Summary:
Back when she had activated the Dimension Eater, Grace had laughed despite the fact that Gallia 4 was her birthplace because she felt that it was finally finished.
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Alto manages to escape from the expanding Fold dislocation bubble, and when he looks back again at Gallia 4, he sees that there's now a huge chunk missing.
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What caused Alto's Valkyrie to crash also causes problems at the Zentradi base, and the power goes out right as Grace tries to make Sheryl take some medicine.
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While Alto and Sheryl are away at Gallia 4, the day of Ranka's first concert rapidly approaches, and Nanase is feeling lonely since hardly anyone is around.
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With Ranka's newfound popularity, Cathy compares her to Cinderella and asserts that Ranka has found the glass slipper after Leon suggests that the clock will eventually strike midnight.
Unless there's some big news, I likely won't be posting any Daily Doses over the next few days so that I can work on the Summer 2008 Preview instead. There's only half as many new shows as the spring, but it still takes a lot of time to research and write up.
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The first Gurren Lagann Parallel Works video, which you can see at left, is out. For those of you who haven't heard about this, various members of GAINAX's staff are pairing Gurren Lagann music with new, alternate world animations. This first one is animator Watanabe Keisuke's, and it combines the song Rap wa Kan no Tamashii da! with a fantasy setting. In it, Simon, Kamina, and Viral are attacking a fortress to free Nia, and they run into Yoko and the woman who was in Viral's dream sequence from episode 26. It's a lot of fun to watch, and it's rekindled my memories of how much I liked the Gurren Lagann OST (i.e. I've got it on my playlist now). The next one video is set to be released June 23rd.
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In more Macross Frontier news, it was announced yesterday on the staff blog that there is a special short movie in store for purchasers of the first volume BD/DVD. It's called ALL THAT VF and will feature many of the Valkyries from the Macross series in commemoration of its 25th anniversary. The first volume is set to be released on July 25th.
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The Japanese blog MUSIC ROOM has put together a list of the top selling anime song singles for the first half of 2008 (stretching from mid-December of last year to last week). Number one on the list is the Shion no Ou ED, My dear friend by Aoyama Thelma, in part because Soba ni Iru ne, a song featuring popular artist SoulJa is also on the CD. Number two is CODE GEASS's OP, O2 by ORANGE RANGE, and number three is Macross Frontier's ED, Diamond Crevasse by Nakabayashi May. You can find the entire top 20 list here.
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The Macross Frontierwebsite has updated with information about the Ranka Lee/Nakajima Megumi mini-live occurring this weekend at the Odaiba VenusFort. The website also now features a video showing Ranka's moves while singing her debut song, Seikan Hikou.
On the topic of Macross music (mainly because this news came out before I started doing Daily Doses, and I've neglected to mention it till now), the second OP starting in July will be the song Lion, performed by both Nakajima Megumi and Nakabayashi May, and the new ED will be Sheryl Nome/Nakabayashi May's Northern Cross.
Famitsu has a preview of Bounen no Xamdou, the upcoming BONES series. Still no official word on which season it'll be airing in, though I would guess this Fall since it's not going to be Summer.
The website for the upcoming Sekirei series has updated with airdates, a new 3-minute trailer (requires Internet Explorer), and the advance screenings times at various Comic Toranoana shops across Japan on June 28th. Sekirei is now set to premiere on TOKYO MX on Wednesday, July 2nd.
The Hidamari Sketch x 365 website has updated with airdates and opening/ending song previews. Hidamari Sketch x 365 is set to premiere on TV Tokyo on Thursday, July 3rd.
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