Orbital Frame

Life with 28.8k.....

2005-08-25T16:23:00.000-04:00

First off, the reason I disappeared at the beginning of July was because some of my relatives (I didn't even know they existed..) died.. So I had to fly half way across the globe (Newark -> Seattle -> Taiwan -> Destination 28 HOURS -_-) Anyway, once a couple of funerals are done I had to stay at a certain place with a DIAL-UP. The only thing I was able to check was Gunota Headlines... I couldn't even connect to Mirc (nor BT..)...Now I have to backtrack 2 months back T_T Right now I'm in the process of moving all these (current) contents to animeblogger.net thanks to Maestro o_ob

Anyway, I was wasted my 2 months with these stuff so I ought to write a little something

First off, I rewatched some of the gundam series ;p like Z Gundam, ZZ, and V Gundam (my friends borrowed the rest T_T) anyway, I don't think the Z Gundam boxset is worth the money.. $200 for 10 Dvds.. ZZ and V boxset comes with 6 DVDs each (low bitrate though) and I only bought it for $70 a boxset...

[ANIME]Z-Gundam - Oh god the dubtitles was killing me, there was a time where I was actually stunned that they change the whole meaning of the conversation (from ecchi to non ecchi -_- what's left?) the animation still looks amazing all these years especially the episode with Four and umm Jerid.. in the snow.. don't wanna give too much away.

[ANIME]ZZ-Gundam - horrible kid shows but if you watched Z Gundam you're gonna have to follow it up with this one anyway.

[ANIME]V-Gundam - Best gundam series ever (IMO) so much deaths, symbolism, but the later episodes with the (overpowered) V2 Gundam might throw someone off their realistic seats..(Remember Macross and as if Z and ZZ doesn't look like a super robot in the last episodes..)

[GAME]Super Robot Taisen Alpha 2 - 4 story lines, Zenger, Kusuha, Arado, Ibis, it was a really fun game and I replayed it so many times. This continues where Alpha Gaiden left off. It has a new group system - 4 units in 1 group. There are a lot of secrets in this game too, like Nightingale(Char), Hi Nu Gundam, and what I liked the most was that they actually brought Crossbone Gundam into the series even though it was never made into an anime(Seabook/Kinkedo can still pilot F-91 though ;). The story has (some.. but not much, but definitely more than other SRWs..) depth too.

[GAME]Super Robot Taisen MX - No group system this time, still fun though, their are only 2 story line for it. If you're a real robot fan you're probably gonna be disappointed cuz all useful ones are super robot.. anyway RahXephon and Raideen combo was nice O_O too bad you only get to use Akito from Nadesico only in the last couple of stages.. Black Serena looks really nice.

[GAME]Sousei No Aquarion - Don't buy it, that was what I was wondering cuz the series didn't even finished its run yet so there are no real endings don't waste your money on this PoS unless you found a b**tleg version somewhere.

[GAME]Gundam One Year War - Confusing camera angles don't buy it.. It's a pretty decent game by Namco and Bandai but I still think Ace Combat 5 is better..

[GAME]Gundam True Odyssey - Since the Gundam One Year War didn't sell as well as Bandai thought I didn't buy this game when I first look at it, but I heard it was sold really well in Japan so I decided to give it a try... I was hooked, 3 man RPG, like your classic Final Fantasy and RPG stuff and u can switch your friends in. You can customized your mobile suits (although I doubt you will dare to do anything to the gundams) There are the 1st Gundam, Z Gundam, ZZ Gundam, Nu Gundam, God Gundam, and Wing Gundam series in this game (I wish there was more but..). There aren't that MANY cutscenes but the gameplay and the story is good enough for me. There are also lot of secret and extras after you finish your first run through too. No you don't have to go back and start at the beginning, you'll start right before you meet the final boss and get something nice (a mobile suit ;o) Although for those ppl who can't read Japanese they should wait for the US version in December. Dang I hope they make a sequel.

[GAME]Super Robot Taisen Alpha 3 - The group (or squad) system is back, 4 story lines, all new main characters (accompanied by the main characters from alpha 2) except for Kusuha. They got Kazuma Kaneko to design Dis Astranagun for Quarae too ;p. There's the Super Robot guy (forgot his name) he gets Zengar and some other ppl, there's Kusuha(super but the beginning robots looks like real robots), she gets Brit and Zengar, then there's Serena(real), she gets Ibis and Srray. For Quarae (this damn thing looks like a super robot even though its a real robot) he gets Arado and Seora-san ^.^ There are A LOT of HIDDEN robots and once you finished all the branching paths and 4 story lines you'll get an extra stage with all the original characters (it's in the scenario chart in option). I didn't even get all the robots yet. There are also Extra hard mode and some other mode (which you'll have to complete Extra hard mode to get which I didn't complete yet) in this game too (the enemy gets an upgrade.. all of them o_o;;). Gundam SEED is in this too (too bad Crossbone didn't come back ;[ ). This is the last Super Robot Taisen Alpha series (Banpresto said that they are making only FOUR, SRW Alpha, SRW Alpha Gaiden, SRW Alpha 2, SRW Alpha 3) although I would've like to see Gundam SEED Destiny in this Alpha series.. oh well =[ it's one hell of a game. I love this group system. And I hope they make another SRW Alpha even though there's nothing left to do with the Original story line anymore.

Bleach #38

2005-06-30T20:20:00.000-04:00

After Chad got pwned by Kyoraku, Nanao chan receives an urgent message from Yama and Hitsugaya that Aizen's dead. Ichigo is running away from Kenpachi, while doing so he can no longer sense Chad's power. Nanao was about to finish Chad off, but Kyoraku stopped her. Ichigo feels that he's still alive. Kenpachi found him, but Ichigo can finally cut Ken-chan after he concentrate and condense his power. Elsewhere, Unohara(4th squad) tells Komamura(7th) and Tousen(9th) that Aizen's dead. Kenpachi explains to Ichigo that he wears bells and an eyepatch so that he can enjoy fighting even more, his zampaktou also has no name and its not sealed. Upon hearing that, Ichigo underestimate him and Kenpachi stabbed his zampaktou through Ichigo's chest, his zampaktou is broken in half. Kenpachi walks away. Zangetsu then appears in front Ichigo.

Half of this episode is about the scenes from the last episode, and Ichigo running and talking to himself like a DBZ movie. I yawned approximately 5 times throughout the course of this episode. Only highlights of this episode was the ED sequence, this time it's about 13th squad and Rukia~

Eyeshield 21 #10

2005-06-30T20:15:00.000-04:00

Sakuraba is still sulking over his injuries during the game. Sena finds out that he's hospitalized from the TV news. He decided to paid him a visit, although not as Eyeshield 21, cuz if Sakuraba fan finds out that he was the one who tackled him, Sena would be in trouble. Upon arrival, they mention Sakuraba name and were swarmed by his fans, Sena use his amazing running skillz to get through them in no time. Sena and Monta goes in Sakuraba room only to be interrupted by Oujou's team, rabid fangirls, and idiot TV announcer. When Sena and Monta finally had the chance they are interrupted by the disabled brat they passed earlier. Apparently, the brat's also a Sakuraba fanboy and ask for his autograph. Sakuraba says that he's nothing like an ace or a hero, and he sucks. The brat was losing confidence listening to that and the doctor told him that he won't heal for awhile, therefore he can't do any sports yet. Sena went out to get change and read some cheesy apology to Sakuraba in order to motivate the brat and Sakuraba. They promised each other to try harder and become a real hero.

Well, Monta's recruitment was rather easy. It took a long persuasion from Sena and Hiruma in the manga. The Sena running thing is getting overused more and more,who would ever thought that running through the crowd is a serious heart-bombing, gasp shocking situation in life...

Ah! My Goddess #23

2005-06-27T18:57:00.000-04:00

God has decided to send Lind to handle Lord of Terror on earth because it caused Yggdrasil errors, but changed his mind when Belldandy released her seal as a 1st class goddess. Elsewhere, Urd is punishing Marler for her mistakes. Urd tries to force Keiichi to tell her wth Ultimate Destruction Program is but he doesn't really know anything other than the name T_T The urn then tells her that the program that'll initiate the demon world. The urn tells her to destroy 52 buildings in order to use it. Belldandy arrives and pierced Holy Bell's arrow through the urn so Urd would return to her old self. It ended up releasing Fenrir. Belldandy hear Urd's voice that tells her to avoid Fenrir, she got knocked out anyway. Meanwhile, Skuld is on her way to find them, she receives a phone call from god, who sends her a flute to give to Belldandy. It will nullify the program. Belldandy regain consciousness and knock Fenrir out before he was able to eat Keiichi. She tries to get all the negative energy out of Urd but it didn't work. Urd tells her slave, Marler to give her powers to Fenrir, so that he can break the seal. If Marler does so, she'll lose her life, so she didn't as Urd say and got shot down by energy balls -__-;; Urd ended up giving powers to Fenrir instead. Fenrir absorbed too much power, which makes Urd loses consciousness. Urd falls from the rooftop and Keiichi falls too (idiot -_-;). Belldandy saved them but ended up hurting herself. Urd goddess marks return but the Lord of Terror is now in Fenrir. Skuld came to rescue them and gave the flute to Belldandy, she summons Midgard with it and destroy Fenrir, but Lord of Terror seem to have transferred himself into Midgard before Fenrir was destroyed.

I could just see where this is going, and it's probably going to be extra cheesy in the next few episodes or so. It was kinda boring to watch this (no, I haven't read the manga) since it's so predictable. Urd and Belldandy will probably go unpunished for releasing their powers since they took part in destroying "Lord of Terror." Urd gets her power back, Belldandy still have her license, happy ever after and another 26 episodes T_T

Speed Grapher #10

2005-06-27T16:04:00.000-04:00

Tsujidou and his men are still tracking Saiga and Kagura. They arrived at the onsen but Saiga already left. Ginza goes to see Shinsen, they made a deal to trade Kagura and Saiga.. Saiga and Kagura goes into an abandoned research facility, they split up to search for some information. Tsujidou squad arrived at the facility, but Suitengu himself will go in. Saiga tells Kagura to run while he takes care of things. Suitengu tries to bribe Saiga into giving him Kagura but he refuses. Suitengu then uses his blood from his (old) wounds and transform them into bullets o_O. He then transform in to an angel with blooded wings. He transform his blood into a being with a sword and try to stab Saiga in the back but Saiga uses his camera to blow a hole through the floor and escaped. That blooded thing stabbed Suitengu instead but he absorbs it. Saiga fell down onto Ginza's car and tells her where Kagura is.

BTW, the op sequence reveals the whole episode, so no element of surprises were present.. Now that Suitengu reveals his power I wonder how could Saiga kill him with his stupid camera powers..

Gundam Seed Destiny #36

2005-06-26T09:58:00.000-04:00

Durandal describe the capabilities of Destiny to Shinn, it was built especially for Shinn's ability. Athrun doesn't seem to like the idea. Athrun ask Durandal why was it necessary to attack Archangel. Durandal just simply say that they should've come to our side (so u can use them? pfft). Durandal babbles on about his intentions to make a world without wars and full of happiness. Meanwhile, EAF ships joined with ZAFT forces at Gibraltar port. Rey go to Gilbert's room and have a little chat. Meer overheard Durandal and Rey's conversation about Athrun.. She goes to warm Athrun about it. A security comes knocking on his door (with guns too). He escapes through the window. Athrun beats all of them up (!?) and he asks Meer to come with him. She refuses saying that if she keeps being Lacus it'll be fine.. she started crying by herself in the rain... Athrun escape into Meyrin's room. Meyrin pretends she was taking a shower, apparently Lunamaria walks by so she tells Meyrin to go get dressed. The soldiers left.. Meyrin use her computer and set the hangar's alarm elsewhere while she went to get a car. Talia asks Gilbert what's going on but Gilbert tells her that Athrun suddenly attacked a security guard and hes on the run. Rey notices that Meyrin was driving the getaway car. Rey found Meyrin and Athrun in a mobile suits hangar. A gunfight occurs and Athrun hits Rey's gun, Athrun and Meyrin get into one of the mass produced GOUF ignited. Athrun tells Meyrin that hes going to find Archangel. Shinn and Rey launch in Destiny and Legend, Rey tells Shinn that they are pursuing Athrun Zala.

Gilbert really has a hidden agenda. Without telling anybody wth is going on he tries to have Athrun locked up. Athrun got his moves back from seed and escape in time. This is probably the first time hes being smart after 36 episodes of flying around shooting something. Now this is the 2nd time he defected, if Gilbert's not dead there's no way he can go back. Meer also has a little bit of a change, it appears that she's not fully Gilbert's puppet yet, unlike Rey. Seeing her before the surgery was a surprise, nothing like Lacus except the.... Poor Lunamaria though, Meyrin has taken off with Athrun leaving her with idiots like Shinn and Rey..anyway what a surprise that Shinn was shocked to hear that Athrun was the one they're pursuing.. I thought he would probably be glad.. next episode Athrun fights in GOUF ignited vs. 2 Gundams, use your seed mode!

