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The following image is what started this FANBOY/NERD RAEG rant:

Gatoh Shoji, what the fuck are you doing? Why are you writing anime scripts instead of finishing Full Metal Panic? Why do you hate your fans so much? The last book was published more than a year and a half ago, and ended on a unsettling, climatic twist. You already had your fun with GONZO’s Tower of Druaga, and unless you’re writing scripts for the next Full Metal Panic anime, you need to get the fuck back to writing novels.

Kadokawa, fuck you, I know what you’re pulling with this episode. Some time in the future we’ll get another episode where Kyon finds out about the endlessly repeating day, probably after you show us this exact same episode again. The ending will be slightly different, and you’ll save however much it costs to make 1 episode of anime. Yes, I have so little esteem in Kadokawa and KyoAni now, I can honestly believe that they would do this. The new and deproved OP/ED/animation in general makes me RAEG hard.

Tanigawa Nagaru is still sitting on his ass not writing the next Haruhi novel. No one likes your fucking manga. It’s a piece of shit, your mangaka sucks, and WHY WON’T YOU WRITE MOAR HARUHI. At least if they got the original character designer, Takeda Hinata, to draw it, it would be worth reading for the art alone. Actually I don’t know what I expect out of him anymore, since Haruhi is his only original and good series.

Eden of the East has movies. I would rage except I haven’t been following this show, and won’t bother until the movies come out on DVD and gets subbed (sometime in 20-FUCK-IT-ALL). At least March Comes in Like a Lion is still going steadily on. In terms of other manga, even Skip Beat is going into a bit of a lull, with the current arc boring the shit out of me. xxxHolic is being affected by Tsubasa’s “I’m-a-giant-crock-of-shit” syndrome and has long since became unbearable. It’s also pulling the Bleach card with an average of 3 frames a page.

I would rage about Bleach and Naruto, but what’s the point? The only Jump manga I get any real joy out of now-a-days is Gintama. Even One Piece is boring me a bit with its current arc. While I’m on the topic of Jump, Shaman King’s new ending is no better than the old one, and HxH is still on endless hiatus.

That’s more than enough pointless rage for today. Time to go play some TF2 and get owned so I can rage some more.

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Best rendition of Koi no Mikuru Densetsu ever. It so sounds like some FF-battle theme song now, LOL. As expected from Tokyo Philharmonic.

Probably the more worthwhile Suzumiya Haruhi merchandise to come out, as all music sounds awesomely epic when played by a full orchestra. Not to mention the cool pic of Yuki playing the violin on the cover.

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Oh wow, ICE BURN there, Negi. I mean, that pretty much sums up his true motivations so far. BTW, Godel’s ‘A’ is referring to Cosmo Entelachia, ‘B’ is referring to Negi’s father and ‘C’ refers to the burning of Negi’s village.

Maa~ of course like a kid, Negi vehemently denies it. I thought he went to Raiten Taisou 2 straight though, but it seems he kept it until now instead.

B…b…b…but that’s Fakesuna!!! Negi, don’t be fooled by her!

Ah, Fakesuna finally takes down her mask.

Oh LOL what? The technique doesn’t work if the user falls in love? Oh shit, she’s so gonna be found out soon. Bloody Negi and his imba charisma perk towards girls.

Oh-ho-ho~ Rakan reveals the identity of Godel! I’d already had a good guess about it ever since he pulled out Ni no Tachi on Negi but this confirms it. But who Godel really is and his motivations… we’ll have to wait for next week.

