• Opening :

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• Ending :

I cheated a bit for this one, but for good reasons. Somehow….

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And that’s it for my top 10 opening and ending. Check back soon for more on 2009 ~

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I had found quite a load of creditless OP/ED yesterday , and figured I’d give a shot at making some sort of remake or, rather my own version of one of my favorite amv on youtube.

So there you go , Legend of Gundam MkII.

This was made purely for fun and my personal enjoyment, so I didn’t invest too much time or work into it, I am however pleased with the end result.

enjoy ~

Magnificent, simply magnificent. The amount of badassery from the mechanical beast left to fight Kouji was extreme. It’s sad that they will soon become canon fodder, but , Kouji must go rescue his friends, Hurry Kouji ,save your friends and settle your score with Ashura !

• Bleach #237

eh , ok episode. I burst into laughter when ikaku and his zanpakuto started doing that weird dance, that was rather unexpected.

• Tokyo Magnitude #07 – 11

Caught up with this. Seriously , It was great. I really didn’t saw Yuuki dying coming. And they did a good job making us not suspect a thing until the end of episode 9.
I however would like to know of what he died. well its a minor detail , but it’d still like to know.

• one piece #417

Watch this because I wanted to see how Hancock sounded. Her seiyuu’s doing a good job id say. Nothing to add more really, go read the manga.

• Zan Sayonaya Zetsubou Sensei # 03-10

Caught up with this one too. It’s classic Zetsubou sensei , so it’s rather enjoyable. I just wish i’d know why his students keep killing him.

• Umineko #12

New arc eh, so Beato was a human before ? cool. Her teacher looked like a respectable person, actually she even looked like a respectable person. Wtf happened ?
Then there’s the Maria Issue. No really Maria…actually im tired of raging at you , I just wish I’d know why you have to be so “creepy” whenever there’s something to do with Magic. Can’t you read a letter like a normal person ?

• Princess lover! #11

“oh noes, when i was a kid , that rich man i wanted to pickpocket taught me a lesson and I never felt this much humiliated in my life before, despite being a kid and being poor. So I held on a Super grudge against him that I nourished during many years, created a terrorist organisation and hurt everything that was dear to that rich man for the sole purpose of appeasing my humiliation.”

That was cool Haltman. ….. and by cool I mean silly. no really..wtf ? see that’s what im talking about , because they for some reason needed to have “DRAMA” arc , they put this excuses of a villain. gawd. I lol’ed at him shooting Josephine. nothing this guy did made any sense , really.

• Needless #11

It’s back to the current story with a TWIST, Eve has gone 3vil ! oh noes ! <_<
the first half fight was pretty nice.There was still no yamada abuse.=/

• Bakemonogatari #11

pretty nice episode . We got to see Nadeko again , though I could have passed on that. I wanted to see some Suruga, but alas , she was busy it seems. No Senjougahara either, but Black Hanekawa made up for it. The animation was pretty slick. I wonder why Shinobu looks at chicks angrily though. Isn’t she supposed to , not have any emotions ?

• Valkyria Chronicles #24

This was an actually decent episode. we got a pretty nice fight , tough im not sure how Alicia managed to win in the end, but oh well. Sad to see Selvia go , especially this way , but at least general dickhead died too . Lol at maximilian shooting that guy I don’t remember the name of.

• Juuden #10

And here’s come the beginning of the “Drama” arc of any 12 episode/harem series. This time we have a little kid (in dire need of a good slap) running mayhem in town , and pretty much kicking everyone’s ass.
on other news, Alesta is love.

err , 22 was half a recap episode , but was still nice has it showed back epic moments from the series ( Zeus rocket punch, Mazinger’s first rocket punch), But then episode 23 happened and fucking blew me away. So much greatest, twas truly amazing. We had some Sayaka and Kouji development , but then ending of the episode was simply subpar ! With Kanjite Knight playing as Kouji depart to face Baron Ashura, and the narrator’s comment , it was Perfect!.  Still , only 3 episodes left to go , I am beginning to wonder how they plan on wrapping it all up with a somewhat conclusive ending , if they are going to have the mazinger squad die , ankoku daishogun appear and beat the crap out of kouji , and him winning somehow…unless they end it with a “everyone died” which I’m cool with.

