Evidently, these posts are somewhat like buses – you wait four months for one, then a bunch of them come along at once. Although I guess they aren’t really like buses in so much as it’s rather kind of unlikely that you’d actually wait four months for a bus, and, quite certainly, no-one was actually itching for me to make a Mikan Watch post (I think someone on the Something Awful forums put it best when they exclaimed “Why on Earth would someone spend their time doing that!?”).

(Does the Bus joke actually translate outside of Blighty, or are people just wondering what on Earth I’m going on about here more that usual?)

But, yeah, Motto Marutto Railgun (or MMR for short) – it’s the Index-tan styled gag featurette shipping with the Railgun DVDs and Blu-Rays. I suppose I’ll be throwing together a post on the Railgun release at some point, so I’ll hold off on discussing if for now, but rest assured there’s a Mikan Box in Komoe’s apartment. I’m pretty sure it’s there in Index as well, come to think of it.

Not that it’s particularly clear. I’m pretty sure it say’s Mikan, at least…

Crumbs, it’s been a while since I’ve posted one of these. By which I mean a Mikan Watch post, the last of which was way back in September last year, rather than a post in general, which a good couple of weeks ago now. Blame videogames, I guess – I hammered my way through Mass Effect 2, then the Japanese release of Ar Tonelico 3 (hey, it’s probably more legible than the NIS’ English release of AT2 ^^;) over the last couple of weeks, which leaves precious little time for consuming media of a bloggable nature. Except, you know, reading Spice and Wolf and Paprika and watching the second half of Bamboo Blade and watching the first season of, err, Spice and Wolf. Nothing that had me particularly itching to blog, though.

But, anyway, back to point – My-HiME, Mikan Box, episode six. That’s the big Midori episode with the wedding at Shiho’s shrine, for those who can’t remember as far back as 2004. Seriously, this shows six years old already? Well, five, technically, since it started at the end of a year, but time surely does fly.

When it comes to bringing the goods, as it were, I knew that Sgt. Frog wouldn’t disappoint, and indeed it didn’t disappoint in not disappointing – we have our first Mikan Box before we reach the halfway point of the first episode, and, indeed, there’s a second in the very same scene.

Funimations release of Sgt. Frog has been a little controversial, at least as far as the shows dub goes – it kind of eschews such silly concepts as consistent characterisation and faithfulness to the original work in order to cram some kind of joke into every single line of dialogue, be it toilet humour or an extended reference to The Dark Knight. It’s pretty tone changing.

This probably won’t do much for my nerd credentials, but it’s not like I can particularly blame them – I presume that they were trying to sell this to some TV network or other, but much of Sgt. Frog is surprisingly dry for something that’s supposed to be a comedy. About one in every ten stories (of which there are two an episode) is actually funny in the original work.

The subs are accurate, though ^^;

(Also, insert “Damn it! Car chase!” reference here).

This particular feature hasn’t seen much movement for a while, presumably as I’m failing at the part of the feature that requires me to watch some anime. Well, watching the kind of doofy anime which this feature tends to flag, at least – it’s not like I’ve not been watching anything.

If probably follows that this particular example wasn’t even spotted by me – it’s a submission from Author, so I guess I’m still failing to give the box the love it deserves. Oh dear.

I’ve not actually seen HMM myself, but I’m told that the box is “a fixture of the apartment”. I’ll take his word for it, methinks.

“But DiGi”, I hear you proclaim – or rather imagine hear you proclaim, as otherwise you’d be lurking in my house in a location unbeknownst to myself, a fact I’d find bother bizarre and terrifying – “You’ve already done Hayate!”.

“Aha!”, I exclaim in response, “I have outwitted you, for I specifically denoted that post as the second season, whereas this is for the one which WAH has dubbed The Good One! Ergo, my one Mikan-post per series rule has not been cast asunder!”.

“Still”, I continue, triumphant in a meaningless victory yet still sympathetic to my readers, “take some solstice in the fact that Bandai were actually kind enough to subtitle the boxes label!”

I imagine you thinking this is little comfort in light of this curiously composed entry.