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“My TF2 Fragging”

So much for my TF2 fragging…
Oh oh, oh oh, oh oh…

Let’s do this over
It’s not like we’re reformatting
Was it something I pressed?
Was it something Steam screwed up?
Don’t leave me hanging
In a internet so boring
Held up so high
On such a breakable cable

You were all the things I thought I knew
And I thought we could be

[Chorus:]
You were everything, everything that I wanted
We were meant to be, supposed to be, but we lost it
And all of the games, so close to me, just can’t be played
All this time you were updating
So much for my TF2 fragging.
Oh oh, oh oh, oh oh…

You’ve got your dumb updates
I know what they say
They tell me it’s needed
But are they really?
But they don’t know me
Do they think I care about new features?
All the things you keep updating for
All the patches that you download

You were all the things I thought I knew
And I thought we could be

[Chorus]

It’s nice to know that you keep updating
Thanks for acting like you cared
And making me feel like it was necessary.
It’s nice to know we had fun times
Thanks for watching as I rage.
And letting me know you were not quite done

[Chorus x2]

[x2]
Oh oh, oh oh, oh oh…
So much for my TF2 fragging.

Oh oh, oh oh, oh oh…

Yes I know it’s not rhyming (hell don’t fucking sing this out please). Yes I know the second half of the song is rather unoriginal. Yes I know Steam sucks. Yes I know their ‘update’ system needs to be fucking fixed. Yes I know America’s Army 3 is kinda repetitive. Yes I know that Agentcy is kinda empty lately.

…. but for god’s sake, I FUCKING MISS MY TF2 FRAGGING MOMENTS.

Here’s to a big ‘Fuck You’ to Steam for their crappy SEA servers. Thank you for your time. Do not waste it any more further.

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Hahahaha Akune got chewed out by Medaka hahahaha. Can we kick ‘im off the council already?

Well, not so fast yet it seems, but anyways here’s this chapter’s Moe Medaka Mode.

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Legendary episode is legendary. Hina Clyne’s impromptu performance of Cruel Angel Thesis combined with Hermione’s cross-school dash was what I expected and more.

Climax of the arc will be next week, then I’ll be waiting for the next awesome arc, the hot springs trip arc.

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Time for a career change boys.

I apologize for the delay on this post (my higher brain functions were haveing difficulty coping with the Gamia sisters talking in unison), it’s just that I felt saddened at the untimely death of the four Gamia Q sisters, ah well I hope that there will be Gamia Q3 2.0 later on. Such a terrible waste…I would not have minded much at all if they had persisted a bit longer. Still I suppose that it was inevitable given that Baron Ashura was giving out orders, if only Blocken was in charge for a while rather than the butt monkey that is Baron Ashura is right now. Still overall there was much to like and Kouji did keep his weeping to a minimum. I suppose that after granting us all a lot of time to admire the aesthetics of Gamia Q3, which is probably the most graceful mecha of the year; that it was to be balanced out by not only manservice, but shouta-service. Still it seems that he rest of the Mazinger Army is still sucking hard, and they were even berated by the three good engineers that built them, I was grateful that the piss ants were finally forced to shut up and admit their grievous deficiencies. While the other pilots of the Mazinger Army suck, it seems that at least the Kurogane House 5 are some badass motherfuckers, though I am not sure if we can consider Cross to be mecha ase well despite having Alloy Z parts.

That is one hell of a hickey…

It was also the first time they finally got to showing breast missiles, but since they did come from Aphrodai A they were useless as Kingdan clubbed Aphrodai A and started to drag her back to his cave to mate…I suppose. Sayaka being Sayaka continues her streak of fail and some how ends up naked for Boss to see, at least she kicked him hard enough to preserve her chastity. I can see why Kouji actually considered leaving her to rot to preserve Mazinger Z. I probably would have just stuck with Mazinger Z…especially since the Jet Scrander was just finished.

Next time it seems that Sayaka is in need of saving, and hopefully Gamia Q3 will not be long in making her long awaited comeback.