• Bakemonogatari 09 & 10 :

ok episodes i’d say. Suruga is really growing on me , she’s definitely my favourite character after senjougahara. I really loved the 4koma gaijin nod. The fight against the snake was actually very disappointing with all those frames about missing cuts or something. It might be art and all, but if you’re not going to animate a fight , just don’t tease us about it , and skip it altogether. I feel that I must also point that Koyomi is being an idiot with his superhero complex , but I guess some good came out of it (Senjougahara!!!!!). Oh and I wasn’t impressed by the nadeko snake opening .At all, It was just meh to me and i kept thinking during the whole song that Kana’s best role was definitely Ryoko in Zegapain and how much i would rather have had a ryoko song than a nadeko one . meh.

• Needless 10 :

a good episode, showed us how Blade and Seto met Solva, and how they became friends. it’s funny how Blade was somewhat different back then, wonder what happened to him in the meantime. This episode however lacked the crucial Yamada abuse I long so much for =/

• Tears to Tiara 23 :

still got nothing to say , tears to tiara is one of these shows i sit back and enjoy , can’t find anything that really annoys me now that Arthur straighten up.

• Bleach 236 :

This was actually a decent episode. We got to learn why Zantegsu decided to fight against ichigo , Renji defeated his Zanpakuto, but then we learn that Muramasa was controlling them…by uh, releasing their inner desire or something which didn’t make any sense. Im still waiting to see where they are going with this arc, but I think i can start to guess what’s up with that Muramasa guy, and I hope it’s not as cheesy as I think it will be.

• Asura Cryin’ 09 :

Meh episode. Nothing more to say. Just , …Meh.

• Princess Lover! 10 :

What’s this ? Drama ? In my princess lover! ? Fuck Noooooooooooooooo. Well it was the inevitable Drama episode of all Harem series. I seriously dont get why they need to do that everytime. Gotta say that Haltman’s sudden smugness was hilarious. oh and no uncensored shots for you ! they are plastered all over the internet, just google it.

• Valkyria Chronicles 23 :

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No really , they should have just called it Fabio’s Chronicle and be done with it.

(5:55 PM) Me: I just watched ep 23
(5:55 PM) Shiro: super hero Faldio get’s away with everything

(5:56 PM) Shiro: ALLLLLICIAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

(5:56 PM) Me: seriously

(5:57 PM) Me: it was like " oh Faldio , I know you kidnapped me , pointed a gun at my head and all , but it was for the greater good , please , go and live an happy life ~" followed by " I know faldio shot me and all , i could have died if he was wrong , but it was for the greater good , please let him have a peaceful life forever like the hero he is , actually , you should make him king"

(5:58 PM) Shiro: yeah, seriously awful

(5:58 PM) Me: oh and team 7 was like

(5:59 PM) Me: " k guys , so remember when be bitched on her last week ? yeah i don’t get it , why wont she reply to us ? it’s not like was our fault she was scary. "

(5:59 PM) Shiro: haha yeah
(5:59 PM) Shiro: I know, so bad

(6:02 PM) Me: im totally expecting now to learn in the epilogue that he marries cordelia

(6:03 PM) Shiro: if that happens, i know i won’t stop laughing into the day i die

I think this sums pretty much my impressions of episode 23. Obviously the Drama continues , but it’s getting old now.

• Umineko 11 :

ah well , this was somewhat disappointing. I can’t find any sort of liking to any of the characters in this show save for Shannon , George, Jessica and Battler. So this was a pretty meh episode for me. I’m just sad they didn’t kill Rosa. But what’s more saddening is that even in death Maria finds the way to irritate me. dammit Maria , dammit. I gotta admit the whole serving Rosa’s plate made from her family was well played from Beato, It’s all well deserved and all. I just didn’t get how Battler suddenly reappeared , that made no sense to me. Gotta say he disappointed me in giving up so soon, still ,how was he allowed to come back ? meh.

