This one came in from 21cDigitalboy via the Twitters, taken from the second episode of Ao no Exorcist. Well, at least I’m assuming it’s from Ao no Exorcists second episode, as I’m entirely trusting that he didn’t monkey around with the file name in an attempt to befuddle me into looking silly (which, truth told, isn’t the most difficult of operations to successfully execute).

Still, I think this must be the first sighting of the season, and it’s not from one of the shows I’d have thought, but then that always seems to be the case…

Heeeeeeaaaaaaartcatch! Pu-ri-kyu-ah! Alright!

*Ahem*

This is coming from an unexpected place, given that the movie is predominantly set in the French capital, but there is indeed a Mikan Box in the Heartcatch Precure movie. Surprise Mikan Box are the best kind.
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Or merely Ar Tonelico 3 as it was known in Japan. I’m not really sure what NISA thought they were achieving by making such a nerdy game even more unfriendly looking for newbies by including a Hymnos word in the title. Hymnos is the games in-universe language – Qoga, as it happens, means something to the effect of “Final” – so it’s kind of like if they named the Star Trek movies in Klingon.

Except kind of not, since Ar Tonelico isn’t exactly an English name in the first place. Oh, well, I suppose the whole stripping mechanic to the battles is off-putting enough for most anyway.

To get back to the point, though, that Mikan Box is in the Bistro in Eternus Shaft.

This one comes in from Author, taken from… well, he doesn’t say which episode, but it’s from Mahoraba. That’s the cute comedy with the multiple-personality landlady, as opposed to Maburaho, the show which many (myself included) manage to get the name confused with, and is a show about… I don’t know, some kind of magic-related rubbish, I guess.

I can neither confirm nor deny the existence of a Mikan Box in Maburaho at this moment in time.
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On top of the shoe-locker there, to the right of the screen, though the box on the left could possibly be one too.

This post has been a long time in coming. Well, possibly a long time in coming, which is why it’s kind of a relief that I’m actually able to post this. The story goes is that I saw this movie back in May last year at a screening at Londons BFI, which was actually before the movie opened in Japan. The movies director, Koji Masanari, and the producer were in attendance, and they did a Q&A session after the screening.

So I asked him about Mikan Boxes. Really.

Of course, the Mikan box above is only a small element on display, and even then it was only up there for a couple of seconds. Whilst I obviously have the powers of my finely-honed Mikan Eye, it was quite possible that I’d not seen what I believed I had. This confirmation is important to me, as it means that I only asked a really dumb question, as opposed to a really dumb and inaccurate one.
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