Hitohira was one of the good surprises from 2007. It wasn’t an anime I was especially looking forward to, but after watching the first episode I found it really nice and kept watching the show. And it’s actually a very pleasant show, I really enjoyed it very much. For people who doesn’t know, it’s about a very shy girl named Mugi Asai, who goes totally silent when embarassed and is forcibly enroled in a “Drama Research Club”, the actual drama club’s rival club.

Personally it’s one of my favorite ‘slice-of-life’ anime. Nice story, the perfect amount of drama, great characters (especially Mugi and Nono-sempai) and some delicious yuri-vibes.

So when I found the manga in the second-hand books at the library I was quite happy, since the manga is still on-going in japan, and the anime goes until the middle of the volume 4 only. I’ve read the 5 released books a couple of months ago, so since I’m here for killing time I thought I might as well post some stuffs about it.

Mugi is love. I fell in love at once with her seiyuu Orie Kimoto,
a rookie seiyuu. Nono-sempai luvs Mugi too~

Surprisingly enough, Mugi possesses an amazing comical side.

“ne~ ?”

She’s quite a delinquent too XD

Nono-sempai is so awesome <3 <3 <3
Best character of the show. Cute, cool, hilarious…

… and gay for Mugi <3

Moar Mugi x Nono moments, from the club’s trip episode.

Episode 7. Nono and Mirei, her ex-best friend and actual president
of the Drama Club, locked in the school’s stocktroom.
Truly one of the best moments in anime history, IMO.
Mirei is also very awesome for worrying so much about Nono, and
because she’s the one crying when Nono loses her voice.
So deliciously yuri.

XD

Mugi x Kayo-chan, this so has to be real.

IT’S LOVE, I TELL YOU !

The anime ends with Nono-sempai’s graduation and the dissolution of the Drama Research Club, but as I said the manga continues past it, with Mugi-choco entering her second year. That’s not so much of a big surprise, but Mugi decides to continue acting and join the Drama Club. I must say that I miss Nono, Mirei and Kayo-chan a lot, and the manga lost mostly all of its yuri-vibe after that, but this is still pretty funny. Mugi is still the cuteness, and the girls from Mirei’s club are all as much lovely as they’re crazy. And it’s nice to see Mugi acting again.

Tama-chan, the new club president after Mirei’s graduation,
is my favorite character in the Drama Club.
“CHANCE GA KITA ZE !! Go prepare me some nice clothes !”
Best Cinderella evar XD

“Eroero Essaim !”, and Mugi appears as a totally HAWT
bunny-eared witch godmother <3 <3 <3

Tama-chan is most of the time a nice and scatterbrained girl,
but occasionally turns into Mirei-san. XD

Kodomo no Hitohira.
Mugi-chan dunno how to make new friends,
but finally manages to get their attention XD

A : “Hey, Nono-chan ! Did you watch yesterday’s MagiMugi episode ?”
B : “It was funny~”
Nono : “… yeah, it was really fun…”
A : “… you don’t have to lie, you know…”
Nono : “(I wasn’t lying though…)”
*Sad grade-schooler days*
awww feel like hugging that poor Nono-chan right now

I have one major complain about this manga though : the fact that the author only releases one volume a year :/

The fifth volume having been released on April 2008, next volume won’t be released before long… Neither ja.wiki.org or amazon.co.jp announces a releases date. Honestly that sucks badly, cause I really enjoy this manga very much.

“Just as planned !”

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So I’ve read the latest Lucky Star book. A nice read as expected. It was funny, nothing that made me laught my ass off but still that pleasant light humor and everyday-life talks.

In this book, Konata’s crew graduates from high-school, but the author has chosen to not make a big deal of it. It actually takes only 3 yonkoma from the Konata-crew’s point of view, and 4 yonkoma from Kuroi-sensei’s side. Also, since the comics in the book aren’t published in order, it just continues with Konata’s school-life after that as like nothing happened, so it really was like a minor event.

But I think we got a taste of what Lucky Star will be in the future : Kou-chan-sempai as the main character watching over the Hiyori-Yutaka-Minami trio and the Hikaru-Fuyuki combi as a tsukkomi-character. ‘Cause indeed, as the cover suggests, this book was full of Kou comics, which was a good thing because I wub Kou-chan-sempai since I played the ps2 game. MAI WAIFU !

Sadly enough though, Yamato doesn’t appear in the story, ‘not yet’ hopefully. It got also a few Akira comics that I couldn’t care less about, and these awesome sketches I mentionned in the previous post which were much love & piece.

That ojou-sama from one of
Hiyorin’s random fantasy is cute <3 <3 <3

I so fuckin hate when something like that happens >_<
I remember having like 89 favorites on my Youtube account,
last time I checked it was down to 66 videos orz

Lovely Tsukasa, trauma switch on XD

Konata asks Miyuki and Kagamin to imitate each others.
Miyuki speaking in a familiar way : do want to see it in the anime.

