The PC version will have more characters than the Arcade version. This only applies to Japan of course. Like many other Japanese fighters based on anime shows that aren’t part of “the otaku triforce of doom”, I do not see … Continue reading →
Read the rest of this entry Entry meta

Synopsis After losing a family to bandits during a night raid, Kanu swears she will not let others share the pain she experienced that night. She quickly becomes a well-known and feared by villains bandit hunter. During her journey she comes across others, who wish to join her in her cause. One of them is
Read the rest of this entry Entry meta

Day 195/366 Koihime Musou OVA is another Romance of the Three Kingdoms parody anime with girls and has nothing to do with school life but this ova special decided to give it a try. What amuses me most about these is that they are pretty much all the same style but completely different colours. They [...] No related posts.
Read the rest of this entry Entry meta

Impressions over the first episode of the anime series Oda Nobuna no Yabou featuring wallpapers of the main heroine named Oda Nobuna.
Read the rest of this entry Entry meta

Being a fan of anime OVA’s in genral, I decided to give this anime OVA a chance, to see what the fuss was about. After watching this OVA I can quite confidentenly say, I want the thirty minutues of my life back. As OVA’s generally have a higher budget than anime TV episodes, I was [...]
Read the rest of this entry Entry meta

Hello hello and many greetings to you all once again.  I haven't been updating on the blog as much as I would've liked to but I have to confess it's been an odd few months and my anime life.  I've...
Read the rest of this entry Entry meta

Hello everyone, Let's go ahead reviewing a new visual novel/anime that got well three anime adaptations, but for some particular reasons I'm considering it a wasted potential. This series is named Koihime Musou and is based over an visual novel by BaseSon.  Let's start with a quick synopsis : After losing a family to bandits during a night raid, Kanu swears she will not let others share the pain she experienced that night. She quickly becomes a well-known and feared by villains bandit hunter. During her journey she comes across others, who wish to join her in her cause. One of them is a girl named Rin Rin, who had similar experience with bandits in the past. Ok, this is mainly the anime synopsis as the visual novel is a little different in a good way. The anime by itself delete the presence of Kazuto Hongou that is for me one of the main negative point of the series. The original work all revolve around Kazuto and his adapting to this old world based on the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" novels, the girls (actually fearsome generals in the real world) he gets to know and the story he is able to change by supporting one or another faction with his knowledge of the future. In the anime instead opted to remove the male presence and exclude most of the plot driven value of the original work to leave plenty of fanservice of each girl/general. I'll be honest, there is nothing wrong with that. I liked all the three seasons, it's just that I wonder how much better it would have been with the Kazuto presence and with some of the real plot adapted.  The characters are mainly likable and the cast is literally infinite. (the visual novel sports a number of heroines almost never seen in any other works) My favourite characters are the Hawawa Strategist "Shuri" and the deredere leader of the faction Ryubi Gentoku, but to be honest there is a so massive number of characters that it's difficult to make a choice.   The graphical quality is pretty high even thought in some episodes you can see some evident graphical screwup by the animators resulting in a consistency loss during the three seasons. Opening and ending animations are beautiful and I think the second season OP was the best of all with all the Ryubi focus. The sound quality is high, but there are no big names for the main characters of this series that can be showed as example. (Maybe a little Mai Goto in Ryubi's role, but nothing exceptionally famous) I loved most of the songs feautured in the anime, especially the opening of the third season named "Renka Tairan" and performed by Masami Okui. (We will return on this in a future post)   Complessively talking, this isn't a bad series by itself. It has some nice comedy relief and abundant fanservice and this can be appealing to most of us. It is just such a waste this nice setting and idea was not fully developed into a more solid plot especially giving the three season long adaptation that could have maked a nice and interesting story.  I suggest this series to anyone looking out for some fun experience, and if you are familiar with japanese to play the game also as it's a nice one. (it's pretty long to be honest so be prepared) That's all. See you soon, feal87
Read the rest of this entry Entry meta

  And yet, still more sensical than Rio. Impressions: With the last volume of the Koihime OT DVDs comes its token ‘real world’ OVA featuring random nonsense. Last time was some kind of beach trip if I remember correctly. This time was a school festival. As astute readers might recall, a lot of my amusement from the series came from [...]
Read the rest of this entry Entry meta

Sad news for eroge gamers who thought that they were going to be virtually cuddling with the ladies of Koihime Musou in the near future are going to have to settle for the not entirely near future instead. In a post put up on the official blog, the company announced that their next two releases [...]
Read the rest of this entry Entry meta

Generally when I get a press release from Section 23 I expect to see a new license, perhaps two. But three? Was not expecting that. To start the new year off (gods, are we already almost at another new year? That’s depressing.), Sentai Filmworks have picked up three new licenses: Romance of the Three Kingdoms [...]
Read the rest of this entry Entry meta

