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Just back from the Far East and I had to share:

Nanoha has officially jumped the shark. StrikerS is generic and makes Fate and Nanoha complete background cardboard in favor of new heroines with predictable story arcs. Too bad I was only there for hawt slash yuri with our tormented and barely (but at least now) legal heroines. You have one more ep to reedem yourselves by ditching chibi-Reinforce and bringing back Chrono!

Claymore is the suck. If you wanted to remake Blood+ set in the Lodoss War world with pretensions of being Vampire Hunter D but you accidentally added a heap full of suck you’d still prolly be doing better than Claymore. Ep 1 = End of Line.

Hidamari Sketch is brilliant. Adorable. Delightful. Quite literally cross Honey and Clover with Azumanga Diaoh and you’ll have this stylish and silly, all around pleasant slice of art school comedy. Some may say it’s like watching grass grow – true – but it’s very charming grass!

On the gaming front Gurugumin is the game I was waiting for Nintendo to import for all my 8-bit life span. A super cute action adventure in the mold of Link to the Past or The Secret of Mana done up with cheerfull 3D graphics and fantastic English voice acting. You play a doll like little girl who gains different abilities by swapping a variety of cute head gear as she fights to save a bevy of hapless and doll like monster whom only children can see. The only way this game would be more moetic is if all the characters were cutesy little girls!

I’ll do a more thorough review on Gurugumin and Hidamari Sketch later, but both get a full solid two thumbs up, and not just for their double saccharine helpings of moé! There be quality here. Take note!