


Nisemonogatari’s 11th episode finale has inspired a mixed reaction amongst its many fans – some are upset about the inconclusive nature of the ending, although few have gone so far as to seriously complain about what is widely regarded as a another tour de force by Shaft, particularly when there is more in the offing…
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Anime fans have been discussing the controversial thesis that the advent of Haruhi and her subsequent blockbuster hit status is responsible for drastically lowering the quality of anime to its current moeblob worshipping Type B paradise status.
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Anime fans who have checked out the original work their favourite anime were adapted from share some of the most interesting.
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Anime fans so often complain of failed anime adaptations of manga, light novels and games – but not occasionally it is the anime version which is widely acknowledged as superior, as explored by fans in the below ranking.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Manga, News
- Date: Sep 12, 2011 10:37 JST
- Tags: Endings, Incest, Kirino, Kuroneko, Light Novels, Marketing, Moe, Ore no Imouto, Otaku

The 9th volume of the Ore no Imouto novel is in general circulation, and to say the developments therein have not been favourably received by all fans would be a major understatement – but this is as nothing compared to the spiteful joy of Kuroneko detractors.
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Top Louise anime Zero no Tsukaima is to receive a fourth and final season, finally ending Louise’s reign of terror.
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Ore no Imouto fans are again in uproar, this time over the freshly unveiled cover of the ninth volume of the light novel, displaying as it does a wedding dress clad and rather fractious Kirino in the arms of an unfortunate Kyosuke…
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Noboru Yamaguchi, the 39-year-old author of the Zero no Tsukaima series, has announced the scheduled operation to remove his cancer has been a complete success.
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The announcement of an anime adaptation of “Papa no Yu Koto o Kikinasai!” has been greeted not with appreciative squirts of anticipation from anime fans but with howls of derision at the rather obvious Haruhi clone it presents as a heroine.
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Noboru Yamaguchi, the author of the Zero no Tsukaima light novel series and queen of tsundere Louise, has apologised for a delay in publishing volume 21 caused by his ongoing battle with cancer.
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Adapting manga, visual and light novels into anime is a fraught process at the best of times, and some titles have become notorious for making a mess of things – though yet others are simply notorious for having snobbish or obsessive fans who resent new arrivals or so much as the slightest change to the original story.
Anime fans supply a ranking of the original works they most strongly prefer to the anime adaptations.
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The widely held belief that the Haruhi franchise is a spent force seems to have been shattered by the news that the latest novel in the series, “The Surprise of Haruhi Suzumiya” (Suzumiya Haruhi no Kyougaku), has sold a record 341,000 copies.
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