Enthusiast Cyborg – Ep9: VividRed Operation 1 Live Commentary

What happens when you cross a considerable amount of sugar, endless boredom and an exciting episode of anime?

A F******G LIVE COMMENTARY OF SAID ANIME BITCHES.

I LIVE COMMENTATE OVER EPISODE 1 OF VIVIDRED OPEATION.

WHY? BECAUSE I GOT SO WORKED UP AND EXCITED BECAUSE I HAD SO MUCH FUN MOCKING IT I JUST HAD TO RECORD IT. F**K YEAH.

8 Days to the Apocalypse – Ep5: ANGST. ANGST

I talk about Angst in fiction and I recommend a few of my favourite angsty yuri manga

Yeah, not much else happens. I whine about angsty whining and I talk about Yuri passionately. Business as usual

Why are you still reading this. Just watch the f******g video.

P.S This is also my 100th post on my blog. Yay me! I’m just going to go cry in a corner now. Yeah, bye

A.C.M.E and the rape of my wallet

There, have a heart attack

I know that none of the writers here on Otaku Panorama has posted jack shit in ages. That’s simply because 4/5 of us are 16 and guess what, exams are more of a bitch than an ant bite on the penis. HOWEVER, 3 of us have found time in our pseudo post-exam pre-”O” levels period to head down to a little anime convention today.

Today, Selcouth, SleepyNoYume and I went down to A..C.M.E to meet some Twitter friends and to enjoy our time after a gruelling 2 week long Preliminary Exam. A.C.M.E is an abbreviation for A Certain Magical Event (No prizes for the original inspiration for the name but you might get a cookie!) and unlike AFA, it’s really, really small, which is both good and bad.

The Sensual Art of Prism

I know myself to be a rather picky consumer of media. I will vehemently oppose watching any movie or reading any book for rather insignificant reasons, ranging from “this is CG Disney crap” to “It’s going to suck massive moose dick because they’re trying to force romance”. Perhaps that’s why my posts don’t do so well. I tend not to write posts about more well-known anime or manga for I chose not to watch them.

Well, being very picky and selective, it’s rare for me to really fall in love with any media, to the extent I’m willing to watch/read it again. The only animated movie I will ever re-watch is the Iron Giant and nothin is going to change that. All the Disney movies were enjoyable but they ain’t got shit on the Iron Giant. Out of the hundreds of movie I’ve watched throughout my life thus far, I’m only willing re-watch perhaps 15 of them.

(I’d like to apologize for the pictures first. I have no idea what’s wrong with them but hopefully once I re-upload them it’ll be ok. It seems that the pics are of such high quality that they only keep their quality if kept at exactly the same resolution. Any smaller they become pixellated and odd. Ok, I found the problem. It’s WordPress itself literally f*****g up my pictures. So, you wonderful readers are going to have to open each image in a new tab to enjoy their full High-Def glory.Sorry for the inconvenience caused. WordPress is a dick.)

How about some excellent posterior?

But away from those! Today’s post is on another manga I’ve fallen in love with! The title is Prism by Higashimaya Shou and it joins the list of a few manga out of the numerous I’ve read, which include Girlfriends, Honey Crush and Eat-Man. Prism is the love story between two high school girls , Megumi and Hikaru, meeting again after years of being apart; ever since they met at a beach many summers past.

Sad Post Series – Instalment 1, Dark Doujins and that Bittersweet love-affair

I suppose first of all, I have to explain the title of this post so as to clear up the confusion that’s no doubt present.

This is the start of a series of posts by me, CyborgCommunist, on dark topics, gleamed from various anime or manga. These post generally about rather depressing topics hence the name, the Sad Post Series. An underwhelming name but hey, I’ve got to make it seem ridiculous enough to draw in readers.

I know you guys will like this

As the first part of the series, this post would be about Dark Doujins, mostly of the Romance genre (be it Straight or Yuri). And it’s “dark” as in having macabre/depressing topics albeit many of the manga/oneshots/doujin (oh yeah, it’s all about the printed works) have a silver lining in their plot. So by dark I’m not referring to depraved hentai doujins. Just those with generally “sad” outlooks (Not meaning that Hentai won’t be mentioned though. I just might).

