



Short Summary:
Ohana Matsumae isn’t like other girls. Her thoughts seem to be a bit quirky and she wants to break out of her boring life and experience something dramatic. Her wish is granted faster than she expected when her mother decides to run off with her boyfriend and send Ohana to her grandmother. Because Ohanas mother and grandmother aren’t on good terms with each other the latter and Ohana have never met. Before she leaves for the samll mountain village in which her grandmother runs an hot spring inn Ohana meets her best friend Ko to say goodbye. Unexpectedly Ko confesses her love for Ohana but leaves directly afterwards. The bewildered girl doesn’t know how to react.
Without another word to Ko she leaves and waits excited for her personal fairy tail to enfold. And indeed, the Taisho era inn looks beautiful, like out of a movie. But that’s about everything that’s fairy tale like for Ohana. The girl she has to share a room with tells her to die the first time they meet and Ohana’s grandmother sees in her a worthless child of the daughter she detests. Ohana has to work for a roof above her head and as there’s no other place to go to she faces whatever struggles may lie ahead.
My opinion:
Hanasuka Iroha is quite a suprise. As usual I dived into the show without any knowledge of the story or anything. Then we meet Ohana as this quirky heroine who’s got her head in the clouds. Her grandmother treats her and the other girls at the inn like crap. I’m sure we’ll get to know that woman’s motives but in my opinion there’s no excuse for slapping her employees. I can see myself watching this show if I’m able to warm towards Ohana.
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Strike Witches seems closely related to Sky Girls, though so far I prefer the latter. It had so much more charm from the beginning while Strike Witches is more or less childish. It’s strange the girls are flying in ths sky with only magical “feet” and it’s exaggerated they sound like big helicopters or old style planes.
All that doesn’t mean I don’t like Strike Witches. I’ll be sure to watch at least another episode before I decide wether it’ll be on my summer list or not. Ah, summer holidays after next tuesday…two and a half months!
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Sekirei got on my nerves within minutes…not to say seconds. I’ll leave this show to all the male bloggers out there ^_~
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After the first two episodes again I stopped watching Shigofumi for a while. Though I was sold on the idea of the show I didn’t like the thought of an episodic strucuture. I did not await such a brilliant storyline where everything comes together in episode 7. You get to know the different characters and their relations to each other. It makes me think about death a lot and I love the character of Fumika’s father. While he’s eccentric you could kill him yourself, but then he turns into a child that sees the world with a loving heart and have to think he’s simply gorgeous.
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And so H2O comes to an end. It’s not clear, wether Hirose actually was able to see but it’s not that important. All in all this show was not excellent, but still enjoyable to watch and I like the message: Everybody can achive happiness!
Though he wasn’t able to see and he carried a heavy burden Hirose was strong enough to help everybody in the village and so they got strong enough to help him. Some characters, especially Hinata/Hotaru matured a lot and I love shows were you can see character development and…take alook into the future. Oh my God, Hirose’s feet are so thin and long *giggle* The ending is kitschy, but still I like it and it makes me feel good. Over all a three star rating out of five!

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Short Summary:
When Shiika arrives at the appartment Rina is already gone. Instead the strange woman, who had seemed to give a mushi to Asami, explaines she’s one of the original three – the Voracious Eater. Shiika gets rescued by Minmin who’s not a spy at all, but loves Haji Keigo and wants to bring him Fuyuhotaru. In a fight Minmin’s mushi gets killed by Shiika. But in the end she’s injured/she dies, too.
Meanwhile Rina is at GARDEN and meets Kaji. She gets to know mushi were created by humans that want to rule over all the hosts that have lost their dreams. Rina is shocked and has to fight against hundreds and thousands SEPB hosts plus mushis, but when she gets the chance to kill Haji her powers have gone and her mushi Nanahoshi wins. She truns into a big monster and destroyes half the city till Kakkou appears. Though he’s about to turn into a monster himself he wants to save Rina. But then the Voracious Eater appears.

My opinion:
Okay, this is getting a bit crazy now. I hope there’s a possibility for Rina to turn back, also for Kakkou. The Voracious Eater must be destroyed, still what about the other two original hosts?
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