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Old 02-13-2008, 06:21 AM   #301
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Speaking of which, I really hope Hosaka gets together with that girl who has a crush on him. At least ONE GIRL in that school has good taste!
I'd bet good money that Minami-ke's love triangles will persist in the same manner as School Rumble's. Unfortunately.

To be honest, I wouldn't mind Haruka x (the male Minami clan's middle brother -- forget his name), simply because the two seemed to have decent synergy and she seemed to not be able to get over his falling into her breasts even after he let her punch him. But I don't think that's going to happen, either. And based on the final episode of Series 1, I would wager that he's not likely to fight (directly) with Hosaka over Haruka, either. Put another way, "I don't think that he and Hosaka are this series' Sawachika Eri and Yakumo."

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I pissed my pants when he shines the flashlight on the doll!
I think the most disturbing imagery for me in that episode was the black hair w/ pony tail-serial killer's teeth when he was choking Rudy. It was like something taken straight of a Miyazaki film -- grotesque slobbering, gnashing teeth. Real sick. But yeah, I was impressed by the size of the doll, and I half-expected it to inch closer and closer to Rudy each time he turned back around to flash his light on it.

I have to say ... Johan is a sick genius if he could predict that the one serial killer would even go into that cellar; and that, once there, he would find himself in the presence of the doll and all these photos of the old granny with "him" superimposed over "her son"'s face. I bet at that moment, the serial killer wet his own pants and thought, "Who -- no, what the fuck have I gotten myself involved with?"
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Old 02-13-2008, 07:15 AM   #302
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I've got horrifying news for you, Mcsweeney. It looks like the first chapter of Chunk 3 of the manga reveals a woman who pines for Kaiji's heart named "Mikoko." This "Mikoko" is so ugly and drawn in such a way (see below) that I mistook 'her' for Funai. I seriously thought, "Wow! Funai is back!" But ... the more I read, the more I think that she is seriously supposed to be a girl who likes Kaiji.

She feeds Kaiji an egg sandwich, and I thought, "Hmm, maybe it's drugged. Maybe this is Funai in drag and he's drugging Kaiji to get revenge" or some such. But no. That doesn't appear to be the case.

Then she attempts to lick Kaiji. Again, I tried to interpret that grotesque imagery as nicely as I could -- "Maybe it's Funai and he's slobbering like a hungry wolf at the revenge he will soon achieve over Kaiji?" -- but no. Unfortunately, no: it looks like she really was slobbering because she wanted to get intimate with Kaiji and Kaiji freaks out because he realizes that this shemale was trying to do precisely that.

If I haven't mortified you enough already:
1) Here's a link to where you can DDL the chapter I'm talking about. You don't really need to know any Japanese to figure out what's going on based on context clues. Kaiji's at a park, Mikoko buys him juice, feeds him a sandwich, tries to do stuff with him, and he ends up walking her home.
2) Yes, that's right: walking her home. Chapter 2 begins with the two of them walking down the street late at night, and they're either headed to her place or to his.

*vomit*
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Old 02-13-2008, 10:40 AM   #303
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That is very creepy! I think I will be off to oogle some attractive characters now. ^_^;
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Old 02-13-2008, 12:47 PM   #304
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Let's just all be really thankful that she wasn't on the Espoir and lost and sent to the other room.
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Old 02-13-2008, 03:07 PM   #305
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Dude. I just realized that I don't have the first 11 chapters ... I have the first 11 volumes. The thing I uploaded for you guys is all of Volume 1 of Chunk 3. I fast-forwarded through the images real fast, reading (or trying to read) every now and then, and here's what I picked out:

- Kaiji has some relationship with this girl, but it doesn't seem to be one he enjoys. Yet ... he doesn't cut her off. No idea.
- The girl's dad wants Kaiji to do something with 3000 dollars.
- Two of the Love Emperor's henchmen come to Kaiji. Apparently they are ingratiated to him (maybe he saved their lives in an earlier story arc?), with one of them bawling all over Kaiji Osamu-style. Anyway. They come to Kaiji and tell him they want ... stuff.
- So Kaiji takes the fugly girlfriend's dad's money ...
- ... hands it over to Osamu's doppelganger ...
- ... and goes off to participate in the minefield mahjong arc.

