The next day at school, even though the biggest thing that could ever happen to a shoujo heroine happened to Nana, Yano acts like nothing has happened. However, her classmates have heard all about it and decide that she has got some 'splaining to do. All is not bad as Yano asks her out on a date. After much consideration of time, they decide to go see a movie. The excitement wears her out so that she falls asleep until well after school has ended. Yano comes in soon and they head out on their date. Yano is super-calm, but Nana is anything but. She quickly becomes absorbed in the movie that she's unable to read the signs that Yano wants to hold hands. She notices suddenly and gradually begins to inch her hand over to his until they're happily holding hands.

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Mojo after attacking a fruit store discovers the guy who treated him cruely in the zoo (flashing back to the events right before he transformed) and discusses plans to exact revenge on him and other humans by making a human zoo. However, his plans are foiled thanks to the Powerpuff Girls coming to the rescue.

In the second half, Mojo wrecks havoc when he gets his hands on some of the newly invented spider shoes that allow construction workers to freely walk around on building sites with no worries about wind or falling. However with the shoes, Mojo is made unstoppable by the girls, but thanks to some quick thinking, Mojo is quickly dusted.

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I didn't realise that this single was already out... But anyway, here's the lyrics!

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It's been a long strange ride with NANA... Or at least it has felt like it. After a long string of mediocricy in the anime (with all the re-capping and then backtracking, it's really nice to be getting into the real meat of the series (Hachi's life post-Sachiko, more about Nana's life outside of Blast) finally. Hachi finally finds out about Ren and Nana. All that stuff Nana's been talking about (her "Ren" flower tattoo, wanting Shin to surpass Ren) has finally clicked with Hachi. Also, it's interesting to note Nana switching her brand of cigarettes which becomes more evident in later chapters.

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After a bit of story and backstory and liking each other, but not liking each other, the ultimate shoujo moment happens: they kiss. Yano confessed his love for Nana after the cultural festival and they kissed. Of course, you know from the beginning they're going to end up together but there's just something special about that first kiss in a shoujo series. And then after that, the next precious scene is of course the first time (which shall prove to be very very silly when it gets to that point in the anime). Look forward to it my friends!

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[Due to a possible disruption in Internet access, I will be doing opinions only instead of summaries for anime until further notice]

A nice slow-paced episode with mostly Kyoya. It's nice to see him more relaxed and a little less cool and calculating (although the other side of him is evil and just plain evil). The funniest moment was perhaps the your-mom's-looking-for-you-in-Wal-Mart moment (you know where they call your name over the intercom) however, they did more than call a name. They gave a full discription so all eyes were on Kyoya

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The Nintendo DS Browser (by Opera) is now available for sale in Japan. However, there'll be no pictures of Akiba queuing outside of stores early in the morning as all unts will be sold online by Nintendo and various retailers for īŋĨ3300. For a hefty $50US, you can order your copy from various import retailers such as Play-Asia and Lik Sang for those of us living outside of Japan.

The Nintendo DS Browser is designed to work very similarly to the full Opera for desktop computers just as Opera mini (for cellphones) and Opera for Devices (for PDAs, smartphones, etc) work allowing you to view most webpages in almost full glory on a smaller screen. The browser supports everything you need to quickly look up a recipe or participate actively on a message board. However, the browser (due to power/memory restrictions) will not do flash, movies, sound, or PDF, nor will you be able to save files or webpages or anything you would normally do browsing the internet on a computer or PDA.

For those of you who already have the browser or will be getting it soon, you can feel free to browse my site in a format specially suited for the Nintendo DS Browser. Just click on the DS logo to the right and you'll be taken right away!

[For more information see Opera for Nintendo]

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The girls quickly discover that Ken doesn't have a mother so the girls take it upon themselves to become his mother with each of them waking him up in the morning and then screwing up some type of motherly duty. Momoko adds too much soap to the wash, Miyako takes too long making her homemade hamburger steak and Kaoru runs him to death. All of them drive him crazy.

