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... with Richard Thompson, not that anyone cares. ⏎Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu Season 2 ⏎ Rating: 2 ⏎ Review: ⏎ Before Boris Karloff turned him into a big cuddly baby, Frankenstein's Monster was conceived as an undead being that was like man and yet not a man, a creature created from a pile of deceased flesh that could walk and talk and think, and yet that any observer could see was somehow off. Which is more or less what Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu is. ⏎ Eternally perfect uber-girl Nogizaka Haruka's secret is that she is, under her honor-student surface, a raging otaku. Last season unremarkable everyman Yuuto stumbled across her awful secret but resolved to keep it under wraps as long as she wanted him to. The two have since grown close, and season two finds them going to a hot spring with their friends. Haruka's maid team s them on the way, determined to get the two some quality lovey-dovey time alone together. Not an easy task when Yuuto is so busy being wooed by Shina and getting stuck in the women's bath. ⏎ You can almost see the stitches where Haruka cobbled together the dead limbs and organs of older, better shows to create its horrifying simulacrum of a living romantic comedy. A basic relationship from Oh! My Goddess, a class barrier from Ai Yori Aoshi, a maid team from (where else) Hanaukyo Maid Team, a character design from Love Hina, a teeming platoon of overworked situations from dozens of previous romances—all dragged from their graves and made to dance in an infinitely inferior parody of their previous lives. Even the addition of shiny new moe overtones and a trendy otaku focus can't hide the musty smell it gives off, and nothing can obscure how empty, hollow and phony the whole thing feels. Like the Monster, it moves and speaks, but the soul just isn't there. ⏎ Sora no Otoshimono ⏎ Rating: 1 ⏎ Review:...