Monday, December 17, 2007 – 10:48 pm
It’s episode 11 of Blue Drop, and Mari isn’t in any mood to practice a play where Hagino will be opposite her. Meanwhile, Hagino is crushed at the appearance of Mari turning against her. However, someone unexpected shows up to comfort Hagino. Meanwhile, the Novaal returns and the Master Commander has a new plan dealing with how to finish off the Blue.
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Monday, December 17, 2007 – 9:50 pm
It’s episode 10, and it’s a Chihiro and Renji-less episode as at least two of the character’s story arcs appear to reach their end as Hiro chooses who he wants to be with. But will he choose Miyako or Kei?
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Monday, December 17, 2007 – 4:26 pm
It’s time to announce the results of the first two of the 8 groups in Round 5 - Groups A & B.
The songs which advanced to the Sixth/Sweet 16 Round are in bold. Also, see the full bracket.
Group A
“The Light Before We Land” by The Delgados - Gunslinger Girl vs.
“Pure Snow” by Yuko Sasaki - Legend of Himiko
“Waltz” by Kanako Itou - School Days vs.
“Starless Night” by Olivia - NANA
Group B
“Motteke Sailor Fuku” by Aya Hirano, et. al. - Lucky Star vs.
“Zankoku yo Kibou to Nare” by Aira Yuki - Idolmaster Xenoglossia
“Michishirube” by Yuumao - Kashimashi vs.
“Daiya no Hana” by Yoriko - Black Cat
If I thought last round had some tough choices, oh boy, they paled to the choices in this round.
Group C/D match-ups for next week are listed after the jump…
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Monday, December 17, 2007 – 4:18 pm
Well, it had to happen eventually, and I’m surprised it took more than a year for it to happen, but I think I’m gonna end up skipping a week on my podcast. This sore throat of mine, while getting better, still isn’t good enough for me to feel like I can record a podcast right now, so I’ll just double-up on one next week (well, I’ll still only do one review, but I’ll do news from the past 2 weeks, as well as releases for this week and next week).
In the mean time, I’ll once again catch up on blogging episodes tonight (if I don’t flop into bed first). I’d say expect ef 10 and blue drop 11 tonight if I get them up, and then Shion 9 and Shana 11 Tuesday, and CLANNAD 11 and ef 11 (assuming it’s out by then) Wednesday, with a hopeful Shion 10 and Blue Drop 12 (if they’re out) Thursday.
Friday will be a podcast recording day probably, assuming my voice is in a condition to do it by then.
The good thing about Christmas is that I’ll have tons of time now to catch up on all this stuff as I’ll be off from work. The bad thing about Christmas is that I’ll be over at my parents, and while they have DSL, they only have one computer and don’t have wireless, so it will be a fight to get on long enough to download new episodes. Hopefully it will work out.
I’ll also try to spend some of that time writing new series reviews since I’ve been horrible at writing them recently, and I have a huge backlog, and I’m actually in danger of running out of reviews to “re-review” on my podcast, so I need to build up a good bank of them again.