Sanya no Tsukaima

Sanya no Tsukaima

NOTE: This is based on an in-joke from the #fluffy channel on irc.synirc.net. If you’re not familiar with the users TheJD, Sanya-nya, dango and Phlebas from there this post will probably make even less sense than intended. And no, this game does not actually exist.

 

 

 

 

Sanya no Tsukaima (“Sanya’s Familiar”) is the latest Visual Novel from Nitro+, a company famous for their completely messed-up storylines (as in, morally wrong, mindshrew-y or just plain incomprehensible until the third playthrough), Bad Ends [...]

Review of K-ON!

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— Yui

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School Days is a short manga (12 chapters), that despite it’s length manages to deliver feelings in a way that is on par with Clannad ~After Story~. And it’s not happy feelings either. The title might suggest that it’s some happy love story of some sort. That is about the opposite of what it actually is. It’s a Love Triangle ending in a tragedy. Jealousy driving people to do horrible things out of desperation.

Simple plot: Makoto [...]

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Lucky Star can be described with two words: Epic Randomness. It’s 8 hours of hilarious random, character-driven, top-class humor. There’s essentially no plot, zero character growth, a ton of references to other Animes and the entire show just oozes of quality. The so-called story centers around Konata Izumi, who is something as uncommon as a female otaku and too lazy to study despite she is pretty smart, and her life. That’s the entire story, did you expect something [...]