Naoto Shirogane from Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 4

• Best.
• Reverse Trap.
• Ever.
• Naoto is my favorite character from Persona, regardless of playable and non-playable characters.
• I lost hours of my life through three playthroughs JUST because I wanted to get her social link right so I could confess my love to her in the game and date her.
• Dating aside she’s a great character.
• people say she’s not the best person to put on your team, but from what I’ve experience, if you level her up and learn how to use her properly and when to use her, she’s not that bad.
• She’s also one of the few characters who’s own physical attack is more useful than her persona’s.
• I love her unevolved persona, Sikuna. So tiny~
• I like how insanely impractical her powers are. She’s strong, but utilizing her strength requires you think about when, you can’t just spam it, because her strengths lie in light, dark, and almighty, which means spamming would mean early drained SP.
• Don’t ever run through her dungeon with her after rescuing her. Such a bad idea.
• She’s got my favorite ultimate weapon in the game you acquire from fighting and beating the Reaper. The Black Hole revolver.
• I love gun-users. Naoto being a skilled gunslinger is a plus for me.
• I like her fixation on her hat. It seems to make her more comfortable socially.
• Her social link is really pretty interesting. Talk about cliche mysteries. But learning about Naoto fascinated me too. She sounded too much like me.
• People say I could probably pull Naoto cosplay off better than any other character. I can’t argue, I’d just need to die my hair dark blue and pull out my clothes that I usually wear slkdjfs. We dress the same omg.
• We also both use handguns and are oddly good with them.
• However Naoto can summon persona that are mythological beings so that’s the difference I guess.
• I really though Naoto was a boy when I first saw persona 4 and looked up it. I was surprised to find out this boy character I was starting to take interest in was actually a girl. Then I liked her more~
• I love that Naoto is such a good reverse trap that “even the girls want her.” I’m pretty convinced that even after the girls in school found out Naoto was female, they still liked her.
• Naoto is so heart-stoppingly adorable as a girlfriend, it almost hurts omfg. She gets so shy and uncomfortable.
• I ship her with Rise because they’re a pretty cute pair, but I also have space in my heart for Kanji and Naoto, because of how well they balance each other out around each other. Like fire and water almost.

Tooru Iichi from A-Channel

• Wow so omg guys Tooru is one of my personally favorite anime characters. Ranks incredibly high up on my list.
• Some reasoning for that is cause I identify with her a bit XD
• I fangirl over Tooru. Quite a lot. I’d probably want membership into Yutaka and Miho’s fan club.
• No I won’t ask why she’s riding that baseball bat like a witch’s broom in the image so don’t even bring it up.
• It’s adorable how childlike Tooru can get. She’s 16, but when it comes to candy or certain other things, she reverts to a needy child.
• Oversized clothes are a plus. I have this problem a lot myself, but I actually like it when the sleeves go over the hands a lot, both in characters and when my own clothes do it.
• She is a bit tsundere I’ll give her that much.
• She’s both cute and terrifying with that bat of hers. I wonder though why none of the faculty has said anything about the one girl in school who swings bats around at her schoolmates.
• I just love the cute backstory to the purple sweater that they showed in one of the short mini-sodes. Now I understand why Tooru never wants to take it off regardless of weather or outfit.
• I am a TooruxRun shipper. Tooru’s devotion and desire to take care of Run is just too much~ Also something I an identify with.
• Her physical closeness is another person thing too, since it’s something I do to a lot of my friends. Hugs all around man.
• Tooru has a surprising amount of strength for such a small thing. She can squeeze the life out of Yuuko and swing a bat like a mad man and probably hurt someone. She also seems pretty athletic, doing all that running around and not getting tired.
• She’s got a high metabolism too, with all that running. She eats quite a bit but look at her.
• Tooru’s dad is the only dad in the entire series I have ever seen. Wut. (in the OVA, second episode, I’m pretty sure that guy her mother was with was Tooru’s father…)
• Tansan is just the cutest cat. It’s adorable that Tooru has something else to give care to other than Run XD
• Tooru’s jealousy is fucking adorable.
• So is her immediate paranoia of Yutaka’s excitable demeanor.
• I’d want a second season of A-Channel, if not for the other characters, at least for more Tooru and her classmates.
• I can also identify with not looking her age, being oddly short or young in appearance, too short to do a lot of things, and being the object of a lot of people’s physical affection whether I like it or not.
• Tooru is apparently Gabi’s waifu. I guess as long as I get Miho, that’s fine. But I won’t stop shipping Tooru and Run on her blog.
• Tooru could kill me with cute when she gets embarrassed.
• I immediately liked Tooru first glance in the show, before I ever knew who she was in any way.

