Omake Gif Anime - Arpeggio Of Blue Steel - Ars Nova - Episode 2 - Iona Full of Love

Arpeggio Of Blue Steel - Ars Nova - Episode 2 - Iona Full of Love



"hora mata ai de mitasareru..." (ほら　また　愛　で　満たされる - Hey, filled with love again.)

Omake Gif Anime - Walkure Romanze - Episode 7 - Flour Statues

Walkure Romanze - Episode 7 - Flour Statues



Impersonating statues by covering themselves with flour was quick thinking on Celia's and Akane's part, but don't stand next to a window.

So many things happened to Akane and Celia in the windmill when they got caught in an unexpected shower, but at least Akane got to spend some special time with someone she admires.

Omake Gif Anime - Unbreakable Machine-Doll - Special 3 - Poor Sigmund

Unbreakable Machine-Doll - Special 3 - Poor Sigmund

NSFW for dragon on boobie violence

Poor Sigmund. He's blindfolded in the bath but Freya's puppet is not. Then he's subjected to puppet dragon on oppai violence. The injustice!

Omake Gif Anime - Yuushibu - Episode 13 [OAV] - Onsen For The Win

Yuushibu - Episode 13 [OAV] - Onsen For The Win

NSFW for animated sexiness

When you battle at a hot spring, everybody wins. Onsen for the win!

After watching this extra episode, the scenes in the end credits made much more sense. Why? You'll see.

Omake Gif Anime - Yuushibu - Episode 4 - Looks Good

Yuushibu - Episode 4 - Looks Good

Yes, yes, Fino. You look good in that uniform. Can't a man eat in peace around here?

Omake Gif Anime - Yuushibu - Episode 3 - Good Morning

Yuushibu - Episode 3 - Good Morning

NSFW for animated boobies

Well, good morning to you too, Fino... I mean, where's your pajamas?!

Omake Gif Anime - Walkure Romanze - Episode 2 - Also Two Points

Walkure Romanze - Episode 2 - Also Two Points

Ah, yes, Mio. Those are also, uh, two points. When the lance hits them, I mean...

Kudos to the BD publishers. When they remove the steam in a shower scene, they don't mess around.

Omake Gif Anime - Yuushibu - Episode 1 - It's A Girl!

Yuushibu - Episode 1 - It's A Girl!

NSFW for bouncing boobies

Yes, Raul Chaser. That girly-looking short guy with the high voice and bouncy chest is actually a girl. Sheesh.

10 Second Anime - Monogatari Series Second Season - Episode 26 [END]

Monogatari Series Second Season - Episode 26 [END]

Kaiki wins, but as a liar, he is punished. And his story which must end, ends. Another great season of Monogatari also ends, leaving us waiting for the next chapter.

A con artist who never gives up, who holds to his hook, can win the game. And Kaiki wins, even though the ditzy mad deity didn't believe his lie. But, at the moment when he is about to die, Kaiki sees something about Nadeko which makes him believe he can still use his hook of the wish that must be kept secret if you want it to come true. He sees that Nadeko is still wearing her white scrunchy, so there is still a little bit of a little girl who has a real secret wish.

Omake Gif Anime - Yozakura Quartet Hana no Uta - Episode 13 - Happy New Year!

Yozakura Quartet Hana no Uta - Episode 13 - Happy New Year!

Happy New Year! May all your unfortunate accidents in the coming year be happy ones!

And if your accidents aren't so happy in 2014, here's hoping someone special comes to your aid.

10 Second Anime - Yowamushi Pedal - Episode 12

Yowamushi Pedal - Episode 12

Training camp! Handicaps that make no sense at first! Getting carsick! Smelling a good bike (I hope...)!

Now is the time in a sports club anime when we go to training camp! We've got your usual jokes about getting carsick, annoying sleeping habits, and insane training goals. Yowamushi Pedal is also an otaku gag show, so when Sugimoto ask-me-anything-kun suggests watching his Tour de France box set to get pysched up about their time at the cycling training center, Onoda has to pull out his inspirational material. Hime-hime! Hime! Suki suki daisuki Hime! (Princess, Princess! Princess! I love, love, love you very much, Princess!) Hmm, doesn't quite do it for me...

