This was a fairly simple meme quiz. It shows characters (mostly from Naruto it seems) and asks, "Male or Female?"

Link: The Anime Gender Spotting Test written by impgrrrl on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the The Dating Persona Test

Have you ever wondered what the opening credits to The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya would look like if the people who did Cowboy Bebop's credits got the job? Me neither. But then I saw this, and I have to say I like it.




What?

Bed?

Guess I ought to try sleeping tonight, no?

The scene, a single high school girl sits in a classroom, becoming ever more lost as a formula for Hohmann transfer orbits fills the white board. When she complains that some of the numbers are seven digits the instructor points out she has been given a calculator. As she looks at the calculator she's stunned by the number of buttons on it, only to be even more shocked by a realization...

"There's no equals key!"
"Of course not! Don't you know reverse Polish calculation?"
"Of course not!"
"Oh, really?" An all to excited look appears on the instructor's face. "In that case I'll take five minutes to cram its operation into your head. When I'm done with you, you'll never be able to use a regular calculator again. Prepare yourself."


Our vict-- er, high school girl has traveled to the Solomon Islands to search for her father who disappeared years before on her parents honeymoon trip. Meanwhile a Japanese company wants to build a new manned rocket to operate from the islands -- their only problem, their current astronaut (on loan from the JSDF) is about forty kilo's too heavy for their only reliable model's payload capacity -- while our main character is actually a couple kilo's less than that target weight. So a deal is struck. The Solomon Islands Space Agency will use its contacts to help search for the missing father, and she will be their astronaut so they can get a successful launch before the end of the year and keep their funding.

I think I'll be keeping my eyes out for this one on DVD. So what if it's still airing in Japan, somebody go and license it already.

EDIT: D'oh! jeriendhal points out I never mentioned the title. The anime in question is called Rocket Girls. If there were still a good nearby independent store that carried anime I'd tell them this is on my guaranteed buy list. (Stuck with the chains as the nearby stores, no point telling the staff there, more than likely will be gone in a few weeks let alone by the time this is licensed and released)

Um. Hello quiz thingies, while androids are nifty I'm a guy!

( CLAMP Quiz results under the cut )

Some poking around with Google finds some not-quite-news on the licensing front. It appears that Geneon has bought the domain nanohadvd.com. However there is still no official announcement. My poor, poor bank balance. At least it will probably have at least a year to prepare for the release.

Woo! The opening theme and credits for Magical Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS has been posted to youtube. This third series jumps forward to take Nanoha to high school (and secretly special agents of the Space Time Administration Bureau).

Hello, American anime distributors. Can we hear words like licensing and release date?

Interesting how often gender identity issues seem to come up in anime. Speaking of which, here's an AMV made to scenes from Kyou Kara Maou and The Who's I'm a Boy.

Maou I'm A Boy

The tachikoma's dream of being heroes in AI Sentai!

Nightmare for some a dream for others, it's the singing catgirl maids of UFO Princess Valkyrie

Despite how often artists want to dress them up that way, Catgirls make terrible maids

However in Neko Nyan Dance we discover that catgirls and magical girls can in fact dance. (Oh and look, it's an original Chocotto Sister music video)

Speaking of catgirl addictions, oh wait you hadn't accused me of that yet? Anyway, watch acatgirl being drawn. D'oh, I'm not a catgirl addict, honest. Let's see, ah here we go, how about a sheep being drawn?

This looks like it could be a fun series. Let's see, magical girls, an archaeologist posing as a ferret (hey, if you're a semi-conscious injured mage I suppose it might make sense at the time), techno-magic, and a dog girl (who apparently takes out her anger at her Mistress's Mother on anyone who faces her in combat). Has anyone here watched any of this?

Found some more videos on youtube...

Steel Angel + The Chipmunks equals Kurumi and the Chipmunks. More fun crossovers. No Need for Tenchi + Flash Gordon = No Need for Flash Gordon. Both of these AMV's have some nice timing. Ayeka as the female villain, Washu as a science news commentator, and Ryoko gets to utter one of the famous lines. Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny + Anime = Ultimate Anime. Also fun is one that mixes a few anime and Japanese CRPG motifs to make, The Wizard of Ozaka, wherein Osaka, Luffy, Alphonse Elric, and Kon, set off to find the Wizard in Neo Ozaka-3...