Is that a ball? Is that sand? Do we have bodacious babes too?! I think I see beach volleyball! But fret not, pale-skinned, girth-endowed otaku. Thanks to the power of anime, volleyball is as easy as 1 2 3!
A Guide to Volleyball
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Tag Archives: Kaichou wa Maid-sama
Is Usui a pick up artist?
Episode 14 was kinda lame. We have a little gender reinforcement here, a little absurdity there (hypnotism? really?). I’m not gonna bother going in-depth into a single episode like this. Let’s talk, instead, about an interesting charge written against the anime.
What is it with women and second place?
I pondered this question during Misaki’s mini-speech to Usui on the rooftop of the school in the first episode of Kaichou wa Maid-sama. Here’s how it goes:
You were always running ahead of me with ease, even though I’m frantically running with all my breath. And then run facing backwards while calling out to me. I really hate losing, and it was so vexing losing to you that it pisses me off. But this time you were running forward and helped me out. Just you wait. I’ll definitely overtake you and it’ll be my turn to worry about you.
She’s in second place apparently. In fact, she relegates herself to the lower position when nothing in the first episode at all suggested that Usui was superior to her other than looking indifferently cool (probably because he avoids wearing the nasty combination of a lime-green blazer and yellow pants/skirt). But why? First, a little context.