The Tokyo Game Show is currently happening, and with it comes a new flood of information – new game announcements, newly announced delays for huge games ’til Spring 2010, and new trailers, of which Final Fantasy XIV recieved one, which you can see here (Joystiq).
If one of the Tarutaru Lalafell PC’s abilities is to sit on a table, I’m probably gonna reprise my role as a Taru. But the Mithra Mi’qote look hype, too…!
image credit richard masoner
Here’s a fun fact: Nowhere on any article about any portion of 101 on Wikipedia does the term “rush hour” exist. However, 880 does. For people who know how bad 101 can get around here, that’s somewhat amusing. Wikipedia does mention briefly in a passage on transportation that the fabled Bay Area rush hour indeed exists, but doesn’t expound on it.
I intend to. If you’re curious — read more…
iTunes is sometimes useful. Yeah, I know, I hear ya, it’s a piece of bloated thing of music management, but I quite enjoy the concept of cheap and instant gratification of legal music purchasing.
Like, say, downloading the Loosey Goosey single, a Halko Momoi song used for the opening to Yurumates (which was quite the fun watch), for just a buck.
Looking through their selection of anisongs, though (because Loosey Goosey itself is tagged with the genre “Anime”; I was curious), they have a number of artists that have things on the JP iTunes Music Store, but not on the American one. They pop up regardless.
The above picture is one instance of where Apple (or Lantis?) fails me. There are plenty of Hidamari— I mean, Sunshine Sketch fans here in the US…!
…for the fujoshi, that is. First, you have Edogawa crossdress to humorous effect, then you have Edogawa take it one step further, as seen above…replete with hearts, and a grinning Saku. It’s getting sorta scary when I can’t even tell it’s him at first glance.
To his credit, he only had the wig on, but, uh…
I didn’t realize, until a little while ago, that Hidamari Sketch x365‘s first OVA episode had been fansubbed, so I promptly obtained it, and it was quite the fun watch.
I actually quite like how, for special episodes like these, they try to cram most, if not all of the cast in; the karaoke box event was a pretty fun side dish of sorts that Shaft could’ve chosen not to animate. But they did, and it rocked.
Matsuki Miyu banzai!
Sora no Manimani 9 was great. Oumi – heck, the Nogishiro club and meet in its entirety – was great. The insert song was a nice touch (in other words, great.)
And Edogawa continues to be, like, the star of the show, despite everyone else being, well, great.
I see a bunch of Sony Sou-nii and Mii-chan next episode. It looks great.
Today is a Sunday. It doesn’t feel like one.
Tomorrow, the fall semester of school starts for me. It doesn’t feel like it’s that time yet.
What have I done during the summer, anyway?
True to what the title of this particular post references, precisely half of this list is, in some way, consciously Manabi-related. I wonder when this particular fascination will wear off…
Episode 8 of Sora no Manimani was a good watch; a great watch, even. On the other hand, call me biased – the cultural festival portion of the episode was the first chapter of the manga I read, and therefore my hook into the series.
Despite having read it like three or four times before finally finding the tankoubon for volumes one and two at my local Kinokuniya, there are scenes like the one this above screencap is adapted from that I don’t remember reading. Upon further examination (tankoubon 3, chapter 16), it totally was in the original work – but as three panels that fill half a page of content, and without the classy three-second buildup the anime had.
Oh, and the kick and ensuing spin? Anime-exclusive. Great stuff.
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