I would go back and try to decipher the kanji bit by bit, but there's so much of it (especially a lot of names), and I'm not that interested in investing so much study time and Monster time in decoding FugMug's dialogue.
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Old 02-13-2008, 03:52 PM   #306
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The girl who worked in Kaiji's grocery store was presentable, so it's not as if Nobuyuki Fukumoto tried his absolute hardest to draw a cute, moe female character and failed spectacularly. He did this on purpose!!
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Old 02-13-2008, 04:34 PM   #307
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Yeah, Kaiji's girlfriend *shudders at the thought* is one of the fugliest women I've ever seen drawn. Ever. It combines Fukumoto's admittedly fugly drawings of humans with the female form, kicks it up to the notch of "Fukumoto trying to draw somebody ugly" (like he did with Funai), and just ... ugh.
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Old 02-13-2008, 04:52 PM   #308
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This makes me think of that topic you made in Misc about girls who look like their brothers.

Remember when Funai swore he'd get revenge? He did!
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Old 02-13-2008, 05:40 PM   #309
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Re: big bad birtha's suggestion box 2: secret passions unveiled

Mikoko's Dad hates Kaiji, so much so that he kicked him out! I don't know why he went and gave $3,000 to Kaiji, though - maybe it was a going away present.

Oh, Talon. Was Kaiji wearing a beanie and sunglasses when he was picked up by the "Love Emperor" guys? If that's the case I think I know what's up with them - it probably has to do with Kazuya.
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Old 02-13-2008, 06:18 PM   #310
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>>In light of the realisation there is a botnet in action, I've been using the graph to see how the results would have gone had there not been a sudden increase in votes. Therefore I have decided to re-run the matches 57 (Kittan, Luna's Papa, Jonathan Joestar) and 52 (Alucard, November 11, Kino) to see if the outcome will be more fairly determined next time.

King Kittan fukkatsu! Hail to the King!

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90% sure Baccano! is going to be licensed tomorrow by FUNimation. Get it while you can!
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Old 02-14-2008, 02:34 PM   #311
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Today is catch up day for me!!! I hash been slacking on all of my new episodes (except Clannad of course.) I will dedicate today to catching up on what I have been too distracted from stupid conversations on the chat, fighting, and scrolling through nicovideo to do earlier. So far, I has caught up on Kaiji, Minami-ke Okawari, and Shana II. Off to Shigofumi, Rosario + Vampire, and Spice and Wolf.

My inspiration is a picture of a cute girl watering her flowers.



I will be off!!!!
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Old 02-14-2008, 11:09 PM   #312
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Just here to say that the porn to hard work ratio in Utawarerumono isn't worth it! I started playing the game on Hard 3 because it unlocks hidden scenarios, omake and other sorts of interest little treasures (not just extra ero scenes), but what I'm getting right now is disgustingly awful, poorly written and rather ugly scenarios. I've skipped all of them - if not for the tactical role playing aspect of this game I probably wouldn't find it very fun.

Surprisingly, I don't have much patience for the visual novel bits. As far as adaptions go, the anime effectively and quite remarkably summarized everything, though the time-line of events was altered for the worse in the anime. Some character aspects not highlighted on in the anime were shown here, though I liked some of the anime's plot points better.

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Oh wow.
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I kind of figured that was fake after I saw the picture of SOREN FROM FIRE EMBLEM: PATH OF RADIANCE.
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Old 02-15-2008, 04:51 PM   #314
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Re: big bad birtha's suggestion box 2: secret passions unveiled

Ladd's going to lose to Rena. Valentines Day made everyone forget the last important match of the tournament was coming up.
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Old 02-15-2008, 04:54 PM   #315
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Just cast my vote for Lloyd 30 seconds ago. I figure I don't care if Ladd loses to Rena because the other Baccano girl already won; that, and I'm selfishly hoping that my man Lloyd can ride the path to victory thanks to "your people" being divided between Higurashi and Baccano.

In the end, I see Rena winning by a landslide too, though. Which does suck.
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Old 02-15-2008, 05:22 PM   #316
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Claire is a man. :x
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Old 02-15-2008, 05:27 PM   #317
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Hahahaha, well I should like to know why he spells his name with an -e on the end, then. Or what he's doing being named Clair(e) in the first place.
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Old 02-15-2008, 05:30 PM   #318
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In 1930's America, Claire was a male name. And Claire's other names weren't listed on Wikipedia so SaiGar Guy didn't label him as such. I won't tell you them because they're spoilers.
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Anyway, I'm not sure if you know this or not, but the SaiGar match can be tracked in-progress on the /res extension of the server. Just type in saigar08.michaeldodd.net/res/battle_021X.txt to see the match. Our current match is fourteen.

