Has anyone tried this? How does it taste?

>>1369025
dumb weebposter

Where do they even sell it?

Gross, her butt was in there.

>>1369035
not just her butt but her ass too

>>1369038
not just her ass but her butt too

>>1369035
i hope she pees in it :3

Still need an answer....

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>>1369025
You're doing it wrong

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>>1369200
You shouldn't do mean things to the cirno.

>>1369212
gross...

>>1369025
these DRANKS are getting insane

>>1369212
Imagine cirno pooing a little ice cube out of her butt.

baka flavor

Boil her and serve as tea. It's a lot better I promise.

Baka in a glass.

Makes you dumb.

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>>1369025

Do not eat the Cirno.

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Cirno owns a food store.

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Chillno.

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WHY IS EVERYONE TRYING TO EAT THE ICE FAIRY

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>>1372835

Reimu is poor and Cirno regenerates, making her an ideal source of meat.

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Cirno is a tasty fairy.

age.

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>>1373334

60.

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>>1369025

Stop that.

>>1374127
Seriously...?

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>>1374844

Yeah. Cirno is old enough to be anon's mom!

>>1375077
But what do fairies taste like?

>>1374496
Die retard.

>>1372366
I be stealin' from her sto'

>>1375168
I want Cirno to be my mommy!

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>>1376185

You would have a pretty cool mom

>>1375850
thievery is bad!

>>1376190
that's my mom

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>>1369025

It's not all what it's cut out to be, trust me.

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>>1369025

If I were you, I would wait a while before consuming it. I hear it gets better with age.

>>1369025
Have you tried water-flavored shaved ice?

>>1377509
Yeah. What's your favorite topping?

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>>1377856
cirno-flavored loli juice

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>>1377943

Do not drink the Cirno's juices.

>>1378319
Stop telling people what to do.

>>1378882

Continue telling people what to do.

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Anyone find Cirno appealing simply for aesthetic reasons?

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>>1369025

>Not posting the recipe

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Bawlka

>>1379546
Hmm...thanks.

>>1379546

It appears you really can drink Cirno.

If you're going to drink the Cirno, do so responsibly.

>>1369025

>>1380379
What do you mean?

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>>1381813

Drinking Cirno can result in a temporary loss of motor skills, cognitive abilities, and brain freeze. Ask your doctor about the risks and benefits of drinking Cirno.

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I consume my Cirno out of a can.

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Zzzzzz...

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>>1369025

The Cirno is a refreshing beverage, especially in the hot summer season. For added goodness, try her with a handful of peanuts floating in the glass!

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Cirno is a snack!

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I'd rather the Critacola

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>>1385679

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>>1385687

Bika.

>>1369025

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Enjoy a cold one with Cirno.

Ć̮͓I̝͎̮͓̻ͅR̛͇̯͈͈͚̟N̛̺͎̩͕O̵ I̤͖S ̴̬̜͍͍̜̝A͡ ̝͓͖̩͍͍B̢̹A͓̻̘̩͢ͅK̩̰͔̺A͙̗͇̱̱ͅ!͍̞

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hI0qMtdfng

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>Perfect Freeze №

>Vodka ... 20ml
>White Mint Liqueur ... 20ml
>Blue Curacao …15ml
>Cointreau ... 20ml

Serve with club soda on ice.

oishii

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What does Cirno's tears taste like?

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>>1369025

Drinkno.

>>1369035
That's why I want to drink it.

>>1391618

Blueberry gummy sharks.

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>>1393004

Baka.

>>1369025

Why is Cirno so refreshing?

>>1394248

Because she functions as a natural coolant.

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I'll melt Cirno with something very hot.

>>1369025

>>1395608

Cirno is not for fattening

Is Cirno a sweetie?

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>>1396515

Cirno is not sweet. She is tough and strong!

Suck my cock dude

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Cirno wants attention

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Here's a Cirno three-pak!

>>1369025

>>1369025

>>1398663

Attention for what?

>>1369025

Probably tastes like flavors.

>>1400384
Yeah, pretty epic flavors I'd guess.

>>1400386
nice flavors
epic flavors
I like them.

>>1400421
Agreed, dude.

Hmm, i bet it tastes like a flavor.

frosted butts

>>1369025

flavorful, with the taste of flavors

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Blocka

Kirno is ugly and stupid.

