Bleach Movie Out December 6th!

New Trailer!

Only once before has a movie been this eagerly awaited and prayed for, and that was Advent Children, dear lord please let this be as good as that or you are making enemy!

Bleach 1 English Dub

Was searching for this all day! Here it is...

Sonic the Hedgehog

Ok, so not strictly anime but by god does this game look good! November 11th Playstaion 3 hits these shores, March 2007 for Europe, this is penned as a release title and I want it!

Bleach 95 (They got the blanket, why sleep on the grass?)

Can It possibly be? The fillers by some freak occurance have actually become quite good? This episode was really enjoyable. The promised battle of Byakuya Vs Kariya actually turned out to be a great fight, and even Ichigo turned up and unleashed his bankai to boot. Granted I could still gripe about how the animation is still a bit poo and the character designs look different but at least things are happening now. The bount are manipulating the lower class souls in Rukongai by spinning some class uprising story in order to enlist their help to get revenge on Seireitei. They could lead to an actual confict although im not sure how this would be rectified for the return to manga storylines, nevertheless, when Bleach is good I am happy and Bleach was good this week. More Please!

Bleach Manga 240

The boys are off to cause trouble in Hueco Mundo to rescue yet another maiden in distress. This time their path is into Hollow teritory and the new wizard of OZ Aizen is currently assesing how useful Orihime can really be to their cause. In this chapter Orhime's power is revealed to be much stronger than we were initally led to believe. Rather than simply healing, her powers reject events in time and reconstruct the past so that in this case Grimjows arm is completely restored. But he is not finished, he asks Orimhime to reject the Hollow hole in his back and on doing so Grimjow regains the number six which marks his rank within the Espada. Not too happy about having been replaced, Luppi speaks up and faces the rath of Grimjow's newly replaced apendage. Grimjow certainly apppears to be quite the loose cannon and Aizen is going to need to control his creations temper tantrums if he is going to stand against he newly formed trio of Ichigo, Chad and Ishida. As usual the Manga is awsome and helps ease the pain of what the anime has become.

NANA 2 - Out Dec 9th

Translation to the best of my abilities)
(start)
(on screen: One year since then...)
(Dialogue: Hachiko)
Hey Nana,
Why is it that dreaming and finding hapiness are seperate things?
Please, Nana
Stand up one Time!
(END)

Yes, Its time to pull on the bubblegum pop emo pants once again as the second NANA movie is on its way and I for one cant wait. Even as I type those words I know its wrong. There is a big cast rejig from what I have heard, Im pretty sure Hachiko is played by a different actress, Im asuning MIka Nakashima is still on board but its still too early to tell.

Update: Literally three seconds of research gave me more info on this. Mika Nakashima is still in it but Hachiko previously played by Aoi Miyazaki is being replaced by Yui Ichikawa of "The Grudge" fame and the guy who played Ren, Ryuhei Matsuda (Gohatto, Blue Spring, Cutie Honey) is aparantly getting changed too. On a side note I really hate teaser trailers which just use stock footage, just like the bleach movie trailer, its just mean!

Bleach 94

Not so bad I thought this week, the animation is still shoddy as hell but I think they managed to inject a little irony into the pointless plotlines. Nice to see Kenpachi and Yachiru on screen once again. The hightlight of this weeks episode was Ganju and his posse summoning up bonnie-chan and all of the other boars for ichigo and team to ride into battle. Ichigo however was not having any of it and decided to shunpo all the way back to soul society like the poser he is. Another highlight came during the opening title sequence when we got a climps of what Grimjow is going to look like assuming they ever get out of this frustratingly pointless filler.



The end of the episode set up an almight scrap betwixt Kuchiki Byakuya and Kariya, but since its filler expect them to just have a quiet picnic which wont effect or upset anything which matters. There is no bleach 95 this week and Dattebayo put out a fake one for some reason which was actually just episode 91 by another subbing team. You think they could put their free time to better use than this as its just confusing. Intersetingly enough I got 94 not by using BT but Bleach Portals IRC site which seemed to be faster. Anyway, here it is...

