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So eh, since some one posted it up on 4chan, might as well post this up for posterity.

DO NOT FUCKING COMPLAIN ABOUT GETTING SPOILED IF YOU READ THIS. I’ve put enough safe guards in place, so unless you WANT TO BE SPOILED, you CAN’T BE SPOILED.

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Impressions? Sounds pretty fake to me, but sometimes, reality is far stranger than fiction so we’ll see if this really IS the final episode of Geass on Sunday. I wonder if which ending will be the better troll? MacF’s or Code Geass R2′s.

• Battle Frontier almost suffers a direct hit from a Vajra warship. Quarter bails them out at the last minute.
• Alto didn’t die because he escaped his unit and remote controlled it using his suit while hiding in the wreckage of a battleship. God damn it, we didn’t think of remote control! He further tells Quarter to shoot the giant Ranka which reveals it’s true form; Battle Galaxy.
• Leon gets arrested on assasinating President Glass when Cathy breaks it out.
• Grace interfaces with the Queen. Galaxy simultaneously launches multiple Ghosts to help counter the attack by Frontier and Quarter.
• Alto gets a special delivery from Klan (LOLI IN A VALKYRIE!!!); his VF-25. Empowered by both Sheryl and his VF-25, Alto rejoins the fight.
• Ozma: “TOTSUGEKI LOVE HEART!!!” ROFL
• Battle commences in full ferocity. Alto calls out to Ranka using the fold quartz earring.
• Grace finally controls the Queen and she uses it to gain full control on the Vajra and she sends Vajra attackers to Macross 11 (why only that ship?) and to Earth as well.
• Interesting tidbit: Tori no Hito from MacZero is actually Vajra as well?
• Under control by Grace, the Vajra launch a ferocious barrage to our heroes. Sheryl collapses in the attack and her hair turns grey.
• In midst of the despair, Ranka’s voice is heard. Brera, now finally freed from his slave system, tells her to sing her heart out. Ranka’s voice manage to reach the Vajra and they go back under her control.
• In fold-space, Ranka calls out to Sheryl. Sheryl says that her job is finished and Ranka slaps her (WTF!!!!). Ranka tells her to not to give up and Alto echoes the same thing. Ranka magically moves the V-type virii from her brain to her stomach, and Sheryl is revived.
• Ranka-Sheryl medley begins, with nearly all their songs making an appearance. Accompanied by this medley, Quarter punches a hole in Galaxy for Alto to rescue Ranka. Oh god, My Boyfriend is a Pilot -Sheryl ver.-!!
• Grace is pissed and targets Island 1 with the Queen’s main weapons. However, the Vajra form a shield and absorbs the blast, saving the humans.
• Ranka explains to Alto that the Vajra also have feelings, but they don’t understand why we fight each other so much so they tried to rescue/kidnap her in order to understand humans. Thanks to hers and Sheryl’s songs, the Vajra have finally understood us.
• Song medley continues. GOD DAMN IT STICK TO ONE DAMN SONG DAMMIT!!! Seriously it’s a bit distracting for them to change songs so much.
• Final counterattack: The Vajra open a hole in the Queen’s barrier, for Quarter and Battle Frontier to enter. Galaxy moves to cover it and they both take a direct hit from it’s main cannon. Canaria rushes forth and opens a chance for Quarter to destroy Galaxy’s weapon using a MACROSS ATTACK! and Frontier finishes it off.
• Alto and Brera cooperate together (mmm fanservice!) and they both take out the Queen’s head where Grace is at. Thankfully, Brera explains that the Vajra think with their guts than their head, so the queen will be fine. Alto finishes Grace off using Micheal’s favourite gun.
• The queen begins to sing Aimo. Ranka further explains that the song is actually mating song which is used when the Vajra meet with others of their kind from other galaxies every few hundred million years.
• Bilrer’s true intentions: to meet Lynn Minmei again. LOL. Kawamori is such a bloody tease.
• Show ends with Alto flying in the skies of the Vajra planet, while Ranka and Sheryl look at him. Ranka declares love-war on Sheryl and she accepts graciously with a “KIRA~!” pose ROFL! The ending theme is Triangler duet by Sheryl and Ranka. Alto Harem End(?)

