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Majime na Lolikit

She may have her reasons for what she’s doing (actually, it’s pretty likely) but wow, what a fucking asshole. Dorito-kun should slap her back to her hospital room. Also, brother complex is kind of foul.

As for Matsuri… running away in order to get the protagonist to come after you is pretty bitchy, too. And pansy. And such. But she’s still better than Aono. ’cause she at least pretends she’s doing what she’s doing for other people.

When Aono’s eyes faded to a flat gradient, I thought to myself,
“YES YES YES DO IT DO IT DO IT”

And then Dorito-kun wtfstabbed Matsuri, and I thought to myself,
“WTFSTAB WTFSTAB WTFSTAB”

The show is still pretty, though this episode demonstrated the first major flaw apparent in character animation—the thumbs in the scene where Aono hands the photos back to Dorito-kun. Oh well. You win some, you lose some. At this point, the show’s major shortcomings include and are mainly limited to one thing: it’s too fuckin’ Japanese.

Majime na Lolikit

And in the last week, I happen to have watched quite a bit of it.

Here’re some comments…

NHK ni Youkoso (episodes 5+6)
Eh, I’m really not a fan. Kind of like how Bleach fails at parody and Lucky Star fails at not failing, NHK ni Youkoso fails at not being what it depicts. Sure, it says bad things about hikikomori and NEETs and so on and so forth, but all the while it’s bombarding the viewer with stuff aimed at those in similar positions to Satou. The fanservice is pretty exceptional for a show the summary of which is not “girls blow eachother’s clothes off.” It’s enjoyable, I guess, but I’m not hurrying to finish the show.

Honey & Clover II (all)
For the longest time, I refused to download the first season, calling others “h&cfags” and writing this show off as overrated. And I continue to think that it’s overrated, even as I’ve seen both seasons. That is to say, I don’t think it’s the best show ever. It does amazing things most anime I’ve seen doesn’t, but—and perhaps this is just me—it fails to meet certain aesthetic criteria to be my favorite. That said, it’s fucking amazing. I almost cried at the honey sandwiches at the end, for all they symbolized and all, and it feels like that scene from season one where they searched for the clover has been burned into more pairs of eyes than the characters’ alone. I’m glad I finished this show after so long (almost a year since I was first told to love it).

Rozen Maiden Traumend (all) (because I can’t be assed to find the entity for umlauts)
The second best episode was episode one because it had the funny. The best episode was the last because it was the last episode. Every moment of Kanaria was agony; it was bad enough that she ruin countless minutes of the show’s airtime with her unfunny/unintelligent antics, and then she had to go get the best character killed? Also, I have problems with Souseiseki going down the way he did in episode 8. In season one, he was pretty meh. But in season two, he proved that not only was he an okay person (unlike, say, Jun or Kanaria) but that he was intelligent (unlike… everyone in the show) and that all went down the drain when he died. That actually managed to upset me, so I guess some of the series’ pathetic appeals worked despite Kanaria’s shittiness. Finally, the 10 seconds of fight between Shinku and Bara in which they used all the dolls’ powers were epic. It’s pretty distressing; if the producers can create an intelligent, well-paced fight, why don’t they do something similar for every fight preceeding it?

Mahoraba ~Heartful Days~ (episodes 3-6)
I like how Tamami is Suiseiseki. If you don’t get it, you aren’t worthy of anything good.

Binbou Shimai Monogatari (episodes 5-7)
Oh yes. I did in fact re-GET this, and am in fact attempting to slog through it. It’s really same old, same old, though. You know, cute fluffy happiness with superficial adversity and a hint at yuri undertones.

Galaxy Angel Z (all)
I cannot stress how awesome this show is :3
I was only disappointed by this season once or twice; hell, even season one threw me a few nasty surprises. Milfeuille’s unlucky day was awesome. As was the esper episode. And a number of others (pissed Nomad is piiiiiiiissed).

Sola, Strikers (episode 6)
Still watching these two shows and enjoying them as best I can. Anything I could say about Strikers I’ve said before (and countless others have, and countless times, at that) but I’ll say it again: season one is ult. As for Sola, I’m still waiting for it to burst into awesomeness. Episode 6 did a good job at combining some humor with some plot and not being too slow, and setting the show up for amazing. Also, moving origami and throat-slitting for the win.

My old piano teacher died, so I got emo and impotent and Shirukii-chan beat me. And yes, the people who are making Kyoushiro to Towa no Sora connections (myself and Shirukii) really need to stop.

TONZURA KOITE

I’d let Matsuri slip on my banana peel any day.

SCAFFOLDS FALL, EVERYONE DIES

Apparently, Matsuri’s kickass ability is that she can age things(?). She rusts the metal scaffolding to make it collapse and causes a brick to crumble to the point where she can pull it apart with her bare hands. Furthermore, she can jump like a mother-fuckin’ ninja and do mid-air maneuvers, sans shadow clones. Whether or not she would beat Uzumaki Naruto isn’t even a question, but can she break through Konata’s beautiful hurricane kick combo?