The Ariadne Girls [Yue Too] from Negima

The below are mostly headcanons, speculations, and shipping facts because of lack of information on background characters.

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Impulse by Ellen Hopkins [Doing one that’s on a real book this time]

On your impulse

Swallow the bottle

Cut a little deeper

Put the gun to your chest

It looks like a huge book from the side, but only because of how Ellen writes.

Pages of what looks like poetry but they all tell the story like a regular novel. Impulse is one of the more regular looking books she writes, the others tend to have pages once in a while where you’ll find the stanzas written in creative forms and patterns.

Impulse, unlike most of the other books in the series of books she’s written, is a stand alone book in plot, so it has no sequel or prequel I’m aware of. It’s about three patients of a mental facility for younger patients. Because their loved ones caught them in some act or grew too worried for them, they were put here, basically a mental hospital with its own system for taking care of its young patients and letting them go, a five step system that ends with a level five outing where you’ll be released from the hospital if you can get through it without relapsing and show you can handle yourself.

Conner tried to kill himself with a gun, and suffers from depression. He also lives with parents who, if I do say so myself, don’t help his problem one bit. Tony is a homosexual boy (or he’s pretty sure, later he seems more bisexual) who apparently pulled a knife on his little brother. Venessa is a bipolar patient who was sent to the hospital after her sibling found her in the bathroom when she’d been cutting herself, about to bleed to death. The book basically focuses on these three, switching points of view ever few pages and letting you know by placing their name in the top corner of the page. The characters do come into contact with each other and have impacts on each other, but I find it more interesting to at least know every side to the story.

I won’t go into detail about the plot so I don’t spoil anything. Two out of three patients make it by the end of the book however. I like Ellen and her books, Impulse being my favorite, which may be my love for a good mental hospital plot. Venessa is my favorite character by far because of how she goes through her bipolar depression in colored stages. She sees different colors in her mind according to which mood she’s been thrown in, whether it’s her being calm, manic, or falling into depression again. The way she describes the colors bleeding in as she does certain things is really fascinating.

Maybe Ellen’s book aren’t for everyone, but I’d suggest looking her up sometime. It’s a pretty good teenage level book actually, though many of her books involve acts that aren’t exactly comfortable to read (Identical involves twins, one of which were raped by her father and I believe Crank and Glass had instances of rape as well, and the books have heavy drug and sexual reference). They’re good books though, for a read if you want something pretty easy to read, but still interesting.

Miho Noyama & Yutaka Imai from A-Channel

• I really like them okay?
• Yutaka annoys a lot of people. But I feel more entertained by her. I do find her creepy stalker instincts a bit weird though.
• I like Miho more. She’s like the legs of the table, kinda keeps everything together.
• She must feel like a babysitter a lot of the time though.
• Who’s weirdly good at wrestling. I have no idea where she got that kind of strength or skill. Either that or Yutaka is just that weak.
• I’ve got headcanons for them both too. Never put it past me, especially when I write about characters.
• I feel like even as rocky as their friendship looks to be sometimes, it’s really not. It’s just their relationship. Yutaka’s the excited genki, and Miho’s the one who keeps her at bay.
• I ship them, very very hard. Massive yuri goggles, okay?
• Tooru seems to prefer Miho’s company more than Yutaka’s. Isn’t it obvious? Besides, Miho is a more tame fan than Yutaka is.
• I wonder if they’re the only two members of the Tooru fan club, and if they have an official club. They should start one. They should have cards and everything.
• I wonder how they first met though. Like, I wanna see them in middle school.
• The following are fanfiction headcanons.
• When in headcanons, Miho is level-headed pretty much all the time except for when it comes to her relationships. She shows a shy side, she’s surprisingly easy to fluster, especially for Yutaka.
• Yutaka’s shipping headcanon is that she’s more open to Miho about their relationship, and she’s definitely more forward. However she has her moments too. Many of the reasons revolve around Yutaka not being used to really being involved with someone in such a close way. She’s too used to being silly.
• Miho is more protective of Yutaka however. Despite her physical way of subduing Yutaka’s misbehavior, she hates seeing other people hurt Yutaka with the real intention of harming her.
• Miho merely means to keep Yutaka controllable to a fair extent. She sometimes does think maybe Yutaka believes she’s too harsh, and worries about it. If any sign that Yutaka genuinely feared her beyond toleration ever showed, it’d strike Miho right in the kokoro.
• Yutaka doesn’t seem to like being alone or feeling alone. She likes company, and genuinely enjoys her friends.
• I put some attention to Yutaka’s desire for friends and company and Miho’s feelings seeing Yutaka hurt in my fics a lot. It’s not the base of their relationship, but it does serve support.
• Yutaka doesn’t stop stalking Tooru and wanting to hang out with her. It’s quite amusing really.