The ending is so… inconclusive. Worst type of end in my opinion dammit. Urge to kill Kawamori seriously rising. It’s never revealed who Alto chooses and everyone just manages to survive and land happily on the planet. I just feel like my feelings have all been trampled over and thrown away like a used dirt rag. Oh man, I was at least expecting some deaths.

Anyways, there’s still the just-announced Macross Frontier movie as well. I guess it’s probably a retelling of the series or even maybe an DYRL-style “historical movie”. But I hope it continues the story instead. I need more Alto x Sheryl!!!

P.S. WE ALL HAVE BEEN TROLLED HAVEN’T WE? HAVEN’T WE?!!!! *breaks down in a corner and cries*

Finally! The Lucky Star OVA! Man, it was well worth the wait. God, I so miss the antics of Kagamin, Konata and Tsukasa.

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Quarterfinals A2-4

有効コードがある票の順位
1位　709票　羽入＠ひぐらしのなく頃に解 [Hanyuu @ Higurashi Kai]
2位　700票　C.C.＠コードギアス 反逆のルルーシュ R2 [C.C. @ Code Geass R2]
3位　131票　真城りま＠しゅごキャラ! [Mashiro Rima @ Shugo Chara]

Quarterfinals B2-4

有効コードがある票の順位
1位　632票　ヒロ＠ひだまりスケッチ 特別編 [Hiro @ Hidamari Sketch]
2位　553票　ヴィヴィオ＠魔法少女リリカルなのはStrikerS [Vivio @ Nanoha StrikerS]
3位　193票　三宮紫穂＠絶対可憐チルドレン [Sannomiya Shiho @ Zettai Karen Children]

NOOOO! C.C. lost by NINE VOTES. Dammit. Well, that’s a MUCH better margin that I expected. At least she didn’t lose by more than three-digits.

Next round 09/26:-

Quarterfinals C2-1

ヴィータ（なのはStS） [Vita @ Nanoha StrikerS]
日奈森あむ（しゅご） [Hinamori Amu @ Shugo Chara]
愛沢咲夜（ハヤテ） [Aizawa Sakuya @ Hayate no Gotoku]

Quarterfinals D2-1

一ノ瀬ことみ（CLANNAD） [Ichinose Kotomi @ CLANNAD]
吉野屋先生（ひだまり） [Yoshinoya-sensei @ Hidamari Sketch]
坂上智代（CLANNAD） [Sakagami Tomoyo @ CLANNAD]

Tomorrow’s match looks set to be pretty CLANNAD day with Kotomi duking it out against Tomoyo with poor Yoshinoya-sensei caught in the crossfire. Will she be slaughtered or will she take a huge advantage and knock both of them out? We’ll see. Group C’s Q-finals also see another clash between Hayate and Nanoha camps where angry loli vs trickster loli. ふ～ふ～ふ～

Quarterfinals A2-3

有効コードがある票の順位
1位　574票　瀬戸燦＠瀬戸の花嫁 [Seto San @ Seto no Hanayome]
2位　556票　金色の闇（ヤミ）＠To LOVEる [Golden Darkness @ To-LOVE-Ru]
3位　250票　九鳳院紫＠紅 [Kuhouin Murasaki @ Kurenai]

Quarterfinals B2-3

有効コードがある票の順位
1位　515票　結城美柑＠To LOVEる [Yuuki Mikan @ To-LOVE-ru]
2位　435票　藍華・S・グランチェスタ＠ARIA シリーズ [Aika S. Granzchesta @ ARIA]
3位　359票　藤林椋＠CLANNAD [Fujibayashi Ryou @ CLANNAD]

Well. There’s goes Aika and Ryou. Mikan actually won over them, heh. Good job for San-chan too.

