Diamond Dust Drops

Ender on March 8, 2004 · in Diamond Dust Drops

This new arc focuses on Akari Harada, who’s mother passed away at an early age. Her father at first seems like a good-for-nothing drunkard, who spends his time drinking away his sorrows instead of working. Akari works part-time at a local confectionary to make ends meet, where she became acquainted with a promising young baker, [...]

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Ender on March 8, 2004 · in Diamond Dust Drops

In the second half of the Shouko arc, the stalker element comes to the foreground, as Shouko becomes more paranoid. However, receiving gifts from the mysterious Radio-Boya-san quickly becomes the only bright spot in her life, especially since her man rarely visits unless he has a fight with his wife. Things come to a crashing [...]

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Ender on March 8, 2004 · in Diamond Dust Drops

The series moves into more mature territory with this episode. Interestingly enough, the plot focuses on a popular radio show host, Saibara Shouko, who’s having an affair with a married man. Not too many anime feature the mistress as the protagonist, so I found this episode interesting in that respect. Shouko’s show is like Fraiser’s, [...]

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Ender on March 8, 2004 · in Diamond Dust Drops

This episode happens to be a one-shot thing (no 2-part arc this time) involving…ice-skating, of all things. I really like how this series revolves around subjects that aren’t normally dealt with in anime After getting into a fight with his best friend due to an ice skating incident, young Haruto gets a little depressed until [...]

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Ender on March 8, 2004 · in Diamond Dust Drops

Dangit, it’s almost 4AM over here and I still can’t get enough of this stuff. Anyways, this time DDD brings us to the world of amateur filmmaking. We’re introduced to aspiring director Kyoko Asahina, who’s already made a name for herself with her previous works. The pressure to live up to everyone’s expectations has made [...]

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Ender on March 8, 2004 · in Diamond Dust Drops

Well, it looks like my latter hunch was correct, and the series is indeed comprised of independent mini-stories about various girls. This time around, it’s a really sweet story about a bedridden girl named Karin, who suffers from chronic pneumonia. There’s an operation that can cure her, but she’s deathly afraid of surgery since her [...]

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