off just ignoring the hell out of the “HEY WHAT’S GOING ON THIS SEASON” image macros and waiting for digiboy and others to write about it after it’s out.

      Any time that was delegated to complaining about the “state of anime” is explained away by this very fact that “it’s not for America and we have no chance to make any sort of impact at this point” and utilized towards a much more productive action: popping a boner every time I hear 70s and 80s super robot anime is more subbed than I thought or is completely subbed.

    • TheBigN 8:54 am on August 5, 2010 Permalink | Reply

      Instead of looking forward to shows that appeal to my tastes <– This is always an interesting point to consider regarding how one feels about anime today. I don't think we consider how much we expect things to fit into our box of enjoyment, and that might be why some responses to some of the stuff out there today might be too extreme for my liking. At the same time, I can also understand why some people are feeling because they aren't getting what they want, but I don't feel sorry for them if they choose to keep lamenting on that instead of lowering their interest in current anime (I hope not) or trying things that are out of their box, so to speak (which is what I hope for). Not that I want tastes to evolve as shows do, but just retaining an enjoyment for anime. Those two aren't mutually exclusive though. :P

      • Robert Weizer 11:41 am on August 5, 2010 Permalink | Reply

        I wouldn’t have tried Zetsubou unless I had started reading Fuzakenna and other blogs, personally!

    • lolikitsune 4:20 pm on August 5, 2010 Permalink | Reply

  • and crafted this last love song at 6:07 pm on July 26, 2010. Permalink | Reply
    It's categorized as Anime, and it's tagged over nine thousand things, including: backwards anime, black rock shooter, , , huke, , . What a slut.
    At least it only has 1 comment and 395 views.

    Black Rock Shooter OVA’s true essence 

    A while back, an article from The Cart Driver was shared on GRSI.

    Lemme apply the technique it taught me.

    If you watch the first season of Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha backwards, it’s about two super-powered girls in a Class S relationship losing each other’s trust and eventually coming to blows.

    Wait.

    Sounds an awful lot like Huke’s masturbatory OVA.

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    • chikorita157 6:33 pm on July 26, 2010 Permalink | Reply

      Maybe I should try that sometime when I complete the first season of Nanoha… Sounds fun. :p

  • lolikitsune crafted this last love song at 12:46 pm on July 23, 2010. Permalink | Reply
    It's categorized as Anime,meta anibloggery, and it's tagged over nine thousand things, including: , , , fml, gmh, , , , , . What a slut.
    At least it only has 4 comments and 361 views.

    Hanners made a funny; or, Amagami SS Episode 4: The Kannamiko Rule Applied to Morishima Haruka 

    lol

    I died a little inside

    Well, putting that joker aside, let’s get to the meat of episode 4. The verdict? It was not spectacular. Nothing surprising happened, nothing on the level of episode 3. Or… I should say that I in particular wasn’t surprised.

    Because I was expecting realism.

    And I got realism.

    Namely, I was greeted with an implicit retelling of Kannazuki no Miko’s most valuable takeaway message. Himeko worries about Chikane following the KnM episode 8 rape “plot device”, puzzling over whether her best-friend-turned-sexual-assailant is an angel or a devil. She eventually concludes that Chikane is just a sixteen-year-old girl.

    Now, Morishima Haruka isn’t 16. (And maybe she’s not a girl! We don’t know for sure, do we?)

    But the trope applies.

    When she breaks down in the hotel, crying about something so seemingly pointless—why hasn’t TJ confessed again? doesn’t he love her? wtf, mate?—rather than shake my head and sigh, I felt for her (and even more for TJ being subjected to the befuddling rant). One might smack her on the head and say, “Yo! Haruka! Maybe he’s not trying to be overbearing? Maybe the fact that he’s spending his Christmas eve with you is enough of an indication?”

    But self-confidence is a big player in reality.

    And ‘first-time’ feelings are scary.

    It’s understandable that Haruka feel outside her element, and be worried, uncomfortable. What she was thinking by dragging TJ to a hotel is… well, that ED article I linked about 16-year-old girls might provide some answers. I wouldn’t shout “slut!”—or, I would, as lolikit, but not here. A time and a place for everything.

    We can pontificate to our wits’ end as to whether all the dog stuff is reasonable/cute/weird/whatever, but in the end we see that this is not mere puppy love. Ten years down the line, the two are “rabu rabu” and still roleplaying.

    This show GMH.

    I hope future arcs live up to the stellar expectations set by this one.

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    • Shirukii 12:51 pm on July 27, 2010 Permalink | Reply

      But…he did confess again, and then she kissed him, and he kissed her popliteal fossa, and then they went on a Christmas Eve date. I can get behind the idea of the realism of an insecure girl who is confused and wants reassurance, but she had the guy giving her puppy dog eye whimpers and trying to nibble her inner thighs.

      • lolikitsune 3:47 pm on July 27, 2010 Permalink | Reply

        everyone has kinks! also, fuck you silky

        • lolikitsune 3:47 pm on July 27, 2010 Permalink | Reply

          bonus points if you misread that as “fuck me silly”

          • Shirukii 7:10 am on July 28, 2010 Permalink | Reply

            <3

            I'm still liking the show, I have high expectations for sex-hair-chan and the supposedly deretsun class rep.

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