…as my dear kouhai arrives from his business trip to Japan, so does my Hana to Yume magazine with the SIZZLING HAWT Skip Beat Furoku!! *squeals in the corner* Consider this my obligatory “My Skip Beat Kokoro no Tamago is not dead yet!” post, as I am finally In The Zone to catch up with the ongoing anime, after getting stuck at episode 4 a few months ago orz. Pressures from blogging begone! I’d rather watch and love Skip Beat and not just follow it for the sake of blogging. Lazy excuse to not blog about Skip Beat regularly, but makes for a more enjoyable and worthwhile experience for me ^__^

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One hackneyed phrase I often hear when people talk about romance-themed series is that it’s either “realistic” or “unrealistic”. Of course, White Album is no exception. I mean, in 3 out of 4 White Album posts (and even forum posts) you’ll see these terms overused, may it be in the post itself or in the comments — people defending the series for its realism on one hand, other people complaining about how unrealistic the situations are on the other.

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You know there�s something wrong when, before the guy gets down with the lover he�s [supposedly] been missing for months, freshening up in the shower preparing for the Big Event, his mind is wandering elsewhere. Good thing their love making session didn�t push through, otherwise Touya probably would�ve muttered someone else�s name, unconsciously.

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Touya, our �lead guy� in White Album, has had a relationship with Yuki for quite some time now. With the flashbacks shown in episode 3, we see that they�ve known each other since junior high (take this with a grain of salt since I�m simply basing this on my observation regarding Yuki�s uniform and hair length in the flashback), and that �puppy love� probably blossomed into something deeper as the years go by. How they managed to get out of the �more than friends, not yet lovers� limbo is far beyond me. Perhaps this is something we’ll get to see unveiled sooner or later?

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Because I can’t get White Album out of my head.

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I remember reading this blog post / article a few months ago, about how a girl (let�s call her Girl A) can perceive a [boring- or plain-looking] guy to be �handsome(r) by proxy� (I don�t remember the exact term used, and I also can�t find the article I�m referring to orz) when she finds out that the guy actually has a girlfriend (let�s call her Girl B), and not just any girl but someone whom Girl A considers to be on a �higher ground� than she is, in terms of physique or other shallow criteria for judging the �better girl�.

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