>>1402798
rmv this

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Cirno, on the other hand, is pretty and cute.

>>1400777
good way of putting it

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>>1404170

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>>1404829

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Why always a watermelon Popsicle?

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Drinking blue pee!

>>1405572

Lies! Cirno's liquid is of a normal color.

>>1405572
Does it taste different from normal pee?

I assume it tastes like a flavor.

>>1407103
Well it's blue so it tastes like blue and pee mixed together

>>1369025
Baka.

I believe it consists of flavors

Perhaps it tastes like chicken nuggets, or baby walrus meat.

Although in all honesty, it probably tastes like flavors.

I would venture a guess and say that its flavor is that of flavors.

>>1409324
>>1408750
>>1408747
Agreed dude

>>1374496
kek

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Cirnoes in a jar

>>1412069
How'd they all get in there?

>>1407119
>>1407795
>>1408747
>>1408748
>>1408750
>>1409324
Does anyone know for sure?

drink the blue pee

>>1413383
Somebody once told me that it tasted almost exactly like flavors, but I am dubious of their claims.

>>1416363
What does age taste like?

In the year 2099, Karugamo High School's baseball team has been doing lousy as of late

They are constantly getting creamed by players with not only better players, but robots as well! When one of the members of the team quits due to his up-coming graduation, a ninth is needed to fill in

Our teenage protagonist, Harumaki Shunpei, is given money from a helpful old man to find themselves a robot to fill in

At the end, the only robot he can afford is a robot maid

Her name is Azusa, and she at first doesn't seem to be any better at baseball than the rest of the team (but is very good at cooking and cleaning

She says so herself)

She even tires easily, and she's a robot! But there's a mystery surrounding her that could turn Azuka into the team's ace in the hole

With a plot as predictable as a modern-day Disney movie, Azusa Will Help! shouldn't win awards for originality

You probably already know what's going to happen before you even finish it

But it is cute, I suppose, and an all right time killer: with only 45 minutes to tell a story, there wasn't really anything else TMS could do

The director of this OAV is none other than Makegaki Hajime, who also directed Sonic X

You can easily tell this is the same art team right off the bat without even watching it: the low-budget look and color design give it away (Azusa herself looks a lot like a reject Sonic X human character)

The animation itself is serviceable, but bad for an OAV: this looks more like a low-end kids show

But hey, this is the same guy who directed the barely animated Fushigi Yugi and Cres: Mystical Legend: if you were expecting something better in the animation department you'd only be kidding yourself

The actual plot itself is nothing special: loser team gets robot, robot doesn't turn out to be up to snuff, robot reveals hidden power, robot almost destroys itself, team turns around, big victory for all! It sounds like I'm giving a lot away, but I'm not: the viewer will unravel this soon enough if he or she has seen any sports anime in the last couple of years

Why, the team even has an old, grumpy manager voiced by none other than Ogata Kenichi (Saotome Genma, Ranma 1/2, Ebisumaru, Goemon series of games)

You even have your training montage of sorts as well

What makes it all work is the characters have just enough personality to keep it from being forgettable

The one exception is the token girl of the team, Yuuki, who I'll talk about later

How is Azusa herself, you might ask? Well, she's voiced by Noto Mamiko (Miyazaki Nodoka, Negima), with a personality not unlike many of her other characters: soft-spoken and full of "I'll do my best" spirit

While not too annoying, you can't really tell the OAV is actually about her until the last ten minutes or so

Until then, she really doesn't get much more air time than any other member of the team

She also doubles as a deus ex machina at the end of the OAV, in an effort to make the message even more loud and clear

Our male protagonist, Shunpei, is wishy-washy almost to a fault: like Azusa, he only seems to be there to move the plot along

He also finds out about sports robots, which ties in to the end of the OAV

He also looks a hell of a lot like Kazuki from Comic Party

In addition to Never-Give-Up Girl and Wishy-Washy Male, you also have your other typical archetypical anime characters: the bushy-eye browed team captain; the Yamada brothers, twin guys who often end each other's conversations; Tonomura, the tall, lanky guy with a funny-looking chin; and a couple of other throwaway characters (one used as practice for Asuza's pitches)

