Anime and Manga reviews
Q: How many rabbits does it take to change a light bulb?
A: Only one if it hops right to it.
Q: If you have a line of 100 rabbits in a row and 99 of them take 1 step backwards, what do you have?
A: A receding hare line!
Q: What did the rabbit give his girlfriend?
A: A 14 carrot ring!
Q: What do you get when you cross a rabbit with a leaf blower?
A: A hare dryer!
Q: What do you get when you cross an insect and a rabbit?
A: Bugs Bunny!
Q: What is a rabbit’s favorite dance style?
A: Hip-Hop!
Well I watched it all right, but I didn’t like it much. After the halfway mark I was just yawning non-stop. Some Ghibli movies are just about admiring scenery, not telling a story, and there’s certainly plenty of nice scenery to admire in Kiki’s Delivery Service
How’s she’s going to find a place to live?
“Hey there!”
Oh. That’s settled then. Now she’s running a delivery service.
*cough cough*
Oh. So much for that. Well at least she made a friend.
*sulk pout*
…Or not. Oh no, she lost her powers!
“Help me!”
…Guess not… And there go the credits… Good riddance.
I always did like the ending theme though, which I heard long before watching the series and which made me a Yumi Matsutoya fan. But the movie itself is pretty, but dull, and I’ll have forgotten most of the characters by the time I wake up tomorrow. You win some, you lose some. The next Ghibli movie chronologically should be Only Yesterday (Omoide Poroporo) but I’ll watch some regular anime before that.
A drunk walks up to a barkeeper one day and says, “If I show you a trick will you give me a free drink?” The Barkeep says “Depends on how good of a trick it is.”
The Drunk reaches into his pocket and pulls out a frog and places him behind the piano. The frog starts to play the sweetest jazz riff the barkeeper has ever heard. He pours the drunk his drink.
The drunk, after killing his drink says, “If I show you another trick can I have another free one?” The barkeep says “If it is anything like that last one, you can drink free all night.” The drunk reaches into his other pocket, pulls out a rat, sets it on top of the piano, and the rat starts scatting along with the frog.
Impressed, the barkeeper starts to pour drinks as fast as the drunk can drink ’em. After several hours, a big time Hollywood agent walks in, sees the act and franticaly asks the barkeeper who it belongs to. The barkeeper points to the drunk who is passed out on the floor.
The agent wakes him up and says, “I will give you 1 Million dollars for that act.” The drunks says “Not for sale”. The agent says, “Ok, 100 grand for just the scatting rat.” The drunk say, “Deal.” The agent writes the check and leaves with the rat.
The barkeeper looks at the drunk and says, “Are you nuts? You had a million dollar act that you just broke up for a wimpy 100 g’s?”
The Drunk says, “Relax, the frog is a ventriloquist!”
Ore no Imouto ga konna ni kawaii wake ga nai supposedly means “My little sister can’t possibly be this cute
Bit of a waste of my time, to be honest. It had some moments of humor, but the creators spent too much time forcefully extolling the virtues of the otaku lifestyle (there are none) and desperately defending the non-existent rights of 14- and 17-year old children to play pornographic R-18 games. The harder they argued, the worse it all looked. I liked Lucky Star‘s lighter take on the matter: yeah it’s wrong, but it’s fun. When you try to justify the unjustifiable, you just look ridiculous. “I have to play porn games or I won’t be me any more.” Oh? That would be a good thing. The world could use a few less viciously violent PMSing 14-year olds.
So in short, Ore no Imouto is about a boy whose sister plays pornographic games and watches pornographic anime and takes occasional breaks to kick and slap him about. If you’ve watched one episode, you’ve watched them all, really. Or more like, if you watch Lucky Star and whatever you can stomach of Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu, you’ve watched it all. There’s no otaku stigma where I’m from, so it was impossible for me to relate to the rest of what they were waffling about.
There was one spot of interest though: the main character’s sweet relationship with his childhood friend Manami. There was a whole episode devoted to it, which made me feel all warm and fuzzy inside after watching it. It’s just happy and sweet and comfortable, no fighting, no crossed signals, no violence, just a lovely friendship that may blossom into love with time.
Well, that’s what I was hoping anyway, but then I looked up spoilers for the remaining light novels and it seems the MC ends up dating his little sister’s dark, sarcastic friend who also verbally and physically abuses him on occasion. They break up shortly afterwards, but the fact that he’d even date her when he has Manami means there’s no hope at all for my preferred pairing. Bummer. I’m rooting for you, Manami! Study hard, go to a good college and find a loving, sensible guy who isn’t attracted to drama and who can appreciate you and your wonderfully welcoming family. Good luck!
Next I really am going to watch Kiki’s Delivery Service this time.