• Juuden 09

Well this was a usual Judden episode doing it’s job at entertaining me. I love how everyone is getting addicted to Sentou’s bat, but I really love how Alesta is the one who wants it the most.

• Umineko 09 & 10 :

urgh Beatrice’s cackling is starting to get annoying. Probably would have been more tolerable if the voice actress knew how to laugh, but apparently she doesn’t. Yes, I can cackle better than that. And does she really need to cackle every freakin time ? Yeah i get that it might have been funny the first time to kill them, with their look of despair and all. But I don’t see why it’s still funny anymore, I though the who point of all this was to prove to Battle that magic exist , prove him wrong and bla bla bla. And she imposes ridiculous rules every time, that’s just plain boring.  Also id be cool is somebody could smack the f*ck outta Maria and her mother. actually, the uroshimiya family is actually pretty much better off dead if there all going to be dickheads. The only ones who deserved to have survived are Jessica, megane, and Battler. The rest could die and id care less.

• Valkirya Chronicles 14 – 22 :

Uuuugrh FORCED DORAMA. It took me a fairly long time to finally decide to catch up because i could smell forced drama coming from kilometres away , and I hate forced drama. ….yeah I was served. I have never played the game, so in the beginning it looked like a fairly decent story to me despite the hatred from the game fan, but now this has just gotten ridiculous. The only thing fun about it anymore is reading game fan RAGE on animesuki. Though ,many people were hating on Welkin’s attitude, Ill admit i probably would have reacted the same way he did. Faldio’s a dick though. Felt i needed to mention that, since it’s liek important. I still can’t understand how he managed to uh, shoot Alicia , kidnap the princess, and get away with it while saying ” LOLWHATELSECOULDIHAVEDONE?”. Actually how did he end up figuring the equation ” alica + shooting her = valkyuur = we win “.  the script jumped around too much and forgot to mention/show details that could have been important, and now it looks like a massfuckfest of badwritting. Talking of bad writing, wtf was with team #7’s reaction to Alicia ? I can’t even beging to express how angry I am at that. 4 more episodes to go ~ D:

• Princess Lover! 08 & 09 :

Classic Princess Lovers episodes. humour, fanservice, action, etc. oh and the revelation that Hermann is a villain was…gasp…a DAI SHOCKU !…not. Continues to be one of my favorite show of the (last?) season.

• Tears to Tiara 22 :

another classic episode of a show i can never complain about. This time we get to learn about Arawn’s meeting with Pwyll , which was pretty nice. I love to learn about Arawn’s past, as once again i’ve never played the game. On a side (good) news, Sentai film have licensed TtT for the R1 ,and plan on releasing it on a big boxed, wich is pretty ace me say.

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  Shin Mazinger Shogeki! Z Hen 20 & 21 :

There is Epic, and then there is Mazinger Epic. MAZINPIC !  So.much.fucking.awesomeness.  We finally get to learn more about what happened on bardos, Kouji finally accept Nishikihori as his mother, Gamia returns and Kenzo is a badass (even though it was Broken in disguise who piloted Energer Z). Talking about energer Z, oh god, Mazinger Z vs Energer Z was great, but the best part was definitely episode 20’s ending when Tsubasa calls forth the GOD SCRANDER, and finally the Big Bang Punch was SUPARB.

• Needless 09 :

an Ok episode. Mainly Blade getting the shit beaten outta him by the bi-shoujo tai which I can’t stand save for Mio, so it was pretty meh, until Solva and whatshername appeared to save the day. Still a bit of humor, with Disck. I miss the Yamada abuse =/.

• MS Igloo 2  03 :

urrgh. weak episode to end the series. Till the end i couldn’t get used to the 3D used in Igloo 2.  Igloo was far more interesting when it wasn’t about the feddies. Zieg Zeon and all aside, really the whole Igloo 2 was not to my taste. the whole shinigami thing was plain weird. the music was nice though, but yeah, meh to Igloo 2 in general. Not sure what else to add.

