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I learned from the hamster last Saturday that A. oryzae plushies were being sold already. So off I dashed to the neighborhood Animate shop to get me one of these cute things.

Animate is having a one month Moyashimon fair. Plushies aside, there are also other Moyashimon merchandise for sale, such as notebooks, stickers, CD’s and [...]

Moyashimon - 03 “Let’s Brew With Microbes!”

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.

A Visual Study of Traffic Lights in Anime Pt. 2

Ghost Hound - 03 “Phobia Exposure”

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”.

Kaiji - 03 “Showdown”

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.

What the Heck is ‘Furi Kuri’?

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.

A Visual Study of Traffic Lights in Anime Pt. 1

Baccano! - 09 “Claire Stanfield Accomplishes His Duty Faithfully”

Synopsis: The Rail Tracer’s identity is revealed.

In 1932, Nicholas and his assistant are talking whether the Flying Pussyfoot arrived safely. According to the assistant, the passenger cars were replaced besides the locomotive. Nicholas asks him if he knows about the circumstances. The assistant says only a little since the Nebula Company is restricting information. Still, it was a large accident and a few passengers have died. Nicholas asks if the woman was on board the train. The assistant confirms it. Nicholas then tells him that they’ll wait for her report. The woman arrives. She is the one in work clothes. She is using a crutch. Her name is Rachel.

The New Yogo Empire Tourism Board

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This is Madness! This is Honey and Clover! LIVE!

I was actually surprised that Umino Chika’s popular manga Honey and Clover, will have yet another adaptation, after the anime and the live-action movie. This time, it will be a live-action series on Fuji TV starting January 8, next year.