Archive for September, 2006

Back in mid-January, Funimation announced its licensing of Tsubasa Chronicle season one and the Tsubasa/xxxHOLIC crossover movie in Anime Insider magazine and that they would start releasing the series by the end of this year (2006). This fueled rumors that they had also licensed the xxxHOLIC TV series, which had yet to air in Japan and was two months from its premiere. Alas, no further announcements have been made in the 6 1/2 months since then. Why no progress? Here are four possible excuses I culled from brainstorming.
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I’m back in the library again. This afternoon, I asked the landlady when the internet was going to be set up. It turns out sometime “by the end of the week”. So before 11:59pm Saturday night, I should have Internet access in my apartment. I hope. Lack of bandwidth to waste has allowed me to get some good reading time into my day, so maybe it’s a good thing to be unplugged for a while. But only for a while, not two weeks. Read the rest of this entry »

My so-so meatball lunch at the IKEA restaurant

Over the past two days, I’ve been moving stuff into my new apartment and tonight will be my first night sleeping there. My roommate’s cool but I have a couple problems right now: there’s no Internet and one of the outside windows is broken. It seems that I’m not alone in the lack of connectivity department; I heard some guy down the hall (Mike, I think?) calling a friend about it. So right now I’m using my university library’s wi-fi connection to post this. I’m also going to file a repair request tomorrow to fix the window. Read the rest of this entry »

Proud to bring you cheap-ass screenshots!

Over the past week I watched six episodes of Eureka Seven I had recorded off the television using that time-tested technique called “setting a tape”. I haven’t seen the series since school ended in mid-June so hopefully I can get back into it as I’ve enjoyed it thus far. Eureka 7, Robot Chicken, and newcomer Metalocalypse are the only things I watch on Adult Swim anymore, although I’d like to give Bleach and Trinity Blood a try when they start airing next month (Sept. 9). But for now let’s roll some tape!

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