Before we get to the training center, though, Onoda gets carsick in the bus, and since they have a tight schedule to register and get checked in, Kinjou decides to let him get picked up by the equipment vehicle which is following a few minutes behind. Unfortunately, Onoda forgot his wallet and can't buy a drink from the vending machines. Enter Sangaku Manami, クライミングのいけ面 (climbing no ikemen - the climbing good-looking guy). He goes to school near there, but he's ditching PE to climb mountains. He hands Onoda his water bottle and immediately notices he is a cyclist too.

Not coming from the Japanese culture, I never know what little things they're going to obsess over, but apparently it is a very rare thing for the average person to know how to open a bidon and squeeze it. Okay. Onoda thinks Manami is a detective for knowing he's a cyclist without a bike nearby. Manami just says he's a cyclist too, and walks over to his bike, and this happens...

10 Second Anime - Freezing Vibration - Episode 12 [END]

Freezing Vibration - Episode 12 [END]

NSFW for animated boobies

Chiffon, not of this earth, sacrifices herself and saves the day. Another good season of animated nudity and violence from the Freezing girls. Chiffon RIP (T_T)

Aw, Chiffon opens her pretty eyes for the first time, and it pretty much signals a suicide mission. She single handedly contains the Amelia Nova, showing 2 forms of anti-nova modes, supposedly only belonging to the original Pandora Maria Lancelot. The other Pandoras are basically fodder holding off the Maria clones, who suddenly form one huge transparent Nova when Chiffon discovers that Amelia can't shut down her Nova power because she can't control her rage. During the course of all these conversations, Chiffon reveals to Amelia that she's not human, and with the help of the Maria clones, takes the chain reacting explosion into another dimension. Everyone cries, the e-Pandoras return to their normal forms, even Amelia, and Dr. Aoi has to clean up Markus Spencer's mess. We leave the show with some of the girls back at the West Genetics Academy running into the class vice president looking pissed and copying Chiffon's hair style. Okay, waiting for Season 3 now...

What wasn't clear to me is whether Chiffon was never human and came from the where the Novas do, or she came to consider herself not human anymore because of her modifications from the stigmata. I'm leaning more toward the baby Nova adopted by humans origin story. As pieces of her drifted around the world after disappearing, she appears to her best friend and vice president Ticy Phenyl, saying goodbye and telling her she was always the strongest Pandora at West Genetics anyway. That lends credence to the never-was-human interpretation of Chiffon's words to Amelia.

Final Thoughts: Thankfully, being based in Alaska didn't mean we couldn't have a nice heated pool, spacious bath and spa, and a huge shower room. Laceration wounds and nudity is this show's bread and butter, so good job on figuring out how to deliver the nudity. Going to Bali with Satellizer wasn't a bad vehicle for those two things either. I did like seeing more of Kazuya's grandfather in action, instead of merely being referenced like in the first season. Also, Elizabeth was best girl. I'm not biased, but walking around naked almost all the time will affect my judgment.

One bad thing this season was just not enough Rana, but with so many new characters being introduced, including ones wearing scandalous gold monokinis, there just wasn't enough time. She had her moments, though. As for the plot... what plot? Heh, just kidding. Not much really to write about there, since it is standard magical girls fight mysterious invaders with a sci-fi overlay, but it does the job of getting us to all the different scenes of random violence and random nudity. Not complaining. I just hope we don't have to wait another 2 and a half years before the next installment. Maybe they'll actually show Rana and Satellizer getting better at all the Pandora moves instead of relying on stigmata activation. I'm hoping, anyway.

10 Second Anime - Monogatari Series Second Season - Episode 25

Monogatari Series Second Season - Episode 25

"So Mr. Kaiki, you're going to deceive me too?"

Wow. I was not expecting that response from the ditzy mad god to Kaiki's outright lie. However, we can tease some foreshadowing from Hanekawa's conversation with him at the beginning of the episode.

First of all, Hanekawa does not believe that Nadeko actually loves Araragi, because she is so self-absorbed, she snubs or ignores others, and only pays attention to her own delusions. That gives me a shiver, because somehow Ougi was able to feed her enough information that she accepted to make her own delusions of a snake spirit, convincing her to eat the talisman that had the snake spirit that was taken from her earlier in the story. Hanekawa even knows about the locked closet, but Kaiki says to himself that whatever is in there is utter nonsense, frivolous even, and couldn't possibly help in his con of the ditzy mad god.

