From episode 4 of Joshiraku, except that it was in the episode preview part which means that it’s technically from episode 5.

This submission, like so many others, came via Author, although he did actually send me this the best part of two weeks ago. Yay for procrastination! I should really get around to clearing out my own queue of these things before I forget about them…

From… I think it was episode 5? I can’t quite remember – somehow I managed to not watch last weeks episode until this weeks was already available, so it’s all kind of blurred into one.

I can’t really say I have much to say about Tari Tari. It’s a pleasant show. It’s rather less blunt about it’s drama than Kokoro Connect, and comes across as being a little less methodical about it (at least, it doesn’t have characters pretty much pointing out that others are sorting out characters issues in order). Not that I wouldn’t cut Kokoroco some slack on both matters due to it’s rather more supernatural setting, nor that it particular bears any real comparison to Tari Tari beyond a certain amount of tonal similarity, but since I’m short of anything in particular to write about here I’m perfectly happy to clutch at straws.

The first home-release volume of Kawamoris latest sci-fi classic, AKB0048, was unleashed upon Japan… well, it was last month at this point. I literally just got my shipping notice for volume 2 today, but my volume 1 was waiting upon the latest Precure movie and K-On! before shipping, meaning I only got ahold of it yesterday. Let me tell you, as sweet as K-On! is as a show, more than any other disk media release I own the LE would make a pretty great blunt weapon. It’s got some serious heft behind it, and you could do someone some serious damage with properly (or improperly) wielded.

Anyway, to steer back towards point, the first episode of AKB is presented on BD in it’s directors cut form!
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From episode eight of the original series, somewhat hidden on the far left hand side there.

As if proof of the force being strong in this one was required, I pretty much just clicked on this episode randomly on Crunchyroll whilst pondering how far through the show I’d actually watched, and *BAM*, within thirty seconds this revealed itself.

As for the show itself, it’s one of those things I didn’t feel particularly strongly about either way – it didn’t present itself as a particularly offensive way to waste some time, but I didn’t particularly love it either. I suppose that’s why I only managed to make it up to episode six or so – I probably just forgot to watch it one week and didn’t care enough to catch back up on it. Suppose I might check out at least the OP of the second season just to see what the OP is like, though it is another one of those shows utilising unpronounceable sequel identifiers.

Another submission from King Author (has that joke died yet?), which I suppose means that I’ve rather been slacking in my own efforts recently. To quote the relevant matters from his e-mail…

Yep, that one. I tend to omit ~full colors~, because it’s dumb and the title is unambiguous. It is from ep.13. I do not remember this character appearing before or after, and have no idea who she is.

Except, the title seems to be even dumber than he suggests, given it’s punctuated with a “‘S” at the end.