Elsewhere, Mojo is watching a sappy love drama and he gets upset seeing the happy family so he sets out to make life miserable for all the happy families he sees and going as far as turning them into monkeys. Ken meanwhile is walking around town and looking at the happy family, he gets upset and kicks a rock which accidentally hits Mojo. He gets mad and turns him into a monkey as well. The girls are made aware of the situation after a large population of the people in Tokyo City have been turned into monkeys and they transform to save the day. They arrive on the scene and don't realise that Ken has been turned into a monkey made to do Mojo's deeds until Peach realises that's him. Then the girls turn up the heat now knowing that Mojo has harmed their precious son and they send him flying. In the end, the Momoko decides it's useless to try to be his mom, but they'll be his sisters instead. Because Momoko decided to make this decision, they get into an argument wondering how she got to be leader.

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The idol group (think Morning Musume) creation arcade game is now hitting home consoles with The Idol M@aster for the XBOX360. Build relationships with one of 10 young girls. Add vocal training, dance lessons, and two other companions and you will be able to pimp out your own idol group. The best part of the game is possibly the ability to dress them up in all sorts of frilly little outfits Back when the arcade version came out, I said that I would just HAVE to buy the home version. Well, it looks like I need a 360 then

(via GAME Watch)

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Blast has their first official live. Initially, there's no interest except for Hachi and Misato, one of Nana's fans from her hometown. She quickly begins talking up the band and people start coming towards the stage. The performance begins and the crowd is captivated and Hachi begins to see what's so amazing about Nana and Blast. Afterwards, the band, Hachi and Misato return to 707 for a party. Nana bonds with Misato while pushing Hachi to the side. She just figures it's just temporary, but after having her heart broken, she feels loneliness. The next morning, Hachi finds a note from Nana saying that she went to a themepark with Misato. Hachi decides to just shop away her day. However, her feeling of loneliness doesn't subside as she sees couples out everywhere. The thing she sees that most surprises her is an appearance by Sachiko shopping for groceries. Unable to take the torture, she runs back home only to find Nana and Misato happy from a day out. She explodes at both of them and Nana is shocked.

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People in Japan are lining up for the new Noble Pink DS lite! Not just women, but men too. Looks like this week will be another high week for the DS.

(Picture source Neo-GAF poster Jonnyram [source thread])

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Beginning today, you can have yourself a lovely Noble Pink DS lite... That is if you're in Japan... and that's also if you can find one. The other colors have proven so popular that they just can't keep them on the shelves in Japan so we'll see later on today if pink is as big of a hit as the others or its Candy Pink original DS counterpart. Buy one for the Neko in your life!

Buy from Lik Sang $199US
Buy from Play Asia $199.90US
Buy from National Console Support $209US

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It's summer vacation and Nana is a bit sad that she can't see Yano. When she goes to school to practice, Yano isn't there and Takeuchi shows her a message saying that he can't come because he has something important to do and she takes this as him flaking out. Back at home, Nana gets a call from her friend asking if she wants to go to the festival. She agrees sheepishly until she reveals that Yano mis gonna be there. Then she quickly gets up and goes looking for a yukata. However, Yano doesn't show up, but her friends are there telling her how cute and perfect she looks. She ends up going through the activities of the festival as usual. During the fireworks, it's revealed to Nana by Takeuchi that Yano hasn't been around because it's the anniversary of the other Nana's death. So the next day, she pays a visit to his house and they look through some pictures together and Nana's surprised he has not a single picture of his former girlfriend. Before leaving, Nana lets him know that even though the person who he really loved is no longer around, there is someone who does really really like him and that he's always looking after him.

The next day, he shows up at school for practice and the two of them end up tryin on happi, Nana a red on, and Yano a white one. He says that she looks good in red, just like her Yukata. She wonders how he knew and she shows a picture on his cellphone that Takeuchi sent to him. He reveals that he wished he could have gone. He leans in on her and requests a hug and she agrees.

The next part is mostly a flashback about Yano's relationship with the other Nana beginning with when they met in the form of Yano's dream. They hooked up together while she was still dating someone else and she was still seeing him even though she and Yano were together. During their time together, Yano often notices bruises on her body. She tries to just ignore them, but Yano wants her to stop dating him. Then suddenly one summer day, he gets a phone call telling him that she died. In the real world, Yano wakes up and wonders why no one woke him and Nana says he looks like he was having a good dream.

