Ikuto adjusts to the low tech life of the island but his self-esteem takes repeated beatings as the girls show themselves to be so much more skilled at all the hard work of rural living. But he manages to salvage his manly pride by saving Rin, the Natsumi Tsujimoto strong woman of the island, from that dreaded enemy of the Keroseijin, the Nyororo. Further boost with Suzu telling him that she had felt lonely, being the only one living on her own and that she’s glad that Ikuto is coming home together with her after work, eating together and sleeping together (not in that way!). She says, ‘We are like family.’ The question is: like husband and wife? Or brother and sister? Or a 13 year old non-blood-related sister wanting to marry her brother!?
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First off, a big “Thank You!” to moyism for providing the raws to feed my Nanoha habit this season. Bit of a quiet admin-type episode, the members of Lost Property Riot Force 6 are introduced to each other, including the main support staff. While Hayate and Fate brief their superiors, Instructor Nanoha puts Subaru, Tiia, Erio and Caro through a training exercise - their first encounter with the Anti-Magic Field Gadget drones.
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First got wind, via the Yuricon Mailing List, that this series had some yuri potential. Dav provided a caveat emptor but hope springs eternal for yuri fandom. ;) Overall, I agree with Washi and Ender that we all still fear BEETRAIN implosion and it’s not the best anime EVAR but nonetheless good action and entertainment value; I was surprised at the speed of the heroine pwning the baddies so quickly, but certainly can’t complain about slow pacing. I also loved the big electric guitar rock of BACK-ON’s OP The Lights Shinin’ My Rhyme So Tight and the mellow romance of Romi Paku’s ED Naked Flower.
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Stripey has noted the stirrings of revolution in the Hontou Ni Empire; he fanboys about onee-type Clare while I blog about the To Heart 2 OVA before he’s even watched it. And now I’m taking the first pop at the harem series of this spring season, Nagasarete Airantou. *sounds of rice bowl snatching* But while some things change, others stay the same. Stripey will still get his loli-siscon kick from Konomi as I get my onee-kick from Tama-nee. Likewise, I’m sure the tanuki will go melting-melting at Horie Yui’s performance as Suzu whereas I’ve been attracted to the indigo orchid island by Rin and a light sprinkling of yuri.
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Upgrade to WP 2.1.3 completed, condition all green. Please let me know if you notice any problems. Had tweaked my link colours under the K2 style.css to better match the Lunamaria banner, had used a different colour naming convention (#NNNNNN) instead of the default (NNN) and didn’t realize that there was a problem with the vlink colours until Skane kindly pointed it out.
Hold-overs from the domain transfer have also finally been fixed. My Zaku favicon hadn’t been showing up and only just fixed the relevant link rel lines in the K2 header.php file which had been pointing to the old domain. Gravatars (which started accepting new signups again in Feb) were not being cached either due to an inappropriate permission setting for the cache sub-directory which has since been fixed. Had found the Comment Timeout plug-in useful in mass-closing the comments in the old blogs while both old and new domains were still up during the transition period. Still using it, currently set at close comments on posts older than 60 days or without a comment for 30 days whichever is later. The amount of spam has dropped considerably. Speaking of which, upgraded Spam Karma to 2.3. The average karma of my approved comments is a mind-blogging -20,000 (as opposed to an average karma of about -1,785 for spam caught)! But since spam is still being eaten with no false positives, I’m not tempted to dive into the SQL database to try and fix it.
Loads of other new plug-ins too. Had replaced <?php get_links_list(); ?> with <?php wp_list_bookmarks(’orderby=order&category_orderby=order’);?> in sidebar.php to implement My Link Order. Finally switched the URL for my Google Analytics account over to new domain, got Google Analyticator to add the GA javascript to every post/page in the blog, added Feedburner and implemented WordPress Reports.