Haiyore – I’ve got my mindless entertainment

Thanks to desperate persuasion by SleepyNoYume and LessThanFree, compounded by extreme boredom on Saturday night, I began watching Haiyore Nyaruko-san. Personally, I was already prejudiced against this anime. The blurb doesn’t exactly put it in a good light. As a side note, the basis for both (Sleepy and Free) argument why I should watch this was “You’ll love it! There’s a DFC redheaded twintails girl that’s into Yuri!” It’s not word for word but that’s the general idea. To be honest, that was only enough to pique my interest but not enough to convince me to watch it.

But alas, the power of boredom on a weekend night. I torrented the first 3 eps and watched them over a nice big bowl of Japanese curry (Which was bloody excellent. My mum’s a great cook ;D).

The physics of the Third Wheel

Once again, this is another one of those post I have hoarded up for when I reach a dry spell. But this one could be pretty interesting (I hope).

The reason behind this post is simple enough. A couple of months back, I read a manga called GirlXGirlXBoy. I’m not sure if it’s popular or well-known but I definitely liked it. And a couple of weeks ago, another manga I was reading, Kimo Koi Limit, ended. And these two manga have 1 thing in common (well, 2 actually. They’re both generally Yuri). They both had a “third wheel” character that aided the progress of the main couple’s relationship. And I have always pitied this one poor person.

The REAL long awaited post – Why I love Yuri

Sooo, for those that managed to catch my April’s Fool joke previously, ha! I now present to you the real post.

I’m joking about the title of course. Well….not that much. I’ve been intending to write this post for such a long time now. Pretty much ever since I got into Yuri and people (who know about my anime watching/manga reading habits) asking me why I loved it, I’ve been intending to write this.

First of all, I should give a short introduction of sorts on how I even got into Yuri. And actually, this is the exact same story on how I discovered the wonders of 2D since I found that out through Yuri. So yeah, Yuri is rather important to me. (That sounds rather…strange…)

Stained Uniforms

This post is going to have more of these darker pictures which I love so much

I actually had planned this story out a long time ago. It was drafted around the same time as By The Light but I never got around to actually writing it as I knew I had to get into this particularly mood to compose it. Which is to say emo but not self-pitying. Which just happened to be today. So now straight from the Forge of CyborgCommunist’s mind, Staind Uniforms, a short angsty Yuri story for 2 High School girls.

Part of the inspiration of the story was also my own thoughts on such issues of sexuality. This was great fun to write and it was hard for me to end it as I wanted to.

I reccomend listening to this as before you read. It’s a beautiful song and it sets the mood rather well in my opinion. I was listening to this as I wrote anyway.

The bitingly chilly autumn wind tussled Erin’s long hair, the tips of them tickling her clenched hand.  In her grip, there was another’s hand. Harumi shivered slightly as the wind once again blew past her and Erin.

Harumi moved closer to Erin and gripped her arm with her other hand, snuggling closer to Erin for warmth and comfort as they stood on the school’s roof. The gusts of wind finally died down and all was still on the roof again, the only sounds made by the still rustling leaves scattered on the rooftop.

It’s almost over folks!!

Once again, after a long wait, I bring you the next installment in my short story series, Forbidden Lilies. My usual editor has been hard-pressed to find the inspiration to do editing recently so this was edited by none other than LessThanFree. Give him a round of applause folks. Either way, enjoy the story!!!

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Forbidden Lilies Part 5: At Odds

Aria sighed and put down her stylus before pushing the drawing tablet away. She groaned as she rubbed her eyes. A quick glance at the clock told her that it was 2.35am in the morning. She had stayed up the whole night trying to finish a commissioned artwork for her client’s website. It was pity she could not finish it today but she would not have been able to produce a quality product otherwise. Aria yawned and stretched as she continued to draw, feeling lethargic. “I’ll complete it tomorrow then!” she said to herself as she swiveled her chair around. Aria stood up and started to make her way towards the bathroom in her apartment when a movement from the bed caught her eye. Niko had turned over in her sleep and her crimson hair was in a fan around her head on the pillow.