HaNaYaMaTa

HanaYaMaTa is one of the cutest Moe anime I have watched in ages. Set in modern Japan it is about a group of jr. high aged girls who all are awkward or lonely somehow finding one another and finding confidence and happiness through yosaki dancing. Throughout the story the young characters collect their confidence while facing various trials.

One of my favorite parts about this anime was that the art style was GORGEOUS. Vivid pastels and beautiful backgrounds made for a stunning mix.

The end of the anime actually brought me to tears. It had such a touching sentiment of the meaning of friendship... a sentiment I have never really fully gotten to enjoy the feeling of like people often express feeling. I am glad it was only 12 episodes, it went to all the basic young girl trope locations (hot springs, beach, bathtub, school roof, karaoke) and anything more might have been over doing it.

Finishing up discussing DMing for this week 3/3 for the week

Urg so the reason this is three seperate posts is because blogger does not like to let me write really long posts on my tablet... and I am too lazy to get out of bed and get on a PC to finish this...

Anyway a player told me tonight that they feel I am a really good DM. That I make the experiance immersive and fun and that they don't feel rail roaded. This is the ultimate compliment. I am running a game out of a book for heavens sake... and they don't feel railroaded. People are telling me they are having fun. I am doing something right!

The best part is...*I* am having fun. I am not stressed by the crazy, it is more just fun. I enjoy the feeling of being in charge of a world. Creating things, having people laugh and have fun because of something I have organized. It is the first time in a very long time that I have felt that I am doing the right thing, and people appreciate me for my efforts. 

I crave more of this feelings, I want to DM more, I want to think of ways to deal with antics more! Bring it on. I am a Dungeon Master now, I  won't let anxiety hold me back. Peace out and may my dice ever roll in your favor. ;)

Chapter 1: Or how my players messed things up and I didn't even care.

So this rant has spoilers for Hoard of the Dragon Queen Chapter 1. If you are playing D&D encounters and your character is level 1, or you are not yet playing this module but plan to. Please don't read this rant. I want you to enjoy the game without being spoiled to what happens. If you are a DM or otherwise not interested in playing HotDQ, read on.

So first adventure starts. I am nervous. What if I don't like DMing, what if my players think I suck? What if I fuck up and the entire party TPKs first adventure what if what if what if. But swallowing my fear I allow myself to 'jump in' and start dming.

Right off the bat with the first combat I know things are insane. The sorcerer is fucking things up. The group runs into cowering villagers and he decides a young girl is now his 'women' he drags her around like a rag doll with him.... then the Rogue makes rolls and suddenly he has a Kobald slave... OK then... great... the poor girl is still trying to escape from the Sorcerer and failing miserably. The plot starts in a Keep in the middle of the town, so I am trying to direct them to the plot... they seem more intersted in loots. Too much Skyrim...

So I bring the first key plot point in. A family running from Cultists and Kobalds. The Sorcerer is attracted to the Wife. He does not succeed at seducing her... but they are not helping the villagers either and are not heading for the keep. So to try and encourage them I decide to descend a small army of 30 kobalds on the city. I am hoping they will run for the Keep. Of COURSE they did not. They decide to bunk up in a two story house near by and fight off the Kobald army. So... what do we do? How do we get them out and running for the keep? Blue dragon... THAT will work... So I have the kobalds 'summon' the dragon (who is being controlled) and instead of running away they decide to face it. The summoner is on the roof with his village girl (who is engaged to a candle maker) and trying to negotiate with the dragon. The Druid and Rogue are shooting Kobalds from inside... the Barbarian is guarding the door... The dragon breath attacks the Sorcerer. This would kill him... so he 'sacrifices a virgin' aka the villager girl. Then decides to try and destroy the roof the dragon is on... And succeeds... now they are trying to bring the building down on the dragon... I NEED this dragon later... SHIT they have him trapped... FUCK FUCK FUCK. Oh look dragons have legendary save abilities... they can CHOOSE to make a save, fuck this guys. The dragons escapes... the barbarian is buried in rubble...

We all decide we need more kobald slaves. Rolls are made... they have three now... FUCK. Ok I have finally got them to the keep thank fucking god. Instead of offering to help the governer they are demanding tribute to help him. He offers them nobel titles after someone suggests it...  I am going to give them the shittiest titles ever... but hey they are going to give them.

Writing this I realize that it is 6.20am... I have to be on a bus to go to work in 2 hours and I am not a wink tired... oh well.

