Before we get going, you can check out the rules and the happenings back in the previous turn here. And here’s a quick recap of the availables, and the claimed:

Unclaimed & Recent Imports:

Claimed:

Game time.

Second Barrage. START!

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Well, let’s do this. In this post we commence with the first play of this season. Everyone’s ready to pounce so I can’t keep them. But before we knock each other’s brains out, I need to refresh everyone first with the rules of the game. This way, everyone can still look cool despite having their guts dropping on the floor.

Technical Rules of the Waifu-Claiming Game:

1. The technical rules the game are fairly easy. Each week, each player is given one (1) claiming power to claim a girl as a partner (you’re required to claim, dude).

This is optional: He may also elect one girl for elimination (which will be subjected to voting among the players ), and/or import a new girl to the list (or return an eliminated one to the list).

2. Now this is the fun part. Let’s say Player1 claimed a girl from the list. He gains partnership with the said character.

Shin claimed Kinoshita Hideyoshi.

Now, if a Player2 claims the same girl, his claim will cancel the first one. This makes the girl unclaimed again.

Rakuen claimed Kinoshita Hideyoshi.

If a Player3 claims the same girl yet again, he claims partnership with her, so on and so forth.

3. Once you’ve claimed a girl as a partner for that week, she’ll remain your partner unless another players cancels your claim. You can’t claim or import  anyone who’s not in any show being aired this season.

4. And before I do forget, there’s no order in turns. You just have to complete your turn before a week ends (preferably a week officially ends on a Saturday).

Let’s start off. The game will be done by comments, and not by wave anymore. This is something I came into agreement with the other players, namely:

Panther

mefloraine

53RG10

mjsnoozer

Shin

UltraEternalBlackout

and yours truly.

Also here are the preliminary picks.

Players, keep these rules in mind:

• No declaring moves in replies. You have to exact a new comment and declare your move in it.
• Feel free to reply on any other player’s move; just don’t declare a move in that reply.

As for non-players, feel free to comment or reply however you like. If you want to join in the fun for the next phase, just drop your request in a comment  .

I think this is more than enough for reminders. That said…

LET THE CLAIMING BEGIN!!!

P.S. The first leg ends before Valentine’s. Players should finish their turn before the 14th.

Oh it’s that time of the year again, I see. I turn 18 this time around, the natural drinking age. Really, I’ve nothing much to say about this occasion besides “I’m so ronery… “.

Oh I’ll take my time this season. I’ll be pretty much busy in many directions, especially with a bunch of projects I want to do with a dream team.  I’ve also realized how far behind I am with this season’s timeline. I think the last episode I watched was that second one of Durarara! I’m also doing conducting what remains (I think) of the Waifu Claiming Game, with the players deep within the internet.

So what are my Birthday resolutions (Oh, I don’t do New Year’s resolutions) this year? I have a few:

1. Be more professional, and stop slacking with drawing manga, and work my ass off even if it kills me. I’m already confident with my style, but I also want to master different styles.

2. Watch more classic titles. This reminds me I had to watch DieBuster.

3. Read more manga.

4. Cure my insomnia.

5. Try to wake up early.

6. Save money. Well it seems this one’s gonna be a total bust.

Well, as for my cake…

Itadakimasu.

Oh I’ll be gone for a long time again. See you next deculture!

This episode is very much about FIGHTING OVER BOYS LOLOLOL. Kurumi gets pretty huffy after Sawako cannot support her 100% in aiming for Kazehaya. I was expecting at this point for Kurumi to say some really scalding things to poor Sawako, but was surprised when everything turned out better than expected. Not GOOD, but not Sawako-a-crying-mess-all-the-way-home, either. Claiming that Sawako has it easier at getting Kazehaya’s attention because she’s an oddball is something that Kurumi could genuinely believe, even though we know it’s not (entirely) true.

Sawako takes all this in stride, partly because Kurumi wasn’t as biting as she could have been, and that Sawako herself is naive and incorrigible. One good thing is that this causes Sawako to think more thoroughly about her relationship with Kazehaya, and whether or not he is that special to her.

I was quite pleased with the way Kurumi was portrayed in this episode. She obviously has an inner vendetta against Sawako, but isn’t blinded by anger or wantonly hurt Sawako’s feelings. It’s not hard to tell that they would probably be good friends if they weren’t at odds over Kazehaya. tl;dr she’s not a complete bitch. Of course, my like for Kurumi dropped again at the end of the episode, when she begins scheming again. Don’t you dare ruin my Chizu x Ryuu pairing!