• Juuden 08 :

So plug gets discharged from the hospital and tries to do stuff but she can’t because she fried her harms and the re-education takes time, bla bla bla. an ok episode id say.

• Bakemonogatari 08 :

End of the suruga arc. Was an ok arc, Suruga is a pretty coal girl and doesn’t afraid of anything, but this arc lacked cruelly of  Senjougahara.

• bleach 233 – 235 :

hahahaha oh woah, woooow. I still have no idea what they smoke at Studio Pierrot before they decide what a filler arc will be about,or how to conduct an episode, but damn Id like it very much if they’d share it with me. Really the very idea of zanpakuto leaving their owner to attack them was very retarded, but for some reason, it’s uh.. watchable. But really , that Zangetsu would come out of Ichigo and attack him just make NO.Freakin.Sense. not to mention the sudden hollow transformation after Zangetsu leaves. The hilarious thing is that Kubo Tite manage to say he loves the anime, and continues to voice Kon. But id really like to know where they intend to go with all this.

I fucking Came buckets !

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wooot.

The actual episode stars with Isaac running away .

Then cue to the brothers appearing to capture him.

Cue joke about Chibi metal alchemist

• Opening 「again」 by Yui

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- Few spoilers in this one like Number 23 !!!111!!!!oneoneoneoneoneoneone

anyway ,

- The Brothers manage to capture Isaac , but he escapes right after

- Roy berates them about it

- Hughes appears , and meet the brothers for the first time. Cue joke about chibi alchemist again.( this never gets old)

- they go eat at Hughes

- Isaac goes see Kimblee

- Armstrong appears to intercepts Isaac ~ !

- Isaac escapes again while Alphonse Shield !

-  Roy appears to interecept

- Isaac…gets away…again

- Isaac activates his circle

- Oh shit , look who that bothers , it’s FATHER , FUCK YEAH !

- Isaac runs away on giant ice cycle , looking to confront King Bradley

- The brothers intercept him yet again

- Isaac….uh , needs I say it anymore ?

- When suddenly , in a dark alley awaits for him King Bradley… , not looking very pleased.

- Isaac charges at him.

- It’s over in an instant. Isaac tasted Bradley’s wrath ! ( pun intended)

- the brothers arrived too late on the scene , and the fuhrer jokes that he now has a new tale to tell his son (lolololololololololol)

- Armstrong end ~ fufufu

• Ending 「嘘」(Uso) by  SID

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the ending animation is made of cute sketches we find out are made by the Edward and Alphonse when they were kids. cuuute.

Next Week , how it all began ~

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Overall this was a great introduction episode. Few spoilers throw in here and there , and that just made it awesomer.

Shinichiro Miki as Roy Mustang is a bit hilarious though , But I’m sure I’ll get used to it.

Same for Yoshino Hiroyuki as Kimblee.

Alright anyway , since this is predictably going to copy-paste the manga , I won’t be doing episodes summaries for this like I did for the few last 00 episodes.

Unless there is a badshit awesome episode , like…when they reveal that Pride is actually Bradley’s son. or when Ling appears , or when Ling becomes greed II , or when Father appears for real , or when we get to see inside Gluttony’s  , and oh shit spoilers ooops. lol.

Also , the first half is almost missing screencaps , and that has to do with the fact that I forgot to record the stream. Maybe ill update the post with screen later, maybe not.

That is all.

let’s get to business now :

- Ribbons Canon , Ribbons Almark , IKU !

- Al prepares to sortie while Marie recuperates

- Lockon gets ready for the final battle

- Ribbons Canon transform into a Gundam . It’s a double unit. Which kinda makes it look a bit like the Hi-nu Gundam

-  Hiling and Revive arrive to back up Ribbons

- Arios and Cheridum arrive as well to help Setsuna

- Hal vs Hiling : Hal 1 – Hiling 0 .

