Dear Alice, Don’t be sad. People still love you, even though it’s more for your loli appearance and goth fashion rather than your investigational skills. You still have a future in the manga adaptation, as delayed as it may be. I do appreciate you gathering the gang together again. What with the fancy posing shot [...]
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「君と僕と彼女のこと」 (Kimi to Boku to Kanojyo no Koto) "You, Me, and For Her Sake" I don't know what the point of luring out your enemies is if you don't fully intend to have fun with it. When Hakamizaka was threatening to "fly away" if Narumi wasn't fast enough to catch him, I didn't expect him to be flying away on drugs.
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Although little can be done for Ayaka, Narumi is still determined to get to the bottom of the addictive Angel Fix drug consuming the city - a desire which only becomes even greater as the creator of said drug, Hakamizaka, uses Ayaka's mobile phone to taunt Narumi for himself. Given the use of Ayaka's phone, it doesn't take long for Alice to track down the device's GPS signal - more precisely,
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「ぼくのかけら」 (Boku no Kakera) "Pieces of Me" With the world in a rut about Ayaka's suicide attempt, I was elated to see that she is still alive.
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“Tell your Alice this: Try and find me. Catch me if you can. If you don’t, I might just fly away.” But try as he might, Hakamizaka Shirou is no Professor Moriarty. Oh, he’s clever, I give him that. University graduate, excellent grades. The genetic engineering paper he published is a very obvious homage to [...]
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The climax to last week's episode of Kami-sama no Memo-chou brought us the cruellest and most shocking of cliff-hangers as Ayaka's emotional turmoil in the face of her brother's actions finally seemed to take its toll upon her. Perhaps even more cruelly, we learn as this penultimate episode begins that Ayaka isn't actually dead at all, but rather comatose with virtually no hope of recovery bar a
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…I’m sorry, I meant to say it’s not death. (I’ve just marathoned seasons 5, 6 and 7 of House MD, if that helps to explain the title.) So why do I think that Ayaka isn’t dead, despite the four-storey fall and the bleeding from her scalp? I have several reasons. First, as many viewers have [...]
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「きみについて」 (Kimi ni Tsuite) "About You" Well, if you were expecting something big to happen in this show -- it just happened.
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It's time for a new story arc as Kami-sama no Memo-chou, and what I also assume will be the final major arc of a series that has disappointed more often that it's proved to be a success so far.  But with this particular tale remaining a little closer to home for Narumi, will it impress where previous efforts have lacked? The catalyst for this episode's events are all due to Ayaka's brother Toshi
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I think this is KamiMemo’s idea of a beach episode. The rigid, uptight, backseat-driver side of me is pleased that the writers didn’t cave in. The non-hypocritical, debased side of me is upset at not being able to see Min-san in a bikini. Profoundly upset. So I always considered Sumo Wrestling to be the national [...]
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「あの夏の二十一球」 (Ano Natsu no Nijyuichi Kyuu) "That Summer of 21 Pitches" While some people may have been quick to judge Kami-Sama, I believe that it's still a really interesting show that has its own merits. Shifting gears back to everyday life living amongst NEETs and Yakuza, I think this was a nice change of pace.
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You know what Kami-sama no Memo-chou probably didn't need?  A baseball episode, that's what.  Regardless however, that's exactly what we get for the ninth instalment of the series. To fill in the gaps, this week's episode finds Narumi and other members of our NEET detective team addicted to an online baseball game available in a local arcade, which prides itself on the accuracy of its player
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Behold, the tribulation has reached its end. The shedding of manly tears is is more than justified. All that fuss over Yondaime was so overblown. Even if I hadn’t bought the light novels on impulse and known well in advance that he was alive and well and had no physical disabilities, there’s no way my [...]
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「僕は運命を信じない」 (Boku ha Unmei wo Shinjinai) "I Don't Believe in Fate" I knew it!
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It's dragged on a little longer than it perhaps should have done to the point of outright overstaying its welcome, but Kami-sama no Memo-chou's current story arc finally comes to a close as of this eighth episode of the series. Despite Narumi and Alice being seemingly on top of their investigations as they pertain to Renji and Soichirou, it seems that their revelations and plans have come just
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This was a triumph. Looks like I’m smarter than I thought I was. So I still don’t understand why Hison had to undergo gender reassignment surgery because her womb and ovaries were lost from the stabbing. I’d think that being unable to bear children is bad, but changing gender is worse. I mean, even if [...]
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The Renji versus Soichirou saga continues as we reach episode seven of Kami-sama no Memo-chou - rather disturbingly, it still isn't over yet either, meaning that we have to look forward another week before this particular story arc comes to its conclusion. Anyhow, as Narumi engineers a meeting with Renji, we finally get to the bottom of his grudge with Sou - we already knew of their past
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If only it hadn’t taken 2½ episodes to get here. Yondaime really lost a lot of points over the course of this arc. He could have contacted Alice to do some light investigation at no cost at all when the first pockets of trouble began to appear, but he didn’t. Now thanks to his stiff-necked [...]
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「僕は負けそうだ」 (Boku ha Makesouda) "I'm Probably Going to Lose" Even though there isn't an immediate mystery at hand, I'm glad that there are other aspects to this show that keep grabbing my attention.
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I hate him. It’s that simple. Every moment watching him is agony. I was taken aback when Renji actually decided to spend time with him. I was even more alarmed at the fact that he was so into it. Who could possibly sit through a conversation with Narumi and actually enjoy it? It was cause [...]
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