It’s now Kaoru’s time to take the spotlight and damn, that segment in the beginning was amazing!
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Winter 2012 Anime Midseason Impressions
If you notice the lack of weekly Anime Digests, it’s mostly because I didn’t have much to say for the past two weeks. Therefore, I’m won’t be doing them until the spring season. For now, the focus is now on the midseason impressions for the current season.
Compared to last year, this year has been pretty underwhelming season considering that we had two great shows (Madoka Magica and Hourou Musuko), which you may already have fresh in your mind. Nevertheless, I managed to find shows that entertained me for the season, so it’s not that big of a deal. (Image Source)
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Valentines Day Special – My Favorite Idols
For those who celebrate, I hope everyone a Happy Valentines Day/Singles Appreciation Day. To commemorate this faithful day, I want to focus this week’s opinion piece on my favorite idols from The Idolmaster. I know people will have different opinions since they are many to choose from and I will respect that. (Image Source)
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Mouretsu Pirates – Episode 6 – Space Pirating 101
Finally, Marika decided to become captain of her father’s ship… Now it’s just a matter of learning her job while focusing on her schoolwork.
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Amagami SS+ Plus – Nanasaki Ai’s After Story Part II – The Surprise Christmas Eve Date
As Junichi gets dragged into training camp, will Ai lose out on her Christmas Eve date that she looked forward to? We’ll just have to wait and see…
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Working’!! (Second Season) – Final Review
I have to admit that while the first season of Working had some flaws, it was one of the most enjoyable comedies because every worker had a quirk that contributed to it. With the second season completed back in December, it improved a lot while showing more of what I liked about the whole show. (Image Source)
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Mouretsu Pirates – Episode 5 – The Crucial Decision
It’s the episode everyone waited for since it will put Marika’s attack plan in the hot seat…
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Amagami SS+ Plus – Nanasaki Ai’s After Story Part I – Cram School Dilemma
It’s Nanasaki Ai’s time in the spotlight and as you expect, there is a lot of girls in swimsuits.
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Tantei Opera Milky Holmes Second Season – Episode 4 – The Crazy Night’s Sleep
If you thought the second season of Milky Holmes can’t possibly get any crazier, wait until you see their dreams!
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Mouretsu Pirates – Episode 4 – Plannin’ th’ Attack
With the sails fixed, are the girls finally out of the woods yet? Hell no as they found a hostile ghost ship that might attack them out of the blue.
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Weekly Anime Rankings & Digest – January 23rd-30th
This week in general was rather quiet. On the other hand, ACTA, a disastrous treaty similar to SOPA/PIPA had picked up steam last week as people in Europe started protesting against it. As you noticed, I changed the announcement to reflect this and everyone should fight this treaty since it will affect everyone globally, not just in the United States.
Also, I decided to watch Mouretsu Pirates since I got bored of not having enough stuff to watch (Image Source).
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Tantei Opera Milky Holmes Second Season – Episode 3 – The Great Escape from Hakkei Island
I hope you like sea cucumbers because there are lots of them in this episode.
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Mouretsu Pirates – Episode 3 – Ahoy Matey!
As the final preparations got completed for their first voyage, Marika gets her hopes up on what lies ahead for everyone…
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Mouretsu Pirates – Episode 2 – Preparin’ for t’ Mission
Apparently, all the military and police is after Marika over the possibility of her becoming a captain of a pirate ship. Along with that, the Space Yacht Club prepares for a mission.
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Amagami SS+ Plus – Episode 4 (Rihoko After Part 2 END) – The Moment of Truth…
I bet that everyone have waited for this one episode to see if Rihoko is going to get “Friendzoned” again or not. Well, we will share the good news after the scheduled break…
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Mouretsu Pirates – Episode 1 – First Impressions
I have to admit that I have been experiencing some boredom since I’m watching hardly anything. Usually, I watch a minimum of three shows per season. With Milky Holmes S2 release taking longer than expected, I decided to check out one of the most talked about shows in the past few weeks. That show is Mouretsu Pirates (or Bodacious Space Pirates).
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Weekly Anime Rankings & Digest – January 16th-22th
Knowing that Milky Holmes Second Season Episode 3 won’t get released until after I published this digest, I may as well write it now.
If you heard the big news about the Internet last week, SOPA has been officially killed off for good with PIPA getting delayed indefinitely. Congress has finally listened after the unprecedented SOPA blackouts/protests by Wikipedia, Google, Reddit and the Aniblogosphere. Although the battle isn’t over yet, these achievements are great and we should continue putting the pressure on everyone so the Internet stays open.
Also during the weekend, I worked on tweaking the theme even more and made a new header on my test site (featuring Miki Hoshii). I decided not to change the color scheme since I couldn’t come up with a better one and I felt that there is no reason to fix what’s not broken. The good news is that the header will celebrate my three years of Anime Blogging, which started back in February 17, 2009. I plan to have this up by the first day of that month. Despite these developments, you should have noticed the apparent tweaks I made to the theme such as the inclusion of number of comments/trackback in the headers. (Image Source)
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Amagami SS+ Plus – Rihoko After Part I – Her Second Chance for Love…
After Rihoko got screwed badly from the first season, I hope she gets her wish to get a happy ending because let’s face it, it’s sad to see such an innocent girl like her get “Friendzoned” forever.
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Shinryaku!? Ika Musume – Final Review
During the fall of 2010, Ika Musume had become a wild success in Japan and overseas. It was so popular that it got another season, which contains more of same squid girl antics. Since it’s over, how does it compare with the prequel? That answer lies below. (Image Source)
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Tantei Opera Milky Holmes Second Season – Episode 2 – Sushi Madness
Endless supply of Sushi is everyone’s dream, but there is a catch. They have to earn it through some ridiculous chase!
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Weekly Anime Rankings & Digest – January 9th-15th
Considering how quiet it is since I’m only watching two shows this season, I spent majority of my time playing more Idolmaster 2 last week. Just yesterday, I wrapped up my 5th play through before the spring semester starts. I had lots of fun conquering all of Japan with my idols in that produce (except the capital region as there is no reward). Aside from that, it’s back to college studies and studying more Japanese so I can expand my knowledge of the language with the hope of understanding more of the story later.
Also happening this week, I will write reviews for the Fall Anime, write more editorials and the Japanese Self Study Progress Part III. So, look forward to that. (In addition, some stuff about SOPA/PIPA after the jump) (Image Source).
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Amagami SS – Special II – Miya’s Arc – Little Sister and Big Brother Family Bonding
Since I finished Tsukasa’s after story, I felt like taking a look of the little sister arc, the second special from the first season and it’s what you expect… There is a lot of Miya.
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Amagami SS+ Plus – Tsukasa After Part 2 (END) – The Dream that Came True…
After what happened in the last episode, do you think that Tsukasa will let Kurosawa steal Junichi away? Not a fat chance…
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Amagami SS – Special I – Risa’s Arc – The Inconvenient Truth about What Happened Two Years Ago
Since the second season of Amagami SS started airing last week, I may as well celebrate it by covering two of the specials from the first season. In this particular special, it’s big as it reveals why Junichi was so down during Christmas Eve after being heartbroken by a girl two years ago… Apparently, the can of worms gets opened several months after Risa confesses to him in secret.
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