Battle Spirits: Saikyou Ginga Ultimate Zero : Battle Me! Heated Warrior at the Bottom of the Deck!!

Episode 6

We have a new Ultimate! Of course he is very much like Siegfried....... He is another form of Siegfried but I'm interested to know if there is any difference!

***SPOILERS***

Yozakura Quartet: Hana no Uta : The Moment

Episode 4

So last week we learnt all about the Dutybound, Akina is the Dutybound and every Daemon gathers in this city to be "sent home" by him, but his family see it in the same light as murder so he doesn't like to do it and he definitely won't send his friends back. No one knows what awaits on the other side so why would he send his friends there?

A happier ending then we could have hoped for!

***SPOILERS***

Yowamushi Pedal : Naruko Shoukichi

Ride 4

The race is over, has Onoda found a passion in racing? He has the respect of Imaizumi that is for sure!

***SPOILERS***

Yowamushi Pedal : I don't have any friends

Ride 3

Will Onoda catch up with Imaizumi?

The end of the race, the END OF THE RACE!!!

***SPOILERS***

Yowamushi Pedal : To Recruit More Members

Ride 2

So Onoda is making friends all around the place without even knowing it. Will his dream to reopen the anime group come to fruition or will he find a new dream?

***SPOILERS***

Yowamushi Pedal : Because I Can Go to Akiba for Free

Ride 1

I said last season that I don't really like sports related anime and what happened? I got so involved in Free! that I could have blown a mountain up with my anger at the ending of the season. So a anime about cycling that until last season I would have ignored?

I have hopes. I have to admit.

***SPOILERS***

Battle Spirits: Saikyou Ginga Ultimate Zero : Ice Star! Who is Calling me with an Ultimate Voice?

Episode 5

We have moved away from Gunrock, where next is anyone's guess!

***SPOILERS***

Battle Spirits: Saikyou Ginga Ultimate Zero : The Guardian Deity Arrives! I am Zero the Silver!!

Episode 4

After defeating Almeida and saving the village Rei, Rikuto and Laila have their eyes on the mountain under the hand of Gloin. Will they be able to bring the workers back safe?

***SPOILERS***

Battle Spirits: Saikyou Ginga Ultimate : Wasteland Duel! Enter the Seven Galaxy Generals!!

Episode 3

So the adventure continues now with the help of Rikuto and Laila! Lets see how things go, specially as the guild are trying to thwart smaller players attempts to fight them using the enigmatic Kiriga.

***SPOILERS***

Battle Spirits: Saikyou Ginga Ultimate Zero : An Ultimate Festival! I am Zero the Burning!!

Episode 2

What a place for the last episode to end? Just at the end of a cool battle! Lets see how Rei (or is it Silver) finishes this match to win back the compass!

***SPOILERS***

Battle Spirits: Saikyou Ginga Ultimate Zero : Enter! The Ultimate Number One Star!!

Episode 1

I had a bit of a job deciding whether or not to cover this series, there have been Battle Spirit anime's before but I've been told this isn't a continuation of any of the older series so I decided to give it a go.

Before anyone says anything I DO tend to like games based on card games so I have high hopes, plus from some of the screencaps I've seen it looks interesting.

Should be a keeper?

***SPOILERS***

Yozakura Quartet - Hana no Uta : Set in Motion

Episode 3

Slowly getting to know the main characters it by bit. They have a load of weird habits and strange ways about them but they are still wonderful characters.

***SPOILERS***

Yozakura Quartet - Hana no Uta : Spring Winds

Episode 2

So we are going back to the town that houses both humans and Beasts.

After the attack of 9 giant Goldfish and our revelation (not the characters) that Lily wasn't human she was in fact a witch, what will happen next?

***SPOILERS***

Yozakure Quartet - Hana no Uta : Blooming Cherry Blossoms

Episode 1

Going to have a big push to get up to date with all the anime's I've missed, yeah I know I said it would be easier but life got in the way!

Yozakura Quartet hasn't been brought to my attention yet, that isn't a bad thing though. Again have very little knowledge of what it is all about (damn me not previewing things!) but lets have a look and see?

***SPOILERS***

Fairy Tail : The Nine Demon Gates

Chapter 357

We were introduced to what looks to be the most scary adversaries our guild will EVER come up against.

Mass destruction is only the beginning, the magical world is now without a council (which to be honest at times might not be a BAD thing) and without guidance! The war with Tartarus is on.

***SPOILERS***

Fairy Tail : Tartaros Prologue

Chapter 356

So. Lets not talk about last week hey?!

The next arc is about to start and it feels like we'll need to stick together to defeat our worst enemy yet!