Anyway... the Governor gets them to go save a burning mill... on the way they decide to get horses. The rogue steals the nicest horse he can find, a black horse with two rotten teeth. The dwarf takes a normal horse... and the Sorcerer takes a Mule and ropes a pitchfork to it to make it a 'battle mule' and then names it Kelly. Yes... Kelly. If you get that reference fml yeah he went there.

They barge out the front gate mauling accultists left and right, another kobald joins them... as well as an ambush drake. When they get to the mill the ambush drake runs into his mate and leaves. I will bring them back later.  They are ambused at the mill... nothing phases them... heads are exploded off and caught in the air. Brains are rubbed on balls... spears are dodged... failure to knock hay off a loft happens... and that is where it stopped...

Oh and they have a guard on their side now. Yes. My PCs currently have 4 kobalds and a mercenary guard army.


So besides all that... I THINK they are ACTUALLY having fun. One of my players told me tonight that the

Becoming a Dungeons and Dragons Dungeon Master: Also known as the final pit into being a nerd. No turning back now

So It has finally happened. My obsession/passion for D&D has led me down the darkest deepest path it could. I have sacrificed my sanity and security and taken up the cloak of the ages, I have accepted my role and position within nerds... wait this is making me sound far too formal.

A few months ago Wizards of the Coast finally published their newest format of D&D. D&D Next. I had been quite unpleased with D&D 4th edition. 4th felt too... simplified... while at the same time too complicated. It was swimming with rules for kiting and ways to torment players who were not min maxers with tactics that really should not matter. It dumbed down on the loved classes into pretty much the same thing. Ya had your dailys, your at wills and your ect ects. It was boring. It was terrible, and through many attempts only my fav DM ever made it even slightly good and that was only because he is a Master at his craft(even if he is incredibly anxious all the time and that anxiousness rubbed off a bit on me about D&D). I liked 3.5, but as a player alone it was daunting to play with its dozen of released books. I could not even BEGIN to imagine DMing such a lofty world. Pathfinder seems to be the worlds favorite alternative... but despite many attempts to get into Pathfinder, it too felt like lots of rules and little fun and too much for me to get involved in. (oh God, you are probably thinking this is a novel, and right now it is about to get there. Apparently I have lots to ramble on the subject and not enough venues to ramble it at). So 5th came out recently... and I picked up my PH1 and I liked it, I playtested the final Product with said favorite DM AND at Pax Prime 2014. My love did not decrease. I then attended a D&D encounters night at my local game store and I realized something while I attended. I could DO THIS. I could DM. I had all these ideas in my head that needed to escape.

So I asked my friend that I am in a pathfinder game with if they would attend my D&D game... I was suprised that they were super supportive. Even understanding that I was a new DM and there would be fuck ups. So it happened. I grabbed a copy of 'Hoard of the Dragon Queen' off of Amazon and started a weekly game.

Diving feet first into a world of madness. I did not pick tame players, I did the opposite. I picked the one player i have EVER seen make my fav DM stumble. I took him into my game cause he was a friend I considered close and a compatriot in the war of my workplace. I had a clue what I was into, and unlike the failed time i attempted to playtest Next... I was at sorta peace with the idea. I didn't invite the player I KNEW liked tactics, I did not invite my coworker who loves D&D but constantly belittles me. I invited the people cheering me on and took on them as my first real party. This was MY D&D group and I was going to make it work.

So my players ended up as the following.

A human sorcerer outlander who is the soul of a dragon but does not KNOW he is a dragon in a human body. This is my insane player, and he is playing an insane character. It is fitting. Apparently this character is a character he has been testing poor DMs with for years. Nikki J. The player is an ex coworker of mine and I feel we connect in some insane way. I am in his pathfinder game currently.

The next is a... I can't tell you his race Rouge Scholar (how do I not know his race... maybe because he does not mention it... wait... I think he is elf something or other... but seriously how do I not know it) played by the crazy players close friend whom I met at a gaming con the week before I joined my Pathfinder game, it was a magical coincidence... His character is sassy... just like him.

My life partner is playing a dwarf barbarian noble. Not much to say about him, my partners playstyle is to remain silent unless he feels there is a hole in the other players tactics, then he steps in. With the above two playing... there is not much of a hole for him to fill...so normally he just bounces around the house eating food or harassing cats or just watching the madness.

My final player is one of my coworkers who happens to be my boss. She is playing a wood elf Druid outlander. She is pretty much the soul of the group, letting the players know when their actions will hurt animals and healing the dumb ass Sorcerer when he gets himself knocked to zero hp... AGAIN.