Akazawa Izumi & Sugiura Takako from Another

• Despite the image I don’t really ship them as a yuri couple, don’t worry. I just like this image, it’s adorable. Although I’d be lying if I said I didn’t see the ship through my yuri goggles and didn’t like it.
• Moving on. Akazawa is my favorite character of the series. Especially of the manga.
• Takako is probably in my top five.
• Manga Akazawa is five times better than anime Akazawa. I can see the differences. In the anime she’s a lot easier on Mei and Kouichi, despite her still obvious dislike of Mei. She seems to be a more mentally stable girl and stronger in the anime.
• I liked her in the manga cause she was more human in behavior. She blamed both Kouichi and Mei (she played no favorites here), and mentally she wasn’t sound at all because she had to handle her unstable brother as well. She also had a more human fear of dying. And Yukari’s death also drove her further into that instability. I don’t know, she’s human.
• I liked how much Yukari’s death bothered her. I don’t mean that in a bad way, but I mean to say that her friend died, and it tore her up to know.
• And the scene where she stabs Mei’s doll eye was kickass, just saying. The conversation where Mei tells her that she’s not a doll and she’s alive just like Akazawa is was just as interesting.
• I was glad she didn’t die in the manga. And she looks really different with her hair cut short. Cute though. Just really different.
• Sure she’s a bitch but I always felt like Akazawa had her reasons. I don’t hold her personality and her faults against her.
• I just found the extra information and involvement of her mentally unstable brother cleared up a lot for me. The anime always leaves too many unanswered questions.
• It’s kinda too bad Takako doesn’t really get shown too much in the manga, if at all.
• Takako didn’t register too much to me until the last episodes when she lost her head. I have a thing for mentally unsound characters (obviously).
• Takako’s angry screaming scares the living hell out of me. I mean—she can shout.
• Takako and Yukari sort of switched roles in the manga and anime in relationship to Akazawa. Yukari was closer to her in the manga, and Takako wasn’t even important enough to really show until the very end, but Takako in the anime was a lot closer to Akazawa in the anime.
• Akazawa seems to have a protective sense over her friends, just like the rest of the class itself.
• I find both girls shippable in hetero pairings, actually. Like AkazawaxKouichi, and TakakoxJunta. No I don’t see TeshigawaraxIzumi or MisakixAkazawa. And like I said before, I can also see where TakakoxIzumi or YukarixIzumi is coming from too.
• For the most part, I couldn’t say why I liked Akazawa in the first place, so much. Takako’s the same. I have no idea what made me curious about them in the beginning. I just liked them.

