Funny story: Cuchlann and I chose the same moment again, and completely by accident. Unlike our Gurren-Lagann overlap, this one’s actually mildly obscure. If you didn’t believe me before when I said I was assuming his identity, you ought to believe me now.

But we’re taking different approaches to said moment, so you really should read both posts. Really.

Oh, Genshiken, is there no awesome you can’t handle?  Yes, there is no awesome you can’t handle.  Luckily for me this just happens to fall into 2008, as I bought the final volume of Genshiken just a week into January.  The “moment” this is about is the point at which Madarame gives up, entirely, his ambitions to confess to Kasukabe.

I’m getting my Genshiken images from One Manga, but only because I can’t find my scanner. I do own it all, and it’s good enough that I suggest you buy it rather than read it on the internet.

With that out of the way, I suppose this isn’t an anime moment, per se — but it’s a manga moment, which is close enough, right? My manga experience is limited, I’ll grant, but Genshiken is nonetheless the first manga I saw fit to rate 10/10 on MyAnimeList, and it’ll forever occupy its own special club room in my mind for that reason. Surely it deserves some respect somewhere among these Moments Twelve. Respect it shall receive, and, for this moment, it has Kanji Sasahara to thank.