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Sorry for the lack of updates this week, but I just haven't found the time or energy to blog and it'll probably be that way for another week as I'm busy with other things. I should be back posting again by the 21st though and I shall play catch up with everything then!

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Just a few random thoughts for the day. 1) I'm "contemplating" moving to wordpress, mainly for the functionality. Although I am a little put off by the prospect of moving my entire blog archive over to it. 2) I've "cleaned up" a few comments on the index sections of my blog. If your comments deleted it's not that I hate you or you've done anything wrong they were just getting a bit crowded and

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I first hear of Oniisama E a few years ago but never really paid the show much attention because (like Rose Of Versailles) I thought "pffft it's old it'll be crap" (my newbie anime fan mind at this point classed old as "pre EVA"). Obviously I have proved myself a total idiot by this point in time as I'm finding plenty of older shows at the moment far more fun than the crap that has limped out of

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New OP. It's sweet it's cheerful, its probably slightly more crap than the last one. Still it has a good AmanexHikari part in it's animation. Hooray! So here we have the episode following up Yaya kissing Hikari last week. I thought there would be lots of angst, lots of drama and it would be entertaining. Sadly it didn't turn out this way. In what is probably my least favourite StoPani episode so

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Ah at last an episode of Simoun to indulge my Morinas fangirlism, she (and presumably eventually he after Morinas has her fountain choice revealed) hasn't particularly done much in the series except provide a temporary rival for Aeru in episode three and hang around with Wapourif. So anyway, this week just so happens to focus on Morinas and Wapourif as well as the more non-relationship based part

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Better late than never! Here's my entry on Simoun 13 where Neviriru and Aeru finally begin to get some development between them as a couple although things don't go entirely the way Aeru would like. Does this mean this episode brings up another dose of yuri fuelled angst? Of course it does! First things first, "Commander Dominura" (calling her that as quite frankly she makes every single

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Ah, Spica, Spica, the school where the characters are actually interesting and there's.. y'know what's it called? ..Oh yes! A PLOT buried under the endless procession of yuri cliches. So it is time for "evil plan mark II" for Kaname and Momomi this week as they set to bring apart our prince and princess of Spica in the forms of Amane and Hikari. The fact that their plan turns out to be

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Better late than never, it's been a week since the concluding episode of Joshi Kousei aired, so here are my concluding thoughts on the series as well as quick summaries for the eleventh and twelfth installments. Episode 11 This episode focuses primarily on Eriko as she goes through a course of being beautified so she can impress a guy she had a crush on long, long ago back when she was very

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So anyway, yep, this is it. Everyone probably knows by now as I'm late blogging this episode but this is the SP episode where Shizuma finally gets her talons into Nagisa and manages to pull off a kiss without them being interrupted by a leaf blowing in one of their eyes or something. Now that's out the way, I'll also say while it wasn't my favourite SP episode it is probably the one most

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This week on Simoun we have a Kaimu and Alti story! Just what happened between them? It's "A Tale Of Two Sisters", except with incest, and no ghosts... and animated... and erm.. well it's nothing like it at all really. The girls are in the mess hall after just hearing that Dominura has decided to pair Kaimu and Alti with each other as she feels it's good for the team. Evidently Kaimu is a bit

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Been marginally busier than normal this week and a little under the weather so haven't had a chance to update properly for a few days. Rest assured I will catch up with things over the next few days, so expect Simoun tomorrow (Thursday morning UK time), a double bill of Joshi Kousei and Strawberry Panic 12 soon to follow as well.

