Anime Reviews: Fairy Tail Episode 81 - Fireball

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Lucy, Fairy Tail's current strongest, and the rest of the group manage to escape from the guards.  Lucy explains how Mystogan found her, after Horologium saved her from anima.  Mystogan then gives Lucy something to eat, and sends her through anima.  After a scene where Scary Lucy shows exactly how identical the two are, Scary Lucy leaves to try and convince her guild to help the Earth Land characters fight against the kingdom.

Anime Reviews: Toriko Episode 07 - A Threat Appears! The Turbulent Gourmet Coliseum!

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After Toriko manages to intimidate all the monsters attacking the battle wolf, people start betting on him.  Toriko is able to confirm that the reason the wolf isn't fighting back is because somehow, despite being the only clone, is pregnant.  He lets Mansom know that something is wrong, and Mansom tells Rin to shut off the machine.  Rin tells him that the machine is broken, so she has to go herself and dose the beasts in person.

Anime Reviews: Blue Exorcist Episode 05 - Child of the Cursed Temple

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While in his dreams Rin is a hero, praised by all his classmates, the reality is far from his imagination.  Rin's slacking off during class starts to get on the nerves of one of his classmates, a straight A student who may not look like it, but is in fact the inheritor of a temple.  Ryuji Suguro thinks Rin isn't taking becoming an exorcist seriously, and when Shiemi doesn't do well on a test either, Ryuji thinks that the two of them are just goofing off.

Book Reviews: Paradise Seekers

I don't normally do this, I haven't really gotten into the indie book scene that much.  But I have been intrigued with the idea of selling directly the the kindle store.  I'm still a supporter of traditional publishing, but it seems like something worth trying.

Anime Reviews: Fairy Tail Episode 80 - The Key of Hope

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The first part of this episode is exposition heavy, as Natsu explains where he and his friends are from, and asks how to get to the capital so he can save the rest of his guild.  The Edolas Fairy Tail guild explains that since magic is a limited resource the king claimed all of it and outlawed mage guilds.  Because of this they are hunted.

Anime Reviews: Fairy Tail Episode 79 - Fairy Hunting

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Lucy recognizes Natsu, and asks him where he was, sharing a touching hug with him before proceeding to repetitively torture him.  Even though the guild recognizes Natsu, it becomes quickly clear that something is not right.  Not only is everyone acting weird, but there's an adult Wendy, and Lisanna is alive!  Charle quickly figures out that the people they have found are not their friends at all, but are in fact a guild that has been in Edolas all along.

Anime Reviews: Toriko Episode 06 - The Strongest Wolf That Ever Lived! The Battle Wolf Is Reborn!

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The top members of the IGO discuss the mysterious creature that appeared in the cavern lagoon.  They say that it is a new model of GT Robot, employed by the Gourmet Corps.  This corps has already attacked several of the other biotopes, and now are most likely after the Regal Mammoth in biotope one.  Fortunately they've already sent Toriko to go after it himself.

Anime Reviews: Toriko Episode 05 - The Knocking Master! Time to Taste the Puffer Whale

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The gourmet hunter that kidnapped Komatsu throws him towards the devil python as a distraction.  But instead of going after Komatsu first, the snake attacks and kills the murderous gourmet hunter.  Komatsu searches through his backpack for the self defense firecracker/noise maker and ear plugs Toriko gave him.  He gets knocked around and drops the ear plugs, so he is forced to set off the cracker without protecting his ears.  The resulting bang shatters his ear drums and stops his heart.

Book Reviews: Dead Beat

Since I started writing for Examiner.com as a speculative fiction examiner, I've decided to start posting all my book reviews there.  Because of editorial guidelines the reviews will be 400 words max, and written in third person.  So quite different from how I normally write reviews.  I think this will be good practice for me, learning how to write neater, more succinct reviews.  Would be nice if examiner had a spell checker though.

Also, I've heard that they're a little iffy about how they pay their examiners, but it's not like I make more money of this blog...yet.  And since I'm going to be writing these reviews anyway, I might as well post them there.  Who knows, maybe it will end up being worth it somehow.

With that out of the way, head on over to check out my review of Dead Beat.  And when you're done with that, don't forget to pick up your own copy from my amazon link here.  My bookie would be most appreciative.  So would my kneecaps.

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Anime Reviews: Fairy Tail Episode 78 - Edolas

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Charle tells Natsu, Wendy, and Happy about Edolas, where she and Happy came from.  She explains that Edolas, an alternate dimension, is losing magic power and to combat that the king of Edolas created Anima, to suck magic out of the real world.  But someone has been going around closing the anima.  She also says that she and Happy were sent on an alternate mission, which Happy can't remember for some reason.