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Well I was somewhat unimpressed with the conclusion to the past arc of sorts. The combat was a bit boring, although it was nice to see Misa doing some herself. But the combat wasn’t particularly interesting, just throwing swords around and making blue ball barriers. Also, large chunks of the fight sequence were lifted from the first episode, although the animation quality was passable.

Overall, the time traveling arc made little sense, and dragged on a bit too long. We’ve gone through half the show’s episodes and have barely scratched some of the other characters like Misa and Kaho. Misa is around a lot, but there’s been a distinct lack of related back story. There doesn’t seem to be any overarching storyline or premise to the show. I guess you can say it’s the adventures of Koyomi learning how to be a mage, but she seems pretty much at the same level she was at the start. Perhaps next week’s lost cat and magical item hunting will improve upon things.

Can’t get enough misa

Post is a bit late but I had to gush about the awesomeness that was Sunday’s episode of Saki and I went to a Yankees game last night. Episode wasn’t exactly exciting either, more like a set-up for next week.

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Oh yeah, I was so pumped for this episode to air and it totally delivered. Edge of your seat comeback victory with my love, my anger, and all of my sorrow! Plus Saki uses her Nanoha friend beam on Koromo and the last scenes are full of yuri blushing and hand holding. This show is glorious.

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Well, it took 8 episodes but they finally finished wasting all of our time. I would have thought it impossible, but I actually skipped entirely watching episodes 15-18 (and everything but the last couple of minutes of 19). From what I gather from the sad souls that actually watched them, nothing happened. The fun part is going to see how their DVD sales end up, because according to Sankaku it looks like the 8 episodes of Endless Eight will be released as usual, in two episode packs retailing at ¥6,930 ($70 US) each. I’m sure there will be some sad sacks who will drop $280 on 8 episodes of the same crap.

The question then becomes how much we lose by having them wasting time on this. There are still about 5 novels worth of material unanimated, including some of the best parts like Disappearance and Snow Mountain Syndrome. Does the fact that they spent 8 episodes on this mean we don’t get to see one of them animated? Probably, something has to give. That is what disappoints me the most out of all of this.

A bit light on plot this week (i.e. close to none at all), but hey, it only took 4 episodes to get to the swimsuit episode. I like my light hearted fanservice comedies, so this all felt very familiar, and was a fun episode to watch. Reminded me a lot of episode 00, which also lacked plot and was mostly just fun. We’ve had 3 straight episodes of plot, so it was good timing on their part.

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I’m covering for Crusader again, and I was supposed to do this much earlier in the week, but it ran into my preparations for the Bar Exam. My apologies. Well anyways, this show is getting a triple set of movies, which is hilarious for a 13 episode show. 13 episodes is somewhere between 4 and 4 and a half hours, so basically it’s just the TV series packaged into movies. How silly.

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What’s unfortunate about watching this on Crunchyroll is that I can’t really do screenshots to do a blog post. However, that’s not to say that I don’t really enjoy being able to watch it simulcast along with several other shows for rather cheap (and the encoding on the version I found to download this week’s episode is rather…bad). Laziness and impatience trump 7 bucks per month it seems.

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