This is review number three hundred and forty four. This anime is part of the Winter 2014 lineup. The anime I’ll be reviewing is called Nourin or “No-Rin”. It’s a twelve episode anime about an idol [...]
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The story of Nourin is one of a group of students in an agricultural school. We follow their daily lives through times of fun and struggles, with more fun than struggles. But one day, a girl who looks [...]
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「あかるいのうそん／みんなののうりん」 (Akarui Nouson/Minna no Nourin) "Cheerful Farming Village/Everybody's Nourin" Is it bad that the first comparison I made for this arc involved School Days? The post [...]
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Shouldn’t you NOT be calling attention to repeating yourself, show? Impressions: It ends as it went, unable to maintain any kind of consistency in characterization or tone and with a few random retro [...]
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Okay, Minori’s isn’t, but at the rate they’re killing them off, she probably won’t last long. Impressions: Great. An episode pretty much all about an entire group of people harping on about Minori’s [...]
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「究極と至高の野菜対決」 (Kyuukyoku to Shikou no Yasai Taiketsu!) "Veggie Battle: Ultimate v. Supreme" The taste between organic and non-organic produce never bothered me anyways. The post Nourin – 10 [...]
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1.) Collect underpants. 2.) ??? 3.) Profit! Impressions: Another one of those ill-fated attempts of the show to mix together especially bad maudlin drama and comedy. They even invented a dead mother [...]
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「学校の海パン」 (Gakkou no Kaipan) "School Swim Trunks" Taaanooooshiiiiiii~
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Thanks for listing out every single landlocked part of Japan, plus graphical aids. Impressions: You know, you don’t need to invent some kind of crisis threatening the crops every other week. I was [...]
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「クッキングババ」 (Kukkingu Baba) "Cooking Grandma" If only her heart could've survived those 40 years as much as her body did.
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That’s probably the first time the show’s made me chuckle in a month. Impressions: Well, it was certainly an episode. I wouldn’t be terribly surprised if this was as good as it gets too, which is [...]
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「号泣サラダ」 (Goukyuu sarada) "Sob Salad" I'm not sure if this is a friendship episode, the greatest osananijimi self-sabotage ever, the beginning of a OT3 or an opening to ship yuri, but I know I liked [...]
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Finally putting that doujin past all their artists have to use. Impressions: After the rest of this week so far playing the game of “Let’s pad this crap out and go absolutely nowhere!”, I was thinking [...]
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「萌(めぐみ)の錬金術師」 (Moe (Megumi) no Renkinjutsu-shi) "Full-Moe Alchemist" This week's anime lesson: the fujoshi market is growing more lucrative every year--companies would be foolish to not invest in [...]
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Did they forget to include jokes this week? Impressions: Great. One of these episodes where they get all self-referential. You can’t even call it parody. All they’re doing is explicitly explaining how [...]
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「五人の四天農」 (Go-Ri no Shiten Nou) "Farming's Five Top Four" (what?) Male fanservice in my Nourin? I'm impressed with how they did it!
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The joke doesn’t work when you pronounce it “ahnol.” Impressions: Only in Japan does escalation mean going from “anal jokes” to “two naked sweaty waxed boys squirting each other with white viscous [...]
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「君が見せた笑顔」 (Kimi ga Miseta Egao) "The Smile You Showed Me" I just turned off my brain from last episode. This episode required me to turn my brain back on for a decent plot. Make up your mind Nourin!
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And getting older. Impressions: I wonder if by the end of this, it’s going to be making YTMND jokes. As we proceed backward past Death Note through Phoenix Wright and Yaranaika, it’s probably only a [...]
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Kill la Kill 15 is so eager to get to the action that it cuts the OP short, and what we get is a lot of mayhem. First a battle to polish off Takarada, and most of Osaka, in a philosophical match [...]
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