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This episode begins where the last one left off. Arai-kun has come by the place where Haruhi is working to deliver groceries and they are very surprised to see each other. The other members of the host club gather around Arai and Haruhi as they catch up (they went to jr high together) except for the twins, they sat to the side obviously seeping with envy. With the memories flowing back, Arai reveals that he asked Haruhi out shortly before she left for Ouran, but she misunderstood it and she really just realised it and went in shock with the rest of the guys and she appologizes for the mistake. They continue talking about the past and Hikaru simply can't take it anymore and basically says that he doesn't care about any of her old friends. Haruhi didn't take it lightly and promptly went over to slap him. Angry, he explodes saying that the only people who can be friends with her are him and the rest of the host club and he storms off to his room and Kaoru follows him to scold him.

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So the girls have taken Buttercup back to the lab and of course, she's super-upset about the whole skirt thing, but everyone just says that it's stylish and looks good on her. Then the professor shoots her with the detransformation beam and she is beyond happy to be in her normal clothes. Kaoru is confused about the whole Powerpuff thing and Momoko and Miyako quickly explain what they do. Kaoru suddenly reflects on transforming into Buttercup and gets frustrated over the whole skirt thing and she doesn't want to be a Powerpuff Girl because of it. Miyako calls out her name and she's curious how she knows her name. Turns out, they go to the same school and they quickly try to all be friends. Then the Mayor comes up to the girls and they shock him by not knowing who he is (they think of him in several jobs) and then he introduces himself explaining that he wants their help in protecting Tokyo City. Momoko and Miyako agree, but Kaoru flat-out insults the Mayor and refuses and tries to run away. However, Peach triggers their transformation and they all transform spontaneously. Again, Buttercup is upset about the skirt because it makes her look like a woman, but Bubbles quickly points out that she is a girl afterall. Buttercup quickly catches on that Peach triggered the transformation and she chases after him destroying everything in her path. The only thing that stops her is a sheet held by Blossom and Buttercup and she slams into a supercomputer. After dusting herself off, she realises that she has amazing powers even though she's dressed like a girl and then she agrees to be a Powerpuff Girl. Then Miss Bellum presents the rules: You must keep your identity as a PPG [that's a FREAKIN' LONG word!] a secret, do not break the laboratory, and do not fight. However, the girls have their own rules. Blossom thinks that she should eat snacks in the lab as she pleases, Bubbles thinks she should read fashion mags as she pleases, and Buttercup of course thinks she should watch the sports channel as she pleases.

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Instead of going home, Nana and Hachi wait for Shoji to finish with work since Shoji had to talk with her. Inside, Shoji and Sachiko are feeling very guilty and Shoji tells her that he's breaking up with his girlfriend which causes her to run out. He quickly chases after her and outside, Hachi and Nana hear the door open and figure it's him, but it's just Sachiko. Then they hear him call out Sachiko's name. He grabs her and tries hugging her, but she pushes away and tries to run away, but she is stopped when she confronts Hachi. Hachi then recognizes her from the restaurant and gets shocked. Nana asks who this chick is and Shoji boldly calls her his girlfriend which upsets Nana. Meanwhile, Hachi is in disbelief. Nana decided to take things into her hands and pummel Shoji, but Sachiko gets in the way telling her she's the one she should be angry at. Nana decides to back off and tells Hachi to fight for her man, but she refuses to do anything but cry saying she doesn't want him anymore and Nana takes her home. That night, Nana slept with Hachi and held her as she slept.

The next day, Hachi stayed in bed all day. listening to Tranest. She briefly imagined Shoji with her, but she quickly woke up to see it was her imagination. Then the doorbell rang and she went to answer it and it was Ren from Tranest, but quickly, it was revealed that it was only a dream. But then the bell really rings scaring Hachi. It's Jun and she was worried about Hachi. She doesn't hesitate in revealing that she knew about Shoji cheating and blaming her for the breakup which upsets Hachi. Jun steps back for a second and realises that because they're both friends, it's hard for her to take sides, but then she calmly stated that the relationship was in trouble from the start anyway. She leaves her there until Nana returns with dinner, but her only concern is about not having had prepared dinner for Nana. With Nana's return is a letter from home and she quickly discovers that it's the tickets to the Tranest concert she was waiting for tickets for. Front row seats! However, the news isn't all that exciting to Nana.

