I've gotten a lot of good frame grabs out of Princess Lover and I'm not through with it yet. But there were a few shots I really couldn't use, mostly because they're too ecchi. Wanna see? NSFW below the fold.

UPDATE: Ubu comments.

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And so, we come to the end of the Charger Girls World Fetish Tour. All good things must come to an end, and so it is that we receive the sixth and last omake from Fight! Ippatsu Juuden-chan!

We had uncensored onsen. We had tentacles. We had siscon and voyeurism. We had nude food. We had a cat fight. What awaits us this time?

Needless to say (but I'll say it anyway), NSFW below the fold.

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Natsumi, when you turn 18, will you marry me?

(Kururu has been messing around with age-changing rays again.)

UPDATE: Natsumi had to borrow those clothes from her mother, but she complains that they're too tight around the chest. (Oh, sigh.) It reminds me of a scene in Ranma 1/2 where Ranma-chan is forced to borrow something from Akane to wear, and complains that it's too tight in the chest and too loose around the waist without really realizinng how Akane would react. (IIRC, Akane takes off after Ranma with a kitchen knife.)

Fortunately, Aki doesn't respond the same way.

Anyway, Natsumi really is her mama's girl.

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The new Hakufu statuette arrived. A couple of pictures below the fold.

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And the fourth DVD of Fight! Ippatsu Juuden-chan! is out, and thus the fourth stop on the Charger Girls World Fetish Tour! What thrills, and horrors, await us?

The first fetish was onsen. The second fetish was tentacles. The third stop was a twofer: siscon and voyeurism. This time they really piled it on: more voyeurism, yuri, nude food, soap-suds censorship, symmetrical docking, and one more at the end that I'm not going to mention. (Don't eat yellow snow, and don't bathe in yellow water.)

It's even more ecchi than the second stop was, so...

NSFW BELOW THE FOLD!!!

I ain't kidding!

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Pete posts a picture of the ideal anime woman. Problem is, I don't have the slightest idea who she is. I don't even know what series she's from. And Pete didn't feel the need to leave any clues lying around.

The only thing I know is that it isn't a picture of Kan'u Unchou, so Pete can't be right about her.

UPDATE: Maybe not. I'm changing this to a cheesecake post and I'm going to put a lot of links below the fold. Some are NSFW.

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It's been such a long time, but now it's here: the third omake from Fight! Ippatsu Juuden-chan! AKA "the Charger Girls world fetish tour".

So the first was onsen bathing. The second was tentacles. What surprises does the third one hold for us? It's titled "Stay up late at night in the hotsprings!!" Part 1. The mind boggles...

And it's all below the fold. NSFW, folks. NSFW!

(Actually, by the standards of the last two, this one was pretty much a waste of time. And not really very ecchi, sob.)

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I'm getting an indirect Instaflood tonight. I think the guy Glenn linked to meant to link to this post on USS Clueless. To set the record straight, I am the one who assigned the four roles, but it was Max Sawicky who came up with the name and the roster. (At least that guy spelled my name correctly.)

Anyway, Chizumatic is not about manga. It's about anime. And the odd cheesecake.

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I think one of the classic lines from the "Peanuts" comic strip went something like this: there's no heavier burden than having great potential. One of the kids moaned that after a teacher, or a parent, or some adult dressed that kid down for not living up to their potential.

Back near the end of the period when I was doing USS Clueless, I felt the weight of a great potential, or something very like that. I had gained credibility (it says here) and certainly people came to feel ownership over me and what I said. I never quite understood how they figured that.

I think it was something along the lines of "You speak for my position, so you have a responsibility to me to say what I think, because you're visible and I'm not." They would helpfully tell me what I should have said.

Having gotten fed up with self-elected coauthors, in 2004 I bagged it. A few months later, after some of the wounds had stopped bleeding, I started Chizumatic. And I deliberately chose anime as a subject matter because it was completely inconsequential. Totally unimportant. Extremely uninfluential. Totally unserious. I wanted to shed that weight which others were piling on my shoulders, and go back to speaking only for myself. Apparently the only way to do that was to speak about something all those earnest people would think was beneath them, so they'd ignore me.

Every once in a while my past catches up with me again, as it has tonight. And every time it does, I do my best to try to impeach myself. That's why the cheesecake pictures up there. No serious commentator would post a picture from "Fairy Tale" or a couple of swimsuit pictures from "Saki", so I can't be a serious commentator -- and the people who want me to become one again will go away and leave me alone.