Actually, is Kurumi like a reverse-tsundere?

And, I loved Sawako’s clueless expressions in this episode!

I had to admit. My affair with a particular 6-episode mecha series, showcasing beautiful girls in aerobics outfits piloting mechas to save the world was something short to inevitable. Our little game back in our Turn-X-mas Party our leader (who loves Binchou-tan unconditionally) called MunitoXMunita (sort of an exchange series review as I see it) led me to my fated encounter with Gunbuster. I couldn’t see it any other way but an act of love.

[Episode 1]

Episode 1 introduces the show’s heroine, Takaya Noriko, daughter of the captain of the first space fleet to set out into space to counter aliens which was tragically decimated. Noriko, now a freshman in an academy for mecha pilots, has a dilemma: her lack of talent for piloting. After being saved from schoolbitches, she meets Amano Kazumi, the school’s idol, topping the school’s curriculum; she was a natural prodigy. The next day the students were rounded up as an exercises in choosing earth’s finest youth to join the space fleet. Amano already has a sure slot, and the other was rumored to be for a third year. To her surprise the next day, it was Noriko who was chosen to partner Kazumi, causing the other girls to rupture with jealousy for a no-talent like Noriko. Harassment ranged from doodling graffiti on her mecha to putting tack on her seat to outright talking shit about her, something Kazumi couldn’t take.

Finally Noriko confronted Coach Ohta (who happens to be a survivor from her father’s fleet), the man responsible for choosing her, saying she’s no-good at all. Coach responds to this by leading Noriko to where Kazumi trains, and she sees the ace wearing iron sandals, running hard to a high flight of stairs. Noriko was finally enlightened– it wasn’t talent that propelled Kazumi to being an ace; she persevered. In a course of days she want to intense training under Coach’s wing (in her fetching pilot clothes) and she turned to be quite a pilot, and finally respected by the other students.

Yet, one girl wasn’t happy at all– Kashiwara Reiko thought she would be in Takaya’s shoes. She challenged Noriko in a duel which she fiercely directed. Noriko was decked due to her confusion once it was crunch time. Remembering Coach’s words, “You feel with your body, think with your head, and judge with your heart”, she shut down her monitor and sensors. This provoked her opponent to deliver her final blow, but with excellent timing, judgment and control,Noriko mustered an “Inazuma Kick” to defeat Reiko, a feat that can never be done by an amateur. With that incident, which a lot of people saw, including Kazumi and Coach, Noriko was finally revered by the school, before her and Kazumi’s venture into space.

Mind me saying this shot is particularly sexy.

First Opinion (At this point I’ve only watched this episode):

It appeared to me, right from the start of the first dialogue, right from the first scene, as a very innocent and touching story. From the remark that she wants to be a space pilot so she can be with her father, I felt love from Noriko’s character. And she kept to that promise even after her father died. I’m sure if that happens to somebody with such a wish, she’d shatter. I’m sure at that time she has realized the kind of world her dream would bring, that it may bring melancholy, despite the pride. Yet she doesn’t feel like her father died, rather she felt like he’s just there somewhere in the oblivion of space. Personally, and honestly, I would die to have a daughter like Takaya Noriko, who would look up to me and who would believe in what I work for. It was heart-warming that I wanted to just sit and tear.

After the brief info, Takaya Noriko appeared to me as a Yui-ish character at the start. She’s clumsy, innocent, and easily quite the genki type too, yet there’s self-doubt. But when she faces a tough adversary she becomes aware and confident. While Amano hasn’t struck me yet, she might after a while, because I see something deeper in her.

Oh, as for the cool-cat of the episode, it’ll have to be him:

There are two things that made me fall in love this episode, the first is Noriko. The second is the concept of mecha control. Disclaimer: I know the story’s fictional, as well as some concepts, but it made perfect sense.

The show depicts the phrase “being one with the frame” in a rather calisthenic way. Mecha control is something I’ve been fascinated with for years, and one thing I can say about it is that it’s complicated. Gundam and Macross makes it look so easy.

Gunbuster shows an accurate depiction of mecha control that it made sense. The thing is that the time line of the story being close to ours; it made me feel like the mecha with see in the show can be achievable with our current technology. It was believable and never absurd. It’s not the same as Evangelion wherein the mind is the medium of control. It’s not the same as driving a car, like in Eureka Seven (though that show explained how a LFO works, it wasn’t that believable— so disclaimer said because it’s fictional). Though Inazuma Kick was a bit of a peek outside of the box, or rather quite a feat, Gunbuster satisfies the true concept of mecha control— that it’s serious fuckin’ business. It’s hard to imagine you doing a triple midair somersault, tumble, do swordplay and such with just two joysticks and a few buttons… or maybe a keyboard, just like Fabulous Lelouch does it.

