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Looks can be deceiving. Prejudices can blind unreasonably. Combine these two and it gets extremely easy to watch the beginning of Mai HiME and swiftly dismiss it as yet another mediocre clone that goes nowhere. Equipped with your standard issue of charm items of adolescence: School girls as premier combatants. Check. Busty school girls. ...

One thing that never sits well with me, even with my adolescent years, is how manga and anime manifests so strongly the bubbly wet dreams of young boys. Nothing exemplifies this better than the existence of so many titles of similar themes that warrant the harem genre. So it was with skepticism that I loaded the first episode of Love Hina despite ...

My fascination with anime during my days of young had always been with the mecha and fighting genres. While I would occasionally watch shoujo titles (usually waiting for the mecha series up next on the TV schedule), I never had a genuine fond interest over cutesy lovey dovey magical anime that strike tremendous chords with females. It was thus ...