Eyeshield 21 #9

2005-06-25T18:50:00.000-04:00

Sena found someone who's a good catcher. Too bad hes trying out for the baseball team. Hiruma also mention that it should be someone tall.. Sena tried to recruit the monkey catcher but he refuses. The monkey wanted to become a catching hero like Honjo Masaru (a baseball player). Because the glove that he currently owned was given to him by Masaru during a baseball game (b/c one of the strings popped :0). When the monkey went home he saw Sakuraba on TV and noticed that hes really popular w/ the girls eventhough his catching skills sucked. Apparently the monkey aka Kamitari Montaro only made it to the 3rd team for baseball(reserve of the reserve). Sena tries to encourage him by saying that if he keeps trying he'll eventually moved up to the 2nd or the 1st team. Too bad ppl on the 3rd team will never move up in the first place since they really sucked and are destined to give up. Sena try asking Hiruma that if short ppl who only specialized in 1 skill will qualify as a catcher. Sena go to convince Monta that the American football team needs him, just when he was about to leave when Hiruma tested him by passing him the ball, he was able to catch it 1 handed. At night, Monta watches the interview about Honjou Masaru, who said that he was able to do what he does because his team supports him. Monta gave up on baseball and appear at the American football practice in the morning, because the American football team needs someone like him.

This episode we're introduced to Monta the monkey -_- that's about it 1 more team member. They cut out the part where Sena showed off his running skills to the baseball team though. Hmm if I remembered correctly the next members are Kurita junior and the 3 bullies. Btw, testing around with Blogger images. If anything messes up blame them -_-;;;

Bleach #37

2005-06-24T21:59:00.000-04:00

After Chad sends Tatsufusa flying with his punch. Kyoraku Shunsui, 8th squad captain is in his path. Chad tries to attack him but he easily avoided all the attacks. Kyoraku tries to convince Chad to go home, but he refuses. Kyoraku pulls out his twin zampaktou. Chad has a flashback about his past about how his Abuelo and Ichigo helped him to become a man he is today. He attacks Kyoraku but he ended up getting sliced ;0

Yay another filler episode inbetween fights. IMO Chad and Kyoraku fight didn't even started.. it was just talking talking talking talking talking. Maybe Pierrot should stop doing shounen-jump themed animes and start hiring new directors that can cut out the filler episodes and a script writer that write less trash talks. Seeing ppl in action isn't boring but seeing fillers inbetween is. It would've been nice to know about Chad's past but maybe not now? maybe save it for later? I'd say Ichigo vs. Kenpachi wouldn't begin fighting until episode 39...

Ah! My Goddess #22

2005-06-23T16:31:00.000-04:00

Urd is still upset because her license suspension. Meanwhile, Marler is trying to release something from an urn she found. Urd tries to work for money, but she's just not used to it yet.. The urn gives Urd power, she turns into lord of terror. Urd was not a pure goddess in the first place. She was a half demon half goddess. Belldandy, Keiichi and Skuld discuss how they would get the real Urd back. Urd arrives and knock Banpei kun out with her robot (The Terrible? I think that's its name..). Keiichi tries to hold the robot back with his BMW turned Robot (coutesy of Skuld). He tells Belldandy to remove all the screws. After it falls, Marler tries to get the upper hand by attacking the unconscious Belldandy. Keiichi got in her way, and he was captured by Marler. She was about to attack Belldandy again but Banpei kun manged to hold her off long enough for Belldandy to wake up. Marler retreated.

I guess this will be the last arc of the first 26 eps. I think AMG need more guest characters, seriously. We're getting too much Urd and Skuld at the moment -_-;; My guess that next ep Belldandy'll probably find something in order to help Urd to get back to her old self.

Sousei No Aquarion #9

2005-06-22T13:26:00.000-04:00

Due to mysterious cases of kids who goes into a coma after they dream, Gen Fudo decided to use the "sleeping" training. Apollo farted at the beginning of the exercise and cause a pillow fight(lol). Once they all go to sleep, Pierre dreamed about his harem, Tsugumi dreamed about fixing a car and a jungle(?), Jun dreamed about having a tea with his neko-robot(?). Apollo sees the beast in a form of a woman named Titania but he was able to smell her and realize she's the enemy. Only 5 of the pilots were able to wake up from their dreams, but Rena didn't see any dream. Apollo, Pierre, and Chloe goes to sleep in the aquarions. When Apollo enters the dream world, Chloe and Pierre were already captured,Titania turn Sirius against Apollo. He can't hurt Sirius in the dream world, because Sirius in the real world would get hurt too. Apollo calls out his vector machine and tell Chloe and Pierre to do the same. They were able to transport their vector to their dreams. They gattai as Solar Aquarion, mugen punch doesn't work. They are captured by Titania tentacle and the Aquarion armor is melting. Sirius said something about the moon in the real world, Silvia knock herself out(lol) and switch with Chloe. They gattai into Luna Aquarion. She breaks the dream world apart and destroyed Titania. Everybody who were lost in the dream returned.

Can Chloe be useful for once? -_-; a pretty funny episode. What a cheesy monster of the week show ;p . I want to see Rena start doing something. When will Gen Fudo's "naked" show up anyway. Me wants to see..

Speed Grapher #9

2005-06-21T17:58:00.000-04:00

Saiga discuss Kagura's condition with Dr. Kyogoku. He said once the results are in he'll send it to Saiga. Ginza is investigating about the sudden deaths of politicians and famous ppl. She goes to Suitengu with a prisoner, and she tries to trade him for information about Saiga, Suitengu refuses and asks her to leave. Elsewhere, Saiga takes Kagura shopping(yay?), she also convinces for Saiga to do so too, but hes not as cute as Kagura (-_-;). Meanwhile, at Tennouzu's headquarters, Shinsen (aka Kagura's mother) meet with the President who's locked up, oh she also has alzheimer. Saiga and Kagura arrived at the onsen where her mother once came. They were told about her story. It seems like her lover died mysteriously. They didn't tell Shinsen at the time because she was already married. Tsujidou's still tracking them, since Kagura didn't take a shower for 2 days. In the middle of the night, Saiga wants to take a picture of Kagura while shes asleep...

Umm, yea nothing vulgar happens in this episode. No monster of the week either. How old is Saiga anyway -_-?

Futakoi Alternative #7

2005-06-20T15:35:00.000-04:00

Sara and Souju were looking around, they ended up at Futaba's detective agency that was owned by Ainosuke. Rentaro's dad who passed away. Back then, Rentaro was a really violent college kid, everyone expects him to follow his dad's footsteps when he quit college. When Sara and Souju came to his office, he tried to tell them that his dad's dead and hes not really running the business. Sara suggests that if he can solve their case he should take over the detective agency, if he can't then don't. The scene cuts to a bathhouse where some random guy with a rambo in his hand is babbling nonsense. Rentaro is pushed underwater by Souju and Sara, who is waiting for openings. She throws Rentaro out to get the dude's attention (with Rentaro's "elephant") and gave him a swift kick to the head. The case that Sara and Souju wants Rentaro to do is actually, to find them. They left him some clues, but he gave up. On his way home from the convenience store he talks to Midori obasan. When he went home he finds a note under the cup of coffee he served Sara&Souju when they 1st came. He takes a bat and takes Gen's bike. He went back to the scary dog's house where he gave up the search to get the last clue and... Sara and Souju are waiting by the riverside, Souju was about to go home but Sara told them to stay a little bit longer because she doesn't want to go back. Rentaro arrived Haruko Furi Kuri style, and tell them that he had found them. It starts to snow.

Nothing important is revealed yet, Im getting confused with the switching back and forth -_-;. What's with ufotable and Gainax? Rentaro was singing Yume no Nakae from KareKano (I think it was sung by Atsuko Enomoto and Suzuki Chihiro? yes no? its on my playlist right now ;p), a super low budget anime directed by Anno which was really good but a disappointing ending >.<
Anyway, I think Gainax references is all over this episode.. with the classical music by Beethoven in the bathhouse scene, and Rentaro going Haruko style, with the baseball bat replacing guitar hmmm. If I remembered correctly I think ep 3 of Furi Kuri also has classical music playing... and yet I still don't understand what Sara and Souju are doing staying with Rentaro and all...

Gundam Seed Destiny #35

2005-06-19T15:25:00.000-04:00

After the destruction of Freedom, the Archangel went undersea. Cagalli went out to get Freedom's cockpit and save Kira. Back in the Minerva's hangar, Shinn taunts Atrhun, so he got punched (FINALLY). The Durandal announcement cause a chaos for those who were with Logos (and probably some who has nothing to do with them). Most of them are killed by mobs but Dijibril escaped. Back in the Archangel, Kira is treated. Murrue visits him, and Neo asks her who was Mwu La Flaga. She tells him that he was an irreplacable comrade, but hes gone. Durandal calls Shin and Athrun and show them their new mobile suits. Legend Gundam and Destiny.

I think Gilbert Durandal is and will be the bad guy here. Shinn is also turning to the dark side. Athrun is also going to defect next week. Obviously, someone's going to help him escape. My guess is that its Lunamaria.

Eyeshield 21 #8

2005-06-19T14:49:00.000-04:00

Continuation from the last episode, Sena keeps getting raped by Shin's spear tackle. During the last 4 minutes Sena finally outrun Shin with a speed of light. Demon Bats still lose 68-12... Shin tells Sena that Oujou will be the one in the Christmas Bowl. Life is back to normal again at school, Sena thought it was all over, that 2 weeks of football. Hiruma reminded him that it's just the beginning and there's more tournaments in the fall. On his way out of school he found some equipment Hiruma left on the field. He starts practicing, Kurita joins him.

"Like the manga" no surprises here. I guess we'll meet the Lizard tongue dude and a receiver next episode (forgot their name). I want more Mamori in the anime though, her role seems somewhat diminished..

Bleach #36

2005-06-16T19:10:00.000-04:00

Rangiku paid a visit to Hinamori, who's in the cell. After some lectures, she gave Hinamori a letter from Aizen retrieved by Hitsugaya. The letter was obviously written right before his death and Hinamori found in shocking msg within it. Meanwhile, Hanataro, Ganju, and Ichigo is running away from a strong spirit pressure. Kenpachi catches up, which causes Hanataro to collapse. Ichigo tells Ganju to take Hanataro and runaway while he takes on Kenpachi. Kenpachi gives Ichigo a free hit but he wasn't able to hurt him. He ended up hurting himself because his spirit power is less than that of Kenpachi.

Yay I was correct about the fight not starting till the next episode. This episode is more like a filler since the first half consists of Hinamori's flashbacks. Gonna have to wait 1 more week...

Gundam Seed Destiny #34

2005-06-12T14:01:00.000-04:00

After Durandal announced that Logos is behind the war, Yuuna panicked. It seems like he is somehow involve with Logos. Cagalli exclaims that many ppl involved with Orb are on the Logos list. Minerva's duty is to commence an attack Archangel. ZAFT forces started firing on the Archangel. The Minerva arrives, Impulse engaged with Freedom. Talia notices that Archangel nor Freedom are not trying to fire a direct hit. She contacted the Archangel and asked them to surrender. Archangel refuses to surrender, Arthur remembers that he saw Murrue san in the Orb's hangar before (lol). The Minerva was about to let the Archangel escape but ZAFT forces resume the attack. Shinn goes into seed mode. Kira slices Impulse's head off. Shinn kamikazed the core splender at Kira and tell Meyrin to send him a new one. Shinn uses the sword from Silhouette parts and damages Freedom, he then stabbed Freedom right through the stomach (how'd Kira survive?).

If Kira could just KILL he would've owned every single mobile suits out there, his flaw is that he wouldn't dare to kill the pilot. Give it up sissy, you've killed about 1208321739218 soldiers in the last war nobody would care if you killed 12837218 more. Stupid Kira, Athrun should stop telling ppl to stop attacking Archangel and Freedom too if he doesn't want to go to jail and get raped. He is on a ZAFT battleship and hes a FAITH officer, either stay in ZAFT or rejoin Archangel. Pick one. Durandal appears to have a hidden agenda after all, I doubt some of the ppl on the list is actually involved with Logos. Shinn goes on a berserk and have a little laugh to himself after he destroyed Freedom, this kid needs some serious help. On a side note, Shinn fighting style in this ep reminds me of Uso Evin in V-Gundam =]

Ah! My Goddess #21

2005-06-10T19:11:00.000-04:00

Keiichi is changed back to his male form thanks to Urd. Skuld wants an angel like Belldandy. When Urd was adopted (I guess?) by Bell's family, she wanted to be like Belldandy. She called out to her angel when she was a child, but when it appears, she was scared of it and told it to never appear again. Skuld made a trouble-making machine which causes her to go unconscious, Belldandy's angel has no effect on the machine, so she told Urd to use her angel. Urd doesn't want to try because she knew that she was a half demon herself and that angel was very loyal to its master, it would probably never appear again. Finally, Urd calls out her angel and clean up after Skuld's mess. The next day, they get a phone call from God telling Urd that her license is suspended because she left her post (to go help Belldandy and Keiichi in the last episode). So, she won't be able to use her angel until the suspension period is over.