Easy lover
She’ll get a hold on you believe it
Like no other
Before you know it you’ll be on your knees
She’s an easy lover
She’ll take your heart but you wont feel it
She’s like no other
And I’m just trying to make you see

She’s the kind of girl you dream of
Dream of keeping hold of
You’d better forget it
You’ll never get it
She will play around and leave you
Leave you and deceive you
Better forget it
Oh you’ll regret it

No you’ll never change her, so leave it, leave it
Get out quick cos seeing is believing
It’s the only way
You’ll ever know

Easy lover
She’ll get a hold on you believe it
Like no other
Before you know it you’ll be on your knees
She’s an easy lover
She’ll take your heart but you won’t feel it
She’s like no other
And I’m just trying to make you see

You’re the one that wants to hold her
Hold her and control her
You’d better forget it
You’ll never get it
For she’ll say there’s no other
Till she finds another
Better forget it
Oh you’ll regret it

And don’t try to change her, just leave it, leave it
You’re not the only one, ooh seeing is believing
It’s the only way
You’ll ever know, oh

No don’t try to change her, just leave it, leave it
You’re not the only one, ooh seeing is believing
It’s the only way
You’ll ever know, oh

She’s an easy lover (she’s a easy lover)
She’ll get a hold on you believe it (get a hold on you)
(She’s) like no other
Before you know it you’ll be on your knees (you’ll be down on your knees)
She’s an easy lover
She’ll take your heart but you won’t feel it (you won’t feel it)
She’s like no other
And I’m just trying to make you see (trying to make you see)

It’s like deja vu but better.

Looks like you will have to torch the place.

The hearts of many men were broken this day…

There I was completely wasting, out of work and down
All inside it’s so frustrating as I drift from town to town
Feel as though nobody cares if I live or die
So I might as well begin to put some action in my life

Breaking the law, breaking the law
Breaking the law, breaking the law
Breaking the law, breaking the law
Breaking the law, breaking the law

Busted…not that I blame any of you.

I have to say they were tailor made to kill Japanese, after all they do have twin tails…

Maybe he’ll find them so moe he’ll die.

Hey they do keep their cloaks on hand…

I like her style.

And they’re mass produced what is not to love about this mecha?

More like Angels of Death…probaly Dark Angels.

Lazy Kouji is Ultimate Lazy for Mazinger…

Wow this is old school breast missles…

Kingdan had to compel Aphrodai A to go home with him.

This looks pretty badass.

She wears her emotions on her sleeve.

I like her smile.

Q3 was always the smart one, it was she who propsed they torch the place to draw out Kouji…

It’s Dr. Doom!

Now that is a LARP weapon I’d pay good money for…

I kind of hate Cross for doing this…

The most favored.

She has Feel No Pain, because those knives were only AP5.

It’s not really a trick…

Yeah a cheesy one trick pony, sort of like a Vampire Counts Army only with 15 Ratling guns.

Kids these days…

What’s better than three? Four of course…

She must be the stealthy one.

You know part of me actaully thinks that a Gamia Q would make for a better pilot for Mazinger Z…

Oh is that what happened?

Shouldn’t this be on the actual round rather than the casing?

Sure, preferably dead of course…

Yeah, that is why you actually have to make sure people die once in a while…

Kingdan found a waifu…

At least Baron Ashura thought this one out a bit.

So Mechanical Beasts do have feelings…

So it cries when it shoots?

He was literally under a rock…

Not as much as this…

A new challenger has appeared.

The answer is obvious…

I see mecha effectiveness decays with each academic generation…

What do you mean a bit?

Grumpy old men…

Full of fail indeed…

HELL NO!

Not talking so big now are ya?

Damn right Mazinger Z won not Kouji.

I can’t wait to see this thing in action.

Damn good a lassoing.

Kingdan also clubbed her over the head…

They only needed safety pins to secure her…

I see Kouji has problems just saving Sayaka…

Yeah I suppose that choosing between Mazinger Z and Sayaka is a hard choice…

Round 1…

This just looks so cool.

Oh Sayaka yo just can’t beat the Gamia Q Sisters…

Yes Boss has ruined you for marriage.

YOu know Gamia Q3 would have simply killed him…

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May I try some of your tasty beverage? After a couple of weeks of repeats we finally get a new episode of Haruhi V2.0, although it had little to do with plot advancement in a significant way. In the most widely circulated guess as to the order of airing of new episodes, it looks like the next couple of weeks should be new as well, but nothing has been made official.

