Review of "Hisanden" Part 2

The hero Ku Sorakara decided to get along with Koya Kinetsuki to clear the "game."

She had already had much important information about "rules" which could kill players who violated them.

Sorakara considered strategies to clear the "game" based on the information.

He could give her unique and valuable ideas because he was on the different side from hers.

That was the only reason why she approached him.

By the way, various types of magical girls emerged unitil now and they had quite different personality respectively.

Of course, they are described by sentences only because this story is in a novel.

But each personality was expressed very characteristically.

The author Nishioishin is wonderful, indeed.

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Review of "Hisanden"

In the previous article, I introduced the second volume of "Densetsu" series, which is one of Noshioishin's popular novel serieses, titled "Hitsuuden."

 

I started reading the following volume "Hisanden" as soon as I had finished "Hitsuuden."

 

At the end of "Hitsuuden", the hero Ku Sorakara met the magial girl named Koya.

 

"Hisanden" seems to be the story for the two.

 

Although there were various types of magical girls, Koya would be the maturest among them, I guess.

 

So, I may like her the best.

 

It could be that I am the type of man who is attracted by a mature woman easily.

 

Though I am reading the middle part of the novel now, I think it would be more interesting than the second volume.

 

Is it possible that the reason why I think so is she is so charm for me.

 

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iOS7 has been released!!

As you may know, iOS7 which is the operation system for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch has been released on September 19, 2013!

 

I have already installed it in my iPhone and iPad, of course.

 

I don't know whether this update is good for us yet, but I hope it will help us to enjoy Japanese subcultures on Apple gadjets.

 

Although I have not been used to the new iOS yet, I will review in due course.

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Review of "Kabukimonogatari" Part 4

During playing with fireworks, Koyomi Araragi and Shinobu Oshino were surrounded by a crowd of zombies again.

 

Further, they were so troubled because the number of them was much more than before.

 

But, what they could not anticipate happened at that time.

 

A beautiful woman suddenly emerged in front of them and saved them from the zombies.

 

She was wearing the clothing like soldier's one.

 

Who was she?

 

She was also having a backpack which "someone" Koyomi had known used to have.

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Review of "Kabukimonogatari" Part 3

Koyomi Araragi and Shinobu Oshino finally understood why their world was annihilated.

 

It was unbelievable cause. (I should not write about it concretely as usual...)

 

It must be the most important point of "Kabukimonogatari", I guess.

 

They decided to look for someone who survived in the world.

 

Of course, their search was not easy.

 

That was because they were attacked by a crowd of zombies as soon as they went out of buildings.

 

They could not help giving up the search after all.

 

For some reason, they played with fireworks in the park where Koyomi used to meet Mayoi Hachikuji for the first time. Without anticipating what would happen after that..

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Review of "My Youth Romantic Love Comedy Is Wrong As I Expected Volume 7.5" Part 4

In the previous article, I insisted that my favorite character Shizuka Hiratsuka was very cute strongly.

 

Today, I would like to write about the main story in the 7.5th volume of "My Romantc Love Comedy Is Wrong As I Expected."

 

In short, it was the story in which the volunteer club Hachiman and his friends belonged to lent their hands to judo club.

 

Some members of the club visited the volunteer club to consult about a certain problem they had.

 

The problem was an alumnus of the judo club.

 

They were troubled how to deal with him.

 

In order to solve this problem, the hero Hachiman came up with an incredible idea as usual.

 

It was not a beautiful one, of course.

 

It was the solution that sacrificed him.

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Review of "My Youth Romantic Love Comedy Is Wrong As I Expected Volume 7.5" Part 3

I wrote about the episode of Shizuka Hiratsuka, who is a teacher of the hero and others, in the volume 7.5 in the previous article.

 

Although I said before, I really like her.

 

That's because she is the type of woman who usually behaves as a strong person but is actually sensitive.

 

I'm often attracted by this type.

 

In her episode in the volume 7.5, such attraction of her was fully expressed.

 

She becomes so cute when she sometimes shows her real personality to her students.

 

Furthermore, the hero Hachiman and his friends are teenagers of course, while she is over twenty years old.

 

That' why her maturity as an adult is especially highlighted, I feel.

 

One of charms of this novel would be that we can feel the differences between teenagers and adults through the novel.

 

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Review of "My Youth Romantic Love Comedy Is Wrong As I Expected Volume 7.5" Part 2

The 7.5 volume of "My Youth Romantic Love Comedy Is Wrong As I Expected" has a lot of short stories in it.

 

Some stories were written on several pages only.

 

But, all of them expressed the characteristics of each main character in spite of shortness of the stories.

 

There was a short story which attracted me.

 

It was the one about Shizuka Hiratsuka who is my favorite character.

 

Specifically, it was the story where she was worried that she would not be able to be a bride.

 

This novel has the setting that she is the type of woman who cannot marry someone easily.

