“Air Gear” didn’t air last week. To make up for the loss they gave us a pretty awesome episode. Ikki has finally gathered up the necessary members to form his AT team Kogarasumaru. Their emblem turned out nicely in my opinion. It looks pretty cool and it matches their outfits well. The scene with Machida-sensei was a bit weird, but in a good way. Her style is really similar to Ume’s, or maybe it’s the other way around. Regardless, I enjoyed the scene. Kogarasumaru is about to begin its first Parts War match as a team. Sabeltiger only seemed to have four members, so I wonder what happened to their fifth member. From the preview it sounds like Kogarasumaru will have a difficult time, which kind of puzzles me when they have Akito/Agito.

To my surprise this episode turned out to be more fun to watch than a few of the previous episodes. I didn’t expect much from a story focused on Chad, Nova, and Ururu. It must be because Rangiku showed up in the beginning and made the episode that much better than it would have been without her. The art for this episode seemed to be better than a good proportion of this filler, which helped make this easier to watch. We continue to see Chad realize more and more that he isn’t exactly all that helpful with his current strength. He gets saved no less than two times in this episode, one of which results in Ururu getting caught. The most entertaining part of the episode was when Nova saved Rangiku he then zipped up to hide his embarassment. I thought that scene was pretty funny. We don’t get hour-long “Bleach” specials without a cost. Thus the series will not be airing next week.

It didn’t feel like that long ago when I first started watching this series. 3 months and 12 episodes later we’re already at the end of the series. I expected a good episode to finish it all off and I pretty much got what I wanted. They stuck with the comedy for the entire duration and there was no hint of drama like some of the other episodes. The introduction looked like a parody of “The Drifters”, which I thought they did okay with. If I’m not mistaken about this parody then I would have liked to see them do a variation of theme song for “The Drifters”. This episode has its fair share of fan service along with its signature style of humour. The scene that really stuck with me was when Yuma wasn’t able to continue giving massages. I couldn’t help but laugh when Eriko took a hold of Yuma’s bloody hand. We don’t exactly get a real conclusion to the series, but rather we see the end of a chapter and the beginning of a new one. On the whole, I thought this was a pretty solid episode and a satisfactory way to wrap up a series like this. There’s definately room for another season, but whether or not we will get another season remains to be seen.

When I watched the first episode of this series, I thought this was going to be one unforgettable series. To a certain extent it did live up to some of my expectations, but on the other hand I also got a taste of the unexpected. The humour they used in the series was quite different from the other comedy series in recent memory. This was what caught my attention right away. I had really high hopes for the series after watching the first two episodes. Unfortunately, they were not able to keep up with the humour I had come to love from this series. They go as far as adding in some drama, which was neither expected nor desired. The character development wasn’t all that great, but that’s something I’m willing to overlook considering it was only 12 episodes long. It would have been nice if we got to know some of the characters better though. One of the biggest annoyance I had with this series was the fairly inconsistent art. It may seem like I didn’t really like this series, but that’s not true. It is true that this series wasn’t as good as I had expected it to be based on the preliminary episodes. That’s not to say I didn’t have a good time watching this series. Not every episode was a winner, but it had enough good episodes to make me think this series was well worth watching. For people who want a comedy series that’s a little different from the usual then this may be a good candidate. It is because of some of the humour they use in this series that I cannot recommend this series to everyone that wants to watch a comedy series. I think it’s definately only appropriate for an older audience. Hopefully this won’t be the last time we’ll get to see the antics of the “Baka-Gundan”.

It seems like Touka and the others on her side believe that Hakuoro killed his wife and children. I wouldn’t rule that possibility out like Hakuoro had said himself, since he has no memory of the past anything is possible. Of course, I’d like to believe that it’s just a lie or it was some sort of misunderstanding. It may be a case of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Someone else may have slaughtered his family and he just happened to see the aftermath and went beserk. Until we know for sure what really happened it is all speculation. The most enjoyable part for me in this episode was probably the scene where Aruru and Camyu were caught sneaking out of the castle.

We get very 3 distinct stories in this episode. The first two had some pretty funny scenes, but the third story didn’t have any sort of humour until the final scene. It wasn’t necessarily a bad story, it’s just not something I want to see in “School Rumble” since I’m purely watching it for the comedy. I thought Hanai was great in both the first and second short stories. Watching him try to feed Yakumo was simply priceless. Harima and Tenma talking about pork broth right in front of Napolean was pretty funny too. I didn’t think Harima would so easily agree with Tenma based on how we’ve seen him treat his “pets” in the first season. Overall I thought it was a decent episode.