Next round 09/25:-

Quarterfinals A2-4

C.C.（ギアスR2） [C.C. @ Code Geass R2]
真城りま（しゅごキャラ） [Mashiro Rima @ Shugo Chara]
羽入（ひぐらし解） [Hanyuu @ Higurashi Kai]

Quarterfinals B2-4

ヒロ（ひだまり） [Hiro @ Hidamari Sketch]
三宮紫穂（絶チル） [Sannomiya Shiho @ Zettai Karen Children]
ヴィヴィオ（なのはStS） [Vivio @ Nanoha StrikerS]

Ahh, all’s well ends well. Itazura na Kiss has been a really fun show to watch throughout it’s run… WAIT!

WHY IS THERE A PREVIEW?!!

WHAT! THERE’S STILL MORE?!

So, er, okay… I guess this post will have to wait.

Decided to check the manga out after watching the promos and finding out some generous Anon scanlated volumes 1 till 4. Man, this manga is definitely kick-ass. I sure didn’t expect it to be this entertaining, since I thought it was another typical shounen-style manga.

While it’s definitely falling square inside the shounen-manga story archetype, the characters make a whole world of difference here. The lead character, Koichi Hayase, isn’t a pussy at the least, heck, he’s the direct opposite of one by being an arrogant bastard and a gung-ho type. He even actually flaunts the fact he has a personal giant mecha around to try and impress the girls, LOL. Sure is pretty darn refreshing for a change of pace.

The other fellow mecha pilots are generally quite normal though. We have the usual cool and calm type and the do-gooder type with a little variation in the form of the tsundere-type and shy-type twins, who are also gender-bendering, heh. Of course, there’s also Noto-sama(god damn it, I keep reading her lines with Noto-sama’s voice already) the engimatic female lead of Emi Kizaki as well to provide the (very little) romantic tension in the manga. The character development is also rather expected though, coming in the form of the “I don’t like that idiot” at first only to be impressed by his actions later.

Now I am kinda dreading the anime though. I really gotta stop reading a manga title whenever the anime is announced, it makes things hard when the producers decide to mess things up with the story. Since the anime is a Gonzo production, there’s already a 50% chance it’d be fucked up. But the anime sure has a weird combination of traits, with Ali Project music, Hisashi Hirai character designs (oh god GSD/Fafner redux?!) and Noto-sama in it(!). Wonder what it’ll turn out to be.

Oh man, I sure can’t wait to hear this line being spoken out. Noto-sama kakkoii yo Noto-sama!

I sure hope the generous and awesome Anon that released Vol. 1-4 will follow up with Vol. 5 onwards. I hate cliffhangers. Correction, I hate reading myself in to cliffhangers ;_;.

P.S. Rewatching the trailers again gives me a feeling that Gonzo’s gonna totally start with an original plot of their own for the series. I mean, Hayase lying down beside a naked Kizaki NEVER happened in the manga… or does it? Also gonna have to add that Hisashi Hirai’s art is total rape of the original manga art. Sigh.

Actually, I don’t really know what I should say more about the show. The show is… frankly speaking, actually, “has” ended for me a long time ago, and watching more of it going on to a downward spiral of disharmonic logic and sheer whacked out plot is just really hard to see when I actually liked the show before. It’s just like watching a distinguished war hero trying to wage another war just to experience past glories without taking in to consideration the feelings of the normal citizens who respect him and are willing to die for him, so he takes full advantage of it for his own joys at the cost of other’s happiness. Long analogy is long, but it best sums what I feel towards this series now. Sigh.

Let’s see, Schneizel makes for a joke villain especially now that he’s became Lulu’s bitch. I mean, I read all the spoilers but it still didn’t prepare me for the sheer madness/stupidity of his motivations… which is none apparently. So for the first time, we actually have an antagonist that just decides to confront our protagonist because he thinks he’s supposed to do that. And really, Scheneizel as the first end-boss was fun for a moment but he turned oh-so-lame by running away at 70% HP! On the bright side, I think it was his just desserts to become Lulu’s bitch.

