PO POPOPO POPO.

Those who have watched the Lucky Star OVA should have seen this part where Tsukasa goes "po popopopopo", and also Shiraishi singing some random song in the Lucky Channel segment. Here's the original. I lol-ed for a whole 5 mins watching this. Make sure you watch till the end! lol.

Enjoy~! popopopopopo PO PO~~~~~ popopopopopo po po popopo........

奇怪のお菓子 [weird candy]

Yup. As to the title... Today's post is all about edible stuff that you don't normally see on supermarket shelves, an entry I've been holding for a damn long time due to crappy photos. Been going to Yamakawa Super at Central too often to get candy nowadays... Some are just too good to pass up. The best is of course saved for last..

First up, the Calpis Cherry Soft Candy. This is like the Hichew that we always get, except its based on the popular Calpis milk drink from Japan, which tastes somewhat like Yakult in its carbonated version. Must say its an accquired taste... RJT guys who made it to the Shokudo meal last time will know exactly why... Anyway this is a sour yoghurt-tasting chewy candy... not sure exactly where the cherry taste went. Finished the whole stick and didn't taste any cherry inside. Then again, its made by the Calpis company themselves and they sure don't specialise in candy, so don't expect too much.

Now for the good stuff

Morinaga "Kotukou" Black Sugar Caramel

Really love the packaging on this sia.. looks like the traditional chinese medicine box where they usually paste a black/white photo of an old man [usually the founder]. Even has Kanji on the side that seems to be in Chinese rather than Kanji on the front package, claiming how the taste is the best and that its nutritious [though in what way i really don't want to know]. 


Verdict? It's "Really Good". I actually end up buying this everytime I pass any Yamakawa now. It's a milky caramel with a very unique black sugar taste, a little bitter but fragrant and sweet. Its also very creamy and best of all its inexpensive, at only $1.50 a box. The cubes remind me of chicken stock though... and my family is finishing this faster than I can buy them

I actually bought even more recently, will photograph and review when I get my decent cameraphone fixed... its faulty at the moment. Till then~

of weird juices and more

Today's post was intended to be about some uncommon candy that I bought earlier on... thanks to the utterly incompetent camera on my current phone... that shall have to wait.

Gao~~
[Gao Gao Stegosaurus] -> hint to today's post.

Just completed AIR [the TV anime]. That means I have finished watching all the 3 Key/Visual Arts works in anime form [Kanon/Air/Clannad]!


The title card...


The main character


"RAMEN SETO!" - only a hungry person can do this in his dreams


Puhi!


In order: Tsukimiya Ayu, Minase Nayuki, Sawatari Makoto [Cameo from Kanon]


Like a leaf~


I want some of this "weird juice"! Now where can I buy some...


So moe~

AIR revolves around the story of a childish but really cute girl, Kamio Misuzu, who wishes to fly and believes that her other self is out there in the sky as a girl with wings. She sees a series of sad dreams every night, those of herself having wings and flying in the sky. Apparently this is the work of a long-standing curse on winged beings and Misuzu is the reincarnation of one. The curse will kill her once she dreams her last dream. It is up to a traveling puppeteer, Yukito and Misuzu's adoptive mother to stop that curse from coming true.

AIR has got to be the most devastating of the 3, since Misuzu has to be the most tragic character ever. She is always lonely, and is unable to make friends, as she will always suffer attacks when she becomes close to people. She also does not have close parents and chooses to remain in her childish world. *hint. the ending isn't quite expected*.




Story - 9/10
The story is solid and expansive, and of course, tragic. This is definitely a top notch KEY script, like all their other galge that have been adapted to anime.

Music - 7/10
The music is good. I give it 7/10 for the soaring "Tori no Uta" melody[opening], and the aptly named ending "Farewell Song", and also the insert song Aozora. All impressive tracks, but I guess I'm spoilt by the vast diversity of music in Kanon and Clannad that seems to be lacking here.

Animation/Visuals - 10/10
Its a Kyoto Animation work, what to expect? Scenes are finely detailed and fluidly animated, down to fluttering banners and the sea that seems alive. All the locations are real and are mostly located in the town of Kasumi in Japan, which is really as peaceful and serene as depicted in the show. All the characters' hair also have fluid animation put into them.


Now for the Gao~ overload. Cause its so cute I just have to

Gao.