Claymore:
Bad-ass. Creepy half-human chick with a broad sword, what's not to like?
Tengen Toppa Gurren-Lagann:
new gainax series, with all that implies ( more gunbuster/FLCL than eva)
Tokyo Majin Gakuen Kenpuchou:
Super Powered Teenagers protecting their city from evil.
Except evil usually manages to wrack up quite a body count before they take it down.
Sailor moon this is not.
Giniro no Olynssis:
Confusing but has some potential.
Any more i've missed?

Aquastar is now up to Hour 169. If you're not caught up... go do so, ASAP, then come back here. You won't regret it.
We've had the Class Trip... of Doom.
We've had the High School Festival... of Doom.
And now that six months have passed since the series began, it's time for the Summer Vacation... of DOOM!
Spoilers for Festival and up in white...
In some ways I was disappointed by the end of the Festival War. After all that, we still don't know what drove Chao to change her own past. And now she's gone...
...but she'll be back, I have no doubt. Prediction: her next arc will involve the Negima Wrecking Crew traveling to her future...
From an arc perspective, the core reason for the Festival War seems simply to be the steeling of Negi's spine. He's got the vision, he's got the motivation, he's got the undefeatable willpower. From here on he might as well use D. as his middle initial because there won't be any stopping the bozu. Negi D. Springfield, laughs in the face of death and won't let anyone step on dreams.
So we move on to #169 and the YIKES! moment.
Okay, it's cliche as all hell, but fairly well pulled off nonetheless. The freaking awesome visuals of a mage war in the Inner World help carry the revelation that Nagi's buddies weren't kidding when they called her a princess.
But that's not all, or even the point. She was a weapon. A living defense system. Makes you wonder just what the IW culture is like, dunnit?
And -- wait, no, she hasn't forgotten again! Cliche variant #1 avoided.
(And the Konoka-Setsuna moment? Pure comedy gold.)
This upcoming arc should be glorious.

Further proof that Negima! is one of the best damn shonen action manga out there today. (Akamatsu even dived into Tournament Hell and made it out intact, unlike some I could name.)
--Sam
"Sidekicks don't kiss!"

I hereby throw down a gauntlet to any and all 'fen - devise a monetary unit that cannot be counterfitted.
I will be your prime counterfitter, in the guise of the third-teir Boskonian scientist Marcus Enwhistle.
Also, feel free to discuss ways and means in this thread.Wire Geek - Burning the weak and trampling the dead since 1979Wire Geek - Burning the weak and trampling the dead since 1979

Everything comes back to Austen. Jane Austen.
nielsenhayden.com/makingl...08832.html

He deals the cards as a meditation
And those he plays never suspect
He doesnt play for the money he wins
He doesnt play for the respect
He deals the cards to find the answer
The sacred geometry of chance
The hidden law of probable outcome
The numbers lead a dance
I know that the spades are the swords of a soldier
I know that the clubs are weapons of war
I know that diamonds mean money for this art
But thats not the shape of my heart
He may play the jack of diamonds
He may lay the queen of spades
He may conceal a king in his hand
While the memory of it fades
I know that the spades are the swords of a soldier
I know that the clubs are weapons of war
I know that diamonds mean money for this art
But thats not the shape of my heart
Thats not the shape, the shape of my heart
And if I told you that I loved you
Youd maybe think theres something wrong
Im not a man of too many faces
The mask I wear is one
Those who speak know nothing
And find out to their cost
Like those who curse their luck in too many places
And those who smile are lost
I know that the spades are the swords of a soldier
I know that the clubs are weapons of war
I know that diamonds mean money for this art
But thats not the shape of my heart
Thats not the shape of my heart
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Apologies if this one's been used already but... takes all weapons of war - everything in the area that has nonconsensual harm or destruction as its primary purpose - and bends it into a pretty little heart shape.

