Wow two weeks in a row! Amazing! I hope I'm not spoiling you all by attempting to update on something resembling an actual schedule...

We're quickly approaching the end of book 1, and I'm still deciding what to do. Most likely there will be a significant break in between. It's still a little ways off so we'll see how it turns out.

I finally have time to watch anime again, and so I've been watching Tokyo Majin Gakuen Kenpuchou. It's a pretty ridiculous action series, and by ridiculous I'm referring to the quality. The animation and art are top notch every episode, and the fighting hasn't been a let down at all. I was (and kind of still am) expecting it to go downhill soon, as I have bad memories of a certain other series *looks at Tenjou Tenge* but every episode so far proves me wrong. I'm happy about this of course, I'd love for the entire series to rock all the way through, but we're only on episode six, so there's a lot that remains to be seen.

Speaking of anime that's too early to tell, Naruto is on pretty thin ice here with me. I don't want to turn all of you who don't watch the subbed version off to it already, but I'm watching this expecting a certain level of quality - at least on par with "pre-filler" Naruto. What I've seen so far, 5 episodes, isn't exactly filling me with hope. Sure episode 1 and 2 we're wonderful, especially that scenes-to-come section in the beginning of episode 1, but those scenes aren't here yet, and won't be for a very long time. The animation quality has already begun to drop off, though honestly pre-filler Naruto gets like that often, it's just that now it's harder for them to get away with it. Scenes have been extended with an amazing amount of filler, sometimes for the better, sometimes not. And perhaps most annoyingly at the moment, is that they're basically on a bi-weekly schedule. Every episode preview it's no Naruto next week, with some excuse or another (you'd think I was running it or something <<). I don't care if there's one hour specials every 2 episodes or something, they've had like 2 years to prep this thing, 2 years of really really crap Naruto to come back and redeem themselves, and right now, it just doesn't hold up. I haven't given up hope yet, because its only episode 5 after all, and there's some real good stuff (in the manga at least) that will be happening in Naruto by mid or end season or so, so there's still things to look forward to, but right now my opinion isn't exactly high. I really hope it turns around though, because Naruto is pretty much the only series I watch regularly and without fail, and will make time to see it if need be. Shame to let that go if it comes down to it.