Some quick news and updates, which you may or may not have already heard about. There's no new episode of Tsubasa Chronicle this week, nor will there be one next week because of the high school baseball championship on NHK. Episode 42 will air on August 26th. Speaking of NHK, I'm dropping NHK ni Youkoso! I'm almost caught up with School Rumble, and I'd much rather write about that. There's a trailer up for Strike Witches on the official website. Click on "ITEM" on the sidebar to get the pop-up that has a link to the video. It is mostly made up of eye candy of the characters flying around in battle. plamo's latest stop-motion Gundam videos are based on the Inukami ED, both Aice^5 and Rice^5 versions. And in case you missed it, plamo also made a Gundam version of the Chokotto Sister ED. The first volume of the Mai-Otome Zwei OVA is reported to be due out on November 24th, 2006. The description says that the story will be about a meteorite falling onto the planet, but makes no mention of any specific new characters. In fact, it sounds a lot like they're just going to be using Arika and friends (not that that's a bad thing). According to the official site, Blood+'s second original soundtrack is due out on September 27th, 2006. The first one was so good, I can't wait to hear the second one. I don't know which songs they'll be including though since all of my favorites are already on the first one. Oh yea, I turned 21 years old this past week...
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