Anime Odd Thoughts Lot (Week of Mar/25/07, )

Not a very present week for us... feel a little better yesterday, thanks to the decent weather and a great futbol game (+anime). I'm glad that the lady knights got into the elite eight too.

REIDEEN 第04話「影との戦い」 REIDEEN 04 [The battle with shadow]

I really enjoy this new series. In this episode, we finally got to see some reminiscent super-mecha action that fits a remake of a 70's mecha anime (to me, that's not much diffience between a breast-o fire attack and a shot from the mega bazooka launcher). The mecha choreography might be weak compare to the newer anime, but it's obvious that the show's focus was not on the mecha (see the OP). I was a bit surprised that the show wasn't well received by the viewers, at least on some forums....

This series remind me the new wave of comedy shows without the audience reaction track (for example, "The Office" and "My name is Earl" which weren't recorded in front of live audience like most "traditional" american comedy shows). Why? Humors in a show don't need to be point out by a "laugh track". As for the anime show, you don't need to see chibi-lize characters with the comedic deliverance. I love how they use Sakita... I meant Maedasaki Tarou(前田崎 太郎) as a relieve character in the show.

月面兎兵器ミーナ 第11話 「最終アナウンス」 Getsumen Toheiki mi-na 11 [The final announce(ment)]

Don't you think the ending is a bit rushed?? It could certainly use a couple more episode to introduce to us the rest of the mi-nas, don't you think? (葉月ミーナ(haduki? mi-na)と白鳥ミーナ(shirodori? mi-na)from らぶ天(rabuten)... please?)

Shiwasu mi-na(師走ミーナ) must be the weakest mi-na in the universe... unless her (fleet of) battle ship is her weapon... still Ootsuki and Tsukishiro took care of it with ease.

We finally get to see Ootsuki's juujitsu sequence!!! too bad there was no narration for it... either way I think you'll appreciate it, right?

I almost forgot to mention Sasakura Ryuu (and CV: Mizushima Takahiro) actually made a cameo in the last episode (why not this one too?), I wonder if anyone caught that...

コードギアス 反逆のルルーシュ 第22話 「血染めのユフィ」Code Geass 22 (bloodstained Yufi)

The title of the episode said it all... I never saw this coming tho, I was expecting something else.

ロケットガール第05話「イグニッション -ignition-」 Rocket Girls 05 (ignition)

Heading to space already! They must have some superior diapers at SSA to go with the skin-tight spacesuit. It would be nice for them to develop a bra for Yukari to make her feel more comfortable under that spacesuit...