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Ah it's that time of year yet again the time when all those anime blogs out there do their Summer Season preview! With July looming ever close and another deluge of shows about to be released I thought it high time I looked through the shows in detail to see if there's any that catch my eye. Unfortunately for the first time in a while, there's certainly no titles coming that scream "watch me" and

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Another week, another slice of Strawberry Panic cheese. This week it's time for sun, sea, surf and Tamao being more stalkerish than she has ever been so far. So the girls are off to summer school, and everyone is very excited with the exception of our heroine Nagisa who looks pretty miserable. What's that Nagisa? Shizuma isn't there? And you feel sad? Well if you had half a brain-cell

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Another week, another excellent episode of Simoun. This show is really spoiling us and this week it comes first in my blogging list! This episode focuses on Furoe a fair amount as she attatches herself to a young male soldier. However, this episode also shows the series darker side yet again, as we get a closer look at the war. It's fairly obvious that Mamiina and Rodoreamon are going to end

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Here are my thoughts on episode 11-20 of Rose Of Versailles, still enjoying this series a great deal and highly recommend it to those looking for some good drama who have overlooked older shows. These nine episodes have only really continued to hook me in to the setting. Rosalie becoming a more prominent character was also a nice touch as she turns out to be a rather interesting individual going

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Despite this being a blog focusing mainly on yuri I realized the other day that I have never actually listed my favourite pairings of girlxgirl relationships in anime. So yep, this is what your getting as the first part of my weekly thoughts this week "Mangaminx's Top 10 Yuri Pairings". Please bare in mind for some of these pairings there may well be not much concrete evidence (or any for that

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It's the exam time of the year and poor Nagisa is in a spot of trouble as she needs to pass her French exam which is a subject she isn't very good at. But don't worry Nagisa-chan! Help is at hand! This weeks Strawberry Panic is entitled "Private Lessons" which makes the show sound like a hentai means Shizuma is on hand to help teach Nagisa French! Yes the Etoile's job seems to include helping

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The Corp Tempus settle into their new base this week where Neviriru may be onto Dominura scheming and Mamiina and Rodoreamon enter "petty angst" mode. The girls all have to share the same room together on-board their new smaller base ship. Considering the amount of contrasting personalities in the squad this certainly seems like a recipe for disaster in my eyes, but all seems to be going

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Lack of updates this week are down to me being busier than usual these past few days. Simoun 10 and Strawberry Panic 10 are both watched and posts for them should appear either tonight or tomorrow (GMT). Anyway, this weeks Joshi Kousei surprised me by being one that went off on a completely different slant to any of the manga content I'd read and delves into Ayano's lengthy named

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More than four episodes in three days is incredibly fast for me when it comes to anime watching, but I've watched far more than just four of the fantastically fantastic Rose Of Versailles in that time. Yes it's old, yes many people have seen it before me but I like it so much I just have to blog it! The fact that the title is old, and yet so much better than a lot of shows I have been watching

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First off, I'll apologize for the lack of a "weekly thoughts" last week, but I was being whisked off into the big wide world of anime conventions (well at the very least conventions with anime in them) and didn't have time to write one. This week however my ramblings have returned. Nothing that exciting to write about this week, but after suffering a bit of a burnout on anime and manga for the

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My last post on the subject of Claymore, was pretty much a rant about my view that Shounen Jump as a franchise was crap, but oddly enough Claymore (which most people seem to deem as one of the worst SJ titles) was the first one I'd actually found at all entertaining. Judging by the angry e-mails I got from a few fuming Naruto fans after I "dare" criticize the bestest magazine on the planet, I

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On the ninth installment of Strawberry Panic: Swimsuits, ghosts, and Tamao's dreams seem to have a habit of becoming true. On one of their little jaunts round to Tamao and Nagisa's bedroom Hikari and Yaya bring cakes, but much to their surprise Nagisa is hiding in a side room from them. Has Nagisa finally twigged that everybody in this school with the exception of her is gay and their calls

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This week on Simoun: Dark secret plots, Corp Tempus is doomed?, and a fair share of aerial action. Unlike last week where we saw the Corp Tempus taking off from the stricken Arcus Prima this episode rewinds a bit as we see them rush through the vessel to their Simoun's Neviriru taking the lead as they run through the carnage. Neviriru once again shows the strength of her character here (now

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Kouda Akari is dying? Surely not! But in the ninth episode of High School Girls' this is certainly what everybody else thinks. Week after week I cannot help but compare the anime to the manga, sometimes this works in the anime's favour and sometimes it doesn't. This weeks episode however was an improvement over the rather brief manga chapter it is based on. As I said, Kouda is dying,

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