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Soukou Kijo Iris - Armored Night Iris

Okay more like Hentai Armored Night Iris. Probably one of the more "enjoyable" hentai you'll ever watch. It has a decent storyline for a hentai series and yes, Iris herself is your perfect material for your day.

No further explination is needed, like tentacles, elves, thresome, slime, anal, squirting and all other weird forms of hentai this is the series for you.

You either like it or you dont, such is hentai.

Let me just say this before you continue reading my review. Cage of Eden, was one of the best thrills i've ever experienced in manga. I was totally compramised by it and im writing this review based on my fresh memory of marathoning 185 chapters of Cage of Eden in less than 20 hours.

Before proceeding to my review, I will be demonstraiting, pouring out my all my hates on this series. I will not be introducing who the fcking protagonist, antagnonist or characters are in this review. There is a highly reliable source of information provided at the description of the manga so stop being ... a lazy shit and read the fcking synopsis.

Pardon my informal language used in the introduction, however that is also part of my review. By my use of language, you can already tell how much of a let down Cage of Eden was. The review starts here:

Synopsis: Akira and his friends are on plane and suddenly without a goddamn reason, the plane starts to face heavy turbulance and everyone started panicing. Everyone was shitting their pants out. Akira and his friends were unseated during this event and therefore they were thrown around like some babies toy. A few moments later, Akira sees his childhood friend Rion being dragged into some super-space time vortex, he chances her and guess what? They TELIPORTED, HO MY GOD SO DAMN AMUSING RIGHT? Suddently out of goddamn nowhere, they teliported into some stupid unknown jungle, seperated and there were all fcking extinct animals chasing them like rats.

While in search for their classmates, they stumble accross many dangers, battling pre-historical animals in a FIST FIGHT. This is just going nowhere... it's just so goddamn stupid. Although it is, there was an magnetic factor in this manga that surprisingly, intrigued me in a few short chapters.

The tables turned, I was totally engulfed in reading this manga. There is NO ENDS to each arc. The action scene, (humans vs pre-historical monsters) was indeed admirable in an action manga, and the author himself took no second thoughts to kill of a side character eerie/gorily. You must be thinking, stupid reviewer (me), why should we feel affection for the side characters? TRUST ME YOU'LL GET SO DAMN ATTACHED TO THEM WHEN THEY DIE YOU'LL GOOGLE WHY THEY DIED yada yada blah blah blah no point continuing.

Now putting my hates aside, i'll now explain how this series is so captivating. Firstly, Yamada-sensei (Author) brilliantly integrated the best selling novel series; "The Lord of the Flies", and all time respectable animation series "Jurrassic Park". He compliled those two series into his manga brilliantly. Adding a little charm into it by crafting catchy female characters as well as enhancing it with a light ecchi slides.

Yes, the infamous Lord of the Flies.. majority of you would have heard of it from a teacher or seen it in bookstores. And yes, the novel series is just that good, the play stimulates the possible outcomes when KIDS start having their own COUNTRY, They kill each other, rape each other, betray each other bla bla bla go to an elementry school to find out yourself. (vulgar words ahead)

Basically, it was a masterpiece... UNTIL THE LAST CHAPTER, CHAPTER 185 CAME, IT WAS FINALLY THE END! EVERYHING WAS GOING TO BE REVIEWED! WHY WAS THERE A ISLAND FILLED WITH EXTINCED ANIMALS? HOW DID THEY GET THERE, WHY? WHEN? HOW? WHO? WHAT? WHATTT?!?!?!. I WAS BLOWN OFF, WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT? NONE OF THEM WERE ANSWERED.

Seriously I have no fucking idea of what happened next. The last 23 pages of the manga was just so fucking bad, it's even worst than getting played into the hands of my friends into watching boku no pico. I HAD EXTREMELY HIGH EXPECTATIONS, all those suspense, all those feels, tears, boners, laughs, salvation, hope all those perfect SCRIPTS, THE PERFECT AND CRAFTY CHARACTERS, THEY WERE ALL, FOR 4 YEARS OF SERIALIZATION PUT TO WASTE.

