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Spring 2011 Anime: Soft Tennis

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The whole chibi thing is so overdone, but I would be lying if I said it weren’t effective. Ka-kawaiiiii……

Number of Episodes Aired:1

Streaming: Nowhere? Let me know if I’m wrong, please.

Alternate Title Suggestions: Afternoon Tea Tennis, Light Tennis Club with Cows, Tennis and Raquet With PantyShot

I don’t usually like doing the whole “it’s just like [insert name of popular show] with [insert different activity]” thing, but in this instance, calling Soft Tennis “Like K-ON!! with Tennis” isn’t that far off. If you like K-ON!! and you have a healthy tolerance for double-entendre, you may enjoy this show; if you’re one of those people who watched K-ON!! and went “But where’s the PLOT?”, stay far away.

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Spring 2011 Anime: Battle Girls: Time Paradox

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Hideyoshi and Mitsuhide's fight- actually pretty funny.

No. of Episodes Aired: 2

Currently Streaming on Crunchyroll

Alternate Title Suggestions: Better Than Koihime Musou, Usagi and Dogbert’s Excellent Adventure

Jon from Project Haruhi has been waging a brave internet campaign to get people to realize that Battle Girls: Time Paradox (also known as Sengoku Otome) is actually not bad, so I decided to give it a shot. It’s also being simulcast on Crunchyroll, so it fits with my new “try everything on CR this season” policy (although I made that policy before I realized that CR was apparently trying to license all of Japan one drawing at a time, which is why I’m currently up to my elbows in loli succubi and gender-swapped warlords, but whatever.)

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Thoughts on America’s Greatest Otaku Episode #7

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Summary:In this episode the tour concludes, Team Mangaloids gets to visit yet another convention, murals are painted, and I learn that I have a bone to pick with the New Orleans Haiku Society.

I’m not going to talk much about the venues this time, because none of them really blew me away or were particularly bad either, so there isn’t much to report. I am convinced though that most motions in Kyudo are done for the sake of looking awesome and for no other reason.

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Spring 2011 Anime: Hanasaku Iroha

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Hey lady, you know that guy who likes you? Go live with him instead- you're 16, it's probably legal somewhere in the south.

Number of Episodes Aired: 2

Simulcast on Crunchyroll

Alternate Title Suggestions: I Can’t Believe My Grandma is This Sadistic, Flowers+Depression

The amazing thing to me about Hanasaku Iroha is that, with its premise, it should be horrendously depressing, yet mysteriously, it’s not. Our plucky protagonist Ohana gets kicked out of her normal life when her flighty Mom decides to run off with her boyfriend (it doesn’t matter why), and is sent to go live at her grandmother’s country inn- where she’s forced to do physical labor for her keep and is basically treated like dirt. Even Grandma gives her no sympathy, since she disowned Ohana’s mother and no longer considers them part of the family.

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Spring 2011 Anime: Nichijou (My Ordinary Life)

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If there's any one theme so far this season, it's that little girls have dirty, dirty minds.

No. of Episodes Aired so far: 2

Simulcast on Crunchyroll

Alternate Title Suggestions: School With Goats, Azumanga Daioh -1, Desperate Attention Ploy Theater

I’m going to be a rebel and not title these Spring 2011 anime posts “First Impressions”, firstly because everyone else does it, secondly because I may not be getting to some of these until they’re several episodes in, taking away from the idea of it being an impression of the beginning.

After being too busy to recap/review much anime lately, this season I decided to at least to try all the spring simulcasts on Crunchyroll, plus another select few. The only show being recapped here on an episode-by-episode basis is X-Men, because apparently, I hate myself, but maybe that will change.

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