This is one of my favorite HOLiC stories because it's a straight up horror stories that the series often do a good job of. I can't help but being creep out everytime I see the figure that Watanuki see from outside the house. Although realistically, how many people would actually go in and investigate said figure in real life? I'd personally leave it alone. This is one thing that characters in horror stories like this one can't seem to grasp or understand. Instead of just staying away from it, they have the need to investigate it, which of course, leads them to experiencing the horror. Of course, if they didn't go in, then there wouldn't be a horror story in the first place. In a way, horror stories relies on its characters to investigate the very thing that terrorize them, in the process, they get terrorized even more. Anyway, to celebrate another creepy story, I decide to recycle the idea that I used in Episode 10 of xxxHOLiC. I basically told a horror story and asked others to do the same. You don't have to if you can't but it'd be good if you can because sharing horror stories is fun in that creepy kind of way.
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Here’s a sneak peak of Justin Chatwin as Sun Goku in the upcoming Dragonball live-action movie. The picture is taken off Shueisha’s Weekly Young Jump magazine issue 24. The magazine will also be having a feature article on the film with an on-location report in the near future. Here are some of the cast you’d expect to [...]
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It’s the hot new off-off-off-off-off-off-off-off-Broadway production! Guaranteed to win a Tony award, if things that are that off Broadway can actually win those things! I literally have no idea what I just watched, but it wasawesome. Totally pure filler, but awesome pure filler. I have always said that life is better if you break out into [...]
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You can blame Impz, Martin, Bateszi, Hige, Lythka, Author and Michael for this post. Really, I know a collective groan goes up anytime someone starts talking about “the community”. But after reading Impz’s brief history of the Otakusphere (that’s still my word for the anime blogosphere), Kabitizin’s interviews and Os’s new blogging [...]
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There was a slight discussion a while back between tjhan and I over the bipedalism of robots in mecha shows. tjhan thinks that if we were to carefully analyse the choice of bipedal robots, it is actually rather ridiculous and unpractical for dual-legged war machines to roam battlefields, not to mention space battles where feet [...]
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A couple in Amori prefecture has been arrested for causing a fatal road accident because the male driver took his eyes off the road while the woman passenger fed him a chocolate from her mouth to his. o.O The driver, 47 years old Hiroyoshi Oyama was accompanied by an unnamed women in her 20s in the [...]
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Well, after two years I decided to finally do a theme for the blog, rather than using one I got from the net. None of the ones I used previously really appealed to me, and the categories menu tended to break the theme. I tried coding my own, but frankly it’s a nightmare for someone with [...]
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Hinamori Amu is now in the 6th grade (her sister Ami just starting kindergarten), and she has to face the new school year while dealing with the departure of two of her closest friends, Nadeshiko the queen and Kuukai the jack. Hinamori Amu receives her 4th guardian egg, while we find out that Utau has [...]
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Oinari-sama Commits a Taboo! I’m trying not to fall behind, and I’ve already failed, but I’ll at least get this review out on time. It starts off Kuu asking Tohru whether he’d use her powers to meet his own ends. As a predictable and innocent 12-year old, he insists on never doing that. Since he’s evidentially fine [...]
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Finally it’s time for my fourth and final series for the Spring: Candy Boy. Despite it’s name, this series appears to have nary a male in it. Instead, this series, which is being released on Nico-Nico, suggests that it may be is a yuri series. Between fraternal twin sisters. Mmmm. Potential yuri [...]
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This is the Candy Boy one-shot ONA released last year, but which can really be seen as an “Episode 00″ as, even though it’s short (about 8 minutes after you take out the credits), it basically leads into the series being currently released. Go Straight to the Screenshots | Go Straight to the Review Twin sisters, Kanade [...]
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Pretending Nanaka doesn’t exist (hard ain’t it?), if you were Yoshiyuki, who would you devote your time to? Yume or Otome? Otome or Yume? Other than a season or OVA devoted exclusively to Nanaka, and am glad it is all about Yume, Otome, and Sakura this season. From a purely reptilian brain perspective, you simply cannot [...]
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What Kotoko wanted… …what Kotoko got, for her graduation. It seems like in this episode any kind of sympathy I felt for Naoki pretty much died and went to hell because he went back to being a dickhead (probably spurring comments of “誠死ね” on niconico) but at least Naoki’s mom was on Kotoko’s side. Sometimes I wonder [...]
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「託された者たち」 (Takusareta Monotachi) "Entrusted People"
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You cant get away. It’s happened again. I may be relatively out of the loop when it comes to the Aniblogosphere but the moment I come back, I face this… this… I cant even describe what this is. From what I can tell from the polls so far, today’s readers are not inclined to remember [...]
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It’s a great production and I didn’t like it at all. This is disappointing, because I see the strengths in Plus. But the characters sucked. It’s most apparent when looking at The 08th: Shiro is better than Isamu, Aina is better than Myung, Norris is better than Guld. Villains, too. Only [Millard] Johnson is level with [...]
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As you girls and guys (& futanari) can probably tell, here at KA we really like lists - preferable in prime number form. So to feed our addiction today we bring the 3 most likely jobs Lelouch from Code Geass would have if he wasn’t so busy being Zero. There’s a lot of talent behind [...]
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[ Turn 05: Knight of Rounds ] Good lord have mercy. Viletta-sensei!!!!!! Oh. My. God. This episode was killer. From what seems to be school-fun centered episode, there was a lot of intense scenes throughout it. Seeing Lelouch and Suzaku meet again was beyond awkward, especially since I thought they would go at each other’s throats at [...]
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[ Episode 2: I`m a Star For Sure! - I`m an Extremely Big Man, Can You Shoot Me Here? ] JAPANIIZU NINJA?!?! Episode 2 marks the introduction for the two other main characters: Black Star and his weapon, Tsubaki. I think it’s great that the staff decided to stay intact with the manga, even as to go [...]
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CJ watched the little OVA and apparently misses the whole honking point. Her review never mentions the overdramatic musical score (”Like watching Victory at Sea”), the identity of aces, even the Stonehedge. I was going to complain when Daniel said on #animeblogger: “At least she enjoyed it.” So, in a weird twist of fate, CJ puts [...]
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