The other thing that Hanekawa asks about is whether Oshino has a niece. She is referring to Ougi, but Kaiki thinks she's only asking about Oshino's family in her attempts to find him. Kaiki says Oshino has no family. He was born alone, and has no one he's related to in this world. Uh oh. So we have three pieces of information related to the story.

First: Nadeko is self-absorbed and pays attention only to her own delusions. This could have major implications to the lies Kaiki will tell, and whether she believes it. From her reaction at the end of the episode, she's not buying them.

Second: Ougi is not who she says she is. She is deeply involved in this story, as she is the one who got Nadeko's delusions working to make her the new god of the Polar Snake Shrine. But as someone who has said that it's her job to punish liars and "bring to an end, things which must end," why would she turn a delusional girl into a god, into an aberration that is no longer doing what it must? I'll have some better thoughts on that after the next episode. All I can say is, maybe her target wasn't Nadeko at all.

Third: the hidden thing in the closet is frivolous nonsense, according to Kaiki, but somehow so non-frivolous that Nadeko's parents still haven't opened her closet months after her disappearance. When something couldn't possibly mean anything, nor help in a Monogatari story, well, of course it's just the opposite.

Meanwhile, during the month of January, Kaiki continues his visits to the shrine, paying his dues, playing with little kids' toys, and bring sake to the ditzy mad god. She really learned to like sake...

Omake Gif Anime - Non Non Biyori - Episode 12 - Youssei Power Up

Non Non Biyori - Episode 12 - Youssei Power Up

Renge-chon completes the renge flower fairy power up! It's funky!

10 Second Anime - Outbreak Company - Episode 12 [END]

Outbreak Company - Episode 12 [END]

The Last Otaku-kun is a shut-in to be reckoned with. A great end to a story leaving us with wanting more.

Shinichi survived two assassination attempts, but the second was a lot more clever than the first one, probably by design. The first one is obvious, and having an elf-meido personal security squad at the ready is Shinichi's first card to play with his own diplomatic power. Nice Matrix reference too with stopping bullets. I don't think the Japanese government expected this plan to work, but would have been fine if it had, but was put into motion to lull Shinichi's defenses. The second plan was much more effective.

By splitting the Eldant forces by simulating an attack at the castle by their closest enemy territory, luring Shinichi to the school to protect an out-of-print collectors' edition, and confining Minori to the Japanese base, the Japanese government could have plausibly blamed an alliance between the Bahailm and the traditionalist insurgents, even if everyone knew the truth. Minori was especially qualified for this mission, as Matoba reminds her, not only for her fujoshi knowledge, but that she is as socially inept as Shinichi in Japan, meaning she could be just as easily disappeared. "Not having a boyfriend once in her life," she explained it herself in the swimsuit episode. But Shinichi's core council are no slouches, with Minori escaping the camp, helping Elbia just in time, and rescuing Miusel and Shinichi before she ran out of shield magic.

Omake Gif Anime - Yuushibu - Episode 12 - Fino Dance

Yuushibu - Episode 12 - Fino Dance

I Didn't Become a New Demon Lord, so I Could Enthusiastically Keep My Sales Job.

10 Second Anime - Kill la Kill - Episode 12

Kill la Kill - Episode 12

Only a Mako Moment could stop a rampaging Ryuko. Satsuki thinks she's ready for the next phase of her plan.

The flashbacks make it clear that Harime the Tailor was responsible for stabbing Ryuko's father, and taking the other half of the life fiber cutting scissors. At least the elder Matoi gave almost as good as he got by taking her eye. The flashback of Ryuko's memory of finding her father near death show a different form running from the house though. It still looks like someone with straight hair carrying a straight blade. I'm guessing that figure was Satsuki who witnessed what happened, which is why she held that prize of knowing more about Dr. Matoi's death to Ryuko earlier in the season, but it could still be red herring.

But the star of the episode is Mako. After Senketsu had warned Ryuko about keeping calm, and not getting her blood boiling, we see what happens when someone loses control of their emotions while wearing a life-fiber suit. This is presumably what happened to Aikuro and Kinigase's colleague: literally turning into a monster. But neither Nudist Beach, nor Satsuki joining the fray could pierce Ryuko's rampaging fugue state. But a Mako Moment saves the day:

10 Second Anime - Naruto Shippuuden - Episode 343

Naruto Shippuuden - Episode 343

Masked Madara revealed! And to put an exclamation point on it, the real Madara joins him in battle.