SUCH A LETDOWN, I COULD DIE ANY MOMENT. HURRRRRRRRRR, the author must've went brain dead towards the end. How in the fuck can he end an awesome series into oblivion with just 23 pages.

Nevertheless, this was one of the best manga's with one of the best plots i've ever seen and it did certainly revived my dead motivation to read manga. However... that ending... was just so unbearable that I had to let out all the feels in this so-called review. I'm not doing this to gain publicity or anything, im just expressing my crushed will to live.

Japan engineered an armed exoskeleton weapon known as Infinite Stratos (IS for short) and it became the mainstream of weapons. However for some reason, only women are able to operate the IS and therefore, women are now favored in society over men. Orimura Ichika is a 15 year old boy and accidentally touches an IS placed in the IS pilot training school. He is found to be the first and only man who can operate IS and forced to enter the training school, which only consisted of girls. And so the tale goes on, of how Orimura Ichika’s life is surrounded by girls, has begun.

-Review: ... Firstly, as the synopsis states, IS is an armed exoskeleton weapon created by Japan. To some certain extend, it can only be operated by women. But one day, a boy named Orimura Ichika accidentally touches an IS placed in the IS training school, and it resonated with him and moved. Therefore, that makes Ichika, the only male to operate this mainstream weapon. Which also draws him a huge amount of publicity in this series’s universe because first and foremost, IS can only be operated by women. In addition to that, the IS is a mainstream weapon currently being the biggest hype of the Infinite Stratos universe. Imagine you being the only guy to operate this powerful weapon, which has the ability to destroy a few thousand missiles at once (mini spoiler). Certainly the world government, who was in opposition of the IS at first, will take an interest in this matter.

But the strong points of this series does not lie mainly on the synopsis, in fact this series is highly focused on the daily highschool life of Orimura Ichika (protagonist) in an ALL GIRLS SCHOOL. You heard me, the ONLY guy in an ALL GIRLS SCHOOL. By all girls school, i’m referring to IS academy which is built solely to train women to resonate with the IS. Up to date, it is the only school that offers IS training in the world. So yes, our little protagonist is one heck of a lucky guy. As the series progresses, you will get to witness the cruelty of this world. By cruelty, i’m referring to the possible jealousy of fellow otaku’s as Ichika indulges his everyday life with physically, perfectly crafted girls. Yes, the main teaser of this series, is Ichika’s harem. Honestly if you think about it, this whole setup was for the sole purpose of Ichika’s harem.

So Infinite Stratos girls? What’s the fun in that? Aren’t they just normal anime girls? Believe me, I had thought for a moment while looking that the illustration, that this was just going to be another comedy harem anime, with newly introduced big chested girls in each episode clinging and slutting all over Ichika after first sight. My part of my interpretation that was not entirely wrong, because the character developments in this series was just plain horrible and they certainly did, cling onto him at first sight. Despite knowing that after watching the first few episodes, I was still intrigued by this series, especially at the girls. Why?

There was no particular reason actually. Although the first few phrases of character developments was just as mainstream as highschool DxD, I was gradually attracted to the characters after a few revolutionizing events in the series, and when the “fierce competition” between the girls over Ichika came to an understanding and there was actual development and progression between Ichika and one of the protagonist girls in his “harem”. After that phrase was over, the story will continue, after all that senseless ecchi.


One of the main portfolios of this anime series, is the dynamic animation between battle scenes. The aerial camera views that were normally used in 3rd person flight simulation games, was flawlessly implemented into the dramatic battle scenes between the IS. In addition to that, the IS armors were well designed, compared to the original, manga design. Much more details and texture was added into the IS armor designs and these details were maintained throughout the anime series. In conjunction to the consistent animation between the IS battles, the frames in between these fights were also very smooth, there was very little “lag” during the IS battles which makes it extra enjoyable and boost the viewers expectations. 

However the animation was not throughly consistent throughout the whole anime series. The downside to the animation in this series was mainly during the slice of life events of Ichika. Time to time, the animation seems to slack between the conversation between characters and at other times, the characters facial expression are bluntly portrayed. In addition to the character animation, at times the color contrast on the characters are just plain dull.

