The girl of the week is the moetastic Tamaki Kawazoe from Bamboo Blade. Nigh invincible in kendo and also an otaku fangirl to boot, Tama is indeed an odd girl. Watch out though because she can quite literally kick your butt in the blink of an eye. Hope you enjoy this week’s picture gallery.

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I’ve been in a huge writing funk lately, so here’s some filler to let the readers get to know me better through my musical taste. I’ll only include the most played vocal tracks on this list, since I don’t expect anyone to care about OST and instrumental music. So do any of your favorite anime songs show up here? No? Well go complain somewhere else.

1. Lia - Tori no Uta
2. Eufonius - Megumeru ~Cuckool Mix 2007~
3. Elisa - Euphoric Field (Japanese Version)
4. Yoko Takahashi - Yoake Umarekuru Shoujo
5. Kalafina - Oblivious
6. Aira Yuki - Colorless Wind
7. Natsumi Yanase - Sora no Yume
8. Eiko Shimamiya - Higurashi no Naku Koro ni
9. Eufonius - Megumeru (Original)
10. Kanako Ito - Kimi to Yozora to Sakamichi to
11. Lia - Yakusoku
12. Nana Mizuki - Innocent Starter
13. Eiko Shimamiya - Naraku no Hana
14. Kotoko - Re-sublimity
15. Kotoko - Agony
16. Riya - Ten Thousand Miracles (Clannad Image Vocal Album)
17. Betta Flash - Erinyes
18. Ceui - Mellow Melody
19. Mami Kawada - Joint
20. Ayana - Last Regrets (Full Chorus Version)

Shiki Ryogi returns to kick more ass in Kara no Kyoukai: Satsujin Kosatsu (Murder Speculation), Part 1. The story goes back in time to explore the origin of the strange relationship between Shiki and Mikiya. This movie is basically all exposition with tons of back story crammed into it.

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We proudly kick off our weekly spotlight on random girls from anime and manga with Galaxy Angel’s super cute Milfeulle Sakuraba. Even though this week is a moe girl, moe is not the focus of this feature. Regardless of that statement, it’s inevitable that many moe girls will show up here. So without further ado, more pictures after the jump.

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Here’s my short list of manga that I’d like to see get anime adaptations. I don’t feel like writing an exposition for this article, so just click the jump to see my picks.

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It was brought to my attention that the quiz show Jeopardy featured an anime column this past Wednesday, June 18th. It’s in the Double Jeopardy round, fifth column over. It figures that the one day I don’t watch the show, something like this happens.

I’m sure the otakusphere would have swept this easy category in epic fashion, only to be utterly owned in everything else. If you’re too lazy to click the link, I’ll copypasta the questions after the jump.

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Cast off figures seem to be all the rage these days. Otaku just love being able to strip their favorite girls down to their skivvies… or less. Sure it sounds nice on paper, but casting off isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. For all purpose and intent, this short article will cover true cast off where the clothes actually have to be taken off the figure mold.

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Writer’s block has struck, so I’ll write a short article about the popular Yu-Gi-Oh: The Abridged Series. Created and almost entirely voiced by Little Kuriboh, this spoof is a sharp and clever jab at both its premise and 4Kids’ horrendous butchering of the show, but everything else in popular culture is fair game too. As the title says, each episode is abridged from the original 24 minutes to anywhere from 5 to 9 minutes in comical fashion.

YGO: TAS is probably best appreciated by those familiar with the 4Kids dub, but I think everyone should be able to enjoy it. There have been several copycat knock-offs (Naruto: TAS, Berserk: TAS) but accept no substitutes, because this is still the best. Go check it out for the lulz. A real post will be up soon.

PS: I happen to think Yu-Gi-Oh is a badass show. Here’s one reason why.

PPS: Yeah, I know I appeased the female readers for once with this picture. Madness!

Congratulations to Shinnew for being able to name an astounding 26 traps out of 40. The competition wasn’t even close. You make me proud and sadden me at the same time with your extensive trap knowledge.

Go forth and display this half-assed magnificent award with pride. I’ll actually get some real prizes for the next contest; Stuff that otaku need like figures, pencil boards, and lots of soap.

Happy Father’s Day to all you out there. No updates today except for a final reminder that the trap contest deadline is at midnight (US Eastern). Get your last minute entries in, or else I will withhold my moe pictures from now on and make Sanae cry. You don’t want that to happen, right?