Cameo of the Chobits

This is just amazing, episode three of Kobato and guess who turns up at her humble apartment? Chiho and Chise - note the the absolutely very subtle play on the name, who happen to be the daughters of the apartment manager. It's like the spinoff 'To no Railgun' of 'To no Index'; a switch between the main and supporting characters except Kobato is a new character and the parallel world of persocoms is not present. Put simply, they are playing cameo roles in the world of Kobato (which is a little simpler than the parallel world madness). Picture~

This was such a holy shit moment. You should have seen my face - a mixture of delight and "bahahahaha I knew it xD" expression.

I've neglected to comment on my latest series completion of Kanamemo and Aria No. 1. I'm not going to type Aria: The Animation all the time so I'm giving it a styled No.1 tag. mmmm

Kanamemo -

Kana checks out a diary

so I was a little weirded out by the stereotypes and the yuri couple would have titillated if one of them wasn't so religiously devoted to the other.

But I do hear that in the case of same sex relationships, a big difference in personality is quite advantageous as there is no gulf of the sexes. The gulf of the sexes is the differences in behaviour due to gender and this almost always leads to conflict between male and females. In heterosexual relationships similar personalities work well in bonding, often overcoming the couple's gender differences. Contrarily in homosexual relationships, having similar personalities isn't so advantageous as the couple become too similar. But this is general observation of scientific research and does not always apply. Nevertheless it seems to be observed in Kanamemo.

So despite the weird yuri couple and the woman with a fetish for loli, the series was fairly well played. At first Kana was an irritating blob (who was more moe than I cared for) but as the series progressed, I started to appreciate the comic value she was bringing to the show. Her paranoid flipping out is ridiculously creative (the idea of an old man inhabiting the skin of Saki was classic). Hinata was the sanest character on the show and thanks to her physical similarity to Asa Shigure I felt compelled to like her.
The story was episodic and despite this, Kana had some serious moments of appreciation or uncertainty. Though it was hard for me to take her thoughts all too seriously, these were the musings of a young and naive girl! It was a good series, at first I really thought it was going to be bad but it started to mature on me. I was suspicious at the complete lack of yuri between Kana and Mika given the show's blatently lesbian content...but a little bit came along in the last episode. So I can laugh at myself for being an oracle of anime plots.

Though it worries me that I watched a show like Kanamemo. Have I strayed from the flock?!

Aria - The Animation -

The sweet and pretty Akari Mizunashi

Put simply "beau~tiful". It feels good to watch every episode. No-one is going to bitch. Just soak in the scenery of Venezia and imagine what it would be like to watch the prettiest female gondaliers paddle your boat. I had to say that. Once again this was an episodic series but that is how it works best. The apprentices share similar personalities to their sempai'; despite this they have their own character traits - the sweet and open-mouthed Akari, the hardworking and shy Aika and the quiet and moody Alice.

This series is hard to explain so I'll leave it to people to watch themselves. If anyone ever asks about Aria (since I do get questions all the time...yeah...) then all I can say is "It's lovely. Watch it yourself and you'll see."

Bedtime.