I posted because the spread is like this:

Ladd - 237
Lloyd - 47
Rena - 255
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Well, time to recast my ballots for Alucard and Kittan.
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>.> Err.....I didn't finish all of the new episodes yesterday that I hoped I did. Oh well.....Okawari's getting boring, H2O's getting a little corny, and Shana II is actually catching my interest this time. How is my super-summarized episode thoughts? =D

Well, since we are talking about Rena, I recently found an absolutely beautiful song by her VA. Here j00z goes =D I have been searching for it for since I heard that song sung by Kyon's sister's VA in a big group video. Of course, I didn't know the name at the time >.>

Now....off to do what I do best.....I'm just not sure what that is....
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Old 02-16-2008, 11:50 PM   #321
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I've been stuck at the same level in Ray Romano for two days now, but then I figured out I can do combos! Things should be easier from here on out! In other news, I got through Tetsuya 03 and it's getting better, but the cheating is still rampant. Also saw (to BBB's joy?) Gintama 49, because of the Akagi parody. It was OK, but a lot of stuff didn't make much sense. I've downloaded the two newest Hayate as well.

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On SaiGar, quite an interesting result, there. Kittan pulled himself out of the "Cauldron of Hell" as it were, but Kino justly won her right into the block finals this time around. I can say, come Easter Kino's Journey will be on my watch-list for sure. My future votes will go to Kaiji, Lord Genome, Claire, Medicine Seller, Nagasumi and Simon. Who I vote for in the Kino/Shark match isn't really certain (I can't decided between them) and Kittan/Giovanni is contingent on who wins in the Lord Genome/Kamina match. If Kamina wins, I'm voting Kittan; if Lord Genome wins, I'm voting Giovanni.
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Old 02-17-2008, 07:18 AM   #322
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MINAMI-KE, or, Hosaka is Awesome: The Show

STATUS: Completed

RATING: Very Good

This is the story of the three Minami sisters blah etc. you already know the story so let's get right to the point. It gets off to a slow start (although Talon disagrees) but these first episodes are by no means terrible. Then, starting with episode 4 the show really takes off and never looks back.

It's a "slice of life" in the vein of Lucky ? Star, but Minami-ke is much better. First of all, it doesn't rely on that old crutch of comedy, referential humour, and instead opts to create its own. In addition to simply having funny dialogue and situations, there's lots of Seinfeld style observational humour, relatable to the average viewer. Indeed, how many of us are aware of the important distinction between a food product's best before date and its expiration date? Who among us has never felt the painful sting of rejection ... because we never had the courage to ask somebody out in the first place?

Let's get back to that episode 4 I mentioned before. This introduces one of my favourite characters ever, Hosaka. I could tell right from the beginning that this guy was pretty amusing, but what really vaulted him into superstardom was his first fantasy of Haruka wiping his sweat off after a hard fought volleyball game. I mean, who the hell fantasizes about a hot chick wiping your sweat off?! HOSAKA DOES. And that's just it! At first glance, he appears to be the "ladies' man" archetype, but he goes far beyond that. Actually, he can't even bring himself to flirt with the girl he likes. And his secret training to become a man capable of satisfying her comprise many of the best scenes in the show. Did I mention that he randomly starts unbuttoning his shirt and feeling himself when he's deep in thought?

Let's see, other characters. Yeah, the three sisters are all great too. I especially like Kana with her enthusiastic cluelessness. She just couldn't believe it when people blew bubble gum bubbles! Godly technique. GODLY TECHNIQUE!
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Old 02-17-2008, 12:32 PM   #323
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Oh my! Dopple, tried out Gintama. Your reaction was better than I thought it would be.

Timothy, it's now time for you to hit Okawari =D. Well......don't expect it to be as great as the first. Actually, I would say that it's half of that the first one is. Of course, I am going to try to be optimistic, and hope for improvement. Hosaka still hasn't shown his true fury.
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Old 02-18-2008, 12:00 AM   #324
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Well, I still haven't watched any new episodes (having people right behind you all day will keep you from doing so. I found time to watch Clannad 18 though =3) However, I have found two things that I'd like to present.

The first is something that has been bothering me. I have been picking on Rozen Maiden alot, and I am feeling kind of bad about it, so I'll apologize to Suigin with this. >.> ........there.

Second is a really funny, but a really creepy picture as well. Here you go. XD Err....I don't think these are serious pictures. If they are, then I feel horrible for laughing at them ._.

Well, I will be off!!!!
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Old 02-18-2008, 01:06 AM   #325
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Re: big bad birtha's suggestion box 2: secret passions unveiled

Still struggling through Hard 3 of Ray Romano. Three stages from the end and at another impasse. Also, Kaiji v. Hosaka today! Kaiji's currently leading, I think I'll lend a vote to Haruka's bodacious beau!
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