This is what happens when you don’t make time for lubricant.
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There’s going to be a bit of a parody break for the next few days; not just because of the Jyu-oh-sei HDTV incident, but because I’ve been spending a lot of time on the Mai-HiME RPG (despite a tendency for the victory music to play in unwanted places, episode three is generally going well). If [...]
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Under the new, harsher regime, I’ve decided to drop a few more series that I haven’t watched lately, but have no desire to get back to. This means that Chocotto Sister and FLAG are gone from the anime line-up (I hadn’t even realised that FLAG 3 was released last month, which shows how closely I’ve [...]
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I’m not sure whether I’m going to use this section often, but it’s perfect if I want to say something about certain series outside of the monthly summaries. Perhaps I’ll use this more often in the future f I want to say something about series I’m not blogging. Himawari I remember that I classified this anime [...]
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Our Intrepid Heroes face off against the Gargoyle women and discover the key to disabling them is the Hommes Optare necklaces they wear; D’Eon transforms into Lia in the middle of the fight upon the appearance of the myterious fringe-tastic man that attacked the Secret Police (who has magic Psalm charms!). However, intriguingly, after [...]
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Even though setting up a post like this one takes a while, I love making these kinds of statistics. ^^; + Top 10 Anime With 1 Episode Released + I’m still hoping for Gintama, Yoshinaga-chi no Gargoyle, Hime-sama Goyoujin and all of the other neglected shows to get subbed. In any case, I think I’ve [...]
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Already the end of the month... where did the time go? (^^;;) Up rather early this morning since I was pretty much out after getting home from work yesterday, so I got caught up with Ouran High School Host Club and The Third. Still need to get caught up with Simoun and Kami-sama Kazoku here... completely forgot to grab Binbou Shimai Monogatari yesterday, too... once you get behind it's hard to get caught up, but I never learn (^^;;) Once I get home today I'll do Innocent Venus. If you want the quick summary of what I thought... Sana kawaii yo Sana! ;) Anyways, how about a very quick roundup of what I'm watching but not blogging now? ;)Animal Yokochou Pretty much the usual crazy stuff, especially the first part of this week's episode. It was a "backstage" look at Aniyoko where we find out that Ami's parents are CG, Matsumoto-san (that big giraffe) is a cutout, that talking fish dakimakura is animatronic, so on, so on. Don't destroy the dreams of the kids watching, really (^^;;) Appropriately for the middle of summer, next week's a swimsuit episode. ARIA The NATURAL It's the usual very relaxing ARIA :) Brought back Undine (the OP from the first season) for these past two episodes where Akari said goodbye to her gondola -- it worked very well 。゜・（ノД`）・゜・。 ED also changed -- Akari's seiyuu singing this time. One question -- when's Ai-chan coming back to visit? ;) Inukami! Is that a poster of two machos dressed up as Fate and Nanoha in the background? (^^;;) Yup, it's the usual Inukami! -- lots of homo situations and machos.. lots of machos... but if you can put up with that it's pretty funny. GJ getting Norio Wakamoto (Gar-kun@Yoshinaga-san'chi no Gargoyle, Onsokumaru@Shinobuden) to do the voice of the hentai magician Keita and company are up against now :) Animation quality has been up and down, not nearly as good as Nanoha, but still acceptable for the most part from Seven Arcs. Ganbatte! I'm still holding out hope I can see a nice battle, but since we're talking about Inukami that might.. probably won't happen, hehe ;) Staff really seems to be having fun with things now -- looping a shot with a zou-san from the episode for the background of the sponsor message and such. Please, enough already ;) NHK ni Youkoso! Satou-kun... don't put your collection of ero pics in your My Pictures folder, and don't give the folders obvious names like "ero", "moro", and "loli" (^^;;) I'd like to know how he filled up 120GB (was 30GB in the manga) with just pictures in the first place.. Anyways, this last episode was the closest it's come to the feel of the original work so far -- they went about as far as they could, farther than I thought they'd do. It's rather odd to hear Yui Makino as Misaki-chan doing those kinds of things when she's also Sakura@Tsubasa Chronicle and sings the very nice and relaxing OP for ARIA (^^;;) Good quality from Gonzo so far, but we'll see if it stays that way. OP and ED are in heavy rotation on my playlist. Ouran High School Host Club The usual silly antics from Tamaki and the rest of the Host club. Haruhi's cute as usual, middle school Haruhi especially :) Simoun ...get back to me after the weekend since I need to watch 4 episodes or so to catch up (^^;;;) Strawberry Panic Poor Tamao-chan... again... Nagisa seems to be