I knew that it was going to be hard to take care of business this summer, but I didn’t think I would be the one making it hard on myself. I slept straight through a job interview today, squandering my only opportunity to find decent work this summer. Now I’m going to be stuck working fast food.

I wonder if they serve Cabbage Love at Mickey D’s…

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With exams hanging over my head, I felt like I couldn’t enjoy anything, not even my favorite anime…

But now that they’re done and I’ve proclaimed my joy to the world, let’s get to my long-overdue review of the fifth episode of Kanokon!

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I’m getting around to this episode a little late - in fact, Kanokon’s latest episode has already aired in Japan as I write this - but it took a while for Ayako to release fansubbed torrent links, and then some final exams hit me.

Seriously. I know you think I was being lazy, but college can be pretty harsh sometimes. It was totally out of my control. Besides, ecchi is just as good a few days later as it is fresh from Japan! So let’s cut to the chase.

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Episode three of Kanokon seemed to take a strange new direction for the series. Where were the panty shots? Where was the comedy? Where were the kiss scenes, even? There were just some uninspired scenarios and some out-of-place attempts at plot and character development, and I was left wondering what had happened to the Kanokon I knew and was beginning to love. And then, suddenly…

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As I mentioned earlier, Kanokon is the second of two anime premiering this season that I intend to keep track of on a week-to-week basis. Kanokon doesn’t have anything close to the deep storyline or explosive popularity of Code Geass… but the ecchi is fantastic. I love ecchi - love love it - and Kanokon promises to be one of the best ecchi series in recent memory.

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Hello everyone! Citrus here. I’m excited to be joining with my good friend Honya-chan (who’s hosting this page on his own domain) to offer a parallel perspective to what you see on his personal page, Lyrical Spark.

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