This was another episode that was comprised of two short stories. I was glad this episode had two different stories because the second one was far superior to the first. The first half was pretty much about cats and mirages. It was yet another episode involving the supernatural. I thought the first story wasn’t exactly suited for this series. Some of the stuff in that story felt like it didn’t belong in the series. The second half on the other hand was just what one would come to expect after watching all the other episodes previous to this. Watching this episode reminds you that this is what “ARIA” should be like. Personally I really enjoyed the yakourin story. It was nice to learn about another one of Neo-Venezia’s traditions. Tanto grazie.

Q Q Q! This has to be the most bizarre episode of anime I have ever seen. As a single episode itself it’s not the weirdest episode I have seen, but when taking into account the previous 14 episodes of the series this episode feels completely out of place. As odd as this episode was I found myself enjoying it quite a bit. I thought some parts were pretty hilarious. For instance, Pino making faces while confined just cracked me up. There’s lots of new information in this episode as well. We learn about the Proxy Project and how there are 300 Proxies in all. I’d like to consider this episode a filler, but I just can’t simply because of all the relevant information this episode provided. The last quiz game Vincent played was supposed to give him 30000 points for a correct answer. Just before the end we see him with 910000 points. I’m no mathematician but it doesn’t seem to add up to the best of my knowledge.

Lewis brought up an interesting question when he wondered what the motive was behind Diva’s opera. I can’t say that I am absolutely sure there is an agenda behind her singing career. Since Diva does whatever she wants, her Chevaliers may just simply be fulfilling her wishes. I didn’t think Julia would react so calmly when she noticed David, or rather David E. Hamilton, was in the lab. Julia gave us some information that finally answers why Riku had been able to hear the song from the very beginning. Even with this new information many of the questions related to it remain unanswered. This is the first time we get to see James in combat. He is definately much stronger than Carl. Nathan was able to stop James without much convincing, so I can only assume James may actually fear him. Saya is going to have to become much stronger than she is right now if she can’t even fight evenly against James.

So this series has finally come to an end. I do not know whether or not this ending would satisfy the people who have played the game. Having not played the game myself, however, I was pretty content with the ending. It wasn’t the best ending I’ve ever seen, but I still found it to be a nice way to end the series. We get to see Saber use Avalon, which allowed her to protect herself from Gilgamesh’s attacks. I thought Gilgamesh and Saber’s fight scene was well done. It was entertaining to watch from beginning to end. I didn’t expect all that much from Shirou and Kotomine’s fight, but it turned out better than I had anticipated. It would have been nice if Saber was able to stay with Shirou, but it was never meant to be. I liked Saber and Shirou’s final scene together because the music fit the scene so well. It was also the first and last time we get to hear from Saber that she loves him. As for the rest of the epilogue on Shirou’s side, we get to see that things are now back to the way they were and everyone is moving on happily. I didn’t find that part to be all that great, but it was still worthwhile to watch. The epilogue for Saber on the other hand was awesome in my opinion. Whether or not it’s a happy ending is up to the viewer.

This series would probably go on the list for series I would recommend to everyone, as long as they can handle the sight of a small amount of blood. I really liked the colours used for the series. I’m a big fan of the character designs as well. The BGM’s for this series was just unbelievable. It was definately a series with one of the top soundtracks in my opinion. What made this series stand out the most was the incredible seiyuu cast. Pretty much all of the seiyuu’s in this series are well-known. They all did a great job with their characters. The only big issue I had with this series was how it was kind of hard to follow at first for people who did not have any background information when first watching. Other than that I thought this was a pretty fantastic series.

This episode probably belongs in the filler pile. It wasn’t all bad, but it wasn’t a great episode either. We’re introduced to the first president of the automobile club, Fujimi Chihiro. It doesn’t really seem like she will make another appearance this season so overall it doesn’t add anything to the series. It was kind of interesting to see how much respect the others had for her. Chihiro’s race against Keiichi was far from being the most exciting race ever. In the end, the motive for this episode was to help Chihiro solve her own issues. At least the art in this episode was good in my opinion. To make up for this episode, it looks like we may finally be getting an episode dedicated more or less to Urd.