Hyakku Monogatari [ENGLISH]

100 WAIFU Stories

Hyakku Waifu Monogatari

Uhh... yeah, don't ask me why updating the damn blog now of all time.

This is just a new series I want to start, called 100 WAIFU Stories, in style of 100 Ghost Stories (Hyakku Mongogatari).

For those who don't know, Hyakku Monogatari is Japanese game where you light up one hundred candles in a dark room. You sit forming a circle with your friends, and take turns to tell ghost stories. Each time a story is finished, a candle should be blown. Keep that up until you reach the 100th story. Once the last candle's off, a yokai (ghost) will show up.

So come along and play with me to tell a story about how you meet your waifu, if we're lucky, maybe a waifu will show up once we reach the 100th story. If you're interested to participate, send me a story with the following provisions :

1. Your waifu shall not be the same waifu whose story's already been told before (no same waifu).
2. Use english for your story.

Send your story via e-mail to akahito19eternity@gmail.com

With that being said, I'm gonna tell the first story about how I met my waifu.

Mai's Boob Fondling

2016, the year of hype. Anime, games, technology, like every aspect of my life got all the hype. During winter, there's a certain anime that everyone was talking about, and it started filling up my facebook timeline. As usual, this made me uncomfortable seeing a bunch of cute girls and boner-making gifs flying around.

So once it's finished airing, and all episodes are up, I went ahead and watch it. As you guess, it's called Musaigen no Phantom World (Myriad Colors of Phantom World).

What actually brought me to watch this Godforsaken series is because pictures and gifs of my pretty recent waifu, Mai Kawakami. You see the urban gif that shows Mai during her martial art attack preparation, it got mee too like Hestia's semi nude pics got me to watch Danmachi.

Anyway, so off to the anime, started from episode 1.

The music...

The Colors...

And the part that makes me fall in love right away with Mai....

The boing...

So if you watched Phantom World, the opening starts off with a music, Naked Dive by Screen mode. During the early beat, it showed a various asset of the main girls in the damn harem. There's Mai, Reina, Koito and Kurumi. Each of them has a different asset, Mai with her boobs, Reina with her booty, Koito with her legs and Kurumi is a loli.

What makes me fall in love with Mai is not only because she's extremely beautiful, she has a very beautiful beautiful marks under her eyes, but also that during the op, her boobs bounced in rhyme with the song beat. Well, of course the other's also rhyme with the song, but Mai's is special cause she;s the first one showed up. Like, "hey we should bring people in, let's put a boobs as the very first thing people see in the damn opening." and that workd. For me at least.

Well, she's not actually fondling her boobs, she's just massaging her body to unleash some kind of energy inside her body and apparently it's a thing from china.

So yeah, as the urban legend said, once you see that gif of Mai fondling her body preparing for martial art attack, you'll be sucked in to watch the damn series. Be careful for boners...

Alright so that was my stupid ass story about how I met and fall in love with Mai Kawakami. It might be not as interesting as you guys's stories, so that's why I asked for your story, if you want to join the game and meet a waifu, send me your waifu story.

You're Not You When You're Hungry [ENGLISH]

Anime Review : Ben-To

Ben-To

Ben-To (2011) by David Production. This series is freakin' AWESOME. The fighting scenes are very well animated, obviously, it's a martial arts anime. But still, very awesome. The concept of fighting over half-price convinience store bento is just laughable at first, but as you progress with the story, this is something really serious apparently. Not only saving highschooler's pocket and stomach, the fighting over half priced convinience store bento resembles the 'try hard to achieve' concept, but with bento, it's somehow become comedy. I actually really like the story progression, execpt the overdosed lesbians and crossdressing in the series. I don't know what the author was thinking, but honestly, those lesbian and gay actions should be reduced (though there will be no season 2 since the series itself is not so popular). Anyway, I found a new waifu in this series which makes me think about a certain post on this blog that I haven't updated for 3 weeks but that's beside the point. So many of you guys made Shaga Ayame, the MC's cousin as waifu. To me, she's indeed a potential one. But my choice is Sen Yarizui, the Ice Witch. She's just so beautiful, and strong, and sexy too, just everything you might need. Oh yeah, she's kinda similar to Mai Kawakami. Anyway, this one is base off a light novel, and not that many anime adaptation from a LN is good like this one, so that's a plus. Fanservice is well managed, though the yuri actions are a bit too much. What lacking from this series is too few episodes and a slight romance/drama that doesn't work out. I didn't think that this anime will have a slight chance romance in the story between MC and one of the girls. I really hope they worked out on the LN though. If only they worked out in the anime, it would be awesome, and I'll definitely put this under the 'Legendary Series' category. AND if they reduce the yuri and yaoi actions, I'll give a 4/4. But too bad they didnt, so Overall score is : 3.5 / 4 Thumbs.

