| 6:30am | Marmalade Boy 30 | | | | Whilst Miki is still ANGSTing about the missing medallion, Kei attempts to return it, only to be interupted by some customers. Yuu, on the other hand, is still being suspiciously secretive about the contents of his advert. Whilst out walking, Ginta and Yuu see they guy who they thought was dating |
| 4:54am | Marmalade Boy 29 | | | | Miki ANGSTs about having lost Yuus medallion at the end of the last episode. The guy who may-or-may-not have looked up her skirt (and picked up said medallion) is introduced as her co-worker, Kei, who proceeds to try and give Miki the cold treatment before breaking into hysterics and admitting her |
| 7:29am | Marmalade Boy 28 | | | | As per normal, the episode starts with Miki in the middle of an ANGSTing session - this time, its because she isn’t seeing Yuu much due to his work situation. Whats worse is that Suzu and Yuu get 80% on Mikis amazering match-o-matic machine! Still, Yuu finds the time to go out with Miki at |
| 4:09am | Year++; | | | | Its soon to be 2006, and as such the latest batch of anime and manga calanders have been out in Japan for a while. I’ve just gotten my selection in today after stressfully cutting down my order from seven to four (I really regret dropping the great looking Tsubasa/xxxHolic calander, though). |
| 5:47am | Howls Moving Castle | | | | Sophie Hatter is a, err, hatter - that is, she makes hats for a living. She works in the hat shop left to her family by her father, whilst her mother spends her time trying to court rich men and her far prettier sister works in a bakery. One day whilst going shopping, she is |
| 6:24am | Ghibli Short Films DVD | | | | To coincide with the Japanese DVD release of Howls Moving Castle, Ghibli released a DVD compilation of a number of their short films. Running at around 42 minutes in length, it ranges from TV eyecatches and adverts to music videos, without touching much of the ground inbetween. There are only really... |
| 5:27am | Fate/Stay Night Curtain Raiser | | | | Its probably not going to come as a surprise to readers given recent posts, but I’m rather fond of Fate/Stay Night, and as such I’m really, really looking forward to the TV adaption which starts airing in Japan next year. I’m not the only one, and recognising there is a quick buck |
| 2:25am | Street Fighter Pinkys | | | | From Capcoms Street Fighter game series, this Sakura and Chun-li twinpack are the latest Pinky:Chara (a spin-off from the Pinky:St cute fashion figure line featuring anime and game characters) release. Very cute ^^ Above are all the Pinky:Chara figures I’ve managed to pick up so far - we have |
| 7:10am | Marmalade Boy 27 | | | | Miki continues to ANGST about being too happy. Ginta, however, has found himself able to rather quickly get over Miki now that he believes he definately doesn’t have a chance, and during a trip to the ‘other’ school to once again play Tsutomu at Tennis (No surprise that Ginta wins |
| 10:15pm | Sabers Drill Hall | | | | Some doujin game group I can’t quite find the name of have released a trial version of their upcoming 3D fighting game Soulsaber. Thats not really interesting in itself, but for their trial version they’ve decided to base it entirely around Saber from Fate/Stay Night. Huzzah! So, the |
| 3:44am | Fate/Toy Collection | | | | With the Fate/Stay Night Curtain Raiser promo causing literally dozens of rabid would-be Fate fanboys to get all excited, I figured this would be a good time to taunt people post a retrospective on some of the previously released Fate/Stay Night figures. Just so I don’t get people mentioning |
| 4:19am | Random Chat… | | | | or why this weeks show blogging might be light on the ground ^^;. Dragon Quest VIII arrived over the weekend, and its rather good. Its really impressive exactly how well they manage to carry the Akira Toriyama aesthetic across the entire game, from the character designs to the hilly, |
| 6:32am | Marmalade Boy 26 | | | | Miki ANGSTs about being happy (seriously, there is definately something wrong with this girl), and Yuu gets cast in an advert opposite Hot New Girl, and thats about it. |
| 12:19am | The Mars Daybreak 10 | | | | The gang head off to town obtain a new Magical McGuffin from the Martian Aborigines (decendants of the original emigrants to Mars) on behalf of Poe, but along the way Gram gets saves an old woman from getting ran over by a truck and is promptly ran rugged around town (including a museum theft, |
| 12:04am | The Mars Daybreak 9 | | | | Its the one day of the month when there are no spy satellites floating over their area, to the SoA surfaces so the crew can get some use of theironsen? Unfortunately, their fun (and double-entendres) are distrupted by Generic Plot Device 607 thinking the SoA is its missing mother. GPD607 |
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