In all mecha related anime, sound is essential to lighten up the tension during a battle. Overall the sound was on an average level. The sound effects were good, it had variation according to each IS suit, and dynamics that were proportional to distance in aerial combat. The opening and ending theme songs were just so so, it was congruent with the opening and ending animation but they arn’t that catchy because of the inconsistent rhythm. However the main downside to the sound was it’s repetitive use of tracks which got boring after a while.

But if I must say, the main downside of this whole series is infact, the generic stereotype theme of which the characters are adapted from.

Overall, this is definitely a series worth investing your time into for all those mecha fans, because it brings a whole new battle viewing experience with the enhanced dynamical camera views. Aside from that, the relationship between Ichika and the girls are certainly something to look forward too while waiting for the 2nd season of Infinite Stratos to air.

Synopsis: Katsuragi Keima is known as the "conquering god". He is an infamous gamer who is known to have conqured 10000 heroines in games and is a heavy influence to gamers world wide, also to game companies. Keima despises reality and he hates anything that's not a game, even girls! However one day he is approached by Elsie, a demon of what they call "New Hell", and she requests the aid of Keima, who is known as the conquering god to help capture the "run-away spirits". These spirits formal demons of "old hell". To restore their formal power, the run-away spirits will reside inside a ... young female's soul, and be reincarnated when these young females get pregnant. By making the host (the girls) fall in love, their hearts are contended and the run-away spirit leaves the contended soul and can then be captured by the new demons. Keima's daily life of gaming soon turns upside down as he struggles to conqure these girls for his life's sake.

Review: As the synopsis goes, Keima Katsuragi is entitled the "conquering god" in this story's universe, he is able to conquer almost any game, mostly galge games (dating sims and such). It is even stated that he can complete 10 galge games under 24 hours. Yes, the main protagonist of this series is a hardcore gamer, who holds heavy influence in both the gaming industry and gamers.

At first glance, "The World God Only Knows" seems to be your typical generic harem series. For some of you might already know if you are subscribed to "otaku pages", most of their post related to this series are mostly a guy with holding a PSP, kissing young highschool girls, hence the impression of a playboy or harem series. I once thought "The world god only knows" was just, another typical harem series. However that wasn't the case, these illustrations only portrayed the intensive stage of each arc and only covers a fraction of the entire context, what lies before these intensive events are highly structured, well developed plot lines that intrigues readers and viewers.

Yes, this isn't just your typical harem series where another random guy becomes just another harem king, this series contains much more than just kisses and conquering, let me explain it in further detail...

As the synopsis goes, Keima is a professional gamer ---> meets demon from "New hell" ---> Demon requests help from keima, who has absolutely no interest in reality to help capture runaway spirits (demons of old hell), however he is forced in a life or death situation the moment he signed the contract with the demons.

Now why is there an "Old", and a "New" hell? This is another intriguing part of this series that is gradually build up as the story progresses, this series tells you thoroughly about why there's an old and new hell. To make things more intense, these heroines which Keima has to conquer has much more deeper meaning to them other than just being capturing targets. Among these "targets", lies a 6 gods from heaven, makes sense right? if there are demons, there will also be gods, however any further explanation will ruin your enjoyment so i'll just skip this.

Now for the critiques of this manga itself. The artwork of this manga is rather simple and the less serious type of art, mainly doodle-type artwork similar to Nisekoi. Despite just being doodle art for the less serious moments (mainly 60% of the entire manga), this manga has many variations of it's doodles and they're rather... cute if I must say. They match the scenario exactly and these doodle arts, compared to actual shounen facial gestures actually do serve a purpose despite being simple and expressive, it exaggerates the emotion that's being played in that particular scenario and it gives multiple impression on viewers. However the main drawback of this manga series is, the author has a tendency to overuse doodle art, and some parts of the manga can become very vague and slacky.

