9. The true tears of Bandai

   Did anyone notice one thing suspiciously missing from Robert's blog post? The true tears, coincidentially available from Robert's store, was not mentioned at all.

   As it happened, I was buying nothing but Bandai for months, between Gurren Lagann, Rocket Girls, Tokikake, and Lucky Star (with one small ($20) exception of …

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10. Strike Witches TV 08

    Although I stopped after 06, I was aware of 08, and planned to buy it when stars align right. The only problem was, I ran out of BOST points, they only sold points in blocks, and I didn't want on principle to have a few bucks wasted. The result was …

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11. Suguru on Lucky Star 22

    Dame-Dame:

    Not bawling crying, mind you, but this scene always manages to bring a tear to my eyes (where Konata's dad explains to Konata, with her mother's ghost watching, that the one thing he was confident of was that he loved her mother more than anyone else could). A lot …

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12. John is still mad

    John's talking about Windy Tales, an all around exceptional series. I agree that an R1 release is not likely and I even voted with my money by buying R2s.

    Nonetheless he continues to play "guess which one doesn't belong":

    However, in the present American market in which even exceptional and …

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13. Piano 01-03

    Comparing Piano to Narue turned out to be a mistake. If anything, it's more like Aria. Every one of the first three episodes ends with Miu saying, "this day sucked so bad, but it was wonderful anyway."

    

    I like the designs. And there was no dumb garbage like wind in …

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14. John gone mad

    OK, maybe we just have a difference of opinion here, but look:

    Central Park Media deserves praise for bringing a great number of exceptional anime releases to America, including Grave of the Fireflies, Project A-ko, Lodoss War, Now & Then, Here & There, and Urusei Yatsura: Beautiful Dreamer. But CPM is also …

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15. Midori no Hibi ends

    As I mentioned in the opener post, Lawson's old old blog was my primary reference, but as I think now Brickmuppet prompted me to act. When he says "NO FREAKKING WAI GTFO" in bold underlined italics, it must be good, right? And it was!

    

    I regret to say that I …

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16. Nanoha ends

    Nanoha is not a bad show by any stretch, but it completely mismatches my sensibilities. I became restless in ep.10, started to resent it actively in ep.11, and I did not take any notes for the last two episodes. I only gathered 35 screencaps, a long unheard low …

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17. Midori no Hibi 08

    I've seen 12 episodes and saved the last one to be savoured later. But no matter what happens, Midori no Hibi has already done a remarkable thing: it made me to like the filler. I've seen some pretty strong filler before, in RahXephon 15 and Kamichu 12, for instance. But …

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18. Rocket Girls rework for DVD, bis

    As I mentioned previously, Rocket Girls was changed for DVD. Most of the changes had to do with the Matsuri's bust size, and concentrated around ep.10, so I suspected that a specific person or team screwed the pooch.

    As it turns out, early episodes were touched up too. In …

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