The House of AnimeJB

I figure this’ll help me remember where I left off of things so I can start back in on them again. XD

Full Lists at ANN:

Seen Some
Seen All
Will Not Finish

Anime: Currently Watching

Bleach - 127 (on hold until crappy filler passes)
Getsumen to Heiki Minna - 7
Hayate no Gotoku - 21
Idolmaster Xenoglossia - 21
Lovely Complex - 20
Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS - 8
Mai Otome Zwei - 3
Nagasarete Airantou - 14
Naruto: Seppuuden - 27
Overdrive - 9

Spring 2007: 6 Episode Test

Darker than Black - 1
El Cazador de la Bruja - 4
Gigantic Formula - 1
Heroic Age - 3
Kami-chama Karin - 3
Kaze no Stigma - 1
Monster Princess - 3
Murder Princess - 2
Romeo and Juliette - 1
Sisters of Wellber - 1
Sola - 3
Tengen Toppa Gurren-Lagaan - 3

Summer 2007 Anime - 6 Episode Test

CODE-E - 4
Mushiuta - 2
Sky Girls - 5
So Long, Mr. Despair - 1
Zombie Loan - 4

Anime: On Hold for Future Watchings:

Black Cat
Blood+ - 1
Bokusatsu Tenshi Dokoro-Chan
Boogipop Phantom
Claymore - 6
Code Geass - 1
Death Note - 1
Demon Detective Loki
Fate/Stay Night
Ikkitousen Dragon Destiny
Initial D Stage 3
Initial D Stage 4
Kashimashi Girl Meets Girl - 2
Otome wa Boku ni Koishiteru - 2
Reideen - 10
Soukou no Strain - 1
Utawarerumono
Venus Versus Virus - 1

Episode Summary

We start off with a brief history of the bike race called the Tour de France, then a reporter tells us that a Japanese person is in first place of that race at this very moment - it’s Shinozaki Mikoto.

Flashback to before he became a bicyclist, and we learn that Shinozaki Mikoto is clumsy and a bit of a dorky pushover when we see that he has trouble riding a motor scooter and has been sent by a group of guys to buy them all lunch. He ends up eating lunch by himself afterwards and reflects that though he is in high school now, he doesn’t really know anything about what he should do.

He stays after class to work on a painting of the girl he likes, Fukuzawa Yuki, when she walks into the room. After some awkward conversation she figures out he likes her, and puts him off by saying that she has a boyfriend in college with a car, though she is stretched out on his desk while she’s saying this. She tells him that rumor has it she likes more than one guy at a time, and if he changed himself a little she’d think about dating him.

As she’s about to walk off, Shinozaki gets the courage to ask if she would model for a painting. She agrees and while he’s painting her, he gets really caught up in the moment, painting wildly and standing on the desk. She’s amazed at his seriousness and his expression reminds her of someone named Yousuke. She ends up throwing the painting out the window because he drew her in a bikini.

Before she leaves, Yuki asks Shinozaki if he wants to join the bicycling club. He has no idea what she’s talking about, but then follows her out to a shed where she wheels out a bicycle. She starts saying all these things about how it’s a passionate heart that makes you a good rider, trying to convince him to join the club. Embarrassed, he tells her he can’t ride a bike and runs away.

That night, after waking up from a strange dream in which he was riding a bike perfectly and Yuki was riding on the back of it in a bikini, he gets up and goes to the school even though it’s still dark out. There he finds the bike, and for some reason it looks a lot more appealing to his eyes than it did before.

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Episode Summary

The country of Forland is home to several different kinds of monsters, which seems to be just fine with a group of bounty hunters that go after monsters for money. Lead by a woman named Faris, the three seem to be good at what they do. On this particular hunt, they are unaware that Forland’s royal family is under attack.

Princess Alita barely manages to escape with the help of her subjects, and runs away through Erure Forest. In the forest, both of her guards fall victim to an attack by a rather large monster. Alita runs, and by chance meets with Faris at the edge of the forest. Scared by the monster’s roar as it exits the forest after her, Alita jumps at Faris, and the two women fall off of a nearby cliff. On the way down, with Alita clutching Faris tightly, the two glow strangely, and fall. Pete and Dominikov, the other two in the trio of bounty hunters, break the women’s falls.

Shortly after, Faris wakes up, only to think that she’s died. She sees her body laying on the ground, and realises that she is somehow in Princess Alita’s body. Alita wakes up soon after, and Dominikov informs the two of their Soul Transfer. Apparently he’s heard of this. When two people face death together, sometimes their souls transfer.

Before anything else happens, the large monster attacks, and Faris (in Alita’s body) quickly kills it. Alita (in Faris’ body) decides that this situation is exactly what she needs to take back her kingdom. She offers herself as collateral, promising any reward that Faris wants in return for her help. Faris eventually agrees, and they go to take back the castle.

After a large display of battle prowess, Faris dethrones the rebellious Doctor Akamasi (or Onion Head as she calls him), by physically throwing him out of it. She then declares that she is Princess Alita Farland, and that she is taking back her throne. Jodo, the small Chancelor, can obviously tell that something isn’t normal.

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This is just a quick page to note how reviews will work on this site - at least for anime, tv shows, drama, etc.

Basically I have in place what I call a “6 episode test”. I watch an episode and I don’t outright reject it I internally agree to watch 6 episodes of it and give it a chance to, well, not suck. By the end of the six episodes, it not beforehand, I’ll know whether to stick with or drop the series.

That being said, when starting a newly released series, I’ll review episode 1, then let you know if it’s passed my 6 episode test and made it into my regular rounds. Later I will review the series as a whole when it is complete.

I just did a bit of shifting about on my server. Everything should be back online and running properly, but please do let me know if you notice anything broken throughout my .net sites.

I’ve managed to get up a bunch of fiction and some icons. I also have a lot of plugins working, and I have a page so you can see which ones I’m using. I think it’s looking pretty good so far, but I still need to come up with a layout. I also need a way to RSS to specific categories. Hmm….

When I upgraded, all my King Category stuff stopped working and I haven’t found an update on its official site. Any suggestions?

• Akismet
• Next/Previous Posts In Same Category
• PHP Exec
• Podpress
• Quoter
• Sidebar Widgets
  • Bookmark Widget
• Ultimate Tag Warrior
• WP Category Posts
• WPG2

I need something to be on the front page, so here it is.

Basically this is going to be a site for me to put up all my content. Images and fiction will be in blog posts so that you guys can comment on it, and some other more static pages will be added for things like fanlistings.

Also there will be a nice widget section for code snippets I write that you guys can use.

AnimeJB: The Dot Net, though run through WordPress, is more of a content management system instead of a blog. I really just wanted a place where I could put all of my projects and information in one place and allow people to comment on them if they wanted. Having a blog sort of thing going on in the background is also useful in that people can easily find what they’re looking for.

Essentially, I wanted a sort of portal or network type site.

The name “AnimeJB” basically came about when I wanted to make an anime roleplaying site (it would have been similar to and partners with the late Toonopolis Fighting World). I think the JB stood for Jujitsu Bodokan or something like that. It really was only coincidence that the JB fit my “in real life” initials.