I always liked posting my favorite anime credits, so I’ll post one of my favorites here. I don’t know how much I’ll be able to do this in the future, though, as YouTube seems to be doing a good job scrubbing many of the newer ones.
Monthly Archives: July 2011
Mayo Chiki! – Episode 2
Subaru is following Kinjiro around to make sure he doesn’t slip her secret, but it starts to become counter productive when rumors start swirling that they’ve become a gay couple. To make matters more interesting, Kanade is using Subaru to help cure Kinjiro’s girl-phobia, but not without interference from Kinjiro’s violent sister. Oh, and it’s also time for physical exams, which could be problematic for Subaru. And for Kinjiro since the nurses are, well, female.
Kanade seems to be nice..but still sadistic
We finally get to see Subaru’s girlish side in this episode, and it is pretty cute, though I think she’s as frustrated over Kanade’s sadistic side as Kinjiro is, though being her butler she doesn’t have much of a choice but to submit.
Meanwhile, Kinjiro’s way of saving Subaru at the physical (and vice versa) just intensified the rumors of them being a gay-item, which has unleashed the minions of the Yuki Fan Club S4, a Subaru fan club. Though, if Subaru is supposedly shy in groups, why was Kinjiro still measuring “him” in front of people and not behind some sort of curtain or in the bathroom or something?
The thing about Subaru finally being able to find a friend in Kinjiro because he knows her secret is a nice touch to the series, though. And I guess I shouldn’t be shocked that Kinjiro’s sister has fallen for Subaru for being so strong, so now Kinjiro has that to worry about too. Kanade also seemed to show some regret that her being Subaru’s master has caused a rift to form between them, so I wonder if part of the series will be Kinjiro trying to close that rift as well.
I figure eventually Subaru’s secret will come out and Kinjiro will make an impassioned plea for her to keep her job as a butler despite the revelation, but that’ll probably be at the end of the series.
No. 6 – Episode 2
Four years have passed since the last episode. Due to his aiding Nezumi, he was kicked out of Chronis, the area of No. 6 where the highly qualified individuals live in luxury, and moved to the “Lost Town” part of the city. As a result, he was disqualified from joining the gifted program, lost touch with his friend Safu, and works as a park supervisor.
Give me your sperm, damnit!
So obviously No. 6 isn’t exactly the pleasure city one would like. We got a hint of this in the first episode, but we basically confirmed in this episode that No. 6 is little more than a surveillance state where dissent is treated as a crime (at least for those who work for the city, and perhaps others too).
And obviously this…illness or whatever with the bee is either something that No. 6 is aware of at the very least, if not directing, though it’s hard to guess to what end yet. It’s not clear whether people get infected by chance or whether it is directed. Shion was arrested for suspicion of murdering his workmate even though the state had to have known otherwise. Is it possible that his workmate’s death and his arrest was essentially a way for the state to get them out of the way after having witnessed something they shouldn’t have when they found the original body in the park?
In any case, I felt that this episode was a lot better put together, both in it’s writing and direction than the first episode and it gave me a lot more optimism for this series overall. I’m interested to see exactly what Nezumi has been up to these past 4 years.
Also, maybe Shion should have banged Safu when he had the chance, heh.
Usagi Drop – Episode 2
Daikichi starts his new life with Rin, and it doesn’t take him long to find out just how rough that life can be. First, he has to find a temporary nursery school for Rin to stay while he’s at work. Meanwhile, he has a job with long hours which causes him to have to pick Rin pretty late. Meanwhile, the distractions are starting to affect his work as well.
Daikichi WAS properly warned about raising a kid...
This episode was just full of daaawwwwwww. Though I was kind of expecting Daikichi to actually find a permanent nursery school by the end of the episode since that was the problem established at the start. Though this episode also did a good job just showing how difficult raising a kid can be for him, especially being single.
Daikichi seems to have an interest in finding Rin’s real mother, Masako, so I wonder if that’s a direction the story will go in the future. Also, what was that at the end about the sweat? I don’t know if that’s something that is going into the next episode or what. In any case, Rin appears to be very strong willed but also very smart, and it makes her a very interesting character, especially when she fusses at Daikichi for one thing or another. Two episodes in and this is still a very interesting looking series so far.
Welcome to Josh’s Anime Blog Version 10
Yep, that’s right, this is version 10 of Josh’s Anime Blog. I hope you like the new design. Some of my new versions have been big changes, some have been small. This is somewhere in between I think. The general design of the site hasn’t actually changed too much. The main outwardly differences have been moving the blog title from the image to the space above the image and, obviously, the change in the colors.
The backend has seen a larger change, moving from using thematic as the base theme to using twenty eleven as the base theme. This ended up being a challenge because I had to convert my stylesheets from styling XHTML to HTML5, and the fact that twenty eleven isn’t quite as vanilla as thematic, so there were some styles I had to override that weren’t there in thematic. However, twenty eleven does have some plusses as well.
In any case, if you notice anything out of wack on the new design, please let me know. I tried to check everything before activating it, but I could have easily missed something. One thing I have noticed…and I’m not sure how to fix it or if I can fix it, is that, because of the Caching issue, the same header image is showing everywhere despite being set to random. Not really sure that’s a big problem, but I did notice it. In any case, I hope you enjoy the new design.