Bleach - English Dub Airs Sep 9th

The voices sound quite appropriate, and I hear its going to be unedited so I might give it a shot.

NANA 19

Im getting into a bit of a daft habit with this series. I know its rubbish but I always look forward to watching it and drinking a cold beer at the same time. Its a kind of pavlovian conditioning which I have accidently got stuck into by no fault but my own. Its soo nice to have a nicely chilled Taiwan beer in this smothering heat and it help me to forget that this series is actually a big bag of fluffy nonsense. This one brings us almost to the end of where the live action movie vuts off, as Ren and Nana are together and they Hachiko meets Takumi. It seems though that as this is folling the manga its going to be a very long time before it ends, 51 episodes at least if not continuous. Go on, have some kind of beverage, sit back and enjoy this weeks episode, just let your brain shut off completely, theres no need for such things here...

School Rumble 20 - 21

Whats happening to School Rumble, it seems they have really run out of plotlines and are stuck with these ridiculous side stories that go all over the shop. Not to say it isnt still really funny, but some of the references were so bizarre that I kind of felt left out of the loop. I hope there is some kind of series resolution after this, not that there is some giant arc which needs settling, but palming off content even for comedy effect is still palming off content. Most of the parodies are follow ups from the first series, such as the Magical Mai cartoon (a bit like sailor moon) and the Dojibiron series (like Magiranger). Neverthess I want to see normal episodes again!

EP 20 in 3 Parts







EP 21 in 3 Parts

School Rumble 19

This episode is bookended by the captain of the fishing boat which took in Harima during his apathetic withdrawal from society back in the first season. As the intertitiles explain it is Christmas now and the manga master sea dog hasnt forgotten about his young apprentice even now in his darkest hour. he calls out to harima "Boy!" "Master" Harima replys miles away spralled out on his carpet. And Harima finally gets his manga finished during this episode even if his persuit of Tenma means that he fails to hand it in on time.

Tenma is no more aware of his affections now than she was at the very start but his perseverance conitnues without wavering. Realising he has to make a choice between a future as an artist and his persuit of his true love he races to the publishers office throught the snow, and air, on a giant curry dish which Tenma had hand crafted for Kurasuma-Kun. When she catched up with him she Harima has smashed the plate to pieces. In a last desperate gesture of her affection Tenma places the curry on a broken shard of the huge plate and hands it to Kurasuma. She then runs away in tears. Having been rejected by his publisher Harima in full Santa outfit chases after Tenma out into the hall where she is sobbing in a closet. In an act of desperation Harima throws his arms around her and tells her sorry.For a moment it seems like this may be a turning point but she eventually realises what is happening and lets out a loud scream. In the end the status quo is returned as Tenma offers Harima her friendship once again which Harima accepts.

A good episode and as is seems to be the end of the story arc which has been running for a few episodes now, I expect madcap irrelavance next week.

Heres The Episode in three parts, enjoy!

Nana 17

These things are getting put out really slowly nowadays so I know Im behind. This episode brings us up to the point of the first Trapnest concert. A nice little flashback to the creation of the Black stones fills in some of the back story even if this series is beginning to look more and more like one big cigarette comericial.

Parts 1, 2 and 3 Courtesty of someone on Youtube

The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi 11-14

I finally got around to finishing this series today just as I see there are plans for a second series in the pipeline. The last few episodes were brilliant, stylistically executed and entertaining all the way through. It really feels like the series never aimed for any particular goal but in the end I felt like they had said everything they had needed to say. The character design, the animation and humour of this series is consistantly exquisite and I would recomend it to anyone who enjoys FLCL or School Rumble or just really slick looking anime. I especially enjoyed the Battle of the Bands performance which Haruhi pulls off at the last minute whilst Kyon-kun watched in amazement, a great turning point in their relationship I felt. So if you get a chance get this downloaded, its only 14 episodes but a great achievment nonetheless.

Bleach 93

I harbour nothing but utter contempt for these filler episodes, this one overstepped the line of what constitutes an episode of Bleach. Rukia's head looks like a Halloween pumpkin now that the animation has reached an all time low. The whole episode was a shockingly irrelevant fight scene with no imagination or motivation. I hated it