Urd looks extra sexy in this episode, rawr. Belldandy and Urd were looking very ~~lolicious~~ pretty when they were little ;3 Skuld antics led them to trouble again. She needs to calm down and start doing something useful. Whatever happen to Sayoko anyway? She's MIA, we need more of her too.

Bleach #35

2005-06-09T19:23:00.000-04:00

After they found Aizen’s body. Gin arrives with his carefree sayings, which obviously made Hinamori remembers what Hitsugaya told her, to beware of the 3^rd squad. Hinamori tries to attack Gin but Kira stops her. Kira and Hinamori released their Zampaktou power for a little bit until Hitsugaya stops them. Back to Ichigo’s party, they are fully healed thanks to Hanataro. They go back to where they fought Renji in order to enter the tower. Both Ichigo’s group and Chad is entering the stairs to the tower. Cpt. Kyoraku is heading out for Chad, while Kenpachi takes care of the Ichigo group.

Kenpachi finally found Ichigo (although I doubt the fight will begin in the next episode instead of ep #37). I forgot what happened next.. didn't start reading the manga again until around cp. 174, sorry. No More ANGST and random power ups during fights please >.<~!

Eyeshield 21 #7

2005-06-09T18:22:00.000-04:00

Continuation from the last episode, Oujou 7-6ed Demon bats, Sena is outrunned by Shin. Takami is learning from his mistake and throw a clear, short pass. Oujou continues to own Demon Devil Bats in the 1^st and 2^nd quarter. Sena is giving up. Oujou coach yelled at Sakuraba for having poor performance, and having a sponsor seal on his gear will lead to an injury. His sponsor gave Sakuraba another one so he puts it on.. Sena was about to leave after making lame excuses about Eyeshield not wanting to play, but he decided not to because everybody is also trying their best to win. He decided to try his best for the 2^nd half. The score is 56-6 with only 4:55 minutes left, and Hiruma is calling it quits. Sena convinces Hiruma to stay, so he can beat Shin.

I thought they'd wrapped up the Oujou vs. Demon Bats in this episode, apparently not. Anyway, the animation was REALLY bad in this episode.. I think all the key animators died or something.. cuz All I see is rotating clips, a still frame, and moving lips.

Futakoi Alternative #6

2005-06-07T21:33:00.000-04:00

Rentaro, Sara, and Souju goes to Futagozuka (from Futakoi). This is where his mom used to live when she died. His mom divorced his dad when she had him. He has a flashback when he sees his dad actually crying for the first time. He asks his dad why did he seperate from his mom even though they loved each other.. His dad says he wonders why... It turns out that the one who invited Rentaro to an onsen are childhood friends of his. It was Kaoruko and Sumireko.. Back when they were also at his mom funeral, they were crying, Rentaro comfort them by promising to make them his bride. Sara and Souju are kind of upset, they goes into the onsen when Rentarou is, and they embraced him. Rentaro hears someone coming, so he tells them that ppl are coming in and tries to get away. Sara gave him a slap on the face =[ Before they left Kaoruko and Sumireko gets a mean look from Sara -_-; Then Sara&Souju run off without saying a thing. Kaoruko and Sumireko goes to apologize to them, if they knew he had such pretty girlfriends, they wouldn't have invited him. Sumireko and Kaoruko tells Sara&Souju that the marriage thing doesn't matter anymore because nobody believes in the curse of Nikogami anyway, it's all acting. Sara tells them that once they turn 16, they won't be together with Rentaro anymore... Back at Rentaro's office some dude (we don't see his face) is making a phone call in front of his office... Sara&Souju left for Tokyo, Sumireko and Kaoruko inform Rentaro, he rushes back to his office by train, Sara and Souju are there, he embraced them telling them that he doesn't understand.. Sara suggests they should continue what they were doing at the onsen.

Rentaro doesn't understand blah blah, I don't understand either, why do they have to leave him when they're 16 anyway. What role does Lala&Lulu play in this series? are they just there for commercial break? I guess Sara&Souju will leave Rentaro soon, since their birthday is coming up. ARG, I don't get this~! Hopefully (some)more mysteries will be revealed by the next episode..

Gundam Seed Destiny #33

2005-06-05T12:45:00.000-04:00

Shinn put Stellar to rest in an Aerith’s FF7 style. Back in Minerva, Shinn is watching video of Freedom in action. Athrun enters trying to stop Shinn but Rey stops them. In the Minerva, Neo wakes up but he doesn’t remember that he was at one point, Mwu La Flaga. Back on plant, Durandal broadcasts and shows a footage of Destroy (no Freedom was captured in the frame =] ). Meer joins Durandal in his speech. Kira and the real Lacus doesn’t look pleased. Durandal announced that Logos is behind the war. Dijibril was also in one of the pictures.

We also get to see a clip of ppl in Logos including an Azrail, maybe hes Azrael’s dad? Japanese are bad at engrish ;-[ Anyway this episode was kinda boring, since all that happens was Shinn angst / talking. Athrun should consider which side he’s in before he said something. He’s in ZAFT right now and he shouldn’t be stopping ppl from watching Freedom Gundam clips. Maybe he’ll defect and join Kira again who knows. The next episode will be Archangel vs. Minerva. Time for new mobile suits and Bandai marketing. Yay?

Speed Grapher #8

2005-06-03T19:25:00.000-04:00

Somewhere out there Suitengu charges himself with electricity. He goes over to some warehouse. The scientist there told him that they've been keeping Kagura from hitting puberty with injections, and they say that she might be hitting it any time now. Back at doctor Kyogoku's place, Suitengu's men are ready to storm the place. While the goons wait outside and hold their position the dentist goes in to deal with Saiga. Saiga put the doctor Kyogoku and Kagura in the basement. Saiga then fights the dentist, he’s injured. He then pulled out uses the camera that’s strap to his body to break free from all the tentacles. He then blows the windows to get the smoke out because the accuracy of his camera is reduced when there’s smoke in the focus. The dentist is exposed and killed. He then uses his big camera to deal with the remaining goons outside.

I’m not making any speculations yet since nothing has been revealed so far (that includes the REAL OP animation, yes I'm still waiting for that). Saiga is pretty much invisible now, he can recover from anything. Blah, those Euphoria died so easily. Why can’t Suitengu’s just go deal with Saiga by himself. I’m sure everything would end nicely instead of sending useless sickos against Saiga. Anyway, onsen next week :3 Uncle loli better not touch Kagura

Bleach #34

2005-06-02T17:41:00.000-04:00

Ichigo (and Renji if you care) is severely injured from the fight. Ganju and Hanataro carried Ichigo off to the underground tunnel and managed to heal him temporarily. Kira and Hinamori-chan was going to Renji to the 4th squad so they could heal him, but Capt. Kuchiki told them to put Abarai in a cell. Gin came and tell them that he'll get the 4th squad to take care of Renji. After Gin and Kira leaves, Hitsugaya comes by and tell Hinamori to be careful of Gin and the 3rd squad. All the shinigami captains hold a meeting, a state of war is declared. In the underground tunnel, Hanataro comments that Ichigo was lucky to have a (hollow)masks in his clothes so the wound from Renji was really shallow. Hinamori has a flashback about when Abarai, Kira, and herself were in the academy and recalled that Renji has something to do with Rukia. Hinamori goes to talk to Aizen. She fell asleep while watching him. Hinamori wakes up in the morning, rush to the court because she was late, but what she found was Aizen's dead body.

Well as some of you may know, Aizen is not really dead. Finally its the beginning of the current arc of the manga (which lasts really really long..). Poor Hinamori chan, such a loyal servant. She's so easily manipulated by Aizen = ( then again, so is Kira. I wonder why they have to declare "a state of war" on such a few intruders. Is it even that big of a deal? does it ever happened before?

Ah! My Goddess #20

2005-06-01T20:56:00.000-04:00

Skuld and Urd left to heaven. Keiichi ate Skuld's pudding. He turns into a girl (but his manhood's still there). Skuld left a note that she'll return him to a normal state when she comes back. Belldandy got sick while she was trying to fix Keiichi with a medicine. The sempais, Megumi, and Hasegawa comes over. Keiichi cross dresses, the sempais are somehow attracted to him.. Keiichi, being an idiot that he is, couldn't keep Megumi(not the sempais and Hasegawa though) from noticing for long.. He tries to call to heaven many times but failed, finally Belldandy was able to tell him the correct way to call heaven. He called up Urd who gives him advice about how to make the medicine. He goes to the tokyo tower to get some wind crystals but the security guards kinda caught him in the act. Skuld saves the day. Urd makes the medicine, but since Belldandy is unconscious, she lets Keiichi do a mouth to mouth. Belldandy is cured and everything is back to normal.

Keiichi and Bell first kiss (if you call it that). Too bad he was still in a female state, oh well that doesn't really count, since he's really a man. I guess we'll have to wait for episode 40 for something like this to happen again eh?

Speed Grapher #7

2005-05-31T19:02:00.000-04:00

Saiga called up Bob and gets a new camera. Now we get to see the new Euphoria of the week, a dentist, with bugs-like tentacles installed with a dentist’s tools. Ginza gets pissed that all the goons she captured at Saiga’s place is released due to Suitengu’s influence. She goes off on her own to find out what’s going on. Kagura gets a sudden headache. They go to Saiga’s friend who’s a doctor. Doctor Ryougoku tells Kagura about Saiga’s past. He’s a war photographer (w/ bad engrish communication with a supposedly American photographer). Ryougoku tells Saiga that Kagura has a brain tumor and she has about 6 months left to live.

A rather slow episode with no monster of the week. That dentist looks really creepy and I get the feeling that he somehow belongs in a H-series lol. Kagura has about 6 months 2 live, 18 more episodes to go. They really need to keep the quality of the animation though, it’s very inconsistent and annoying when you see the same character looking different in every episodes.

Sousei No Aquarion #8

2005-05-30T14:02:00.000-04:00

Jun and Tsugumi are excited about their first unification. Jun asks Pierre for advice (whom I think is talking about a "different" unification, while Tsugumi asks Reika. After Jun, Tsugumi, and Reika finished their 1st training unification. Tsugumi gets excited and when she does, things blow up. A kelbim soldier appears nearby, Apollo, Jun, and Tsugumi were supposed launch. Tsugumi got scared so she didn't go. She has a flashback about her pasts, how everybody hated her b/c she blow things up. Pierre takes her place (3 guys gattai..). They unite as Solar Aquarion, Jun gets a nosebleed(wtf?). The enemy's armor is too thick, their moves has no effect on it. Pierre gets injured. Reika replaces him. Reika's hit. Jun realizes that Tsugumi has an ability to blow things up. Tsugumi finally comes and replaces Reika. They united as Aquarion Lunar. Jun uses his ability to see through stuff so Tsugumi could blow it up from inside.

Another funny episode, I guess there'll be a couple more new "unification patterns" episodes until we get to the real plot. Tsugumi still has a crush on Reika, oh my, Sirius vs. Tsugumi. WTF is wrong with Jun anyway, getting a nosebleed after uniting w/ Apollo and Pierre!??? I guess he's more ecchi than I thought. Finally, Tsugumi and Jun can be (a little)useful. For once.

Ah! My Goddess #19

2005-05-29T11:21:00.000-04:00

Urd tries to make a love snack so that Keiichi will make a move on Belldandy, Skuld messes with the ingredients while Urd was watching TV. Belldandy ended up eating it instead. Apparently it made Belldandy an "easy woman" for 24 hours (I know y'all wanted to see that happen..). As you'd expect, Belldandy takes Keiichi pansu shopping and other un-Belldandy activities. Just as they were about to do it in church, the medicine wears off and Belldandy returns to her normal self. Keiichi is saved (and probably disappointed).

