Anyways, since I’ve saw quite a bit of the episodes already, I think it’s time for me to say my 2 cents for these 2 series and the comparisons.

So, let’s see, Hayate no Gotoku and Lucky Star both started around the same time frame of April of 2007.  The only difference is that Lucky Star ended in Sept. of 2007 while Hayate continued on until Mar. of 2008.  So Hayate has more episodes then Lucky Star.  That doesn’t even include the extra OVA that was released a few months after the last episode aired.

Both series reference anime series, but how it’s reference is the turning point.  In Hayate, they actually become like the character’s they’re referencing to but they’re still playing as there own character which makes it fun to watch and laugh while Lucky Star might actually have a lookalike of a character or the girls might cosplay as one which is cute and fun to watch but not on the floor busting up laughing.

Also, the key thing that makes Hayate so great is the fact that they even change the art work style to match the art work style of the anime they’re referencing to in there own way which is sad to say Lucky Star fails to provide.

Other big difference is that you have an announcer in Hayate where the character’s actually interact with by responding to some of the comments that the announce says.  Hayate also got bouis points for referring to the viewers when something is happening or saying things like, “don’t try this at home.”  Lucky Star has something like that called the Lucky Channel that plays at the end of every episode and sometimes they’ll face the viewers to say something but only a few non-main character’s does that and it’s very small scenes.

Hayate this, Hayate that, what about Lucky Star? There’s gotta be something that beats Hayate!

There is, actually, cute girls and one of them plays H-GAMES!!! And yes, I am an avid H-Game player, I enjoy a few h-games here and there.  So there’s light at the end of the tunnel for Lucky Star in my heart but right now Hayate is winning it over with Hina being in the picture =D

So who is this feminist group that calls themselves Equality Now?  Well… It’s a group of nothing but washed up hags who wants to take away our freedom of speech.  So what does that mean?  It means they want censorship over EVERYTHING that might be discriminated towards women and girls in any way, shape, or form.  Even if it’s a news paper article about some girl who got raped last night and they caught the guy and they cut off his dick as punishment, they want that censored.  What’s worse is that they’re “armed” with what they call CEDAW (Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women).  Don’t know what that means? Re-read this paragraph again.

So this so call group is setting up some sort of temporary office in Japan to try to take away their free speech over there like they do to us Americans.  It’s honestly no wonder why the world is so fucked up to begin with.  With so many people who lives inside of a bubble and is too ashamed to show their body to the opposite sex.  In fact, it’s a sin to even talk about sex (according to that so called group).

So what does this all mean?  It means they’re going straight to the heart of a country that given us otakus the light of licensed anime in the US.  If it wasn’t for the pioneers of the fan subbing community back in the good old days when it’s a sin to even mention anime that anime wouldn’t be as popular as it is now.  It was because those companies saw that there is, in fact, a market out in the good old USA for anime.  Which is also another reason why we have some good eroge games and soon some really great eroge games (since Nitroplus has teamed up with JAST).  And this so called censorship group pretty much wants to put an lid on it.

This means what the pioneers and the current otakus has worked so hard for is being cocked blocked by a bunch of feminist who claims that it’s poison to the sociality?  What’s poison to sociality is the fact that we even have censorship to begin with.  I mean, come on?  Who is it really protecting?  I mean, they show some guy, his wife, and his children getting killed on CNN for crying out loud.  The censorship is a joke.  What makes it alright to show such stuff on CNN while it’s not alright to have it in my anime or manga?  I mean, come on, another prim example would be the crappy movie, The Last House on the Left, where it clearly showed an underage girl getting raped.  Why isn’t that so called Equality Now isn’t saying anything to the film makers of that movie?  Why aren’t they saying anything to CNN about showing clips of a women his her daughters getting there head cut cleanly off?  Or those tons of other media?  Is it because those who are producing those have more money?

If that’s the case, then it makes sense why they’re going after my hentai, anime, manga, and video games since they’re pretty high on the totem pole for that so called group to hit.

What do I think?  I think censoring everything and anything is a bad ideal to begin with because if we enact censorship then sense of pleasure will never end which will turn into violate people and actually ease our pleasure onto other people.  At least with other forms of media it ease our pleasure for whatever we’re in the mood for.  In a mood for killing a hooker?  Pop in that GTA IV game, drive up to a hooker, take her to a dark alley, once she’s done run her over and get your cash back and there you go, that ease my pleasure of wanting to kill some ho.  In the mood of slicing some heads off?  Pop in that game of Gears of War and start slicing and dicing, there my thirst for blood has been taken away.

Point being, censorship is bad when it’s going this far.

Articles in question that got me to write this post:
Equality Now: "We Should Censor Other Countries"
Equality Now: "Unprecedented" Criticism Over Eroge Ban
Equality Now Demands UN Hentai Ban
UN Demands Hentai Ban

Now, this visual noval is just a noval with visuals (meaning that this is a NON-interactive visual noval, also know as Kinetic Novel). This little Kinetic Novel was produced by KEY (the creator of the ever so popualer Kanon, AIR, and Clannad).

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Is this an 18+ game?: No
Est. Time to read: Trail Version – about an hour; Retail Version – between 4-5 hours
Is it in Japanese?: Getting the retail version would be in Japanese but there is an english patch out.
English Patch?: Yes, there is an english patch out (see Links below).
How much does the retail version cost?: 1050 Yens plus 50 Yens for tax or whatever. It’s about, give or take, 10 USD

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Reading this was just breath taking, I mean, it’s really a good read!

The story takes place in a world there’s been a war going on for 30 years along with non-stop rain for 10 years. A junker stumbs apond a room with chairs in a circlal panther around a mechaine that looks like a 2 headed ant. A robot that say that she’s broken promise to show him the stars but the mechaine has broken down and the junker found himself fixing it.

Now, I’m not the greatest at explaining things but I think that’s how good as I could get it. If you want, read the story over here. You can even read more about the world over here.

I suggest that you atleast download the trail version (which is about, give or take, the first hour of the retail version, the retail version takes about 4-5 hours to read).

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LINKS
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planetarian.insani.org – You could get more information about this visual novel over there along with the english patch for the full retail version along with instructions how how to obtain a copy.

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