Hiyori selling her doujin at Comiket :
Guy from Comptiq Magazine : “May I have a talk with you ?”
Hiyorin : “(my cheek… it hurts… eh ?
no way… THAT AIN’T A DREAM !?)”
Hiyorin : “that’s right… even in dreams, pinching your cheek
actually hurts…”
XD

H : “When it’s something you like, you want to take
tons of pictures of it, right ?”
Y : “Do you have a camera too, Tamura-san ?”
H : “Yup, when something happens I take a picture
and upload it on my blog… HA !!”
Y&M : “want to see it, Tamura-san’s blog~”
H : “da-da-da- DAME DAME ! you can’t !”
Y : “eh~ ? why ?”
H : “People under 18 are not allowed to visit this website… !!”
Y : “Tamura-san too is under 18 though…”

Heh, finally somebody notices that Hiyorin is under 18. XD Well, just that I always found amusing seeing Konata, Hiyori and Patty hiding ecchi stuffs from Yutaka, while it’s totally ok for Hiyori and Patty to be in deh ecchi and play eroge… just because they’re otaku. XD Wait I just thought of it… but Hikage is like 12 years old and works occasionally in a shop selling doujins… :o

Kou heard Konata & Hiyori talking about
Street Fighter IV at the game center…
“Now that I think of it, I never really cared
about the games before SFIII.
Let’s check how Ryu-sama and Ken-sama looked in their young days”
“wow, SFII was released before I was born !
(how can that peck know about this game ?)”
shock
“Hiyorin… the Ryu-sama and Ken-sama inside me are DEAD !”

After reading that comic, I feel so old~

“When I get up and that there’s nobody home, I feel lonely…”
awww lonely Tsukasa~

Kou finally sees Konata at school for the first time during the gradutaion ceremony…
Posting it just cause Kou looks cute in the second panel <3 <3 <3

Nanako : “Ah iya that’s not it, it’s just that I got something in my eye”
Nanako : “I see… You got something in your eye too, Sakuraba-sensei”
Kuroi-sensei <3

book : Grimm Fairy Tales
Yutaka : “Cinderella is… Snow White is… ;_; ”
XD

“N- No that’s not it… I just wanted to pat your head… T_T ”
Minami is so cute <3
and ponytail Kou-chan-sempai : HOT <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

Konata : “Frail younger characters are nice and all, but I definitely
can’t get enough of onee-san characters !”
Yui : “You say ‘onee-san’ ‘onee-san’, but aren’t
these characters actually younger than the people who plays to this kind of games ?”
Konata : “It’s because we are young in heart, nee-san !”

lol the thruth XD ALL HAIL IZUMI KONATA OUR QUEEN !

since Hiyorin always forgets her ideas the time she goes to her desk
for writting them down, she now sleeps with her notebook…
Hiyori : “… and finally I end up not being able to decode it”
Tsukasa : “Ah ! that’s exactly the same thing with my notebook
when I sleep during class !”
First panel, semi-sleeping Hiyorin : CUTE <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

Hikaru : “When Fuyuki has something in mind, she just want to do it
whatever the circumstances”
Fuyuki : “I’m cleaning the room so get up from here”
Hikaru : “I’m reading, do it later”
Kou : “I can imagine that indeed”
Fuyuki : Mou… I will just go back home without cleaning, you know !”
Kou : “wait… we were talking about Hikaru-sensei’s room !?”

Kou : “Fuyuki-chan you just can’t clean the room of
somebody like her ! (clean my room instead !)”
Hikaru : “Ha ? you can go. I didn’t ask you anyway”
Fuyuki : “mumumu~”
Kou : “I think she’s right, being angry once in a while”
Fuyuki : “I give you 30 minutes and then I’ll do it for real !”
Kou : “AMAI YO ! FUYUKI-CHAN !”
Fuyuki : “but I just can’t let the room like this…”

Hikaru (Sakuraba-sensei) and Fuyuki (Amahara-sensei), the lovely yuri teachers combi. They occasionally call each others “otou-san” and “kaa-san” like an old couple, I think it’s fukken cute.

“WHAT ARE YOU SAYING ?! JAPAN IS GREAT
BECAUSE IT HAS SCHOOL UNIFORMS !!!”
The few Patty comics are mostly here for saying that
Japan isn’t all about moe, anime and otaku
unlike foreigners think (?).

Viva copy-pasta and the Flexible-Upload wordpress plugin~

Now waiting for the OVA which is released next week, and hoping to be able to see it somehow. orz

Kou-chan-sempai is love.

:beer:

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