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Hanover Fist:
Toradora

Comedy, Romance, Slice of Life, Drama - MAL - Torrents: 720p BD.mkv, 720p BD.mp4



Ryuji is a quiet student, nice guy and better in the home than most housewives. However, most people mistake him for a delinquent due to his scary eyes. He stumbles upon Taiga at school, a short angry girl nicknamed the Palmtop Tiger. She promptly smacks him down. It turns out that Taiga & Ryuji each have best friends which are the other's love interest. They make a pact to help each other, but the school's rumor mill mistakes their odd self-serving friendship for a romance.

Toradora has all the typical elements of a high school romance, but it puts them together so much better than usual. It sounds cliche but it avoids most traps or uses them in a new way (story flaws, I mean - not cross-dressers :P). The humor is great throughout the story and the characters are so much deeper than one expects. Taiga's character also sensitized me to Kugemiya Rie's voice and I think it's her best role yet. This is an excellent show I've watched many times before and I'm sure to watch it again.


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Hanover Fist:
Hanasaku Iroha

Comedy, Drama, Slice of Life
MAL - Downloads: Doki release posts



Ohana is open, blunt and you're never in doubt of what she's feeling. When her mom decides to go on the lam with her boyfriend to avoid debt collectors, Ohana is shipped off to the countryside to her grandmother's hot springs inn. Ohana's grandmother however, isn't the sweet kind to give out candy. Sui, sorry Ookami-san is a strict taskmistress and expects Ohana to work at the inn for her keep. While Ohana tries to accept her Tokyo friend Ko's love confession she makes the best of things out in the countryside.

First off, the visuals in this show are stunning, PA Works did a beautiful job animating it. The characters are all great, revealing more depths as the show goes on. The plot balances nicely between comedy and drama, reeling between emotional punches to the gut and catching your breath from belly laughs. It's a good length, 26 eps with enough time to nicely tie up many loose ends. It's a great show, based on the real world: Nothing is perfect but it can get pretty good. Strongly recommended.


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Hanover Fist:
Gokusen

Comedy, Drama, Slice of Life
MAL - Torrents: 480p XviD, 480p (dual audio)



Yamaguchi Kumiko is the granddaughter of a yakuza gang boss and she has always dreamed of becoming a teacher. She is one of two female teachers hired to the toughest boys school around. Kumiko must hide her mafia upbringing and connections to keep from being fired. So at school YanKumi (as she's nicknamed) pretends to be a ditz to try and give these rough boys a real chance in life.

The comedy timing in this show is excellent. The contradictions between the competent and scary Oujo and the ditzy YanKumi persona are always hilarious. The show also does a great job showing Kumiko's steel core beneath the "scared" teacher act. Madhouse did the animation - it's excellent for 2004 and still holds up well. This 13 episode show keeps you laughing as it delves into the backstory and depths of the characters.

I never got into the multiple live-action adaptations of the manga, I didn't feel the anime could be beat by the limitations of 3D acting.


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Kaichou wa Maid-sama

Comedy, Romance
MAL - Torrents: 720p BD, 400p XviD



Student council president Misaki Ayuzawa does her best to make girls feel safe at Seika High School. It was recently switched from an all-boys school to co-ed and Misaki fights to curb the worst excesses of all the creepy boys. At home, her sickly mother was saddled by debt when her deadbeat dad left. Mom and the two Ayuzawa sisters do their best to make ends meet, but it is a constant struggle of hard work and coupon-clipping. Misaki has a job in the next town over at a maid cafe - it's not that strenuous and pays well - but she fears the day anyone from school finds out about it.

One day Misaki discovers the popular Usui Takumi as he turns down a love confession from one of his many followers. Later, Usui walks in to her maid cafe, much to her horror. Is her hard-earned reputation at school ruined? Will the president become a toy in Usui's cat paws?

Misaki is a classic tsundere and Fujimura Ayumi does an excellent job with her voice. Usui's character is also the perfect foil against Misaki. Her confusion and anger at Usui's indifferent interest is great to watch. The comedy and drama timing on this show is outstanding while the sometimes exaggerated facial expressions and super-deformed characters kept me laughing loudly each episode. That and the many cute romantic moments when Misaki's dere and moe side comes out.


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Hanover Fist:
Summer Wars

Comedy, Sci-Fi, Romance
MAL - Torrents: 1080p, 720p, 480p



Math genius Kenji is asked by Natsuki (who he has a crush on) to come with her to the countryside for a summer job. Natsuki's family is gathering to celebrate the 90th birthday of her great-grandmother: Sakae is the matriarch of the Jinnouchi clan with family history back to the 14th century. After being introduced to Sakae, Kenji learns that his job is to pretend to be Natsuki's worldly fiance. Later that night he gets a strange math problem on his cell phone which he can't resist trying to solve. The solution causes disasters in Oz (the cyberspace version of the web) that begin to leak into the real world.

This film was just great. It may have been designed to be family-safe but it still has multiple layers of excellent plot with myriad details that still appeal to adults. There are lots of funny situations that build up to an action-packed finale and when the Jinnouchi clan pulls out all the stops, watch out. :D


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(click to show/hide)The cyberspace version of the Web: Oz.

Do anything you want, business and finances,

government and real-estate,

or games and entertainment.


Kenji, a part-time code-monkey in Oz volunteers for Natsuki's summer job.


Family members gather on the trip to Nagano.



Kenji sees the Jinnouchi castle for the first time.



The first encounter with Grandma.




Kenji finally learns all of the details about his summer job.


A quick runthrough of the Jinnouchi family tree at a pre-celebration dinner.




Kenji gets a strange text ...


... can't help but solve it ...

... and something wicked this way comes.


Finally, a hilarious and spoiler-filled AMV which spoofs the movie's plot, making Miley Cyrus the villain.
(click to show/hide)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PApjB9iBzUM

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