I almost thought I was cheating with this one for a while, mainly because it took me a while to fathom what the 有田 part of the equation was. My dictionary was mostly throwing out pottery, which didn’t seem quite right.

Of course, that’s mostly because I have a habit of forgetting that Japanese tends to be read right-to-left when written vertically, and as such it’s actually “Arita Mikan”, Arita referring to the local in which the mikan in question were farmed. I should really bare in mind that dictionaries don’t generally list place names, but frankly, at this point I should really know better.
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It’s not really a show from which I’d have expected it, but given it’s been a while I’m not going to complain when what’s probably my favourite show at the moment throws a bone in my direction. It’s kind of like the cherry on the top of a delicious tsundere pudding, or some equally as stupid and nonsensical metaphor.

(On a largely unrelated note, the English dub of Pretty Cure started airing on some obscure UK satellite channel today. Errr, yeah…. can’t say I’m likely to discover whether or not the mikan box still appears in that version, if you catch my drift, if only because the English OP is kind of excruciating. I’m sure the lyrics are about as terrible as they were in Japanese, but when you don’t have to struggle to understand them, it’s really painful to listen to ^^;)

Courtesy of Author, taken from, errr, Mitsudomoe, right? I assume the fifth episode, given he just posted about it.

I’ve not seen the show, at least not as of yet, so I don’t have anything further to add on the matter. I suppose whilst I’m on the subject of Mikan Boxes, I have to admit I was a little disappointed that there wasn’t one amongst the many, many boxes of stuff being shifted between houses in the third episode of Asobi ni Ikuyo. Poor form, guys, poor form!

From the third instalment of the current OAD series, appearing exactly where it did in the manga. Who’da thunk it?

One has to wonder whatever happened to that Negima movie they announced a while back. Suppose it wasn’t due until next year, so maybe we’ll hear something around about the time this OAD series wraps up (how many episodes was it supposed to be, anyway? I know there’s a fourth due in a couple of months, at least).

I’d be surprised at the show I’d spotted this in, but it’s not as if Slayers has ever shied away from anachronisms in it’s content.

Actually, what makes this mikan box significant is that it (hopefully, having not seen the show previously) marks the disappearance of Nama from the series. Seriously, if anyone had told me before hand that they’d find a way to make me like Naga less, I’d have had a really hard time believing them. It turns out that making her an amnesiac suit of magical armour did the trick.