Possibly one of the best stories from the manga... It took them long enough to get to this point...

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It's the beginning of summer vacation and Tamaki is worried about where his poor daughter is so he calls up everybody to try to find her. The twins suggest calling her cellphone, but Tamaki gets upset saying she doesn't even have one. He contemplates that they couldn't pay rent and Haruhi's in trouble. However, Kyoya being the melting pot of knowledge he is informs everyone that she's in Karuizawa at this resort-y bed and breakfast-type lodging working. The club quickly makes arangement to arrive by helicopter which of course frustrates Haruhi.

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At school, as normal almost, there's rumors floating around about Yano's past and the class is passing around a yearbook from the jr. high he went to. Nana initially doesn't want to pry and when Yano comes in, she tries to distract him from seeing the yearbook. Later on when the class is empty, she decides to look at the yearbook out of curiosity so she could see his girlfriend. However, he walks in and she decides not to look. However, he looks himself and shows Nana what she wants to see. After seeing what a beautiful girl she was, Nana tells Yano that she might like him and he bluntly asks her to go out with him. She's instantly shocked at his reply and asks if he really likes her. However, he turns the statement around making for some confusing conversations.

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This episode is one episode divided in two that introduces Bubbles. In the first half, Ken and the professor have kidnapped Blossom and want to examine her so they can return her to normal. After a bit of complaining, they begin explaining what happened to her and she begins to understand a few of the events that have taken place including the weird white light and the animals being released. She seems pissed off, but frankly, she's happy being a transforming heroine so she doesn't have to be tied down and Ken quickly unties her. Immediately, Peach finds a friend and off in the distance, Bubbles is bouncing around. Blossom takes a closer look and wonders if she's a rival, enemy or friend, but it's an ally rather. Meanwhile, Bubbles comes upon Mojo and literally walks all over him without a single thought. He repeatedly tries to attack her, but she's just being so carefree that he can't lay a finger on her. Blossom and the others come upon Bubbles and Mojo and lands on top of the van spilling all his candy out - some of which is hers. After having a gathering match, he runs off and she chases him. Bubbles is amazed to see someone skipping like her and follows Blossom and Mojo until they stop. Bubbles just sees him as a plaything, but Blossom lets her know to her (and his) surprise that he is a bad monkey and they should fight him. They team together and knock him unconcious. The Mayor's van comes up and picks up Mojo so they can examine him. Meanwhile, Buttercup is running around with a cold all because of her skirt.

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Ryosuke and Shoji meet for ramen and Shoji slyly asks if he's ever cheated and Ryosuke sees right through him and figures that he did cheat on Hachi with Sachiko. Shoji tries to rationalize his actions by finding if there was even the smallest moment in which Ryosuke wanted to cheat on Jun. However, he just states that Jun is the love of his life and walks out. Hachi's got her new job, but it's not nearly as great as she'd hope since her superior is always on her case as she illustrates to Shoji while they're out to eat. However, he doesn't say much and Hachi feels like they're really drifting apart and she has no idea why. All of the stress she's feeling is taking its toll on her, but when she comes home, she's met by Nana's megawatt smile and she reveals that they're going to have their first real concert soon and they celebrate.

Meanwhile, Shoji and Sachiko are getting chummy at her place and Hachi calls. Sachiko exits the room to let them talk. Hachi invites him to Blast's performance, but he turns down the invite. Immediately after, he goes out to the balcony and hugs Sachiko. The next day, Ryosuke drops the bomb to Jun letting her know that Shoji did indeed cheat on Hachi. She's in disbelief, but he explains that it really is so even though Shoji's not the cheating type. Jun asks if Hachi knows, but Ryosuke says that she doesn't and she wonders if it would be possible for Shoji to just have the fling and keep it from him, but he's not really covering things up. Jun calls Hachi and tries to tell her, but the timing is inconvenient so she ends up covering for Shoji instead.

