It’s time for vacation preparations… and Izumi gets sick. Enter the Super Nurse, err, I mean, Kemeko-sensei.

This was another single chapter episode filled with Kemeko’s antics (what I was missing last episode), referrences (many of which I surely didn’t get), cosplay, Izumi’s boobies and plenty of Pripprin Excercise (BTW ~LA Version~ was awesome, plz2include on Dec 26 OST)! Seriously, I have no words to describe Chiwa Saito’s pure awesomeness in this episode - she even gets to do her cute Paya-tan voice. Orite, there’s more Saeko Chiba recycling, too - it’s her 4th character that I remember, the others being Aoi, sensei and one of Tama’s friends in ep2. Wonder if I missed any? Obviously she also voices Dokuro’s cameo. It makes me giggle.

For a major part of the episode I kept wondering where I have seen this outfit Sanpeita was wearing… just as I was about to give up I thought how gay he looked and it hit me - ESPOILERVSPOILERASPOILER #9. I sure laughed hard.

Official site updated with trailer and subsection for movie 6. Quite different from the other trailers, huh? xD

There’s more after the jump~

Complete details for the single are available and the song grew on me so I’m mentioning it. I still think it’s not very fitting for Higurashi, though. ^^ The song is the opening theme to the 2nd Higurashi DS game. December 3, 2008 release.

「 プレイス・オブ・ピリオド 」 Place of Period   Mio Isayama 2008.12.03 : FVCG-1061

Episode 7 of Gundam 00 2nd will feature a Tommy heavenly6 insert song titled 「Unlimited Sky」. CD release not yet announced.

What is announced, though (slowpoke.jpg), is more Kenji Kawai, yay. :D Gundam 00 ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK 03 is getting released on December 24, 2008 with VTCL-60088 cat. number.

New single announced through official Kalafina and Kara no Kyoukai sites! The announcement doesn’t say if the 2nd track on this single is the theme for movie 7 but well… it probably is if we go by the previous singles and if it’s not confirmed to be unrelated to KnK on Kajiura’s blog - more power to them, more Kalafina to come later, lol. Maya is not part of Kalafina anymore it seems (or at least for this single). :/ December 24, 2008 release.

Now to wait for that official Kalafina website update…

「 fairytale 」   Kalafina 2008.12.24 : SECL-735 / SECL-733-34 (with DVD)

For the lulz, USO DA. Posted by Blue-kun.

I was rewatching parts of it and just had this thought…

Is this supposed to be Yamaguchi from Gokusen? xD Didn’t really occur to me earlier (in the manga I just thought it was some generic pun), but with the audio it sure seems like Yamaguchi…

Chapters 8-9 fully covered. If it’s a single season show, chapter 17 would be a good place to stop from what I’ve seen… But back to this week’s episode.

Hmm… where to start… I guess with a disclaimer that the new character names are all my romanizations, I’ve no clue on the official versions. Kay, we got that out of the way, let’s move onto said new characters - the first Mishima baddies.

Vanilla M. (Make) Repairs (ヴァニラ・M（メイク）・リペアーズ) looks pretty good, but not as hot as I would like - I think it’s the face shape and blue hair, which was more metallic in the manga art. I’m also not sold on Sheryl Nome voicing her… On the other hand I absolutely love how Kite B. (Bryan) Sounds (カイト・B（ブライアン）・サウンズ) turned out in the anime, great job there. Kiriko and Mitsuishi Kotono didn’t get much time to shine, but they did the job perfectly fine as Kemeko’s opposite.

Kemeko’s opposite… and here I think lies my problem with the 2nd half of this episode - Kiriko, Vanilla and Kite are all rather calm characters, which didn’t exactly make things exciting. This further proves that “Kemeko Deluxe!” is indeed Kemeko’s (and Chiwa Saito’s) show - whenever she’s on screen - be it the Ninja or Snail Kemeko - it succeeds. Orite, the little fight between Kemeko and Ryoko was also better than anything in episode 3. :D

And here’s the full Vanilla pic. There’s more after the jump~

I suppose I could’ve included the PV comments here, lol. Decent song, weak video (watch at JVC’s site). December 3, 2008 release.

「 Prototype 」   Chiaki Ishikawa 2008.12.03 : VTCL-35055

Yay slowpoke.jpg news!

Slayers Evolution-R site up. Confirms January airdate, staff, cast & February 4, 2009 OP/ED single release.

Chiaki Ishikawa’s Prototype PV is also available at JVC’s site. Decent song, weak video. Also by trying to make Chiaki look young they made her look old (assuming it’s not the QUALITY videos fault). Single is getting released on December 3, 2008.