The plot line itself is rather unique, while being the harem type of pot line, there is a major twist to this. That is the fact that the harem king himself, Keima, of this series hates real girls! This may create a negative impression on you audiences but don't be fooled! Despite the people around the protagonist knowing of him being a genius creep, who plays his PFP (PSP) in class, they still fall for him! The level of stupidity in this is just so massive, that it just gives many viewers of this manga mindf**ks when things get intensive. The ammount of skill keima attains from games is just massive, he even applies theories before conquering a target by doing a detailed layout of his targets before conquering them.

Other than the harem side of the story, the plot also heavily involves the 3 realms: Heaven, Earth and Hell. As these three sides colide after the outbreak of the run away spirits, many series of events are revolved around Keima and even the concept of time is used in this manga. Yes TIME, anything about TIME is surely to guarantee a thrill!

The characters, other than the protagonist are finely crafted. Although characterization in this series was basic and had a slow development at first, the later half of the series will just snipe you down. Indeed this series has one of the most finely developed characters and they each have very different and well defined individualities, this also applies for the side characters despite them having only about 6 chapters of focus on them. This also makes the characters of this series very catchy and lovable.

Overall, this manga has made quiet an impression on me because of it's catchy characters and simple yet elagant character designs. The protagonist is very entertaining and he has a variation of hidden personalites as the story progresses. The plot and story is also very enjoyable and easy to catch on to, the pacing is rather smooth and is always congruent with the characters. However the major drawback for now, is the utterly long 168 hour wait for a chapter update....

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GE: Good Ending is basically just another ordinary shounen romance manga I thought. I was very prejudice on GE because the cover art was just not very convincing. For me, a typical romance manga must consist of "decent' looking characters for in which in GE's case does not.

Art- The art started off horribly, there were unnecessary shadings here and there on the character's face which made me totally mad, because it just ruined the face, especially on Yuki's lips, it made her look like she had thick lips although the description of her should be "fair and beautiful". However at the later half, the ... art started to improve bit by bit. The facial structure of the characters started to look "cuter" and less realistic and the portrayed expressions were much more convincing in the later half. Overall I scored the art 7/10.

Character- GE's characters were great in my opinion, they were well composed and acted according to their personality. Certain characters like Yuki and Izumi had past stories that were narated during the progression of the story, it was well done because the situation was not forced, each of the characters took time to gain the trust of their friends before opening up to them. One of my favourite characters in this series is Seiji, although he may be an airhead and an idiot, he still understands how to treat a lady well and not make reckless decisions like giving in to his lust. Although there were certain repatative tempting flirting events, Seiji continued to be faithful to his girlfriend, also Seiji did not force his relationship to the next level instead he took his time to realize his partners feelings before attempting anything else. He deserves the role of an honest and kind character in this manga.

Story- The story was very complex and well constructed. Anticipations of the next chapter when you're reading would always be very hard to make. This is because GE has many suddent twist that will make you jump off your seat. There were many turn of events between Seiji's love life, for there were many love triangles in the story, the author also likes to put Seiji in a vulnerable situation where he is forced to make hard decisions which might result in consequences, and for a fellow reader who is reading this manga, it creates a sense of anxiety as we flip through the next page one by one. There were also some fractions in the story which made me flip my table, literally. Because there are just so many suddent twist and turns, just when you think the situation has settled down and take a cooling dip, just ONE speechbubble will cause you to rage, im not going to spoil it you'll just have to read it to experience my rage.

My overall enjoyment for this manga was 9/10, because I stayed up till 5 AM due to my curiosity of the next chapter, then the next, then next and it just goes on and on. I keep thinking that there will always be a cooling point in the story, but unfortunately there wasen't. The story just kept evolving, romance manga hunters who read GE will develop a sense of anxiety because they want to know what's going to happen next, GE's story was very unique and it was different from many other romance manga's. I was just so absorbed into this manga that the next thing I knew, it was already 5 AM in the morning and I've had already read 119 chapters.

This is my second time writing a review, and my first on a manga review. I would appriciate any kind of feedback or critisism regarding this review to imrpove on my revewing skills.

AKB0048, its sole purpose is to promote the real life group AKB48, an infamous japanese girls group. Honestly I have been an AKB48 fan since I discovered J-culture itself, but having it become an anime was an entirely different situation for me.

