The Silent Room

Bus Hashiru features several short stories about innocent romance. Most of its short stories are set among high schoolers and young working adults, plowing through the grind of studies, exams and work routines. It explores the shyness when two people couldn’t bring themselves to admit their feelings to each other.

I’ll start off by saying that Xam’d is not for everyone. It does not involve a kid with super powers that keep growing stronger as he meets stronger enemies. It does not involves the hero being the object of affection of three or more girls. It does not involve gigantic robots that defy the laws of physics. It does not involve cheesy shounen passion, either.

In that cafe, an android can fully pretend to be a human, and no one would notice. And that, is where the story gets really interesting. Upon entering the cafe, Rikuo meets some of the peculiar patrons of EVE no Jikan and has an interesting conversation – without realising that some of those patron may be androids pretending to be completely human.

Small Talk: What the fuck is wrong with the weather? It was happily raining in the morning, and then it was blazing hot the rest of the day. What madness is this? The human spirit is one of my favourite themes in entertainment. Be it TV, books, or heck, even music. Sometimes we need to [...]

Truly, some tsundere are just better than the rest. I’d rather have two girls at seventeen than one at thirty-four. Fred Allen