While we still have a few weeks before the summer shows roll around, I thought I’d take this time to backtrack on some of the spring shows that might have gone under the radar, or just plain ignored by us at Random Curiosity. If you’re not already watching them, I’m hoping I can convince you to at least give the first episode a chance – the spring season had quite an extensive list and it would be a shame to let these shows slip by.
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It’s a gloomy, rainy day in Airantou. Kinda like Taipei today, except here in Taiwan there’s more unsavory grandmas and smelly men than underage, nubile girls (not like Ikuto cares). Is the weather a sign of things to come? Let’s hope it’s not that obvious.
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Summary:
Juliet and Antonio find Tybalt waiting for them in the sewers, but Juliet is still concerned about all the people she left behind, so Tybalt questions if she wants to go back and die with them.
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With this new revelation on Mikami, Near decides that they need to get close to him, but he is also aware that the existence of a Shinigami with Mikami poses a problem if they want to follow him.
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Lenalee’s orders from Komui are to head to Spain to join up with Allen in searching for Cross, but Gozu to go to a border town to help a different Exorcist search for General Sokaro.
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When she was younger, Makoto had asked Azusa about the iDOLs having hearts because Mami and Ami had believed so.
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Konata starts the episode off by showing us why it’s a bad idea to study in your room. How can you concentrate when hours of raids and power leveling is about three feet behind you?
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Nagi is playing a game on her Famicom when her character gets killed, and the game proceeds to insult both her and Sakuya.
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Adiane can’t believe that the princess Nia would be away from the capital and ultimately decides to back off for now, but she vows to come back.
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I stopped watching Terra e… a long time ago, but perhaps I shouldn’t have because after today’s episode, they aired a teaser trailer for the next Gundam series called Gundam 00 (pronounced “Double 0”) coming this October in the Saturday 6PM JST timeslot. The trailer, which is 16 seconds long, comes at the heels of a lot of rumors that started as early as last year that the series will be directed by Mizushima Seiji (who also directed Fullmetal Alchemist). As you can see above, the trailer had some text in it which translates to:
2307AD
Solestal Being – a private armed organization aimed at eradicating wars
Gundam Meister – four pilots who operate mobile weapons
Mobile Suit Gundam 00 – October, 2007, Saturday evenings at 6PM
Rebirth begins through destruction
My first thoughts on seeing the trailer were “It’s about time” (yes, echoing what was said in the Starcraft II trailer). The four boys shown above are most likely the four Gundam Meisters (that name reminds me of Otome) along with being rather bishounen, and I would speculate that at least some of them start out as part of this Solestal Being group. The mecha designs at first don’t look horribly original, but we’ll see what they look like in full once more information starts coming out. In any case, I’m excited now, and this just adds to the list of shows I’m really really looking forward to October (others including CLANNAD and hopefully the next season of CODE GEASS).