“But DiGi”, I hear you proclaim – or rather imagine hear you proclaim, as otherwise you’d be lurking in my house in a location unbeknownst to myself, a fact I’d find bother bizarre and terrifying – “You’ve already done Hayate!”.

“Aha!”, I exclaim in response, “I have outwitted you, for I specifically denoted that post as the second season, whereas this is for the one which WAH has dubbed The Good One! Ergo, my one Mikan-post per series rule has not been cast asunder!”.

“Still”, I continue, triumphant in a meaningless victory yet still sympathetic to my readers, “take some solstice in the fact that Bandai were actually kind enough to subtitle the boxes label!”

I imagine you thinking this is little comfort in light of this curiously composed entry.

From the first episode of Kanamemo, we have the first catch of the new season.

It’s just a shame it’s not from a better show – for something based on a four panel gag manga, it’s kind of astonishingly light on anything that’s actually funny. It was pretty boring, to be honest.

This weeks Saki was kind of boring as well, actually. Maybe I’m just not in the mood for anime today…

-update- post updated to be number 27.5, for no reason other than me accidentally using #28 on another post, and I’d rather not risk any aggregator funnies.

From episode 7 – the beach episode – comes this rather unusual and distinctive design.
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It looks like Bandai Namco are gearing up to announce a new iDOLM@STER game next week.

Well, I say that, but that page does seem to confirm that an actual sequel, rather than yet another rehash of the same materials, is in production, but they may not release many details on that until the fifth anniversary next summer. Bummer.

Which kind of makes this non-news, really. I do wonder if the “Next Game Project” mentioned towards the bottom of the page will actually turn out to be something different to the sequel, though – it seems like kind of a long period for them not to be doing anything in the game-space release wise for the series, and it seems to me that they haven’t milked SPs new characters for all they’re worth yet. I wouldn’t be astonished if they actually announced a PS3 version of the game or something.

Or, of course, I could just be completely misreading the page – it’s not like I actually read moonspeak to any degree of competency.

Well, it did say Mikan in the Japanese print of the 22nd volume of the Negima manga, but for the US print they elected to translate the text on the boxes. Unfortunate, then, that they managed to mix the text between the Mikan and it’s neighbouring Ringo box, then – just check out the disparity between the pictures and the text on the boxes.
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