Whenever I see pools like that I always think “how many little kids are peeing in that?” Needless to say I don’t go to public pools, I am strictly a private pool guy.

This is pretty much exactly what I look like when people wake me up in the morning with a phone call.

The alien mask, how appropriate. And I think this was unfortunately Yuki’s only spoken line the entire episode. I was quite disappointed at the lack of any major Yuki content this episode. However, as someone who has read the novels, I can say that the future bodes well for those of us who enjoy Yuki.

He should have asked for a reroll.

Bug catching? Seriously, that’s disgusting.

Wow, that’s pretty fucked up. Making them work in those retarded outfits all day in the summer just so she can nab a frog outfit. All while she hung out eating popsicles.

What I did find interesting about this episode is that the raw amount of “fun” activities they shoved into one episode gave me some perspective on what anime portrays as activities young Japanese people enjoy. I have know way of knowing how much of this is true in real life as entertainment mediums often do not reflect reality. But when I was in high school I would have found most of what they did incredibly boring and/or a stupid waste of my time. But then again I was a nerd, and I’d have rather gone to a LAN party or stayed home and played CS…

The episode was alright, but I’ve seen random slice of life stuff in tens of other shows although it was actually one of the top generic slice of life episodes I’ve seen. However, the reason I watch this show is for the other, stranger aspects of it all. I know most of this stuff was in the books, but that doesn’t necessarily make it amazingly interesting. Although it sure did look really nice, KyoAni definitely knows how to make quality animation.

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Ui is indeed bold…but is she daring?

Well it seems that there is one last hurrah for the K-ON group, and at least there was a good concert for once though I was hoping Sawa-chan would also grab a costume to fit in for the first song. Still Ui did put on a convincing front while cosplaying as Yui, it was a masterful deception, but she was undone by her over politeness and Sawa-chan’s accurate assessment of bust size. I guess this is yet more proof that Sawa-chan is more interested in girls. I also very much liked the Mugi-chan fashion show which was simply awesome, in fact it even overawed the normally taciturn Mio, who was possessed by the yuri. I would have gone with he qipao or bunny girl outfits but I guess the modified yukata was good enough. I am still surprised that Yui is getting far more love than Ui who has demonstrated what great waifu material that she is. The only question I really have left at this point is what did Nodoka do will a bath tub full of crayfish, certainly that would have made for some good eating. Ah well it will all be over for reals soon, I wonder what they will come up with next. One last note, Yui has some weird dreams. Still I highly approve of Yui attempting to kiss Azu-nyan, and as far as I am concerned they connected.

Ah the fruits of Sawa-chan’s labors.

Combat Waitress?

This one is my favorite.

I was hoping for Hell’s Bunny but this is fine too.

Indeed Mugi-chan is smexy.

A most convincing disguise…

Yeah was Yui ever this good?

Ui has many talents…

Though her ability to excel will be her undoing…

Mio you might have to do a strip search to confirm identity.

Oh Ui you were just too perfect…

…and too polite.

Yeah Ricchan sounds better.

Mugi-chan sounds more proper if you ask me…

Ui proves her superiority once again…

Fret not Ui the myth of Yui’s murderous intent was all a fabrication, from one disgruntled denizen that was sent to a former penal colony…

Indeed it seems drafting Ui would solve all of your problems…

Damn I wish I could trade places with Yui right about now…

Loli Nodoaka just doesn’t feel right without her glasses…

Oh can I glomp Azu-nyan too?

:3

It happened I tell you!

Ah the Legendary Weapon of Sawa-chan.

Insert cherry popped joke here.

Get use to the feeling, Mugi-chan your tea making was not in vain.

You’re late.

I wanted her to go WILD.

I still have trouble considering Yui as the succesor to Sawa-chan.

Damn right, now these kids have taste.

At least you get to sing this time.

They have yet to exceed your greatest feats though Sawa-chan.

Thank you for providing the politcal muscle Nodoka.

