At the beginning of Volume 5 of Genshiken, Saki’s comments on Ogiue’s clothing, telling her that if she wore clothing that fit better Ogiue would look much cuter. While we know that at the end of the chapter Ogiue made one failed attempt to revise her wardrobe, what we can see in later chapters is [...]
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I think my eyes doubled in size when I first saw this!!! WOAH!!! What do they have HERE?!?! Announced just today on the official website,  looks like they’re throwing in a pillow cover with the 2nd DVD volume???! Can someone please confirm?? This is just CRAAAAAAAAZY!!!! hahahahahhahahaha What is the production team thinking?!?!? SO FUNNY!!! So who’s getting it???? [...]
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This was a decent episode. I wanted to see Saki play more than Nodoka and I got the opposite lol. Well I can pretty much guess what happened with Saki’s match anyways. As I’ve said before, Nodoka’s playing style is a bit ordinary and in my eyes I didn’t see much of a difference between the her now and the her before the training camp. There were a few wtfs from the audience in the moves she made, but unfortunately I had no idea what was happening. I’m still in ...
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Steve: After watching the entire episode, I wished I had taken the screen shots with raw episode. The subbed episode was horrible to watch especially for an exciting episode like this. Sigh. What can I do about it though? I know I haven’t blogged one of my other anime- Tayutama. I am planning to blog [...]
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After that episode of pointless filler last time around, we finally get down to the real business of the tournament's final qualifying round in episode nine of Saki, with Yuuki once again first up to lead the way.The trouble is, and in her typical style, Yuuki's lack of preparation means that she doesn't have enough tacos to hand to last through her leg of the match - A potentially disastrous
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The official website has made available a wallpaper!! If you  can’t have enough of Saki and the gang then head here right now!! Don’t get your hopes up though! There’s just one!!
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Minnie: I’ve been gone all day because well, I went to City Walk to watch Star Trek. I know it’s been out a while but I’ve been busy. After seeing it, I am really upset about not knowing more about Star Trek earlier. I know names. I know that it’s in outer space. That’s about [...]
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At the Forbidden Planet in Union Square, there was a point when they had copies of every single volume of Tower of the Future on the discount manga rack, except for volume 1. Usually, I would’ve taken that as an opportunity to start collecting the series even though I don’t have the first book.  But [...]
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In episode 8 there’s not much action but rather a few quiet moments between the characters on the night before the finals. We get a bit of character development and in Hisa and Nodo’s case, a bit of their past. A relatively calm episode compared to the previous ones. But don’t worry, there’s still yuri. [...]
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Steve: This is the mandatory let’s explain everyone’s reason for being in this tournament. Sure, everyone loves mahjong and plays it but that can’t be the only reason why they’re in the tournament right? This episode is exactly that. It’s actually a pretty dramatic, enjoyable episode for such a reason. For once, I know exactly [...]
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I suppose this weekend was catch up weekend or something. I finally got caught up on pretty much everything that I actually want to watch. I blame episode 5 for being pretty much just fanservice. Not that I mind fanservice. Hell, if I minded fanservice, I wouldn’t have made it past episode 1, but I [...]
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After getting their first game out of the way and setting the girls off to a winning start in their opener, I was looking forward to a quick leap forward to their next match to decide whether Kiyosumi can grab a place in the National finals.Well, so much for that idea. I have no idea how any series can make an entire episode out of going home after a day at the tournament... Oh wait, yes I do,
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Steve: My, oh my. Saki is actually getting very intense with last episode and this one. All the flaws in Saki are still there but the thing is the episode and plot is now exciting enough to overlook these flaws for the moment. This episode is pretty much Nodoka owning people with a penguin underneath her [...]
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This episode kicks off with Nodoka’s round in the tournament. It actually wasn’t as exciting as the previous three players I thought. Although she was meant to be playing at super speed, in ‘Nodocchi’ true style – I didn’t really feel it?! Maybe I just wasn’t concentrating. I just expected a little bit more – [...]
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Takei Hisa’s ‘Everything is proceeding as I have foreseen’ moment. There were some interesting contrasts in each half of the episode. In the first half, attention was lavished on Nodoka wiping out her opponents while we didn’t even see Saki steamroll hers. But I suppose that was to set up the shock and surprise of [...]
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The first round of the school prefectural competition continues in episode seven of Saki, and all eyes turn to Nodoka as it's her turn to take the table. Well, Nodoka and her penguin, who seems to garner just as much interest as the girl herself.After a slow start, Nodoka soon picks up the pace to the levels previously only seen from her when playing Mahjong online, which eventually causes
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Dear Haruhi, Thank you that in your infinite wisdom, you kept the 2D realm apart from the 3D. That the likes for 16 yr old Saki-nees are virtually unseen of, at least in the vicinity of tanuki activities, lest even the greatest of honourable tanukis will receive more stripes. Thank you also for blessing the hands [...]
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Where's Vegeta with that scouter reading?
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