Quite late with this – time seems to be evaporating lately.  Nothing major happens in either of these episodes so I just rolled them into one (will be doing the same Bakuman 12 & 13).  Episode 11 was mostly about the Amazoness, whereas episode 12 was setting up a tournament amongst the Under Bridge residents…….seems [...]
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Violence solves all problems Is everyone enjoying the plethora of Anime Award categories Kyokai’s been pumping out? DON’T FORGET TO VOTE because something happens. When you do. Something…good. I think. Anyways, sorry for the slight delay for Arakawa. I’ve been quite distracted by shiny video games recently. The days have just been flying by~ Swiftly [...]
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In today’s Bridge x Bridge, it’s Battle Royale time as the village fights to the death, or rather till they fall in the water or pop eachother’s balloons, in order to fufill their own personal wishes. Who will come up top and who will sink? Find out now! We start off with an announcement for
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My money’s on Sleeping Beauty, then again… Clearly, the plot in this series is a rather amorphous being. In other words, it’s the penultimate epi and, rather than handing out boarding passes for the Venus-bound rocket we saw at the end of the last epi, the gang play games instead. Literally. A Battle Royale style game, [...]
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This may be the penultimate episode of Arakawa Under the Bridge x2, but it still has no time to dally with Nino and company's forthcoming trip to Venus (or wherever the Hell they're actually going), instead going off at a complete tangent in the name of comedy; as expected from this series, arguably. The tangent in question involves an idea of the Mayor's to play a "king game" between the
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In this, the penultimate episode of Arakawa Under the Bridge, the Chief arranges for a tournament to determine who might be king.  The winner gets to issue a royal decree that all the residents of the riverbank have to obey.  … Continue reading →
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I never watched more of the first season of Arakawa than an episode and a half, and I originally had no intention to keep up with its sequel. After hearing so many praises and requests though, I eventually decided to check out Arakawa Under the Bridge X Bridge, and surprisingly actually stuck with it for [...]
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For once, I disagree. There was so much unexpected WIN in this epi I’m not sure I know where to begin. When I heard the Amazoness was back and the driving force for most of this epi, my heart sank a little. Don’t get me wrong, I enjoyed the way Ric and Nino ended up drinking [...]
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TOO. MANY. SPARKLES. Kyokai: Yes! I’m finally done with the holidaying up of Metanorn! Of course, those lists won’t finish themselves so let me entertain you for a breather in reviewing Arakawa Under the Bridge. The past week was sure busy and so it took me time to actually sit down and watch Arakawa’s two [...]
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As the title quote says, there are plenty of surprises in today’s Arakawa, such as Amazoness cleaning up good, P-Ko in several hot outfits, and the fact that Hoshi may have another girl in his sights. We start off with a summer festival as we see the girls in their kimono’s, including P-Ko! However, the
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If you thought we'd seen the last of the Amazoness after losing her battle to gain Ric's attention with Nino, think again - she's well and truly back for episode eleven, where her behaviour dominates proceedings. Her return begins as festival time begins for the under-bridge residents - one has to wonder how they can afford entire festival layouts for a handful of people, but I suppose it's best
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It’s time for the Bon festival under the bridge.  Everybody’s all dressed up in their best kimonos.  Rec and Hoshi are both struck speechless by Nino in her kimono.  And when the tengu come by carrying the head of some … Continue reading →
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I have saved this episode until I had the ability to makes screenshots, and now that my screenshot-making abilities have returned, I have come to deliver by far the manilest episode of Bridge x Bridge yet. We start off our tribute to man with Takai’s tribute to Kou-Sama, through song: Afterwards, it’s Diet Time, as
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After ep9′s lacklustre offerings, ep10 in all its ridiculous glory was a joy.  It was nice that they remembered about Venus, and even if the tangent we were sent down had very little to do with progressing the plot, it was still a lot of fun! First off though, we had a new OP – [...]
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Thank God for censors. All together, now: ‘KOU SAMA! GO SUMMER! KOU SAMA! GO!!’ …Er, I’d carry on a bit more, but they didn’t sub the rest of this Takai-centric OP after that point. But no matter, because, even just 58 seconds into this epi, we can tell that the Shaft A-listers must have returned from the [...]
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I recently tried to watch Dragon Ball Kai for nostalgic reasons, but it got pretty boring. The tenth episode of Arakawa really had me laughing though despite being so similar. The crew under the bridge had to lose some weight … Continue reading →
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This was a pretty dull episode this week – not getting the sudden obsession with all things tea-party.  Still at least the segment with Shiro & Shimazaki was amusing.   The residents enjoying dressing up as princesses/princes and having tea really didn’t need this much time dedicated to it – the OP animation basically covers [...]
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So, it looks as though our bridge-dwelling residents are still all set for their trip to Venus... but apparently there's a weight limit of 500kg on the rocket they'll be using.  Wait, what rocket, where did this come from?  Of well, anything to give us the contents of another episode of Arakawa Under the Bridge x2. Given this strict weight limit, it's pretty clear that all and sundry are going
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It’s been a few episodes since the gang decided to go to Venus with Nino.  But the weight limit for the rocket is 500 kilograms.  Everyone with too much weight will have to lose it.  It won’t be an easy … Continue reading →
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Where is my fabulous suicide, damn it!? Kyokai: Yo all, I’m quite fashionably late as us Asians like to say. Though on principal I’m quite a punctual person but hey, juggling a full time job that actually bleeds onto personal/social time, I amaze myself to even find time for aniblogging. But I love it and [...]
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