Still really enjoying Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-Kun! It's very funny and sweet.

I haven't watched Ao Haru Ride, I follow the manga closely and so I don't know how much it'd add for me. It's one of my favourite shoujo though. Even 42 chapters in it hasn't lost an ounce of it's sweetness or interest. I feel like despite being composed of a lot of tropes, it has an unusually strong refreshing feeling about it. The heroine is one of the most likeable I've come across, and the art design whilst not complex is still very lovely in my mind.

I'm still enjoying Nozaki-kun too. The characters and situations are very funny. I'm glad they've got through the character introduction episodes though, because I feel that aspect is beginning to drag.

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I'm watching Usagi Drop and... I thought there were others too, hehe... right, Flowers of Evil! I'm watching Baka to Test as well (that one is so funny, like the funniest one I've ever watched).

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Still watching and enjoying Mushishi. On episode seventeen now. I got what I'd wanted a few episodes ago, an episode on Ginko's past.

I find all these little stories original and interesting. No two are a bit the same and you can never predict the end; sometimes you expect a happy end and it never comes, and sometimes it does, and sometimes it ends bittersweetly. Dad's really enjoying it too, which is nice.

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I'm watching Usagi Drop and... I thought there were others too, hehe... right, Flowers of Evil! I'm watching Baka to Test as well (that one is so funny, like the funniest one I've ever watched).

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I saw the live-action film of Usagi Drop, ages ago. It was really sweet.

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I'm watching Usagi Drop and... I thought there were others too, hehe... right, Flowers of Evil! I'm watching Baka to Test as well (that one is so funny, like the funniest one I've ever watched).

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Ah! Someone else watching Usagi Drop - please tell me what you think of it.

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This isn't a new series right? It's the one with the grown man and the little girl? I think I've seen all of it it was very sweet and heartwarming. I may even give the manga a try since I know it follows quite awhile after the series ends.

EDIT: Okay so I finished up the manga (there aren't a ton of chapters from when the series ends and I had nothing on this evening. If you finish the series and want to know what happens next, look below. But obviously below are LARGE SPOILERS so be careful of that.

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Mehh okay so halfway through the manga it transitions to Rin being a high-schooler, though you have a fair few chapters where it goes back to moments in her time in middle-school or whatever. I generally enjoy a time-jump in mangas which feature small children, and it was nice seeing the little characters grown up and what personalities they had taken on. Generally this is done very well, still maintaining a sweet atmosphere and building on the relationships between characters. However, towards the end (now SERIOUSLY do not continue reading this if you don't want it spoiled for you) Rin becomes aware that she has feelings for Daikichi. Earlier we've learnt that she isn't actually related to Daikichi and that she was merely adopted by his grandfather, but Rin is unaware of this initially. She is troubled by her feelings (well duh) and freaks Daikichi out a fair bit, but discovers the truth of her parentage when visiting her birth mother who she has re-connected with a little. She then re-confesses (sort of) to Daikichi and he tells her he needs 2 years to adjust to viewing her as a woman and not with parental feelings (she's only 16 at this time after all and he's 40). There is another time skip and we have her graduating and he proposes marriage and then another mini-skip and from what I understood the two are married. All through this though we don't see any physical intimacy between the two, and I think that's because the mangaka must be as aware as the reader that this all feels like a kind of uncomfortable ending. Daikichi raised her since she was a child of 5, viewing her as a parent would, than at 16 when she decides she has feelings for him he changes that? If I read in the news that a 40+ year old man had married the girl he'd raised since the age of 5, I would consider that super sketchy. I know these kinds of stories are quite popular in manga, but in this example particularly it felt reaaaally weird. I've read other manga with a similar concept where it didn't so much, and I think it's because we have no implication that Daikichi has those kinds of feelings for her at all until right right at the end there. It just doesn't feel like the healthy and natural solution to the story, in my opinion. I would have found it much more heartwarming to see him emotionally giving her away at her wedding, and then playing with his quasi-'grandkids'. This feels super creepy. Purely personal opinion though!

I started watching DRAMAtical Murder. It's not bad, the eye candy is nice, but it's not quite setting my world on fire like I thought it might*.

*Translation: Kaz wants more BL.

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NC, I thought the rest of the story told in the manga was really nice and very well told. I loved the ending.

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Once again struggling to keep up with the shows I've chosen. I think the problem is that each season, there are many things with potential to be good, but then I don't really have time to give everything a fair chance. Even so, I want to catch up with this season's stuff.

At the moment, I'm still up-to-date with Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun, which is my favourite of the season so far. I'm also on the way to catching up on Zankyou no Terror, and it seems like it could turn out to be really good.

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I started watching The World Is Still Beautiful and so far it's making me happy, largely because King Livius is such an adorable little brat. He's like a little alternate-dimension Lelouche.

DRAMAtical Murder continues to fail to impress me.

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I'm hearing good things about Tokyo Ghoul and I've seen a little fan art... I think I'll give it a try, I might enjoy it. Gore is kind of a non-issue for me, I neither like nor dislike it.

I finished The World Is Still Beautiful. Sweet little series. Very enjoyable, full of cuteness and warm fuzzies.

And I then started the new series of Kuroshitsuji! It's a little strange, in that this series is not a continuation of the last; instead it is set between the first and second series... more or less. That aside, it was quite glorious. Very reminiscent of the very first episode. I slightly dislike watching this now when I already know how the story ultimately ends; I'd rather they'd made this the second series rather than dropping it in between the series now, but that's not going to stop me enjoying it. It will be great fun, judging by how it's started. It's a little nostalgic; the elements and atmosphere and such are just how they were in the first series.

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I finally watched some anime.

Tried Ao Haru Ride which is pretty typical of school life shoujo romance but with some nice coming of age, finding yourself themes. I'm really enjoying it.

Also watching Urobochi's show, Aldnoah.Zero. Mecha goodness basically. Main male character reminds me of Heero from Gundam Wing.

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NC, I thought the rest of the story told in the manga was really nice and very well told. I loved the ending.

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Zankyou no Terror is amazeballs. My favourite thing from this season, and many previous seasons.

@Usagi Drop manga ending, I had pretty much the same feelings as NC. I felt that part of the relationship was excessive and unnecessary... like the mangaka was ticking off a box, almost.

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just bought satoshi kon's third feature~tokyo godfathers.
I like this very much as I do his first two, perfect blue and
millennium actress.
regards J .

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sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.

Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun has ended

It was so good! It was really cute and funny. The comedy aspect was really well done, it even rivals Love Com in that regard. The romance is almost non-existent I would say, but not in an overly-frustrating or irritating way.

The character of Mikorin is adorable as well, he is probably one of my favorite male characters now.

I'd recommend

^ If it's on Crunchyroll, I shall give it a go.

At the moment I'm watching Free! and Love Stage. Love Stage isn't as bad as I thought it was going to be. It isn't particularly good, not the biggest fan of the animation style, but it has its moments. Free is better. Still not fantastic, but definitely enjoyable.

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I was about to post about Nozaki-kun too! I'll really miss this show, as it was consistently enjoyable every week. It's a great romantic comedy that knows how far to press the romance without it getting in the way of laughs. I also love how it plays with various cliches, and ends up producing a great cast of original characters.

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