Summary: Nakamura sees Eri ride away with Harima, but he can't catch them.
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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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I went out today with tjhan and we met at China Square Central. Stripey once mentioned to the both of us that he found a store there selling anime figures that were like 10-30 dollars cheaper. And when tj brought me there, I nearly freaked out. Figures like School Rumble’s Yakumo were going for SGD$50. I [...]
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Finally. These were stuck at the post office for quite a few days, since no one was around to collect them when the mailman delivered the parcel. From left to right is Sawachika Eri of School Rumble, Ayanami Rei of Eva (like duh) in a short yukata and Lain of Serial Experiment Lain. I am ashamed/proud [...]
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Finally got round to watching the subs for episodes 15-17 after patiently waiting for WF to come up with more subs past 11, giving up due to sheer curiosity and watching them anyway. The thing that really surprises me is that the general feeling I get from lurking and vaguely taking part in conversations on #animenano [...]
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And it's the last week of summer before classes at UGA get started up again next Wednesday. Where did all the time go? (^^;) A bit of news from today and over the weekend for now:Otakon Licenses (via ANN) ADV did good picking up Utawarerumono, outside of changing the title to "Shadow Warrior Chronicles".... really, just leave the title as Utawarerumono, please (^^;;) Funimation picked up both seasons of School Rumble... not much of note other than those two. Kadokawa Shoten had a panel where a representative mentioned that they are in talks with various companies about licensing Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuuutsu, and that it should be released next year. If I had to choose, I'd hope Geneon would pick it up since they're usually quick about things. Keep all the extras, and please, please encode it at a high bitrate and put it on a dual layer DVD9. Hopefully someone will pick up the novels as well since the Haruhi anime is heavily slanted towards those who've already read the novels. Negima!? Dated (via MOON PHASE) Starts October 4th at 17:30, and a serialization of it by Takuya Fujima is slated to start in Comic Bonbon.... 17:30, not late night? The first season could've run at that time since there was next to no service or pantsu so it's not surprising, I suppose, but still... the serialization in Bonbon would seem to indicate it will be targeted towards a younger audience as well. Just have to wait and see how it turns out... Idolmaster Anime - Idolmaster XENOGLOSSIA (via MOON PHASE) The game where you, as producer, make a girl into the most popular idol there is.... will be made into an anime by the Mai-HiME people at Sunrise? Yeah, there'll be robots. Dunno about live events ;) Director is Tatsuyuki Nagai (Honey & Clover II), series composition by Jukki Hanada (Rozen Maiden series).
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Silly people have been complaining that School Rumble is going downhill. These silly people are like the chilli in my mortar/pestle, I WILL POUND THEM TILL THEY ARE GOO and feed goo to Harima’s pig. Which leads to the first question of the quiz: Let’s go! (Based on the anime from season 1 to episode 17 of [...]
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I wrote earlier about the differences between the School Rumble manga in both Japanese and English. Well, I finally finished the first volume after about two months! It wasn’t like I was in a real rush… As I explained before, I took a unique approach to reading School Rumble. Basically, I took the Japanese language manga, [...]
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Summary: Harima wakes up all tied up outside the Tsukamoto home.
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Summary: Harima's manga actually gets published in place of Karasuma's.
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