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With only one month left before the start of the spring 2010 anime season, I’m disappointed at the anime that have been announced. The only series that I’ve been looking forward to for a while is Angel Beats, mainly because Key worked on the story, but also because of how good the trailer looked. Key’s stories have always brought a tear to my eye, but so far they’ve mostly been focused on the relationships between characters (ie: Kanon, AIR, Clannad, Planetarian). The trailer for Angel Beats looks like it contains a lot of action though, so I’m curious to see how Key integrates that into their usual formula.

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Despite how much I like anime, I’ve never been a big fan of incredible events with no viable scientific explanation. This includes things like flying through the air with no apparent form of propulsion, creating vast quantities of energy from nothing, and penetrating the armour of a vehicle using a weaker material by using shear willpower. This is one of the reasons why Martian Successor Nadesico was and still is one of my favourite anime: it used the latest theories of quantum mechanics and newest technological advancements of the 90s to explain how things like instant transport and the terraforming of Mars was possible. When there was no way to explain something (like the generation of particles to perform a gravity blast), the topic was simply avoided rather than trying to make up something fake and untrue.

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Episode 5 of Bakatest will probably be a favourite of all the Hideyoshi fans out there. The episode starts off with Yoshii finding a limited edition cell phone strap. He soon finds out that it belongs to Hazuki and tries to save it from being crushed in the middle of the road, but to no avail. Luckily for him, the school decides to hold a contest and one of the prizes is a set of limited edition straps that Hazuki collects. The twist though,is that the coordinates of the prizes are only revealed by answering the questions on a test correctly.

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Before I get on with what I wanted to talk about, just a warning to anyone who’s watching/planning to watch the last season of Inuyasha but still haven’t seen it, there are spoilers in my post. Unless you don’t care about knowing what happens, or have already seen up to ep 15, then you might want to watch it first.

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Well, we’re past the second week of the new season and I’ve tried to take a look at most of the new anime series that have aired so far. Some were good, some were bad, and some just made me go “WTF?” I thought I’d go into a little detail on what I thought of each one here.

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