[Episode 2]

Okay, now they’re arrived to their main vessel, the Exelion, wherein they’ll do a 7-month prep before the space war. They met the feisty Jung Freud, who had an instant rivalry with Kazumi. During an exercise, Jung, Kazumi and Noriko separated from the squad. Kazumi and Jung immediately engaged in combat as Noriko tried to stop them. They didn’t notice they’ve strayed too far from the squad to a classified vessel for studying alien corpses. Noriko sees this and immediately goes into a tantrum. Despite knowing this, Coach cannot put the two into detention because it’ll just waste time. Meanwhile, the bridge has pick up signal of an unidentified object along the Perseus Belt, moving in sub-lightspeed. Kazumi and Noriko have been chosen to pursue the object with Coach. Before the mission, they find out Jung actually quite a charming person as they encountered her in the bath house. They’ve been told about the time lag though (a second in subspace is like a 6 hours or something, I can’t remember). In their intersection with the object, they determined that it was Luxion, Capt. Takaya’s ship. On impulse, Noriko boarded the ship to find her father. The active date in Luxion says it’s only been two days since the war started. She find the main bridge but find out it’s already been destroyed; she cries in despair. Coach immediately retrieves her just before Kazumi decelerated to get back to the fleet. They made it back safely and there waited a party for their return. They’ve only been in subspace for such a short time, but 6 months have already passed since. Jung tried to console the depressed Noriko, but she ran in tears, lamenting about her father and the dream she left with him.

Second Opinion

Episode 2 was really something I looked forward to. It’s only customary to me to expect the second episode to have more hype than the first. It satisfied that need of mine with the space combat I’ve seen with manual mechas, and there’s this delicious science bit about going into sub-lightspeed warping. The sexy 70’s aerobics outfits they still were in space did leave me concerned though, considering how easy it is to (accidentally) open a mecha’s hatch. And oh, the uncensored happy bath time was Mighty Fine, GAINAX .

[Episode 3]

As Exelion warped its way to Leaf-64 (a star quite similar in age as our Sun), Noriko’s swept into an uneasy turmoil. Kazumi relinquishes acknowledging her as a partner, yet she found love at a peculiar time in Smith Toren– only to have him gone and lost in space in their first encounter with the aliens, her first sortie. Tragedy ensues. Melancholy ensues. A new hope is rising, and the true enemy reveals itself.

[Episode 4-5]

Noriko proves her worth as she piloted Gunbuster on its maiden sortie to save everyone: Exelion, Jung, and Kazumi from demise. She burdens the miracle of saving mankind.

10 years have already passed in Earth yet it was barely a few months for Noriko and the crew. She finally graduates with Kazumi. She’s already 22 Earthyears-old. She encounters an old friend, and realized mankind hoping for the future. Kazumi braces on her not-so-reciprocated love (for Coach). Coach braces on thin lifeline. The world braces as Noriko and Kazumi (on board Busters 1 & 2) used Exelion’s reactor as an artificial blackhole bomb to decimate an armada of invaders; Earth’s final defense.

[Episode 6: BlackXWhite]

15 years have passed since the Solar System’s Final Defense. The late Coach Ohta lived on in the character of Ohta Kazumi, who decided to stay in Earth to teach. Man’s final plea for a miracle, man’s final card– Buster 3, a blackhole bomb with the shrunken Jupiter as its core; Kazumi burdened to take it to Earth’s final fleet, to the center of the galaxy. Noriko awaited. The two reunited. Noriko’s wish to return to Earth after this trial. Then, the decisive battle.

In the final moment, after countless waves of aliens, the Buster 3 fails to detonate; a miracle fails to shine. Yet Noriko sacrifices to re-initiate the detonation, and Kazumi stuck with her until the end. Using Buster 1’s reactor, the detonation was successful. As the two escape the implosion, as everything turns to a blur, Noriko’s wish to see everyone again never faded.

After having traveled in subspace for 12,000 Earth years, the two have finally reached home. Hope seemed to have left them after seeing neither a sign of civilization– Until a sudden pattern of lights from Earth saying “Welcome Home” (though had misspelled hiragana) shined to them. In tears of bliss, Noriko bids Gunbuster a final goodbye to land back home.