Anzu Kanaki & Aki Mitsui from Another [Ahead there be spoilers]

• I’m not really playing favorites here just because I roleplay one of the girls there. I tend to wander towards background characters, especially if they look so shippable together (-like Bea and Emily, or whatnot-).
• They’re pretty much “The Lesbians” if you ever run across them in the fandom.
• I’m always sad when characters are so background you don’t get to know anything about them -sigh-.
• You could probably see them as either a couple or just really close friends.
• But I see them as a couple.
• You barely notice them unless you’re purposely looking for them. Then when you notice them they’re always around each other. ALWAYS. Except maybe one time Aki was in the classroom when Kouichi walked in, and Anzu wasn’t there. And of course after Anzu’s death in episode 11.
• I felt bad for Aki that time. She had to watch her girlfriend die out of the blue like that. As if being in the middle of a burning building wasn’t stressful enough.
• They both got blindly killed because of being stabbed in the back without seeing it coming. Whaddafuck kinda shit death is that man…
• I felt worse for Anzu cause unlike Aki who died quickly cause of where she was stabbed, Anzu didn’t die right away. I mean—ouch. That might be why in my first fic of them “No Matter What” Anzu still had time when she was alive to think about the fact she was dying and couldn’t do anything else for Aki.
• Headcanons of them would include Anzu being protective of Aki.
• I also feel like Anzu is a bit more casual than Aki. When I look at that screencap up there Aki is even more formally dressed in her uniform than Anzu is -who goes as far as not tucking her shirt in-
• Aki seems shy. That’s just from observation though.
• We don’t really get to hear them speak. Aki does though. SORT OF before she dies, and she does scream too. -and makes awful dying noises- I’m the only one sitting here like “da fuq do they sound like anyway. Why do most of these background classmates HAVE voice actors.” I’m sure one of them might have spoken when them and Ogura and that other girl ran to meet Kouichi and Mei in the hallway in ep 11, and someone said “it’s the dead girl.” Why do I feel so bothered that I don’t know WHO said it?
• They’re physically close to each other. I find that adorable. Aki holding on to Anzu’s arm during their physical education class, Anzu touching Aki’s face first episode, just all the TOUCHING. Or just staring at each other. -Adorable is also how they’re pretty much always around each other-
• I feel like even if they’re not a couple yet if they managed to live through the calamity, they would be in the future.
• They have a surprising amount of fans and shippers for being so in the background. But then again, so do many of the other background students.

Sasameki Koto

• I only watched a couple anime episodes of this. I really liked the manga, for some reason the artwork in the anime put me off.
• It’s near the top of my list of good yuri/shoujo-ai, but for some reason easily forgotten behind all my other things.
• Ushio and Sumika are the cutest otp. Especially when Ushio starts to realize she likes Sumika too but neither can admit their feelings.
• I felt like compared to the dreamy plots and events of other shoujo-ai and yuri, Sasameki Koto was told on a more realistic level.
• When you discount the “girl gets her girl” at the end. I wish that was as real as it looked there.
• Masaki is adorable. Okay, I don’t find his cross-dressing weird, and I’m really impressed by how convincing he is as a girl XD But going as far as to cross-dress for a girl you like, that’s some effort.
• The mask kiss, while cute, made me fangirl rage. Just like “no not the mask kissu the face dammit.”
• Miyako and Tomoe are an awesome couple. I like the whole ‘rude girl who can only be controlled by one other person’ relationship.
• I had some immense feels for Sumika and her turmoil with her feelings for all sorts of reasons. But the stress she goes through for the person she’s in love with and how hopeless it starts to look for her for a while was just d;fkjadkslf painful to watch. For a while I just wanted to grab Ushio and shake her like “LOVE HER GOD DAMMIT”.
• Ushio’s breakdown in her room when she tore everything apart and cried hysterically was one of the best and most interesting scenes. I can’t say why. It was just really interesting.
• I love it when my OTPs actually come true. Just saying.

