I don’t know just exactly what Pannya was – even if he’s a boy or she’s a girl (thanks, confusing subs) but I know the little furball totally broke my heart in the finale. We have our answer – it was a Pannya end, after all.  Since it didn’t really […] Read more

Miu-sensei can tutor me any time she wants. There’s a number of things I found pleasing about this week’s episode of Mashifoni, which continued the superb run to the finish the series has been on.  Not least of them was the refreshingly direct way it addressed the growing sexual tension […] Read more

My heartfelt congratulations to Manglobe.  Animation studios have been doing these adaptations for years and years, and you’ve finally gotten it right. It’s no surprise that the Mashiro-Iro poll is the closest one I’ve ever had at LiA (I’ve kept all polling places open an extra day due to the […] Read more

I think this was the episode that closed the deal for me – I’m now officially crazy about this series. There’s a lot of stuff about Mashiroiro that’s unusual.  For one thing, no matter how hard I look I can’t find a character I don’t like.  It’s not as if […] Read more

Subtlety and understatement pretty much went out the window in this week’s ep of Mashiroiro Symphony.  Cute kittens abandoned, angelic Miu working herself to collapse – Manglobe pretty much went straight for the hard stuff. I don’t know id ever seen a kitten flag in a romance before, but we […] Read more

Some might call it a weakness, for for me one of the strengths of Mashiroiro Symphony is that even when it’s trying to be a little mean, it can’t help but be nice. I won’t dispute that the series has suffered a bit from the recent focus on Sana and […] Read more

The wait is finally over – Mashiro-Iro Symphony has turned into an adult VN adaptation at last. There’s a side of me that’s a bit sad to see anything conventional in this show, because cutting against the grain is so integral to it’s appeal.  But we’re almost halfway through the […] Read more