HIMEKA – Hatenaki Michi PV (Letter Bee ED)

 

If you've been following my Letter Bee (Tegami Bachi) posts, there's probably little need for me to go into how much I've been looking forward to the full version of the ending theme. Likewise with an introduction for HIMEKA, the French Canadian girl living out the anisong/otaku dream in Japan. As mentioned in my post a couple of weeks ago, the single for Hatenaki Michi ("Endless Road") was released on November 25th. Back then, I also brought up how devoted fans were banding together to prevent her music from becoming "available" online. Because of that, I was debating whether or not I should even post the PV.

...More after the jump!

Nyan Koi! – 11

(Furenzu)
"Friends"

For an episode devoted primarily to Kanako and Junpei, the title "Friends" is almost like a spoiler in disguise. I must've been unconsciously expecting something to happen though, as this was a mere afterthought.

Kampfer – 11

Whlen (Kanki no Uta)
"Choice ~Joyous Song~"

Out of all the shows I'm covering this season, Kampfer is the one that usually has me frantically trying to get a post out about. The plot isn't overly profound -- something that's blatantly obvious after learning of the Moderators' motives -- but I almost want to call it "harem anime done right" because of characters like Shizuku. She's kissing Natsuru at least once per episode and it's gotten to the point where Mikoto and Akane can't sit idly any longer.

Naruto 475 – Why Settle For One or Two Sharingans


 

Let's cut to the chase on this one. An arm covered in eyeballs is SO GROSS. They really need to get over this whole doujutsu craze in Naruto. The next thing you know, Danzou's going to whip Sharingans out of his nipples. YUCK!

In less disgusting news, I don't know why it didn't occur to me that Fuu's from the Yamanaka clan. The whole mind-body swapping technique was pretty much a dead giveaway, plus his white/blond hair. I guess I had trouble imagining someone from Ino's clan as a top ninja of Root. What was less obvious though is that Torune's an Aburame. Unless I've overlooked something, I don't recall him performing any techniques until now, let alone bug-related ones. Now that I think about it, the mask he wears does follow the clan's tendency to hide their eyes. That said, I'm not going to get into the speculation game regarding Aburame Shikuro. However, I will admit that bringing up an unfamiliar name was a nice teaser of things to come. Much like the Yamanakas, I didn't really picture an Aburame being the other top ninja in Root. My impressions of those two clans came primarily from Ino and Shino, who aren't too impressive. As such, I like how they changed my opinion of them here.

Regardless, I don't see how anyone's supposed to fight Madara at this point when he has the ability to phase in and out of existence as he pleases. Perhaps the only way to attack him is with a similar space-time distortion technique, such as Kakashi's Mangekyou Kamui. I definitely don't see Naruto being able to do anything against him unless he starts innovating some new techniques, but I'm sure they'll tackle that obstacle if/when we get there. For now, it's Sasuke vs Danzou. I totally forgot Sasuke and Karin were just chilling inside Madara's alternate realm all this time. This fight should be interesting, but I was actually happier about seeing Karin again.

11eyes – 10

bukott angyal (Majo Kakusei)
"The Witch Awakens"

Slipping razor blades into Misuzu's tea must be Yuka's way of saying, "Die you stupid slut." For all we know, it was probably poisoned too just for good measure. Does someone have to die here before we sound the yandere alarm? Yuka's stripping and throwing herself at Kakeru as well, with Shiori telling him to just sleep with her and get it over with. Anyone else see something wrong with this picture?