You may notice I'm not referring to some of these characters by names

This isn't to be mean

it's just that some of the characters' names aren't even mentioned during the OAV! If it wasn't for Anime News Network, I wouldn't know even half of these characters' names

The last time this happened in an anime I watched was in Blue Seed

I still couldn't name you half the cast even after my watching half the series

One of the few characters' names I did remember was the team's sole female human, Yuki

She's a violent bitch whose sole purpose in the OAV is to beat the crap out of the other guys in her team and call them disgusting pigs

Needless to say, I got tired of her antics in about 3 seconds

One of her more "charming" scenes has her clubbing her own teammates with a baseball bat

What a wonderful person! And you gotta love how she talks about the male gender ("that's because all men are PIGS!")

Even her parents seem to not care much for her: when the coach sends the team to early summer training, her parents say to keep her as long as a month if need be, so that they can have a peaceful summer without her

Ha!

What about the other aspects of this anime? Well, the voice acting and music are good, but they don't fulfill any more than the basic needs they serve

Azusa Will Help! is an okay time-killer for those who like baseball or sports anime

Still, one wonders what might this have been if the leads were more fleshed out or if they made several episodes to expand upon its basic concept (especially when the first few minutes are much funnier than the rest of the OAV, especially the baseball-playing robots)

apanese pop culture is rich and strange, filled with odd conventions and fads that sometimes look like a twisted fun house mirror of our own entertainment

My own narrow interest in animation has given me a glimpse of other pieces of Japanese pop culture that I'll probably never explore- pop idols that people worship by spending huge stacks on yen on merchandise; the cult of the kawaii; low-budget, star-driven doramas; and imaginative video games

But the oddest of them all is something that any child of the late eighties is familiar with: superheroes who dress up in spandex suits and use awkward kung-fu to defeat monsters in rubber suits

When I was seven years old, I was one of millions of kids convinced that there wasn't anything cooler than Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers

Of course, I had no idea at the time that the Power Rangers was a bastardized product of crass American commercialism and tokusatsu shows from the land of the Rising Sun

In fact, I have only recently learned what tokusatsu is thanks to a podcast interview featuring Patrick Macias and Mike Dent

To sum up what they said, "tokusatsu" literally means "special effects," and while you could use the term for movies like Transformers 2 or Cloverfield and still be correct, it's most commonly applied to the low budget, special effects television series that were developed by people like Eiji Tsuburaya and Shotaro Ishinomori in the Fifties and Sixties

Shows like Kamen Rider and Ultraman are cultural watermarks for children in Japan much like Scooby Doo and Spongebob are for children here in the West

Tokusatsu is the home of giant monsters, powerful robots, and manly opening themes sung with lusty bravado

It's a rich and fascinating facet of Japan's culture and you don't need to know anything about it to love Astro Fighter Sunred

That's part of what makes this anime so good

All you really need to know to enjoy this comedy is who are the bad guys and who are the good guys, then watch the series delight in subverting your assumptions

Perhaps I'm oversimplifying it, and I might even get e-mails from more knowledgeable fans detailing just how their extensive expertise in Ultraman made the gags so much funnier

That's all well and good, but I went into this series knowing almost nothing about tokusatsu, and I adored it by the end of its run

And not just because it's funny- it also gives characters that could easily have been one note jokes a soul

Someone once said that the best kind of satire is made by people who love what they are mocking

This is an excellent example of that

Take General Vamp

Sure, he's out to conquer the world

for an evil organization that has gone corporate

And evil isn't a growth industry when your opposition can kick your tail so easily, but Vamp holds his team together as best he can

He cooks for them, celebrates when they recover from their Sunred-inflicted wounds, and above all, maintains a clean house that's more like a boy's home than an underground lair

He's part maternal housewife, part life couch, and with the considerable talents of his voice actor, comedian Louis Lamada, he easily shines as the best character

Sunred, the hero and defender of the city, is a slacker whose battles with the Florshiem Army amount to nothing less than bullying

But he's more than a one note gag, as a touching scene when his girlfriend explains why she won't leave him illustrates

He may be a jerk, but he may also be the easiest character to identify with

The series has no real plot, and is mostly a collection of seven minute vignettes

Superhero stories often feel like they're stuck in their own version of Endless Eight: you can switch Villian A with Villian C, change the scenery a bit and swap the time bomb for a bank robbery, but it's still the same damn story over and over again

In Sunred, that routine is just part of the work day

The Florshiem Army dutifully shows up at a generic playground to get their ass handed to them, they go home, have dinner, and then repeat the whole thing next week

I think they get Christmas off, though

But most of the vignettes happen at home, between their weekly battles

After all, if only work a few hours defending the world from sure destruction every week, what are you going to do with the rest of your time?

