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xxxHOLiC Kei – 02 “Left Eye”
Synopsis: Doumeki continues to search for a way to restore Watanuki’s eye.
Although it is already late at night, Doumeki continues to search for a way to restore Watanuki’s eye. Watanuki arrives bringing food for him.
Doumeki explains to Watanuki that the storehouse contains books collected by his grandfather. His grandfather was careful not to let anything bad enter the place. Watanuki notices that protective wards have been set up. Watanuki thinks that in stuffy places like the storehouse, there are always some spirits but he couldn’t sense any there except for something he can’t quite explain.
Popularity: 5% [?]
xxxHOLiC Kei – 01 “The Spider’s Web”
Synopsis: Doumeki bears a spider’s grudge after destroying a web that Watanuki got caught into.
Ah, it has been a while since I last set foot here. The scrumptious anime blog has started to become usagijen’s realm in the other bloggers’ absence. Well, I have been terribly busy at work, having no time to watch anime, much less blog them. In that busy-ness, at least I got to go to Japan, the motherlode of all that is anime and manga. Got to stay there for almost three months too and when I left, it was spring already. Time flies fast, doesn’t it?
And speaking of spring, the second season of xxxHOLiC Kei is one anime that I have been eagerly anticipating. xxxHOLiC is one of my favorite anime and I find Watanuki’s antics amusing. And then there’s the sultry Yuuko Ichihara who makes granting wishes here business. One thing I like about xxxHOLiC is its supernatural theme, drawing upon Japanese folklore and CLAMP’s imagination. The black Mokona is simply icing on the cake.
Popularity: 4% [?]
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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 [...]
Popularity: 9% [?]
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.
Popularity: 7% [?]
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”.
Popularity: 4% [?]
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.
Popularity: 4% [?]
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.
Popularity: 4% [?]
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.
Popularity: 7% [?]
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