You know that empty and depressed feeling you get when you finish a really good series or come out of a really good movie? I get that feeling maybe once or twice every few months, usually for a great show. In the spring, it was when Mai-Otome ended, and in the summer, it was when Fate-stay night ended. More recently, I got that feeling after I finished playing Xenosaga III during that one week break I took. But if you asked me which finale gave me that feeling this past week, the answer might surprise you. It wasn't Blood+ or Ouran High School Host Club or ZEGAPAIN. It was Strawberry Panic. Why? I'm not really sure myself. I ended up watching the end of Strawberry Panic a couple dozen times (not exaggerating), beating out by far how much I enjoyed the endings to all the other series. Even though I consider Blood+, Ouran, and ZEGAPAIN to be overall great shows with great endings, I loved even more how Strawberry Panic ended, despite it being fairly predictable and despite the show as a whole being not the best. Maybe it was because my expectations for it were low, or maybe it was because I loved the music in that final episode. But for whatever reason, Strawberry Panic's finale gets my vote as the best one of this past week (see Poll at right). And now I'm going to stop writing before I start talking about the magical effect of yuri or something. :)
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The new season is almost upon us, and yet here I am, having failed to put together any kind of autumn (or, if you prefer, fall) preview whatsoever- and nor am I intending to. Aside from the fact that many people have already done a better job of it than myself, and that I’m simply [...]
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Today I watched my two thousandth episode of anime, Simoun 26. The new season of Fall is commencing, the Strawberry Panic anime is finally dead and gone, Mai Otome Zwei has a website online, I got an A on my first AP US History essay, and things are generally looking up. I’d like to take [...]
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Mai-Otome and HiME fans can rejoice and spray all sorts of alcoholic beverages in the air… God damn, I can be really repetitive, huh? Well, whatever, I'm tired and not feeling well. Deal with it. Anyway, the Mai-Otome Zwei OVA website is up and online. If it isn't obvious to you, like it wasn't to [...]
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The upcoming OVA series Mai-Otome Zwei will be here 24th November. The limited edition Vol.1 will come with a special packaging, a CD with the theme song and a Mai-Otome illustration book. Most of the press release is recycled news, but it does reveal the title of the new theme song. The story takes place one [...]
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Another week, another round-up, another persistent feeling that I really am following more series than the handful I seem to be covering. This week seems to be an oddly unbalanced one, featuring a select handful of gems amongst a desert of tiresome, forgettable dross- some of it from series I highly praised mere months [...]
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Well, this was a good day from Volks. The last posting I have today is for a pair of figures from the Mai-HiME series. The first comes to us from Mai-Otome. It is a 1/6 scale resin cast kit of Erstin Ho. She is displayed in her finest Otome armor and is about to lay [...]
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Amazingly, this is the only trading figure set today. You'd think that trading figures were like little gold nuggets. Ok, I won't bitch. I know some people still dig them, and I have to say that CMS Corp's Mai-Otome trading figure offering has grasped me in some weird way. The reason I say that they've [...]
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Any Mai Otome/HiME fans would probably be crying in joy at the release of so many figures coming out for them. I been carefully avoiding any unnessary spending of figurines lately, but this is something I’ll lose control over. Hobbystock reports 5 Mai Otome/HiME figures for re-order. 1 trading set and 4 1/6 figures. And yes, [...]
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A bit late… I actually got these Region 2 goodies in late July… below are photos and scans (click on images to enlarge): Clockwise, from top left: Ah My Goddess, Sorezore no Tsubasa (TV series 2) LE Box, Mai Otome DVD 7, Shakugan no Shana DVD 7, Animedia magazine August, Comickers, Bleach manga vol. 23, Shakugan [...]
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