***SPOILERS***

Miss Monochrome : Heaven

#2

So after missing last weeks here I am to give you two reviews on what turned out to be a short skitish series that looks to be great fun!

***SPOILERS***

BlazBlue : Alter Memory : The Azure Successor

Episode 2

So we've started on the journey of Ragna the Bloodedge, he's up against a formidable enemy once more. How will it all end?

***SPOILERS***

BlazBlue : Alter Memory : The Red Rebel

Episode 1

Now I DO know about BlazBlue, I own one of the games!

Being based off one of my games I was hoping for a lot, a little upset that I believe Arakune isn't in it..... But so happy my favorite two are (BIG BOOBY LADY!!!!)

I believe it follows Ragna's story arch (that would be Ragna the Bloodedge) and if it is anywhere near as good as the game is this could be awesome!

***SPOILERS***

Bowling For Soup in just over a week!

So yes my next big thing this year (and possibly last) will be the Bowling for Soup Farewell Tour.

I've been a fan of theirs since I was a teenager and they were the first band I went to see live, this is their last tour in the UK so me and my sister (also a big fan and went to the concert with me so they were both our first band live) are going to say goodbye to one of the best bands out there.

Any photos I take will PROBABLY be mainly of Eric because I do quite like him... I will be sharing all photos. The concert is next Tuesday, it can't come quick enough!

Tokyo Ravens : Promise

Episode 1

The words Supernatural, Romance and Action....

This could either be something really rather awesome or fall into the "meh" category!

****SPOILERS****

Nagi no Asukara : The Chilly Desert

Episode 2

We got to meet all the characters last week! Including rather grumpy Hikari, rather cute and adorable Manaka and fish fetish boy Tsumugu.

Chisaki and Kaname too but they didn't do much... Ohh and Lord Uroko!

***SPOILERS***

Nagi no Asukara : Between the sea and land

Episode 1

A story that seems to be set underwater or some such thing. Incredible!

This looks like it is possibly going to be super adorable at times so I can't wait to see what happens.

***SPOILERS***

Fairy Tail : Song of the Fairies

Chapter

We are getting set for war! So it is about time that we head back home really....

***SPOILERS***

Fairy Tail : Effy Artis

Chapter 354

Atlas Flame has melted the ice that held the Giants in place and we got an introduction to a Devil Slayer.

It was all go last chapter!

****SPOILERS****

Fairy Tail : The Dark Magic's Purification

Chapter 353

It feels like years since I last wrote a blog on Fairy Tail, my bad! Nothing to do with the quality of the story so far I've just been stupidly busy and or absent minded (to the point most Fridays I seem to forget its Friday and therefore Fairy Tail day!)

Last time out we were reintroduced to Atlas Flame, an old friend.

What does he want?

****SPOILERS***

Enemy of the World and Web of Fear

So it is official!

The whole of Enemy of the World is back in the archives and everything but episode 3 of Web of Fear is back.

Meaning YETIS!

I wrote a blog yesterday (a little discombobulated thanks to life getting in the way) about how it felt for me facing seeing episodes I never thought I'd get to see, currently they are downloading on iTunes after spending money I've been saving for a holiday on them (well it was under £20 so why not for a bit of history!)

A very happy fan to see them back.

My second favorite (joint) Doctor is Patrick Troughton, my most loved and favorite companion is Jamie and the funny thing is I've hardly seen an episode with them in it. I've seen a few but not many, I've also read a few books about their time in the TARDIS (Dreams of Empire being my favorite) and their characters just blew me away.

I grew up with Doctor Who, my mum was a fan (started watching when Pertwee was the Doctor) and we'd watch the repeats on UK Gold when we could, I didn't take much on the new series until Moffat took over and can now look back fondly on the RTD era (strange and might write about that later.) Being old enough now that I can afford to treat myself to the DVDs, refresh memories of episodes I watched years ago and watch some I've never seen before one of the first things I found out was about the missing episodes.

And to be honest some of them sounded like brilliant episodes!

My wish list does consist of Web of Fear (as well as The Celestial Toymaker) so you can tell how ecstatic I am this morning! In gods knows how long I'll be watching Yeti's, the Brig (well he wasn't a Brig yet but never mind), Jamie and the Second Doctor all in one glorious miracle of a story that I never dreamed I'd get to see.

I just don't think there are words that I can use to explain how happy I am.

At 24 there was a whole world of Who that I'd never be able to see, ever, even if I wanted to. That pool of Who has been budged down to double digits and ohhhh what a happy Whovian I am today!

Guinea Pig lovers please help!