Final Opinion:

Gunbuster is amazingly human. Finally there are two things that I fell in love with. The first one is that the series expounded, though it was never expressed through much of what’s happening, that “humans are very fragile creatures”. This alone says much about the humanism shown by the story. The second one is that it was fairly clean. Not a single spec of question hit me as I watched the show like “Dude, what was that?” (you can’t count Inazuma Kick to that), or “I don’t get it. What’s happening.” It kept every bit of it clean and neatly done despite keeping a fast pace, just the way I liked it. I think the direction was supremely done. I believe this served as predecessor to the Neon Genesis Evangelion franchise, not only because both were directed by my good buddy Hideaki Anno. Both still gave the feeling of reality despite being fictional, and I think this gave the series a distinct kind of feel.

If I were to grade Gunbuster, I’d give it a 1,000,000%. It was neatly done, the characters never looked stupid at any given time, the animation was pretty good and I’d like it to be reanimated, it’s all of the above, and I can’t say anything bad about it at all.

But before I end this post, I claim Takaya Noriko as a waifu.

AAAAAAND, I need to do this again. For Great Justice!

We discover that Kurumi’s intention for befriending Sawako is so that she can slyly talk Sawako into not associating with Kazehaya. (It also serves to help Kurumi interrupt Sawako and Kazehaya whenever she pleases.) Well-o, that backfires, causing our poor little schemer to be hopping mad. Luckily, it seems that Kurumi has had sometime with Anger Management 101, because it sure seemed like she was ready to rip off Sawako’s head several times during the episode.

Sawako is as clueless as ever, and she is really happy that Kurumi is so nice to her, even while she wonders why making friends was that easy. You can’t help but to sympathize with the feeling, as I’m sure most everyone has wondered at one time why something was too good or easy to be true. It’s a bit arduous to watch Sawako in the presence of Kurumi, like a naive little rabbit in the presence of a cunning fox.

My reaction to Kurumi constantly greeting Sawako out of the blue was similar to Yoshida… I was annoyed. For different reasons, though. Yoshida is jealous that Kurumi and Sawako seem friendly so easily, while I’m annoyed because Kurumi is a up-to-no-good manipulator. Unlike Yoshida, however, Yano seems realize just how manipulative Kurumi is, although I’m not sure why she is adopting a wait-and-see approach if Sawako might be in danger.

Kurumi gets angrier throughout the episode, culminating with her telling Sawako that she likes Kazehaya. Sawako is surprised, but seeing as how she hasn’t really processed her feelings for Kazehaya yet, I suspect that she might adopt a “cheer Kurumi on” approach. Ugh.

And for any of you wondering, I had a splendid winter break. Now that classes are starting again, I can happily resume my regular schedule of updating. Look forward to some interesting posts I have planned, guys!

Pretty much the aim of the game is to get me to choose this season’s waifu, and a new addition to my ever-growing harem. Well let’s get it on, get it pumping!

I’ll state in the the rules of the competition. But before that, let’s start off with my preliminary candidates for this season’s leg.

Now for the notes:

1. A particular Waifu-Claiming Game will only go for the duration of its respective season.

2. The claimable waifus can either decrease in number (due to elimination), or increase in number (due to importing).

3. Players/Claimers can also increase (number of players cannot exceed the number of claimable girls), or decrease (by quitting the game).

4. Rakuen is the game master, and the first player (if not, ONLY player).

5. By the end of the season’s game, a player may have not only one, but several partners collected. The player with the most girls is dubbed “Harem Protagonist of the Season”.

Now for the technical rules:

1. The technical rules the game are fairly easy. Each week, each player is given one (1) claiming power to claim a girl as a partner (you’re required to claim, dude).

This is optional: He may also elect one girl for elimination (which will be subjected to voting among the players ), and/or import a new girl to the list (or return an eliminated one to the list).

2. Now this is the fun part. Let’s say Player1 claimed a girl from the list. He gains partnership with the said character.

Shin claimed Kinoshita Hideyoshi.

Now, if a Player2 claims the same girl, his claim will cancel the first one. This makes the girl unclaimed again.

Rakuen claimed Kinoshita Hideyoshi.

If a Player3 claims the same girl yet again, he claims partnership with her, so on and so forth.

3. Once you’ve claimed a girl as a partner for that week, she’ll remain your partner unless another players cancels your claim.

4. And before I do forget, there’s no order in turns. You just have to complete your turn before a week ends (preferably a week officially ends on a Saturday).

