“We actually misnamed the war on terror. It ought to be the Struggle Against Ideological Extremists Who Do Not Believe in Free Societies Who Happen to Use Terror as a Weapon to Try to Shake the Conscience of the Free World.”
— George W. Bush, leader of the free world, unsung satiristR+V: how will it end?
[Update: I just skimmed through the raw of episode 10 on youtube. They found an unanticipated way to trim Rubi’s story, and solved the continuity problem by quickly moving on to the next scene. The fight apparently used up the last of their budget, however. Wow, I’ve never seen character art and animation go downhill that fast. I notice that they worked Rubi’s song into it successfully, though.]
Continuing from where I left off, the last three episode titles have been revealed. It looks like:
- 11: New school term: chapter 8
- 12: Public Safety Commission: chapter 9
- 13: Tsukune: chapter 10
So, 3.5 chapters of Rubi’s story will get crammed into episode 10, and whatever doesn’t fit will spill over into 11 along with however they resolve the continuity break at the end of episode 9. They’ll swipe the ending from chapter 19 to bring Rubi back in at the end of episode 13, which will put them on track to start a second series at episode 20 or 29.
Summer anime: Sekirei
ANN has reported that Sekirei will be animated this summer.
By coincidence, volume 1 of the manga arrived at my house a few days ago. I was putting in a large order with Amazon Japan, it popped up as a recommendation, and looked like an amusing ecchi fan-service comic, so I threw it in. Sadly, it’s aimed at a slightly older audience than usual, so there’s no furigana, which will significantly slow down my reading.
So, bearing in mind that I can’t just skim through it and get the gist of the plot, I would describe it as “the bastard child of DearS and Ikkitousen”. I’m not sure which parent it got the brains from, though.
Note: the heroine is Rushuna-scaled, enjoys bathing, and repels fog and other obscuring effects.
Amazon: more fun in Japanese
Today’s discoveries:
- Sailor suits and Heavy Tanks
- Moe yo! Tank School; also volume 2.
- Moe yo! SDF School
- Exciting, filled-with-maidens Imperial Army Primer
- Moeru Battleship
- Moe moe Small Arms Encyclopedia
- Moe moe Weapons Encyclopedia
- And lest you think it's all about war, Moe moe Goddess Encyclopedia and Moe moe Fairy Encyclopedia
What’s the connection? “People who bought these items also bought the Queen’s Blade panty-fighter books”… :-)
Amazon S3 results
11 weeks ago, I started hosting my pictures on Amazon S3. All of the vacation stuff, and everything I’ve posted since then, adds up to a grand total of $0.40 in bandwidth fees. And the pages load a lot faster than if they were competing for my carefully-throttled bandwidth.
The Munitions archives would still be potentially very expensive to host there, but for normal stuff, this is a big win.
Downsides of joining Morning Musume, #1: Fashion Sense
Dear Apple,
Please fix Safari’s tooltips. You’ve gotten a little better at making them go away eventually, but they still often do stupid things like this:
The only open tab in my browser is viewing Slashdot, but the tooltip in the tab bar still refers to a site I visited an hour ago. And it wasn’t the most recent site opened in this tab.
Who knew?
There are five Kiki novels? Thanks to Amazon’s sudden shift to Miyazaki-related recommendations, I just found out about the translated edition of the first one. The cover has that accurate-but-hideous look common to children’s books (completely different from the pen-and-ink interior illustrations), but the translation is apparently decent.
Not something I’d buy, but still interesting.