I had just started reading this forum not long before registering, but now an idea has jumped into my head. Surely there has been some sort of school set up in Senshi territory. And where there are schools you need teachers.
*.*.*
I looked across the line of students watching for their reaction to my arrival. I had an even dozen. There was of course the mandatory cat girl, another with featureless white eyes, and a pink haired girl who seemed to be trying to hide any reaction to my appearance. Strange, Pink Hair had blue hair in her student file's photograph. And what do you know, this term there was not one but two actual boys in the class, and judging from the way one was busy tugging at the collar of his shirt he neither approved of nor was used to wearing a tie. Not my fault, I wasn't the one who designed the uniforms.
Welcome to my class. My name Andrew, but for now you may call me Mister Fauho, Teacher, or Sensei. Hmm, I think Pink Hair has decided upon finding me cute, that does not bode well.
Let me start with an issue that has come up in the past. If you have any problem with being taught by a man or a furry, well tough, I've been told to stop offering to let people transfer into the classes that are going to lose the upcoming competitions. Second, I do not answer to fluffy, fox boy, or fur ball. Third, for those about to ask, yes that would be you Melissa, no I am not a kitsune. One, count it, one tail. Forth, and those of you who need this warning know who you are, I do not take glomping well. Great I don't think Pink Hair got the message, even if I was looking her right in the eyes as I said it.
*.*.*
I shall have to read more of what's been posted before going much further...
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Will the transhumanist future have catgirls? Does Japan still exist? Well, there is your answer.

I'm trying to find an older Buffy fic with the following plot points:
Giles got Joyce pregnant during the "band candy" incident.
Faith's new watcher is not Wesley, but the daughter of Emma Peel.
It's Xander/Faith.
I know it's on FF.net, I just can't find it anymore.

Hola!
I've been reading Bob's Drunkard's Walk starting when there were only a handful of chapters posted for Walk II... let's see that would have been late 98 or some time in 1999.
I live here in the States, on other forums you'll see "The sunny southwest" for the location tag. I enjoy science fiction, fantasy, RPGs (and have characters in a few online games), various genres of anime (including magical girl, I'm one of those excited by the double good news of StrikerS starting up and the clues that Nanoha has been licensed), and as has become clear by now parenthesis. I'm also a fan of forensic programs. Medical Detectives and it's new incarnation as Forensic Files, North Mission Road, Body of Evidence, Dr. G, CSI Vegas...
As the user name hints I'm also furry fen, but as I like to say I'm not actually insane. Crazy yes, insane no. Speaking of Nanoha, Yuuno is clearly a furry in denial. I mean really, "Gee, I've just lost a magical fight and don't even have the strength to stand up. I know! I'll turn myself into a ferret!" I think if we ever get to see flashback's of his life prior to the first show we'll see he was always looking for excuses for ferret time.
Like many Americans I have managed to get into debt. Credit cards. Can't live with them, can't live with them. Slowly getting it paid down, and once it is don't intend to let it get so loaded again for anything short of an emergency. But without annoyances the good things in life wouldn't have anything to be compared to.
And I really need to start studying Spanish again so I can say more than Hola!
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Will the transhumanist future have catgirls? Does Japan still exist? Well, there is your answer.

We've set up coalitions for the Great Lakes groups on Freedom with my & Chris' other established SGs there so we can get around with their telepads. Should make things a bit easier.
Hero side is with Last Line of Defense
Villain side is with V.I.L.E
FYI: For those that have the SG Teleport vet reward, you can use it to port to a coalition base.
Enjoy!
Global: @Jimmy Amp
"Broad-minded is just another way of saying a fellow's too lazy to form an opinion." -- Will Rogers

Well one of the snipest bob posted won't get out of my head, since in an RPG long ago I had a mech named Kirika...
no plans to continue this but with this out of my head I will hopefully finish my work and get back to fenspace.
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I raced down to the hangar, desperate to stop her before thousands of lives where lost uselessly. The hangar hummed with the power of three fusion reactors coming to full combat power, and the clanking sounds as the hundred ton mech disentangled itself from it's docking bay. I place myself in front of it as it glides out of the bay with amazingly graceful steps for such a large and bulky looking machine.
"Get out of my way, Doug."
I shook my head. "I'm sorry, Kirika. I can't let you do this."
Barely suppressing a gulp as her four medium plasma lances took aim on me, even though I knew this to be just a reflex action in response to her irritation.
"Don't make me escalate this," she said softly. "I know your limitations."
I let a little smile creep out. "That's as may be. But you don't know all my strengths."
"Unless one of those strengths is surviving hard vacuum I'd suggest you get out of the way. I'm starting to empty the hangars atmosphere in ten seconds." Zephiris, the ship AI, announced, interrupting our little starting contest. "Sorry Doug, but Kirika does outrank me."
E: "Did they... did they just endorse the combination of the JSDF and US Army by showing them as two lesbian lolicons moving in together and holding hands and talking about how 'intimate' they were?"
B: "Have you forgotten so soon? They're phasing out Don't Ask, Don't Tell."