Synopsis: Prof. Itsuki gives Misato and Kawahama a bill for the destroyed room’s repair.

Tadayasu has fallen asleep in Kawahama and Misato’s room. Misato awakens him and Kawahama. Kawahama sneezes and spews rhinoviruses into the air. Rhinoviruses are the cause of common cold. Tadayasu sees a tub of kuchikami, a type of sake created by chewing rice and spitting the mixture into a tub. A. oryzae, S. lactis and S. cerevisiae are playing on top of the tub’s cover.

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Shugo Chara Episode 7 - 「ちいさなたまご！」(Little Egg)

Amiiii~~ o(≧∀≦)o

Gawd… I think I got moe-rdered by Ami… *dies* Her mini Shugoi adventure with the Shugo Charas was really cute, and loads of fun!! *moee* <33 I don’t think I’d mind more fillers of this kind x3 I found myself chuckling and giggling through the episode, translating / dramatizing it at the same time to my brother who I enticed to watch with me xD

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hawtt +___+ Tsukimori and Tsuchiura are chums, for once :3

It’s been quite some time since I went into major fangurl mode, and now is the time to rekindle that flame! :3 This post is almost a week in the making, caused by delays due to slacking off, and reading Elements of Style by Strunk & White, which made me all the more see how bad of a writer I am. It allowed me to reflect on my writing sins, compelled me to revise my post, making it less horrendous, but still far from good. ok, enough of that first. *ahem*

I missed you Corda! Though it’s more like, I’ve been driven by my guilt for postponing this post for about a month now (because I supposedly received my DVD last month) >.> I loved this anime, and I still do, despite how it made my wallet run dry, as I found myself unable to resist buying the game (Encore2, PS2), mangas (both the official manga and the anthologies), DVDs (1st and the last), illustration books, fanbooks, Lala Magazines bought simply for the Corda furokus… what the?! I’ve already bought this much?! O__O *faints*

Allow me to narrate a little of my Kin-iro no Corda story first, before I proceed to the Summer Special episode.

Mio Colore

Aside from the fact that Corda is the first anime I “blogged”—with “quotes” because I used to post the summaries in animesuki forum, before it spawned into my own blog—I believe it is what drove me into joining the blogosphere, with the initial intent of spreading my Corda fangurlism (hence the name “Mio Colore” for my first ever anime blog, inspired from the title of the Kin-iro no Corda Character Illustrations book) but later on evolved into something else. Apparently, it also brought me back to the anime track, since I was getting contented with my regular dose of manga (and otome games) a few years back.

What made the anime even more memorable is how I got dengue fever in the middle of the series (what a way to celebrate the new year~!), which somehow inspired(?) me to spread the Corda <3, and the blog was born several weeks after. It took a few more months before I got into AB, thanks to Seleria <3, so my posts have then been transferred to this site. My last Corda post was way back May… wow, it’s been that long o__O

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Dead Fantasy Part I

This is what happens when you put a set of game divas in one place.

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Synopsis: Masayuki invites Tarou and Makoto to go to the abandoned hospital near the dam, the very place where Tarou and his sister were kept eleven years ago.

Makoto is shown playing an electric guitar in his room. Meanwhile, his eccentric looking grandmother has a guest. She performs some sort of ritual.

Tarou is at Masayuki’s house. He tries some virtual reality device that make’s one feel as if flying. Mayasuki tells him that the head mounted device is equipped with a gyroscope, used to maintain orientation. Tarou finds it amazing. He asks if Masayuki plays with it a lot. Masayuki replies he doesn’t. He says it’s not so much a game compared to therapy. Tarou asks Masayuki if has a condition. Masayuki tells him he only has a small fear of heights. He thought he could get rid out it with virtual reality. Tarou then asks if it would be possible to cure it that way. Masayuki tells him it is, by intentionally experiencing the cause of the phobia. Tarou says he remember it’s called “exposure”.

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“You’re gonna need more of that Kazuki”

I’ve already read the little synopsis for this episode in Newtype a few days ago, so I was really happy to know that Kazuki and Asuka kissed and made up. I salute Kazuki for swallowing his pride and admitting that he was such a pathetic half-hearted guy, and of course for vowing to change his ways. Looks like Asuka’s words made such an impact on him that it seems to be what drives him in his decisions now, particularly in his dealings with Eriko, like when he was having second thoughts on whether he was going to invite Eriko in their group study.

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Synopsis: Andou takes a card from Furuhata and loses pushing him, Furuhata and Kaiji into a corner. But Kaiji has a plan.

Furuhata tells Kaiji that he is starting to have hope. Kaiji, however, thinks that nothing has changed. He notices Furuhata’s cards. It looks fewer than it was before. Furuhata tells Kaiji that Andou wanted to hold on to one so he gave it to him. Kaiji is shocked. Andou currently has two stars and no cards. With one card, the situation could change for him. Kaiji tells Furuhata that they have to find him.

They manage to find Furuhata but he is about to go on a match. Kaiji calls out to him but a guard tells him not to interrupt. Andou’s opponent shows a scissor. Kaiji thinks it would be a draw but the card that Furuhata gave Andou was their sole paper card. Andou loses and is stripped of a star.

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Months of waiting after the news of an OVA, the first installment of the Kyou Kara Maou OVA series is finally here! The pretty boys are back with a couple of new additions to stir things up! Step right in for some steamy bishie goodness

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Title: FLCL
Scrumptious Meter: 2.5 (Let them eat cake~with a little extra sugar and spice on top)
Length: 6 episodes

12 year old Nandaba Naoto insists that nothing amazing happens in the town of Mabase. Not even when the huge factory of Medical Mechanica, maker of medical machines, set itself up in town. Everyday, at a set time, white smoke would blow out from the factory spreading out and covering the entire city. Everything, however, changes when a woman in a Vespa scooter, Haruhara Haruko, comes to Mabase and whacks Naota’s head with a bass guitar.

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