Warning! If you'd ever thought of Lucky Star as being something that could be spoiled, there's a considerable amount of spoilers in both text and screenshot form up ahead. Just saying.

It's all over! D: I've finally watched the last episode of Lucky Star. Since around episode 15 or so I was wondering how they were going to end such an epic series. I guess now I have my unexpected answer.

Seconded.

Yay Hiyori. :D Certainly one of my favorite characters.

... lol

Costumes + Everybody look familiar? You actually see this coming as soon as the 4th scene where Patty suggests a cheering thing for the school festival. Now that we've seen the entirety of the dance, can we expect to see even more　「もってけ！セーラー服」　choreographies and parodies floating around? I'm pretty sure Kyoto Animation was going for a 2007 version of the famous 晴れ晴れ dance they popularized in Haruhi.

And the final scene of the main show. Like I said, I'd long wondered how they were to end such a series. In slice-of-life and friendship anime like this, they usually end it either with a graduation episode or some other big event where they realize that they enjoy each other's company, and they're going to miss stuff when it's over.

That being said, the school festival is the big event, and Kagami's tsundere makes the mix. But I certainly wasn't expecting the final curtain for the show to be a curtain raising.

After that scene, and Shiraishi's usual funny singing at the end of the episode, I was actually hoping for something else to happen. But nothing. So I guess it's goodbye to the girls of Lucky Star. I'll see them again on the great interweb, on imageboards and blogs and other things, or when I replay episodes now and then.

さらば、らき☆すた

Episode 21 of Lucky Star features the return of Shiraishi Minoru to Lucky Channel. Unfortunately, he's gone nuts, no thanks to Akira's insensitivity. :D I say it's about time, though. Now that he's destroyed the Lucky Channel set, and apparently he's been "sold out", and he even quit, what's to happen of that section of the show? :D

I got the episode yesterday, subbed by a different group. It's hilarious. And Hiyori is my new favorite character. Left-handed, meganekko, and an artist like me.



It's too bad these characters were introduced so late in the anime, but they probably get more time in the 4-koma. So after the anime, I'll be looking for the 4-koma. I don't like looking for manga/light novels while watching the anime. It always has to be finish one first, then get the other.

Oh man. First we watched the end of Heroes season 1 yesterday. Pure awesome.

Next, Hayate no Gotoku episode 8 subtitled was released by Static-Subs/Eclipse. I haven't watched it yet, but I will probably by tomorrow (downloading something else).

Manabi Straight episodes 10, 11 and 12 subtitled all released within the same week by Eclipse. The ending is very sad, especially if high school was a memorable time to the watcher, which it was for me.

Lucky Star episode 7 released by AFK. Gonna download it tomorrow or the day after, too, along with Hayate no Gotoku.

Maria-sama ga Miteru OVA episode 4 (raw) scheduled for the end of this month, or so I've heard. Looking forward to that as well.

Granado Espada has been in Pre-Open Beta Testing since May 17th, whatever that means. It's like a post-alpha kinda thing, eh? In other words, supposedly less bugs than an alpha, but more than a beta? I dunno lol. Anyway the installer is 3.6 GB (good grief!). I'd already downloaded it once, but I made the mistake of downloading the entire 3.6 GB in one file. Chance that there was a power fluctuation in the middle of it, so the file ended up being corrupted, thereby wasting about 45 hours of my precious internet download time. So here I am, downloading it again, this time getting them piece-by-piece, so that if I get a fluctuation or a corrupted file, I only have to download about 700 MB, instead of the whole stupid 3.6 GB.

Btw, I wonder why the installer is so huge... I think I remember Mikey saying that there's a lot of media files like talking and stuff, but even so, 3.6 GB is overkill, don't you think? It's only a pre-open beta. But whatever, as long as the game is good, I guess.

There's this awesome new show I'm watching called Heroes. It's... so amazing. And no I'm not going to look for media about it online because I don't want spoilers. And that's all I'm going to say about it for now.

Additionally, I'm also watching Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuutsu (The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi). It's a little late; I know I should've watched this sooner. It's so awesome. Haruhi is insane. D: I'm up to episode 4 (downloading more episodes as I go).

WinD's fansub of Lucky Star episode 4 came out a few days ago. I'm told AFK has up to episode 5 out now, but I prefer WinD's work. I might download episode 5 just for a fix, but when WinD comes out with theirs, I'm getting that.

I downloaded a raw version of Manabi Straight episode 10. And it was awesome, too. I'm thinking of downloading more raw episodes, but they're not too easy to find, especially if I'm a little hesitant to do so.

らき☆すた (Lucky Star)

This is a new anime I'm watching (also a manga by the same name) that follows the same style of humor of Cromartie High School. The difference is that the characters are cutely-drawn high school girls. But holding meaningless conversations, or leading you one way and turning out the other, all that kind of humor is still there.

Honestly, my Japanese skills are not enough to enjoy this anime raw. D: They have so many inside-jokes, references and puns that won't be understood unless you know what they're talking about.

It's hilarious and cute, and I love it. :D

I made a sketch of a simple fan-art of Chai Xianghua from Soul Calibur (particularly, her first costume in Soul Calibur 3). I'll be coloring it tonight and tomorrow and I'll upload it here and on my Deviant Art gallery.