| 1:41am | Maria+Holic, Episode 12 (END)- I Think I’ve Had Dreams Like This |  | | | And so unfortunately we must draw this chapter of Maria+Holic to an end. But what a splendid end it was, complete with school swimsuits, loincloths, exposed breasts, and perverted dreams. What more could you ask for? What a wonderful decision to make the swimsuit episode the very last episode. It... | | |
| 9:00pm | Zoku Natsume Yuujin-chou - 13 [Final] |  | | | Natori attempts to seal Kai while Natsume must decide which side to stand on. Impressions: I think it’d be nice if Natsume could trust people more. Nyanko is absolutely right in this episode. Natsume tries to carry everything on his own shoulders. He might think he’s doing a good thing and not... | | |
| 2:15pm | Haruhi Second Season Airs with Rerun |  | | | TV stations have now not only confirmed that the “new” season of Haruhi will start with a rerun, but also that it will amount to 28 episodes, finally confirming the “new episodes mixed in with or ont the end of the old episodes” theory. Fans rejoice at the news, although they must by now be... | | |
| 8:43pm | Jigoku Shoujo Mitsuganae - 25 |  | | | Mymy bread is.! Summary: After seeing the skeleton remains in the run down apartment complex, Yuzuki starts to believe that Ai is simply playing another trick on her. She leaves with this in mind, but before she can escape, Ai begins to show her familiar visions of the past. This brings Yuzuki back... | | |
| 2:11pm | New Haruhi Season Confirmed as Rerun |  | | | TV listings have updated in preparation for the broadcast of the “new” season of the Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi, revealing the first episode to be none other than the very familiar “Asahina Mikuru no Bouken Episode00”, which of course has already aired and is number one in the “broadcast”... | | |
| 2:35pm | March Summary | | | | An interesting month this time. It featured a lot of very awesome finales, but also quite a few disappointing or lacking endings, unfortunately. What surprised me is that most of the shows whose endings went right are the ones who still have some sort of second season or OVA waiting, or at least whose... | | |
| 7:47am | Zoku Natsume Yuujin-Chou Review - 82,5/100 | | | | The first season of Natsume Yuujin-chou was basically a string of random stories about the lead character, Natsume, meeting a bunch of Youkai. The second season forms much more of a unity as Natsume’s development starts kicking in. The random stories are more connected to each other, and instead... | | |
| 7:31am | Natsume Yuujin-Chou - 26 | | | | Short Synopsis: Natsume finds himself having to choose between Kai and Natori. Episode Rating: 7,5/10 (Good) Well, the creators did it, even though they had to stuff two chapters into only one episode. It makes a lot of sense to save this story for last, because it really forms a conclusion to the... | | |
| 9:18pm | Minami-ke Okaeri - 13 (Final) |  | | | The worried Chiaki. My final impression is included! Summary: Haruka seems to be troubled about something one day, which Chiaki brings up to Kana. Kana initially suggests that Haruka is simply worried about dinner and breakfast preparations, but the two sisters soon discover that this isn’t... | | |
| 7:58am | Mobile Suit Gundam 00 Second Season Review - 77,5/100 | | | | Gundam 00 was the first long Gundam series that was split into two halves of about 25 episodes, rather than continuing for a full run of 50. In te end, it turned out into a decent series: it does the job it’s supposed to do, but it wasn’t anything really outstanding. The second season... | | |
| 8:12pm | White Album - 13 | | | | Short Synopsis: It’s finally time for the three concerts to take place. Episode Rating: 7/10 (Enjoyable) Well, talk about an anti-climax. This episode didn’t resolve anything and was basically one big “please watch the second season to find out what happens”. There’s... | | |
| 5:31am | [Ascaloth] Final Critique: CLANNAD (TV) and CLANNAD ~After Story~ | | | | October 4, 2007. That was the day Kyoto Animation aired the first episode of a much-anticipated anime adaptation of one of Key Visual Arts’ most beloved story, the third visual novel released by them, CLANNAD. It was the first anime series I began covering on a weekly basis for RIUVA, and it was... | | |
| 8:53pm | Jigoku Shoujo - 77 | | | | Short Synopsis: Yuzuki’s past. Episode Rating: 8.5/10 (Awesome) Muaha, this episode obviously was meant to explain how Yuzuki died, and it did a great job at it. while extremely exaggerated of course, this episode also featured the problems that single moms face, and oh my god that small version... | | |
| 1:54pm | Birdy the Mighty Decode 2 Review - 95/100 | | | | The first season of Birdy the Mighty Decode was a pretty good series that however got held back by its own formula and never really hit any heights, and especially the male lead Senkawa caused quite some annoyances. Then the second season came, and surpassed it in just about every aspect. And I’m... | | |
| 12:42am | Top Seven Anime of the Winter 2009 Season | | | | About two weeks ago, I started penciling in the picks for the previous three parts as well coming up with the top shows of the season. In the time between the preliminary picks and the final picks there was a few shows that went all out to make me reconsider them. Changing my picks was most apparent... | | |
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