If you watched all of Kanokon, congratulations…you’re a perv.

There isn’t much you can say to defend yourself. In hindsight, this show was rather forward about where it was going.  I mean, we had shota-rape in the first episode. Of course, that was preceeded by an opening scene of girl wraps boobs around main character’s head. How about the body rub with “toad oil,” which was actually frog oil. Then there was the bare-bottom spankings, for bad girls.  Also, who could forget the magic bunny suit?

Of course, the all time perviest moment had to be during the breast rubbing episodes. I can understand the reasoning behind the rubbing. Basically, it was rub boobs and they get bigger. The interesting (and pervie) thing being that they managed to get ass-licking in there as well. Nozomu eloquently put it as eating the “delicious cake.” If there were ever a time that one could say a show put gratuitous ass-licking into the plot, then this would be it. That was totally and fully ass-licking without cause or reason.

Good peoples of the internets, you are indeed less pure for having watched this show.

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I briefly considered adding a “delicious cake” category for this show =)

I find Nozomu far more tolerable than Chizuru. These two characters are polar opposites; therefore, one is forced to choose between them. It’s entirely possible to like both characters (or dislike), but more than likely one will form a preference.

On the one hand, we have loud, big breasted, dark long haired, fox demon Chizuru. On the other, there is soft spoken, flat chested, silver short haired, wolf demon, Nozomu. One would think that mathematically they should cancel each other out. Obviously, the two characters are necessary for the plot, what plot there is. Love rivals are among the most common plot devices in these types of shows.

What type of show am I speaking of? I could do some work and try to figure out exactly what genre this show falls into. I’m guessing slice-of-life or school comedy. Maybe, slice-of-scomedy? Not that it really matters. Basically, what we have here is a show about two girls trying their hardest to bed Kouta, the male lead, where the end result is a lot of fanservicing.

So, basically, it’s about fanservice.

Also, Asahina is growing on me. It’s the hairpins.

Unfortunately, we cannot determine whether vampire equals boobies or panties. I tried doing some factoring, but only got as far as “rosario + vampire = 2 * boob + panties,” which was none too enlightening. One must be careful to realize that panties is one of those variables that seems to be plural when, in fact, it can be singular. We don’t know if that should be more than one “panties.”

Ostensibly, we are compelled to assume panties is greater than 1. After all, it would be a little disturbing if it were only a single pair.

New equation:

vampire = 2 * boob + n * panties - rosario
where n = [0, infinity)

What does this mean? Absolutely nothing.

Also, why is it called a pair of panties? I know it’s an old question, but I haven’t ever received a satisfactory answer to it. It’s not like pants. Pants have two legs that lend themselves to being called a pair. As far as I can tell panties are composed of a single unit.

I think what we have here is what linguists would call “semantic change.” Doesn’t it seem like the meanings of “pant” and “panties” are switched? I think a very long time ago some guy/girl with dyslexia kept getting the words mixed up and others simply stopped correcting the mistake because it was tiring. They probably just took what they were saying in context. Over time people started to use the same meanings for those two words.

Yeah, that’s the way it happened…

Extra credit:

• Blood+ = ?
• infinite Ryvius = ?
• 3×3 eyes = ?
• Samurai X = ?

These are the only ones I could think of at the moment. BTW, the 3×3 eyes OVA’s are pretty good.

The last episode of the season was the best yet. They went all out with this one. It’s pure Hayate no Gotoku~ishness straight through to the end.

An OCD thing:

Every time I see one of those still image pans in an anime I have an urge to put it back together. At any rate, I put these two images back together after watching the show. Keep in mind that the quality of the image is only as good as the source, which wasn’t too bad.

Click on the images for the larger version.

Episode 37 finds Nagi discovering that Hayate prefers “normal” girls. In a bold move to be more appealing to her combat butler Nagi ventures off to discover how to master being normal.

Hilarity ensues.

Yeah, normal people, why do you always have to flaunt your normalcy? You and your, “Ohh, look at me. I’m so normal. Neh-neh-neh.”

I’ve written about being normal before. Although, overall that post was mostly a commentary on otaku collection habits.

To quote myself:

It is the relativity of the social construct that is normalcy that makes using it as a measure of worth a double-edged sword. These ideas have lead to disputes among social groups, friends, family, neighbors, religions, nations, and pretty much every division humanity has placed unto itself. Our disputes, many times, are grounded in divergent ideals. Your normal is not someone else’s normal.

Everyone has to stop and wonder about their place in the world, if only for a scant few seconds. For many it is a simple thought game, but for others it defines their beings. Some of us may question our goals and the path that we have taken. Where am I going? What will I do when I get there? These are questions raised without answers given most of the time.

I’m not one to say that everyone is the same because there are major differences between peoples. The fact still remains that one cannot deny people are largely more alike than they are different. We may have differing cultural identities, but we are all the same species. That alone makes all of us more similar than different.

That is unless one where to take themselves as some type of evolutionary disparity. This would more likely make you insane that evolved. Oddly, that would make you different or not normal from the perspective of the sane. Yet, you would be complete normal with regard to the insane.

Humans exist within a world of dualities. We are alike and different at the same time. It’s all a matter of perspective. As a matter of worth it seems that most people tend to aim for their idea of normal rather than super-normal or some exceedingly grand ideal.

So, next time some one implies that you are “normal,” just say damn-straight!

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edit: oops, misspelled “introspection” in the title originally. Although, you have to admit that “instrospection” sounds like a pretty cool word.