- Lockong vs Revive : Lockon 1 – Revive 0

- Trans-AM ! Ribbons Canon trashes 00 Head’s and left shoulder

- Ribbons GN-drive get !

- O gundam sighted

- Ribbons O gundam get !

- Setsuna Exia R2 Get !

- Final battle Exia R2 vs O gundam

- Setsuna is …dead ?

- Marina returns to azadistan

- Saji x louise end.

- New federation representative , with Katharon members.

- Katagiri Seppuku

- WEDDING DESU ~ Patrick the Immortal Colasour and Kati  Mannequin

- Andrei joined the federation

- Billy x Graham end ? lawl

- Lockong paying his respect to his family’s tomb , next to Anew’s. ;_;

- Allelujah and Marie walking together. Possibly left CB?

- Tieria bids farewell from Veda (?)

- Ptolemy II and it’s crew departs for Jupiter

- oh…and Innovators everywhere ~

- See you in 2010 ~

As usual , pics and stuff later .

yeah that’s a lot of pics , damn.

- Louise MA gets defeated when Gaga rams into her

- Setsuna was able to save her

- Saji brings her to safety , but she starts chocking him

- She gets in pain when her memories come back , and somehow ………dies ?

- Ribbons and kills Tieria

- Setsuna then starts hearing his comrades initiate the Trans-Am Burst mode !

- Gn-burst / Gn-Moonlight Butterfly. The scene is pretty darn freaking awesome.

- Hal comes to give Al a hand.

- Billy and Sumeragi make up – Lasse who’s back on the ship feels his pain going away

- Marie and Andrie finally get to talk about it , then they qq

- Louise awakens in Saji’s arm , and they make up as well ~

- Regene hijacks Veda and kicks Ribbons out.

- Tieria activate the Trial Field

- Every mobile suit outside save for 00gundam stops. even Automatons

- Lockon finished off Gn-Arche , but Ali escapes

- Lockon finishes off Ali – Al and Marie Reunite ~

- Setsuna discovers Tieria’s dead body , but Tieria tells him he’s become one with VEDA

- Ribbons Disable the Trial system , and the crew realize Tieria is MIA

- Ribbons haz guncannon !

that’s right , final boss is GN-Guncannon. This is either funny or very awesome  , pick one. =/

Picks later and all

- Ali appears in the shadow and kills Regene…. JUST LIKE IN THE SPOILERZ o:

- Osoizo Gandamu ! That’s right , Patrick is now bossing the Gundam . You’re awesome Patrick.

- All the Sudden , huge pew pew beam !

- Oshi- , It’s GENESIS* A Satellite weapon !

- Ribbons sends out the Gaga-butai JUST LIKE IN THE SPOILERZ o:

- Billy is the manufacturer. Talk about keeping a grudge dude.

- And the all go Trans-Am ~ Hilarity ensues .

- Katharon and Katie to the rescue of CB

- Manly Patrick fends of the attack on his Taisa ~

- Manly Patrick is grabbed by a Gaga

- Manly Patrick Declares his love and then goes BOOOOM. 

- PATRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIICK

- Lasse goes out to pilot RX-78-O Gundam

- Lotsa Automaton deployed – desu

- Regnent Appears

- Ali awaits.

- Lockon fights his brother killer

- Hiling and Revive sorties and show us that Trans-Am is now overrated/used ~ only waiting for Regnent to go Trans-am too now >_>

- Mariiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiie / Somaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

- Sumeragi goes out with a Gun , but Billy comes to get her.

- Louise goes on a Fang rampage. Unfortunately she misses and doesn’t finish off Andrei and his disabled mobile suit

- Saji stars bullshit speech about going to live a happy life.

- Tieria escaped the Seraphim

- Tiera Keikaku** not doori Ribbons

oh and because I didn’t make a post about last week’s episode here : F*CK YOU BANDAI , stop milking this show , also do release those customs mod 1/100. kthxbye.

Pics later and all as usual.

* because everything that happens in gundam obviously happened first in Gundam Seed/Destiny.

** Keikaku means plan