I actually liked Shin Koihime Musou: Otome Tairan more than the previous seasons. After laughing at the "wtf" moments in the first episode, I took the stick out of my ass and decided to enjoy it for what it is. (Since I was going to finish it, regardless.) It was the kind of show that worked best for me when I could watch it on a Friday evening after a long school week with a Coke and some hot, yummy take-out. (One of those fluffy, "let's not think for the next hour"-type shows.) Even after summer vacation started, it was something to watch. As with the previous seasons, Otome Tairan was about Aisha and her friends traveling across ancient China- this time split into three groups to find the ingredients to make the antidote to the dreaded cat girl pill that Choujou, a power-hungry eunuch (how can she be a eunuch if she's a woman in this series??), force-fed General Kashin. Gien, a butchy girl with a giant double-sided metal club, leaves her teacher Gengan to join Ryuubi, Koumei, and Rinrin's group as they journey to Nanban. Sei and Bachou need to pick an herb at the top of a moutain and Aisha travels alone to Wu. (To me, "Wu" = "Jackpot!!!" in this show, for reasons that you can probably guess if you've seen it.) The new characters are a mixed bag. I liked Gien and Gengan fine, but the leaders of Nanban were squeaky-voiced cat girls with stupid speech patterns, nya. They were pretty annoying, nya. Could you imagine an entire review written like this, nya? Ikki Tousen: Xtreme Xecutor's Nanban group would kick Koihime-Nanban's ass. But the important question to the people watching Koihime Musou this far in is: Is there yuri? Yes. Yup. WHOOHOO!! YESSSS!!!! *fist pump* Sei and the Wei group didn't bring any yuri to this season, but Gien had a big, obvious crush on thickheaded Ryuubi and there were two surprisingly enjoyable episodes focusing on Ryoumou x Sonken and Sonsaku x Shuuyuu in the Wu group. (I especially liked the Sonsaku x Shuuyuu-focused ep. Such a cute married couple. :] Seeing them doting on each other at the very end of the series also warmed the cockles of my heart.) Nothing else really worth noting...except that the nudity-censorship was funny. Especially the small, dense clouds of steam that conveniently followed the characters' choice areas in the bath. I guess that the uncensored DVDs will sell that much more. Story: Stupid fluff- with yuri. Art: B- Overall: C+
Read the rest of this entry Entry meta

  Well, it wasn’t the worst thing I’ve watched in the past week… Impressions: It exists. …Um… Is that enough? No? Sigh… It wasn’t completely awful, but stretching this out another 33% longer than the already not particularly enthralling TV episodes didn’t help. The whole thing was basically just an excuse to dress up most of the [...]
Read the rest of this entry Entry meta

  Choun’s a naughty naughty girl. Impressions: Well, that was only slightly more painful than I imagined, but they did put together a valid final strategy. Since the real Ryuubi is obviously too inept to get anything right, distract Koyasu with a stand-in, complete with fake sword, and then stab him in the back. I don’t [...]
Read the rest of this entry Entry meta

  Did the Japanese writer’s guild go on strike this season? Impressions: Seriously, this season has been beyond lousy for writing. The first half of this episode was okay, and the fight between Zhang Liao was certainly well enough done, although painfully cliched, but the second half of the episode had them basically toss everything in [...]
Read the rest of this entry Entry meta

  Dude. Who’s his blacksmith? Impressions: I know that some people might find it tacky, but if I had an owl outfit that rad, I would wear it everywhere too. War. Regular guard duty. The prom. You name it. There is no place where having a giant mask and an owl face plastered all over your [...]
Read the rest of this entry Entry meta

  ,,,Boobs. Impressions: Yawn. If this is the way that they were going to have a plot with this show, I wish that the entire thing was spent wandering around China in search of a cure for cat. The first third of the episode was pure angst, the middle third was hugs and breast jokes, and [...]
Read the rest of this entry Entry meta

  Sadly, they didn’t actually play it, just discussed it. Impressions: This actually ended up being a pretty amusing episode in spite of the irritating as hell Nanban troops and their shrill shrieking voices and verbal ticks nya. The stoned one is clearly the best of the four, but they’re all raging lesbians out to grope big [...]
Read the rest of this entry Entry meta

  Undertones? Pfft. Impressions: Despite my usual Koihime-watching Canadian minion and Columbia stalker abandoning me because they’re weak and need sleep, and leaving me to face the wrath of Koihime Musou alone, I bravely soldered on, buffered only a single random comment from a very confused Russian who thought I was watching Ikkitousen. How multicultural. Actually though, the [...]
Read the rest of this entry Entry meta

  Good lord, what a name. Impressions: Pretty dull episode, even for this show, about King Wutugu (I think), or whoever the hell Gotsu Totsu Kotsu is supposed to be showing up to get revenge on Gien as a vehicle for her and Batai to become friendlier. If they had invested a little bit of the [...]
Read the rest of this entry Entry meta

  Somehow, I don’t think so. Impressions: Meh. I know that it’s obvious that I’m not terribly enamored of the show to begin with, but this episode was far more tedious than it had any right to be. Kann-u wanders into the ancillary members of Wu that we didn’t hit the first time around who decide [...]
Read the rest of this entry Entry meta