Inami’s Androphobia is gradually going away through the help of Souta. It’s not until some incident that involved boxes, which causes her to become bedridden… Oh my!
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Working’!! Second Season – Episode 10 – Inami’s Affection Overload
Working’!! Second Season – Episode 9 – Yachiyo’s and Satou’s Cellphone Shopping Date
Yachiyo kind of goes on a date with Satou to get acquainted with technology!
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Twelve Days of Anime – Prelude
メリークリスマス！ (Merry Christmas!)
It’s that time of year again and thus marks a starting of another Anime Blogger tradition, the 12 Days of Anime Project. In this group effort, Anime Bloggers like myself share twelve Anime related moments on our blogs. It’s an activity that got started by a former blogger named CCY (also known as Canon-chan) 4 years ago whose blog pretty went into a vegetative state recently. Of course, there are many who want to keep it alive. So, I feel that I should share some of the holiday cheer.
Unlike last year where I have stopped half way because I got overwhelmed with too much finals that it drained my motivation to complete the last six, I’m doing things differently this year. Instead of 12 individual posts, I will squeeze it down into two separate posts. Each post will spotlight 6 notable events either from Anime or the Aniblogosphere. Hopefully this time around, I will actually finish it this time! So, check it out this Saturday when I plan to come up and spotlight the first six.
Weekly Anime Rankings & Digest – December 5-11
Following the eventual week, I’m pleased to announce that my mother’s operation went fine and recovering. As for me, finals have finally come in full force since today marks the end of classes. Therefore, I won’t blog at least until Thursday when I expect to complete most of the finals. Once that gets finished, I will concentrate on completing the first level Japanese course textbook, Secret Santa Anime I haven’t touched and the 12 Days of Anime Blogging Project. (Image Source)
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Fate/zero – Episode 11 – Wine and Views on Kingship
Iskander apparently invites Saber and Archer to have a friendly talk on what makes a worthy king over a drink of wine.
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Shinryaku!? Ika Musume – Episode 9 – Melodramatic Love Triangles and Tea Cup Rides
It’s obvious that the economy took a toll on everything, including the amusement park Eiko went to as a child.
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The iDOLM@STER – Episode 23 – The Melancholy of Amami Haruka
While all the girls becomes increasingly busy with their various tasks, Haruka becomes dejected for not being able to gather the same enthusiasm as she did before. Thus, it quickly goes downhill from there as an unexpected tragedy strikes.
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Working’!! Second Season – Episode 8 – Inami is cute…
Kirio finally arrives at the restaurant in his quest to look for his younger sister, Aoi. This can only mean one thing… Trouble.
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Weekly Anime Rankings & Digest – November 28 – December 4
As the fall semester comes to a close, it appears that things are only going to get busier. Once finals are over, I’ll play catch up on marathoning the Secret Santa Anime I have been sitting on along with finishing the first level of Genki I in my Japanese self-study. Hopefully I can get that done before I start my video gaming binge after Christmas.
Also this morning, my mother went into surgery as mentioned earlier… I’ll keep everyone posted on the status. (Image Source)
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Fate/zero – Episode 10 – Rin, the Child Prodigy
After all the drama about Lancer’s suffering, we get to see Rin as a child kick Ryuunosuke’s butt…
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Journey of Self-Studying Japanese – Tackling Verb and Adjective Conjugations
From last time, I shared my first hand experiences of self-studying the Japanese Language last month. Another month passed by and I have learned quite a lot, most namely one of the intimidating aspects of the language, verb and adjective conjugations.
Note: This post uses the ruby HTML5 tag to view the Furigana for any Kanji used. If you use Firefox, install this extension. This is not necessary in Safari, Chrome and Internet Explorer.
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The iDOLM@STER – Episode 22 – 765 Productions Christmas Cake Party
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Shinryaku!? Ika Musume – Episode 8 – Ika’s Painful Shrimp Withdrawal
Doing cold turkey on shrimp is a very bad idea, especially for Ika since she absolutely adores it!
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Weekly Anime Rankings & Digest – November 21-27
For those who are in America, I hope everyone had a nice Turkey Day. My Thanksgiving weekend was quiet as I spent most of my time playing Minecraft. In addition, the holiday shopping got completed rather quickly since I knew what I want. Unlike last year, I brought no Anime, but instead a good number of games including a Playstation 3 version of Idolm@ster 2!
