So! What we have here is officially RUMOR, okay people? RUMOR.

But With the Will News reports on an Anime on DVD thread that was apparently mysteriously deleted that offered a bunch of advance FUNimation release info– and the list included the first volume of the heretofore unannounced anime Claymore for August 12th.

Is it legit? Hard to say. There’s no actual source cited other than this AoD post– though it is mentioned that AoD usually locks threads instead of deleting them. On the other hand, for Claymore 1 to come out a week before Darker than Black, which was announced at Anime Expo? That sounds a little weird.

So, ya got me. But hey, it’s a news update in the middle of a plumbing crisis– see how devoted I am?

Original source: WtW News
Secondary source: nebs66

Yes, the soundtrack for Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann is fantastically awesome.

However, I don’t care what Gainax says, the lyric is NOT “raw, raw, fight the power.” It’s “ro, ro.” The former doesn’t make sense and sounds retarded. The latter isn’t SUPPOSED to make sense and sounds kinda cool. The end. ♥

Also, while I’m looking back on TTGL…it’s Gainax, so I’m allowed to look at a ‘deeper’ meaning, right? ‘Cause honestly, the more I think back on it, the more I dig on the overall theme, which I take to be: if you put your mind, heart, and soul into it, you can do anything. It may require sacrifices, but anything is possible.

I like optimistic messages. Especially when everything these days feels so IMpossible: world peace, or even an uneasy world cease-fire…protecting the environment while still maintaining an economy at the rate we’re used to…etc.

At risk of sounding like a cheesy after-school special, let’s all work a bit on doing the impossible and seeing the invisible (ro, ro, fight the powa), shall we? Touch the untouchable, break the unbreakable, all that jazz, yes?

Good lord, spring really IS almost over. After this, I only have to finish Lovely Complex, Romeo x Juliet, and El Cazador and that’s it for all the spring shows I watched @_@ (Not including Hayate no Gotoku, which is going to be ~52 episodes.)

Anyway! Darker than Black is over, which means no more yummy Hei goodness. Seriously, if Bones does nothing else, they do some of the most attractive male characters (in terms of design AND personality). Like, I looked at some of the male characters that have really caught my attention over the last couple of years, and they’re almost ALL bones: Hei from DtB, Kyouya from Ouran, Ed and Al from FMA, Thor from Jyu Oh Sei (shitty show, but some nice characters)…in fact, the only ones who AREN’T Bones are Lelouch (Geass, Sunrise/AIC) and Hagi (Blood+, Studio I.G).

…Wow, tangent much? Anyway, DtB ending was kinda meh, so I feel a little unfulfilled. But that may just be the onset of Hei withdrawal. Read the rest of this entry »

Yes, I just finished up Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann. After the last episode I didn’t think they could surprise me, and…well, I was right. But I’ll keep the remaining commentary under a cut ;)

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Okay, the only thing you really need to know about Code-E is that by the end of the series, every character STILL completely fails to have a nose.

As for Heroic Age…I still don’t have the first clue what actually happened. But it looked very pretty! Well, except for that one creature that kept spurting out planet-sized buckets of blood.

So, just finished up the last episode of Claymore. Without giving too much away, they’ve left it open for a second season, but of course it’s not continuing immediately.

Which is amazing! I mean, this is basically a shounen show..except with more chicks, and a bit darker and more violent. Can you imagine what would have happened if Naruto or Bleach had simply ended and then started back up again later, instead of a bunch of filler crap being produced? (Not that you could really do much by way of filler in Claymore, since there isn’t a lot of opportunity for comedic relief…in-character, anyway.)

I guess we’ll see exactly what happens when Claymore returns…and I’m pretty confident it will.

Warning: thar be spoilers here. Less for the actual plot than for random side stuff, but still, you have been warned.

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Enough of that serious crap!

The sixth episode of Moetan has been pulled from the TV lineup, according to Canned Dogs, to be repleaced with a recap episode, “#5.5.” Can’t be shown on TV? Now we KNOW it would be a good episode. And the good news is, you can still see it - it’ll be a DVD-only feature.

Still, it sounds kinda like what happened with Gurren Lagann’s episode 6, which took place in an onsen. The episode was originally just about Kamina and the guys trying to spy on the girls, but then Gainax remembered that their show airs on Sunday mornings when little kids are watching. But instead of saving the original episode 6 and making a generic recap episode, they…adjusted the original episode INTO a recap episode, which just led to confusion and a kind of lame (but very fanservicey) recap ep. Live and learn, Gainax. Live and learn.

That’s right, I still haven’t even really talked about Geass episodes 24 and 25, have I?

It kicked ass. I don’t care what anyone else says. Who really expected them to “wrap things up” all the way when there’s an entire second season to do? Which they found out about at the last second, no less?

Besides, I still think it’s silly to expect any real subtlety or depth in Geass - watch it for the batshit crazy characters and plot twists.

A few additional thoughts (with possible spoilers) after the jump, along with Sayonara Zetsubou-sensei Potemayo and Darker than Black. Read the rest of this entry »