Character Review

You Satou, voiced by Shimono Hiro. He is the main character and typical of the idiot one. But honestly, I'm really glad this series is not a harem because the MC will not won anything in the end because harem male leads are pathetic. He's just too damn unlucky hero, but for some reason really strong in the battlefield. Score : A.

Sen Yarizui, voiced by Ise Mariya. As I said, new waifu. She's kinda resembles Ouka from Koko no Uwasa ga El Palacio, it's my current favorite manga and Mai Kawakami from phantom world. But, when Ouka and Mai have a cheerful personality, Sen on the other side posses kinda gloomy and serious personality. Her eyes ir really sharp I love it. She's also strong but unexpectedly clumsy which made her got the title 'Ice Witch'. Sen is also a really caring senpai, plus point for waifu review. Score : A.

Hana Oshiroi, voiced by Yuuki Aoi. I don't like her fujoshi personality. I like how she put comedies throughout the series by somehow narrating stuff, but leading to fujoshi's point of view, that's just oo much. Score : B.

Shaga Ayame, voiced by Katou Emiri. She's the potential waifu that most people will pick. I personally like her too, and she likes the MC which is good. But my policy is to only get one waifu in every series, so that was a really hard decision to choose between Shaga and Sen. But I made up my mind and choose Sen as my new waifu. Sorry, Shaga. Score : A-.

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Light Novel? OK, Anime? NO

Anime Review : Hai to Gensou no Grimgar

Hai to Gensou no Grimgar

Hai to Gensou no Grimgar (2016) by A - 1 Pictures. Hmm, gua belum cek dengan pasti LN-nya, tapi entah kenapa gua bisa yakin kalo pengantaran novelnya jelek. Kenapa? Kalo penulis mungkin ngerti, ketika novel dibuat jadi animasi itu kan harus dibayangkan dulu seperti apa scene-nya, karakternya, dll. Dalam Grimgar, art nya bagus, unique, tapi sayangnya animasi yang ditampilin di anime nya itu banyak yang nggak perlu. Maksudnya ya karena pengantaran novelnya jelek, jadi ketika dianimasikan jadi bingung bagian mana yang perlu dianimasikan dan bagian mana yang nggak. 12 episode itu nggak panjang, dan animatornya harus menyesuaikan LN untuk dijadikan animasi, tapi dalam kasus Grimgar (dan beberapa anime lain), mereka maksa masukin hal-hal yang nggak perlu dianimasikan ke dalam animenya, mungkin untuk menuhin durasi. Gua nggak bisa sebutin contohnya karena males, tapi kalo diperhatiin pasti ada kok scene yang rasanya nggak perlu dianimasikan. Tapi nggak selamanya animasinya buruk, scene fightingnya bagus, special effectnya bagus, cuma itu tadi, packagingnya yang dipaksa. Gua tadi bilang pengantaran LN-nya jelek, tapi gua 100% yakin kalo Hai to Gensou no Grimgar itu jauh lebih bagus kalo dikonsumsi sebagai Light Novel daripada anime. Gua sebenarnya kurang yakin juga apa ini serial animasi atau AMV karena jumlah soundtrack yang gua ga bisa dan ga mau ngitung. Setiap episode deh, pasti ada soundtrack baru lagi. Kekurangan lainnya lagi yaitu di Manato. Siapa yang nangis ketika [SPOILER] Manato mati? Gua sih nggak. Manato mati di awal, dan kalo bagi gua, feelingnya belom kerasa. Mereka dengan nggak jelas masuk ke Grimgar, tiba-tiba jadi temen baik dan tiba-tiba mati satu. Kalo bagi para tokoh mungkin ia feelingnya masuk, tapi bagi penonton mungkin nggak, karena durasinya masih pendek, dan lagi nggak banyak juga scene yang emosional tentang Manato selain melalui PoV MC nya, karena gua yakin novelnya pake First Person. Dunia Grimgar masih abu-abu, nggak jelas, tiba-tiba begini, tau-tau begitu, mungkin di LN-nya di kemudian volume dijelaskan, tapi nggak ada waktu untuk menjelaskan di animenya. Gua asumsikan ini adalah salah satu cerita yang mengadopsi SAO, dan mencoba bikin atmosfir RPG. Tapi sayangnya, SAO itu jelas dunia RPG nya, sementara Grimgar seperti gua bilang, masih abu-abu dan nggak ada cukup episode untuk menjelaskan. Haruskah level kecil ngelawan goblin? Katanya goblin paling lemah, kok susah amat lawannya? Siapa aja yang masuk ke Grimgar? Apa orang-orang yang lain itu player juga atau cuma NPC? Terlalu banyak pertanyaan, terlalu sedikit episode. Score untuk Hai to Gensou no Grimgar : 2.6 / 4 Thumbs.

