This is one conversation intensive episode. Yet somehow while almost the entire episode sees the blacksmith basically trying to decide whether to make Balsa a new spear, it still doesn’t fail to awe with its setting and pacing.
I think haruka has major problems. If trying to show off your bikini to a robot is not a problem, then I don’t know what is. She must really have some fierce childhood psychological scars.
Real life comic has a comic strip today about shopping for figurines. I was quite amused.
Big boobs and Fanservicey are always good reasons to buy a Haruhi figurine.
In other news, e2046 is coming up with an originally sculpted Gothic Haruhi.

There’s something about the pose that makes me feel like it’s just not something haruhi would do. In fact, besides the face, it doesn’t feel like haruhi to me. What do you think? aha. Nice general figurine though
Oh boy. Kagami is positively being bullied by Konata in this episode. It’s autumn, so let the sports meet begin! Don’t miss out on Tsukasa dressed in Ayu outfit.
Man… I haven’t watched this series for such a long time, and only after starting to watch it did I realised that I actually missed it so much! I’ll bet that if I was actually personally involved in the plot, I’d be touched to tears very often.102
*update* Here’s a copy of a letter sent by odex. (Found by TJ HAN) It’s quite interesting the number of episodes that he was concurrently downloading. Some thoughts by Darkmirage on this issue. Not sure how right he is, but he does make some good points.
*update 2* Zaobao reports that a total of 17 letters were sent out.
Look what I got in my mailbox today, an email from the NUS PROVOST.
Recently the University was approached by a representative of a local authorised distributor of foreign television programmes, including anime, and of the Anti-Video Piracy Association, Singapore and was informed that various illegal online downloads of anime had been made from IP addresses belonging to NUS during the months of March and April this year.
I guess this pretty much confirms whether those warnings about clamping down on illegal downloads of anime are real.