StylipS -- Spica.

Several months ago in October, I wrote about the opening theme song for the anime "Mangaka-san to Assistant-san to"（マンガ家さんとアシスタントさんと...The Manga Artist and His Assistants）, "Junsui na Fujunbutsu"（純粋なフジュンブツ）as performed by the seiyuu music group, StylipS.

Oh my word...it's like watching Inspector Clouseau and Kato fight it out while filtering it through the movie "Porky's". I almost feel sorry for Aito-kun...almost.

As I said, I have already written about the typically upbeat opening theme but when I was going through the various episodes, I noticed that there was never an ending credits sequence or theme. It was just the often hilarious final scene before an end title card appeared giving the usual "See you next time!" Rather unusual, I thought.

Well, apparently, because each episode was only around 10 minutes long, the producers had to make sacrifices so in lieu of getting "Junsui na Fujunbutsu" in there, the ending theme song "Spica." by StylipS once again simply wasn't allowed in during the original TV run of 12 episodes. To add insult to injury, the song made a brief appearance in the finale while everyone was talking and the final song was Aito-kun singing about panties. However, I believe that for all those folks who got the DVD of the series, a proper ending credits sequence was placed at the end of each episode (for those who did get the DVD, you can confirm this with me).

Of course, for those who also bought "Junsui na Fujunbutsu" the single, they also got "Spica." as the coupling song. I found "Spica." somewhat adorable and a bit atypical considering the raunchy goings-on at Aito-kun's apartment since the first part of the song that is heard during the ending credits has that atmosphere of a solemn-but-proud graduation song at a girls' academy. Even Aito-kun would probably be weeping and...maybe...keeping his hands to himself during the song.

The rest of the song then goes into some light rap and R&B that kinda caught me off-guard when I first heard it. However, since then it has settled in nicely in my brain. I guess you couldn't keep the entire song all holy. Junko Tsuji（辻純更）took care of the lyrics while Motoi Okuda（奥田もとい）provided the melody.

StylipS -- Junsui na Fujunbutsu （純粋なフジュンブツ）

It's been a bad day-good night for Toronto sports. The Blue Jays lost their 2nd game against the Cleveland Indians in the ALCS (those Texas Rangers are probably snarking "Et tu, Toronto?") in the late afternoon but the rejuvenating Maple Leafs got some good production from the rookies to win their home opener on the ice tonight.

Had a brief talk with a fellow anime fan about the fun to be had from watching "Gekkan Shojo Nozaki-kun"（月刊少女野崎くん）when he suggested that I also take a gander at another manga artist-based comedy called "Mangaka-san to Assistant-san to"（マンガ家さんとアシスタントさんと...The Manga Artist and His Assistants） from 2014. With a slight chuckle, I told him that I have already seen it a couple of times and am currently doing a third round since I've enjoyed it so much.

Fair warning, though. Unlike "Nozaki-kun" in which manga artist Nozaki-kun is almost stubbornly clueless about his assistant's major love for him, the artist in "Mangaka-san", Aito, is overflowing way too much with hormones to perverted levels, much to the consternation of most of the women surrounding him. Nozaki-kun and Chiyo-chan would run screaming from Aito's neighbourhood on seeing some of his antics. In fact, my anime buddy who introduced the show to me told me that a lot of jaws initially dropped on finding out that Aito's seiyuu, Yoshitsugu Matsuoka（松岡禎丞）, was willing to go full pervert for this role. And I think the scene above is one of the milder parts although things don't go anywhere into the X rating.

So as such, the opening theme for "Mangaka-san" has slowly wormed its way into my head. This would be "Junsui na Fujunbutsu" (Pure Impurities) sung by the anison aidoru group consisting of seiyuu, StylipS. Written by Aki Hata（畑亜貴）and composed by Kyo Takada（高田暁）, the song doesn't break the mold at all in the anison genre; however it is a fun and happy-go-lucky take on how the ladies in Aito's life barely tolerate him but can't seem to let go of him, a topic that has actually been broached within the episodes once or twice. The opening credits for the show even illustrate this. The women often have to resort to violence to quell Aito but they still inevitably run over to his apartment regardless.

"Mangaka-san" keeps it even closer within the family as two of the members of StylipS have roles in the show: senior member Arisa Noto（能登有沙）plays the ever-cranky editor Mihari Otosuna while Miku Ito（伊藤美来）has a recurring role as the younger sister of Aito's chief assistant Sahoto Ashisu as played by creamy-voiced Saori Hayami（早見沙織）.

Rounding out the quartet in the video with Noto and Ito are Moe Toyota（豊田萌絵）and Maho Matsunaga（松永真穂）. Matsunaga actually graduated from the group just a few months ago in May. "Junsui na Fujunbutsu" was released in May 2014 as StylipS' 6th single and peaked at No. 46. Since their debut in 2011, the group has had 8 singles and 3 albums.