| 8:50pm | Shikabane Hime - 21 | | | | Short Synopsis: The seven stars put Makina and Hokuto in one room. Fighting ensues. Episode Rating: 8/10 (Excellent) I’m still amazed at this series. I keep having these fears, for the huge amount of pitfalls that this series can fill into. And here it comes, and proves me wrong time and time... | | |
| 4:36am | Con-g: Guelph Anime Convention | | | | Over the weekend of February 21-22nd was an anime convention in Guelph Ontario. It was part of the University of Guelph but was held at the Ramada Inn (very nice place). I was quite excited about this anime convention because they had planneda few anime quiz events. I imagined myself kicking ass in... | | |
| 10:18pm | Shikabane Hime: Kuro - Episode 7 | | | | Everything You Do Is A Balloon - At least, it is when you're Touya, the Shichisei member who remains the focus of this episode thanks to "his" control over Nozomi, who is running around trying to claim as much happiness as possible.Of course, the final focus of this bid for happiness (and death as a... | | |
| 7:28am | Shikabane Hime: Kuro 05 |  | | | Summary: We get a quick shot of Nozomi going to the mountains to look for Ouri, and then it’s on to Takamasa’s fight. While jiggling Itsuki’s boobs, Tomoharu asks how fellow-roadkill Itsuki is any different from him. It turns out that only hot young chicks can become SH, and Takamasa... | | |
| 6:03am | Shikabane Hime: Kuro 04 |  | | | Summary: While Honda sedates Makina with one of Shinze’s seals, Ouri goes on a joyride with Takamasa and Itsuki. We get more flashbacks as Itsuki was really scared and weak at first, and Takamasa got wounded trying to help her out. In the end, Itsuki realizes she is still afraid to die, but... | | |
| 11:33am | Anime Sales Rankings Feb. 6 - Clannad & Macross On Top |  | | | These are the sales rankings for anime DVDs as compiled by Oricon for the week of Feb. 6 2009. In addition, the much longed for availability of BD sales rankings is slowly arriving, albeit still lacking exact sales numbers and being reported with a significant delay. It has been some time since we... | | |
| 11:23pm | Shikabane Hime: Kuro - Episode 6 | | | | Last time around, Shikabane Hime: Kuro ended by bringing us a Keisei carnival, and so the first portion of this episode is dedicated to destroying "the Keisei family".Of course, all of these replicas of Keisei are nothing more than mere clones created by Ena, and with a stiff upper lip (and a little... | | |
| 5:00am | Shikabane Hime: Kuro 03 |  | | | Summary: While Ouri begins his how-to-not-die training, Rika and Saki take Makina to severe her Enkiri (remaining connection with Keisei). This Enkiri is the curse that allows Makina to turn delusion into power like a normal shikabane, but it is dangerous to her CP; Itsuki mentions that severing... | | |
| 5:00am | Shikabane Hime: Kuro 03 |  | | | Summary: While Ouri begins his how-to-not-die training, Rika and Saki take Makina to severe her Enkiri (remaining connection with Keisei). This Enkiri is the curse that allows Makina to turn delusion into power like a normal shikabane, but it is dangerous to her CP; Itsuki mentions that severing... | | |
| 6:51pm | Shikabane Hime - 20 | | | | Short Synopsis: Ouri vs. Boob-sama and Makina vs. the balloon thing. Episode Rating: 8/10 (Excellent) Seriously, this show keeps surprising me. I thought that the Boob-sama story would be plain annoying, and Ouri’s female classmate who appeared from out of nowhere and started acting completely... | | |
| 11:15am | Figma Hoshimura Makina |  | | | $q1="Do you rike school girls?"; $q2="Do you rike machine guns?"; $answer=$q1.$q2; If ($answer=="yes") {echo "then you may like this figma of Hoshimura Makina";} $q3="but if you had to choose between machine guns and school girls, which would it be?"; end(); Original text from wcloudx below.Figma... | | |
| 5:05am | Shikabane Hime: Kuro ep. 1 |  | | | [ Episode 1: Path of Light ] Oh My God! New big-boobed Shikabane Hime! Whoa! Half a year has passed since the end of the first season? That was a surprise. Makina was still bound for much of the episode and Oori was busy training. That pretty much left the other characters to carry the episode which... | | |
| 6:22pm | Weekly Anime Review (Jan 26 – Feb 8) | | | | There goes that New Year’s resolution for The Null Set – no more missing a week and having to do a biweekly anime review. On the plus side, I should have plenty to talk about. As a total aside, as I’m typing this up I wonder if other people have specific music they listen to when they have to... | | |
| 10:41pm | Anican 2008 Reader’s Poll: Macross F, Nana Mizuki, Yui Horie |  | | | Anican (a free anime and tokusatsu centric newspaper) has published the results of its extensive 2008 Reader’s poll awards. The number of categories included is somewhat overwhelming, but obviously Macross F pulled out an excellent showing by receiving the #1 spots in both the Anime / Tokusatsu... | | |
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