Young Underpaid Professionals

La Corda Chapter 66 is out!

Honestly, I personally have minimal knowledge of things La Corda d'Oro / Kin'iro no Corda so for my own sake, I'm going to refrain from giving an opinion or summary about the release. With Rica on sick leave, you'll have to figure things out for yourself as well. La Corda Chapter 66 can be found in the...

Review: Myself; Yourself

There are two things you should understand about the anime series Myself; Yourself. One, it only has 13 episodes and that may be for the best since two, it was made by people who are obviously not all that concerned whether the story is making you squirm or not. I'm not talking about a blood and gore...

Yuppie Fangirlism: Disappearance of Haruhi...

THE DISAPPEARANCE OF HARUHI SUZUMIYA HAS APPEARED IN SCREENSHOTS! Okay, first let's calm down while I breathe through a paper bag; at this rate I may have an asthma attack at any second. All right, I'm afraid some of my mental faculties have shut down to make way for girlish fangirl screeching and general...

Yuppie Fangirlism: The Vanishment of the...

You know I leave Rica with most of the fangirlism in this website (God knows she has enough for an entire basketball team), but right now the gushing fangirl in me has threatened all my other personalities with a megaphone, and thus there will be no peace until this post has been let out. Yes, I'm one...

Yuppie Fangirlism: Toradora! ends

Posted by Rio S. Caveat: I tried to write this article with restraint (and coherence), and failed miserably. I'd advise you to run while you still can. Amidst the tolling of deadline bells, I managed to watch the final episode of Toradora! and felt compelled to write another article about it since...

Yuppie Anime Review: Kure-nai

[caption id="" align="alignright" width="169" caption="Kure-nai's Murasaki and Shinkurou"][/caption] POSTED by Rica The anime Kure-nai, written and directed by Kou Matsuo (and based on the light novels by Katayama Kentarou) starts off with an interesting incident: a “dispute mediator” named...

Yuppie Anime Review: Toradora!

Posted by Rio S. Nico, an ex-colleague who shares my love for anime, recommended Toradora about a few months back. I was otherwise immersed in all things D Grayman back then and so the recommendation was buried under tons of other things. I came across Toradora (officially Toradora!) again while trolling...

Yuppie Fangirlism: Kiniro no Corda super...

[caption id="" align="alignright" width="165" caption="La Corda D'oro"][/caption] Posted by RICA Sadly, I am still waiting for Kure Yuki's Kiniro no Corda scanlations to be posted… somewhere. Anywhere. god, why aren’t the English volumes available here? I’m sure Amazon has some of...

Yuppie Experience: Recovering from Epic Failure

Posted by Rio S. Face it, you’re screwed. Your presentation (for the company’s biggest client, no less) was torn to smithereens; your report-slash-plan (that was supposed to be your company’s panacea to survive the recession) was a Hindenburg. Everything was peachy for a while and a split second...

YUPPIE Fangirlism #2: La Corda D'oro / Kiniro...

Posted by Rica La Corda D'oro by Kure Yuki is probably the best music-themed anime I've watched so far, and I'm not saying this because I'm so fangirl-ing (is that even a word?) over the bishies here, but because it really is good. The music is what got me, honestly. The animation is nothing new...

YUPPIE Fangirlism #1: Ultra Maniac

(Subtitle: Willing suspension of disbelief) Posted by Rica Ultra Maniac The Young Underpaid Professionals (YUPPIE) site needs fangirlism, seriously. So, I’m writing my first post on something anime/manga-related: Ultra Maniac. I thought of writing about an anime or a manga that has social relevance,...

Yuppie Fangirlism Project Plan

Posted by Rica Posts on anime/manga fangirlism won't be random; they'll be selective and most probably be subject to my whims. I've come up with a plan to let you all in on what keeps a yuppie (our own definition of the word) like me from going overboard/over bored with obsessing about characters or...