^ love The Wallflower. Don't change, Sunako, you are already the perfect lady.

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Just finished Nana. I enjoyed the show a lot, although sometimes the drama was a little silly. Disappointed that they probably won't make a second series, considering how long it's been since the first came out. I suppose that to get more answers as to what happens to the characters I'll have to read the manga :sigh

Ai Yazawa is still recovering from illness, and NANA has been on hiatus for the past three years. I'm still crossing my fingers that she'll get better enough to continue, but there is a good chance she might not ever come back to work.

I'm currently watching Nana and I just finished ep. 33. Am I the only one who likes Takumi more than Nobu? I just cannot bring myself to like people who give up, no matter how sweet and nice they are.

Maybe the rising tensions over the Sengaku islnads? Or its an aging population that wants too look back into the past?

Finished the first season of Attack on Titan. I liked it fair enough, had some issues with it development wise but still liked it enough to want to get into the manga [What the fuck is in the basement???]. Waiting for the second season.

Ahh, after nearly a full decade, the new season of Mushishi has finally begun airing. It's gonna be a nice way to cool down at the end of the week, for the next couple months.

I've love to watch Akuma no Riddle, but sadly, none of the legal streaming sites it's on are making it available to my country. It's a shame, because I was really looking forward to a yuri anime based on a manga that was co-created by Yun Kouga. (The UK never seems to get the yuri shows...)

One of the shows I am watching this season, though, is Captain Earth. It's from many of the same people who made Star Driver, which means that its screenwriter is Enokido! The second episode will be available later today; I'm looking forward to it.

I took a look and found these directions on another message board:

1. Get Firefox
2. Download & Install “Modify-Headers”
3. Go to Tools -> Modify Headers
4. Click Configuration and check Always On: Enable … and Open Modify Headers ….
5. At the top select “Add” from the drop down list. Type in X-Forwarded-For in the field to the left of the drop down list and 12.13.14.15 in the other one. Nvm the third field
6. Press “Add” and select your new lines and press Enable/disable if it isn’t already enabled.

Not sure how well it works, as I've never tried it myself. Some people on the message board claim it works for Funimation and not Crunchyroll, but since Akuma No Riddle is streaming on Funimation you would be in luck if it worked. Another site said Mediahint could get you around a region block.

Now that I'm done with Kill la Kill, I've been watching the Anime adaption of JoJo's Bizarre adventure Part 3: Stardust Crusaders done by David Productions, the same studio responsible for the adapting Part 1 and 2 of the original manga thought Stardust Crusaders has a significant increase in production values compared to the Terrible animation Part 1 and 2 had.

Stardust Crusaders as a standalone story is about Jotaro Kujo quest to Defeat Dio and rid his Mother, Holly Kujo of Dio's curse when he merged his decapitated head with Jonathan Joestar body who is Jotaro's Great-Great Grandfather which was that anyone in the Joestar line will develop a stand which is the manifestation of a person's soul that can be use for Fighting or Utility use; the problem with Stands is that when someone who does't the strength to manipulate it, it can harm him/her physically with disease like symptoms which is the case with Holly.

So Jotaro Kujo along with his grandfather Joseph Joestar, his associate Muhammad Avdol with Noriaki Kakyoin tagging along for ride departed for Egypt when Star platinum Jotaro's stand along with Kakyoin identified Dio location.

As of this post, It's been three days since the fourth episode was simulcasted on CrunchyRoll.com, all of the episodes up until this point been pretty consistent animation wise with great character artwork in comparison to the horrible artwork that the previous anime had especially with Part 1 with it's horrible facial design and Janky animation; the pacing has been pretty good so far with minimal filler thought that might change when we move beyond the introductory episodes(Episodes 1-3) since the manga from what I heard uses a Stand of week format which could make or break this anime on it own merits since the monster of the week format tends to be really repetitive unless the fights themselves were engaging as the ones in Battle Tendency.

I'd recommend that watch the 2012 adaptions of Parts 1 and 2 in order to understand some of the plot points because they heavily relate to characters previously establish characters from those 2 parts but that does't mean that you can't watch this anime without seeing the anime that came before because it's a self-contained with more new characters then old ones but you may need to watch the previous parts to get a better understanding of some of these characters and their's motivations.

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Some good friends shanghaied me and forced me, Clockwork Orange-style, to watch S01E01 of Archer. I rather enjoy it. I just devoured the rest of season 1. It reminds me of a good Will Ferrell movie. (Stick with me on this one, because a lot of you probably just headed for the exit.) A good Will Ferrell movie is one in which Will Ferrell is not the only idiot man-child in a sane world surrounded by sane people.* A good Will Ferrell movie is one in which Will Ferrell is insane, but so are the people around him, and there's a sort of batshit crazy manic energy that propels the ensemble into ever more ludicrous situations. Archer is like that.

(* That movie was Kicking and Screaming, which is a terrible, terrible, terrible film.)

I started watching Selector Infected Wixoss. I wasn't expecting much out of it, but it's turning out to be really good!  It's kind of like Yugioh-meets-Madoka. Basically, it's about these girls who get into this card game. Some of the girls have special cards and they become "selectors" - girls who are competing to become something called Eternal Girls, which we don't know much about so far, but it means their wish will be granted if they win enough games. If they lose three games, they're out of the running. The show took a  dark turn and I'm enjoying it a lot.

While I loved Akuma No Riddle in the beginning, it's been kind of disappointing so far. It's not really bad, necessarily, but I think it could be executed a lot better, so it's frustrating. It's very formulaic and follows a lot of cliches and tropes. Sigh. I still like it, but I'm definitely not as excited about it as I was.

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The Tatami Galaxy got me hooked. I thought I'd find the art style distracting from the whole experience but it's just lovely. The pace of the dialogue (or monologue, more correctly) is somewhat like Bakemonogatari, but I've found it has a more natural flow and is not pretentious at all (just a personal opinion, Bakemonogatari never grew on me).
And I'm probably the only person who finds the MC insanely adorable in his occasional idiocy.
I definitely recommend it, a perfectly smart and delicious summery anime.

I was recently pressured into picking up Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders. I really didn't want to see it since I'd seen an older OVA of the same events and I was sorely disappointed. It just took everything so seriously, no matter how ridiculous it was, that I couldn't enjoy it at all.

But the way they did this version was perfect. The staff knew that everything about it is silly to the core, so they made it self-aware and genuinely funny. Christ, that cherry in the ninth episode...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQ-g0BdpbDM

Look at it. Look at it! LOOOOOOOOOOOOK!!!

I very much like excel saga and I'm actually re watching the series. I still don't get half of the references but they are not so deep that you can't just laugh at the random moments that happen to be a parody. I would also recommend the manga. Both works ended up taking different directions.