Not much fanservice to begin with, just a lot of unusual Belldandy. What's with the church in the middle of nowhere though.. isn't Belldandy a goddess? geez they were about to do it in the house of god.. Not that we see Belldandy like this very often though~

Gundam Seed Destiny 32

2005-05-29T10:05:00.000-04:00

Continuation from the last episode, Destroy continues to destroy every ZAFT forces in many nearby town. Freedom and the Archangel intervenes the destruction. Freedom's beam rifle has no effect on Destroy, due to a field (probably I-field). Kira manages to use his Jedi skills and reflect all the beams away with his lightsaber. Stellar then transform Destroy into a mobile suit mode. The Gottfried cannon from the Archangel also has no effect on destroy. Destroy launched its hand and it turns into a funnel chasing Freedom. Back on Plant, they decided to send Minerva in to stop it, even though its battle capabilities are limited due to destroyed mobile suits and injured pilots. Cagalli launched with a few former-orb astray unit. Cagalli and the orb units take care of Sting, while Kira handles Destroy. Kira goes into seed mode. Shinn launched in impulse. Shinn cuts Destroy torso and damages it. Neo hits Shinn and tells him that Stellar is the one piloting Destroy. He zooms in on the cockpit and it was her. Freedom fires at Destroy cockpit and damages it. Freedom disable Neo's Windam. Murrue sees that it was actually Mwu.. Sting tries to escape when he saw that Neo was shot down but he was gang banged by the Astray unit and was eventually destroyed. Shinn goes after Kira to stop him from firing at Destroy. Shinn comes close to Destroy and tells her its him. They have a telepathy communication (Newtype??). Freedom descends a bit but Stellar cought it in her sight and remembered that he was the one who shot Neo down. She was about to fire again but Freedom destroy it by putting a couple lightsabers in Destroy. Murrue found Mwu, Shinn found Stellar's body nearby. Stellar dies telling Shinn she loves him (very cheesy). Shinn screams just like when his sister died.

The better episodes in Seed Destiny, Neo finally gets taken down by Kira, Murrue finally found him. What will she do? Sting met his demise here after being out for so long and being such a good pilot. He was killed by 3 Astrays, and during the course of this war, I could see him taking about 10 Ginns at once. I guess he sucks after Auel's gone, no more love for him. I could see that Stellar is about to die from a mile away, this past couple of episodes looks more like a rip off from Z Gundam when Jerid killed Four Murasame (and btw, the Astray unit's name is Murasame..). How did she ended up outside Destroy's cockpit after it exploded anyway. Kira plays the role of Jerid here, one could wonder how he'll die (getting thrown into an exploding battleship like Jerid is really bad..). Who's going to be the bad guy now? Blue Cosmos? Shinn? Kira? One of them has to die.. either Shinn or Kira..

Welcome to the real world...

2005-05-28T21:30:00.000-04:00

I thought I'd like to share my nightmares after seeing this in my mailbox...

Sousei No Aquarion #7

2005-05-28T13:03:00.000-04:00

Silvia has a flashback about her past life. She was about to be killed by Toma, Apollonius intervenes and she passed out. When she woke up they disappeared. Sirius believes that Taiyou No Tsubasa is fake. A beast appears, Apollo, Silvia, and Sirius launched. They faced a 10 sided thing w/ beautiful lights(??). It appears that the 10 sided geometric pattern are affecting their thought processes. It's absorbing the pilot's negative mental energy. They unwillingly unite as Aquarion Mars, Sirius believes he's the one who deserves to be Taiyou No Tsubasa. While Apollo is going on about not taking orders from anyone. Reika uses her spirit arrow to connect w/ Sirius. Sirius manages to get a grip of himself and used the negative energy which is the power of jealousy and defeat the geometrical shape.

Weird Sirius (so much angst now) episode. It also seems like Sirius and Toma's fascination of beauty will lead them to meet each other somewhere along the lines. I'd say Sirius probably defect. Blah I still wanted more of Fudo's antics though. Sirius is so boring =[

Futakoi Alternative #5

2005-05-27T22:44:00.000-04:00

Another episode about one unusual week for Rentaro. Sara&Souju will usually will be leave for a few days during certain time, but this time, they've been gone for a week. Rentaro gets hired by Ui and Koi to find a maltese puppy. Work is hard without their help and Rentaro looks like he's about to die any minute now. They came back after 9 days but there was nothing like "i'm back" or "welcome home" (must've been really awkward..). They started looking for the dog together. Later during the night, Rentaro ask the Yakuza boss if he ever took his wife on a trip. Boss told him that it was a long time ago, at an onsen. Rentaro is thinking about taking Sara&Souju to an onsen trip. Later, the idiot maltese eventually return to its owner by itself.

Poor Rentaro, he probably didn't get money for all the posters he put up. Ui and Koi gets no screentime (pretty much like most of the other twins). I wonder why Sara and Souju leaves w/ no explanation at all. Why do they even stay with Rentaro anyway? I'm guessing that something involving Sara&Souju leaving would probably come up soon. I have no idea which direction this show is going because nothing is clear as of this point (Rentaro's dad, and the err.. jelly like thing in the 1st episode, the octopus monster, what exactly is Lulu and Lala), oh well Onsen next episode, that's all I care about for now ; )

Bleach #33

2005-05-26T17:21:00.000-04:00

One day, the Kurosaki-sisters found a cat that falls from the sky and it looks like Ichigo. A bunch of hollow is after it. Ururu, Jinta, and Don tries to help. They (kind of) form a sentai squad to eliminate hollows. Too many was chasing after the cat, the hollows unite as one. Yuzu fell from the building, and the cat transform into a lion (that looks and probably has the same ability as Rayearth..) and saves her. Yuzu realizes that she met the cat before, but it dies due to a car accident. It disappears afterwards.

RIP Raku or w/e your name is. I hope I don't have to see you ever again in future episodes ; ) Just when things start to get rolling in the soul society, they had to use this semi-filler episode. Really really bad timing, they could’ve really save it for later since it has nothing to do with the current story arc at all. Don useless blabbing in engrish doesn’t help either, it’s very irritating to hear him talk, because none of it make sense and it isn’t even funny (maybe for children 4 yrs of age..). The quality of the ED animation seems to be dropping too, most of them are just camera panning across the screen. At the very least, the earlier ed animation has some movements. I felt bad for the rest of the squad captains that are not in the ed sequence yet.. no more animation for you suckers =] Did they run out of budget or something? I mean Ichigo vs.s Renji fights sure wasn’t interesting because most of it is trash talking and endless yabbing and there’s barely any animation at all. Keep up the pacing please, I don’t care if it goes faster than the manga anymore.. no more no more NO MORE~!

Eyeshield 21#5&6

2005-05-24T18:37:00.000-04:00

Oujou White Knights (supposedly "best defense in japan") vs Devil bats(newbies), Sena almost made a 1 round touchdown at first but he fumbles (I thought that was suppose to be interception but Hiruma calls it "almost intercepted" oh well..), Kurita saves the day by saving in the ball in the nick of time. Devil bats was able to score first due to Shin's absence as a line backer (Even Shinryuji Naka, the "strongest team" in the region came to watch him ;o). N0w it's Oujou's turn to offense. -Scream like a little japanese girls- Sakuraba Kun~! is now in the field, although he's really not that good offense player, he's just tall. Devil Bats are using the goal line defense right away, they are trying to get Sena to intercept using Takami (Oujou's quarterback) overconfidence that Sena wouldn't be able to intercept. Well Sena did intercept but he fumbles, but Hiruma cought it in time. He passes to Sena, he was 13 yards to touchdown but was push out to the sidelines. They gain another 5 yards. The Oujou coach finally put Shin (the strongest linebacker in Japan) on the field. Sena kept getting tackled by him. Shin counters and made a touchdown.

It was kinda funny that Hiruma remarks that Oujou White Knights had the best defense in Japan after running the kickoff back to the their 40 yard line lol. Shin finally show off his skills as a linebacker with the spear tackle. The next episode seems to be the last episode for this match. Sena's gonna need to build up those muscles (and maybe grow a few inches..) in order to match Shin next time =]

Ah! My Goddess #18

2005-05-23T17:52:00.000-04:00

Megumi got 2 tickets for Keiichi to take Belldandy to the beach, unfortunately Skuld and Urd tags along. Keiichi is trying his best to move his relationship forward. Urd offers some help, but Skuld refuses to lose Belldandy. After Keiichi suffers from a robot that self-destructed, angel land mines, and a possible drowning situations. He was able to get Belldandy where they are completely alone. He was about to say an important sentence but Skuld flew right between them, so the sentence kinda apply to Skuld instead...

Ouch, Keiichi is one unlucky guy. He almost kissed Belldandy in this ep though, but we all know he's not gonna do anything like that until probably the last episode.. I think their relationship kinda move even more backwards after this incident..poor Keiichi. Lots of Belldandy fanservice coming up next episode though~

Gundam Seed Destiny #30&31

2005-05-22T16:30:00.000-04:00

I've just realized that i forgot to blog the last ep, oh well it only consists of flashbacks of Shinn and Stellar and him returning Stellar back to Neo (with a little help from Rey). Neo promises to Shinn that he wouldn't let Stellar pilot and take her somewhere so that she wouldn't die.

Continuing from the last ep, Shinn is arrested. Athrun reminded him that she's still an Earth Alliance pilot. Rey bit them in the ass by saying that it's done and there's nothing they can do about it now.. Then we get a Neo shower scene this time, apparently he has lots of scars (is this suppose to be Mitsuo Fukuda's kind of fan service? -_-;). Somewhere in Northern Russia, Destroy Gundam is completed and Stellar will be its pilot. Sting doesn't really like it, because he thinks it should've gone to him, but Neo told him that Stellar was better suited according to the data.. Back at the Minerva, Shinn is pardoned due to his past accomplishments.. Back to somewhere in Northern Russia, ZAFT clashes with EA, Destroy destroyed the whole ZAFT army along with the nearby town. All ZAFT forces are to proceed to the location. Kira also launched in Freedom.

This reminds me of Z-Gundam, with the snow and the appearance of Psycho mark 1. Maybe Sting will play the role of Jerid (or Neo possibly), I can see Stellar's death coming up soon. She definitely can't live after this. Its kinda impossible if she doesn't die along with a mobile suit like that, because she can't really go back to pilot something smaller (because I've never seen something like it happen in the past gundam series..). Kira is going to join the fun too, and Shinn managed to be an ass to Athrun again, I hope he dies too, it's really annoying to see him breaking every possible military rules.

Bleach #32

2005-05-21T12:44:00.000-04:00

An episode about Renji and Rukia's past.. Back when they were kids, they were living in a really crappy district (I thought it was suppose to be so-called "heaven"). There were 5 of them and they lived as a family... Ten years passed, only Rukia and Renji outlived the town, which is full of thieves and murderers. They were the only one who had the spirit power needed to become shinigamis, so they decided to become one themselves since they had nothing left in that town. Rukia was then adopted by the Kuchiki clan, leaving Renji in the academy training by himself...

Haha, the story didn't go anywhere(again). They could've reduced Renji long-ass narrating to half of the episode though.. I mean it's not like there's that much animation going on anyway aside from the moving lips and panning camera. Otherwise, a nice episode about Renji and Rukia (she's so short..). No more Renji narrating please..

Sousei No Aquarion #6

2005-05-20T21:59:00.000-04:00

Today's lesson, to communicate with your partner using their "aura" only. Sirius is Reika's partner, Apollo as Pierre, and Tsugumi with Silvia. During the night, Sirius practice w/ Reika, and his arrow finally reaches her heart. A harvesting beast appears, Sirius, Silvia and Apollo launched as Aquarion Mars. Too bad the new Kelbim soldier can read all its move, so they transform into Aquarion Luna w/ Silvia as the head. Silvia and Sirius fails to aim properly -_-, so they transform into Aquarian Solar by Fudo's orders. Apollo asks Sirius and Silvia to lend him their powers. His punch even reached the moon (managed to miss the satellite orbiting earth by a little bit..).

Gen Fudo's training... It's so much fun ; ) When will Silvia accept that Sirius doesn't like her? Someone needs to remind her that in the future, where population is scarce, incess increases the chance of having disabled babies. Poor Reika though, she's a very unlucky person (especially when she's around Sirius). Having things falls on you all the time sucks. Anyway, Some part of my brain just reminded me that in the 1st episode or so, the vampire girl bit Apollo. What does that do? Will we see it again soon..? Also, during the gattai sequence, Silvia gets more pleasure from uniting with Apollo rather than Sirius ; )

Speed Grapher #5&6

2005-05-20T17:54:00.000-04:00

Now that Saiga saved Kagura, they have to find a place to stay, apparently Saiga likes to stay at a (gay)night club. Another Euphoria, Madam Koganei appears to be hired by Suitengu to get Kagura back. She can turn into a diamond woman o_o and Saiga's camera has no effect on her. Suitengu was shot in the knee a couple of times by Kagura's mother due to his failure. It appears that he healed and can walk normally now. Madam Diamond pwned Saiga and took Kagura, demanding a sum of a lot of money from Suitengu. After Saiga recovers, he goes to Madam Diamond place, but she takes Kagura as her hostage. Saiga sprays something(alcohol? ether? oil?) on her so he was able to damage her diamond parts. Saiga and Kagura left without killing her. Suitengu arrives at Madam's house and finish her off with a YuGiOh-like hand -_- invisible cutting skills like someone in Tsukihime. Good bye, Madam Diamond =]

The animation in this episode was terrible.. Did they waste all their budget on Basilisk? It seems like Suitengu is also a Euphoria, I wonder how Saiga will defeat someone with that kinda skills.

