| 6:18am | Winter Season Watchlist | | | | The winter anime season is well underway. Like most years, there are few blockbuster shows to be found. Thankfully, I’m not a blockbuster kinda guy. No, more often than not, my favorite shows are the “diamonds in the rough,” of which the winter season always seems to provide | | |
| 10:24am | Kage Kara Mamoru! - 05 |  | | | Summary:There is an underwear thief dressed as a ninja on the loose, and Tsubaki has taken it upon herself to bring the guy to justice. | | |
| 8:19am | Kage Kara Mamoru 02 | | | | Kage Kara Mamoru is pretty cool. Why? It has ninjas. I shouldn't have to say anything more.Anyways, the first episode can be summed up in a few short bullet points: Mamoru Kagemori is a big nerd. Yuuna Konnyaku, his female next-door neighbor, is an airhead. Yuuna gets herself kidnapped by a | | |
| 8:28am | Cel Checkers Are Good | | | | I have no idea if is drawn on cels or if it's all digitalbut either way it's funny the little things you notice (especially if during a slow workday you're watching anime). In the OP around 1:18 Yuuna's running with slice of bread in her mouth--in episodes 1 and 2 her | | |
| 1:40pm | Kage Kara Mamoru! 4 | | | | Airi's a good tsundere once again this time :) For some reason she's entered Yuuna into an idol contest of course, this being a harem show the other girls enter it as well.Tsubaki's audition doesn't go that well after mistakenly adding a stroke to 侍 samurai to make it 待 | | |
| 5:22am | Kage Kara Mamoru 04 |  | | | Airi tells Yuuna and Mamoru about a contest, which Yuuna decides to enter. Tsubaki and Yamame (in a very poor disguise) are participating to. Tsubaki is up first and she makes a fool out of herself due to miscommunications and almost commits ritual suicide. Yamame then does a dance with kage | | |
| 11:00am | Kage Kara Mamoru - 01 [FIRST] | | | | Continuing to Protect for 400 YearsSynopsisKagemori Mamoru, a nerdy-looking boy with disheveled hair and coke-bottle glasses, belongs to a ninja family. His family has secretly protected their neighbors, the Konnyakus, for 400 years. Every ninja is assigned a certain person to protect and Kagemori | | |
| 2:12am | Kage Kara Mamoru 1-2 | | | | This is never going to win any awards for animation quality, but Kage Kara Mamoru is an entertaining series so far. At first glance it's easy to write this off as a generic harem show--there's your glasses-wearing ordinary student (Keitaro from Love Hina, Haruo from Magikano, Anyone from | | |
| 9:47pm | Kage Kara Mamoru 04 |  | | | Airi has entered Yuuna into an idol contest, which spurs Tsubaki and Yamame to join in too to attract Mamoru’s feelings. Tsubaki performs some of her sword skills and caligraphy, but tries to commit seppuku when she miswrites “Samurai” with “Wait”. Yamame does a | | |
| 6:52am | Kage Kara Mamoru! - 04 |  | | | Summary:Yuuna is entered into an idol contest thanks to Airi and is forced to participate in the second round. | | |
| 6:06pm | Kage Kara Mamoru - Episode 1 | | | | Omph, another one of those shows I did not make it halfway through the first episodenot nearly. There's nothing funny about it and the story is so clichelike it sucks. | | |
| 10:45am | Kage Kara Mamoru! - Anime First Impressions | | | | Kage Kara Mamoru got my vote for most anticipated anime of the Winter 2006 season. Why? Ninjas. Yep, Kage Kara Mamoru has ninjas, which automatically makes it awesomer than all other shows. Or does it? | | |
| 7:47am | Kage Kara Mamoru 03 |  | | | Mamoru meets a girl who turns out to be his childhood friend Yamame, a ninja girl. Yamame and Burumaru spot the evil moe figure dealers, but are caught because Yamame just happened to have an alarm clock in her bag that went off. They're forced to fight a weirdo named Chin Panji, who uses | | |
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