Day 10 - Favorite slice of life anime

Oh, this is easy! Lucky*Star!

I really don't like the (afaik) most popular slice-of-life anime, Azumanga Daioh. Lucky*Star however is mainly about four girls, one of them very nerdy, and their conversations which circle around nothing in particular. I know it has a tendency to merely be classed as "moe bait" by some, but I found Azumanga much more annoying. In Lucky*Star I (as a v. nerdy girl) can occasionally identify myself with the characters. In Azumanga, everyone is such a "screwball" or otherwise weird, that I can mostly laugh at the characters. And I don't like that kind of humor.

People tend to compare Lucky*Star to Seinfeld, which I guess is true in that both shows contain a lot of talk about absolutely nothing. However, I found the humor of Seinfeld much more mean-spirited (also, less jokes about collecting doujinshi and buying multiple copies of the same thing to get All The Fannish Extramaterial, which, heh, is something I can and do recognize myself in) so in another sense, they're not that similar at all.

Anyways. Lucky*Star is my favorite slice-of-life anime. My fav s-o-l manga is Flower of Life by Fumi Yoshinaga, btw.

It also has a very catchy intro!

So that's the point of white tea!

When I was in Berlin recently, we found a nice little tea shop. I bought some tea there, among others, a white tea with peach in. It smells divine and had large, curly leaves. Impressed me enough to take a chance, despite white tea usually being a disappointment to me.

Please note, that I have not visited any fine tea house and tried their white tea (is there even one in Stockholm...?) but I have been to cafés where the tea is, usually, good. The white teas weren't, they tasted bland and grassy. Beh.

Reading the instructions carefully, I allowed the tea to cool off, and seep for the time specified on the packaging. And - aha! That lovely peach fragrance is still present, but more importantly, the taste is soooo mild. It's still very light, reminds me more of herbal teas than what I usually drink, but it does taste something.

So, note to self - if you go into a café and they prepare their tea with hot water from the espresso machine. Run, don't walk, but RUN from their white teas.

...who does that, anyway? Espresso water is like 110 degrees, not even black tea benefits from that.