Friday Notes (July 28)...

11:30AM: A bit of news before I head downtown to have lunch.

New Nanoha Project? (via MOON PHASE, hat tip to moetron)
The October issue of Megami Magazine (on sale August 30) will apparently have some big announcement about a new Nanoha project of some sort... could it be a third Nanoha anime? :)

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Already the end of the month... where did the time go? (^^;;) Up rather early this morning since I was pretty much out after getting home from work yesterday, so I got caught up with Ouran High School Host Club and The Third. Still need to get caught up with Simoun and Kami-sama Kazoku here... completely forgot to grab Binbou Shimai Monogatari yesterday, too... once you get behind it's hard to get caught up, but I never learn (^^;;) Once I get home today I'll do Innocent Venus. If you want the quick summary of what I thought... Sana kawaii yo Sana! ;)

Anyways, how about a very quick roundup of what I'm watching but not blogging now? ;)

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Animal Yokochou
Pretty much the usual crazy stuff, especially the first part of this week's episode. It was a "backstage" look at Aniyoko where we find out that Ami's parents are CG, Matsumoto-san (that big giraffe) is a cutout, that talking fish dakimakura is animatronic, so on, so on. Don't destroy the dreams of the kids watching, really (^^;;)

Appropriately for the middle of summer, next week's a swimsuit episode.

ARIA The NATURAL

It's the usual very relaxing ARIA :) Brought back Undine (the OP from the first season) for these past two episodes where Akari said goodbye to her gondola -- it worked very well 。゜・（ノД`）・゜・。 ED also changed -- Akari's seiyuu singing this time. One question -- when's Ai-chan coming back to visit? ;)

Inukami!

Is that a poster of two machos dressed up as Fate and Nanoha in the background? (^^;;) Yup, it's the usual Inukami! -- lots of homo situations and machos.. lots of machos... but if you can put up with that it's pretty funny. GJ getting Norio Wakamoto (Gar-kun@Yoshinaga-san'chi no Gargoyle, Onsokumaru@Shinobuden) to do the voice of the hentai magician Keita and company are up against now :) Animation quality has been up and down, not nearly as good as Nanoha, but still acceptable for the most part from Seven Arcs. Ganbatte! I'm still holding out hope I can see a nice battle, but since we're talking about Inukami that might.. probably won't happen, hehe ;) Staff really seems to be having fun with things now -- looping a shot with a zou-san from the episode for the background of the sponsor message and such. Please, enough already ;)

NHK ni Youkoso!

Satou-kun... don't put your collection of ero pics in your My Pictures folder, and don't give the folders obvious names like "ero", "moro", and "loli" (^^;;) I'd like to know how he filled up 120GB (was 30GB in the manga) with just pictures in the first place.. Anyways, this last episode was the closest it's come to the feel of the original work so far -- they went about as far as they could, farther than I thought they'd do. It's rather odd to hear Yui Makino as Misaki-chan doing those kinds of things when she's also Sakura@Tsubasa Chronicle and sings the very nice and relaxing OP for ARIA (^^;;) Good quality from Gonzo so far, but we'll see if it stays that way. OP and ED are in heavy rotation on my playlist.

Ouran High School Host Club
The usual silly antics from Tamaki and the rest of the Host club. Haruhi's cute as usual, middle school Haruhi especially :)

Simoun
...get back to me after the weekend since I need to watch 4 episodes or so to catch up (^^;;;)

Strawberry Panic
Poor Tamao-chan... again... Nagisa seems to be set on Shizuma anyways... I'd much rather see Nagisa x Tamao or Nagisa x Chiyo-chan ;) Can't stand the evil lesbians, global warming girl -- Kaname's nickname after that weird speech in whatever episode it was -- and Momomi :P

 
Always the quiet ones that surprise you ;) Kagome-chan gets more and more interesting -- builds ridiculously big sand castles, is a pro at thumb wrestling, and now playing Romeo but talking to her bear instead of Juliet (played by Tsubomi-chan). Very cute :)

The Third
 
Left: The usual omegakawaii Milly-chan
Right: Milly-chan this time

Milly-chan finally wears a cute skirt, but... ＿|￣|○ Like episodes in Seven Arcs shows where Yoshinari Saitou is animation director, the animation director this time has a very different style than the original character design (even moreso than Saitou-san). I would understand better if it were an episode with a lot of action since the movement was very good, but still... if Milly-chan ain't cute it's no good! ;) Things look to be back to normal next time, though. Anyways, I do like the show :) XEBEC's done a pretty decent job with things so far.

Tonagura!

Standard love comedy with lots of pantsu and a tsundere lead in Hazuki. If I were to rank the male leads this season in terms of coolness, Yuuji would be near the bottom with all the hentai stuff he does :P And what's ARIA Company doing here? Alicia and Akari's seiyuu from ARIA are here as Hatsune (usual onee-san character for Sayaka Oohara) and Marie respectively. Marie, Yuuji's military otaku gun-toting little sister, is definitely my favorite character :)

Utawarerumono

...Dori and Gura are girls, right? Poor Oboro can't get a break, hehe.. having to drink that stuff Eruru made, then being told by Yuzuha that she doesn't like onii-chan. Pretty hilarious episode, and Hakuoro's harem is growing again with the addition of Kuuya. Hakuoro-sama is the king of lust, after all ;) Didn't quite understand some of the stuff Kuuya was talking about, throwing around names of things and such, since I haven't played the game or anything... and what the heck was that thing that Hakuro-sama turned into? Anyways, animation by OLM Team Iwasa is top quality, characters are interesting (and quite amusing), so this is one of my favorites :) And if you must know... Aruru >>>>>> Eruru >>> Yuzuha >>>> everybody else