I will add more details in my next post!

The World is Still Beautiful

 The World is still beautiful is a female character centric fantasy anime, with very serious tones covered up by comedic moments. It centers around a young girl being sent by her father to marry a King. A very powerful king. (OK stop reading here if you don't want spoilers)

The  anime does an incredibly good job at focusing on the struggles of a royal person's life. The main female heroine, Nike comes from a laid back secretive country where it is always raining. Her people have magical weather powers, and are some of the only people in the world with magic. She travels to the land of the Sun King, to be his wife(which it later turns out was not suppose to happen) and finds herself betrothed to a dark boy with the soul of a man, who has let hatred swell over his heart. She spends a good portion of the anime showing him the meaning of beauty in the world.

One thing I really like about this anime is that it shows the unromantic sides of being royalty. The stresses of being relied on, the people trying to prove you wrong constantly, even the sadness of two people in love when they don't get to see one another because of other responsibilities. 

The funniest characters are probably the circle of old delgate men, who are lechers and think that they should be involved in everything. They are the comic relief that brings a giggle to your mouth even in the most serious of episodes.

In the end I really enjoyed this anime, because it tells the tale of a light hearted loving girl being forced to face acting like a royal delegate, and a serious heavy hearted boy finding joy in life. Like any healthy relationship, they balance each other and become a wonderful unit that is to be admired.

Hatoful Boyfriend: Nageki Route aka I HAZ FEELS

So today the famous Hatoful boyfriend came out on steam. I begged my boyfriend to buy me a copy (I had burned all my cash at PAX/Kumoricon the last weekend). I was expecting humor. I was expecting pidgins. I was expecting to get bored. What was I NOT expecting? Tears. Yeah no, that was not on the menu, plan, whatever.

SPOILERS AHEAD.

So I started playing and automatically went for the book nerd in the library. Nageki. Who would NOT go for the library nerd? I guess non-book lovers... but anyhow... I found the bird puns... amusing... at best. Whatever though. A bird pun is a pun and will get my eye rolls but will be accepted. My boyfriend was such a loner, he never went anywhere with me, I never saw him outside of the library. A bit of a downer, but hey my grades were GREAT because I spent so much time studying in the library. What I did not expect? My boyfriend committed suicide and is a ghost and as he tells me he loves me, he disappears. NOOOOO I wanted to have your babies ;_;

So that was how the game ended. I actually cried.  God forbid the other routes bring such an emotion forth.

drift

On this isolated plain, abandoned I stare
Wording driftings towards me, lies a fake care
Conquest and Hormones, tides of titillation
Yet there they drift on the current

My pulse ever pumping, cursed liquid through
This life is a torment, dreamed or lived
I wander in circles without a reply
I anticipation freedoms, but they all die

As words sink in slowly, the sands intermix
I can't reply lowly, I can't find my lips
The curse is returing, ever again
Loyalties faulty, severed within

Into the waters of life and its sin
I sink far too heavy, can't even swim
Faulted for trying, ruined if not
I close off the walls, safe in my inn

Obsession on a Sentiment

I often wonder if other people sit and ponder sentiments. On questioning often they tell me no, that they don't sit and contemplate sentiments.

The place I often find myself pondering sentiments is at the bus stop. It is a place where you are often alone, waiting for your means to an adventure. There is no place to be, no place to go, stressing over the buses arrival is meaningless. You are in a place, waiting, and your mind can wander. Maybe to the person you are going to see... maybe to the bird hopping near by... maybe to the idea of the feeling of cold on your fingers.

Animals don't think, don't ponder. Our ability to ponder as humans is what makes us human. Maybe it brings us a bit closer to ourselves to ponder small things. I feel the moment we stop pondering, and feeling sentimental, is the moment we have lost meaning, staring blanket at the wall no thoughts... how can one live when one is in that state of mind?

Passive Aggresive Posts on Facebook

I love my friends, I really do. Part of my loving my friends is any time I am bored and alone, I instant message several of them. Typically only 1 or 2 are actually on their computers. So I talk to whoever is in the mood to talk. I leave my computer on at all times and when I am AFK I turn off my monitor. Because energy saving=good. Or something like that.

Today on facebook one such friend that is on my 'close friends' list which also is my 'If I am going to IM someone, you get imed first' list posted this ridiculous post. His post was about people who im you 'hi' and then don't respond. I understand being frustrated by my habit of doing this. But really you don't need to post a Passive Aggressive post about it on facebook to express yourself about this manner when you could just idk call me up on the phone? I replied on his wall, and kinda identified myself as the person he was complaining about, and apologized. Rather than being like 'it is cool' he accused me of being 'dramatic' and then unfriended me. The last thing he did was send me a long rant about how I am self obsessed, dramatic, ect.