If, on the other hand, they visit and like those pictures, well then please do return, for I post many like that.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at February 11, 2010 10:51 PM (+rSRq)

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Anyway, to continue that thought, the guy whose post brought me that instaflood tonight is looking back at the old "4 Horsemen of the Ablogalypse" joke from a few years back. He's noted that Andrew Sullivan and Charles Johnson have gone strange and become left wing. As to me, I just because silly and irrelevant.

I have no idea how or why Andrew and Charles changed, but my change was very deliberate.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at February 11, 2010 10:54 PM (+rSRq)

3 'Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow?'

Arg, arg, bad brain, bad!

( the comments about self-declared coauthors )

Posted by: metaphysician at February 12, 2010 05:34 AM (vM63Z)

4 Yeah, but he isn't entitled to the sweat of my brow.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at February 12, 2010 06:19 AM (+rSRq)

5 Yes, exactly!

. . .however, the evil comes from that being a quote by an Objectivist villain ( as in, villain who is Objectivist, not a character viewed as villainous by Objectivists ).

Posted by: metaphysician at February 12, 2010 07:16 AM (vM63Z)

6 You had that picture of Hisa in a swimsuit all this time and you didn't share until now??

You are a cruel, cruel man...

Posted by: atomic_fungus at February 12, 2010 08:24 AM (PN+f2)

7 It's not new. I posted it before.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at February 12, 2010 09:31 AM (+rSRq)

8 Oh.  Well, thanks for reposting them, then!  You are a gentleman and a scholar! 

I tried to remember which ep was the pool episode, as I didn't remember one--and then I recalled that I downloaded Saki from TheHylia and their copy of ep 20 was something from some other series.  The worst possible ep to have screwed up.  And to this day I still haven't seen ep 20, damn it all to hell.  (They still haven't fixed it.  Even though I reported the error in October. Webmaster FAIL.)

Posted by: atomic_fungus at February 12, 2010 03:01 PM (PN+f2)

9 Could be worse. Could have been one of the onsen episodes.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at February 12, 2010 03:16 PM (+rSRq)

10 Nice pictures...what was that about a flood?

Posted by: karrde at February 13, 2010 10:28 AM (F3U2E)

11 An "Instaflood" is where you've been linked by the blog "Instapundit" and get huge amounts of traffic for a few hours. It's similar to being "slashdotted". (Though these days I bet Instapundit gets more readers than slashdot does.)

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at February 13, 2010 10:32 AM (+rSRq)

12 You've got some old USS Clueless readers who have little to no interest in anime but check Chizumatic anyway hoping for posts about other stuff. Anyway, you could probably write about how the grass in your yard grows and make it sound interesting.  

Posted by: John at February 13, 2010 08:36 PM (cR/Ak)

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Anyway, you could probably write about how the grass in your yard grows and make it sound interesting.

Lileks can do that, but I'm not that good.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at February 13, 2010 09:07 PM (+rSRq)

14 Yeah, Steven's limited to things like beavers and cooking french fries.

Posted by: Wonderduck at February 13, 2010 09:12 PM (G8/ak)

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Anyone can write about those things and make them interesting.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at February 13, 2010 09:19 PM (+rSRq)

16 I'm not so sure about that, but it made me think of writing an "Ode to the French Fry" just for a joke.....which of course, made me think of the Vogon classic "Ode to a Lump of Green Putty I Found Under My Armpit" and suddenly the idea didn't seem so great after all.

Nobody can make Vogon poetry sound interesting, even in the original Klingon.

Um. Okay, I think I'll go sleep now before my personal reality gets any more bizarre. I might turn out not to be a level 0, and then where would we be, with if my psychic power was to create Vogon poetry in Klingon pentameter?

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Well, the first DVD omake was about the Charger Girl Onsen Trip. Plug had an attack of the inadequates and groped the boobs of every girl in the bath with her. This time we got tentacles. Do I have to tell you that it's NSFW below the fold?

I think I better emphasize that. NSFW below the fold!!!

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The BD raw of Aika Zero ep 3 (and last) did come out a couple of days ago. It's not subbed yet, so I didn't bother listening to it, I just watched it. NSFW frame grabs below the fold.

I ain't kidding about the NSFW; this thing is borderline hentai.

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