Hitohira 初瓣 Ep1-7

I don't know where to start with this anime, but I just must blog about this. I guess I should do a general gist of the show.

Synopsis from AnimeNfo:
A transferred student Asai Mugi is a painfully shy girl. She is so shy that she can’t speak when she becomes seriously nervous. However, for some reason, she is spotted and recruited as a member of drama club.

My addition:
This drama club is actually called the drama research club founded by Ichinose Nono. By some twist of fate, she got to know that Mugi actually has a really loud and nice (i beg to differ) voice. So she gets Mugi to join and prepares her for the upcoming main drama performance of the year. This event is very important as it is a competition with the original drama club of the school. To put it more simply, it is a duel between Nono and her (ex?) best friend Sakaki Mirei, now chairperson of the drama club. The two fell out because Nono actually has a problem with her voice box, and Mirei, concerned, vehemently objects to her continuing with drama. But Nono, insists on continuing. Hence...


As usual, i can't seem to keep my focus on Mugi, the main lead. The chairpersons of the two drama clubs have stolen it all. = =a From their little bickering to Nono's small childish duels, the story shows comically, the camaraderie of the two despite the big fall out. And its just pure good entertainment to see how these two and the people around them respond to such situations. And with ep7, Mirei finally pouring her heart out, and that hug that just made me go ..."awww.....", I think they really have a wonderful friendship.



A simple story with a good direction and great naration of the interaction between the various characters.

Negima 2

Finally finished this 2nd installment of the series which tells a totally different story from the 1st. I thought it started off quite well with its better animation and very strong depiction of the 1st few characters. For example, Setsuna Konoka, Asuna and especially Evangeline. The show withered at the middle, though. Just trying to make fun out of nothing and getting Negi to make pactios with the rest of the class. Getting trapped in the magical world didn't seem to bother this class much as they still went round having fun, Asuna, disappointingly, being the lamest of all... = = It was around the 22 ep that things picked up, things involving the star-crystal finally coming to light. And all's well ends well I guess.

Just that I wasn't quite satisfied with how they tried to dump all the rescuing on Negi. Takahata, Evangeline or even his sister had more power than him, but somehow they were rendered useless so that he could do what a main lead is supposed to do. Could they have been a little less obvious?

Just one more comment on how cute Evangeline was. Quite simply, for me, she stole the show. Nobody can look so cute when she's pissed~~ lol~

And one final thing i need to scream:
Not enough Setsuna X Konoka emotional scenes!!! Plain foolin around dun cut it!!! Grhhh