Shitsuji Shoujo to Ojousama

• Allow me to talk about something that’s not an anime (as far as I know, though it’d be hella entertaining).
• These characters are adorable, simply. Even Saki, and she’s pretty temperamental.
• Hinata would still be my favorite though. She’s this awkward balance between being an awkward character and yet trying to be serious.
• Who’s parents just up and leave for a foreign country without telling their daughter beforehand? Hinata has some crappy parents man = w=
• No. Seriously. Isn’t that parental neglect?
• The whole manga is only like, two volumes long, but it’s an amusing story still. It has a good amount of comedy in it too.
• But from the beginning I loved the HinataxSaki pairing
• I also find the relationship between Saori and her personal butler really interesting. They show Hinata and Saki that in this predicament, it’s really genuine love for the person whom you serve that enables you to be able to put up with being their butler in the first place.
• I love Ojou-sama and servant relationships like this. I’m just going to say.
• Saki is such a tsundere.
• And Hinata’s getting way to used to cross dressing. Especially when she goes to Saki’s party dressed up as a male suitor in order to save Saki from the older men who were trying to cop a feel.
• The seriousness there promptly ended when they tried to dance together, Hinata tripped, and ended up accidentally kissing Saki.
• I like the official art scattered in the manga. The creator has a thing for depicting Hinata as having a darker and more seductive side towards Saki. It makes me giggle cause Saki’s all uncomfortable and timid and Hinata’s like “Oh bby” XD
• I would make more reflections on this manga, but more of it needs to be scanlated for me to read. I can’t go off the raws I’ve seen.

Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magi

• The reason why I picked this image is cause I have nothing else small enough to use and I love those two girls. This is also the official art for their image song together “And I’m Home” and for one of the dvd covers.
• I love how this magical girl series took you for a real loop and set itself apart from the other magical girl series before it. I don’t know a lot of people who weren’t surprised by how different it was.
• I do ship. But my main OTP is Kyouko and Sayaka.
• A confession I read made me realize that there really wasn’t much of a future between Sayaka and her puppy love crush aside from friendship.
• I like how the witches chosen match the girls so well. If you do research on who the witch is based off of, you’ll see why they were picked. Oktavia being a mermaid who was cursed to always fall in love (Sayaka), Ophelia being the Shakespearean character who fall to her suicide after going mad from her father’s dead and lover’s rejection (Kyouko), etc.
• I still find it curious how Homura is the only one in most franchises without a witch. Even though she did almost turn into one in the anime before Madoka stopped it.
• I really wish I could play the psp game.
• I swear they MAKE me ship Kyouko and Sayaka. Kyouko’s existence apparently has a lot to do in the game with keeping Sayaka from turning into a witch, their witches even have things relating to each other, all of the observing how Kyouko behaved with Sayaka, the image song, lkfjsdlkfs.
• What happened to Sayaka was so sad though. She’s the only puella you’ll notice in the entire series that shows us what is basically the whole life cycle of a magical girl. They make the contract, they fight, they despair, then they die and become witches. Sayaka actually went through the whole process for the watchers. But still, the way losing her shot at love hurt her, and how she lost her faith in the world she was protecting struck me in so many weak spots.
• Kyouko used to be able to use illusion techniques, including one move called “Rosso Fantasma” which Mami named, where she can summon copies of herself. I looked up the drama CDs and read about the plots in all of them, one of them was about when Kyouko and Mami knew each other when Kyouko first turned puella, and Mami used to train her. So Mami used to be Kyouko’s mentor, and only friend, up until Kyouko’s family died, and Kyouko broke ties with Mami. It’s said that breaking her ties and changing her ideals because of her family’s passing is what caused Kyouko to lose her illusion abilities.
• Moemura is fucking adorable.
• Especially swinging around a golf club.
• I find innocent timeline Kyouko amusing. She’s just so innocent-minded, she doesn’t even understand why someone would steal panties.
• I felt bad for Madoka, she was the one who truly felt like she was becoming useless to the others and couldn’t do anything to help.
• In the manga and anime, Sayaka is the only character who remains dead no matter what. Even Mami and Kyouko are revived through Madoka’s ultimate act, but Sayaka decided it’d be best if she remained the way she was. So like, no matter what, it seemed Sayaka was meant to remain deceased. But in the last timeline of the anime, at least she was given a seen death from a fight with a demon that kills her.
• I still have to read the other puella manga. Orika I’m actually in the middle of. I love Kyouko in that one, she’s really big sister in it sometimes considering she’s Orika’s ‘guardian.’ The artwork puts me off a bit, but in all it’s a good enough read that I don’t care.
• I love the voice actresses in puella magi. They’re all so interesting. And apparently all of them think of Kyouko as their waifu. Oh Kyouko.
• Aoi Yuuki is amazing. End of discussion.
• I think I actually do have And I’m Home uploaded somewhere on my blog, however I might upload it again but with the translated lyrics. For your listening pleasure.
• The OSTs for the game and the series are awesome pieces of work. Even if you don’t like orchestral numbers, they’re great tracks. Many of them even have a nice rock orchestra to them.

