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Yuru Camp: Outdoor Bonding with Friends

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Exploring campsites...enjoying a night fire under the open sky holding a mug of chocolate...and hanging out with your dearest friends... Going on solo camping is what quiet first year highschooler Rin Shima loves to do. She goes solo camping every weekend, her camping gears humped on the back of her bike. Rin driving her way to Motosuko for a weekend night camp One weekend morning, when Rin went to Motosuko campsite to spend her day camping there, she found it strange to see a girl fast asleep on the bench wall of the store, with her bike parked nearby. Uncaring about it, she just ignored the sleeping girl as she went inside the store and did her business. Later, w hen she went back to the store to buy, she saw the girl still deeply asleep. As night fell and she climbed back to go to the toilet, she found the sleeping girl already gone from the bench. She thought the girl was gone, as the girl's bike has gone from sight. But...the pink haired girl? She freaked Rin out...

Four Girls' Wildest Adventure: Exploring the Unknown Land of Antartica

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Every girl has a wild dream of fulfilling something she has never done in her entire life. Be it becoming an actress, a fancy traveler or merely skipping classes if she has never ever tried doing it, just even once.  That's what this one heroine planned on doing so in this anime called A Place Further Than The Universe .  Mari Tamaki is a second year highschooler who has never done anything much in her life  except being just a boring straightlaced do-gooder student. To make her life exciting, she made a list of plans for herself and decided to make the most of her youth by doing things she has never done before like skipping classes or going to a place she's never gone to yet. Mari on her bed before school Mari returning the envelope filled with million yen One day, she accidentally bumped into a stranger- a girl with long hair inside the train station. The girl dropped a full envelope filled with one million yen. Mari found the envelope and was su...

Amanchu!: Renewed Memories Shared at Sea on The Promised Summer

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Friends come and go but real friends still stay close despite distance. All they need to do to rekindle and deepen the friendship is a summer visit to reconnect the bond that weakened when distance separated them.  And when old friends go, new ones come over to form another beautiful kind of friendship. But, new friends and old friends can't always be friends at once . Sometimes, jealousy sparks over new friends barring to create a new friendship. Especially, when a certain special friend involved is now the new bestfriend of the new one that comes along, disrupting and by passing the old friendship bond forged as old friends move on with their regular lives. Such is the theme of the story portrayed in the OVA of the 13th episode of Amanchu! , entitled Yakusuko no Natsu to Atarashii Omoide no Koto (The Story of the Promised Summer and New Memories). Hikari Kohinata has two bestfriends namely Chizuru and Akane back in middle school and these two girls move...

Rise Up in 'Battle Through the Heavens' and Become Invincibly Strong

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How does one rise up again to revive  oneself from a fallen state of glory after an utter disgrace of failure? Xiao Yan is the third master of the Xiao Family, one of the three most influential family inside Wu Tan City. They have control over selling of medicines inside the city. Xiao Yan is renowned as a prodigy three years back when he wowed the audience  inside Magical Testing Center by attaining level 9 Dou Zhi Li at age 10. At age 11, he surpassed  level 10 Dou Zhi Li and achieved Dou Zhi Li Qi Zu, the ultimate peak of Dou Zhi Li, and so, becoming the youngest Dou Zhe in the century.   However, during the recent level assessment of Dou Qi at the center, Xiao Yan only reached level 3, making him lose his face in the public and becoming the center of ridicule and insult such for being the so-called prodigy.  Xun'er consoling Xiao Yan after his test. Xiao Yan has an adopted younger sister who is very close to him named Xiao Xun'er. ...

Hakusho to Yousei: The Enchanting Magical Romance of an Earl and His Fairy Doctor

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Magical, mystical, romantic with a dash of action. These are the adjectives I can describe for this splendidly well written story about an earl and his fairy. So the reason why I must write my own blog about the greatness of this anime or I might explode from extreme appreciation of it. I just love Earl and Fairy. Much is to be told about this amazingly well-plotted romantic light novel that was made into an anime. Deep breath, deep sigh. I honestly have to take a deep breath while I look back into this anime because this is the only one that have thrown me off the horizon and have me fallen completely in love and captured. This supernatural fantasy plot, Hakusho to Yousei (Earl and Fairy) is a light novel written by Mizue Tani and illustrated by Asako Takaboshi for Cobalt magazine in Japan. A Fairy Doctor is sought by an Earl Set in the Victorian Era, the story tells about a seventeen-year-old green-eyed girl with waist length wavy red ha...

Koi wa Ameagari no You ni: Love Stays Forever Sweet and Young

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"Age doesn't matter when you fall in love" goes the old adage. And this point of view about love very much fits the theme of the anime entitled  Koi wa Ameagari no You ni (Love Like After the Rain). Akira Tachibana Akira Tachibana is a beautiful second year highschool girl who works as part-time waitress in Café Restaurant Garden. She was a former runner in her high school club until she got injured and had to quit. She happens to have fallen in love with their café manager, Masami Kondo. Kondo is a divorced man in his middle forties living with his only son. Flute lessons in the back of café, caught by Kondo while practicing flute How love winded in her direction started with Akira working in the café after classes. She barely noticed her manager until one afternoon during her break, she met Masami Kondo's son in the staff room struggling with his flute. She helped him play the metal pipe in the back of the café to avoid ...