Aragaki Ayase. My new favorite character. From this anime series that I only occasionally watch every now and then. Yeah, I only watched, like what, five episodes? (Out of five episodes.)

Straight out of a page from How to Make Female Friends 101, Kirino comes to realize just how poor a judge of character she truly is. Like a grade schooler accepts candy from strangers, Kirino essentially surrounded herself with the wrong type of people to preserve her self-image rather than give thought to her well-being. It’s only after an accidental confrontation with her attention-starved “best friend” that she began to have second thought about this dank dichotic friendship that pits her true self against a menagerie of lies.

Needless to say, we already know she’ll try to discombobulate matters by trying to preserve the way things are; instead of giving up her double life and openly pursuing little sisters as only true otakus can dream about. And that is why Kirino is seemingly unhappy outside of her room playing erotic games.

This anime is really bad. more…

Capitalizing Romaji is retarded.

So the latest delusion to worm its way into the pants of otaku worldwide seems to be this anime called ore no imouto ga konnani kawaii wake ga nai. Like most anime as of late, oreimo (as I will deem to label) is based on a series of light novels about a “normal” Japanese boy who has a smart, pretty and popular younger sister. But she has a deviant little secret that threatens to break the very foundation to their wholesome family life. No, she’s not in love with her brother… unfortunately. But don’t worry, because Kyousuke has a grand plan to fix this little problem; because you see, Kirino, our heroine, is obsessed with anime and erotic games featuring little sisters. more…

So I finally started reading a manga called Ressentiment per my friend’s suggestion and I found myself hating real females again. I hate frustrating series like that. I can’t remember the last time I felt this burning utter hatred for the third dimension.

Then I finished up Kaichou wa Maid-sama to reaffirm why anime girls are superior. Only to find out that Misaki chose the WRONG MAN. Is there no salvation in this cruel world!?

Who would do the voices? If you’re weeaboo enough, then you already have a cast list in your head. So man up, and post it for me. Show me your dick, faggot! Here’s my list, and why I think the way I do. My reasoning is flawless. I’ll probably be so sad when I find out the actual cast list.

Madaraki Fran – Tamura Yukari
Damn right! I think Tamura Yukari has this careless evil nuance in her voices that’s been grossly under-exploited in anime. Maybe she’ll start breaking away from her typecast long enough to try this.

Madaraki Veronica – Hanazawa Kana
As we all know, Veronica is the tsukkomi to Fran’s bokke, and in my personal opinion, nobody would play a better tsukkomi than Hanazawa Kana. Or maybe she’s a bokke… Whatever, she has that duality in her voice.

Madaraki Gavrill – Tanaka Rie
Who knows if Gavrill will ever make an appearance after the hotel explosion. But if she does end up becoming a regular; then I know Rie Tanaka’s gotta do the voice. I can’t think of anyone with a better “psychotic bitch” voice ever since I watched Canaan.

Okita (the cat dude) – Abe Atsushi
There isn’t as wide a selection of male voices to choose from… so I’ll just go with Atsushi. Okita seems to be fairly young, judging from facial features alone, so I want someone relatively new. Yes, I don’t really care.

Officer Kuhou – Shintani Ryouko or Sawashiro Miyuki or [Insert Name]
Who cares who does her voice?

Adorea – Mizuki Nana
Mizuki Nana can voice anything that barely talks. So yeah, why the hell not?

Dr. Amatsuka – Jouji Nakata
I love the sound of Jouji Nakata’s voice. I think he should be getting roles that are closer to his age about now anyways.

Dr. Madaraki – Akio Ootsuka
I don’t know if the doctor will be getting a voice in the series, but if he does; if just for narration or letter reading purposes alone, it should be Akio Ootsuka. Why shouldn’t we have Black Jack doing the voice of a world-renowned biologist / mad scientist? Money talks.

I hate Vocaloid, and its many abnormal hair colored incarnations. I hate it so much that I could puke. So explain to me… why nearly eight gigabytes of my iPod is occupied by Hatsune Miku and her Nazi friends? Why more than 240$ of my hard-earned paychecks has gone to purchase of synthetic vocal collections? Why I waste many hours out of my week scanning Nico Nico Douga for new songs and videos of that little virtual cunt? But more importantly, why do I cry myself to sleep every night…?

I was a high schooler when I discovered Twin Spica on that floating consortium of manga called Amazon.co.jp. Since then, I occasionally noticed its reappearance from time to time during my perusal of the Internet and its subsidiary manga news outlets. I am not a big fan of the slice-of-life genre, but when I started my venture into manga scanlation my mind was set on getting this jewel of nostalgia onto the mainstream. Unfortunately, due to my abrupt spasms of eccentricity and no thanks to the idiots that worked with me in my scanlation group; I am sad to admit that no headway was made and the project disappeared into notoriety. I assume some other group attempted to translate it at some point. However, that’s irrelevant to me, since by that point I was losing interest in providing scanlation to ingrates. Fortunately, a rare foray into Kinokuniya after years of absence (due to my work) had me stumbling upon this title once more.

Vertical, Inc. acquired the rights to Twin Spica about a year ago; and I guess at some point this year the first volume was released. I of course, bought it with my pocket change and haven’t regretted it. I plan on purchasing all sixteen volumes as they come out, and helping out the dwindling manga companies still hanging on by loose threads here in America. In all honesty, Twin Spica is a perfect demonstration of good choice and foresight I never expected to see from a domestic publisher. If only Dark Horse and Viz could start making the same improvements.

The story for Twin Spica is simple, but like most simple manga, tends to become convoluted with complex emotional details and character ordeals. I usually become infuriated by such titles because story progression is marred by drawn-out conflicts, and usually with no significant actions to depict. Still, I must admit conjuring emotions out of me is a better alternative to feeling nothing at all. And in that respect, Twin Spica truly inspires a side of me that I thought died along with the rest of my childhood. I highly recommend this manga to just about anyone with a sweet tooth.

Summary? You want a summary? Okay fine, I’m not very good at that… but okay, here I’ll try it.

Asumi Kamogawa has dreamed of being a “rocket driver” since she was six-years-old. Now aged 14, she passes her entrance exam to Japan’s Tokyo Space School, being one of the few accepted into its Astronaut Training program. Countless trials and tribulations await her at this school for the gifted, and can little Asumi pull through them all? Her short stature fools most into thinking she doesn’t have what it takes, but just like a star needs a closer glance to display its size, she proves she’s much bigger and brighter than anyone could have imagined.

Ugh. I hate these things.