*hug*

Thank god Kurisu isn’t evil. She is now officially a lab member and takes part in the weird experiments:

ORLY?! Now, if you’d take off your pants, I could d… oh wait, you’re talking about the banana!

At the beginning of this episode, Kurisu and Okarin get along really well. They both accuse each other of being perverts and Daru takes his pleasure from that.

After Okarin gets Kurisu to join the lab, Mayuri comes by and flips out about Kurisu joining the lab, since she’s been the only female member since they “founded” the lab. Trying to figure out what the microwave does, they realize that Daru’s phone was connected to the microwave when Okarin sent the message about Kurisu being stabbed. They try to recreate the conditions when the message got send to the past.

Her boobs are larger than I first thought.

Oh yes? Then take your clothes off and I’ll stop.

Mayuri opens the microwave to get her food out while they were running the test, causing it to “explode”. It doesn’t exactly explode, but it throws out lightening and makes a hole into the floor. The message was actually delivered to the past just the same.

The micowave, however, ceased to make bananas into gel-bananas since that incident and Kurisu run away when she is confronted with the fact the message was sent into the past. Later, Daru points out that time machines require a black hole to function, as Kurisu stated in her lecture. Okarin suspects SERN (obviously, they mean CERN) to be able to produce those black holes with the LHC, even though they officially denied to be able to do so. Daru gets the job to hack into SERN to get more information on this.

And with everything, I mean everything. No covering your body with hands or arms allowed!

After two days, Daru succeeds in hacking into SERN, but can only see some emails since he doesn’t have admin powers. While browsing through them, they discover nothing about time machines, just that the word “Z-program” is used very often. However, they discover that SERN, in fact, did succeed in creating mini-black holes and that some experiment’s result was: “Human is dead, mismatch”. I cannot help but think that “human” refers to Makise Kurisu in this case.

Anime, Steins;Gate

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You don’t just say “I’m into girls”. It’s indecent!

This episode starts with a flashback to Ohana’s time in elementary school. There is some kind of event where the parents of the children come to school but Ohana’s mother doesn’t come even though she promised to. When Ohana confronts her mother with that, she just gets told never to trust someone else – not even family – and to only believe in herself.

Back to the future: Ohana got up even before Minko in the morning to cut the grass in front of the inn. Tomoe sees her and praises her for doing so, but her grandmother butts in and says Ohana isn’t acomplishing nearly as much as she thinks. Seriously, is that old hag ever satisfied with something?

Granny gives Nako the task to instruct Ohana as to how to be a waitress. However, Nako is really shy and fails to tell Ohana that the “Wave room” is not to be cleaned without the customers supervision. When granny asks if Nako didn’t tell her that, Ohana takes the blame and says she did.

Since the kitchen staff didn’t have enough time to prepare the breakfast for the staff because Minko fucked up, Ohana prepared it and did a pretty good job. Tohru tells Minko that Ohana might be better at this than she is. Getting really annoyed, Minko leaves the room and accuses Ohana to have done the cooking just to spite her.

Not really knowing what to do, Ohana starts thinking about “doing it like mom” and flirt with the boys. That moment, the kitchen boy (Tohru) runs into her and tells her to come with him if she doesn’t have anything to do. While driving to the city, the kitchen boy warns her that there’ll be much to carry but says Ohana will be okay since she’s got big biceps (now that’s a good way to compliment a girl). He asks her if she is so amazing that she can do anything by herself when Ohana said she decided not to rely on other people a long time ago. Getting more and more annoyed at him, Ohana thinks about what words hurt people the most in this situation and quickly finds one: “die”.

Totally shocked by what Ohana said, kitchen boy gets distracted from driving and looks at Ohana, who flipped out and takes her words back. They almost drive into a truck. Ohana gets off the car and decides to walk back to the inn. Having arrived there she sees how Minko gets scolded by the customer of the “Wave room”. Minko blames Ohana for that and tells her to die once again.

There will be at least 100 doujinshis about this scene

Ohana gets mad at Minko and tells her to stop saying she should die. While she does that, she sees Nako coming along. Nako tries to get away quickly, but Ohana quickly chases her (pulling Minko with her) and tells her to stop running away all the time. Ohana goes on about how she wants to rely on them and how she wants to change and know more about Minko and Nako. She asks them what their least favorite foods are because she is really mad at them and wants to prepare that dish tomorrow. They try to get away, but Ohana pushes them over and yells at them: “Tell me!” Being kind of disturbed, they tell her what she wanted to know. Being satisfied, Ohana leaves them alone.

Target locked!

At the end of the episode, Ohana finds the draft of the customer from the “Wave room”, she had accidently thrown away before and it turns out to be something rather indecent with “Ohana” being the main character. The author of that draft catches her reading it and mumbles to himself that he isn’t at fault as if to convince himself that what he is about to do isn’t his fault.

Anime, Hanasaku Iroha

Woah! A 3D girl! I’ve never seen one before!

Steins;Gate episode 2 is pretty good. I mean, everything that starts with sexual harassment ought to be good, right?

*poke*

That’s a really bad excuse to start undressing someone else…

After some molestation, the episode starts with Makise Kurisu giving a lecture about time machines, which her molester, Okarin, happens to attend, as well. Stating that she thinks that time machines can’t exist right off the bat, Okarin snaps and says that it’s far too early to decide that. Kurisu, however, bashes Okarin in the discussion that follows. Okarin, noticable annoyed about that, dismisses his failure as carefully planned psychological warfare by the “agency”.

Delicious trap is delicious

Urushibara Ruka is quite something. If Okarin hadn’t said he is male, I would still totally believe he is female. Anyway, Ruka doesn’t seem particulary important to the plot. But knowing how Chaos;Head turned out, he may just be a super important character.

Dispose of the corpses! Hide the lolis! Order pizza!

Having arrived back home, Okarin does some research on what he perceived in the radio tower. Doing so, he runs into “John Titor” on the internet. Much to his surprise, John Titor isn’t popular anymore. Okarin also can’t find the books he had from the “previous” John Titor.

The next day, he goes to a maid cafe called May Queen nyan ² . On his way there, he meets a strange women called Kiryuu Moeka, who takes pictures of where she goes and what she sees as proof. I get the feeling she’ll become important to the story at some point.

Don’t be a bitch now, those bananas look perfectly edible!

Okarin and Itaru continue their experiments with bananas and microwaves. This time they only put one banana in the microwave. After it’s done, Itaru opens the microwave and is surprised to find the banana has disappeard. Arguing about who used a trick to make the banana disappear, they find the missing gel banana to have reattached to the bunch completely. They think the microwave is some kind of teleportation device. It should somehow allow timetravel, though. At the end of the episode, Makise Kurisu shows up in Okarin’s “lab”, stating he is doing an interesting experiment in a rather calm manner – she must know something, especially since she looked so bored.

It feels as if Kurisu is some sort of evil character in this plot. I don’t really want her to be evil, as she is my favorite character in Steins;Gate.

Anime, Steins;Gate

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Again, there is nothing to review, really. Maximum randomness. So I’ll just post some picture-based highlights of the episode:

I can feel you burning!

Delicious

There is nothing to see here. Go on.

That’s what you get for playing gameboy in school!

Anime, Nichijou

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The freehoster I’m currently using (lima-city) has full HDDs, so no image upload which in turn means no new reviews since one or two images are quite important imho. They are working on increasing capacity, but it’ll take a couple of days, I guess.

Update:
Apparently, things will return to normal within the next few hours.

Update2:
Everything back to normal.

News, Website

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