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3 Episode Taste Test: Sasameki Koto (Whispered Words)

18Nov20092127

Sasameki Koto takes place in a land of almost per­petual sun­sets, golden skies and scenery aflame with oranges, all the while impres­sion­able young girls stand in front of illu­min­ated classrooms blush­ing with pos­sib­il­ity. The series lays in thick and fast and doesn’t ever pre­var­ic­ate as to what the major­ity of it will […]

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3 Episode Taste Test: Fuyu no Sonata (Winter Sonata)

17Nov20092117

Begin­ning Winter Son­ata without know­ing its lin­eage is open­ing one­self up for con­fu­sion. While super­fi­cially Japan­ese, the series ori­gin­ates in South Korea, adap­ted from a non-animated drama series of which Winter Son­ata is the second of four which are col­lect­ively known as “End­less Love”. The ori­ginal tele­vi­sion cast are brought on in […]

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3 Episode Taste Test: Kimi ni Todoke (Reaching You)

29Oct20092045

Under­stat­ing Kimi ni Todoke would be to say that it is sac­char­ine: one can­not help but grin mor­on­ic­ally at the con­tinu­ing quest of Sawako Kur­onuma to ingra­ti­ate her­self with her school mates. Afflic­ted with the curse of rumour, she starts the series alone and sub­ject to spuri­ous tales of bring­ing curses upon […]

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3 Episode Taste Test: Nyan Koi (Mew wuv / Cat love)

27Oct20092134

Ignor­ing the most obvi­ous pussy jokes, Nyan Koi is an unabashed romantic com­edy. The open­ing seconds are rife with famili­ar­ity: the sun stream­ing through classroom win­dows, a waif-like school­girl stand­ing demurely oppos­ite the rag-haired boy. Were it not over in a few seconds the tempta­tion to turn it off in dis­gust would […]

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ef — a tale of memories

06Jan20081913

Given such an aus­pi­cious and con­fus­ing open­ing three epis­odes, it would have been easy for ef to fall into obscur­ity and abstrac­tion with deep sym­bol­ism and obscured plot; thank­fully this is not the case and the series man­ages to make the absurdly styl­istic sym­bol­ism part of itself while still a some­times unique, […]

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