I guess good riddance? But uh, the drama was kinda started by him posting the PA post on facebook, not by anything I did... we only really talk about once a month these days. >.<

I feel slightly bleh, I have been the friend he has confided lots of secrets in, I sort of wonder if he worries I will reveal his non-vanilla lifestyle to his new friends?

In a small way it feels like *I* broke up.

It is no secret that I am in a LTR, my partner and I are nearing three years together. Despite ups and downs we have stayed a pretty strong couple.

I find a big part of staying strong is finding people who help keep you strong. One of the core things that has helped keep us strong has been our fellow couple we hang out with.  This might seem weird but in a way spending time with another couple is one of the greatest ways  to develop and strengthen your couplehood together. It is like, you learn how to play off eachother and work together while spending time with the other couple.

This couple has played a pivetal part in our life. They were funny, hard working, loving, nerdy. We played D&D together, went on double dates, went to the movies, went hiking, spent all of our holidays together.

I can't believe they broke up, it is really hard for me, neighter of them wants to talk about it, so I don't know what happened and I am not siding with either of them or any of that. But my heart is breaking for the loss. :(

I won't let it hurt my relationship of course, but I will miss them dearly as a couple, and work hard to embrace them each as individuals.

Sadly, raise the minimum wage and the prices of EVERYTHING inflates. It is not as simple as raise the wages. You are just squashing the small companies out when you do that and supporting the larger ones. Then the prices of things increases because the price of production and labor raises. Only uneducated people think raising the minimum wages fixes things. The price of milk will just go up to whatever half an hour of minimum wage is at that point. Shit. Didn't think of that did you? Of course not. Because it sounds great and you did not think. There is probably a solution, but merely raising wages is NOT the solution.

Stop being naive, maybe the reason you make small wages is because you think small. (hypocritical of me slightly as I make low wages, but I make low wages because I refuse to sacrifice my integrity and suck up.)

Clannad: Tomoyo Path

 Well THAT was an emotional trip. Clannad. The game that can make the most hardened warrior sob in their blankies. Well I can't say that Tomoyos route is an exception.

SPOILERS AHEAD

I started this route quite a while ago, and only just now finished it because for some reason I had it in my head that I would not enjoy this route. I had it wrong. Tomoyos story is touching and heart warming and leaves nothing to be desired.
The romantic aspects of it happen rather suddenly to be honest. One moment we were friends having lunch the next we were kissing. She comes to my home every morning to fetch me and drag me to school on time. My best friend and I are famous for being late and she is insistent that we come on time.

There is humor interlaced into the story, as she has a slight obsession with beating my best friend up, and a huge part of her plot is her abusing him for being an annoying prick.

The depth of the story comes when Tomoyo admits to you that she comes from a broken family where everyone is cold and unloving towards one another. They are family in name only, and she seeks the ability to smile and feel joy with her little brother. A little brother that because he was so miserable at his families lack of love tried to kill himself. She wants his first day at highschool to be a truely happy one with no tears, and is striving to be the student body councilor in hopes of saving the Sakura tree lane that they have to travel to on the way to school.  The feelings that flow through my body as I relate to her sadness at her family being cold and Tomoya(the main character)s equal sadness at the lack of his families love.  On a personal note my partner and I are both not close to our families. Events have happened that have left both of us feeling cold and alone in this world and like Tomoyo and Tomoya we realized that happiness and family is about the people who make up your family who are even just friends. Not the people who raised you.

The most heart wrenching part of this story for me is when Tomoya starts feeling depression over the fact he is stagnating and Tomoyo is popular and going to succeed his utter dispair at the fact and knowledge that she will graduate and leave him behind and that everyone will leave him behind took me to the moment when I was 18 and all my friends left. My best friend Ali was going to school and so was Janna, but there was a moment when Ali's parents divorced and the one thing I thought would stay constant. Ali's little brother Evan, left with her mother to Missouri. I was left feeling utterly abandoned and alone in life. I made terrible decisions trying to cure that sadness. Unlike my life, Tomoyo comes back and tells Tomoya that being without him was not worth the success to her and that she loved him. They end up back together.