Great minds think alike Yuri Party! Encore!

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The point of marching is that you are all in step, Ersatz Corpo Truppe Volontarie indeed.

I have to say episode 9 was just as bad if not worse than the paper thin plot of Selvaria’s DLC. I Say this butter bar Karl is just another bed wetter like Johann. Given how these Imps don’t even speak German it seems plain that they are incapable of bravery or making a half decent plan. Perhaps a Selvaria fan would have liked it more than I would have but it was just disgusting knowing that Selvaria would one day meet her match prove her utter inferiority in the future is hardly mitigated by her ample bosom or the guys cosplaying as Altair. The lack of Alicia goodness was made all the more worse by Maxi-pad putting on a show, and Selvaria whimpering like a lost puppy. The poor girl is not even fit to be a slave in my book, though much of it was due to her being OP even when you were in control in that awful DLC in the role of the Engineer who wet himself. Still with the introduction of Karl who wants to be on a Butterfront and now plans on being a PX Ranger while kissing ass all the way to the top. Maxi-pad’s family sucks ass too in the game you never met the bastards, and for good reason since they came off like Code Geass ripoffs. If nothing else maybe if we are lucky we will see Butter Bar Karl turned into paste. I can only imagine the kind of coaward that would find Karl to be even remotely likeable, that damned Marty Stu, actually since it is butter bar I suppose it is more fitting to call him a Mary Sue since he is after all Selvaria’s bitch. In all fairness though as an admirer of Jane “Kill ‘em All” Turner I have little interest in Imps, other than of course how much lead it takes to kill them. Despite the craptastic episode it seems that Welkin did ask on good question regarding the lonliness of sea slugs…I suppose Kabitizin had better answer.

Hey look it’s the Three Stooges, Karl must be Curly…

For the next bit Welkin and Alicia were trying to have a romantic getaway until some Imp pauper comes along to ruin it all with his stench of fail that seems to emanate from all Imperials. Still it seems that it is a tad sudden for the Alicia and Welkin sleepover and conference about dung beetles. Once again the series writers were sturck by some ideas and cut yet more combat action in favor of parading around some new anime only coward to talk about how war is bad. Boring old message aside, I knew the bastard was coward from the start since he was shot in the back which indicates that he was fleeing combat and not getting into the shit to help his comrades. In effect this Mikhail is a buddy fucker and has violated the covenant that all kameraden share, if he were smart he would have fled to ersatz Canada, but as he was too dumb to use his grenade for a forced entry that idea must have never crossed his mind. Suffice to say I did not feel inclined to pity the dumb bastard, unlike the game where it was some dumb kid who was crying for his mommy in his death throes. Well at least unlike the Sevaria commercial that was episode 9 at least there was a bit of Alicia to mitigate the lose and fail of coward Mikhail.

If you were half the strategist Schlieffen was you’d already have taken the Feddie Capital and overrun Galia by now….

Episode 11 is a clear signal that the anime staff would rather do their own thing instead of follow the storyline that was actually presented in the game, and to be sure since their version of tactical combat was laughable I suppose making this Kana goes to War while tossing out the military aspect might actually be a wiser decision for them in the long run since they were un able to make things exciting, mostly due to the persistent lack of gore and explosions. So it was time to the banquet in which Alicia, Isara, and Selvaria get to strut their stuff which was decent enough eye candy along with a under dressed Cordelia, but the lack of strapless dresses was cause enough to deem the episode to be mediocre. I would go over the ways in which this ep made no sense but by now it think it is clear that for better enjoyment it is far better to not give a shit anymore. Perhaps this is all some clever ruse to preserve the game ending so people would be prompted to buy the game and the DLC. Nevertheless the story to begin with was never that strong and altering now brings it to fanfic levels. After all one has to wonder how much this Ramal is a Mary Sue and what mind could have demanded that they make Selvaria in dress a reality. Still so long as it stays middling and mediocre I think just watching for Alicia and if you’re a lecher Selvaria is reason enough. Personally I am just waiting for a most anticipated showdown, if you played the games and finished it, you know what I am talking about…

Next time it seems we have a high speed chase with tank, here is hoping for some Milita brutality as they pull over the badies and beat them up LAPD style.