PUT MY HOOD TO YOUR POLLOW AND

J-J-JAM IT IN!!

(obligatory sex joke with F/SN reference)

“I HAVE NO REGRETS”

This makes Matsuri more sure of herself than Ayana or whichever whore sang the ED of Kanon 2006. This also makes Matsuri as sure of herself as Momochi Zabuza. Meaning that she has followed Addie Bundren’s father’s advice and gotten ready to die. (Hey, Mike, if you’re reading this? Please, yell at me later for making Faulkner references on my blog? I really need to stop.) My question: as Matsuri isn’t exactly a vampire, does this make her not exactly living dead?

MEMORIES OF CREAM LEMON ESCALATION

Matsuri’s fingering someone. If you don’t get it, good.
If you do get it, well, I’m fucking hilarious.
If you don’t get it, good. And I’m still fucking hilarious.

“WAKE UP, WHORE. I DON’T PAY YOU TO SLEEP IN CARDBOARD BOXES.”

When Scruffy says for the doll to sleep with him, he means in a bed. The danbooru is “moe” and all, but really, it’s a tight fit for the both of them and their kama-sutra rituals. I like the doll, actually. Thanks to the character design style, her face is way too angular to appear ultra-loli, and she actually doesn’t look too rozen. Of course, I have no idea what “rozen” is, or whether it’s good or bad or what. I must be like, the only person alive who has not seen that show.

ARC VIBES

I remember when Arcueid Brunestud left her “bai bai” note. It was a little less symbolic and artsy, some scrap of paper with the letters scrawled on it. Not only is Matsuri badass enough to deface art with her emo goodbye, but she’s so badass she doesn’t even leave! She’s so badass, she goes and lies down on Dorito-kun’s bed! And he’s so badass, he doesn’t bang her. As Shirukii-chan says,

Dorito-kun is presented with a prime opportunity to bed Matsuri, yet they opt to stare at his -fake- sky instead. Fail.

Replace “fail” with “rock on” and you get my version of events.

MOST BADASS CEILING, EVER

(This explains the inconsistency in lighting at the beginning of episode one. Nice.)

Majime na Lolikit

So they play the “real” OP for us this time. And wow, while the song is nothing special (nor anything good) the sequence itself is epic. Maybe I’m a soraphile.

In terms of what the episode had to offer… it seems like they’re feeding us fairly stock character with a fairly stock storyline, originalities being terminology and soraphaelia. But fuck, I have no complaints. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: the beauty of this show is better than sex. I’d say something about Anse, but it’d be yet another Faulkner reference, and I’m not a girl. Anyway, point is, so long as they keep bombarding me with skies and beautiful backgrounds, I’ll be happy.

Really. I will.

This is Sola, the show about the girl with the sky-patterned umbrella. She acts pretty normally, despite her Misuzu-like fixation on her favorite drink, so I was wondering what the point of the show is… I mean, it’s written by Key’s people, right? The lead female’s gotta have a load of issues. Thankfully, my stereotype has not been broken: Matsuri has a load of issues.

Who doesn’t like the rain?!

“YOU’RE HIDING ON THE WRONG SIDE OF THE MACHINE.”

Our compulsive sky-photographer hero, Yorito (which sounds suspiciously similar to ‘dorito’) walks up on Matsuri as she pursues her “foot campaign.” Punishment for doing nothing but support her ana body, she rams her poor foot into the vending machine again and again. ARIA references aside, the poor girl is trying to get her peach juice. … rather violently.

“I’M TAKING PICTURES OF THE WIND.”

I think that Nao of Windy Tales fame has a better reason for shooting the sky than Dorito-kun does. She takes pictures of the wind and how it shifts clouds; he just has an obsessive disorder. So he’s lying on his back on his school’s roof (which is probably filthy as shit) taking pictures of the sky. The sky, the sky. He’s a man possessed. And thus, the title of the show.

HE COULD SEE THEM

A pantsu joke without a pantsu shot? My utmost respect to the producers, honestly. It was kind of cool how he was just like, “mieru zo” and she stomped on his face. I’m fairly sure this bypasses ecchi and makes it way into “poor, overdone humor.”

A MAN DISTURBED

It seems that more things haunt Dorito-kun than the sky. That doll is about as ugly as Tomoyo’s mom, fashion disaster than she is. It’s pretty cute how Dorito-kun cries for the thing all episode long, though. The pathos is strong!!

LOLI ABUSE

Loli sisters, no less. I smell loliyuricest! Come back to me, gods of old, and rejuvenate this blog with the awesome it once held, the power of girls love~ I could do an in-depth analysis of why the above screenshot transcends every scale of awesome (on a scale from one to awesome, it’s sexual) but I shan’t. I’m still tired from my pantsu post.