I was very skeptical about AKB0048, and for a long time when I see AKB0048 on other member's anime list, I would often ignore it because the synopsis sounded stupid enough.

But on one faithful day, I decided to download it and give it a try. Since the genre was "Music", one of my favourite genre's I downloaded the Blue-Ray edition... my life ... changed.

The opening theme, ""Kibou ni Tsuite (希望について)" just blew me off my chair. I was greeted by extreme god-tiered animation and harmonic music. Although there were character spoilers and some side stories in the opening, I didn't seem to mind because the animation was just too good. As a musician, hearing the combination of instruments along with the energetic drumming and "hopeful" melody got me exited. I have to say this is a well-done quality opening as it perfectly suits the background of the story.

The ending theme, "Yume wa Nandomo Umarekawaru (夢は何度も生まれ変わる)" is just fantastic. I have never heard of such beautiful combinations of natural instruments and electro base + harmonic vocals before. In most anime's, I would often ignore the ending theme because they are not as "exiting" as the opening theme. However, "Yume wa Nandomo Umarekawaru (夢は何度も生まれ変わる)" just stopped my fingers from pressing the next episode. This ending theme had some sort of hypnosis on me, besides the music, the animation of AKB0048 member's shadow dancing just fitted into the music so well, I just couldn't resist!! And yes, this is one of the best ending themes ever.

Now, for the story review -------

In an alternative timeline, the Earth's environment is destroyed by a world war, forcing humans to leave planet Earth and strive in other planets. Entertainment and music becomes heavily banned in several planets as they are said to "move the soul" of an individual. (It certainly does) Can you imagine a planet where there is no music and entertainment? I certainly couldn't! Then out of the midst of despair, the infamous galatic group, "AKB0048" holds its concert on one of these planets under the entertainment ban and reintroduced music into the planet. In one of these planets, our main characters of the story are then introduced to us smuggling from underground sewer channels towards an AKB0048 concert as they have not yet experience a real life concert before. The intro roars to their ears (and ours) and the concert then commences! The next scene is most probably one of the most mind-blowing, exiting, awesome etc etc performance you will ever experience! The stage design, choreography, music, LIGHTS!, EVERYTHING was just PERFECT in those few minutes. Special "dancing software" was also used to stimulate real and accurate "dancing" while maintaining the cute and glamouring characters during some of the dance scenes. At first glance, it may seem kinda stupid, 3D computer models often don't go well with animation. Nevertheless, it went well with AKB0048 without disrupting the character's outward appearances, it also provided accurate movements and went well with the thrilling concert.

Our main characters, inspired by AKB0048 were determined to one day be a part of the group. They eventually managed somehow during the auditions (somewhere, contains spoiler) and undergo AKB0048 training. Yes, it applies to all the live groups today, when individuals have passed auditions, they are required to take "training" before they can actually perform in live concerts and release albums. The concept applies to AKB0048 anime as well but it will be dramatised in a few episodes to reduce some flaws.

Although AKB0048 lacked character development and story development, along with the universe history, I still enjoyed this anime because you will NEVER see another anime that has such brilliant concerts scenes and colourful, creative character designs.

After reading all that~ I must be a fanboy, and yes I am a fanboy of AKB0048. In fact, it made it to my top 5 favourite anime's. So the question remains, why AKB0048? Was it the awesome Soundtracks? The glamorous characters? Quality art? For some reason I do not even know myself when it comes to this.

Heres the answer, "it was fun!". Indeed it may seem weird to all of you who are reading my first review, however I enjoyed AKB0048 simply because it is basically about NOTHING, almost nothing at all! If you have ever been to a live concert, and had fun singing along with the melody, I would highly recommend AKB0048 because you do not even need to know or understand the story. You just have to allow the music and visuals to flow~ throughout your body and relax. Then AKB0048 shall be the most enjoyable "in-house" entertainment you will ever receive!

*(I would recommend you to watch AKB0048 AFTER a nice hot shower)*

Criticise if you must as I hope to improve my review skills so I can provide more accurate details on my next review.

By the way, for those who are interested in piano~ :
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