Another (You must have seen this coming)

There might be spoilers. Just saying.

• I never watched horror genre anime up until this series came out. It’s the first bloody, death-filled horror filed anime I’ve watched, and I liked it.
• I honestly don’t care that much about Kouichi. He may be the protagonist but it’s like, meh.
• Mei Misaki is interesting, but I think my interest in her is mostly because she’s the quiet character who’s actually kinda nice, and I like girls with eyepatches (if you say “Black girls with eyepatches” when reading this I’ll stab you).
• Akazawa Izumi is my favorite character in the entire series. I never did find out why.
• I’ve only read one chapter of the manga due to not having that much time to stop and read it through, but I’m working on it. I know the differences between the manga and anime though. The main one for me being the characters that SURVIVE at the end. You know, most of the people you loved are ALIVE still. HAH.
• I love the minor classmates you never hear about too. Aki, Anzu, Nakao, Ouji, Noboru, etc. They have a classroom full of students that are for the most part just filler characters since it would look silly to have a Japanese classroom of like, ten teenagers. Besides, it’s easier to kill off a class when most of them are that background. >_>
• It’s really easy to forget that they’re in 9th grade, I swear. Or maybe it’s just me. I mean, they’re not in high school yet. THEY’RE NOT IN HIGH SCHOOL YET.
• I feel like I was one of the very few who from the beginning knew that Reiko and Mikami were the same person. But that might have been because I was too dense to notice that one persona’s hair is darker than the other’s.
• I like Rei-chan. The bird’s annoying, but for some reason I like it.
• My favorite OTP happens to be Aki and Anzu. They’re always in the background, and you never notice them unless you’re looking for them. And when you DO notice them, they’re being incredibly attached to each other. I don’t know, even if they aren’t an item already, I can see them being one in their years to come (if they would have survived lksdja, though I know in the actual novel they do survive).
• The last two episodes were really overwhelming. Not in a horribly good way, just the way everything happens at once, like some mass chaotic killing. Or maybe my biggest problem with that as seeing Aki, Anzu, and Akazawa die. My A girls died lol.
• But I actually didn’t like how Akazawa died at all anyway.
• I want to know more about other characters. Akazawa’s deceased crazy cousin (whom she saw as a brother), Fujioka Misaki (which is why I want to see the OVA), or even Mei’s other relatives.
• I know it wasn’t Kouichi in that flashback where Mikami was stabbed. I don’t know where you people are getting that idea. The hair was darker, and Kouichi I don’t think could do that. I actually think it looked more like Akazawa’s cousin could have done it if he was still alive when it happened (cause I don’t recall, I forgot when he was reported to have hung himself).

Black Rock Shooter & Innocent Soul

• I thought both the OVA and the anime series turned out very impressive. I really wish the game would come to my grasp sooner though.
• I like how all of these media about BRS started with one song about a character Miku was singing about.
• I actually don’t ship as much in this show as you think I would. Probably just BRS/Dead Master and their human selves together.
• STRength and Yuu are my favorites. I never expected the anime series to give Yuu such a painful past thought, it pretty much broke my heart to learn of. STRength hurt me just as bad, because she suffered as well, especially being the only other self who felt emotion. The two of them have probably experience and learned more than the others could ever hope to learn, even Saya.
• The anime series was really full of twists and turns, I was thrown for a genuine loop cause I didn’t see a lot of what happened coming.
• By the end of the anime, I liked all of the characters regardless of first impression. Even Kagari and Saya.
• I really wished they were able to make more than just eight episodes. While the series was exciting, it was rushed and could have been a lot more captivating long term if it were at least twelve episodes long or so.
• I find the idea of the Otherworld interesting, and dark. Being the exact opposite of the world Mato and the others live in, we’ve got a world of other beings who fight each other and kill each other purely because that’s all they know about.
• Black Rock Shooter strikes me as a neutral protagonist. Good Neutral. Her instinct is purely to kill the other beings of Otherworld, and that’s because she only runs on Mato’s own desire to save the other girls from their pain, even though she ignores her own. BRS is the only one in Otherworld we’re made to see as teh best killing machine there, but in doing so she cuts pain off from the human that the other self is connected to. But even Mato disagrees with what BRS does.
• I still wish to see Black Rock Shooter Beast someday.