Later on, Hachi and Blast appear at Shoji's restaurant by surprise and Sachiko comes across Hachi for the first time and she's scared to shakes. She runs out and tells Shoji that they should end it because he already has a wonderful girlfriend and that he shouldn't be hurting her. However, he's quite upset by this. He goes back to work and informs Hachi that he wants to talk to her after work. Hachi says that if Nana weren't there, she would have certainly killed herself.

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The newspaper club is in danger of closing because no one cares anything for the newspaper, mainly because it's full of gossip. However, the host club's magazines have been hit sellers schoolwide. So, they get the idea to do a story on the host club. Tamaki thinks that they should be sure to show off how much fun the club has, but little does he know that they have plans to try to expose Tamaki (however, everyone else sees clearly). In reality, there's nothing to expose on Tamaki and the rest of the club defends him recalling the times when they were all befriended by Tamaki. The newspaper club president decides to ruin all of the host club members, but thanks to some quick thinking (and a hidden MD recorder) Kyoya saved this from happening and also made the newspaper club turn around and begin printing truthful articles.

This was mainly a Tamaki episode and we learn a few things about him. One of the most touching parts is of his childhood. He never had any friends his age because his mother was sickly and he was always staying by her side playing the piano, so now that he's older, he's enjoying his childhood now. Also, through Kyoya, Haruhi realises that the reason that she's at the school is because of Tamaki's family which was of great shock to her.

While a whole lot of people consider these types of episodes to be boring or not as good as the others, I dearly enjoy episodes like this that are like a window into these characters. Also, it's moments like this that make me love Tamaki even more. Sure he's annoying and is also used a lot for comic relief, he's probably the most honest, pure-hearted, and endearing character of all of them although he's not always as level-headed as Kyoya.

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Once again, I'm late and backlogged and trying to navigate new anime and old anime and just being plain lazy Here's the last week (not this current just past week) in anime!

Ouran High School Host Club 13



This episode flashes back to when Haruhi first came to Ouran to register, but tells it as if it were Alice in Wonderland. All the recurring characters make appearances (as well as one-hit characters) as different characters from the story. All of them try to tell Haruhi that there's more to life than studying and that she should enjoy her time at Ouran with the new friends she has. The most surprising of the characters that shows up is her own mother as the queen. She almost embraces her, but is awakened by the host club all dressed up as characters from Alice in Wonderland hinting to the manga chapter this ep takes from.

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In celebration of the Nintendo DS Browser coming out later this month, I've made a special version of my website for the pint-sized browser that'll rest at http://nekokoneko.aulddragon.com/ds.

You can check out a preview here. Be aware that it's not quite ready, but in they days before the release, the page ought to be ready to go. And after I get my own copy (or someone with a copy views the site), I'll make neccessary tweaks to the site. Enjoy!

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Bokura ga Ita has begun! There's not a very big fanbase for this show, so I'm very happy to see an anime for this show. Judging by the pace (episode 1 covered chapters 1 and 2 of the manga) it'll go through the current manga offerings quite quickly



The OP is a cute arrangement of almost still images of Nana and Yano's simple lovey-doveyness (in case you haven't guessed, they do end up together... the OP spoils any curiosity you may have :D)

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It was announced today at Anime Expo 2006 that TRSI has licensed the second half of Super GALS! Kotobuki Ran which is quite possibly one of my top favourite anime series ever. It has recieved very little support in both the US and Japan (the second half of the series isn't even available for home viewing in Japan), but now it will be released on R1 DVD in a lovely boxset only from TRSI and not in stores. Be one of the first 600 to preorder and your name will be listed in the Special Thanks section Also, if you preorder now before November 20, you'll get 25% off the retail price of

TRSI's Super GALS! page
Preorder now from TRSI

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It's finally here! The once rumored, the once thought of as an April Fool's joke Demashitaa! Powerpuff Girls Z! As expected the cuteness level is sky high. However, the show feels so much like Doremi especially from the transformation scenes.



Like the original, each episode is divided into 2 15-minute episodes. Enjoy~

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