Character Review

Manato, voiced by Shimazaki Nobunaga. Karakter yang terlalu diworship. Itu aja, personality-nya ok, tapi sebenarnya gua menaruh kecurigaan sama orang ini dari awal, gua emang nggak suka karakter yang baiknya keterlaluan, termasuk karakter utama. Untung matinya cepet. Score : B.

Haruhiro, voiced by Hosoya Yoshimasa. Nggak jarang MC yang memilih jadi rogue dari awal. Haruhiro jadi thief, unsuer RPG nya sudah dikeluarkan dari awal, tapi mereka (penulis) nggak mau jujur kalo ini sbenernya game RPG. Seenggaknya berikan penjelasan sedikit tentang Grimgar di awal, masalah di sini yaitu sudut pandangnya Haruhiro. LN nya ngambil sudut pandang pasti dari Haruhiro (mayoritas), jadi apa yang diketahui sama Haruhiro, ya itulah yang dikasih liat ke penonton. Sebagai MC, okelah gua nggak banyak protes, Haruhiro juga OK kok, nggak lemah-lemah amat, indecisive itu sudah jadi ciri khas semua MC, kemudian terlalu baik juga nggak, bodoh mungkin iya. Score : A-.

Ranta, voiced by Yohino Hiroyuki. Karakter badut, tapi payah. Bukan kemampuan bertarungnya, tapi jokesnya. Ini salah satu kelemahan Hai to Gensou no Grimgar yang mau gua bahas di Ranta, yaitu bad jokes placement. Penempatan joke yang nggak tepat timingnya akhirnya cuma makan durasi. Score : B.

Yume, voiced by Komatsu Mikako. Perempuan ini alasan gua ganti judul Hai to Gensou no Grimgar jadi Grimgar : Pussies Grouped Together to Fight other Pussies + Ass and Boobs Edition! Lagi-lagi, kelemahan dari anime ini yaitu kebanyakan fanservice yang nggak perlu, apalagi mengingat genrenya. Mungkin gua ngerti, maksud dari penempatan fanservice di awal-awal itu untuk menarik penonton, tapi sayang bagi gua itu mengganggu. Sebagai genre Action, Adventure Grimgar menyuguhkan fanservice yang overdose, mending dibuat jadi Ecchi sekalian gitu. Alasan gua ngebahas ini di Yume adalah karena Yume salah satu kontributornya. Kalo personality wise, Yume harusnya jadi salah satu karakter favorite gua, dua juga yang bikin gua mengira kalo bakal ada romance, namun kenyataannya nggak. Oh ya, [SPOILER] ada Kirito x Asuna resemblance di sini antara Haruhiro dan Yume, dan yang gua maksud bener-bener Kirito x Asuna resemblance. Tau pas mereka ngelawan bos pertama di SAO? Selamat datang kembali. Score : A-.

Shihoru, voiced by Terui Haruka. Ini dia primadonyanya Grimgar, mungkin kalo nggak ada dia jadi sedikit yang nonton. Penyumbang fanservice juga, tapi nggak diberikan spotlight, bahkan ketika Manato mati, padahal semua tau kalo dia suka sama Manato. Score : B.

Merry, voiced by Anzai Chika. Waktu Merry pertama dateng, dia bertindak profesional dengan nggak mengobati luka-luka kecil. Itu tindakan profesional untuk menghemat mana, tapi karakter-karakter bloon lainnya maksa dia untuk bertindak seperti 'mantan' mereka, Manato. Masa lalunya Merry juga pahit, jadi wajar kalo dia mengantisipasi itu terulang lagi, dan pastinya trauma ada. Proses Haruhiro melunakkan Merry gua bisa kasih jari kelingking lah, tapi nggak jempol (setidaknya bukan jari tengah). Score : A-.

Moguzo, voiced by Ochiai Fukushi. Karakter favorit gua karena bakatnya ngukir figure dari kayu. Nggak banyak peran, tapi ikut jadi karakter utama. Gua nggak bisa bilang banyak sih karena dia sendiri nggak banyak spotlight, tapi yang jelas dia karakter favorit gua karena tindakannya yang logis, nggak emosional. Score : A-.

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