Those who were hoping that the DVD with Azusa on the cover might actually have an Azusa themed omake will be sorely disappointed with this latest DVD. Those, like myself, who were disappointed with the craptacular Futami twins omake on the last disk will no doubt take a great amount of solace in the fact that this disks Chihaya and Yukiho centric featurette quite possibly has more cuts than all the previous omake put together (including some actual animation!) – a number of which break the decency levels I hold this blog to.
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This is very much one of those posts I’m doing simply because I’ve posted about every other volume, and the next disk is due soon (along with the far more exciting first episode of S.ifr). The omake – a discussion between the twins – isn’t really all that interesting, nor does it have any images worth capturing – there only three or four new images (not all entirely static – one’s an elevator shot). It really isn’t worth expending the effort required to re-watch carefully enough to accurately talk about.

The FP bonus is a continuation of that from the previous volume. It’s probably just as well that the actual episodes on the DVD are 18 through 20, the shit-meet-fan episodes. Kudos to Sunrise for not putting them on the cour boundary with this show like they normally do, though they did end up frustrating a lot of viewers as a result.

Screencap taken purely because it reminded me of Hinanos post the other day. Her parfait lacked the cake and pocky, though, which is probably just as well.

The ads on the DVD has the advert for the Kodomo no Jikan DVDs, which, yes, does make a big issue of the whole “no” removal thing ^^;

Oh, and only two weeks until Live For You! Yay! There was a new trailer with a couple of short clips of the OAV out a couple of days ago if you’ve not seen it yet.

The hypocrisy involved in me posting about this show the day after I complained about how by-the-numbers the Winter anime season looks is not lost on me.

Not that I’m going to let that stop me.
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Hey, I’m being relatively prompt this time! Huzzah!

Anyway, this volume covers episodes twelve through fourteen. For any other 26-episode Sunrise show, this would be the volume where the brown stuff hits the twirly thing. For Xenoglossia, it’s the series of episodes that consistently make you think something really dramatic is just about to happen but, ultimately, doesn’t really.
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It would appear that, once again, I’ve left this until after the fifth DVD has actually been released. That said, my copy has been held up from shipping due to having been ordered with Baccano! volume 2, though now will probably be held up thanks to some bastard having somehow stolen my credit card details ^^;

Ho-hum.
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