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Ok, i'll do just Anime and Manga stuff for today. Fun stuff only.

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I think after watching Hidan no Aria AA, i became really, really fascinated with the Shoujo Ai genre, or love between girls. Feels like the cutesy stuff is kind of what i need.

...but the real cake was Maria-same ga Miteru. Or the Virgin Mary Watches Over You. It's a kind of old anime from 2006, with the setting in a religious all-girls school as a Slice of Life type of anime. Honestly, i wouldn't be able to imagine myself watching this kind of anime in the past. Yet now that i finished all 4 seasons, i find myself wanting more of it. The sister-love dynamic between the elder Sachiko and the younger Yumi really grew on me.

Ano Natsu de Matteru, or Waiting for You that Summer is another interesting romance anime that features love between a visiting alien and a teenage boy, with a centipede-like love triangle. Except it is not really a triangle. Girl A loves Guy B and vice versa, Girl C loves Guy B, Guy D loves Girl C and Girl E loves Guy D. So only A B and C is in the triangle. Of course, the twist is with the alien in the triangle.

Haiyore! Nyaruko-san, similarly, is also about a few aliens in love with a human boy. Except they are madly in love and not much of twists exist; the focus is more on the comedy. Still, the character art is drawn so well that it is hard not to fall in love with the aliens.

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Looking back at the last time i talked about Anime, i've really watched a ton of series. So i won't be covering all of them. Just the ones i find important...

...and just as i said that, i remembered about Tasogare Otome X Amnesia, featuring romance between a ghost and a living boy. Their romance is cute and i really liked how the ghost is portrayed. Kind of makes me wish i have a Yuuko-san of my own. Haha. I kid.

That is really it for now.

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