Miscellaneous / Random Musings

Random Musings – Poll of Day and Upcoming Music Releases Edition

  • On the sidebar to your right, there is now a spot for the Poll of the Week Day. I have been wanting polls for a while now, and finally decided to install one after I saw abq’s over at lolitron. Hopefully, it’ll be a good way to get some feedback about various aspects of the site or about random anime-related things. For now, the question is just about your current screen resolution (if you’re using dual screens or something, please vote the resolution of the screen you view this site on). As usual, please leave a comment if you have questions/complaints/suggestions.
  • As I noted earlier this week, I won’t be blogging Kagihime anymore. Tactical Roar is pretty close to the same fate, but I’m giving that another week. And yes, I’m still watching and enjoying Mushishi. However, because it is a show that requires a lot of time to write up, I’m seriously considering putting it on permanent blogging hiatus.
  • This season’s Music Release Dates section has been updated on the Winter 2006 Schedule page. This time around, I’ve included Amazon.co.jp links. This upcoming Wednesday (January 25th) is going to be a big day.
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    School Rumble Next Season, Coming in the Spring


    With all of the news about the next season of School Rumble (mainly from the recent OVAs), it appears that an announcement has been made on the Shonen Magazine site. The fourth banner down (shown above) says that the anime is coming again next spring. Looks like the spring season just got one more thing for me to look forward to…
    Edit: It seems that the official School Rumble site now says the same thing.

    Source: MOON PHASE

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    The Big Winter Break

    The last week of December and first week of January are typically on-break weeks for anime series. Here’s a quick list of all the shows I’m following and if they are affected or not.

    Angel Heart – Off-air 12/26 and 01/02
    Lamune – Not affected: Ep. 11 airs 12/19, Finale airs 12/26
    Bleach – Off-air 12/27 and 01/03
    Jigoku Shoujo – Not affected
    Shakugan no Shana – Off-air 12/28
    Suzuka – Not affected: ep. 25 airs 12/21, Finale airs 12/28
    SHUFFLE! – Off-air 12/29
    Mai-Otome – Off-air 12/29
    Karin – Off-air 12/29
    Paradise Kiss – Not affected: Finale airs 12/29
    Blood+ – Off-air 12/31
    DCSS – Not affected: Finale airs 12/24 (tomorrow)
    Mushishi – Off-air 12/24 and 12/31
    Canvas2 – Off-air 12/25 and 01/01

    As you can see, the shows that are ending this season (except SHUFFLE!) are not going on break, but the on-going shows (except Jigoku Shoujo) are affected. That means that these next two weeks are going to be very boring around here – good for me because that’ll give me time to play Kingdom Hearts II. 🙂

    PS. Stay tuned though because I’ll be posting a schedule for the upcoming season sometime in this next week.

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    Downtime

    Well, my internet died around lunchtime today, and still hasn’t come back – Comcast is so unreliable – so I haven’t been able to really do anything online (writing this from a different connection at the moment). Jigoku Shoujo will get posted whenever the cable line decides to come back up. Hopefully this won’t drag into tomorrow and affect anything else.

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    Some Brief Notes

  • It’s finals week for me. And since studying comes before blogging, entries will most likely be shorter or late. Regular blogging should resume on Thursday, when I’m done with my exams. This includes today’s episode of Angel Heart, which I’ll blog sometime later this week.
  • I was planning on watching/blogging the first episode of The Wings of Rean, which is directed by “Kill ’em All” Tomino Yoshiyuki. But since I’ve been rather busy, this is getting pushed back to when I get around to it (this or next week).
  • Speaking of Bandai and Sunrise, the Gundam SEED Destiny special conclusion episode is airing December 25th late night from 25:50 to 26:45. That means it’s technically airing December 26th early early morning in Japan from 1:50AM to 2:45AM. And that translates to 11:50AM to 12:45PM EST (East Coast, USA) on Christmas Day. I look forward to seeing if they can salvage any dignity the series has left.
  • And finally, since I’m on break from school starting next week, expect a Winter 2006 schedule to go up sometime then. I haven’t fully researched what series look interesting, but I will definitely be covering Kashimashi and Fate/stay night.