 Before I play the next route on Clannad I think I will venture on to Tomoyo After and play my way through it at least once. Wish me luck. I am looking forward to the hentai elements that Clannad lacks and Tomoyo After offers :-p

Tensions

I think I prefer things when they are not there or allowed. To have is to take for granted. To not have is to pine and desire. It takes loss or fear of loss to realize how much you desire something. The spark of desire between two beings, stolen glances, fevered dreams of desire. I fear these things as much as I relish them.

Can you learn to love more than one person? Does it cheapen the love for the first? Or does the slight distraction actually illuminate the desire you have for the first person because contrast makes everything more exciting.

Dexter. Seasons 1&2 Mofus there are spoilers.

So this show just came on air on Netflix on Halloween. I have already watched the first 2 seasons, yes, I am being a bit obsessive.

Let me start off by mentioning I HATE crime dramas. The tropes, the boring plot lines, the stupid characters, the overdone story on repeat... but Dexter is not your run of the mill cop story. Thank goodness. Because I would not have made it through two seasons of this show in 4 days if it had been anything like every other cop show out there. I feel like puking when someone suggests watching Law and Order, or even shows like Bones or Castle.  So why Dexter? Because it is dark, because it is morbid, because Dexter hates everyone in the world possibly more than I do and fakes emotions more than anyone pretty much ever and that is an appealing thing to me.

I am an emotional person. I don't have issue emoting. But dating my boyfriend is pretty much what dating Dexter would be like. This show has actually given me amazing insight into his feels and mind.  He is not a sociopath killer as far as I can tell, but he does not play by social rules. Just like myself. I actually don't understand how this show was SO popular. Normal people must be relating to the boring characters like Rita and Dexters fake relations toward her.

Speaking of Rita. Talk about boring Oh poor waifu mom who produced kids and has an addiction to dating bad men. Boo hoo we feel SO bad for you. WAIT I really don't. She is the weakest character on the show and a big part of the reason why I don't feel like watching more. I don't want Dexter married. I want him fucking hot young arsonist ladies. Marriage is boring and if Dexter gets married I just can't see this show staying appealing.

Also Dexter makes me happy to live in the Pacific NorthWest. Ug I can just imagine how muggy it must be there....

Dear Back of Japanese Yam Noodle Bag

The recipe you presented was NOT sane. WTF.

I understood when you were like LOL beef, potato, onion and noodle stew. I did not so much understand when the recipe turned into then add 2 cups dashi. TWO CUPS DASHI. Beef+fish= NO. I know people speak of surf and turf being good. It might be good separately. But stewing the beef in fish stock? No.

I made this monstrosity stew. It tasted like a cow fell into a vat of sugar and fish and I am pretty adventurous in my food eating, but I found something I genuinely found no pleasure in eating today. NOPE never again.

Suicide Girls BlackHeart Burlesque- Or the first time I wanted a girl to keep her clothing on.

 So last night my partner and I decided to go to our first Burlesque. Now we were very excited at this idea. We both love the looks of Suicide girls. We love the Tattoos, the alt look, the teasing way they pose. Just look at this poster here, the girls look so fun and free loving in it, and express what I have always thought of SGs to be. So months ago we excitedly bought tickets and have been waiting for the day to happen.

A camgirl I enjoy watching the shows of and talking to AnnaBee made the comment she felt that SG was not pulling very good dancers for the show and that she felt they were more campy than sexy and not as good as they could have been because of how they were being directed. But I was determined to ignore this thought and watch these girls with my whole heart and support them.

 So the venue chosen for Portland, was Roseland theator. Which is a great venue for going and dancing your brains out to Electric, House, Rock and Trance music. But not so much for people chilling and watching sexy dances. I was surprised when I walked in the door to see they had fitted it with seating and it was quite controlled. So we got a seat about 7 rows back on the left side back with a great view of the stage. Pre-show there was some terrible music that was badly balanced blasting over the speakers too loudly. We thought it was just some distasteful pre-show music, until we found out the cute short girl standing akwardly behind an mac on stage was a SG 'DJ' who was actively choosing to play badly balanced music for us. Forgiveable because when the actual show happened the music was better balanced. The first three or so acts were fun.It was novel and exciting and the girls were marginally cute, even though it was obvious most of them were not professional dancers.

The biggest problem of the night was when one of the girls started feeling like she needed more attention. So she called out that everyone should get out of their seats and 'crowd around the stage' because they were going to make the show as 'Punk Rock as possible' suddenly my good view spot was terrible. Tall model girls, men with baseball caps, creepy single guy swirls and masses of humans were suddenly standing between my seat and the stage.My view from that point on was about waist and above of the girls when they were standing straight. They also encouraged everyone to video tape and picture the show. So even if people were short, suddenly their bright camera was up in the air directed at the dancers and further obscuring the show for everyone else! My night was ruined from that point on.