In addition, “The Idolmaster Animation Master 5” released yesterday in Japan and I ordered a first press release of the disc. I can’t wait to hear the full versions of Heart of Marionette (マリオネットの心) and Myself Rest@rt (自分REST@RT) since I heard from other people that they sound excellent.
On a serious note, my mom goes for surgery to remove a Stage I Kidney Cancer next Monday. From the day of its discovery, we have been a bit anxious. Hopefully, she will have a speedy recovery once it gets taken cared of. (Image Source)
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The iDOLM@STER – Episode 21 – Chihaya, the Sleeping Beauty and Jupiter’s Redemption
After Chihaya confronted her past and recovered from it rather quickly, she performs a special song to turn a new page on her career. Amidst this, Kuroi attempts a last-ditch sabotage to 765 Productions again. Sadly, it doesn’t quite work out and results in the unexpected…
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Obligatory and Early Winter 2012 Anime Season Preview
As the New Year fall upon us in another month and I have no anime to blog about due to delayed releases, I suppose I can work on the brief Winter Preview and plans for a Let’s Play of a certain game. (Image Source)
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Fate/zero – Episode 9 – Lancer’s Suffering and Burning Down the Base
Rider and Weaver steal the spotlight yet again with their awesomeness… and of course, Lancer’s suffering.
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End Of Year Future Plans
For those who are in America, I wished everyone had a great Thanksgiving. As this holiday passes by, the end of the year finally approaches us. From there, I have many things in store for this blog now until the end of next month. (Image Source)
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Working’!! Second Season – Episode 7 – Souta in Despair…
While the molester wanders around and causes worry, Inami finds out the shocking truth about his lost sister.
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Shinryaku!? Ika Musume – Episode 7 – Creation of the Invasion Club
Yep, Ika finally gets her own invasion club so she can take over mankind! Sort of…
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Weekly Anime Rankings & Digest – November 14-20
Subsequently after the downtime that caused a significant drop in hits, I’m plan to fight with the hosting company so I can get a prorated refund and move to a more reliable shared hosting for another year. Although a VPS is nice and all, I need to learn how to set one up locally before actually taking a risk.
During the downtime, I have taken the plunge and brought the fifth Idolmaster Animation Master, which contains a few notable songs from Episode 13. I promise to post pictures of it once it gets released (and no, not like this).
On the brighter note, last week’s anime was exciting with Mini-Ika returning and most importantly, the Chihaya episode. (Image Source)
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Fate/zero – Episode 8 – Kiritsugu’s Trump Card
As the battle rage on with Lancer/Saber taking on Caster while Kiritsugu takes on El-Melloi, Kirei makes a surprising appearance.
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Extended Downtime = Extreme Rage
Having a site go down for more than a few hours is every blogger’s nightmare and it seemed that it became reality this weekend. Yesterday, the site went down and I complained numerous times to the host on why it’s not fixed. This was not the first time it happened this month as my blog faced downtimes, some lasting a few hours.
Apparently, a few sites on the shared host got compromised in a XSS (Cross site scripting) attack, most likely from an outdated TimThumb library that compromised many Wordpress blogs. Still, the poor communication with support and the inability to detect this problem before it was too late kind of shows how irresponsible WPWebhost is. They talk about how good Wordpress is, but they care less about their customers. I felt that I received subpar hosting for them to the point where I’m furious at them for not fixing these problems before. To make it worse, this wasn’t the only problem I faced with them in the past. My site had numerous short downtimes, slow loading times and database not working properly because the tmp folder is full. From what I have experienced this weekend, I feel that their support staff and the people who manage the server needs to get fired and replaced with competent people since their response in this situation was horrendous.
Needless to say, I’m still going to send a complaint letter so maybe I can get out of the contract and get a prorated refund. If I’m successful in doing this, I will transfer my domain to another registrar and move my site to an affordable unmanaged virtual private server like Burst.net. If not, I’ll stick it out for another year, take daily backups and then move to a new host. Either way, there is no way in hell they will ever get my business again and heed the warning… Never get hosting from WPWebHost.
Aside from that, the post for Fate/zero episode 7 will be up in a few hours.
The iDOLM@STER – Episode 20 – Thank You for the Memories (おもいで を ありがとう)
From the aftermath of an article in a gossip magazine regarding Chihaya’s past, it kind of shows how judgmental society is even though it clearly crosses the line.
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