 

In the short story, she consulted members of the volunteer club about her trouble of marriage, and then the competition to decide who had the most superior talent to be a bride was held among female main characters including Shizuka Hiratsuka for some reason.

 

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Review of "My Youth Romantic Love Comedy Is Wrong As I Expected Volume 7.5" Part 1

I mentioned the volume 7.5 was a collection of side stories.

 

More specifically, it was the stories in which Hachiman Hikigaya, Yukino Yukinoshita and Yui Yuigahama, who were members of a volunteer club, responded to emails from those who were in trouble.

 

Most of them were their friends, for instance Zaimokuza, Kawasaki or Totsuka.

 

Each story itself was not very important because it was not main one.

 

But, what was interesting was not the contents of stories but the conversations between the main characters.

 

As usual, the hero Hachiman was the type of man who was so negative for everything but actually so clever that I couldn't believe he was a high school student.

 

He was always thinking in his brain, and he understood any situations around him although others did not realize that.

 

I think his style is so cool and I want to be like him.

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Introduction of "My Youth Romantic Love Comedy Is Wrong As I Expected Volume 7.5"

I have finally finished reading the 7.5th volume of "My Youth Romantic Love Comedy Is Wrong As I Expected."

 

As I wrote before in this blog, I was deeply absorbed in this novel series.

 

For this reason, I was so happy because of the release of it.

 

The latest volume is not the following story of the 7th but a collection of side stories.

 

Of course, I really expected that the 8th volume would be released instead of the 7.5th.

 

However, the 7.5th was also interesting to me as I expected in fact.

 

That was probably because the charm of this series would be not only the contents of main story but also personality of the hero named Hachiman Hikigaya.

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Review of "Hitsuuden" Part 6

It seems that I revealed the concrete contents of this novel in too detail.

So, I would like to refrain from doing so additionally and write my impression of all the content.

What I can mention about it is only that it was certainly Nishioishin's work.

It had very long sentences and unexpected development of the story as usual.

They must be the most important characteristics of his novel.

As you may know, "magical girls" had been popular among so-called Japanese otaku thanks to the popularity of one of famous Japanese animation named "Puella Magi Madoka Magica."

It could be that Nishioishin wrote the novel series called "Densetsu Series", including "Hitsuuden", for this reason.

However, magical girls were used only for variation of characters who emerged in the story and the content of the story did not highly fit the word "magical girls."

Such a gap must be attraction of his novels, I guess.

We are always absorbed in because of that.

Actually, "Hitsuuden" is not the final volume of this series.

I have a plan to read the following one, of course.

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Review of "Hitsuuden" Part 5

Although I wrote Ku Sorakara had to fight against the second magical girl, he did not want to do so actually.

He must not be the type of man who likes to fight.

However, the reason why he must have done was that she suddenly shouted as soon as she saw him who was wearing the dress which used to be wore by the first magical girl.

Surprisingly, he used "Hakaimaru", which was a special sword that could kill opponents automatically, to attack her without hesitation.

But, he could not hurt as well as kill her.

What surprised me was not only that.

On the contrary, his "Hakaimaru" was broken for some reason when he attacked her by it.

It was her unique magic.

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Review of "Hitsuuden" Part 4

By the way, I have not probably explained the hero Ku Sorakara's situation yet.

 

He went to the island to ascertain what was happening there, and then he realized he would not be able to go out of the island because of many traps set there.

 

For example, his phone will be broken if he tries to contact others who are in places other than the island.

 

There were a lot of other kinds of traps, so he had to somehow get information about them to avoid them.

 

For this reason, he was really in trouble by sudden death of the magical girl who should have been familiar with the traps.

 

However, he met another magical girl before long.

 

Then, he had to be in the situation where he fought against her this time.

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Review of "Hitsuuden" Part 3

In the previous review of "Hitsuuden", I wrote a magical girl whom Ku Sorakara met in the island would be a key person of this story.

However, such my prediction was proved to be wrong easily.

That was because she died before long.

She did as soon as she made small talk and had Japanese wheat noodles with him.

What an unpredictable story, indeed!

Moreover, she suddenly died by explosion in front of him.

He could not understand why she did, of course.

He thought she violated a rule which would kill a person who violated it.

He regretted that he could not ask her about rules in the island more concretely because she seemed to be familiar with them.

But, he had such a feeling in spite of her death happened in front of him.

It was certainly her abnormality.

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Review of "Kabukimonogatari" Part 2

The third chapter of anime version of "Kabukimonogatari" was broadcast in Japan yesterday.

In the second chapter, the story proceeded to the scene where Koyomi Araragi and Shinobu Oshino, who had backed to the past by Shinobu's special power, came back to the present time again.

The first scene of the third chapter was that they realized their world had been annihilated desperately.

"Trivial actions in the past can cause change of the future."

Although It would be often said in science fictions, could it be that it was changed too drastically?

Of course, it is no wonder because it was  caused by not power of science but that of a monster.

They found out why their world had been annihilated after checking the circumstance of the world to the extent possible.

Then, they despaired.

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