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• Yuri out of the blue is quite surprising, but not unwelcome.
• Convoluted plots are convoluted (that or Doremi’s subs just suck.)
• This show has an incredibly gross guro fetish that rubs me in entirely the wrong way.
• Even though Rie Kugimiya isn’t playing a tsundere loli they made her say BAKA and URUSAI anyway.
• Why is anime filled with retarded women who say shit like “I’M LOOKIN’ FOR AN ANGEL. I FIGURE SINCE THIS BUILDING IS TALL I’D BE ABLE TO LOOK FOR ANGELS.”

You know, if you didn’t know any better, you’d think Mnemosyne would be a pretentious piece of crap just from the name and the few bits of promotional material that surfaced originally. Thankfully, the show is anything but. I wouldn’t call it lighthearted, but it doesn’t take itself any more seriously than it needs too, and actually just loves being as trashy as possible. My problem with it is how it obsesses over its trashiness, by pilling on layer upon layer of shock in the form of gratuitous gore and blood spray. Making some of these gory scenes sexual doesn’t sit right with me either, but I suppose it’s all a matter of preference.

The imagery put on by the opening, ending and in the episodes themselves throw the viewer some mysteries, but I can’t be arsed to care about them. On top of that, while the characters do what they do well, I can’t really care for them that much either. They’re probably not moe enough, or something.

Basically what I’m saying is Menmosyne is pretty ok, but I don’t especially care about it. I’ll probably see it through to the end, but I’m not expecting much.

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This is something of a true story. Yes, it is true that in my English 101 class last year, our first assignment was to write about anything we wanted. I however, did not write about moe. That happened about two years earlier in my Junior year of high school. See, in high school I was doing the IB, and part of trying to get your IB diploma was to write this 10 page essay called the Extended Essay. Me, being more of a Japanophile then than I am now (if your mind can fathom such a thing) wrote an “anthropological study” on otaku. The paper is horrible, and if I tried to read it again now I’d probably rip my face off. Anyway, the paper had a bit on moe. Now, when I wrote this (I guess back in… 2004? 2005?) I didn’t really know much about moe past the word. So I read a bunch of essays, and basically wrote about it as a desire to protect innocence and cited examples of certain works and magazines. Some time after I wrote it, I gave it to my English teacher to look over, and he said exactly what the guy in this comic says, word for word. As far as art goes, I don’t really like it. The drawings are sloppy and rushed. I do like the backgrounds and the lighting, though. I also like dressing the English teacher up as Lupin III.

I’m kind of running short of comic ideas. Nothing airing at the moment really inspires me to write anything funny. Well, I could do something about the two horrible Gonzo shows playing, but that’d probably be the same as that Soul Link comic I did a long while back. I do have a good supply of scripts that should last for a good 15 weeks, but reading them over, they seem very not funny. Eh. I probably need to give some of them a good editing job. Whatever. I kinda know what I want to do for next week, so that’s fine.

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