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Anime Relations: Candy☆Boy: Side Story For Archive, Candy Boy: Nonchalant Talk of the Certain Twin Sisters in Daily Life, Candy Boy Episode: EX01 - Mirai Yohouzu, Candy Boy Episode: EX02 - Shiawase Kyouyuu Riron

Just a note regarding viewing order: If you want to watch these by airing date, watch them in order ONA-Eps1-2-EX1-Eps3-7-EX2. If in chronological order story wise: EX1-ONA-Eps1-7-EX2. I suppose, I just began watching EX1.

Anime Relations: Gake no Ue no Ponyo

BRATJA – PONYO – SUKI

Anime Relations: Seirei no Moribito

Season being Autumn/Winter(/Autumn again/Winter again/Make up your mind already) again, it has been busy times, but even so, I still cannot find justification to why I haven't seen Seirei no Moribito before. Someone may have mentioned slice-of-life for partial genre, and he or she was undeniably correct, in a very good way.

I started with 8, and now I've already raised the score to 9. I'm anxious to see whether it can go all the way up or not, but with the substantial storyline and solid art this venerable work commands, I have little concern. Although, I seriously just might give it a full ten already because of "Balsa" (because Runes of Magic, harhar).

Post-watch EDIT: KAOKAO HOIHOI 10/10.

Anime Relations: Tears to Tiara

I have taken to animes derived from H-games since day one. Tears to Tiara proves no exception to the rule, but additionally provides some unintentional humour, which may be attributed to the little known to me fact that this is actually based on an eroge, as I now cannot help myself from guffawing while faced with even the most remote indication of a subsequent erotic scene—which are plenty but none of which actually, alas, occur.

Anime Relations: Ou Dorobou Jing, Ou Dorobou Jing in Seventh Heaven

I just noticed this but the facial art on Jing, King of Bandit mangas isn't quite as good as I remembered. Oh well, the surroundings are enjoyable, nothing like a piece of abstract here and there.

Anime Relations: Kure-nai

The entry title is a wordplay, Hai hai hai is a super eurobeat song.

I've been long wanting to watch this but for some reason it's been deferred, until now. All I can say, this is something else. As in completely something else. I'm liking just about everything from OP visuals and audio to voice actors and actresses to animation to music compositions and their interesting timings to even how the next episode is presented. Certainly an intriguing show with positive freshness and carefree attitude hovering over it.

EDIT: Now, before anyone comments (as if there was even a remote chance of such occurence -_-') that Kure-nai is just like title X or title Y, once a title strays from what I personally consider as generic pitfalls, I'm eager to focus on any original approaches. Naturally, this may result in me overlooking some flaws.

EDIT2: awmygodsocuteGAH. Ok so, this is a slice of life anime, and not in a boring way. Murasaki's natural naïvity merging and colliding with the way she was brought up is simply adorable to watch. 10/10.

EDIT3: Episode 6:
Uh, I wonder what I should remove from my favourites list, it's getting quite long.

EDIT4: Afterword: I don't know, I might've lowered the score but it is not often you see so many genres crammed successfully into a short anime like this; things turn pretty Initial D at one point I spoil you that much. Higashi no Eden goes back on my favourites list for now at least.