It's strange that something this mature would come from the same crew that made such dreck as Magikano

But a successful gag comedy pays attention to the details, and the crew at AIC rose to the challenge

The animation has many great visual gags, but clearly the best idea the production concocted is the closing theme, a polka ode to the joys of eating chicken dumplings

As of the writing of this review, a second season is in the works, and I would welcome many, many more

Yay! Another magical girl show that gets it right! After plugging through some pretty bad stinkers of magical girl shows (Wedding Peach, Pretty Cure, et al), it is so nice to watch a modern-day magical girl show that doesn't fall into all of the normal cliches, and the ones it does use, they use correctly

Where to begin? Starting with the animation, it is a television show, so I am not expecting miracles

There is a fair amount of CG animation, even at the title screen of the opening

It doesn't blend in as well as it could have, but the offense is minor in comparison to some of the other titles that have done the same

The colors and character designs are bright and cute, but nothing really inspiring

Outside of Meirin (who, looks-wise, looks like a mix between Usagi and Miaka--but only in looks, I swear!) the character designs are fairly uninspiring, Asuka looking like a mix between Aoyama from Tokyo Mewmew and Kyosuke from Wedding Peach

At least his voice and character is more interesting, but we'll go into that later

Overall, it looks a lot like the character designs were done by the same people who did Akazukin Chacha, so I can't complain there, since I am a fan of nearly all anime of that "vintage"

The characterization of the cast, though, is one that has me currently hooked on this series (a pity, too, the releases are ridiculously slow)

Meirin is silly, yes, but not in a whiny crybaby way

She is ditzy, and definitely determined that Asuka is "the one"

The best thing about her though is her enthusiasm for her hobby, feng shui

You can't help but take part in the fun

My only complaint is that she is still a little dense (but aren't all shoujo heroines at some point?), not figuring out that her stalker is--ta-DAH!--the new transfer student (ah, the cliches

Tokiwa-kun

Her friends are equally engaging--definitely not the space-fillers that some other supporting cast members fall into being

Yue-chan is the cool, popular one (who teases that she is really Meirin's "fated one") and Shuuko is the boy-crazy (or maybe boy-band crazy?) awkward girl who really relies on Dr

Rin's fortunes

According to the theme song, there should be at least two other key characters yet to be introduced, but seeing as I have only been able to review what has been released on fansub, we will all have to wait and see how they play into the overall story

As mentioned before, while there are several cliches you can name within the first few episodes, they are all executed well so as not to be offending to the viewer

For example, the cute mascot in this series is Tenshin, a mischevious pet monkey that never really takes up so much screen time to be annoying, but appears just enough to scatter some cuteness all around

There is a bit of stock animation for whenever Meirin reads feng shui fortunes, and the music does sound rather Sailor Moon-ish

I only wish they had similar music for later on, a lot of the BGM sounds a lot like it could be my cell phone ringer

Another cliche is of course the villainous love triangle between Meirin, Asuka, and Tokiwa that is established very early on in the series

But is there an ulterior motive behind Tokiwa's interest

Rin really has what it takes to be a five-star series, especially if the rumors are true and it develops a deeper storyline further into the season

However, there is one thing that really took away from the experience for me, and that was the music

The opening theme song lacks the energy that I have come to expect from opening theme songs, and the ending theme (both sung by Maeda Ai of Digimon fame) is unforgivingly forgettable

Add that to MIDI-sounding BGM (with the exception of the feng shui sequence in every episode), and you have got what probably makes one of the lowest-budget sounding soundtracks to ever grace my eardrums

A pity really, everything else was going so well

The offense is enough of one for me to overlook though, and I still give this title high marks

For those of you looking for another cute anime that doesn't make your head hurt (or doesn't make you cringe at the cardboard cut-out characters