And Lulu. Oh Lulu. Admitedly the video recording was some impressive shit, but it certainly is stretching the limits of logic there since it had flawless timing. Heh, seriously, watching him run up all that flights of stairs after his Shinkiro got pwned was just hillarious. Should’ve shown him panting for the extra LULZ factor.

Then finally, Nunnally. Oh poor Nunnally. She sure has got her character messed up a lot at the endgame. Plus the sudden “OMG SHE CAN SEE!!” revelation was actually quite “WTF!” after you rewatch it again. I mean, like it’s done so damn arbitrarily that I’m surprised at why I went “WTF!” in the first place.

Now, I’m just wedging all my hopes for the final episode to actually tie up the loose ends. Somehow, I’m thinking we’ll never ever know what is the real truth behind the “Code” after all. They’ve been quite masterfully covering and throwing attention away from that part of the story up so nicely with all the SHOCK and AWE plot twists and developments. Perhaps they’ll leave it that way to open a possibility of another sequel/series/spin-off.

Group A2-2

有効コードがある票の順位
1位　1157票　伊吹風子＠CLANNAD [Ibuki Fuko @ CLANNAD]
2位　1033票　フェイト・T・ハラオウン＠魔法少女リリカルなのはStrikerS [Fate T. Hallaoun @ Nanoha StrikerS]
3位　54票　ギンガ・ナカジマ＠魔法少女リリカルなのはStrikerS [Nakajima Ginga @ Nanoha StrikerS]

Group B2-2

有効コードがある票の順位
1位　1115票　千葉紀梨乃＠バンブーブレード [Chiba Kirino @ BAMBOO BLADE]
2位　421票　小岩井フローラ＠ななついろ★ドロップス [Koiwai Flora @ Nanatsuiro Drops]
3位　334票　星野あさみ＠Myself;Yourself [Hoshino Asami @ Myself;Yourself]

Fate lost to Fuko! Evidently the Nanoha camp didn’t put in enough effort. Amazingly, Kirino got 1.1k vote count as well!

Next round 09/24:-

Group A2-3

金色の闇（ヤミ）（とらぶる） [Golden Darkness @ To-LOVE-Ru]
瀬戸燦（瀬戸） [Seto San @ Seto no Hanayome]
九鳳院紫（紅） [Kuhouin Murasaki @ Kurenai]

Group B2-3

藤林椋（CLANNAD） [Fujibayashi Ryou @ CLANNAD]
藍華・S・グランチェスタ（ARIA） [Aika S. Granzchesta @ ARIA]
結城美柑（とらぶる） [Yuuki Mikan @ To-LOVE-ru]

I don’t really have anything good to say about it, except for the awesome costumes the girls were wearing when they were infiltrating Galia.

Otherwise… I think this season was even more messed up than the second one was. While the initial half was pretty enjoyable, no thanks to Tiffania(Noto-sama BANZAI!) and the over-the-top ecchi fanservice antics, the latter half’s attempts to insert the plot about rescuing Tabitha just fell flat on it’s finicky premise. Add to the fact that the bad guys never made clear their real intentions and Ceiffied was pretty damn lame as a villain, it was just painful watching it.

Even more painful as got to be Loiuse and Saito’s off-on relationship. The writers are just trying to damn hard at the tsun-tsun part of Louise without any real showing of her dere-dere side. Plus the fact that Louise’s approach to jealousy is to “shoot first, ask questions never” gets really, REALLY irritating makes me wonder how the hell Saito can cope with her. Guy must be hardcore M-man inside I guess.

Anyways, another lackluster addition to this well-milked magic+tsundere franchise. Seriously, if they make another season, I’m gonna… oh I better stop here. Most probably gonna have to eat my words later anyways.