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I suppose this would be a good opportunity to dazzle everyone with some insightful commentary about anime, but I’m too tired to come up with anything decent so you’ll have to settle for a trite observation I made while watching Suzuka. It’s interesting how the spelling of a sign goes from ONRY to WEEKKLY.   …

Even though I’ve seen Birdy the Mighty a few times, I didn’t notice until recently that two of the posters (bottom left) in Senkawa Tsutomu’s room are of Izumi Noa from Patlabor. More specifically, they’re illustrations by Takada Akemi who worked on the TV series. If you didn’t already know, Yuuki Masami is the artist…

A swirl on an index finger or thumb is a common sight in anime, but one on Monica’s foot in Yakitate!! Japan was a curious sight indeed…    Sorting through my screen caps of Kaleido Star, I found quite a few interesting things. First, the poster for “The Mermaid” seemed odd. Since it’s a bit…

The first pic on the left comes from Gad Guard and the next one is from Speed Grapher. I’ve mentioned a link between these two series before, but I overlooked the use of “Sunday” so I thought I’d mention it here.          The third picture is also from Gad Guard, but the fourth…

Capeta is a show about racing with music by avex, so I wasn’t surprised to see a cameo of the AE-86 from Initial D followed by its support van. Takumi should hop in a Go Kart and teach Capeta some downhill racing skills…    Kaleido Star takes place in a town called Cape Mary, but…

At first, I thought that the target audience of Fancy Lala was simply that of young girls who were mostly ignorant of older pop-culture, but certain things appeared that made me change my mind.          While references to Bruce Lee are common in shoujo manga and anime, I was surprised to see Das…

Tama-nee ftw!

As I was watching Tsukuyomi ~Moon Phase~, I wondered what exactly they were trying to do with that show. It seemed serious enough, but the frequent occurance of strange things threw the mood off. I suppose they really weren’t trying to be that serious given all of the falling pots, wash basins, and abundance of…

I mentioned ARIA The ANIMATION in the previous update to point out a spatula, but I forgot to talk about the mysterious disappearance and reappearance of several of the items in subsequent frames.    I suppose I could point out the differences, but I leave that as an exercise for you to test your observational…