From episode 15 of Little Busters, though I gather it frequently appears as a makeshift table in prior episodes. I think the fact that the show has been airing for over three months now and the first that I’d actually heard about it was when I spotted it in a random picture in my Twitter feed this morning probably speaks volume about this show. Well, at least speaks volumes about how few damns people give about it.

The show did just get picked up on Crunchyroll, who’ve decided to start at the half-way point and run catch-up on the earlier episodes at a later date. Arguments about rewarding piracy and penalizing the law-abiding aside, I would like to praise it as being a rare example of realistic thinking within this industry – as far as these things go, the people who’d be willing to start the show at the beginning at this point will still likely be willing to do so some weeks or months from now, but those who’re watching the show in “realtime”… not so much. In a world where things don’t magically translate themselves, it’s the logical move if you want people to actually watch your stream instead of choosing alternative methods.

But… yeah, no-one seems to particularly give a damn about Little Busters anyway. At least the OP and ED are catchy, I guess.

Because clearly the thing to be doing when people are making fun of (an admittedly entirely dumb) feature on the internet is to go at it with renewed aplomb.

Saying that, I actually uploaded this image six months ago and promptly forgot about it, meaning that I’ve absolutely no idea what I was going to write about Yurunmates at this point. Ho-hum.

From the second episode of Tamako Market, first brought to my attention by Calaggie on Twitter, who runs the almost-as-odd-as-this-feature Anime Tokei tumblr. Not that it’s particularly hard to miss it in this particular case, but credit where credit is due and all that.

I’d been expecting a Mikan Box to show up in the show at some point given it’s setting – I mean, a shopping district is inevitably going to have a produce store of some kind – but this isn’t really the context that I’d been expecting it to turn up in, used as a perch for an overweight talking bird. Now that one has turned up, though, I can stop paying way too much attention to what’s going on in the background.
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At least I’m assuming there’s a mikan box in the actual show – in perhaps the laziest Mikan Watch post ever, I’ve not actually watched the show at all, rather this was spotted within the Crunchyroll news stories whilst I was looking to see if there was anything new streaming this afternoon. Of course, this means I’ve got absolutely nothing further to say about the show at all.

(P.S – Woooooo! AKB0048!)

From episode 11 of the show whose full title I’m refusing to regurgitate on this occasion, because these unwieldy light-novel titles are a pox upon the world which really must be cleansed. I’m pretty sure there was another mikan box – or at least a fraction of one – in one of the earlier episodes during the school festival preparations, but I neglected to grab a screendump on that occasion.

That being said, I’m pretty sure this is a fake – I mean, look at that large, cartoony writing scrawled over the front of it. I’m pretty sure Rikka just realised the amazing cult powers of the tangerine box and fabricated one to install in the Far Eastern Magic Nap Society of Summer club room.

I only just got around to finishing Chuunibyou today, having delayed on the last couple of episode for various reasons (mostly just waiting for Anime on Demand to get them posted, but also because it’s been a busy few weeks). It’s a cute enough show, I guess. I do appreciate the fact that they realise that a little of the shows main gimmick goes a long way, and don’t overplay the chuunibyou-ness anywhere near as much as they could have, but it’s hard not to think that the show doesn’t really have all that much else going for it. The first few episodes of the series, where they really layered on the more surreal elements the thickest, were the most entertaining, but it really couldn’t have continued on the same path without outstaying its welcome. The shows attempts at serious (melo)drama ended up ringing a bit hollow with me, though, and I came out of it feeling that it’d been strangely empty an experience, and probably not something that’s going to stick with me. I can’t really imagine how thin an experience the original novels were without Dekomori and Kumin to pad things out.