They posted the 15 second PV for the home-release-exclusive iM@S episode, to be included in the ninth and final volume of the show, onto the internet yesterday, which you can be seeing here, should you be curious.

I have to admit being a little disappointed in it – it was probably misguided, but I’d rather been hoping the last episode may have been Kotori-centric, perhaps revolving around her Yuri-goggled-fueled delusions as portrayed on the animation CDs drama tracks. Alas, as it turns out, even Producer-san makes more of an appearance in the episodes PV – if you squint at least – than Kotori. Who appears not at all.

Isn’t it sad, Kotori?

Well, OK, being that she was pretty much one of only two characters who appeared in every episode of the series, it’s not like Kotori isn’t going to appear at all, and it does have Ritsuko looking all suitably flustered in her usual tsukkomi fashion, so I guess I’ll have to forgive it for now.

In other iM@S related news, it looks like the rumoured iM@S Pachinko machine is going to be announced next week, unless that promotional website is being incredibly deceptive. Not that it’s going to do those of us outside of Japan much good, but knowing how these things normally go, it’ll probably have a ludicrously high budget and be full of original content that’ll never be seen anywhere else ever again.

You may not have failed to notice that I haven’t exactly been updating on my usual regular basis. Or you may not have noticed anything, because whatever you use to figure out that I have posted some kind of update hasn’t triggered itself – it’s not like I actually expect anyone to be proactive in checking for updates or anything. In any case, what I mean to say is, I haven’t updated in the last week or so.

So… yeah, turns out I did myself something of a back injury. Nothing particularly serious that I shouldn’t recover from in short-ish order, but does in the short term require the consumption of pain-throttling medication. As a result, I spent part of last week slipping between drug and/or pain induced delirium, and watching the Australian Denno Coil DVDs I picked up a couple of weekends ago.

More significantly, whilst I’m now at the point where I can (mostly) go about my normal business, maintaining a drawing position for a prolonged period of time is, shall we say, an undesirably uncomfortable situation. So I’m going to take a few weeks off from the whole comicking thing. I’ve a few things to do in the coming weeks that it would have been awkward to arrange continuity of comics around anyway, so the timing is curiously convenient in a sense.

I suppose this does mean that I should actually, you know, start writing on this blog some to make up for the lack of other content, or something equally crazy. Maybe.

(On the subject of Denno Coil, I’d give that show an A. The first half of the series is totally A+++ stuff, but the second half is merely B+ quality. It’s all good stuff, but I feel the marginalization of a number of characters and the lack of the first halfs playfulness in the shows tail-end does it something of a disservice. Still absolutely worth seeing, though).

From, err, Yuri Seijin Naoko-san. Apparently. I can’t say I’ve ever seen it, or even have any idea what it actually is – Mr. Shillito submitted this one via the Twitters. I’m assuming it’s got something to do with lesbians and aliens and stuff of the ilk.

Man, I’ve got a big backlog of this Mikan Watch stuff (by which I mean, err, three or four) that I’ve been lazy/procrastinating about actually posting about. Suppose that I should really get around to processing them at some point.

Suppose that’s what I’m doing here, though ^^;

From Episode 8 of Milky Holmes, which went up on NicoNico yesterday, though I admit I blatantly stole this screen grab from elsewhere. I mean, aside from the big NicoNico watermark that you’d otherwise be inflicted with, I’m presently on a train and I’ve not got enough 3G bandwidth left to stream the episode back down again merely for the sake of taking a picture.

Anyway, it’s being used as a desk, which is a not-uncommon use for such a thing in anime.
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From, well, it’s in a couple of different episodes, I guess. I took this shot from the last episode, but it’s reused footage from an earlier instalment.
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