Azure Flame Reloaded

“Excuse me, but are those really the only options?” There seemed to be altogether too much anime to watch this week, but somehow I made it through it all- with the exception of Koutetsu 2, which needs to be given full parody treatment. Reviewed this week: Iroha 20-22, Cazador 2, Chevalier 19-20, Claymore 3, Darker [...]

After an OP that emphasises the HARD GAY longing between Zhuge Liang and Lu Xun, the episode proper begins. A town is being burned down, and generic soldiers menace generic townspeople. Soldiers: Burn, burn, kill and burn everything in sight for no good reason! Every epic story starts with the burning of a village! Lu [...]

To add a little more variety to this blog, I’ve decided to drop in the odd review of live action films based on anime and manga franchises. First up is Boogiepop and Others, the live action counterpart to the first Boogiepop novel and the Boogiepop Doesn’t Laugh manga. The story, for those who do not [...]

Lia-d’Eon sees Durand’s spirit leave for the afterlife. (Durand: I’m off for some HARD GAY in Heaven, a place of Zhuge Liangs.) Back in France, Louis writes down the name of the night’s lover. Louis: And tonight, I choose Generic Advisor! (Pompadour: Damn!) Pompadour thinks back to a conference with Saint-Germain. Saint-Germain: Even if we [...]

Kazuto Iizuka is even more average than the usual average anime teen, but even his life is afforded a little bit of excitement when he discovers that his schoolmate Narue Nanase wasn’t lying when she claimed she was from outer space! When Kazuto proves happy to accept Narue for who she is, a relationship quickly [...]

Lia-d’Eon stands over Dashwood’s body. (Lia-d’Eon: He did not have the stamina for BI.) Teillagory sheathes his sword. (Teillagory: The old antique will have to wait a bit before it gets some action.) Dashwood’s blood has formed a message telling the heroes to go to the New World. (D’Eon: Damn, does this mean he wants [...]

This week, I must begin with an extract from a hilarious e-mail that Amazon sent me last night. “We’ve noticed that customers who have expressed interest in “Tokyo Mew Mew Vol. 2: v. 2 (Tokyo Mew-Mew)” by Mia Ikumi have also ordered “Advanced Bacterial Genetics: Use of Transposons and Phage for Genomic Engineering: 421 (Methods [...]

When Nadie and Ellis find a diner in the middle of nowhere, it seems like the perfect place to have some HARD YURI- but will the spectre of STRAIGHT ruin their fun? “If you’re feeling frustrated, perhaps we should have some HARD YURI.”

Victorian England may technically be a single country, but within it dwells two worlds- that of the commoners, and that of the nobles. In an era where status and the opinion of society counts for everything, a romance that breaks class boundaries seems almost impossible to countenance- at least until it actually happens. The feelings [...]

  Day 15 The second harvest of carrots was ready today, and so once again the entire morning was spent harvesting and watering. There is plenty of time to replace the carrots, but I have worked so hard in the fields so far this season that I think I will give it a rest. The [...]