As you may remember i’ve mentioned my Perfect Grade Strike Gundam a bit in some of my posts. This is usualy in reference to another gundam kit or just addons i’ve bought for it. Well about a 2 hours ago I was reposing my guy and stupidly put him on on my 7 foot high book shelf, standing on 1 leg, and went across the other side of my room to gather some parts for him to look his best. Some of you can no doubt tell where this is going. While I was picking out the parts for him to hold, there was a huge SMASH and sound of shattering plastic. Yup. My poor widdle Striker fell off the top of the shelf and smashed onto the floor. Sad face.

However despite all logic telling me that there is no way he could be put together after that, I am amazed that all that was wrong with him was that he lost the white armor parts on his shoulders, his head popped off and 1 of his butt flaps came out. All of which was repaired within 5 minutes with no  traceable damage. You really have to hand it to Bandai’s gundam division. Not only are they able to faithfully recreate the robots in all their 13″ glory, split them into 500 – 900 parts and then give instructions on how to build the damn thing, but they are able to withstand a 7 foot fall onto solid wood flooring and come out with the equivilent of a couple of scratches. And this is with no glue or screws at all. +1 for craftsmanship

Faint red outline is the white part that came off, which I like better without it on. The part with the X105 sticker on it also popped off but that was very easy to just press back on.

My Revoltech Eva-01 found himself a nice seat. Shame S.G’s fingers are all dumb looking. Didn’t notice that. Also didn’t notice that it looks like he is saluting the camera. 

The shoulder flaps make an exellent seat for other figures. Pay no attention to the brown water either, I assure you it’s just the light in the house playing tricks.

Well that title says it all. Spicy Wolf’s second season is coming this summer and I for one can’t wait. This was deffinatly a sleeper series a few seasons ago that never really gained as much attention as it should of. At least that I saw. Naturaly the same VAs will return, with most notably being Ami Koshimizu as sexy wolf god Horo. Just remember though that japanese summer is american winter (if I remember right).

While this post isn’t technicly anime related, it is refering to something extremely anime like and that is the brilliant movie from 2005, Final Fantasy 7 Advent Children. Chances are you’ve seen this, loved it and if you have a blu-ray dvd player maybe even wondered 

“When oh when will this movie come to blu-ray? It is a must!” 

Well put away your petitions because on April 16 the offical japanese blu-ray release of this will take place. If that alone isn’t enough to get you excited then perhaps this little bit of news will. Not only will the movie be in super high definition, but will also come with 20 to 30 minutes of extra footage. Thats a lot of extra awesome. On top of even that however is that the extra scenes will be dubbed into english for the japanese release.  Wether that means the japanese version will come with a total english track and subtitles is still unknown to me personaly but we can hope right?

However if those features don’t strike you as worthy of consideration then perhaps this will. In special copies (that you must no doubt reserve) will come the first demo of Final Fantasy XIII. That is right. The first playable demo of the incredible looking game for the PS3. But that is STILL not all. On top of all this extra stuff are the first trailers to Final Fantasy Versus XIII and Final Fantasy Agito XIII in all their High Def glory. However if all that doesn’t get you excited then there may not be any hope for you. Mabye Hello Kitty Online is more up your alley.

Update: As it turns out the so called announcement was a rather cruel play on words. Due to the rather open nature of the original air date, this only refers to a RERUN of the original anime series. Perhaps when that is completed they will air the continuing series. 

Just a small post to let everyone know that hasn’t already heard. The long overdue and awaited Haruhi season 2 will apparently begin airing in april.  However which april, this or next, is still left open for discussion. The news comes from a comercial for anime mag Newtype, which sports a “TV anime broadcasts commence in April” on the front cover. More will be known and updated on when the mag itself drops on the 10th of february. 

Since the current amount of shows I am following is only around 2 or 3, I thought that mabye there are some of interest to people that have been missed, or not heard of. I’ll try to go by genre to help speed things along.

Action

Claymore – A show that is based around female demon hunters who are themselves half demon. Plenty of action, awesome fight scenes coupled with some very pretty visuals and a nice style to top it all off. As you can see from the picture below when the women use their demon powers their eyes turn yellow and cat like. The more power the use, the closer they become to turning into a demon themselves. Interesting no? If you’re a fan of this genre then this should be the first to check out on your list

Illena, Noel & Sophia fighting Terasa of the Faint Smile; my favorite character

Hellsing Ultimate – Hellsing has had a rather akward past when it comes to its animated version. While the original series was rather… ok… it was just so different from the manga that it never really sat well with me. Even back when I had never read any of the story and the final “villian” was as interchangable as a pair of clean underwear. Hellsing Ultimate fixed this and attempts to follow the manga a tad more closely. By which I mean sticks pretty damn close to (I assume, I only have the first 3 manga) Anyway each new OVA, 2 of which are apparently released each yeah, seems to condense roughly 2 books worth of material so It moves rather fast which is good. Again it has greaty quality, wonderful voice acting (japanese I mean of course) and a very distinct style to it that should be seen by all. Only thing is that it has a fair bit of blood in it so may not be suitable for youngens. 

Rather big visual upgrade from when this was in the first series huh?

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