Yuri to Boushi to Hon no Tabibito

A Shoujo ai centred Weblog

The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya – Movie synopsis and opinions

Well, I’m dead tired today, because for some reason I thought it’d be funny to go to the midnight showing of Suzumiya Haruhi no Shoushitsu at the Wald9 in Shinjuku (mainly because I missed the 9:10pm showing by accident. Bear in mind that the movie is almost 3 hours long, and I got out of [...]

Recent anime Yuri Character roundup

Surprisingly there has been rather a good crop of yuri in the recent season or two – Not in yuri anime per se, but most being token characters of varying importance and annoyance. Here I shall do a little roundup of their limited life stories…

Shirai Kuroko (To Aru Kagaku no Railgun)
The yuri brigade has been [...]

These are a few of my favourite…err…adverbs

This week I managed to get a hold of an electronic version of Kamiya’s Handbook of Japaese Adjectives and Adverbs so I began compiling a list of adverbs in Japanese. The Japanese seem to use adverbs a lot – especially in speech and they can be annoying to translate since a lot of them don’t [...]

Living in Japan #7 – Nice places in Japan 1

I got a call from the wife a while ago while she was at work saying that she had some “news” that she had to tell me at home. Turns out that she’s getting to fly out to Okinawa (for free) to do some bird catch and release for a week. You don’t have to [...]

Saki only doujinshi event review – Kiyosumi Oasis, Kawasaki-shi

I was really looking forward to this weekend as I had picked up a flyer a while back that said there was going to be a Saki only doujinshi event in Kawasaki-shi (10 minutes south of Tokyo) which promised to be a lot smaller and less crowded than Comiket. The poster said that there were [...]