set on Shizuma anyways... I'd much rather see Nagisa x Tamao or Nagisa x Chiyo-chan ;) Can't stand the evil lesbians, global warming girl -- Kaname's nickname after that weird speech in whatever episode it was -- and Momomi :P   Always the quiet ones that surprise you ;) Kagome-chan gets more and more interesting -- builds ridiculously big sand castles, is a pro at thumb wrestling, and now playing Romeo but talking to her bear instead of Juliet (played by Tsubomi-chan). Very cute :) The Third   Left: The usual omegakawaii Milly-chan Right: Milly-chan this time Milly-chan finally wears a cute skirt, but... ＿|￣|○ Like episodes in Seven Arcs shows where Yoshinari Saitou is animation director, the animation director this time has a very different style than the original character design (even moreso than Saitou-san). I would understand better if it were an episode with a lot of action since the movement was very good, but still... if Milly-chan ain't cute it's no good! ;) Things look to be back to normal next time, though. Anyways, I do like the show :) XEBEC's done a pretty decent job with things so far. Tonagura! Standard love comedy with lots of pantsu and a tsundere lead in Hazuki. If I were to rank the male leads this season in terms of coolness, Yuuji would be near the bottom with all the hentai stuff he does :P And what's ARIA Company doing here? Alicia and Akari's seiyuu from ARIA are here as Hatsune (usual onee-san character for Sayaka Oohara) and Marie respectively. Marie, Yuuji's military otaku gun-toting little sister, is definitely my favorite character :) Utawarerumono ...Dori and Gura are girls, right? Poor Oboro can't get a break, hehe.. having to drink that stuff Eruru made, then being told by Yuzuha that she doesn't like onii-chan. Pretty hilarious episode, and Hakuoro's harem is growing again with the addition of Kuuya. Hakuoro-sama is the king of lust, after all ;) Didn't quite understand some of the stuff Kuuya was talking about, throwing around names of things and such, since I haven't played the game or anything... and what the heck was that thing that Hakuro-sama turned into? Anyways, animation by OLM Team Iwasa is top quality, characters are interesting (and quite amusing), so this is one of my favorites :) And if you must know... Aruru >>>>>> Eruru >>> Yuzuha >>>> everybody else
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YAY. 99% of the fansub community might be ignoring this show, but that won’t stop me from getting my Yoshinaga-san’chi no Gargoyle and Chiwa Saito fix. As I’ve only seen episode 1 (only ep on this disc and the only fansubbed episode too) the first bonus feature has plenty of characters I don’t know. IRC [...]
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I actually decided to drop this series at episode 12, then I realized it was only 13 episodes so I figured I’d at least watch the last one . Well the ending was pretty typical. Futaba used some new helmet device Miss Chichipantsu (I don’t remember her real name) alchemist made to get into [...]
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        While riding home on the train, Kazumi is asked by a friend if he'd participate in the drama club. They're lacking actresses ;) Kazumi's not exactly interested, but his friend's younger sister, Momo, asks him to reconsider. It would seem Momo feels something for Kazumi... Kazumi and Momo get off the train together, with Kazumi heading home and Momo heading to go shopping for something. It's just about Christmas, and the shopping arcade is decorated appropriately. Osiris is in the festivities as well and is as popular as ever, though still with that not exactly great attitude. Futaba stops by Iyo's shop, where she's once again made into a guinea pig for another of Iyo's crazy experiments. As a reward, Iyo gives her a hat... Futaba says she'd rather like food than something like that. And then she says that she came there right from school since she was worried about Gar-kun... Huh, this isn't the Futaba we know. Yup, it's that hat -- it makes the person wearing it say what they're thinking. Gar-kun gets a drop kick for saying that he's happy that Futaba was thinking of him ;) Momo then stops by and asks Iyo about making a doll. Iyo pulls out a make your own homonculus set. No thank you (^^;;) Momo ends up getting some of the yarn Iyo had used to make that hat Futaba was wearing. She stays up rather late working on the doll so she's pretty tired the next day when she rides the train together with Kazumi. She stills wants Kazumi to be in the drama club... When Kazumi gets home, walking through the snow, there's a phone call for him -- it's Momo. Futaba reads a magazine called "Fighter's Friend" (some article about beautiful muscles in it) as Kazumi talks to Momo on the phone. Momo wants to meet him the next day... Momo's rather nervous as she goes to meet Kazumi, and ends up dropping something. She meets him at a shrine -- apparently she asked him to show her around since the city is the model for the setting of a play they're going to do. But she doesn't care about that now -- she goes to give Kazumi his present, but it's not in her bag...
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