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So, Guiche names his familiar Belldandy. He immediately loses his two girlfriends, gets beaten up by Zero’s familiar, and becomes the laughingstock of the school. Jason, watch out.
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I finially got around to watching Zero no Tsukaima, and I have good news: it’s not just a harry potter ripoff. Sure, it takes place at a magical academy, and it has girls and boys, but that’s about it. This series is funny, let me tell you. I’m seeing some potential for a good story [...]
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We discover how Saito was lured from Earth. What is it with characters sticking their fingers in giant liquid blobs, I mean seriously you’re only asking for trouble, ‘Event Horizon’ anyone? Pretty… Saito has to learn his place as a ‘commoner’ washing her panties, sitting on the floor at breakfast and how comfortable Louise feels getting naked [...]
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Louise de la Valiel is a failing student at the Tristein School of magic. All her attempts at magic end in disaster, which is why she’s got the nickname zero. Two of the other girls are laughing at Louise, so she tells them that her next spell to summon a familiar will be totally amazing…and [...]
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Louise Francoise le Bran de la Valiel wakes up and prepares for her first day as a second year student at the Tristein School of Magic. However, the year starts off badly, as Chevreuse the Clay invites Louise to try her hand at some simple alchemy, and Louise blows up the entire classroom. [...]
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I think I'll be placing an order for this from my usual source soon... Sigh, I hope I don't overspend this month. I just passed ￥8,000 to Kwok last night so that he can pick some stuff up for me in Japan. He's probably preparing to leave for the airport by now... Zero no Tsukaima is [...]
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Zero no Tsukaima, ep. 2: The Commoner Familiar (Heimin no Tsukaima) As Saito tries to get adjusted to life in this magical world, he gets challenged to a duel by Guiche. More detailed summary following the pics (click to enlarge): Saito tells Louise about Earth, which she refuses to believe, and he basically learns that he’s [...]
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Summary: When Saito was still on Earth, he was walking down the street one day when he came upon a round green object in the middle of the road.
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We now turn to the second batch of summer-anime. These were the shows which were the most hyped for the summer-season. Coyote Ragtime Show This is a science-fiction action series which just oozes with style. The first episode was more focused on the side-characters, instead of the main characters, which means that we haven’t seen too [...]
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The production quality wasn’t too shabby and we got a lot of borderline-to-medium amusing material. I can see a lot of good coming out of the premise, along with a lot of band. Nothing here’s truly original, but what do you expect in the year 2006?
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In my Summer 2006 anime preview, I thought Zero no Tsukaima looked like an anime version of Harry Potter. I got a chance to look at the raw, and so far, the anime looks good. Here's my first peek at Zero no Tsukaima:
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   Opening: "First kiss" by ICHIKO - Yup, it's a Yoshiaki Iwasaki OP, the character names give it away (see Bottle Fairy or Sensei no Ojikan or Gokujou Seitokai). Anyways, I like it, shows off Louise's tsuntsuntsundereness well. Ending: "Honto no kimochi" by Louise@Rie Kugimiya - Let's just go ahead and call this "The Tsundere Song" ;)      準備中
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A very blantantly Harry Potter rip off setting and the Shana-esque voice cast is the distinguishing feature of this show. I mean… doesn’t the whole tsukaima summoning scene looks just like the first Quidditch class in Harry Potter 1? And man… everytime Louise speaks, I see her hair turning all red and her cape looks [...]
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Zero no Tsukaima waste no time in trying to rake in money from figure collectors by launching a pretty impressive figure of Louise. I have not watched the first episode raw though. I’ll have to wait for the fansub version because deciding whether I want to get this figure or not. But judging at the [...]
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Zero no Tsukaima, ep. 1: Zero Louise (Zero no Louise) In the continent of Halkeginia, there is a magic academy called Tristein, where young magic users are studying. One of them is Louise Francois le Bran dela Valliel, who is so inept and dangerous when in comes to magic, her classmates call her “Zero” as [...]
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summary updated. Quite an interesting episode.   Luiz is called Zero no Luis because she haven’t succeeded in any of her magic. Even [...]
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