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A Week in Otaku News 1 – 100% tsun
A visual guide to the week in anime/otaku news and distractions! Hopefully this new post format is useful and fun for people. It was a pretty interesting week in the otaku-verse, with lots of anime adaptation announcements (including more movies announcements), and of course, a good supply of high-quality ero pictures from the monthly magazines, Megami and Nyantype.
Please comment to share your thoughts, observations, additions, corrections, et cetera! Let’s get a discussion going! I really want to know what people think of this post format, so I’m encouraged to continue doing them every week.
Hyakka Ryouran Samurai Girls 1-2 (BD)
Ratings
MOE: ⚫⚫⚪⚪⚪
ERO: ⚫⚫⚫⚫⚪
GAR: ⚫⚫⚪⚪⚪
LOL: ⚫⚫⚪⚪⚪
I’ve been holding out on watching this anime for only one reason: the version aired on TV was censored, even on the glorious station, AT-X. It’s not so much that I’m inherently opposed to this kind of censorship (if it helps sell more DVDs/BDs, then I don’t think we have the right to be angry over it), but just a feeling of, ‘why not just wait and get the show in all its spectacle’? Well I waited, and the spectacle is all I’d hoped – an almost constant stream of eye-candy, both in terms of the nipple-inclusive nudity and the sexy art style and animation. First, the fanservice! If you’re a fan of nipples in anime (and why wouldn’t you be?) then this is definitely an anime to check out – the toplessness rate is very high and the drawings are unabashedly sexy. I also like the fact that there’s a rage of breasts sizes included, unlike other erotic anime. We’ve got a Kugumiya Rie voiced loli character with a fetching flat chest, and a large cast of buxom girls to make her feel insensitive. But it’s not just the nudity, the fanservice also encompasses some nice costume fetishism as well. We’ve already seen a number of moe outfits show up: bloomers, maid outfit, schoolgirl clothes. The way these typical anime wears are fused with feudal Japanese clothing styles create costumes that are somehow cool, sexy and cute at the same time! Then there’s erotic themes like Hanzou’s sexual infatuation with her (also female) master, and the arousing way Juubee calls Yagyuu ‘oniichan’.
I’m not typically a fan of anime that lean too heavily on the erotic tones and don’t bother trying to squeeze in any other assets. Hyakka Ryouran Samurai Girls may be heavy on the fanservice, but it’s not overdone to the point where the characters are dulled to mindless/retarded ecchi drones, and it’s all rendered with a unique and polished ‘look’. That ‘look’ is defined by bold outer lines on the ‘cels’. grainy, stylised backgrounds and thematic blotches of ink that splatter the screen in action moments. That might sound a bit wanky, but when you experience each of these design choices together it works surprisingly well, and instantly sets it apart from other anime in this category. The actual animation quality is quite high – the action sequences are well-executed and quite exciting to watch. Tsutomu Miyazawa is the chief animation director, and does a good job. The art director, Junichi Higashi, has done pretty much everything, good or bad, so I don’t know how much of the unique look to attribute to his input. The director, KOBUN, on the other hand, is a bit of a mystery. KOBUN is an alias, under which no other works have been done. Their true identity is unconfirmed, but after doing some searching, the general consensus among Japanese fans is that KOBUN is Kobun Shizuno, which seems believable. KOBUN has made an impressive entrance into the realm of TV-anime direction and I hope to see more of his works.
The characters don’t stray too far from their gimmicks/cliches, but they’re still fun to watch. I don’t think anyone expected deep, realistic characters from this show, and frankly, an ecchi anime with characters who aren’t annoying as fuck already qualifies it for ‘rare gem’ status. The male lead is unintrusive without being pathetic, and the girls are both cute and strong-spirited. Kugimiya Rie’s character, Sanada Yukimura is especially fun as the proud and feisty loli, Tokugawa Sen (played by Kotobuki Minako) is a self-important girl with a soft dere core beneath her stubborn outer shell, and Hattori Hanzou is amusing as the easily-flustered maid with an almost slave-like relationship with her superior. Then there’s the bipolar lead character, Yagyuu Juubee, who has a deadly and barbaric warrior side and an endearing, naive maiden side. It reminds me of Elfen Lied in that respect. As you might have noticed, the girls are named after historical samurai figures, however there’s no real historical value to this anime. So far, Samurai Girls has been solid fun and deliciously ecchi!
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- FUCKIN SAVED
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- Don’t worry ladies, that IS a banana in my pocket.
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- She’s sensitive about her flat-chest.
