Hagaren = ♥

Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle must be the only shonen manga in which the character action is trumped by non-human feather, smoke, fire, water and/or wind action.

Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood 19! Brilliant character action. We haven't really seen Mustang being this awesome until now. I'm sure there was some swooning at the chest scene...of both genders. A 'ten' episode.

Bakemonogatari 6! Sometimes the piano-based background music reminds me of Charlie Brown. Anyway, back to the staple porn song for this episode. I wonder if the average jp viewer has a hard time reading the speedy text. In this arc, Araragi meets up with an athletic girl who seems to be stalking him, but most of the episode was focused on his warped relationship with Senjougohara.

Random music musings: Not fond of FMA's 2nd opening or ending. I do enjoy Bakemonogatari's ending song by supercell. The other current anime song I like is Akino Arai's Mitsu No Yoake for Spice and Wolf.

Yay, rain to break the heat.

Zan Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei 4-5! Though this series has innovative animation and cultural commentaries, I am enjoying Bakamonogatari a little more for its more traditional story progression. In episode 4, they discuss TPOs (time police occasions), overprotection, and well, I missed whatever they were talking about in the middle of the episode. I did enjoy the fact that they called OAD's failed anime series. Ha. Sensei's body double shows up again. I wonder what overall purpose he might serve. Episode 5 redefines back-stratching, leap-people and another topic I dozed off at. After all this time, I'm going to say that 40% of each episode is turning out to be more nonsense than actual content.