From episode… well, Mr Shillito didn’t mention which when he submitted it over the Twitters, but I’m presuming it’s one of the later ones.

In a curious twist of timing, NISA announced that they’ve picked up the US license for the show, even if it won’t likely see the light of day until next year. I would say it was the most surprising license of the AnimExpo weekend, but I can’t really say I expected anyone to pick up Ro-Kyu-Bu of all things (or Loups-Garous given the complete lack of positive things I’ve read about both the book and the anime). Still, it’s a Go Negai property that isn’t exactly rife with the super-robots or hyper-violence that Negai tends to be known for in the West, which I guess makes it a curious pick up if nothing else.

“Supplementary” because it’s not from an anime or manga (or game), rather it’s from the dreaded Real Life. Not that this particular Cat-based money box is much of a rarity – they were a moderately common sight on UK high-streets over the Christmas period, and they’ve been the Crunchyroll daily deal on more than one occasion. What is perhaps more shocking than seeing them is the fact that I don’t actually own one.

This particular example was spotted at the May London MCM Expo, the a-few-times-annually-in-various-places UK comic convention, which for the most part is just an excuse to buy ludicrous amounts of stuff, cosplay, or both. Actually, as a first-time attendee, the cosplay was initially a little overwhelming – it’s not like I’ve never seen people cosplaying IRL before, but being an early-attender, I was getting to the ExCeL at the point where a good 60-70% of the attendees where dressed up, and that was kind of boggling to me (even when being “dressed up” amounts to simply throwing on one of those Naruto Akatsuki capes). Not that I have a problem with cosplay, mind you – although I may not be inclined to say any differently if I did. At these con situations, they not only outnumber you, they have weapons. Not a good mix, really.
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Hey, it’s another submission from the Twitters! Who’da thunk that the secret to actually getting people to submit these things was to have an obvious way for people to contact you? (I’m guessing… everyone?)

Anyway, this one came in from Monsieur Shillito, and is from the second episode of Hoshizora e Kakaru Hashi. That title took me at least three attempts to type correctly, which probably means that I should have just stuck to Crunchyroll-speak and called it A Bridge to the Starry Skies. Sounds like a pretty inconvenient structure to build to me!

Yeah, I’ve got nothing on this show, it being one of the shows up on Crunchy that I’ve yet to subject myself to.

This one came in from 21cDigitalboy via the Twitters, taken from the second episode of Ao no Exorcist. Well, at least I’m assuming it’s from Ao no Exorcists second episode, as I’m entirely trusting that he didn’t monkey around with the file name in an attempt to befuddle me into looking silly (which, truth told, isn’t the most difficult of operations to successfully execute).

Still, I think this must be the first sighting of the season, and it’s not from one of the shows I’d have thought, but then that always seems to be the case…

Heeeeeeaaaaaaartcatch! Pu-ri-kyu-ah! Alright!

*Ahem*

This is coming from an unexpected place, given that the movie is predominantly set in the French capital, but there is indeed a Mikan Box in the Heartcatch Precure movie. Surprise Mikan Box are the best kind.
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