I’ll just dip my toe into the minefield that is the debate whether the ending was the suck or not before getting to the main point of this post. I haven’t read the manga so perhaps ignorance is bliss - I didn’t think the ending was that bad though I completely agree that Raki was so annoying and would have cheered if he had been put onboard the Nice Boat.


My main dilemma, though, was: Who was my favourite Claymore-oneesama, Miria or Galatea?
Continue reading ‘Claymore: Big Sword for the Big Sister’

Not being a tech person I tend to go yare yare, like Kagamin above, when WP announces yet another upgrade. But I was encouraged by how the Sea Slugs! WP 2.3 upgrade went relatively well; the final push came when I learnt from AnimeLife that the K2 RC1 didn’t break (no customizations except for the header CSS, link colour and list of allowable HTML in comments) and that ELA has been modified to cope with the new thingamajig. Have updated most of my plugins too (spoilers are now enclosed with [spoiler]text[/spoiler]). Do let me know if anything is wonky.
In any case, while searching for a screencap to accompany this post, I thought a bit about my favourite Lucky Star scenes and they were, in ascending order, (3) when Kagami lures Konata to her house using Tsukasa’s cookies (wait, that didn’t sound right :P), (2) Kagami’s horror turning into being happy for Konata at the cosplay cafe and (1) when Kagami was Konata’s Prince at the Haruhi Gekisou. I’m detecting a pattern here… ;)

Let’s just say that I’m sure Erio isn’t using only his arms to hold Fate up.
Continue reading ‘Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS 26′

Despite all my bellyaching about Mai HiME’s reset ending and the trashiness of Mai Otome, I still have a big soft spot for Mai Tokiha. Not least because she is my favourite Mai Nakahara role; I just can’t resist her boing… I mean voice.
Continue reading ‘Mai Otome Zwei 4′