More PS3 Updates

2005-05-16T20:53:00.000-04:00

Source: Gconsole / Jeux-france

- PS3

Here's the game list -_-
Tekken -- Namco.

Killzone -- Guerilla

Vision Gran Turismo -- Polyphony Digital

Formula One -- Sony Liverpool

Untitled Old West Game -- Rockstar

Oh-Ni -- Koei

Mobile Suit Gundam -- Bandai

Devil May Cry 4 -- Capcom

Super Gory Wolfensdtein Style FPS -- Insomniac

Metal Gear Solid 4 -- Konami

PYEdentify Voice Recognition Game -- SCEA

Fifth Phantom Saga -- Sega

Heavenly Sword -- Sony

Warhawk -- Incognito

Killing Day -- Ubisoft

Motor Storm -- Evolution

Unrelevant E3 updates.

2005-05-16T19:45:00.000-04:00

- Final Fantasy XI is coming to XBOX

- Playstation 3 Specs

~Definitely using Blu Ray
~Will support CR-ROM, CDR+W, DVD, DVD-ROM, DVD-R, DVD+R.
~Cell processor will run at 3.2 Ghz 2.18 teraflops
~256mb XDR main RAM 3.2 Ghz
~256MB GDDR VRAM - 700 mhz
~Memory Stick Duo,SD slot, compact flash memory slot, Compact flash slot, 2 hdmi outputs, 1 av multi out, 1 SPDIF optical output, and 1-gigabit Ethernet built in port
~2.5 Inch HDD slot
~6 USB ports
~Backwards compatibility w/PS2 + PSOne (DVD, CD)
Blu-ray disc format
Cell processor @ 3.2ghz
Cell can communicate to RSX @ 35gigs/sec
Xdr memory
Powerpc base core @ 3.2ghz
7x spe @ 3.2ghz
Graphics engine RSX @ 550mhz
128bit pixel precision (vs. current generation's 32bit)
300 million transistors on RSX
Up to 1080 progressive support
266k gddr3 vram @ 700mhz
4 front, 2 rear USB 2.0 slots
Memory sticks SD card x1, compact flash x1, Pro x1
Av multi output x1
Didigital audio output
2.5" hard drive slot
Built in wireless, 802.11g
Bluetooth
Built in gigabit Ethernet
Internet browsing
Up to 7 controllers (?)
HD compatible
HDR (high dynamic range lighting)
512MB video ram
~Wireless controller charge through USB
~PSP / (and maybe iPod) support

- Kingdom Hearts will have Jack Sparrow from Pirates of the Caribbean.

- The official name for then new Zelda is The Legend of zelda : Twilight Princess

- FFXII has godly CG sequences

- Sony and Toshiba failed to agreed on Blu Ray and HD-DVD issues, they are going their separate ways with Hollywood and the leading IT company that will back up one of them (forget who's Sony's with..). The latest HD DVD will have 3 layers and can contain 45GB O_O

- Resident Evil 4 for PS2 has blocky graphics and bad colors...

- Bill Gates plan to release Halo 3 when PS3 is released (lol).

Sorry for not updating anime blogs, I'm currently focusing on my projects and E3 right now lol I'll catch up soon.

Futakoi Alternative #4

2005-05-13T22:49:00.000-04:00

Rentaro meet some gothlolis. I guess they are trying to stop the land shark.. the Yakuza leader (from the 1^st ep) decided to try and get rid of Gothloli Kamen. Rentaro knows that they are, they are actaully Yura and Kira, the daughters of the Yakuza leader himself. Rentaro takes them to his place and decided to help them, so Sara and Souju disguise as Gothlolis, while Kira and Yura go and get all the accounts of the dealings in the safe at their father’s place. In the end, Kira and Yura doesn’t want hand it to the authorities, they confessed to their father.. Rentaro cell phone rings while he’s asleep.

I wonder why nobody knows who they are except Rentaro, I mean he’s not even that smart (then again, they are Yakuzas..). I’m starting to get bored though, the later eps has no action like the 1^st one at all, I want to see some more of that 1^st ep style ~_~

Bleach #31

2005-05-13T21:18:00.000-04:00

Ichigo finally defeats Renji w/ angst -_- (yes, it does takes up the whole episode).

Sousei No Aquarion #5

2005-05-13T12:06:00.000-04:00

Today's mission: Search for Apollo ^_^ ordered by Gen Fudo. Of course, the dungeon that Apollo is in has many traps (lol). Sirius tries to stalk Reika. It also seems like Tsugumi has some weird abilities to blow things up when she's nervous. Reika also suffers from "constantly unlucky" syndrome, Sirius tries to hit on her anyway. Reika, Sirius, Pierre, and Silvia meet up, but they're not willing to work together (which is the purpose of the mission or so Gen Fudo says..). Apollo found the vector hanger, he launched, Pierre and Silvia follows him in their own vector. A harvesting beast appears, Apollo wasn't going to go help Pierre and Silvia at first but he does anyway. We get to see Pierre's past back when he was a soccer player. All his friends were harvested during a soccer game, except him. They unite as Aquarion Mars and defeat the underground enemy with Pierre's phoenix kick. The harvesting beast was going to escape again, so they changed to Solar Aquarion, but they failed to follow the havesting beast again.. Apollo yells that he'll definitely go to Atlantis to save Baron.

Advent Children New Famitsu Scans

2005-05-12T21:29:00.000-04:00

I guess Cat Sith is in this after all = ) that's all there is to it >.<

Ah! My Goddess #17

2005-05-11T18:50:00.000-04:00

Sempais enter Hasegawa in an all-female go-cart race. Belldandy wants to help her so, Hasegawa'll move in and stay w/ them for the time being. Skuld also build a race track around the shrine so Hasegawa could practice. Hasegawa still sucks and remain a whiny loser. Belldandy made Hasegawa sit on her while she's driving =). Although Belldandy and the others have been encouraging her to do better and not give up, she's still not confident if she'll actually win the race. The morning of the race, she pretends to have a stomachache. Belldandy convinces her to go to the race. The episode ends w/ Hasegawa in a go-cart waiting to fire up her engine : )

My favorite episode out of the first 17, poor Hasegawa, she can't do anything right. I was really glad on how the staff ended this episode. Instead of letting Hasegawa wins the race (which would've been really cheesy), they just end it. I want more eps like this please~

Crap, I still can't find a new img host T.T

Owned by bandwidth.

2005-05-10T18:01:00.000-04:00

haha, the reason I haven't update lately is because my free image hosting site decided to delete my account due to excessive bandwidth usage (ugh). I'm currently trying to find a new (free) picture host since I'm cheap and I'm still a student without credit card. Anyway, I really despite imageshack for a certain reason therefore I won't be using it. I'll try to find a free image host as soon as possible, since I have the updates ready anyway but I can't seem to find a good host without bandwidth restrictions. If you guys have any recommendations post it in the shoutbox or comment box..

Final Fantasy VII Advent Children release date

2005-05-09T20:41:00.000-04:00

14 September 2005,
Finally after seeing all those screenshots...
Normal ver:4,800 yen
Special ver(probably PSP): Undecided

There'll be some more news in V-Jump next week issue. Ha finally we'll get to see 3 p0rn star in tight black leather fighting Cloud in a DBZ-like movie =]

Gundam Seed Destiny #29

2005-05-08T15:06:00.000-04:00

Gilbert is thinking about the old times, where he played chess w/ Raww Le Kluze. He thought about when he and Talia were engaging in a relationship. It seems that she wants to have a child. She breaks up w/ Gilbert and walks off w/ another man. Other than that, Gilbert is yapping to himself for the whole episode, imagining that Raww, himself in the past, and a young kid (Rey..) is there w/ him.

Yet another recap episode, whats worse is that its a recap episode of Seed (as if we don't get enough of recap from seed already). I thought the last episode was a good pick up on action, now Mitsuo Fukuda's back to his usual "Flashbacks" self again. I'm guessing that Rey is Raww's clone and Talia had known Gilbert before the war after all. I hope things pick up again next ep because I can't stand anymore flashbacks.. who knows, maybe we'll get another "SEED EDITED" eps. Next ep preview let us see that Impulse is flying away and it cuts back to Stellar, I guess Shinn'll be returning Stellar to Earth Alliance after all.

Speed Grapher #4

2005-05-08T13:52:00.000-04:00

Kagura found out that Saiga is a freelance photographer, who ususally works around Middle East, Africa, Southeast Asia. Saiga get some info about Suitengu's club from Ookubo, a politician (or someone). I guess the country is run by ppl who likes mass orgies. Saiga went to get some information about Kagura at her school. He managed to lock the teacher up and disguise himself as a substitute, who'll be teaching Kagura at her home. Saiga called Ginza for some assistance.While Saiga is escaping w/Kagura, Ginza (and a lot of cops) will stay at Saiga's waiting for Suitengu's men. Suitengu's calls on the elastic leather man to deal Saiga. Saiga tells Kagura to escape while he deal w/ the elastic man. The elastic man tells Saiga that a Euphoria will die when his head is taken off, so Saiga took his advice and take a picture of a mirror w/ the reflection of the elastic man's head in it. Boom.

Yay finally we to see some action in this ep (although not a lot). I thought elastic man would've lasted longer though, he died so fast. I didn't know that Ginza had this much power too =[ now that Kagura the goddess is no longer at the club, things'll probably be bad for Suitengu and he can no longer create ppl w/ the Euphoria factor. I wonder what Kagura's mother would say to him.

Other than that, I don't know whats going on @ Myfilehut, since most of my images are hosted there and now its gone for some reason + I don't have a copy of those images... Oh well, that's what you get for being a student w/ little income T.T

Ichigo 100% #5

2005-05-07T12:29:00.000-04:00

A continuation from the last ep, Junpei talks w/ Nishino in a nearby park, she's currently taking lessons in a cooking school. Junpei talks to Toujo and convince her to join the film club. The club decided that they would go on a trip during the summer. Junpei invites Toujo to his house. They watched a video together.. Satsuki called to discuss where they are staying for the summer and notice that Toujo is at Manaka's. Too bad for Manaka, Toujo stained his "precious" p0rn mag w/ drinks. Nishino is looking for Manaka's house, Oukasa is apparently around, so he decided to show her where it is. Everybody comes over at Manaka's. Sensei gives Manaka some precious memories of his youth. Yui, Oukasa, and Nishino joins the fun and confusion... The film club goes to the summer camp trip. Satsuki tries to make a move on Manaka but Manaka, being the person that he is, he didn't do anything to her.. well, Satsuki actually has a fever at the time, because she was hyper for the whole day. But Manaka took care of her for the night =]

I think this episode was done pretty nicely, despite the nothing-really-happens-plot. It was a pretty fast-paced ep, but they cut a lot of things from the manga. Poor Toujo&Nishino though, Satsuki is currently hogging up all the screentime. Other than that, Satsuki and Manaka relationship pretty much stayed the same.

Bleach #30

2005-05-04T18:20:00.000-04:00

Ichigo, Hanatarou, and Ganju escaped to the underground water tunnel. Ichigo asks Hanatarou why he is helping them. Hanatarou explained because Rukia was nice to him and that she talks about Ichigo most of the time. After getting out on the closest exit to the tower, Ichigo faces Renji, who is waiting for him. Ken-chan is waiting to see the results of Ichigo vs. Renji from afar. Meanwhile, Ishida and Inoue are wasting time talking, while Chad is running desperately looking for one of them.. Finally, after taking a couple of attacks, Abarai transform his Zabimaru and gives Ichigo a beating.

Finally something happens. Abarai vs. Ichigo. I was kind of curious about Hanatarou, I mean he had just known Rukia for a few weeks and then he decided that he wants to help her already? Anyway, Chad, Ishida, Inoue, and Yoruichi are rarely getting any screentime, or any lines at all. Come on, make them do something original to the manga. Oops, forgot about Rukia, who barely does anything except sitting down watching birds (and I wonder how much budget do they use on her animation). I guess Rukia will have to sit down and relax until another 15-18 episodes if PIERROT is still going w/ the current pacing.

Ah! My Goddess #16

2005-05-04T17:34:00.000-04:00

Boring episode, Marller wants to get back at Keiichi. Due to that robot Skuld build, she wasn't able to do anything about it. She decided to possess Megumi's body and ruins Keiichi luck by using the God of Poverty named Sanbee (who speaks lots of Engrish). Unfortunately, everything they do failed, and Belldandy later found out from the Guardian who was guarding Megumi's apartment earlier in the series that Marller was possessing Megumi. Marller still escaped though, so we will still have more boring episodes in the future.