• Innocent Soul has very different art style, but strikes me as a more interesting story than the other media provides. 
• Seeing the same characters, but with more emotion, is great. Rock is a lot more interesting here because she actually has emotion that she shows.She’s also more adorable with emotion.
• Ron along with the other partners in battle are really interesting. Ron himself I think knows something about Rock that he isn’t telling, he just acts that way.
• I like Dead too. She comes off as so weird and erratic here. She also harbors more of an interest in Rock that shows in really questionable ways. I also find her habit of always chewing on things really amusing.
• Rock’s desire to explore her emotions more and find out her own history when she was still alive is incredibly interesting to read about, because of all the curiosity.
• I actually love Rock’s outfit more than Black Rock Shooter’s.
• Rock’s PTSD resembling habit of losing control of herself and going berserk when certain things trigger it (like when she hears the word “Disappear”) is fascinating. Probably because it works like PTSD and I notice that, since the triggers seem to force her to remember things that make her go mad.

Negima

• Of all the manga/anime centered around a weirdly young protagonist that attracts a lot of attention, this was my favorite.
• I pretty much liked SOMETHING about every single girl in class 3-A.
• The manga was better than the anime. No if, ands, or buts. Just my opinion. However, the OVAs and Negima!? weren’t so bad.
• Whenever I ship or fangirl in this show, it’s never about Negi. I don’t know why, but I found it hard to personally care about him. He’s cool though. I give him that much.
• I think I liked Kotarou more than him. But Kotarou was part dog. So he got bonus points.
• I ship yuri in this show all the time. Note all my ships make sense if you really thought about it. KonokaxSetsuna, YuexNodoka, YuexCollet, etc.
• Yue Ayase is my favorite character. Probably my favorite character out of every single anime and manga I’ve watched/read. Everything about her is just so amazing and interesting. And the progression she makes in the manga is beyond impressive. She’s right there alongside Negi. Hell she even learns to fight with Negi’s style. 
• Chisame is one of my top favorites too. Her cynical attitude and outlook is a nice change from the girlishness of the rest of her classmates. She’s also a glasses-wearing hacker and hermit. I like that.
• The Ariadne girls were my favorite group of characters, Yue included. I’m never sure why, but Ariadne characters grew on me like a fungus. Emily reminded me of a half human Ayaka, though unlike Ayaka eventually grew on me too, Beatrix struck me as interesting for being that class secretary who always followed Emily around for some reason we’re never told, and Collet is just adorable. The dog girl, glasses-wearing, clumsy student who despite her confidence still doesn’t do that well. Everything with Collet won me over I guess. And I always found Collet and Yue were a little dependent on each other in a healthy level, Collet letting Yue know what she had to in order to fit in at Ariadne better and helping her cope, and Yue being such a positive influence on how Collet improved eventually.
• Despite the series being full of fan service for the male audience, the story is actually really interesting, and it captures your attention. It’s got great comic relief and humor in it too.
• I never understood why a whole class could fall in love with their ten year old mage teacher. I actually find that a bit creepy.
• I think if I shipped Negi with anyone, he would have been a great match for either Yue or Nodoka.
• Chao was really cool. And when she reappeared near the end of the series, I was just so giddy. Satomi is too, and I always like seeing her little parts here and there in the manga.
• When Yue fought the griffon dragon in the magic world arc, I think my love for a character had jumped up higher than it ever had all at once. Especially the way she pulled the other three together as a team so well in an emergency. She’s actually a really good leader type.
• When Setsuna revealed herself as a bird half-demon in volume 6, I don’t think I had ever felt more surprised to see a secret revealed about someone. I seriously never expected her to just suddenly sprout a pair of huge white wings from her back and say she wasn’t human.
• Negima is the only manga series that extended past 200 chapters, that I’ve ever committed to reading to its end.
• I think that I have so many reflections about Negima that I can’t list them all here.