From episode 58 of Puchimas, the iDOLM@STER gag anime spin-off which, like the Mini-Goddesses, exists in the handy petite size. Not that this was the only example in the show – I actually had two different examples brought to my attention by Calaggie and Peter over on the Twitter ages back, but since I completely forgot to favourite the tweets like a sensible person at the time, I’ve had to go back on trawl the BDs for them. I figured I’d cap the post with this particular example because PiyoPiyo is my favourite underused Puchidol, and also it’s upside-down, which is kind of interesting!

Well, maybe not so much the latter point there.
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This one was brought to my attention by Peter over the Twitters, because I’m doing an absolutely awful job of keeping up with things I should probably be trying to watch this season. Turns out it was a pretty bad weekend to take off to make a terrible, and terribly broken, game about hugging for Molyjam, as when Monday rolled around I discovered that there were eleventy billion things to be watching and, honestly, I’m hardly even managing to keep track of what is and isn’t actually streaming on Crunchy at the moment. Whoops.

So this is presented without any kind of content relating to context or even the show, because, frankly, all I know about it right now comes from that gag comic edit with the samurai complaining about the apparent heteronormality of it all that was doing the rounds a couple of days back.

From episode 15 of Little Busters, though I gather it frequently appears as a makeshift table in prior episodes. I think the fact that the show has been airing for over three months now and the first that I’d actually heard about it was when I spotted it in a random picture in my Twitter feed this morning probably speaks volume about this show. Well, at least speaks volumes about how few damns people give about it.

The show did just get picked up on Crunchyroll, who’ve decided to start at the half-way point and run catch-up on the earlier episodes at a later date. Arguments about rewarding piracy and penalizing the law-abiding aside, I would like to praise it as being a rare example of realistic thinking within this industry – as far as these things go, the people who’d be willing to start the show at the beginning at this point will still likely be willing to do so some weeks or months from now, but those who’re watching the show in “realtime”… not so much. In a world where things don’t magically translate themselves, it’s the logical move if you want people to actually watch your stream instead of choosing alternative methods.

But… yeah, no-one seems to particularly give a damn about Little Busters anyway. At least the OP and ED are catchy, I guess.

Because clearly the thing to be doing when people are making fun of (an admittedly entirely dumb) feature on the internet is to go at it with renewed aplomb.

Saying that, I actually uploaded this image six months ago and promptly forgot about it, meaning that I’ve absolutely no idea what I was going to write about Yurunmates at this point. Ho-hum.

From the second episode of Tamako Market, first brought to my attention by Calaggie on Twitter, who runs the almost-as-odd-as-this-feature Anime Tokei tumblr. Not that it’s particularly hard to miss it in this particular case, but credit where credit is due and all that.

I’d been expecting a Mikan Box to show up in the show at some point given it’s setting – I mean, a shopping district is inevitably going to have a produce store of some kind – but this isn’t really the context that I’d been expecting it to turn up in, used as a perch for an overweight talking bird. Now that one has turned up, though, I can stop paying way too much attention to what’s going on in the background.
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