Eyeshield 21 #4

2005-05-02T17:32:00.000-04:00

After the game, Sena had to change back to his normal clothes so Mamori wouldn't know. If she finds out she'll say something like "it's dangerous, lets stop" or something along those lines. After she found Sena (who's covered w/ dirt in the back of the building), she tells Hiruma that Sena will quit the team. Sena remembered about Mamori always saving him from the bullies in the past. Sena refuses ; ) On their way home, they found out that their next opponent is Oujou White Knights (w/ Shin and Sakuraba from the last ep). At Oujou, Sakuraba and Shin were criticized by the coach for not recording Devil Bats' game till the end (last ep where Hiruma tells everybody that Sakuraba, the model, actor, whatever, was at their game so every girl chased him). Shin took responsibility, although it was really Sakuraba's fault. He was taken out of the starting lineup against Devil Bats by the coach. The coach comments that defense is the most important thing in the game and they need to have a good defense. Back to Hiruma, everybody is asking him who Eyeshield was. Hiruma comments thta the most important thing in the game is offense, they block and secure the running routes for Eyeshield 21. Back in school, Mamori decided that she would always stay around Sena, so Hiruma wouldn't be able to abuse him. She also cleaned their football room. Kurita was surprised and decided to share some "victory food" w/ them. Just when everybody is having a good time Hiruma has to ruin it for everybody. Hiruma tries to explain the plan for the next game by using models, the plan is basically having Sena run through everything. They go for some weight training, Sena could only lift 10kg (sad, indeed). Even Mamori could lift 20kg. Hiruma 75kg, Kurita 160 o_O; Back to Oujou, Sakuraba is able to lift 50kg, and Shin 140kg, Makoto 135 (but hes bigger than Shin..). Back to Sena, he practice some 40 yard dash. Mamori found him all tired and weak, she tries to help him, but Sena told her that he can stand on his own. Hiruma used this opportunity and tell Mamori that Sena has too much work as a secretary and manager, so Mamori would join the team in order to help him.

I think Sena's height is a little bit of inconsistency this episode, he was suppose to be around Mamori's neck or so. Sometimes when I look at him his head is below her shoulder, sometimes it's above... Somebody give the animators the accurate height, despite all the gravity defying weight training, it's still fun. On the other hand, I'm getting quite used to Hiruma's seiyuu. Next ep, Devil Bats vs. Oujou~

Gundam Seed Destiny #28

2005-05-01T17:37:00.000-04:00

Now we're back when Orb naval fleet is flanking the Minerva, Cagalli getting mad, and Kira&Cagalli launching for some reason. After a tidbits of battle we're given another flashback from episode 25 when Kira&Cagalli&Athrun (angst)talks and another flashback of Hein talking. Yuna gets scold at by Captain Todoka for being an idiot. Chaos and Abyss gundam is doing a good job keeping Shinn and Athrun from helping the Minerva, which is being repeatedly hit. Just as the Orb's Astrays goes in for the point-blank bridge kill Freedom fire a shot and saved them. Cagalli tries to tell Orb forces to back out(again..). Shinn got mad and started firing @ Cagalli . Kira manages to destroy Impulse's missiles quite easily w/ his vulcan. Shinn goes into seed mode and fights Kira. Athrun tries to stop Kira. Chaos Gundam tries to interfere them only to get sliced and disable by Kira. Shinn also managed to kill Abyss along w/ Auel using his spear. We get to see another impulse transformation w/ Force Silhouette. Earth Alliance force also join ORB to destroy Minerva, which made the battlefield even more confusing. Lunamaria's Zaku is destroy by Astray unit. Their squad leader attempted to kamikaze the minerva and succeed. Impulse change into Sword Silhouette and Athrun is stuck in a fight with Kira. Athrun get disable by Kira. Todoka has something in mind so he advanced his ORB flagship, which exchange heavy fire w/ the Minerva. He tells everybody to abandon ship. Kira also disable Rey's Zaku and Minerva's beam launcher. Shinn destroys the flagship along with Captain Todoka, who once send him to ZAFT.

Man, what an episode. I haven't seen this much action packed episode in this series for along time. Auel met his demise here, a really horrible one too. Lunamaria, Rey, Athrun, Sting mobile suits also gets destroyed by Kira (w/ the exception of Lunamaria). I'm surprised that Athrun didn't use seed mode against Kira though, I mean during the last war they were probably on the same skill level. With this battle, the entire ORB navy is pretty much gone. Every side's gonna need some pilots replacement.. I pity captain Todoka though, he was a good man, Shinn gone berserk without even realizing who he had killed. I wish Yuna could've died along with him, like the one w/ Natarle and Azrael back in SEED. There are some flashbacks here and there but it was bearable. Cagalli was just flying there, crying for the whole episode. I don't understand why Archangel would want to intervene and make it a 3 way battle which made it even more confusing. Anyway, one of the better episodes in the series despite the some cheesy dialogue.

Sorry for the mistakes I made with the post -_-; the ;amp;amp;amp thingy.

Ichigo 100% #4

2005-05-01T12:36:00.000-04:00

Manaka got a new video camera, he proceeds w/ his daily ecchi activity by using it to tape some fresh pansu right away. After having his way w/ Satsuki - she got mad and threw his new video cam into the lake... Manaka and Toujo are in the same class again this year, Toujo is also the center of attention for the boys now that she lets her hair down and throw away her dorky glasses. Apparently, Satsuki is in the same class as Manaka as well. Manaka also has a hot new homeroom teacher(Kurokawa-san) too. But because they Satsuki and Manaka were arguing during class, they get to clean the classroom together after school. After some more arguments Satsuki accidentally falls and hurt her ankle, Manaka has to give her a lift to the infirmary. The next day, Aya doesn't have time to brush her hair and put on her contact lens so she came to school, full nerdy mode. She runs into ecchi guys who doesn't recognize that its her and receive some insults. Satsuki intervenes but her ankle still hurts so in the end, Manaka saves the day w/ his headbutt. During class, Satsuki and Manaka were being loud again. Toujo's getting jealous. Manaka is trying to get a film club started. So far he has Komiyama, Himself, Sotomura, and Satsuki. The only problem is that he didn't ask Toujo yet. They went to talk on the roof but she already joined a club -_- Satsuki came up calling him back down but hes kinda pissed about Toujo but Satsuki ended up confessing that she likes him. On his way home, he met Nishio.

This anime is sticking closely to its counterparts. I wonder how it'll end since the current story is only @ volume 3. The only difference I can point out is that there were no roof scene in the manga, they were still in class. Well, I'm looking forward to more Satsuki =] Oh yea, there were no ichigo pansu in this ep =[

Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle #4

2005-05-01T10:55:00.000-04:00

A filler episode exclusive for the anime~ I guess Yui Makino-san will have more lines after all...because Sakura wakes up in this episode. She tries on some clothes and go out for a walk. Unlucky for her, the gang who fought w/ Kurorin found her, so they just took her w/ them. They take her to the Okonomiyaki that Touya and Yukito work. After that they take her to their HQ by the shore, lucky for her their whole gang quits because their boss sucked. With the help of Masayoshi's Kudan, with the ability to find ppl, they were able to locate Sakura. Apparently she climbed to a really high structure in matter of seconds (how?). Shogo uses his Kudan to get her and take her to a better view. Primela chan was watching them though, getting jealous.. Sakura told Shogo she has to find her feathers and started flying.. a few minutes later she lost her consciousness, and Syaoman managed to jump as high as the moon and perfectly catch her =] They went back to their place...

It's not like I don't like this episode or anything, it's just so slow. The pacing is not as fast as expected. I mean the 1st episode I can forgive but the later episode has been really slow. I half expected the Hanshin arc to be finished within 4 eps.I also thought that ppl wouldn't understand Sakura if Mokona isn't around, I mean isn't she suppose to be speaking another world's language? well, Too bad Syaoran wasn't there when Sakura still has her consciousness. I'll be putting this on hold / dropped status because it hasn't really interested me due to the later episodes...

Sousei No Aquarion #4

2005-04-30T17:18:00.000-04:00

During the night, Gen Fudo wrote the kanji for "naked" (at the beginning of the episode(?) Jun Li is having fun on the internet getting a costume for his MonoMono and Pierre is practicing his soccer skills. Here we are treated w/ Apollo's past w/ Baron.. while Apollo just got out of the lake (in the middle of winter..) he looks really hot (literally), so Baron named him Apollo =] Now we get to see more of the bad guys other than Toma. At school, Commander Fudo is conducting a "barefoot" check. Where he analyze them through their feet. He comments that Pierre have nice legs (because he used to be MF :O), but his balance is bad in contrast. Apollo tries to take a bite out of Fudo's leg but looks like it didn't hurt. After the training, Silvia tries to do some "footprint reading"of her own. During the second half, Pierre, Apollo, and Silvia launch and they combined as Aquarion Mars w/ Pierre as the head. Too bad for Pierre, his Phoenix kick didn't work against the Kelbim soldier this time. He loses his balance and falls. Silvia, who controls the feet also managed to suck. The Kelbim soldier is using Gravity Canceling so Aquarion Mars is at a disadvantage because the legs are very long plus a tall body. They had to combine as Solar Aquarion, because it has the lowest center of gravity. We get another orgasmic gattai sequence here. Now we have a sad looking Solar Aquarion on 2 hands and legs. They use "barefoot" strategy in the cockpit and managed to stand on 2 feet by standing on the summit of the planet and defeat the Kelbim soldier.

Is the lesson of this episode is to walk like a baby and defeat your enemies?...The weird thing is, Rena sees Fudo as a pillar of light, connection to heaven and earth while the other pilots are normal looking geometric shapes. What's up w/ Fudo writing "naked" at the beginning. We also get to see Apollo naked, and Baron's blushing... On the other hand, the music in this episode sounds kind of different than before, very Arjuna-ish.

Sorry, blogspot was being a pain in the afternoon,I tried to republish but it wouldn't let me ; (

Futakoi Alternative #3

2005-04-29T15:54:00.000-04:00

2 years ago, Sara and Souju came knocking on Rentarou's door, request a jobs from him.. They were crying and he embraced both of them by the riverside...

and now they're both sleeping by his side O_Ob
2 junior high students he embraced 2 years ago are now 2 high school students, sleeping right next to him. Apparently one of their legs "moved", so it gave him a mega nosebleed and a big scream, which woke up the twins. Sara, who was not really delighted with the noise so she beat him up. Later, Rentarou is talking to Momoi Mai, who has a job for him. She works at Futagotamagawa's private school, as a doctor and a counselor. His job is to spy Momoi Ai.

3 years ago, when Rentarou was in high school. Mai and Ai were new teachers. Unfortunately, he ends up in a police station w/ Hariyama (the crazy cop from the 1st ep) because a stalker-like person has been spotted in shibuya. So, Sara and Souju has the resume the investigation by themselves. Apparently, Ai ended up at Rentarou's door asking him to take a job. --3 years back, a story about "Emerald Mountain"(the name of a canned coffee @ the vending machine), unfortunately the it's sold out. Ai, Mai, and Rentarou seems to be enjoying themselves there-- That job that Ai has for Rentarou is to search for her lost cell phone w/ her. They decided to go get some Emerald Mountain but it was sold out again, just like back then. Back to Sara and Souju, looks like Mai found out that they were stalking them (so obvious..). At a park, Mai comments that eventhough Souju and Sara are twins, their personalities are different, just like Ai and Mai. Eventhough they are different, they get along well, one thing they had in common was Rentarou. Mai started crying, telling Sara&Souju not to end up like them. Then there's rather a weird dream sequence of Mai&Ai, and Rentarou seeing the real Emerald Mountain literally and flying(?). After that, looks like Rentarou&Ai are at school, Ai wrote something on the blackboard and they both went to the roof. She says that a lot of things have changed from back then, cellphone, the fight with Mai.. She said something to Rentarou but we didn't hear it... In the end, they didn't find Ai's phone. Rentarou calls and leave a message anyway - whenever it's good, call him, he'll be waiting.. The next day, it seems that Ai left the town.. Rentarou goes back to his office, but Sara and Souju aren't back yet, so he went out looking for them. After he found them on the riverside, they had told him that Mai san stopped being a teacher, and that Mai is sorry for lying. He embraced them :'(

Morning came again, he thought of when Ai had asked him to kiss her while they were on the roof. But, they were no longer who they were back then... and what Mai wrote on the blackboard was "sayonara"...Yea, that woke Sara up and she beats him again.

I thought this episode was pretty subtle and sad for Futakoi Alternative (and I thought this show was comedy)... I'm thinking that this episode is trying to tell us that Rentarou is trying not to make the same mistakes he did for Ai and Mai to Sara and Souju. It seems like Futakoi Alternative is not all action and fun either. I like it this way though =) Wow that was a long summary I just wrote..