That’s pretty much how it goes. You can announce your participation to this little Waifu-Claiming Game by commenting to this post. Once you announce your participation, I’ll shoot you an email about the game proper.

Requirements for players:

1. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a guy or a gal; as long as you want a waifu added to your arsenal, you’re qualified to join in.

2. You must have a google account, so you can access Google Wave. There we’ll have the game proper.

Now why would I host such a game? What do I want to prove here? The answer is nothing. This’ll be a friendly game. It’ll be like playing dominoes in the weekend. ‘Think this is ridiculous? Not really. It’ll be fun, once there are a lot of players in.

I think once we’re done with the game, you’ll feel refreshed after claiming a waifu, or maybe a harem. This doesn’t mean to counter people who claim wives on their own. I mean this to be a little game, or you could take it quite seriously if that’s what you want.

Anyhow, it would be nice if many would join. It’s gonna be fun, I promise.

At first I thought it was ludicrous. I never even liked Transformers back then. I was never a mecha fan in the first place. Being my 5-year-old self, I never bothered looking into things that never caught my interest the first time I see them. I was fixed with the score of what interests me and that alone; it was selfish, and childish of me. If I would’ve been interested in Macross the first time I saw it (which was in English back then and was being aired in a not-so-famous tv network), I wouldn’t have been able to fully grasp it due to my fixation on the stereotypical line of the gripe between good and evil. I wouldn’t have been able to understand the schema of emotions that each character conveys, nor the ‘point’ that the story tries to present. Good thing I didn’t watch Macross back when I was little, else I would’ve taken it shallowly.

Ghostlightning has got to be one of the few good compatriots that I have close by. He’s an onii-sama figure (Yes, he’s FAAABULOUS~) to me, who’s very open with talking about his affair with anime and life— and he loves K-On! Macross and everything about it. I guess I didn’t only pick Macross out of the reason that he urged me to watch Gunbuster (not related with Macross but it’s part of a deal), and that since Macross Frontier is one of his mistresses. I can see and feel the love that he has for Macross. He remembers love. And I wanted to feel that same thing and soon before my anemia gets the best of me.

Judging the Macross franchise, it’s something that has been living on since the early age of anime, and up to this date is still something garnering an ever-expanding fandom by the millions; a true protoculture. Gundam I think is a bit bigger though it lack something, which I will discuss later on. That said, Macross has got to be a very fitting specimen for my deeper affair with anime, and I mean root-deep. I’m not as time-faded as the early Macross fans are, I’m only about 18; I wasn’t even born when Robotech started airing. That’s why I wanted to start my affair with Macross with a Macross from this generation, and that being Macross Frontier. Thouh the time-line’s way after the war of the humans and the Zentradi, which is the pinnacle of the Macross plot as I see it, the mere presence of politics between humans and zentrans is enough to suffice for now.

How did I come to like Macross then, after choosing it (otherwise I wouldn’t put up a post about it)? Moreover, why did I chose it over Gundam? Was it the characters? Close. The mecha and science bit? Warmer. The music? YES! The music. I love songs. They’re the closest of keys to people’s hearts, of course depending on the key and the person. I don’t normally dive into a show’s discography; not after I’ve seen a few episodes and liked them. It was different with Frontier. I’ve already memorized much of the songs prior to watching the show, and I did so too with Macross Frontier’s Galaxy Tour’s final stop in Budokan.

What was the original Macross about? What was Macross Frontier about?

They’re both stories of struggle: In Macross being the struggle of humans from extinction; in Macross Frontier being the struggle to live and to find a new Earth.

Macross Frontier was about nostalgia, the setting being about half a century since the original Macross’ timeline, when humans sought to travel into the far reaches of space in search of new homes.  Having jumped immediately into Frontier, the previous space war remains hazy to me, but what I know is Macross being a space opera. And a space opera is never a space opera without music. Music makes anyone nostalgic, reminding about the good times and the bad times, the happy times and the down times. I’m sure Ranka Lee made most of the Macross fanboys “HHNNNNGGG!”, and at the same time nostalgic about Lynn Minmay. Macross was about songs that bring about hope even in the darkest of hours. Macross was about songs of love— to someone one wishes to protect, or to a soldier in the midst of gunfire. Maross was about songs that transcend time and boundaries, folds and galaxies.

I do not wish to review the entirety of Macross, it’s just that the Macross saga has become a string of intertwining histories, bound together by songs that originated from the first, to songs from Frontier reaching to the past.

