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Oh yes, we are getting a duet between Sensei and Ninomiya-kun…

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Listen to Minakike this week!

http://www.animate.tv/digital/web_radio/detail_108.html

Plenty of highlights, including the fact that Rinyan and Minorin (also on guitar) sang the stupid birthday song for Marina that they also sang for Minori last time. But wait! The biggest highlight for me has got to be the fact that the birthday message I sent in for Marina was read (cue hysterical laughter). More on that later.

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Since my bank balance is still too low to enable me to buy DVDs, I thank the gods (and pirates) for rips, Nico Nico Douga and Youtube. Anyway, I’d seen a digest of it on Nicovideo already but finally got to watch the full half-hour special of STARCHILD Collection 2007’s Minami-ke segment held at Shibuya O-East on 27th October last year. It was pretty fun show hosted by Anispa presenter/music producer Washizaki Takeshi and featuring the seiyuu for the three main Minami girls (Inoue Marina, Chihara Minori & Satou Rina from L-R in the picture above) plus Fujioka (Kakihara Tetsuya) and Hosaka (Ono Daisuke).

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So after doing my usual season preview I felt kinda deflated as nothing bar sequels appealed to me. Nevertheless, I resorted to my usual tactic of watching almost everything in the (vain) hope of unearthing a gem. So if there’s anything even remotely wrong within those first 23 minutes it’s an instant bye-bye from me.

I’ve never been into analysing episodes in depth, (un)fortunately – I’m sure I’d hate watching anime if I had to force myself to write half-hearted, unfunny comments about them every week.

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