Great it’s Ersatz Code Geass…I assume there will be flying tanks in addition to Selvaria being as OP as Suzaku and Kallen.

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The last 3 episodes have been pretty forgettable. They skipped over the tank battle and contrived some retarded infiltration attempt by Selvaria and the playboy? The cabin scene was made so utterly cheesy and was drawn out way too long. And we also had to suffer through that painful episode on the Imperial side of things. Just goes to show that bad things usually happen when the writers start to make stuff up on their own and change the story. It was nice to see a bit of service with the Selvaria cleavage shots and the other girls in dresses, but meh. I would normally say, “hey let’s hope they don’t trash the rescue scenes too bad,” but now that they’ve added an abduction of Alicia to it I’m pretty much expecting melodramatic bullcrap. Where’s my tactics and just as planned army battles? Rage.

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Quick take cover behind the stall shield!

How desperate can you get?

Can I get a Sieg Zeon?

Too bad you lied.

Best joke EVAR!

Too bad Karl is neither an Officer nor a Gentleman…

Loli feeding time…

Then get out there and die!

You call that a blood spatter?

Eh you Red Shoulder cosplay needs a red shoulder plate at least…

The only thing more OP would be if she broke out her MG42…

Just like the writers…

Thank you for showing up.

How many men have had this moment haunt them in their sleep?

I feel like Tacos.

Needs MOAR Jane.

Particularly feeding habits…

Because he has no life?

Calling all parents we have a orphan in need of familial love…

Yeah he just took 3/4s of the blanket…

That’s not my hand…

Uh Welkin did you wash your hands recently?

I wish she was holding a knife with her left hand in homage to MGS style CQC…

Defintely a deserter, and a hippie.

Alright looks like the gloves are coming off, time to DUEL!

Hear the patter of running feet
It’s the old Mikhail in full retreat
He’s moving on; he’ll soon be gone
He’s haulin’ ass, not savin’ gas
He’ll soon be gone.

Over on that hill there’s Damon’s tank
A million Galians are on Selvaria’s flank
Mikhail’s movin’ on, He’ll soon be gone
With his rifle broke, it ain’t no joke
He’ll soon be gone.

Million Galians comin’ through the pass
Playin’ burp-gun boogie all over his ass
He’s movin’ on, He’ll soon be gone
With his rifle broke, it ain’t no joke
He’ll soon be gone.

Twenty thousand Galians comin’ through the pass
I’m tellin’ you, baby, Mikhail’s haulin’ ass
He’s moving on; He’ll soon be gone
He’s haulin’ ass, not savin’ gas
He’ll soon be gone.

Something is missing…

That’s it.

Now that is a well dressed course…

Oh look a waiter!

Yeah Faldio did just break wind.

Alicai can smell a rat easily enough…

Don’t for get to steal food off his plate.

Zeon The Empire is EXHAUSTED!

That is one fine cosplay of Countess Alseif…

Finally they decided to give her better facial animation.

You might be Ozma, but she ain’t no Cathy…

Just like everything else, you do catch on slow general…

By the wy my compliments on who ever did your hair, good to see there are areas of competence in the Imperial Army.

Then you should have ditched Karl first…

I knew it! Maxipad only beds menfolk.

Time to move on miss, you chasing a fruit cake was the running gag of the game after all…

Gender reassignment might be possible but the results would ber most unlovely…

I find her smile distrubing…

Alica seems to agree.

Yeah Alicia is here to make sure you don’t get crowned prom queen, especailly with that old man on your arm…

Ah that tank that never fought…well I did have fun turning it into a pile of scrap.

Faldio?

This is pretty creepy…

Yes Gregor does have as many VDs as Blucher…

I like it when she is pissed off.

Don’t worry you were ruined for marriage sometime ago…

Same here.

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