OK, I found something with lots of cheesecake that I think I can manage to scan through: the second season of Rosario to Vampire.

...sheesh there are a lot of panty shots in this, however. Which, of course, I can't use.

UPDATE: Kurumu always looks good:

UPDATE: Now this is completely gratuitous:

UPDATE: I am actually watching this. Sound turned off, but subtitles on, and I'm not doing a lot of skipping. It's a stupid show, but it doesn't make me writhe in agony the same some shows do.

Ep 3 was Parent Visitation Day, and it was about Mizore's mom and Kurumu's mom who, it turned out, were rivals in high school and still hate one another. So lots of mayhem.

Ep 4 is Measurement Day, and I have no doubt that's going to be loaded with cheesecake, most of which I won't be able to use.

Here's another gratuitous shot:

UPDATE: Uh-oh! Bath scene!

UPDATE: Although obviously being a harem/fan-service show, the first season was mainly about Tsukune as a normal human trying to survive in a school full of monsters, where it is a death-sentence offense to be a normal human.

The second season seems to be girl-of-the week stories. Eps 1 and 2 were Kokoa. Ep 3 was Mizore's mother and Kurumu's mother. Ep 4 was Yukari. Based on the first couple of minutes, looks like ep 5 is Mizore.

The first season was about Tsukune. The second season isn't. As of the first third of the series, Tsukune is now a trophy, someone the girls are all competing to get. He isn't a wimp, but he isn't really a character, either.

As before, there's a battle in every episode. In the first series, most of the battles were various monsters attacking Tsukune. In this series, so far, it hasn't been. In the first two episodes, Kokoa was trying to kill Moka. In the third episode, Mizore's mother and Kurumu's mother were trying to kill each other. In ep 4, the school nurse was trying to do evil things to Yukari.

I won't say that the first series was wonderful story telling, but there did seem to be something of a series storyline. If there's one this time, though, I sure don't see any hints of it.

They did provide an explanation for the Rosario, though, in Moka's flashback to her childhood. Seems that Moka and Kokoa have the same father but not the same mothers. Initially they grew up together in their father's house. When Moka was about 10 (I'm guessing, based on the art) she went to live with her mother, who was in the human world. So she had to start wearing the rosario to seal most of her power, because she was living in the human world.

No indication of why Tsukune can remove the rosario, though.

UPDATE: Quick character rundown:

Tsukune -- the guy in the middle of the harem.
Moka -- the pink-haired vampire who wears the rosario. when removed we get...
Alt Moka -- with white hair, red eyes, bigger boobs, and a killer attitude. (Literally)
Kurumu -- the succubus with blue hair. And the biggest boobs in the main cast.
Mizore -- the yuki onna, snow woman. It's a legendary monster in Japan with no real western equivalent. (Some fansubbers have referred to her as the "abominable snowgirl" but it isn't really an accurate reference to the legend.)
Yukari -- 12 year old witch. As of the second series she's 13, and the way they're drawing her she's just beginning to bloom.
Ruby -- an older witch who is now working as a utility infielder in the staff of the school.
Kokoa -- red haired, violent. She's Moka's younger sister. She loves Alt-Moka, and thus she hates pink-haired Moka and wants to destroy her so that Alt-Moka will come out permanently. The bat works for her.

There's an episode of Keroro Gunsou where the kids and frogs divide into teams and compete to see who can tell the scariest story. One of the girls ends up telling the legend of the yuki onna. Problem is, the legend isn't scary. It's sad, and everyone ends up crying, but they're not scared so she doesn't win the contest.

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