Now the girls were lovely creatures. Albeit a bit thin for my tastes. They put their hearts into dancing, and I guess I will mostly fault whoever directed them for bad taste in music, costumes, and choreography. Amazingly the best song choice imo was the choice they used for the Planet of the Apes dance.  The dance for that song had a slightly Japanese/Korean pop star feel to it as well.

So why do I mention that girls needed to keep their clothing on? I have zero issues with nakedness, sexuality or free choice! My issue was this is suppose to be a burlesque right? Then why was most of the entire show the girls dancing around in panties and pasties? I wanted to be teased and enticed. But instead I felt like I mentioned I like the color purple and suddenly my entire house is purple. Too much of a good thing starts being a bad thing! Tease me more, show me less. No really. PLEASE.

Best point of the night? When they asked people to get on stage and strip to win a gift certificate to their website, and this sexy full bodied purple haired girl gets up on stage and starts sexily removing her corset then throws her bra off to show us her lovely, large breasts with no pasties! What a beautiful unashamed lady.

Flakes

I am really getting tired of how flaky people are! You invite them to things, they get all excited, then they bail without even a text. Do you humans even realize how cruel this is? Many days I set something with someone and I turn everyone else down to spend that time with you. When I wait all day for you to show up you have literally WASTED MY DAY. I am over it. I really am. At least TEXT someone if you are not going to show up or let them know WHEN your plans change.

Or when I am DMing and my party expects your character to be there, and they don't fill the role your character is filling, that is infuriating too. If you don't want to play with my group. Just tell me. Don't wait until the day before when I contact you for NOTES on your character to tell me you are bailing. UGGG.

Wheel of Time: Eye of the World 4/5 Stars

This is the 2nt time I have read this book. I remember the first time was a completely different experience. Amazing what ten years between reading a book can do for you mentally!






Spoilers Ahead!
I really hate the Egwene now, before I felt that Rand DESERVED to be with her and was making a mistake when he looked at other women. Now I feel like she is a bossy spoiled brat, getting everyone almost killed repeatedly. Lan reminds me of my boyfriend. Perrin is still cool. Mat is a rogue stereotype. Not having anything remotely sexual blacked out was a refreshing change (my best friend Ali-edited the books in HS so her little brother could read them). I felt myself shuddering as the characters walked through the blight. I could smell the rotten plants, feel the panic when the trees chased them. I wanted to hide when the No faced men chased them. I FELT this book. A book that can make me feel is good indeed.

Tonari no Kaibutsu-kun

I watched this anime with the same enthusiasm I watch most Shojou anime. Which is actually quite a bit. I was hoping for a complicated romantic story with interesting characters and a thrilling plot. That is really not what I got. This anime almost qualifies as slice of life. It has no really defined ending. The plot arches are not wrapped up at the end of the anime. It feels a bit too much like just a blip from real life... but not really at all.

It is very hard to relate with the main character. Yes she is driven, but she is constantly succeeding and getting her way. Being the top person grades wise at your school is just this unheard of idea for me.

The secondary main girl was much more interesting.She was beautiful and hated guys for noticing this in her. Underneath her looks she really was a nerd, popular on BBS and good at working with technology and with that she didn't care about school (much more like a real girl IMO!)

Overall I give this anime a 2.5/5 stars. It was beautiful. It had potential. But it just fell short for me.

Usagi Drop

Usagi Drop has got to be one of the sweetest anime I have ever watched. It evokes emotions and feels every which way.  If you can make it through this anime without feeling anything you probably are the coldest human on Earth. No, seriously.

As someone who was adopted, and has spent most of my life feeling unwanted this anime absolutely hit home.

There were a few things that irked me. For one the opening sequence was pretty boring. I am a big sucker for a good opening. And this anime did not have a good one.  The music is not that exciting in the opening either.

But the actual anime is beautifully animated. The character interactions are adorable. If all children were like the little girl in this anime (or Nanako) I might be actually willing to consider having a child one day. *sighs* alas most kids are rotten creatures. I know I was.

The dynamics between the grandson and his very young aunt who he is taking care of are adorable. I love how he had never had to worry about anyone other than himself and suddenly finds himself having to open his eyes to a whole new world of caring for this little girl.

Solid 5/5 I wish they would make a 2nt Season to cover the rest of the Manga... Which goes into the little girls teenage years.