August 30th, 2004 Monday

GIRLS Bravo (7)

Alien animal voiced by Tomoko Kaneda! naaaa~ nuuuu~

NOW that censor fog has pissed me off! They fogged up Maharu! FUJI TV! *shakes fist* No amount of Kirie and Koyomi service will make up for it! Maybe if Miharu were removed from the show...

Ninin ga Shinobu-den (8)

You can tell 30 seconds in that this ep was by the director of the first episode, Katsumi Teratou. Her joke delivery style is easily recognizable. She also makes Shinobu extremely cute! Cute I say! I hope she does at least one more ep before the series ends.

August 29th, 2004 Sunday

Re:Cutie Honey (2)

Honey vs Cobalt vs Scarlet. Good action! Good service! Wish Cobalt could've lasted longer though. She was way cooler than Scarlet.

Nurse Witch Komugi-chan Magikarte Z (1)

Komugi is against hiring more Koreans on the animation staff!

Now THIS is what the 2nd series should've been...de gozaimasu!

What happened to the animation!? This resembles that occasional episode in a long running series where the staff takes a vacation and leaves the animating up to the janitor. Ok it wasn't THAT bad, but compared to the first series, it's a considerable dip in quality. Content wise this wasn't all that great either. I really enjoyed the first half with Komugi hanging out with the gang, but when she transforms and has an Osaka themed battle with Koyori, the pacing turns awkward and the preceding jokes just weren't very funny at all. Argh, I hope they get back on track with episode two! I don't like talking bad about this series!

Elfen Lied (6)

Bandou becomes Robocop and roams the beach for Lucy. He finds a newly regenerated Nana instead! Let's see how much damage SHE can do to him.

DearS (8)

Miu's dark secret! Revealed! Then forgotten.

August 25th, 2004 Wednesday

Samurai Champloo (13)

The motion blur shock! That doesn't bode well for Mugen.

Mugen's past catches up to him. They're not happy to see each other.

August 23rd, 2004 Monday

GIRLS Bravo (6)

Miharu goes back. Miharu comes back. Koyomi goes back. Koyomi comes back... with Tomoka na no da. Why didn't Miharu bring Maharu!? Damn her!

August 22nd, 2004 Sunday

Elfen Lied (5)

Lucy chumped the hell out of that procreate freak professor. Very funny. But Mayu's past wasn't funny. Poor Mayu. *sniff*

DearS (7)

Ryoko Shintani Annoyance Level = 84%. I've developed an immunity to her voice through intensive Galaxy Angel viewings, so I was able to stand it quite easily. Noobs beware!

Keroro Gunsou (21)

Lift the cushions on your couch, you just might find a cute ninja.

Tamama VS Densetsu Super Kabutomushi! I love it!

Power outages and grandma trips. Some good parodies in this ep, especially the Lupin one.

Love Love? DVD (3)

They could have looped this 500 times and it would've been better than the actual ep.

This was weaker than the previous episode. They better pull out all the stops in the finale!

August 18th, 2004 Wednesday

Ninin ga Shinobu-den (7)

Onsokumaru gets stuck on Miyabi, then the gang plays baseball. The ladies win~

August 16th, 2004 Monday

GIRLS Bravo (5)

Yukinari rents out his cabinet to Koyomi.

Koyomi (VA Masayo Kurata, haven't heard her in a while) gets sent to Earth to retrieve Miharu, but loses her memory in the process. Luckily Fukuyama chases her around town all damn day and she gets it back at the end of the ep. Now take Miharu back to Seiren! Rid us of her evil. Then come back. Because you're cute~

Keroro Gunsou (19 & 20)

Koyuki needs to pull shirts off more often.

Natsumi and Keroro duke it out at a matsuri, Keroro tries to start a radio talk show, and Fuyuki meets a mermaid. These eps had quite a few awesome Giroro moments. The ED changed in episode 19 as well. Now it's a kick ass ondo song!

August 15th, 2004 Sunday

Elfen Lied (4)

I can't take Lucy seriously when she has that hat on.

I didn't really care for her, but this was still pretty sad.

Nana gets put down like a dog. I thought she would last a little longer than that, but oh well.

August 14th, 2004 Saturday

DearS (6)

This was quite low budget. Miu tries to teach Ren the proper ways of an alien, then Takeya's sister Natsuki shows up. Ryoko Shintani does her voice. She didn't talk enough for me to gauge annoyance though.

August 11th, 2004 Wednesday

Ninin ga Shinobu-den (6)

...I don't know what to say for this one

First, a typhoon hits Japan and Shinobu spends the night at Kaede's. They play fighting games on Kaede's WONDERMEGA(modified for anime use)! Next, while Onsokumaru and gang are getting high off shrooms they run into Izumi and her class of cuties! Izumi's voiced by veteran Michiko Neya. Good choice, though I never really liked her angry voice.

Samurai Champloo (12)

Clip show! Why are we travelling? Does the sunflower smelling samurai really exist? Mugen steals Fuu's diary while she's bathing to try and find some answers. He doesn't, of course.

Azusa, Otetsudai Shimasu! (1)

You deserved so much better Super Azusa. ;_;

A one-shot OVA featuring a simple story about a baseball team and their robot buddy. This wasn't anything to get excited over, but I don't feel like I wasted my time in the 44 minutes watching it either. It had solid animation and a decent vocal cast - standout being Mamiko Noto as normal Azusa. For the voice of SUPER Azusa they brought in popular J-idol Sayuri Anzu. Why, I have no idea. Her performance was... disappointing to say the least, especially since her character looked so freakin' cool. Damn you sexy J-idols! Stick to looking sexy!

August 9th, 2004 Monday

GIRLS Bravo (4)

Tons of Kirie, minimal Miharu, and my favorite sub-plot is developed further. The Bravo staff knows what's up!

August 8th, 2004 Sunday

Elfen Lied (3)

Nyuu must of watched a lot of porn in the labs.

She blew up the dog! Oh wait, no she didn't. They got me! I look forward to Nana's impending thumb wrestling battle with Nyuu. Though in the next ep preview it looks like Nyuu wins.

August 7th, 2004 Saturday

DearS (5)

Think impure thoughts around Ren, and you'll suffer the (wonderful?) consequences.

August 4th, 2004 Wednesday

Ninin ga Shinobu-den (5)

Dying wouldn't suck so bad if this was waiting for you~

Onsokumaru goes to hell, bishoujo figure ghost stories are told, then we get a matsuri with a Shinobu Ondo music montage! I love ondo songs~ And this one was sung well to boot! It better be on the OST!

Samurai Champloo (11)

Kickin' Jin! I wish this scene was BRIGHTER.

Jin falls in love with a girl, to Mugen's relief, and tries to help her escape the crappy life she's living. I've seen this kind of story many times in live action samurai shows(anime too) and have always had a soft spot for it. The bad thing is that it usually ends tragically, but I was happy to see that this ep didn't follow suite.

Love Love? DVD (2)

Definitely not as good as the ep before it. The naked apron parade was nice though.

August 1st, 2004 Sunday

Elfen Lied (2)

Excitement = Death! I swear this guy's gonna learn the hard way.

A dark episode...with light comedy at the end. How about that. I wonder how much of Bandou will be left by the end of the series.

DearS (4)

When they point the finger, you're a rival.

Miu doesn't like Ren! I like that Miu doesn't like Ren! Mai Nakahara does a great "rival" Naga-ish ohohoho voice for Miu. She should do more of these types of roles in the future.

Keroro Gunsou (18)

Natsumi gets morphed into an adult so she can take Keroro to the beach to win a Dangale model in a contest. Natsumi's oyaji joke speech was great!