The Masked Madara, formerly Tobi, is Obito, Kakashi's late team member. Obito was supposed to have died after his right side was crushed by a boulder. He gave his recently awakened sharingan to Kakashi as a gift for passing the jounin exams, to replace the eye that Kakashi had just lost during their last mission to rescue Rin, their other team mate. But how did he survive? That will be answered next episode, along with his fateful meeting with the original Madara.

Good job with using the flashbacks to quickly tell Obito's and Kakashi's side story, and the unrequited love triangle which is very similar to Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura's own dynamic. Naruto's usual clever trickery with Kakashi's transportation technique broke Obito's mask, but only a superpowered monster would use a tailed-beast bomb as the feint to land a simple rasengan on it. That's so Naruto.

10 Second Anime - Kyoukai no Kanata - Episode 12 [END]

Kyoukai no Kanata - Episode 12 [END]

This show was not unpleasant. The good guys win, but there were some ambiguous endings.

I wish they had taken three episodes to tell the story in the last two episodes. Some things were introduced right at the end, without any signs of foreshadowing, and some things were never explained.

What was done right was Mirai and Akihito fighting the One Beyond the Boundary. Even how Mirai disappeared after the youmu was reintegrated with Akihito was understandable, along with how she came back when a ring used to contain her blood magic disappeared. We didn't get any good explanations, but just knowing they were related to her blood magic is good enough.

What was bad was how Izumi's circumstances were told. First, we have a continuity error with Yayoi Kanbara, talking with Izumi after she had busted into that classroom in the last episode. After changing outfits and switching to a bunny rabbit cutesy mode of speech, we have Hiromi and Mitsuki barging into the room to find their older sister. In the last episode, they were already in that room talking to Kanbara, with Mitsuki complaining how her archaic mode of speech didn't fit her sexy devil outfit. I don't know how to reconcile that.

Then, when they finally confront agent-man, it turns out that he's taken that pink tentacle youmu into his body in some weird attempt to mimic Akihito and the One Beyond the Boundary. Then he proclaims that Izumi has already done something similar but hasn't told her siblings. After the Nase siblings defeat him, before they get a chance to confront Izumi about this youmu inside her, where we have no overt signs that it's true, she poofs out of the scene. What the hell was that? Was agent-man's motivation for this whole strange thing with the youmu eating weapon powering the One Beyond the Boundary just to goad Izumi into admitting she absorbed a youmu? I don't know. He gets killed while laughing maniacally, which I started to do because I was going crazy trying to resolve all the nonsense that got dumped in my lap.

What was nice was seeing Ayaka and Ai safe inside the separate dimension the One Beyond the Boundary created, and help defeat the collection of youmu it had gathered in trying to overcome Mirai. So again, all the parts of this last episode dealing with Mirai and Akihito were consistent enough, and hit the right notes emotionally too with their farewell and reunion. Their story was not unpleasant.

Final Thoughts: this show started out strong, but it looks like they spent a little too much time on the slice of life aspects of the story in the first half of the season, and left too little time to tell the back half of the main story. We could have done without the stink-bomb episode, left that to an extra episode for when the episode disks get sold, and re-timed the rest of the episodes to fill in that gap. From what I understand, the source material did not have Yui's little sister Sakura, so her time may have been filled in with some elements of Izumi dealing with her embedded youmu. Questionable choices in direction here in the middle part of the season left a rushed feeling at the end, with too many unresolved issues, untimely introduced issues, and just a bunch of resolution scenes poured out on top of us. It was a good show until agent-man started acting like a villain for no reason. How Akihito, Mirai, Mitsuki, and Hiromi interacted with each other made Beyond the Boundary enjoyable. The handling of the main story... 不愉快 です (fuyukai desu, it is unpleasant).

Omake Gif Anime - Non Non Biyori - Episode 11 - Snow House

Non Non Biyori - Episode 11 - Snow House

So happy to roast rice pudding balls in a little snow house. Mochi, mochi, mochi!