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I was catching up on some anime news and found something that made me happy.  I enjoyed the first two Black Lagoons quite a bit.

I upgraded to WordPress 2.5 today.  I like what they’ve done with it, but I don’t really feel the need to kick the tires or anything.  There is one thing I was curious about, though, and that’s the gallery feature.  So, presented here, is my current collection of brand name parodies in anime.

I’ve finally got around to watching Moyashimon after putting it off for a bit. I found it while searching around AniDB but, despite the decent rating, couldn’t motivate myself to dive in. Can you blame me? Look at the sample image they use:

And then the description starts off with “Tadayasu Sawaki was born with an unique ability: He can see and communicate with bacteria and other micro-organisms - in fact they consider him to be their friend and are quite noisy.” Awesome. Luckily, I learned a while ago that if something looks and sounds like crap on AniDB, but manages to have a pretty good score, trust in the score.

The only thing I can think of that I didn’t like about Moyashimon– and this came as a big surprise to me– was how short the series was, only lasting eleven episodes. This is surprising to me because I love a good, short series; something that can get in, tell a story and get out while keeping me locked in. Moyashimon does this well, except that it never really “gets out.” The series seems to end right when it’s ramping up, leaving a ton unexplored story and unanswered questions behind. This is compounded by the fact that I really enjoyed the characters in this series and would’ve loved to see them doing their thing for a while longer. Simply put: this series screams for a sequel, and that’s not something I’ll say often.

So, brevity aside, the series was pretty damn good. I enjoyed the animation quite a bit and, as I already mentioned, loved the characters. Other then that, there’s really not much more I can mention. Watch it, enjoy it, miss it.

Ah, P.S.: Thanks to bssubs for the series. If it wasn’t for finding it on their site I probably would have delayed seeing the series for considerably longer.