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Everybody could use a bit of cute in their life. Released in March, this DVD features one episode focused on the Sooga Super Squad, and the rest are kind of randomly added in:
| 1 | Knock It Off
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| 2 | Invincible Vengeance |
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| 3 | Sooga Super Squad |
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| 4 | Striking Out |
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| 5 | Datin’ And Dumplins |
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| 6 | Surf Ninjas |
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| 7 | Ping Pong Pucca |
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| 8 | Let’s Go Fly A Ninja |
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| 9 | The Sooga Showdown |
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| 10 | Tokyo A Go-Go |
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| 11 | Up From The Depths |
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| 12 | Gold Medal Garu |
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| 13 | Autograph This
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From the kids taking a trip to Tokyo, to Pucca setting her Uncles up on a date with an Australian adventurist, to Garu and Tobe duking it out in ancient Greece, there's something to be enjoyed. If you're a Pucca fan, definitely check this out.
(コメットさん) 2001
12-year-old Princess Comet has no interest in her royal duties. She'd much rather play with little stars in the Haromonica Star-World system than fulfill anyone's expectations. On the evening of a ball meant to introduce Comet to the prince of Tamborine Star-World, he runs away, and the only way to know him is from the "twinkle" in his eyes. Now it's been decided that Comet will go to Earth to find him and set things right - but can she make the time between having so many fun adventures?
"Imashun" is as popular as ever, but now he's found himself very curious about Comet, and at the same time, Meteo is convinced that she is the object of the celebrity's crush. "Unfortunately" for her, she's actually earned the affections of a rather nerdy young man who basically follows her around, much to her disgust. Comet gets her own stalker too, but most pre-teens would probably give anything for her position.
Portia is braver than most kids her age. After jumping off the train to escape the mysterious man, she, Jellaby and Jason head to Toronto by foot. Being little, unsupervised in a big, scary city is a lot for them to handle, but they must help Jellaby get back home; and a mysterious magician seems to have the answer. But is he trustworthy? And apparently Jellaby isn't the last of "his kind"; a female monster who befriends children for her own gains has her eyes set on Jason.
This was a very fast paced book, before I knew it, it was over. There are still a lot of unanswered questions and open ends (like, where exactly did Portia's dad go, and is he still alive (leaving his wallet and wedding ring behind doesn't say planned trip)? Is he the masked magician? Why did the monster go out of her way to lure the kids and Jellaby to her lair? It's not like she didn't have 500 kids from the nearby fair to choose from), so I really hope this isn't the last volume. One interesting thing I noticed is that this volume has the Disney logo on it (the first one doesn't). What's up with that?
With new, larger facilities for their group, Soji is being sent on a recruiting mission to Edo. This means leaving Kamiya alone to fend for herself, and she'll have to learn how fast. At the same time, Miki, the overweight man, bonds with Kamiya, lonely and frustrated from his brother's constant berating and pulled in by her kindness. Eventually, though, he finds himself falling for Kamiya. That could lead to terrible disaster without Soji around to intervene.
(きらりん☆レボリューション) 2006
Kirari (voiced by Koharu Kusumi of Morning Musume!) is a middle schooler who LOVES her food. So much so that it's scary! While girls her age swoon over idols, Kirari swoons over her dad's cooking, and couldn't care less about the life of a celebrity. But when she saves the pet turtle of Seiji of pop group SHIPS and falls in love, she decides to become an idol herself so that they can be together (or so she hopes).
Episode 105:
Kirari once again runs into the strange girl who claims she's looking for treasure. Kirari wants to help her find it, but of course has many jobs she must be getting to; so, she drags "Kobeni-chan" along, promising she'll lend her aid as soon as the work day is done. When it's discovered just how cute Kobeni is, though, somehow she gets pulled into everything, and the chairman is realizing her untapped potential. Could Kobeni be the second "second Kirari"?
Episode 106:
Noel and Kobeni are so different they immediately clash. It's too bad they're being sent to a training camp together. Now they're practically at war with each other, seeing who can prepare to sing "Anataboshi" with Kirari at an upcoming festival. If they can't get along, there will be trouble ahead.
(愛してナイト) 1983
Hashizo is still trying to get his brother over to Yakko-chan's restaurant, but this time Go is working on a song for an event, and claims they'll do it at a later time. Hashizo decides to go anyway, leaving a note that his older brother should come pick him up. When the little boy gets there, he runs into the purple-haired playboy, Satomi, but he doesn't want Yakko to spot him, so Hashizo gets him to go away. Later, after a misunderstanding, Yakko runs after Hashizo, only to bump into Go instead. They share harsh words, and that's that. Will the little matchmaker manage to get them alone together, EVER? Will Go and Yakko ever properly meet?
From IGN:
June 9, 2009 - You just can't stop Futurama. A day after news broke that the show looked to be coming back, Comedy Central has made it official, announcing they have picked up the series for an impressive 26 new episodes – thirteen more than originally expected.
As Comedy Central notes, this will mark the first true new episodes of the show in six years – though the four recent, straight-to-DVD Futurama movies were re-cut into 22 minute episodes.
Comedy Central will begin showing the new installments beginning mid-2010. An interesting note in the press release states, "Twentieth Century Fox Television retains the option to license the original runs of the new episodes to a broadcast network," seemingly implying there is a chance a network (though come on, it would be FOX, right?) could potentially air the new episodes first, before Comedy Central.
Says co-creator Matt Groening, "We're thrilled Futurama is coming back. We now have only 25,766 episodes to make before we catch up with Bender and Fry in the year 3000." Added his fellow Futurama creator, David X. Cohen, "We're excited and amazed that the show is coming back, perhaps due to some sort of mysterious time loop. We look forward to working with Comedy Central and 20th Television to make this the best iteration of the loop yet!"
Futurama mirrors another 20th Century Fox production, Family Guy, by its impressive resurrection, years after cancellation. Says 20th Century Fox TV Chairmen Gary Newman and Dana Walden, "When we brought back Family Guy several years ago, everyone said that it was a once-in-a-lifetime thing - that canceled series stay canceled and cannot be revived. But Futurama was another series that fans simply demanded we bring back, and we couldn't have been happier when Matt and David agreed that there were many more stories yet to tell."
I have created a special blog where I will post covers scans from my shoujo manga collection; nothing recent, I'm focusing on the 90s and 80s. They're all imported from Japan, nothing in English. If you're interested, please check it out!
http://daisycakeshoujo.blogspot.com/
