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Sluts always start young don’t they?

See. They really start young.

Nympho jokes aside, Mitsudomoe just keeps getting better and better by the episode, in part thanks to the numerous times Mitsuba becomes the butt of the jokes. Usually caused by herself too. Heck, I don’t even remember seeing Yabecchi in the show much anymore. Glad they’ve moved from the unsettling “kids using sexual innuendos on the adults” setting to the “kids doing stupid things to each other, usually with some sexual innuendo thrown in”. Makes a world of difference for me.

I’m actually pretty glad now this show is getting a second season, the triplets are really entertaining.

P.S. Despite how much Mitsuba pretends herself to be a ドＳ, she’s really a hardcore ドＭ at heart, isn’t she?

After 5 years, 65 chapters and 3 scanlators, Hoshi no Samidare finally comes to an end. A beautiful conclusion followed by a touching epilogue. This is how you end stories, people.

I first picked this up around 2008 thereabouts after reading a recommendation on a site somewhere. The quirky beginning instantly caught me, and as the story went on, I got extremely impressed with the depth and subtlety of the storytelling by Mizukami Satoshi.

I regard Mizukami-sensei now as one of the top-tier manga-ka’s that can actually tell a story and have it touch your heart and soul. What probably sealed the appeal of the story for me is how freely Mizukami-sensei creates a world of characters with a grudge against the world in some form and yet slowly injects a continuous modicum of hope in to their lives as we follow them on their journey. This slowly blossoms in to a realization that the world can be beautiful despite its many injustices and one has to just sit back and look at things in a different way. Well, that’s probably a very inadequate to describe exactly how good his story-telling is.

I highly recommend Hoshi no Samidare for reading to all my readers as well. It’s definitely a masterpiece of story telling and the catharsis one gets from the satisfying conclusion and epilogue of the manga is a feeling rarely found elsewhere. If this ever gets licensed in English, it’s definitely getting a permanent place on my bookshelf, suffice to say.

Wait, what?! JUUUUUUNIIIIIIIIIIICHIIIIIIIIIIIII!!!!!

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Whatever this episode was about, I’ve totally forgotten about it. Drunk Mio stole the whole episode singlehandedly.

Mmmmphhhhh…. this is a real show stealer.

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