So I brought my lovely boy a few weeks ago as you will all know who read my ramblings on a regular basis.

I love him to bits and his name is Mack.

We brought him with a bunny called Barely, they were both aggressive towards other animals but liked each other hence us buying them together, I felt bad that Mack would be left on his own. We kept them in a hutch outside since buying them, that actually might have been over a month ago now! Doesn't feel like it.

Anyway over the weekend I started to worry about Mack so ran out and brought a new cage, lemon scented wood shavings and hay for his bedding. I cleaned the cage when I got it home put down a layer of newspaper, the wood shavings and the hay in the bed side of the cage and put Mack in his new home.

That was Saturday, it is now Friday (only just) and we've had no problems. I cleaned him on Wednesday and will do it every Wednesday, I kind of "clean" the corner where his water bottle leaks every day and put down a bit more of the wood shavings so he doesn't have a damp cage.

He has a mineral block in there, a hay rack filled with blueberry hay, a little dish and a bigger dish both with a mixture of muesli and hay (trying to introduce him to muesli as he'd only ever been eating hay), a pile of sticks as well as a climbing toy that he nibbles on.

I had help from the guys at Pets at Home picking up the stuff I needed, checked the labels on all the treats for the foods that I know he can't have (I'd been reading a blog for a while which told me that even though it might say its for Guinea Pigs it might have things that are bad for them in it) and thought the rest would be easy enough!

I know pets get ill, I've had hamsters, dogs, mice and all sorts before but tonight instead of celebrating with other Whovians world wide I've been reading blogs that seem to fill me with dread!

All I want is simple advice.

1/ Should I be using scented wood shavings?
Everywhere I go I see the answer is no, why the heck would Pets at Home be selling something and telling you to buy it if its bad for them? So far Mack hasn't had any problems that I've noticed but I'm worried he'll suddenly die from all sorts now. If I shouldn't be using scented wood shavings should I be using it at all? Is it better to use a fleece? What is the best thing for him?

2/Do Guinea Pigs ears change a little whilst growing?
This sounds a little weird so I'll explain.

I got him at 6 months, he's probably about 7 or 8 months now (give or take of course as he might not have been completely 6 months when I got him) I'm sure when I got him and till today his ears have been bright pink. You'll sit there saying "what do you mean you're sure his ears were pink?"

Here is the best photo I have of his ears prior to today...

At this present moment I can't get a photo of him for two reasons. One he keeps running away whenever my iPhone gets near his cage and two he's in his bed anyway.

I'm sure his ears were like that but after reading some of these horror stories on fungus infections and mites I've noticed his ears are a little black around the outside. I wanted to know if colouring does ever change? He was only a baby when I got him so he might just be "growing" into his adult colouring?

It sounds stupid I know! It is one of those things, I saw terrible things on the internet then went out of my way to stare at his ears (I took him out of his cage purely to check them!) and suddenly after nothing ever being wrong there is something wrong (in my eyes.)

If I can get a photo I'll edit it in here, but that won't be till tomorrow now I fear as I'm off to bed (to stop myself spending money I don't have) after writing this up. 

3/How easy are they to look after?

After a nights worth of strolling through forums and websites I can see about 200 things that can go wrong with my little man. And you know what? It has had me in tears thinking I could accidentally inflict so much pain on him.

For a start I pick up colds pretty easy and it says that I can pass it on to him and he could die from it. How likely is that?

Is it really always you'll find out there is something wrong with them the moment before it could be too late?

Is it really that easy for them to get fungal infections and the like?

I know looking after anything is a labour of love, you do your best but they are still living animals and will always have problems whether you look after them really well or not. I didn't realize that so much COULD go wrong though and am worried (this is my first Guinea Pig) that I'm now going to look at him every day and see 100 things wrong. This kind of ties in with point two and my sudden decision that his ears have changed, I've also only just noticed the area where I guess his penis and anus are, he hasn't really left the bottom of his cage and I've only really noticed it when he's been jumping onto the stage part of the cage to eat his hay today and also when he's slowly shuffled back into his bed area.

I'm a hypochondriac myself and I fear I'll have the same fears over my Mack, since Saturday I've fallen head over heels for the little guy, I loved him before but nothing compared to sharing my room with him. Now I'm panic'd about everything.

My room feels cold to me, will it be cold for him? I have poor hearing so when someone says they "cough", "sneeze" or breath funny will I be able to hear it or is it something you have to get close to them to hear (he doesn't like being handled yet so I can't physically get near to him all the time!)

I haven't even got anywhere close to grooming him yet! As I said he doesn't like to be handled so I don't really want to start doing things that might scare him off being held.

