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Subs for Phantom 21 came out early this week!

Phantom 21

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Old Cal could just be almost as badass as Revy (from Black Lagoon) is. That scene where she just barges in and shoots the living daylights out of those Chinese was nuts. Meeting between Scythe and Reiji didn’t seem to be so violent, but surprisingly, Sycthe didn’t tamper much with Cal when he took her in.

So the reason she grew up that quick is…hate? :wonder:

At any rate, end of the episode gives us a cliffhanger between Cal and Elen. Should be fun to watch!

Double sub release of Gintama 118 & 119 were good.

Gintama 118 + 119

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118 concluded the Otohime arc nicely (though that part with Old Kagura and Otohime was hilarious) and 119 was almost entirely a DBZ parody with Hijikata and his cigarette addiction. :rofl: They even got the recap/preview scenes and music down.

Aoi Hana keeps bringing what I like.

Aoi Hana 8

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I’m glad Fumi finally got rid of Sugimoto, now we just sit back and watch the Fumi/A-Chan love flow in. Sweet. :wonder:

Senjougahara has some interesting favors.

Bakemonogatari is all about the attractive psychos.

Bakemonogatari is awesome. Period.

I am only vaguely aware of what this upcoming anime(?) is based on, and this is pretty much what I’ve seen of it, but I already like it and am planning to watch it:
http://zepy.momotato.com/img/0908/yamakan.jpg

It’s based on a song called BLACK?ROCK SHOOTER, sung by Hatsune Miku a VOCALOID made by a company called Crypton (?)
Here’s the song.
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Here’s the main idea, or what the song’s about if you don’t want to watch the video

*Black?Rock Shooter tells of the narrator’s despair and hopelessness as they wander aimlessly, searching for something important to them that they presumably lost. Eventually the narrator gains new hope and decides to move on into the future with courage. The video for the song became massively popular, featuring Black?Rock Shooter traveling through a bleak city and countryside, riding a motorbike and wielding weapons. Black?Rock Shooter is an original character design by Huke, and happens to resemble Miku. *

Here’s his pixiv account

AND here’s the video with more info about it in the description :]
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recently been reading soul eater, i seriously didn’t know the anime version was finished so quickly, they could have kept it going judging by the manga, either way the shows was still good. The manga is really awesome , there’s no fight with the kinshin like on the anime had me surprised. I like the way the mangas going so far.

Sure is.

Bakemonogatari #7

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Man, talk about some A grade service Hitagi gave to Araragi. No wonder he healed so fast! Though I kinda expected he would’ve gone worse because of the potential nosebleed that could’ve happened.

So it turns out that Suruga not only has a demon’s arm (instead of a monkey’s) but the fact that she’s a lesbian shocked Araragi more than anything. :rofl: So in essence, it’s all because of her jealousy towards Araragi for having Hitagi interacting with him instead of her. Sounds pretty serious, but despite that, Suruga’s character is pretty fun. I liked the whole dialogue that went between her and Araragi when it turned out she wasn’t wearing panties.

To continue with the news about Black Rock Shooter, [media=youtube]lbFbXuaKviM[/media].

Edit: Okuma seemed to have covered that bit nicely.

Now who’s up for some sequels? If you are, get ready to see Mahoromatic coming back as a 2 episode special and Hidamari Sketch getting a 3rd season!

Moving on to other watched episodes

Tokyo Magnitude 7

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Newly introduced Kento seems to be the big robot fan - so big that he wanted to save one of them from the rubble, only for Mirai to save him as well. Seems to have made friends quick with Yuuki, whom the latter seems to have gotten seriously sick/fatigued by the end of the episode for a cliffhanger. Wonder if it’s serious.

Phantom 21

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Episode 21 in a nutshell.

I was watching Bakemonogatari and thought, I hate that guy, I wish somebody would beat him to death and sweep up tsundere chan in a whirlwind yuri romance affair.

So close…and yet so far, my dreams will never be realized, I’m just being teased. What a cruel and unusual world. I almost cried.

Haruhi is actually enjoyable again, thanks to a good 20 minutes of pure moe blobicity.

Princess lover: What happened? Just when I thought the show had ditched the silly “serious” pretenses with the onsen episode, we now have the big tit patrol solving a nuclear crises and fighting death squads.

Also newest kodomo no jikan: Brilliant. Simply brilliant. I wish more series had the courage, audacity and creativity to tackle issues regarding loli nipples. Its lonely at the top, I suppose. Trail Blazers will always be ahead of the pack.

i dont see how an anime with the name unicorn will succeed, but i will not judge till i see it.

me and my bro usually recommend each other anime. so i recommended canaan, he recommended me phantom, is this shit really the hawtness?

Who cares what it’s called, it’s UC Gundam, and it’s not a side story. Also the gundam itself looks fucking awesome:


2 years huh?

omg that gundam has a fucking unicorn…

i guess im not as hype cause i never really cared for UC gundam. Zeta was about all i cared for.

Ok, yeah the name is weird but how the hell can you actually hate on the physical design of it.

well Zeta’s the really popular one, thought I hate it myself if only because I hate kamille’s guts.

I actually like the design. It’s kind of a modernized, pseudo-minimalist RX-78-2 gundam. I just think it’s funny. A god damn unicorn gundam. Can’t be that they ran out of ideas already? right…? :chat:

If the screenwriter for this isn’t the one from Gundam 00 I think I’ll check it out!

Well it’s a Hajime Katoki design and that guy pretty much designs the best gundams and MS in general. You should see the other mecha he designed for the series as well

I liked the UC Gundam where he had fins that detatched and flew around and shot lasers and could make a shield like Mercurius from Wing Gundam.
EDIT: http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/7456/nugundamrender.png

This is like finding out that Starcraft:Ghost has been street dated for next week(for me).

yea, Nu gundam from Char’s counterattack was a very nice one, I loved it as well.