I hope you’ve seen Itazura na Kiss 14. I really do. If you haven’t, I am not liable. WHAT IN THE NAME OF GOD JUST HAPPENED TO ME? I died and went to fangirl heaven, that’s what’s happened to me. I had this feeling (well, okay, I saw a screencap of the final frame of episode 13 with [...]
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Maybe I'm just too old to understand it any more, but judging by recent anime the way relationships progress certainly seems to be changing. Yesterday I saw Allison to Lillia's Wil not tell Allison he loved her until after he got her pregnant, and now we have this series. After thirteen episodes made up almost entirely of Naoki bullying, belittling and berating poor old Kotoko, in the space of
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Waaaah! It finally happened! Irie finally gave in to Kotoko’s persistent pestering and agreed to marry her. But, man that episode moved quickly! So much happened that even the OP was forgone just to gain that brief extra minute-and-a-half. For once, though, I’m not going to complain about pacing. I simply enjoyed this too much. I [...]
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Wow did a lot of stuff just happen in this episode. First was Naoki’s father and heart his heart attack, then Naoki going to a marriage meeting, and now Kin-chan’s proposal to Kotoko. Although I expected Kin-chan would propose to Kotoko eventually but I didn’t expect it to be on their first date together. Still [...]
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My current watchlist looks like this. I think you’ll agree that longlist is looong - there are one or two that I’m following on DVD, or would be if finances permitted, but overall I’m balancing my time between a lot of unlicenced shows simultaneously in addition to full time employment (and the so-far fruitless search [...]
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Kotoko tries to decide what to do regarding Kin’s proposal and Irie’s interest in this new girl.
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Asuna has said all along that this is her favorite new anime from spring 08 - what can she say, she’s a Shoujo freak. But Kira honestly has never understood why the manga of Itazura na Kiss has been often called the “Bible for Romance Manga”.  Until recently that is, even he has to agree [...]
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Kotoko hears of a marriage interview Irie has and goes to spy on it to see what’s going on.
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So I’ve been bubbling over with fangirly-ish enthusiasm for most of today (I think catching a matinee of WALL·E had something to do with it, although how one can get all fangirly over robots is beyond me, but, damn it, I did it anyway), so the cap to today is, of course, the current definition [...]
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Kin-chan makes his move, and Irie becomes a nice guy? Almost a couple… but not quite yet 30 Second Summary Daddy Irie survives his heart attack but remains bed ridden at the hospital. Naoki puts his dream of becoming a doctor on hold to support his dad’s company. Part of this support included going on a marriage interview with the [...]
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Wow, so Naoki now has some kind of direction in life. That’s quite a turn about though I wonder if that has anything to do with last episode when Kotoko suggested that Naoki become a doctor. So we do see signs that Kotoko is indeed making changes to Naoki’s life and in a positive way. [...]
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So the premise of this episode was Kotoko being separated from the rest of the Irie family and I thought that it would create some great development. But I’m actually disappointed in this episode because we got none of that. It started off pretty good in which Naoki appeared to not give a damn when [...]
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Kotoko finds out where Irie is working over spring break and heads over to spend some time with him.
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Kotoko deals with her dad’s decision to move them out of the Irie house.
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I would like to use the screencap comment to point out that this is exactly how I felt after the events from 10:03 to 10:12. Yes, I, like everyone else, was pranked, and pranked hard. On the other hand, it’s now quite cool in my room, what with the new hole in the wall and [...]
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The dreams are for kissing episode. Plus is this show entering shouta territory? Why is Hitler boy still on the show? 30 Second Summary Taking Kotoko’s suggestion, Naoki Irie decided to become a doctor. He takes the entrance exam, and passes on the first try. Kotoko has a doctor x nurse fantasy. The whole gang (Kotoko, Irie, Yuuki, [...]
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Now Kotoko is pretty damn stupid for joining the tennis club because of Naoki, so her getting the racket imprinted on her face is what she deserved. But really, I don’t think anyone would have a racket imprint on their face for that long, and to top it off, Kotoko found out that Naoki doesn’t [...]
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This episode was amazing enough to send my fingers flying for the nearest chat client so that I could spam my keyboard for a few seconds in order to properly convey the emotion my inner fangirl was experiencing at the moment. The temptation to do the same for this post is remarkably high, however, I [...]
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The ending the manga never saw to be animated. Itazura na Kiss Anime to Show Creator’s Planned Ending Kaoru Tada told husband of unfinished manga’s ending before fatal accident The Mainichi Shimbun paper interviewed music producer Shigeru Nishikawa about the ongoing anime adaptation of his late wife Kaoru Tada’s unfinished shōjo manga classic, Itazura na Kiss. Nishikawa says [...]
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  Kotoko and her tennis club leader begin to follow Naoki and Matsumoto on their day together to see what they are up to.
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