“THERE’S A LEGEND ABOUT THIS VILLAGE…”

“EVERY TWO MINUTES…”

“… MANA STABS DORITO-KUN FOR BEING A COMPULSIVE SKY-PHOTOGRAPHER!!”

Well, even if Kono Aozora fails to please, it looks like Sola will have the Higurashi factor (©LK). German kitchen knives, aside from being the number one murder utensil in England for a few years, are excellent multi-purpose gadgets in anime. With them, you can prepare a good meal and treat your lesbian lover; with them, you can prepare a bad meal and poison that old teacher you have a crush on; with them, you can cut yourself, put a band-aid on, and be moe; with them, you can kill your osananajimi’s lover and earn yourself a lasting place in the Yandere Hall of Fame. Quite the lovely item.

“OOISHI DA MOU~”

Yes, Misuzu, drink that peach juice, drink it! Drink that rich and creamy juice! /me cackles.
Okay, so it’s a tomato blend… and so what? Dorito-kun can’t get over how foul the juice is and Matsuri drinks it, pouting, her pride in full swing. This is his chance to grope her, but he’s a chip, and passes his turn.

“THOR!!”

Who would have thought Matsuri capable of military-class attack magic?

YOU FIND A CARDBOARD BOX

A. Put it in
B. Put it in
C. Open it

And what’s inside? P0N0S!

“WHY IS THE TOILET FLUSHING ON ITS OWN?”

Like all other quazi-sane people, Matsuri becomes apprehensive when other people use her bathroom. I mean, what, they could be jizzing all over the place, who knows? Following this screenshot is the most wtf sequence I’ve ever seen in anime where she rolls around the pews like a ninja dodging light beams. I’m guessing they hurt her? We’ve also only seen her at night. I guess she’s not a daywalker.

“I MUST DEFINITELY DESTROY ABSOLUTE ANGELS!”

hax~

Majime na Lolikit

Welcome to “Majime na Lolikit,” a closed space unaffected by the metaphysics of notdotq. That is, within this section of a post, I will be serious. That said, here we go for our first run of “Majime na Lolikit…”

First we’ll take some first impressions of the show.

Visuals: DC art style aside, the episode was very beautiful. The animation was very close to Kyoto Animation level… like, actually. The art style detracted a bit, but actually, it’s less offensive than that Key uses with things like Kanon, so it wasn’t too big a problem.

OP/ED: was that short music clip at the beginning the OP? If so, wooooow. It was beautiful. The ED was also pleasant, but not something I’d watch every episode or bother getting from Gendou.

Characters: a lot of stereotypical stuff… especially the loli in a box. She pissed the hell out of me. Mana is cool because her name is Mana, Aono is cool because she’s freaky as shit, the little sister is hot because she’s loli, and Dorito-kun wins for being Dorito-kun. Matsuri and freaky sword dude seem to be in some Arcueid/Nero relationship; intriguing yet ultimately overdone like the Churuya in this site’s background.

The Story: what lol?

Now, some thoughts…

This was a lot better than I thought it would be. Depending on how interesting they make Matsuri, this could actually be fun… Dorito-kun is pretty cool, pretty shows are sex, and the script is easy enough for me to understand without subtitles! This looks to be a winner for watching, and if it stays this way, I should be able to make good blogging out of it.
And now, over to Shirukii-chan.

So today was notdotq’s first birthday. Yay~
Anyway, onwards for my second post of this nature ever. The last one was on the promo of Joshikousei and that flopped… oh oxygen, did it flop. Hopefully this won’t go that route.

So Doremi translates the above as “a story of girls being played with by destiny…”

Does that sound promising? Frankly, no. But then it’s got all the artsy crap you’d expect of some emo Key story. In other words, if the execution’s there, it’s all there.

DC CHAR DESIGNS

As if Otoboku wasn’t bad enough, the Da Capo character art person/people got hired AGAIN. Yuck. I can think of some people who will be pleased… I’m not one of them. Every time I see those faces and hair styles, I think of the pro-ana adopted little sister vomiting sakura petals. It doesn’t help that this show’s apparent heroine wears a choker/collar thing, faintly reminiscent of Nemu’s cat collar.

NINJA

My attention has been had.
The stained glass in the background indicates that the setting is a church. The ninja-girl is clearly facing off against Maria-sama. Will she win and take her girlfriend home…? Or will she lose to those damned Catholics…? I know is emo Key ninja anime set in Lillian Jogakuen would be win, and I know that this girl is a lesbian. Probably a Buddhist, to boot.

WTFSWORD

Man with sword… title with “sky” in it… is this a Kyoushiro to Towa no Sora redux? God I hope not. Once through was enough. The moment I see mechs, I’m geeing the eff oh.

…HELLO, LOLI IN BOX

Expectations at this point? None. Hopes? Wild. Blogging? FUCK YES. Shirukii, let’s go for this one :)