You know, Mr Blogger, you have been writing about Haruka’s Secret for 17 episodes now. I get the sense that you see something in this show, but frankly, I don’t sense the joy in your posts that I see with your other favorite series. So while the screenshots tell the story of this weeks episode, you and I need to have a chat. You, my friend are addicted.
Addicted to crappy anime.
They’re coming to take me away, haha…
While I try to keep an open mind about the cultural differences seen in anime, there is one trend that makes me cringe. One trend that makes Australia try to ban manga. One trend that makes me erase my hard drive before I go on vacation.
Loli.
Yea, they went there…
Ipecac is a funny word. I was introduced to it during various storylines of the Bloom County comic strip. I was completely unaware of how to even pronounce it. Thus I looked it up, came to understand it and made it my own. Do the same, go look it up right now. I’ll wait.
Now that you’ve returned, you know why it’s not a good thing I choose to describe episode 2 of Haruka’s Secret with this word.
This filler episode is pretty much the same filler episode as the last three. You have your overheard misunderstanding.
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You have your running gag.
You have your cliche anime lesson
And you have your parting line that can SO be taken the wrong way
It gets better next week…sort of.
(note – for this episode of this show, I’ll put up with subtitles my video player can’t render, so you have to too)
We’re full into the Fall season with my most anticipated show of the year, Nocturne Girl’s School Lacrosse Club!
no, wait…
We all know what the second to last episode means – drama! As with everything in this show, the drama comes from an obvious source, but they still had to force it on us, more on this later. But first, we have to start with a fairly typical event – a birthday party!
Note the date – I’m sure it will be a trivia question soon (more…)
Sometimes, you need to work to make a point. You need to drive home an argument over and over from different angles until something final drives it home. This can take time, and can be grueling to endure. Especially when it’s something that should be simple, like saying “sorry you caught me grouping our mutual friend”.
Nothing to see here, move along (more…)
This story get simpler and simpler, to the point that just about anyone can plot out the, er, plot points that are going to crop up. So when you see the following scene, where Haruka comes to visit Yuuto at school where he was setting up for the festival with Shiina, you know what is on the other side of that door.
But how did we get here? Let’s deconstruct this episode by taking the plot points backwards to the source. Get ready for another magic journey into experimental blogging that can’t be missed! (more…)
This weeks episode is all about how perfect Yuuto is. His perfect manners, his perfect behavior, his perfect hair. All of which makes Mika conclude he and her sister are the boringest couple ever, and need she needs to teach Yuuto how to spice it up, mostly because her sister is already a lost cause. Guess how this works out?
Yuuto is about to get served (more…)
We left Haruka and Yuuto in a tight spot. Haruka had disappeared, only to show up on Yuuto’s doorstep in full crisis mode. Once again, it was probably obvious where this was going, but if you’re like me and need it spelled out, I’ll just paste it here before the bump so there is no confusion.
And now we’re in a very special Lifetime original drama (more…)
I’m starting to see where they are going wrong (in my opinion, of course) with this set-up. The pendulum keeps swinging between otaku craziness and high school romance, and for the most part the pendulum swings WAY too far in either direction. Obviously, the writers are much too fond of trying to combine two things that normally don’t go together for the sake of experimentation. And it doesn’t stop with genres.
This could end up really cool, or really horrible, much like this show (more…)