Da Capo, here's looking at you!), Dr

Rin is a fine choice from what seems to be a shrinking selection of good girls' anime

I can only hope that more will be made available in the near future

Now, here is something a little bit different

Live-action television and cinema is endlessly adapting old novels (especially if Jane Austen wrote them) but it is not something that is too common with modern animé

For all the complaints thrown out about the lack of original content (meaning non-sourced content though the lack of a lot things being new and original is certainly a valid and oft-voiced complaint), it is very rare for animé to adapt material that is even twenty or more years old let alone material that is over sixty at least

It is odd really, when you look at the results in Aoi Bungaku because animé seems to be an excellent medium for bringing to life the atmosphere and feeling of these period pieces far more easily, effectively and cheaply than live-action adaptations can

It also allows the adaptors to weave in the same sort of imagination and magic that the old masters did through the power of their words with the power of their visuals

In this respect, animation easily trumps live-action in all but the films of the most proficient moviemakers

If you don't believe me, just watch Aoi Bungaku

Then you'll see

Blue Literature (as its name directly translates) refers to stories and books that are on the sombre and reflective side and Aoi Bungaku certainly doesn't stray from that

Even at its silliest (and that is the 'In the Forest, Under Cherries in Full Bloom' segment without a doubt), do not expect to find any evidence of optimism having been anywhere near these stories

The show's opener (No Longer Human) sets that tone perfectly: realistically depicted character designs, a colour palette nowhere near the brighter end of the spectrum and a subdued vocal performance all come together to make a sober experience

Throw in its reflections on guilt, suicide, regret and alienation (probably pretty topical in its post-war day) and you have four episodes that certainly won't bring a smile to your face - at least not in a happy way

In the Forest, Under Cherries in Full Bloom, however, is an entirely different kettle of fish

The colour palette, for one thing, switches from strict Calvinist funeral to full-on Pentecostal wedding with eye-blinking surprise, like stepping out a tunnel into a rainforest, and the atmosphere also changes with it

The interesting thing is that the severity of the subject matter does not

While No Longer Human approached its subject matter with the same sobriety that reflects its theme's gravitas, "In the Forest" approaches its themes with a vicious humour that would make Masaaki Yuasa blush

A musical number is set to the scene of the main character brutally slaughtering defenceless women and musical similarities to the music of Sweeney Todd are more than deliberate I suspect

To be honest, in terms of content, this may be the most horrifying of any of the segments though I'm not sure whether that is because of its cute and perky exterior or whether that vibrant tone is shielding us from the stories worst horrors

Stark differences (such as those between In the Forest and No Longer Human) are both the joy and the most glaring flaw of the series

Differences in production, direction, approaches and designs are present in each story and, not surprisingly, this leads to a certain inequality between the qualities of each segment

Tonal differences like those mentioned above make the segments even more of a mixed bag even if you leave aside the different atmospheres created by the very different styles of visuals

That said it really is a positive thing in the end

The desire the various makers often show to not rest on the laurels of their celebrated source material and actually try to find interesting and dynamic ways to present itself is what gives this series a valid reason for existence

Whether this is through serious cosmetic changes (such as the framing story set around Run, Melos!) or mere shifts away from intended presentation - they all show a desire to innovate

Sadly, the least innovative segment is also the longest

"No Longer Human", with the greatest respect to the makers who did a great job bringing a difficult text to life, was the most down-to-earth and probably the least interesting story in terms of style and delivery

Again, it is not that it bad in any way, I very much enjoyed the content given; it merely fell into the problem of being a functional delivery rather than a particularly magical one

In the end, though, the reason you will want to watch Aoi Bungaku is that the stories it adapts are incredible

Every story is reflective and beautiful, poignant and devastating

Kokoro in particular is a stunning meditation on class, perspective, selfishness and love and is quite possibly the best two episodes of pretty much any animé I have ever watched

These were damn good books and they have found a new televisual life in the hands of Madhouse

Even with small missteps, far too pointless and tedious to cover here in full, and even with fluctuations in quality from segment to segment (nothing shown after Kokoro lived up to that story's power) Aoi Bungaku is still a must-see - simply for the life and vibrancy that the show depicts its stunning source material

If you like your entertainment intelligent, thoughtful, thought provoking and, most of all, dark then why have you not seen this already?