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- Pro-tip: don’t do a grandiose introduction in P.E gear!
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- Bit of a Ninja scroll moment!
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- Battle maid! Roberta?
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- Bra & panties locked on
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- Kugimiya Rie = ero.
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- I have failed you mistress!
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- She’s a high-level maid to enjoy this!
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- Spread legs mean it’s punishment time.
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- itadakimasu!
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- Oh, the ero!
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- Strangely arousing
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- Does the sock taste good? Such a pervert!
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- Nice ass shot
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- Bondage strike!
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- Jubee in the void.
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- The girl who fell from the sky calls him “oniichan”. Where do I get one?
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- First Kiss!
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- The face of a master samurai
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- This fight was pretty sweet.
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- The swords are coming out. Prepare to die.
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- Pft, not even 9000 power? Yeah, this show has power levels.
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- How could you kill this harmless…naked girl?
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- A true samurai, unafraid of death
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- Oh shi- I said something cute.
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- Don’t just strip!
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- These two fight almost like they’re sisters!
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- Even a mute can be cute!
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- Cuddling up to her “oniichan”
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- Take it all off!! For research purposes I swear!
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- What do the reactions say about her ero level!?
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- Ass shot #2
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- How cute~ But covering yourself won’t do any good in this kind of anime!
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- #1 on the list of anime cliches that need to happen more in real life
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- He’s getting a good look *nods approvingly*
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- Dat symbol
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- A great stitch of the uncensored ED
Kiss X Sis OVA Episode 4
One drink = instant consensual molestation. Underage drinking never did this for me.
Ratings
MOE: ⚫⚫⚪⚪⚪
ERO: ⚫⚫⚫⚫⚫
GAR: ⚪⚪⚪⚪⚪
LOL: ⚫⚪⚪⚪⚪
Although the TV-anime is finished, we’re still periodically graced with the perverse and erotic experiments of Riko and Ako with the OADs! Released with volume 7 of the psuedo-incest fanservice manga, this OAD follows the loose (get it?) story of the three siblings going on an outing to an onsen. Kiss X Sis can usually pull something near-pornographic out of thin air, so I was excited to see what would come from this situation! It turns out, the only thing that came was Riko, but everyone else involved came very close many times.
Koe de Oshigoto OAD Episode 1
"Work for me as an eroge seiyuu!" EH?!
Ratings
MOE: ⚫⚫⚪⚪⚪
ERO: ⚫⚫⚫⚫⚫
GAR: ⚪⚪⚪⚪⚪
LOL: ⚫⚫⚫⚪⚪
Koe de Oshigoto is a popular manga series running in the magazine, Comic Gum, which follows the story of a young girl who’s recruited into the frightening and alien world of being an eroge (porn game) voice actress by her older sister on her 16th birthday! The young girl is Aoyagi Kanna, who accepts the job out of a sense of obligation to her older sister, who supported her since the death of their father. What follows is an amusing and erotic foray into the realm of eroge voice acting, which extracts most of its appeal from embarrassment-play of the understandably inexperienced Kanna. An anime adaptation, in the form of an OAD episode bundled with the latest manga volume, was recently released, which has quickly grabbed widespread attention! I liked the sound of this manga since I first heard of it, and briefly dipped into the manga some time ago. But I wasn’t all that excited about this OAD. I thought it would be cheap and reasonably entertaining, but not much more. The casting of Mako as Kanna seemed to be its best asset!
Manga: Greed Packet Unlimited
Ratings
MOE: ⚫⚫⚪⚪⚪
ERO: ⚫⚫⚫⚫⚪
GAR: ⚫⚫⚪⚪⚪
LOL: ⚫⚪⚪⚪⚪
Greed Packet Unlimited (∞) is a recent, ongoing manga series drawn and written by Kamiya Yuu. It started in 2008 and is serialised in the Dengeki Maoh magazine, which is aimed at the seinen demographic. Although the plot and story development is pretty juvenile (a hallmark of most seinen these days), it fits nicely into this demographic with the adult appeal of fanservice, most of which has a loli flavour, and an eroge-playing main character. The premise is as follows (from manga-updates):
Motto To Love Ru 4 – Tail Molestation!
So I’ve been watching Motto To Love Ru, and this particular scene from episode 4 struck me as being highly erotic! Ever since Utawarerumono I’ve had a thing for sensitive tails, but this scene blew me a way. I wish more hot twins would settle arguments by molesting each other! At times like this, To Love Ru shows you can have really great fanservice even without using nudity!
