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So I was watching Clannad After Story Kyou’s Chapter when I noticed two very familiar characters in Tomoya’s classroom.

Anyone who has seen Card Captor Sakura would recognize the characters Sakura Kinomoto and Tomoyo Daidouji right away. For anyone that hasn’t seen it (shame on you), here’s a reference pic:

Just thought I’d point out this little scene for all the CCS fans out there who watch Clannad. I didn’t think the Kyou chapter was anything special, but it’s a must for Kyou fans considering you never see her act embarrassed in the regular series. Hopefully they’ll make a Kotomi chapter too one day ^.^

The new season of anime has started, and that means it’s time to check out all the new series.

I just finished watching the first episode of NEEDLESS, an action anime with what looks to be a generic rising up against oppresion story. Normally I would find this kind of story boring, but what kept me watching until the end of the episode was the similarites between NEEDLESS and Gurren Lagann. In NEEDLESS there’s a useless kid called Cruz which reminded me of Simon, a cool dude named Blade who I guess is sorta like Kamina, and a booby-bouncing girl named Eve. If you don’t want to watch the anime to see the similarities, I’ve pointed them out on the screenshot below. Now the only thing missing is giant robots, but I’m 90% sure at least one will show up sometime in the series.

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Along with E2’s (Etsu’s) Girls Girls Girls! volume 2 illustration collection, I also bought the volume 3 illustration collection. This volume focuses on the cover girls of all the E2 Magazines from volumes 1-16, the poster girls from volumes 1-15, and the pick-up girls from volumes 1-7.

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I’ve heard that E2 Magazine (also called Etsu) had really nice artwork so when I cam across volume 2 of the Girls Girls Girls! artbook I decided to get it, and I wasn’t disappointed. This volume contains artwork of girls streatching across two pages for each month in the first section, and a girl representing a region of Japan in the second section. In total there are over 70 colour pages of artwork from various artists. To give you an idea of what the artwork is like, I scanned some of the pages of the section with girls representing different areas of Japan. (sorry for the poor quality, but holding a perfect-bound book open over a scanner is harder than it sounds)

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Anyone who’s been following Natsu no Arashi knows by now that time travel within the show happens on a regular basis, but there’s an important question that Hajime brings up: what happens when you go back in time and change history?

When Hajime and Arashi go back in time to save someone, do the people who are saved just suddenly pop into existence in the present or did they exist even before anyone went back in time?

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