| 10:25pm | Weekly Round-Up: August 1st | | | | Reviewed this week: Allison and Lillia 14-15, Hidamari Sketch x365 3-4, Itazura na Kiss 16, Kaiba 10, Love GetChu! 9-10, Nabari no Ou 16, Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu 2-3, Persona Trinity Soul 21, Real Drive 12, Ryoko’s Case File 2-3, School Rumble San Gakki OVA 1, Slayers Revolution 4-5, World Destruction... | | |
| 6:29am | Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu - 04 |  | | | 「変じゃないでしょう か…?」 (Hen Janai Deshou ka?) "It's Not Weird Is It?" Episode at a Glance: Figuring that something's bothering Hazuki, Haruka consults with Yuuto, who doesn't sense anything out of the norm, so Mika suggests that they follow her for a day. | | |
| 12:47am | Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu - 04 |  | | | Shakugan no Haruka says Urusai Urusai Urusai! So basically the episode focuses on the blue haired chainsaw maid Hazuki and how Haruka, Yuuto, Mika and the other maid Nanami follow her around town. Unfortunately when they get to the bra parlor, Mika and Nanami stayed behind to try on bras (and... | | |
| 8:39pm | Nogizaka Haruka no Imouto | | | | knows more about the otaku world than Haruka herself? Mika: “Could it be that you asked her to do some weird cosplay, like a bunny, or a nurseor, or, na-na-naked apron!?!?“ Wowand Haruka didn’t even know about them doujins! ^_^’ Also, I’ve seen a jump in single fanged... | | |
| 9:32am | July Summary | | | | The summer-season has always been the season of short and varied series, and in 2008, it’s no different. There’s a wide variety of genres in this relatively small season, only horror seems to be missing at first glance. So far, there are a number of potential classics lurking among them. #30 (new)... | | |
| 10:02pm | Itazura na Kiss - Episode 16 | | | | After just writing about how Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu manages to trump an average plot with lovable character, it's rather ironic that my next task was to tackle the latest episode of Itazura na Kiss, a series with more in the way of a plot, but a bunch of characters that you can't help but hate.Once... | | |
| 10:02pm | Itazura na Kiss - Episode 16 | | | | After just writing about how Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu manages to trump an average plot with lovable character, it's rather ironic that my next task was to tackle the latest episode of Itazura na Kiss, a series with more in the way of a plot, but a bunch of characters that you can't help but hate.Once... | | |
| 9:22pm | Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu - Episode 3 | | | | After a slightly auspicious start, the last episode of Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu succeeded in going a long way towards winning me over. After what was really quite an adorable second episode, the first segment of episode three seemed like a return to cliche-dom, with Yuuno visiting Haruka to study... | | |
| 1:36am | Nogizaka Haruka no Beethoven | | | | I didn’t catch this until I saw some screen captures, but the music piece in the background here is Beethoven’s Fur Elise.Figure 1.0: Quite a bit of attention to detail.I was surprised that they went through the trouble of putting in an actual score, although I guess with the shift to digital... | | |
| 1:36am | Nogizaka Haruka no Beethoven | | | | I didn’t catch this until I saw some screen captures, but the music piece in the background here is Beethoven’s Fur Elise.Figure 1.0: Quite a bit of attention to detail.I was surprised that they went through the trouble of putting in an actual score, although I guess with the shift to digital... | | |
| 10:30pm | Yuto visits Haruka’s house, meets imouto | | | | Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu - 03 Imoutos, and Ueda Kana’s, and Haruka’s exposed secrets, oh my! “Papa wouldn’t let me buy a Dreamcast!” Like many others, I can relate to Haruka’s closet otaku life in a few of ways, though never to the extent of be ostracized by my... | | |
| 6:47pm | Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu first impressions |  | | | I wasn’t planning on watching this series, but after reading the synopsis it sounded like a fun and unique story so I decided to give it a try After watching the first few minutes of episode 1, I was a bit apprehensive that the series might be too fan service-y for my taste. But as it turns... | | |
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