Anime

Laura Stanciu
He couldn't sleep that afternoon. He lied on his back. He then pulled the blue sheets over his head, lifted his arms and looked at the print with yellow stars and coloured planets. He imagined he was the Little Prince. On each planet he placed Andrada next to a rose. On one planet she had braids. On another he put an orange hat with a tassel on her head, the one she wore to kindergarten that Friday. Then he saw some green polar bears on Mars. Cars were racing on Saturn's rings. He smiled, let his arms fall on the bed and fell asleep.
 
 Vlad Mușat
Adrian beat me in every recess. He was three years older, he repeated the year. He said he can't stand me, that I'm a mutt, a rice picker. I suffered and always asked my mother why I was like that. My mom would tell me that my father's name was Goku and that he lived in Japan. He cannot come to Romania because he is working on an important project for mankind. At the end of third grade, Adrian caught on the football field. He said that fight would suffice for three months. My friends asked me how I did it. Some luck and Kamehameha[1].

 Magdalena Daminescu
Just stop already with these cartoons, I can't take it anymore. Grannie, you don't have a clue, these aren't cartoons, they're japanese animes. Really, and what exactly do you learn from them, except to fight each other? Grannie, but it's about friendship. Goku fights to get the dragons out of his friend, to save her. And how did the dragons get into her? Grannie wonders. She ate three fingers. See? that's what will happen to you, if you keep biting your nails. I must tell father Arsenie to learn from animes how to cast out the devils from those possessed.

(Translated by Raluca Sălcianu / University of Bucharest, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, MTTLC, year I / Corrected by Silvia Petrescu, coordinator of the translations)