He doesn't make much noise, he runs at the smallest sound or the smallest movement.

I love him to pieces and want to do whats best for him but I get conflicting information all over the place! The pet stores said keep them with the rabbits he'll love it, but the internet says no. The pet shop people SHOWED me what to buy but the internet says its bad for him. The internet has also made me panic about every little thing, it seems that everywhere I've clicked on tonight makes looking after Guinea Pigs the most hard and painful (for him and me) job in the world.

I just want some advice and reassurance from any Guinea Pig lovers and experts out there.

What should I be doing? What should I be looking out for? Is it a nightmare looking after them? I want to make sure Mack has a long and happy life so any advice is appreciated!

These are the two best photos I can find of today and I think yesterday or the day before on my twitter stream. You also get a look into his cage (which he routinely makes a mess of with his hay!)

On the right one you can kind of see what I mean about his ears, they are pink and then brown in places, they actually look a little black around the outside at times (which you can possibly see) unfortunately when I try to get close to get a ear shot he runs away so that will be the best I can get I think. Does he look healthy? Does the cage look alright or should I be changing something?!

Doctor Who Missing Episodes found?

As someone who was born the year the original run of Doctor Who was cancelled, and years after the (at this second) 106 missing episodes were wiped missing episodes have some what of a mystical feel to them.

I mean there are (at this second) 106 episodes of Doctor Who I'll never get to watch, I can listen to audios, watch reconstructions and maybe read a book based off them but I'll never get to sit down and watch them like some of the other Who I've watched from before I was born.

This could all change today though.

There has been a "omnirumor" going for months now, lots of bickering in some quaters, skeptics, optimists and people "in the know" that couldn't tell us how they were "in the know" but seem to have come up trumps.

I've sat on the fence because I don't want to get myself over excited just to be let down, my own personal view on the world is that the BBC doesn't have to say sod all to us ever, if we wind ourselves up as a fandom they don't have to water the flames of our arguments with denials or confirmations, they don't even have to care that a small little fandom on the internet is getting its knickers in a twist over whether or not Missing Episodes have been found. So with nothing official and a lot of "he said, she said" going on on both sides I sat in the middle and just tried to come to terms with the news that somewhere between 1-105 episodes might have been found (we are all pretty sure The Feast of Steven hasn't been found!)

This also comes in the year that we had the "Rogue Cyberman" hoax and to be honest I'm surprised he hasn't shown up again to say that it was all his doing. That probably made me more skeptic then I possibly would have been (he'd already done the whole "we've found this much" and was proven to be peddling a porn site what if rumors had been made out of that hoax?)

That all being said we are waiting for the news that will come anytime in the next... 12 hours or so about missing episodes.

There is a BBC conference going somewhere and apparently it is rumored we'll all be able to watch them on iTunes as early as tomorrow!

The number of singular episodes, whole serials or whatever that has been found has yet to be confirmed but whether it is one tiny clip of something or over 100 serials in full won't it be amazing?

There have also been rumors (before we found out about the BBC press conference was announced, weeks and weeks ago) that they might spread the announcements over months or years, announcing two or three finds at different times.

As this blog took me forever to write (the postman came delivering my Doctor Who figurine collection... go figure! Then my sister came home and I sat down to watch Scooby-Doo with me niece) it seems that a whole story and most of another have kind of been confirmed (though waiting for the official announcement) so already the excitement is at its biggest! Especially as one of them was on my "wish list" for missing episodes!

Why am I writing this blog?

Because it is a big deal, finding any missing clip, episode whatever is always a big deal and for me, someone who didn't get to sit through all the past episodes, didn't even get to see anything before McGann live, still wasn't really old enough to see the TV Movie when it was broadcast and basically caught up on things when I could the thought now that I can see some of these episodes is just.... Amazing.

It is always like a small miracle when I hear anything has been recovered, whether it is something I personally watch or not.

So hopefully in a few hours we'll be officially aware of what (for me) "New" Troughton (or Hartnell) episodes we'll be able to see!





***This blog probably seems a bit disjointed.... For the above reasons it has taken since about 1pm to write this blog.... It has been constantly open in my browser and worked on when I have two minutes! Will have another one after midnight no doubt!****

Brainstorm!

So I've kind of figured out the biggest problem I'm going to have with my Japanese lessons.

Today I was practicing with David and managed to say everything pretty well and recognized the Hiragana 80% of the time. Tomorrow in the lesson I'm going to be a nervous wreck that won't be able to say the simplest of things let alone remember anything.

