Good stuff going on all fronts.

Watched some episodes of Ano Hi Mita Hana no Namae o Bokutachi wa Mada Shiranai (gah, mouthful!) and found it to be most agreeable. Drama running off of some excellent characterization, well-executed, uninterested in moe (not that Anjou is hard on the eyes). Normally shows with a little-girl character turn me off pretty quickly, but Menma is making it work. Definitely worth a try.

Another show I've taken a run at is Princess Jellyfish. Based around the travails of a group of modern-day female otaku - not "I like the cute stuff" anime otaku, but grungy unsociables with weird interests that just happen to be female. Throw an outsider or two into the mix and it's good comedy. I've been assured that it remains brilliant, but I've certainly enjoyed the first four episodes.

The guy behind Billy vs Snakeman has been interested in Weiss Schwartz cards for ages now. Apparently he ran into trouble getting a solid supply of them, contacted the manufacturer, one thing led to another, and, well... now he's their distributor in the US. The cards are all in Japanese, of course, and frankly, getting legal permission to redo them would be especially nasty. The plan is to make available translated inserts that can be placed inside card protector sleeves along with the cards. Things are still kind of catch-as-catch-can with respect to translation availability - or more like, there's an almost total disconnect between card sets they have available at the store, and cards they have translated. To their credit, though, the listing of cards contains almost everything from every set that's been released in Japan, so it's fair to say they'll catch up with the translations as they can.

Couldn't tell you how fun the game is to play, but I picked up a couple of packs just for collecting them (and got a foil Haruhi, so that's not too bad!) I figure I'll probably end up getting whole boxes when they manage to get in some Nanoha, and there's a few other shows I wouldn't mind getting some cards from either, especially once the translations are available. Any game with a card titled Freeloaders of the Emiya Household can't be too bad...

Been doing lots of painting this week. Koptas are done (still need to do pics) and the next batch of boyz are proceeding well too.

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