Yup, this Studio BONES production is only available for PSN. It costs $2.99 to rent an SD episode and $3.99 to rent an HD one. In my opinion, those prices are a little high (they sound more like, buying prices than renting prices.) It’s unfortunate it’s priced so high. I probably won’t be watching it for that price.

Source: IGN

And I’m not talking about ecchi fanservice either. I’m sure this is evident to anyone watching the series. And, of course, I’m sure that no one minds either. The most obvious piece of fanservice in the show was probably in the first couple of episodes when they explained the history of mankind (which included a picture of some of the original cast from Macross.) I should say, that made me a bit giddy.

The most memorable piece of fanservice was probably the whole episode dealing with the movie based on Macross 7 (and by 7, I really mean Zero,) which wasn’t subtle at all. They even thanked the Macross 7 team in the credits of that one.

The most recent piece of fanservice was the ending song for the latest episode. For those of you who watched (or never watched but watched a couple of scenes from it like me,) Macross: Do You Remember Love?, you would notice that the ending theme was from Minmei’s song from the last battle of the movie. For those who haven’t seen it, I’ve included a video at the bottom of the post. It’s very well animated, I might add. It wasn’t the same version as the one in the movie. They actually used it for the Deculture edition of the first episode of Macross Frontier. It’s good to hear it again, though.

Found by one of the neoGAF members… It’s too bad that I don’t quite get all of the Metal Gear jokes since I have yet to play a single game…

So, I finally got my order of Mana Khemia: Alchemists of Al-Revis on Wednesday of last week. I’ve hardly gotten a chance to play it, however, since I have this SSBB tourney to participate in and have various other schoolwork to do. Oh, I like how I listed them in that order >.>

Regardless, since I did get the premium box set, I decided to upload pics for you all. Please enjoy them below. Before anyone asks: yes, I totally did take these pictures on my laptop becuase I have no other empty space in my tiny dorm room. -_-;;

Initially I didn’t want to post until I’d gotten all of the loot, but since the stuff is arriving so slowly, I decided to put it into two posts. I actually got more stuff than usually at the winter comiket. I still don’t think I got everything I wanted though. Darn deputy service and its deposits and bidding limits. T_T

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So, I finally got the chance to watch Gunbuster this week. I had been planning on watching on watching it for a while, but never really got a chance. Now that I have Netflix, I just decided, on a whim, to rent both Gunbuster and its sequel, Diebuster.

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I made a post last week highlighting that Mediaworks had just released a sequel artbook to Guren called Kaen. Well, I received said artbook a couple of days ago and now have my impressions of it.

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I actually got this a few months ago, but my computer was having problems and some things happened and I never got to use my scanner on this book. Eventually, I gave up and decided to go with a few pictures (please forgive the uber poor quality of the first pic, I suck with cameras.) Anyway, this artbook features the work of Kozue Amano, the artist behind ARIA (which I’m sure you can tell from the over.) The full title of the artbook is Cielo: Kozue Amano Illustration Works III. Yes, this is his third book. Unfortunately, his other books are uber rare now, so good luck at finding them for anything below twice their original price.

One of my favorite things about the book is its build. As you can see from the first thumbnail, the book comes with a hard plastic cover, which leaves only the book’s binding exposed to the cruel outside world. The book itself is hardcover, which is nice. If it’s one thing I hate, it’s bent binds in softcover books. Annoys me to no end. It’s a surprise that this book only costs about 300 yen more than the average softcover artbook. I’m sure they could’ve gotten away with a bit more. This artist seems popular. At least, popular enough for all of his previous books to have sold out.

The artbook is split into six sections: Aria, Roman Club, Crescent Noise, Short Stories/Extra Works, Aqua, and Monochrome works. I must admit, I’m very unfamiliar with his work. I have yet to read a single chapter of ARIA or AQUA. I’m not sure if the work in this book is new or not. Usually, in these kinds of books, they’re just reprints of earlier released art (telephone cards and such) but usually the sources for the artwork are noted on the page. In this, they are not. Oh well, it doesn’t matter. The art in the book is excellent regardless.

A few of you might remember a post from a while back claiming that I was looking at Lucky Star as a new series to watch. Well, I just finished watching episodes 15 and 16 today, so now I’m officially caught up. and I have one thing to say: I shall accept Konata is my GODDESS OF OTAKU-NESS.

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I’m ashamed to say this, but I’ve basically watched none of the “new” Spring 2007 anime, besides Gurren Lagann, that is. Since Spring started, I’ve watched 12 episodes of Gurren Lagann, one episode of Hitohira and one episode of Murder Princess. Yea, pretty pathetic. I do sort of plan on fixing it. I’m really looking at Lucky Star right now.

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After a month of my laptop being in computer rehab, Alienware has finally decided that it had recovered enough to be allowed to come back home. I hope that this time, it will have recovered for good; rehab takes such a long time.

I’ve finally started catching up on some anime. This may come as a surprise, but I never actually finished Honey and Clover II until now. Yea, I know, so sad. I was kind of dissatisfied with the ending, but mainly cuz what I wanted to happen didn’t happen. I’m sure this happens to a lot of drama fans, so it’s ok.

Speaking of that, I found the PV for the opening song while looking for an mp3. The song’s stuck in my head now -_-;;. I must say, this is one really weird video. You can see it here. I assume all of you have divX codecs installed.

I also finally started watching Spring 2007 anime. I’m having trouble finding out which ones I should watch though. I’ve watched 7 episodes of Gurren Lagann and the first of Gigantic Formula, but that’s about it. I’m open to any recommendations that you guys have. I’m think Idolm@ster might be a bit cool.

And for the last thing in this post, DiscountAnimeDVD is having a 30% off Tokyopop sale. I already have 14 items, most of the Tokyopop titles, lined up on my cart. I’m ready to order once the 14th volume of Negima! hits on the 29th (or doesn’t hit and gets an ugly “arrival delayed” message on the page).

And I totally forgot about it. The actually birthday was on the 22nd of the last month, but now is better than ever. Since then, this site has seen about 26K hits and 48K page views. Honestly, I’m not quite sure about those numbers. I think the data is brought up by a lot of people coming here from Google Images or something, but no matter.

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