Ghost Sweeper Mikami Chapter 350

Phew, finally, the whole Ashtaroth mess is concluded, much to Yokoshima's misfortune given that, despite having greatly matured (and revealing to have the potential to become even more powerful than Mikami herself), he lost the love of his (current) life, Luciola.

This chapter could very well be the whole conclusion of the series, but fortunately, there are still a couple of volumes left, although they are mostly fillers but the usual enjoyable wackyness from GS Mikami is still present. Kind of a rest given how serious (?) the plot became during the last volumes.
I really think it was a shame the original series could not make it this far (from out of 45 episodes, the anime barely covers around the first 70 chapters of the manga!), but I really suggest you to check out this title if you have the opportunity, you will not regret it as it has that special "spark" that keeps you hooked, which most newcoming mangas/series simply lack.

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Frozen Volcanoes

Well, the weather has been rather shitty lately, but at least all that rain and wind paid off, as once the skies were blue again, Mexico City was gifted with this amazing view:

Those are the Popocatépetl and Iztaccíhuatl, a pair of volcanoes located in Puebla that have a very interesting legend worthy to know about.

Anyway, it is actually pretty rare we can enjoy such a view of these 2 giants, no thanks to the eternal smog cloud that covers the city but during the last month said poison has decreased enough in order to allow plain visibility of the mountains, currently completely covered in snow, which is even more rare. Goddamn, this is a perfect background, don't you think?

Sadly, the smog isn't completely gone, so only at certain moments of the day you can enjoy the view, for example, this is how the volcano looks like from my school at around 5pm, not as clear as I would like but still very enjoyable.Let's see how long all that snow lasts.

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Leo Reborn

HLJ was not able to fill my order for 1 freaking Leo, leaving me no choice but to search for a local dealer who had some. Fortunately, I found a dude who was selling some HK Leos at a very good price due that the box was a little fucked up (it looks like it took a dip into a lake lol) but the figure and Cloth are in mint condition. Combined with the second Appendix I got some time ago, I finally have Leo Aioria as it is meant to be: perfect.

The reason why I sought so desperately a second unit of Leo was that my first one suffered a nasty fall that left some ugly scratches all over the Cloth. Given that my sign is Leo and Aioria is one of my favorite Saints, I just had to do this. Nice. Now I'm just waiting for my Odin.

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Lagann-hen

Ok, my brain exploded due to the awesomeness of the last 15 minutes of this movie.

EPIC!

Basically, it is a recap of the second half of the series, with Nia becoming AntiSpiral and Simon crossing over galaxies in order to rescue her and save humanity too. As expected, most of the sequences felt rushed and/or not as epic as they were in the original series (Kittan’s death had much less impact here). There are some slight differences, especially regarding Rossiu (no epic space-time-travelling-Simon just to deliver him a Falcon Punch in the face) or more importantly, all the Dai-Gurren gang (save for Kittan) survives the final battle.
But then… holy cocks! The final battle alone is SO fucking worth it, since basically everyone gets a Tengen Toppa’d sized mech to fight the AntiSpiral (I wonder how many billions of life forms died there, since they were even using galaxies as shurikens, fuck yeah) but then, to make things even more ridiculously awesome, everyone GATTAIS to become SUPER Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, which is like, mmm, universe sized (and a whole Kamina homage lol), so brace for awesome or your monitor will explode with that scene, as everyone goes Super Saiyan (or at least consumed like a gazillion of steroids, also, nudity lol). However, being honest, I liked more the way Simon delivers the final blow in the series but oh well.
Also, the ED… FFFFFFFFFFFFF, it’s really sad, especially during the credits, where we see Simon looking at a flower, just to disappear right before he catches up to it. Bawwww.
The hobo end is also present, but they give a little more depth to it, as Simon is now a wanderer digger that wants to make Nia’s dream of planting flowers all over the Earth true.
So, what are you waiting for? Move your ass to see this awesome movie, you will not regret it.

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Bakuman

I recently started to read this title and I gotta say it is pretty interesting.

From the creators of Death Note, Bakuman is a waaaay more lighthearted story, as it basically is a manga about drawing manga lol. Despite how silly the plot may sound, its simplicity is what hooked me, especially once you get to see that despite the confidence of the protagonists, the competition to become a successful mangaka is BRUTAL, so you get to see how they struggle to come up with a good story that appeals the editors from Jump in order to get serialized.
Still, I gotta say that at times it gets frustrating how Mashiro and Takagi simply fail for X reason despite doing a pretty good job, not to mention that their whole love life mess is downright retarded but hey, the whole point of the story is to entertain and it achieves it. Worth checking it out.

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Upcoming God Dragon and Pegasus

I rarely ramble about upcoming releases but this time, let's look at a pair of scans from the upcoming Dragon God Cloth which looks fantastic and the Pegasus V1 Bronze Cloth.

First of all, Shiryu looks fantastic, this God Cloth totally pwns the previous Andromeda one given how... sad were Shun's face and colors. This time, that light blueish-green looks great, the sculpting of the head looks impressive and the hair is also fantastic. In that pic from the rear of the figure we can see that they managed to solve the issue of the wings getting in its way.
We can also look at the detail of its shield and that it will come with 2 tiaras: the one from the anime and the one from the manga. The later is the most important one (gigantic dragon emblem lol) as it includes the tail of the dragon, something that almost everyone thought they had discarded. I will venture to say that the tail uses the same system of the Scorpio Appendix, which is completely immobile save for the peg where it attaches to the tiara which you can rotate 360 degrees.

And next, not quite living up to my expectations we have Seiya in his first Pegasus Cloth. Don't get me wrong, the Cloth looks fantastic, especially the full helmet but my complains are directed to two elements in that pic. First of all, what the heck happened to the Pegasus Object?! Just look at the size of its neck!
And second, the face. Seems we have another Cancer Surplice case, as this time Seiya looks way too serious for my liking, when he is supposed to have a more confident expression, just like the smile he has in his Appendix. I wonder if they plan to make that badass helmet compatible with previous Seiya's faces, but knowing Bandai, its almost sure they won't lol. Let's hope they continue to improve a little bit more this Pegasus (then again, they released the Cancer Surplice exactly how it appeared in these kind of scans without any improvement so...)
Oh and as for Algol, he can go and suck balls for all I care, the only Silver Saints I want are Marin and Shaina.

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Sagittarius Update

Like I did with Cancer, I took advantage of the extremely sunny days we've been having in order to take some pics of another figure whose gallery pales miserably in comparison of my most recent purchases: the Sagittarius Gold Cloth. Goddamn, you must see its Object for yourself in order to fully grasp how beautiful and magnificent it is. Without any doubt, the best one in the entire collection.

Fly! Arrow of the Sun!

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The Lost Canvas 165

Alone goes TROLLFACE on everyone lol.

So, in the end, Hades never woke up using him as his host body. On the contrary, Alone is using Hades' power and army in order to bring death and therefore, according to him, salvation to everyone, Saints and Specters alike.
Hypnos once told Alone that he was a real piece of shit full of evil, guess this is what the God of Sleep meant back then.
Honestly, the last chapters about Tenma's missing father (Youma, another troll lol) had become quite boring, although this last chapter was quite unexpected. Does that means that Alone's will was enough to contain Hades? Anyways, it seems like the battles will finally resume again, with 3 Saints (Pegasus Tenma, Aries Shion and Leo Regulus) against the 9 Guardians of the temples. Libra Dohko should still be around somewhere, and I do hope Gemini Aspros returns and did not actually died in such a shitty way they got rid of him.

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