Eureka 7 #2

2005-04-28T18:56:00.000-04:00

Renton thought about when he visited his dad's grave and what his sister said. Do it on your own and you'll succeed. He was able to sky boarding into the sky and managed to do a "cuto back drop turn". Eureka saves him from falling, and when he lands in the cocpit the enemies LFO somehow stopped attacking them... Renton has managed to say some of the cheesiest line ever after he lands in the cockpit and put the Amita Drive in. Suddenly, Eureka went unconscious and apparently they started firing missiles at Nirvash again. The scene then cut to the post-battle time, with the destroyed military LFOs on the ground. Holland explained that it was because the awakening program inside the Nirvash release its power, but Eureka disagree, saying it was Renton's power. After that they hid the Nirvash with what was left of Renton's place. Holland and Gramps had a little chat about the past, although we don't really know what they're talking about. It also seems that Holland was once a student of Renton's dad. The military ship will now move to Belforest because detect an unidentified ship (Gekko State..). Now the story is back to where Nirvash is being shot at, looks like the Amita Drive activated the "Seven Swell". Nirvash went into a berserker mode and destroyed every military LFO in the area. After that the episode ends with Eureka asking Renton to go with them, of course hes going to go, can't turn down a girl like that =]

This episode pacing kind of reminds me when I watched Evangelion episode 2 a long time ago. Especially the berserker thing and Shinji's decisions to become a pilot. But instead of Shinji, we get a lil brat who don't complain as much. Also, is Eureka a robot? She acts like one.

Bleach #29

2005-04-28T15:24:00.000-04:00

Ishida finally pwned Jiroubou, eventhough he was gonna let him go at first.. but Jiroubou was a coward and he was going to take Inoue san w/ him. After the fight, Orihime's hear voices of Tatsuki telling her not to give up. Ichigo and Ganju meet up but many shinigamis belonged to the 11th squad were following them. Apparently, when they were surrounded, they took the wrong hostage.. Hanatarou, he belongs to the 4th squad that deals w/ healing and supplies (weakest squad). Of course, the 11th squad that belonged to Kenpachi didn't care and go for a kill anyway. Chad break through the wall, which gives Ichigo and Ganju a chance to escape along w/ Hanatarou. Chad had to finish what Ichigo and Ganju started and now all of them are still scattered around the Soul Society. Ichigo and Ganju tries to make plans, but failed, Hanatarou offers to help them find Rukia. Unfortunately for Ikkaku, Mayuri tries to interrogate him by force, but Kenpachi arrived in the nick of time to save him and ask questions about how strong Ichigo is. He went off to find Ichigo, along w/ Yachiru.

Well, there weren't a lot of animation in this ep, I guess all the animators went to work on Naruto.. well I guess, Kenpachi vs. Ichigo will come up in a few weeks and will continue for a few eps.

Futakoi Alternative #2

2005-04-27T15:47:00.000-04:00

With the roof of the office destroyed, and no income whatsoever. They continued on with their daily lives, sleeping, taking free jobs. Everyone in town usually calls Rentarou - "Nidaime" (2nd) - referring to his dad who saved the city from an alien squid(yes an alien squid vs. afro man). Sara&Souju and Rentarou just stay in the office sun bathing and Sara&Souju would be arguing about who's doing what, and which one should cook (Sara has bad cooking skills, so it is Souju's job~). They waited for the client who did not show up on time all day. During that time, they all think about what they did and what had happened in the past. Sara&Souju coming to stay w/ him 2 years ago. How his dad changed him and tought him how to be a man. After Rentarou woke up he believed that he saw a UFO. Sara&Soujo&Rentarou went outside together to go see it.

I guess this episode is suppose to be one of those normal days for them where nothing weird happens. We also get to see bits and pieces of Rentarou's past (Giant Squid???). We also know that his dad made him a man by defeating that squid and all. If only Rentarou has an afro like him.

Speed Grapher #3

2005-04-26T17:42:00.000-04:00

As Saiga is killed, he revives now that he has the Euphoria Factor. Now he can kill people w/ his camera by taking their pictures. I guess this factor brought Saiga's desire - to kill people w/ cameras - to reality. He escaped w/ Kagura but they didn't get far, before she was captured again, she asked Saiga to make her free. After a hard night Saiga stopped by Ginza's place to get his camera back and probably trying to get some action.. but he passed out due to major blood loss.. The next day he found out that the goddess from the club was Kagura, she also found out that Saiga saved her as well..

Kagura does not know what she was doing at the Roppongi club, before she believed that it was all a dream. Now she wants to go away from all of it. Her mother doesn't seem to be aware that Kagura is the goddess at the club as well. Also, sorry for my past mistake for recognizing Suitengu right hand man as a girl, he's actually a man.. Sorry Sujou, please get a new outfit.

Ah! My Goddess #15

2005-04-26T17:09:00.000-04:00

Once upon a time, a girl name Skuld build a robot. That robot fell in love w/ Belldandy. One day Marller appear and took away their precious lunch. That robot sacrifices himself and his memory in order to save his creator and the precious onigiri. The end.

No more Skuld-wanting-attention episodes please... it's getting really boring.

Sousei No Aquarion #3

2005-04-24T19:48:00.000-04:00

With the arrival of the new test pilots - Jun Li, Tsugumi, and Apollo are added to the backup piloting list. Reika as Tsugumi's trainer, Sirius as Jun's trainer, and Silvia as Apollo's trainer ; ) The lady doctor also told Apollo that his feelings toward Baron(?) is the reason why he can move the aquarion. During the testing, Apollo and Silvia accidentally kiss, the spirit level between the two (which is indicated @ the crotch position on the pilot status screen..) is "burning red"... so, in an essence, Silvia is saying no to Apollo, while liking it. Anyway, due to Tsugumi heart's problem, and machinery malfunction, the simulation stopped. Of course, during the 2nd half of the show a harvesting beast appears. Apollo snuck in Silvia's ship while uniting w/ Pierre and Sirius (3 guys + 1 girl). Reika had those people trauma again while looking at the Harvesting Beast so she had to be replaced by Pierre. They united as Aquarion Mars w/ Sirius controlling it, but due to his carelessness along with narcissist complex the Harvesting Beast was carried away by a Kelbim Soldier. All the people they could've saved... stupid Sirius.

Aquarion Mars

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Looks like we're going to see some yuri/yaoi action in the future... w/ Reika + Tsugumi and all. This episode has some "intentionally" comedic scenes that still had me laughing A LOT. Also, will Reika ever pilot again? because Sirius sucks. One can wonder what's the exact relationship between Baron&Apollo...

Anyway off-topic time, now that we get an actual op, I can't get the song off my head.. so many good songs this season. There are "D-tecnolife" by UVERworld (Bleach), "I Wanna Go To A Place" by Rie Fu (GSD), "Houki Boshi" by Younha (Bleach), "Sousei no Aquarion" by Akino (Sousei No Aquarion), "Forever" by Savage Genius (Erementar Gerad), "Days" by FLOW (Eureka 7) ugh I'm watching way too many animes this season >.<

Gundam Seed Destiny #27

2005-04-24T12:34:00.000-04:00

With the news of the real Lacus, Gilbert seems to be really worried that she'll cause "a confusion" within Plant. Neo is criticized by Jibril for losing Stellar. Also, Auel and Sting can't seem to remember that Stellar even exists. Auel feels that something is missing but he doesn't know what it is. Stellar conditions also worsen and the doctors doesn't know why. It seems like Talia was the one who send Lunamaria to spy on Athrun and it seems like everybody knows that he was with the Archangel during the last war at Jacin Due. Mirillia returns to the Archangel (yes, she did dumped Dearka). Orb forces move in to flank the Minerva. The episode ends with the Minerva being attacked and the Archangel mobilizing and launching Freedom and Strike Rouge.

It seems like Gilbert has a hidden agenda after all, maybe he wanted to use the fake Lacus to get the people's support. I also expect Shin to return Stellar to the Earth Alliance any minute now that she looks like she's dying. The problem with this series still persist in this episode. More flashbacks, and more Impulse transformation, I mean do we really need to see Shin helping Stellar when she was drowning every episode? and do we need to see Impulse Gundam "cool" poses every time there's a battle. Oh yeah, the new repetitious flashback is the scene where Athrun talks to Cagalli&Kira in episode 25. It's going to be replayed many times from now on when Athrun or Cagalli is thinking about each other... Be prepared..

Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle #3

2005-04-24T11:59:00.000-04:00

Arashi&Sorata FINALLY appears. Kurogane saw Princess Tomoyo Hanshin version and he stalked her. Kurogane lost her and ended up in a fight where he gets to use his Kudan. Syaoran and Fai met Prince Touya and High Priest Yukito - Hanshin version at an Okonomiyaki restaurant. Everyone rests and Sakura wakes up(?) in the middle of the night.

Eureka 7 #1

2005-04-23T17:18:00.000-04:00

I have no idea what's going on in this ep AT ALL. All I know is there are interesting names like Eureka, Holland, Stoner(lol), and Renton. The main character is Renton, he lives in a boring town where nothing ever happens. One day an original Nirvash Type Zero crashes his dorm. A girl appears, asking him to fix her Nirvash. Apparently she's proably w/ the Gekko State who are considered criminal so the military is after her (or the Nirvash). The episode ends with a cliffhanger of the military mech attacking Nirvash and Renton surfing in the air =]

First of all, I hope they're gonna explain everything later because so many things are put in this episode =[ like wth is a Compact Drive. Anyway, the character designs looked really nice. The mecha, designed by Showji Kawamori (Macross, Escaflowne, Sousei No Aquarion,+ million others) ,the mecha looked like a mix of Cyber Formula cars + Evangelion face. This series seemed like it was intended for surfers or some sort because every characters dressed like they are a surfer... Every mecha itself even has a surfboard. I believe this is going to be a 50 eps series. It'll be interesting to see how things turn out. This show has now become one of my favorites this season = D

Ichigo 100% #3

2005-04-23T14:13:00.000-04:00

Manaka&Toujou are going to the same high school. Nishino is going to another high school and she realized that Manaka likes Toujo. She broke up w/ him. Then Yui, Junpei's childhood friend who likes to get naked all the time (because it feels better to sleep naked) comes to live w/ him. For many more screenshots head to http://www.lolitron.org I'm currently watching He is my Master through him, since no fansubs are available yet =) Also, Satsuki's coming up next week.

Eyeshield 21 #3

2005-04-23T13:50:00.000-04:00

Devil Bats vs. Cupid, DB won because of Sena touchdown during the last 10 seconds. Shin&Sakuraba appears. At least this wasn't a cliffhanger. I was really glad that the match was over within the episode.

Kino No Tabi ~Life Goes On~

2005-04-22T21:49:00.000-04:00

This special movie is about Kino's past, something we did not see in the TV series. It's about when Kino was still living with Shishou in a forest.. Her teacher, who seemed to have done something in the past. She is a really good marksman and looks like town people liked her and many people often come to her for help. She would always refused, because she told them she would always remain in the forest. This episode is not about her though, it's about Kino's - the traveler, who died saving Kino before she met Shishou. Kino wanted to find his family and apologize. One day, a traveler passed by and Kino remembers that his coat looked like Kino's. The traveler told Kino that the coat was given to him by some traveler, that lived a few countries away. Kino went there, but all she found was an old woman. Apparently that old woman told Kino that her son went on a journey a long time ago. Once Kino told asked her if her son's name was Kino, she started breaking down. The old woman also drugged Kino and tried to kill her, but Kino killed her first. Kino found out later from the townsman, that the old woman's son had died. Then she wasn't able to remember her son's name, and though that all traveler's are her son's enemy. She killed many of them. After that's done, Kino went back to Shishou, asking her to teach her more and tell her more of her traveling stories.

An episode that should've been in the series, eventhough we get to know about Kino's past, nothing was revealed about Shishou. The reason I'm blogging this is that a few months back, I had bought Kino No Tabi DVDs set online. I thought I was going to see some good action/fights stories (since someone lied to me, and I saw the trailer about the Colosseum fights), but I didn't see any of that. It is completely episodic with the exception of 2 episodes during the series. I can't really catagorize this anime. The story itself revolves around different people, culture, and what Kino does. Sometimes the story is very sad, sometimes very ironic. The show itself is very dark, it explore the darker side of human. This show may not appeal to anyone due to slow pacing, but will leave you thinking about humanity, life, and other things for period time. I really liked this show, though there really should've been more episodes because I still wanted more.
"The World is not beautiful - Therefore it is"

Ah! My Goddess #14

2005-04-21T21:11:00.000-04:00

This episode is a little boring. It's about Skuld being selfish and Belldandy wants her and Megumi to built robots to compete each other. Megumi won in the end but Skuld uses her self-destruct button. There was a spoof from Mazinger Z (Rocketto Punch~), it was quite funny. Other than that nothing happens plotwise (as if there is 1). There were additional engrish like "Hystelic Wheel" as the robot's name. Which kinda annoyed me that almost every anime studio in Japan doesn't have enough budget to use spellcheck..

