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Impressions:

Wow, that’s a shitload of fanservice if you ask me. This ‘picturebook’, or ‘set of still frames of pure fanservice with voice overs’ is a must see if you like to fawn over the Geass girls. Apparently, this is episode 3.25, which reminds me of Platform 9 ¾ from Harry Potter. I don’t know why it isn’t 3.5 though (or was the first picture book 3.5? I didn’t see it). Also, this is a nice little special if you want a break from the normal Code Geass. And that reminds me, I’m a bit behind on Code Geass due to my computer dying on me, which I will be getting to soon…hopefully!

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Popularity: 68% [?]

Rating: 9.6/10

Impressions:

Well, if anyone’s wondering, no, I did not give up blogging, and I did not die. My computer failed and I had to get it fixed, which took a long few days. But now I’m back and everything should be fine! Ok, onto Bleach! (sorry I’m a day late…sigh now I have heaps of blogging to catch up with!) Once again, the quality of this show surprises me. It must have been me getting used to the crap quality of the fillers, as Bleach is looking more like the manga, as it should be. Also, this episode covers two and a third chapters of manga, retaining the ‘two and a bit manga chapters’ to ‘one episode of anime’ ratio quite nicely.

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Popularity: 25% [?]

Rating: 9.7/10 (you can tell I really love this show!)

Impressions and Short Summary:

So, Tatsuma and Kyouichi are gay now? Apparently, Kyouichi says this to Tatsuma as a greeting one morning: ‘Yo, genkinee na, kareshi?’ which I think means ‘Hey, ya ain’t feelin’ well huh, boyfriend?’ Yeah…pretty surprising lol, though there’s probably a load more of uses for kareshi than boyfriend…I think. Anyway, this episode continues from the same time period as the past 3 episodes. It should be expected for it to stay this way until at least when everyone gets their special powers. So far, I believe only Aoi has revealed hers. And in other news, the quality is not as high as the first episode, with a few not so well drawn faces, though nothing to complain about.

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Popularity: 27% [?]

Rating: 9/10

Impressions:

It’s pretty likely that this arc is really only here to have Light as a normal, innocent person rather than as Kira. It shows that power does corrupt (in this case), and is a fine example of the mistakes humans make. For example, in communism, a state exists in order to bring the nation to a communistic society, which is free of any one ruler. However, when this state gains power over the nation, they get greedy, corrupted, and refuse to relinquish their power. This though, brings us to the question to what will happen when or if Light regains the Death Note. Does he calculate all this when he gives it up? (People tend to think I haven’t read the manga…which I have).

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Popularity: 17% [?]

Rating: 9.5/10

Impressions:

Quite a surprising episode, but the disappearance of Ayu basically confirms that she’s a spirit, and strengthens the notion that she is inactive in her real body (meaning, dead or coma, and I know the answer…) And it also allows Nayuki some time now, which she truly needs (Nayuki fan here), though I don’t see how Yuuichi is suddenly going to accept Ayu’s disappearance of forget about it to focus on his other childhood friend. I really have no idea what’s what at the moment regarding the ending, but it looks to me, from reading other blogs, that there might still be a chance of a Nayuki ending…(please don’t burn me if I am 100% wrong).

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Popularity: 17% [?]

Rating: 7.5/10

Impressions:

The long awaited Naruto Shippuden is here, and I don’t like it…much. As a lot of my readers would know (hopefully @_@) I absolutely HATE everything with bad quality and bad character designs. The two are separate things, though if either one of them are severly disliked by me, I probably won’t even glance at the rest of the aspects. Yes, a big flaw but I can’t help it. Example: Initial D. I have no idea how popular it is, but I can’t take the character designs. And what about Yoakena? If Bleach looked like that show, it would rank as one of the crappest shows in my lists.

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Popularity: 91% [?]

Rating: 9.4/10

Overall Series Rating: 9.7/10

Impressions:

So the ending plays out like how I predicted, except for how Shouko doesn’t return home, and instead ends up with Hiro. I still think she should have returned home for that ‘perfect’ round about scenario, since this show is really about a ’summer story’ that is meant to go away when summer ends. The quality of this last episode is slightly lower as well, and the actual wrap up is nothing special. In the end though, it’s still a good episode. Asatte no Houkou is definitely an anime I’d recommend, and I won’t go over again why I love this anime so much as I have done so numerous times before in previous posts.

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Popularity: 15% [?]

Rating: 8.5/10

Impressions:

Random, stupid yet amusing Naruto-esque filler equals minimal screen caps and text. Yeap, this episode is way too much over the top and completely pointless, which does not fit in with the story at all, though is actually very amusing and perhaps more enjoyable for the past fillers for people who disliked them. With all the destruction, Gundam-like Komrin and whacked up Akuma, this episode is the closest thing to bullshit I’ve seen. But remember, not all bullshit is bad! xD So in the end, I liked this episode, but because it’s amusing. I treated this episode as a stand alone, perhaps even an OAV, since it just doesn’t not go with the rest of the anime at all.

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Popularity: 11% [?]