It was a synesthetic  experience— my short affair with deculture. I’ll use this experience to see more of Macros. Every episode doesn’t fail to make me sing along. It was a good foothold for my recovery after being hospitalized for a while after collapsing from anemia. Even my old man watched it with me; it did good things for me. The space fight scenes, accompanied by extravagant music scoring doesn’t fail to keep me at the edge of my seat— every time.  I know I might be exaggerating a bit here. Maybe it was the hype. Maybe it was just me. Or maybe it was just fantastic.

I don’t feel that what I should think about Macross Frontier should be based on what I’ll think about the previous Macross series (which I will soon watch). I enjoyed Macross Frontier out of itself out of itself and that’s more than enough for me. It left me with a good experience and a few good words that kept ringing in my head as I cruised through the show out of my habit of never skipping the opening cinematic despite doing a marathon [lines from Triangular (1st OP), pre-chorus part]:

痛いよ

It hurts

味方だけど愛してないとか

I’m on your side, but you don’t love me

守るけど側にいれないとか

I’ll protect you, but I can’t be by your side

苦い二律背反

It’s a bitter self-contradiction

今すぐ　タッチミー

Immediately, touch me

運命ならばつながせて

When it comes our destinies, make them connect

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P.S. Auguri Buon Anno everyone! (Though it’s 3 days late.)

I see a promising watch list for the masses next season (well I always say that). But first off, Disclaimer: This list ain’t mine so I need to give thanks and credit to the folks back at ChartFag and the sites mentioned on the list. Now then, let me list down them series I’ll be sure to check out next season.

DURARARA!!

Given that this came from the studio that came BACCANO!, I expect a ton of awesome and some more awesome. I loved BACCANO! and I think this won’t let me down. I like the character designs, it seems we’ll also be experiencing the same treatment BACCANO! gave us like a feel of mystery, lots of action, fracas, and interesting characters. I’ve seen the trailer and it looks delicious. The story is set on modern Ikebukuro and revolves around a mysterious individual referred to as Dullahan who’s an underworld messenger of sorts.

People who will watch: Me, Gargron, Scamp

Dance in the Vampire Bund

Need I say that there’ll be a vampire loli? Need I say that I won’t be caught not watching this one? Plus being the shaft fanboy that I am, I’m sure to keep faithful with the viewing schedule– that is of course if the series satisfies the conditions 1. It should start good and 2. Keep going being watchable. But I know Shaft very well. It’ll be good I promise. With the lack of good lolis this season, a fresh start next year would be nice.

Pedos People who are sure to watch: Me, Shin, Baka-Raptor

Sora no Woto

Military moe? Moe and brass instruments? Five girls and musical instruments?

Oh wait, the Ritsu look-alike silver-haired girl is actually Ritsu’s opposite. Oh well. Not in a million years have I seen something like this yet. There was Gunslinger Girl back then but they never bothered to be moe. Over the course of eras, military and moe have never been in camaraderie. Will this break the chains of difference?

Sure to watch: Me, Mjsnoozer, Baka-Raptor

Fate/Stay Night Unlimited BladeWorks

As for movies, why Fate/Stay Night Unlimited Bladeworks of course! The movie is scheduled to be on the big screen on January 22, 2010. I’ve no idea how it’ll be yet but I’d like it to stay that way to build some suspense on me.

As for more series I might check out–

Sure to watch: Half the blogosphere

Seikon no Qwaser

The guy draws his power from breast milk OMGWTFROFLMAO. While I might think that bit is hilarious, there are a bunch of people who think that’ll be a nice front for fanservice galore. I feel indifferent about this one but it’s worth checking out.

Ookamikakushi

A spirit-chasing loli? Count me in. Judging from the title we’ll get a wolf-girl of a fox-girl who’ll be a sort of priest who drives away demons. It sounds typical. I think we’ll be getting something short of Wagaya no Oinari-sama or something.

Surprises? Are there any? Just one:

Hanamaru Kindergarten

GAINAX!!!!!

Chu-Bra!!

Never have I seen something like this coming. A story that revolves around pantsu. It’s interesting. Reminds me of the saying “You can tell a lot about a girl by what kind of lingerie she wears” or something.

That said…

Will Winter 2010 a field of hope? Or will it be another garden of disappointment?

Girl boards Miracle Train.

The train stations greet her in typical rapescene style.

They explain to the girl that she is on the Miracle Train.

Girl’s reaction is generally poor.

One train station is singled out to solve the girl’s problem.

They go for a walk.

Actual problem comes to light.

Problem is either solved, reconciled, or jedi mind trick’d away.

Yay.