Yuri Mania 19: Kanamemo 6

Gokigenyou! Plenty of yuri this week with almost 2 Yuri Manias in a row. Truth be told, I'm just procrastinating, lol. I've also begun to plunge a bit further into Simoun (no pun intended), which is why this review of Kanamemo is a bit late again.

Not only that... I've also begun to play the PS3 exclusive game, Infamous. At first I wasn't too impressed with it. I liked the electrical powers but the cameras and controls were a bit hard to play with. I got used to it eventually and suddenly I was playing 4-6 hours at a time 0.o

On Wednesday I just kept playing and playing until I went to the free movie premiere of "The Goods." I came home and played Infamous again... By Thursday, I told myself to stop fooling around and get around to some of my delayed projects. That project is finished, but I won't reveal what that project is just yet; sometime in the near future. When I woke up Friday morning I began some photoshoots for current and future projects. One of them was for the figure.fm header and the other was the header/banner for my blog.

Ok enough of the non-yuri talk! Simoun is actually getting interesting when I was watching it in between playing Infamous. It really reminds me of Last Exile. I will try and do a review of it by volumes someday. Maybe in between Kanamemo reviews if I feel like a total uke...

Kanamemo Episode 6

Mika is a lightweight!

This episode begins pretty much right after the last one where they still have to deal with the typhoon. Here they are walking back after their fun at the public bath.

When Kana was blown away by the strong winds of the typhoon she literally bumped into her friends from school... Which marks the second appearance of Kana's friends, and not even all of them! I guess they're just very minor characters. Daring the typhoon, her friends wanted to make a cake for their cooking club teacher... and somehow Kana was excluded again.

Which is why this is the first time, since Kana's grandmother died, that she's genuinely sad about her situations. Usually she would brush it off with something positive that came out of it, but she couldn't come up with anything...

...which leaves the rest of the newspaper delivery staff and Mika to cheer her up! Way to change the subject guys! I really have to get used to the fact that this happens all the time since it's based on a humorous 4koma comics ^^;

Haruka gets her comeuppance XD Always love the random wash basin flying through the air for karma moments like these ^_^

ZOMG! Haruka fantasizing about girls other than Kana?!

On second thought, maybe not...

The effects of the typhoon finally hits them hard causing a blackout in their house and revealing to us one of Kana's greatest fears: Haruk... I mean, darkness.

More yuri moments courtesy of YuukiXYume ^_^ Do I want to know what it was used for, exactly? Umm... YES!

Always love it when Saki does her blow ups

And now everyone also found out that Kana is easily scared by ANYTHING! Way too easily scared, even with Yuuki's pathetic attempt ^^;

Haruka's scare attacks... I'm creeped out by both...

Yume's ^w^ face is just so cute! Even gives us a rare yuri moment between Yume and Kana... which doesn't happen very often because Yuuki's one crazy jealous whachamacallit XD

Ah tsundere... such a tsundere =3

The group continues to run around in the darkness for the rest of the episode, even encountering mysterious creatures... which doesn't bode well with Kana's sanity. In the end Kana seemed to have calmed down and her friends even showed up for one of their rare appearances to conclude the sadness in Kana's heart.

There seems to be a lot more yuri moments in this one, but I've managed to minimize the amount shown by grouping them in one picture... This episode was quite full of those scenes and not just Haruka trying to grope the lolitas either! Another cute episode if you like your slice-of-life mixed with a bit of yuri. Until next time... Gokigenyou!

Yuri Mania 17: Kanamemo 4

Gokigenyou! Welcome to my fourth week in a row of Yuri Mania. This streak happens thanks to my current review of Kanamemo. However, I made Yuri Mania as general yuri related posts, not focused on just one yuri series. Which is why my first YM post was general idea of what I was watching. So even though I've been reviewing Kanamemo, I do put in other yuri in here as well ^_^

Such as what just came in the mail this week: The complete series of Strawberry Panic. I know it's an old series, but I haven't finished it yet when the first fansub came out. I should get going on these older series ^^; I was actually waiting for AnimeWorks to make the complete disc for this... It took them a while though, sheesh!

I bought Simoun a long time ago, and I believe there's a complete disc set for this series as well; long before Strawberry Panic had the set. And Strawberry Panic came out BEFORE Simoun! I just started watching it, and so far they're introducing too many characters at once... maybe it's a yuri show trait.

Kanamemo Episode 4

Love the eyecatch!

I gotta be honest with you; I didn't like this episode very much... They made it to be a musical and it became a very strange episode to watch. Some of the songs are cute, but most of the time their singing voices are quite bad and they're forcing words into the tune. That is one of my pet peeves for songs... If they did it well then I wouldn't have minded, but they didn't.

This week's plot revolves around the freebie coupons that newspapers give away for subscribers. I've seen something like this in other anime such as Suzuka where they use this free coupon/ticket for dates between the two characters, but never seen it from the point of view of the ticket givers.

Haruka parodying one of those popular mascot characters (I can't name it right now...) showing that sometimes she keeps the coupon. ^^;

They all feel sad when they hear Kana never went anywhere for summer, not even a swimming pool. So this episode they try to get Kana to have some fun in Waterland... Unfortunately their work schedule doesn't really accommodate this idea =(

Haruka has a really twisted imagination...

Very twisted.......

She's a good source of yuri touchy-feely scene though ^^;

Twisted Haruka is twisted XD

Yep... in my line of work, this statement is pretty much the norm. We've got a LOT of whiney clients unfortunately... or they're just plain jerks.

Love all these yuri scenes in the show... I think I'll just put a lot of these shots for my review :P

This is a nice line by Haruka... come, my yuri harem!

YAY! The obligatory yuri changing room groping scene!

Hina's starting to become one of my favourite characters too because of this scene and she gives Haruka a good whack on the head whenever she goes out of control XD

The musical was really weird... but it gives some good screenshots out of them.

Like this one... ^^;

Mika's finally got her appearance in the episode, in a swimsuit no less!

One reason why Yume is my favourite is because she makes these kinds of faces that I like ^^

Haruka can't stop the Kana groping... lolicon to the core!

So that's how that episode went. I wasn't too keen on doing this episode's review because of the musical aspect of it, but I plowed through it. It feels more like a filler episode anyway... I have yet to check the manga for this...

That's all for this week. I'll continue review of Kanamemo and bring you more yuri when I find'em. Til next time, gokigenyou!