The show gives you a less-than-sterling impression of Ikta Solork at first- we first see him lazing in a hammock, and we see what Yatori means when she describes him as a "serial philanderer" when he tries a crude come-on to Haroma Becker (who will, in time, serve as a medic in Ikta's unit), but thankfully the show drops most of this aspect of Ikta's personality later, though we DO meet a trooper who's the daughter of a woman Ikta once seduced ("I didn't know she was married!")

The overall level of technology we see in this series is maybe early-to-mid 19th Century European, but the armed forces (of ALL sides, save maybe the Aldera) are fully gender integrated, and both sexes wear the same uniform

And even Ikta mostly stops sexually harassing women once he puts the uniform on

Maybe they could teach US something

In any case, once Ikta becomes a soldier we see a different (and MUCH better) side of him, though sometimes he requires a little interpretation- for example, when he later tells his troops that "Laziness is the mother of human progress", what he MEANS is that human beings have succeeded through preparation- by exerting some effort up front, they've saved a LOT of labor in the long run

We see this brilliantly illustrated by Ikta himself during war games, when, through a combination of preparation and deception, Ikta's force is able to rout that of the opposing side, with very few casualties on his side

This pattern will continue into his REAL combat missions, and much of the show's interest- the part that absorbed ME, anyway- is watching how he plays this "chess game"

Ikta is also very effective at utilizing the particular skills of his troops

One whose talents he frequently relies on is Torway Remeon, a sharpshooter who nevertheless is gnawed by self-doubt, largely fueled by his bullying older brother

Ikta often so dominates this show that there's little room for its supporting cast, and I would have liked to have seen a bit more of Torway's story

And poor Matthew Tetdrich, a rather heavyset guy, isn't given much to do at all onscreen but complain

Speaking of sharpshooting, I probably need to bring up this world's peculiar technology, at least as far as I can understand it myself

They have "air rifles", and I got the impression that maybe gunpowder hadn't been invented here, all guns basically being powered by a combination of magic and compressed air

(You can actually see this more plainly on their artillery pieces, which even have a bellows

As far as magic goes, the major visible manifestations we see in the series are the Sprites, pocket-sized, elflike creatures that everyone carries around, and everyone is quite loyal to their own sprite, too, to the extent that they'll go to war over them

The Sprites are apparently elementals, with Air (Wind), Fire, and Water being accounted for, but they might have substituted Light for Earth (though it's a bit redundant with Fire, I think

But getting back to Ikta- and the show rarely departs him for long: How is he so good at waging war? Well, he trained under his dad, Bada Sankrei, a legendary warrior; it seems that Yatori first met Ikta when she, too, was sent to his dad for training

Ikta's dad also had a "scientist" in his employ, named Anarai Khan; though Khan later defected to the Kioka Republic, Ikta worked closely with him for a time

(Ikta's knowledge of nature saves his troops from annihilation at one point, though at the cost of a garrison's force

Since "science" as a profession seems largely unknown in this world, I wondered if this might be one of those worlds where technological civilization had fallen, and forgotten its brilliant past (as in Scrapped Princess, for example

But that will have to wait for another day, I guess

It's interesting to compare the government and/versus military of, say, GATE to this show's

In GATE, the military is generally presented as beneficent and well-managed, but the government is spineless and corrupt

I think things in Alderamin are more complex, and interesting

The Katjvarna Empire is pretty much on its last legs, as Ikta himself points out from time to time; while the government here is corrupt, the military is too, at least from the level of regional command up

The field commanders and the troops are still devoted to the concept of honor; certain military families, such as Yatori's Igsem, are steeped in it, and Yatori muses, toward the end, about whether she's actually obsolete

Much of Alderamin is Ikta trying to keep things under control while the cruelty of a local commanding officer is actually INCITING rebellion among the locals rather than SUPPRESSING it as he intended

It's painful to see those of good conscience struggle to obey the orders of those without consciences at all

And maybe it's just my age, or maybe my study of history (well, history from even before I was born), but I find it less easy to identify with the gung-ho attitude of GATE; I find it easier to empathize with the situation of just trying to hold what you have together against the forces of destruction and chaos

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