http://reversethieves.com/2008/12/19/ongoing-investigations-case-024/ A Blog Duet by Hisui and Narutaki Wed, 15 Feb 2012 16:13:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://reversethieves.com/2008/12/19/ongoing-investigations-case-024/#comment-2524 Fri, 22 Oct 2010 18:45:30 +0000 http://www.reversethieves.com/2008/12/19/ongoing-investigations-case-024/#comment-2524 [...] the Bartender anime it seemed the prefect time to correct this grievous error. Like I said back on Ongoing Investigations: Case #24 the manga are very different animals. Ryu Sasakura is less a human and more of some sort of magical [...]

]]> http://reversethieves.com/2008/12/19/ongoing-investigations-case-024/#comment-1468 Sat, 08 May 2010 11:41:48 +0000 http://www.reversethieves.com/2008/12/19/ongoing-investigations-case-024/#comment-1468 [...] Having read some of the Maria+Holic manga I mostly was curious how good this was as an adaptation. So far it is pretty spot on and enjoyable. The humor translates well so I can’t see fans of the manga being upset so far. The animation is nice and shiny and I like the adaptation of the character designs. Despite Narutaki’s insistence that Kanako looks mucho manly I think she is cute. The ending song is very catchy but that might be because of the fact that a majority of my childhood was during the 80s so I have a fondness for synthesizer pop. I was amused by Yu Kobayashi’s male Mariya voice because it sounds like a woman doing a young boys voice which I am sure is deliberate so it does not break the yuri fanboy’s fantasies. Still I think that much like Bridget everyone one is going to be gay for Mariya. [...]

]]> http://reversethieves.com/2008/12/19/ongoing-investigations-case-024/#comment-247 Mon, 02 Feb 2009 11:27:24 +0000 http://www.reversethieves.com/2008/12/19/ongoing-investigations-case-024/#comment-247 [...] Having read some of the Maria+Holic manga I mostly was curious how good this was as an adaptation. So far it is pretty spot on and enjoyable. The humor translates well so I can’t see fans of the manga being upset so far. The animation is nice and shiny and I like the adaptation of the character designs. Despite Narutaki’s insistence that Kanako looks mucho manly I think she is cute. The ending song is very catchy but that might be because of the fact that a majority of my childhood was during the 80s so I have a fondness for synthesizer pop. I was amused by Yu Kobayashi’s male Mariya voice because it sounds like a woman doing a young boys voice which I am sure is deliberate so it does not break the yuri fanboy’s fantasies. Still I think that much like Bridget everyone one is going to be gay for Mariya. [...]

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