Speed Grapher #2

2005-04-21T11:04:00.000-04:00

Nothing relevant in this episode. It's just about Kagura's life and her mother's involvement w/ Suitengu.

Suitengu denied that he's not a lolicon (but he likes touching women x2 his age). Poor Kagura being bullied by both her classmates and her mom who wants her to be anorexic by giving her no food. Just when sensei who seems to care for Kagura went to talk to her mother about the issues. Only to find out that her mom has paid the teacher to get some lesbian action, planning that Kagura would walk in on it. Suitengu is somehow involve in some illegal activities like money laundering as well. His right hand girl is the one who looks like Micheal Jackson w/ the nose protector. Also, it looks like people have pay in a certain amount of money in order to go to Suitengu's secret society club. If people don't pay, they die in a really horrible way. Then we are cut to the scene in the club where Saiga get killed. Of course, hes not gonna die now that he has "the Euphoria Factor"

Sousei No Aquarion #2

2005-04-20T17:44:00.000-04:00

From this ep, we found out that the dude w/ the white long hair is named Toma and the (assume)Witch w/ 3 eyes is named Otoha. Also, looks like they are villains who really like flowers. Silvia still believes that incess is right. Apollo is imprisoned for no reason really. There are some flashbacks about Apollo's childhood w/ Baron. Sirius got captain Tsubasa-ed by Pierre(it really looks like a phoenix kick..). Silvia doesn't like when Oni-sama flirts w/ Reika (or w/e her name is). A Kelbim soldier appears, Lihua, Sirius, and Silvia launch. Suddenly, there's a vampire sucking blood out of Apollo(lol?). Apollo(nius) brings out Siren(Silvia) past life&memories by taunting her. Apollo teleported in place of Lihua due to her bad memories from the last episode. Apollo, Silvia, and Sirius united (w/ Silvia getting an orgasmic-like sensation again lol). Solar Aquarion defeated the Kelbim soldier in 5 seconds. Otoha used a Soul-transfer melody and regenerated the Kelbim w/ Toma directly controlling it. Apollonius criticized Sirius for being slow on the legs (Now we know that cpt Tsubasa will replace him). Solar Aquarion is then consumed by darkness. Toma then declares that Apollonius was the only man he ever loved (WTF O_O). Apparently, Apollo's probably not gay, so he blows the Kelbim Soldier away with a mysterious power.

I'M NOT GAY

LOL, what a funny episode. All this randomness made me laugh so hard. Again, I don't know whether to take this show seriously or not but it's just so funny. Especially when Toma declared that he was gay, you have to see Apollo's face(above). That laugh was priceless. Next episode is called - Element School, looks like some fan-service is coming up *_*

Bleach #28

2005-04-20T16:30:00.000-04:00

I was gonna write a summary at first, but nothing really happens in this episode. As Ganju finished his fight, Ichigo tries to find him. Inoue and Ishida was attacked, Ishida saved Inoue and he semi-defeated Jiroubou. Hanatarou tries to go to Rukia, but he was stopped. Mayuru made a really ugly face, and Ken-Chan is still lost ; (

The pacing is turning into another Naruto. I mean, can they FINISH something in 1 episode? does it have to drag on to the next and next and next eps? (especially the fights). There's also so much trash talking going on that you can literally guess what they are about to say..

Gundam Seed Destiny #26

2005-04-19T19:03:00.000-04:00

From the previous episode, Athrun and Shinn tries to capture Gaia Gundam. Well, Gaia is down and once Shinn saw that Stellar was piloting it, he rushes out of his cockpit to get her and ran away from Athrun. Wow, is he really a soldier? He seems to be disobeying every military protocols ever existed. He should be sleeping in jail for at least 30 days like Amuro did. As Stellar wakes up she can't remember anybody including Shinn and she turn into a berserker mode trying to kill the crew -_- After a good night sleep she was able to remember Shinn(?). Also, Shinn also finds out that she's an artificial coordinator (that's what I'll call it for now..). NOW, Lacus wants to go back to PLANT to find out what's going on, without Kira, but w/ Andy. Of course, as they were leaving Kira HAD to say something over the comm channel and they lost the connection when he said "Lacus I'll always~" *beep*

This show is turning into more and more like a soap opera that usually comes before Oprah. There were some funny moments, when Meer's manager just as the real Lacus was leaving w/ the shuttle. He yelled "Oh it's the real one" and he turns around (to Meer) and say "It's the fake one, stop the shuttloo~!!" =D Anyway, how could the soldiers not know which one is the real one, considering Meer one has a chest animation resembling 2 unstable melons. Poor Kira, his girl's leaving him again. A lil before Lacus took off w/ the shuttle Kira had to show off w/ his new freedom disabling the whole ZAFT's forces @ the airport along with the Hambrabi rip-off(remember Z Gundam *_*). There are still too many flashbacks being replayed, just like Gundam Seed~ Mitsuo "Flashback 'em All" Fukuda strikes again.

Eyeshield 21 #2

2005-04-18T22:11:00.000-04:00

Hiruma made Sena practice run w/ Kereberos (or Cerberus). Now that the team has 3 members, they need about 10 more in order to play the real game the next day, Sena managed to get Ishimaru to join the team, by helping him delivering papers. Kurita wasn't able to get any members tho and he has to face the divine punishment for it.. soon. Hiruma has managed to get 19 (probably by blackmailing all of them..) Also, looks like they diminished Mamoru's role, come on give the future manager a little more screentime >.< Instead of Mamori, they gave the 3 "Huh" brothers more screentime than they deserve to demonstrate Sena's amazing ability to dodge bullies...

Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle #2

2005-04-17T19:34:00.000-04:00

P.S. There's like 10 groups subbing Tsubasa..

Boo, Watanuki only get those 1 liner. Anyway, they've made many changes from the manga. I thought this series was suppose to go through CLAMP's world and introduce us to some familiar characters. I mean they didn't even stayed at Sorata&Arashi's place, maybe they'll meet them in the next ep. The pacing is still slow tho, I can't believe they spend half of the episode TALKING to Yuko-san (her lips is the only part that moves). If you want to know what'd they change from the manga go to

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Ichigo 100% #2

2005-04-16T23:06:00.000-04:00

Toujou help Manaka to study. Manaka, Toujou, and Nishino ran away from a phys ed teacher. Manaka realize that Toujou is the one with the ichigo pansu, not Nishino. He fantasizes about her during a test (not the best thing to do is it?). He told Toujou that he probably failed that entrance exam. Toujou tells him that she wanted to make a movie w/ him (O_o)...

There were some funny moments, but I think the animation in this episode looks worse than the 1st one.. I guess they already wasted a lot of budget in the opening with all those ichigo patterns~ >.< ~

At last, I'd like to say - YESY What are you doing releasing 3 VERSIONs of the same EPs in 1 DAY~!

Eyeshield 21 #1

2005-04-15T17:32:00.000-04:00

A story about a freshman who just entered high school who can run really fast and was recruited to join a football team as a running back =o This show will replace the popular Prince of Tennis (178 episodes).. a nice transition from tennis to football eh?

This episode starts just like the first couple chapters of the manga, with Sena getting bullied (by both bullies and the football captain Hiruma..). He is then unwillingly recruited into the team as a running back. All the bullies and other ppl will later be recruited (unwillingly) GO DEMON BATS GO~

I thought that the seiyuu for Hiruma and Kurita didn't really fit their personality. I don't know why, maybe I had more fun reading the manga. The character designs for the manga was a lil better I think..I mean come on, Mamori looks much better in the manga (-_-;)

I thought it had a really slow-pacing. I don't think it was as funny or had as much energy as the manga. The football action looks kinda bland as Sena runs through a bunch of ppl..Anyway, the commercial break section was really educational, since I know nothing about american football..Hmm can't wait to see Shin animated, I hope he has a good seiyuu~

Futakoi Alternative #1

2005-04-14T23:32:00.000-04:00

After being forced to watch the previous Futakoi, which was really painful. I promised myself not to watch this show. Anyway, don't think of this show as Futakoi because you'll probably ruin the show even before you started watching it. It's just mostly the same twins, but in alternative universe, with a new lead charater w/ Sara and Soujo.

The story is that Rentarou runs a private detective agency along with the (twins)assistants by the name of Shirogane Sara, and Shirogane Soujo. Apparently Rentarou dad has done something to the mafia, and his cat apparently ate a parrot(or a bird) that belonged to the mafia boss. Sara and Soujo come and find him. Good intro episode =>

This is really nothing new but, the formulas here are guns + twins + car chase + helicoptor chase + randomness + a good lead. Rentarou is not really your typical lead character in most harems anime. I mean he just patted the bed and Sara and Soujo would come lying by his side~ I don't ever see Keiichi doing that EVER -_-b. Even all the seiyuus really fits their characters personality too.

MY FAVORITE SHOW THIS SEASON~ GO FUTAKOI ALTERNATIVE~

Ah! My Goddess #13

2005-04-14T22:30:00.000-04:00

Finally, Skuld (my fav) is here~! Let me make a summary.
- Things go wrong.
- Keiichi get to ride a horse.
- Skuld shows up.
- Bugs Hunting
- Keiichi got "redefined"
- He turns in to a towel.
- Sempai shows up.
- Back to normal.
- Semi-fan service.
- Skuld will stay forever and ever.
- New Ed.

Shallow Wallet

2005-04-14T20:13:00.000-04:00

Never buy any of these stuff, your wallet will go empty, unless you have a really deep one...
Kotobukiya Gunparade March Models SE - $100
Cowboy Bebop ~The Wind~ Illustration book - $50

I think I'm gonna have to eat those cup noodles for a couple of weeks again, until I get paid at the end of this month..

Here's the current desktop, due to my craving for AIR -the summer arc-

Bleach #27

2005-04-13T20:27:00.000-04:00

his ep contains lots of trash talking, running away, and idiots. I was hoping the fight wouldn't get too drawn out and it didn't.Ikkaku was defeated early and they shift the focus to Ishida&Inoue.

Hmm I wonder what Gin said to Kira during the ED, since I didn't read volume 13-17..If I'm correct I believe Kira is in Gin's squad.

Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle #1

2005-04-11T22:25:00.000-04:00

I'm pretty sure that almost everyone has read everything in the manga, well this episode follows the manga closely with a couple of scenes that were left out. Yuki Kajiura, my favorite composer is also here~ I'm expecting the song that was used in the 2nd half be reused for the whole series (just like My-Hime O_O). Anyway, Sakura only get a little bit of screentime, since she was turned into a vegetable state :'( I guess we won't be hearing from her for awhile.

Im expecting to hear Watanuki speaks next ep or so since personally liked to see xXxHolic more than Tsubasa.

PS: New seiyuu for Sakura&Syaoran.

Ichigo 100% OVA #1

2005-04-11T22:23:00.000-04:00

More pansu w/ better animation and character designs! This OVA is about when Manaka and others when they took a trip to film one of their movies. No more ichigo pansu tho, just plain Toujo fanservice.

I'm kinda sad that I don't get to see this scene tho ;'(

Speed Grapher #1

2005-04-10T22:02:00.000-04:00

One of the more serious show this season. A reporter name Saiga investigate the Roppongi Club (in which he took his big camera out in front of everybody..). Things get messy. As if it's not weird enough, the opening is "Girls on Film" by Duran Duran. Who is Duran Duran anyway >.<

Ichigo 100% #1

2005-04-10T21:59:00.000-04:00

Finally one of my favorite manga is finally adapted into an anime, the story is about Manaka Junpei, One day he walks to the roof of his school and encounters a beautiful girl falling down from above him and accidentally exposing her strawberry panties. The embarrassed girl runs away before Junpei can find out whom she is. He thought she is the popular girl named Nishino, unfornately he ask her out and she accept -_- Only to find out a lil later that Toujo the nerd is actually the girl he's looking for.

The sad part is, there are only 13 episodes, and the manga is already at volume 17-18, so I don't expect any open-ended endings.

Sousei No Aquarion #1

2005-04-10T21:55:00.000-04:00

So far Sousei No Aquarion is just some 3 planes that can combine into a giant robot like Getter.. I don't know if I'm suppose to be taking this show seriously, because there are so many old super robot show spoof. There's also a random magician guy and man, that girl... incess is WRONG! and I think that's suppose to be Folken cameo in the preview.

Bleach #26

2005-04-10T21:30:00.000-04:00

I'll be anime blogging now, since I finally got a new computer (and new ISP).. anyway, I'll be posting the show airing from this spring 2005~

I'll start this off w/ Bleach ep 26, New OP and ED O_O
I like the new Op "D-tecnolife" by UVERworld it feels really epic~ the ED sucks
Anyway, Rukia gets even LESS screentime, now that she's a damsel in distress. It also seems like that the anime is moving x2 the speed of the manga, this is way past volume 10 and the manga is currently at volume 19. I guess it'll catch up soon. I'm looking forward to Ichigo vs. Byakuya fight and how it'll be animated.