From Episode 8 of Milky Holmes, which went up on NicoNico yesterday, though I admit I blatantly stole this screen grab from elsewhere. I mean, aside from the big NicoNico watermark that you’d otherwise be inflicted with, I’m presently on a train and I’ve not got enough 3G bandwidth left to stream the episode back down again merely for the sake of taking a picture.

Anyway, it’s being used as a desk, which is a not-uncommon use for such a thing in anime.
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From, well, it’s in a couple of different episodes, I guess. I took this shot from the last episode, but it’s reused footage from an earlier instalment.
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From Listen To Me Girls, I Am Your Father!, or PapaKiki as those who don’t want to type long titles (or wish to disguise how embarrassingly titled the show they’re watching is) are fond of calling it. This was a submission from Mr. Shillito over the Twitters – I have to admit, I’ve not so much as braved an episode of the show myself. The concept briefing and the Haruhi-design mimicry that the promotional art displayed, along with the shows title, set enough alarm bells off in my head that avoidance seemed the only sensible course of action. As such, I’ve no idea which episode this was from. I’d have to presume it’s the most recent one (Episode 6, was it?).

So, yeah, this isn’t exactly an interesting post, because I’ve got absolutely nothing to say about the show in question. Absolutely nothing at all. Sorry.

This comic came out of a conversation on Twitter last week, coming in light of the Live-Action GeroGero Kitchen from the recent iM@S BD release. By way of questioning whether or not Chicken Breast with Aoi Tori Sauce was real dish or just something named after the song in iDOLM@STER, it was posited that it may have infact been used as a joke in Horizon on the Middle of Nowhere at some point. The joke there being derived from the fact that the protagonist is called Aoi Tori, and he very much has a bust fixation.

I’m not sure we ever came to a conclusion either way as to whether or not such a joke existed, but to me, it kind of sounded rather more like the title to a mucky doujinshi when placed into the context of Horizon…

From episode 3 of Chihayafuru, which I’ve been running catch-up on today. It’s one of the boxes into which Arata was packing his stuff into before moving. Admittedly, I’m going out on a limb at will with this one, with only the last two hiragana visible – it could well be Iyokan (which, admittedly, is a type of Mikan) for all I know. But, whatever.

(I’ll also admit that I’m sitting on two genuine Mikan Boxes I’ve not got around to posting about yet. Need to dig out some DVDs for one of them).

Chihayafuru is pretty good, I guess. I’m not digging on it as much as I expected giving all the praise many have lauded upon it, but it’s a very pleasant watch non-the-less. It didn’t really pick up for me until after they got back to current day post-flashback. I’ve still got a few episodes left before I’ve fully caught up though, but I’m typing this in haste whilst watching Sherlock, so that’s going to have to wait for another eve.