I think my biggest problem has always been my hearing difficulties, because I can't hear myself sometimes things don't come out of my mouth right (don't start) and it makes me sound completely stupid when actually... I'm not.

I'm now 24 and I still do this with my native tongue, I'm twice as worse with a foreign language but I've never been confident enough to ignore it. I know I do it, I worry about it and I after being told I'm stupid most of my life by teachers who thought speaking difficulties and hearing difficulties meant that people were idiots I don't like anyone thinking that now.

Tomorrow I'm going for my third lesson and not taking my mum, I'm hoping to sit next to the two people I was last week (or at least one of them) and I'm hoping that they'll kind of understand that I'm useless at this but not stupid.

The good thing is I am picking up Japanese quite easy, it is small footsteps obviously, I can only put together a few small sentences but I'm doing better than I ever did with French!

The problem tends to come when our teacher says "now in a group make a conversation up" and the lovely girl next to me turns around and says something and deep down I know what it is but my hearing starts to become patchy because I'm a bag of nerves and I stutter replies to her hoping I'm correct. I can't make a conversation up with my sister or mum without having it broken up and sounds stupid and now I'm doing it in Japanese with strangers.

Wish me luck for tomorrow!

Ohhh and reviews will all start on Thursday, I'm working tomorrow (then have my lesson) and I'm working Wednesday. I'll probably do a few Wednesday but the majority will be up on Thursday and DO NOT ask me where my Fairy Tail blogs are I haven't had a moment to myself recently what with panicing about my Guinea Pig, Japanese lessons and home work and work.

Hope everyone has a nice Tuesday!

Kyousougiga : Recap

#00

Now I know little about this but what I have heard has been weird and yet interesting.

I've also heard that it has had some sort of YouTube series before but as it seems to be a start fresh series anyway I'll be giving it a go!

***SPOILERS***

Kyoukai no Kanata : Carmine

Episode One

At some point I will need to have a look at some of the previews for a season as it must be boring for you lot to be told I have no idea what something is about.

Well I don't about this one either, quick reading tells me that it is a dark fantasy which could be right up my street!

***SPOILERS***

Coppelion : Coppelion

Episode 1

Now this is something I HAVE heard about!

This anime was cancelled (well, postponed) after the terrible events at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. The reason being that it is set in a post radiated Tokoyo after a disaster at a power plant.

Should be interesting.

***SPOILERS***

Super Seisyun Brothers : Already an adult, yet still a child

Chapter 2

So we got to meet the two sets of siblings last week. What "wonder" of a 4 minute time slot will we get this week?

***SPOILERS***

Miss Monochrome : Fall

Episode 1

I've heard that Miss Monochrome was some kind of character thought up for a live show or something? Can't say that I really understood what I was reading (probably lost in translation) but the gist was that the person reviewing it was confused themselves at what it would be like.

Well.... Gotta give it a go!

***SPOILERS***

Diabolik Lovers : Episode 3 (o'Clock)

Episode 3

Last week Ayato got his own way with Yui.... How boring?

This anime pulls me in just to throw me away again, just as I think that Yui is going to make this alright then it drags back into this pit that Vampires have gotten into recently where everything has to be "sexy" instead of downright cool.

I have a feeling I might spend the rest of the series complaining loudly about it.

***SPOILERS***

Uchouten Kazoku : The Eccentric Family

Episode 13

We only have mother to save, the Friday Fellows are about to eat her next door to the Tanuki meeting to decide on the Nise-Emon.

Not only that but Yasaburo is with them!

What will happen and can the family bring down the Ebisugawa family?

***SPOILERS***

Simpsons Tapped Out Halloween Tapping!

So it is that time again and now been a year since I've been playing!

Yes it is Halloween in all our Springfields and instead of Zombie tapping like last year we are in full Ghost tapping this year!

As of writing this I've been tapping for a while and have 242 bits of GOO.

It is a lot of fun and this time not only do we get prizes for tapping (like on Whacking Day) we get community prizes for all doing it together! So we are in this for the long run as a community!

Please feel free to add me (Awerka89) and lets get tapping together!

DANGANRONPA : The Animation : Goodbye Despair Academy

Episode 13

Well we know who the mastermind is, we know about the Despair Sisters. Now how will we survive?

***SPOILERS***

Learning Japanese

I don't think I wrote it on the blog before but last week I started my Japanese lessons at the university!

So far I've been doing really well (well for me!) and have enjoyed it greatly. I will let everyone know how I get on but these lessons are a bright spot for my future which will hopefully end with me traveling to Japan and hopefully working over there for a year.

I might actually stop mishearing/misreading things now!