And now back to some anime blogging.  Again my power supply for the laptop took a dump so I'm left at work with some time to kill and what better way than to get some anime blogging done while I can.  First up is a short, and by short I mean 4 mini-episodes, series called Houkago no Pleiades.  In total the 4 mini-episodes added up to one normal anime episode.  Houkago no Pleiades was a joint venture between the car maker Subaru and Gainax and is a cute magical girl show. 

When I first heard of this team up I was really hoping for a new car show but what I got was a cute moe magical schoolgirl show that featured a lot of key visuals related to Subaru but no cool WRX STi stuff.  Oh well the show was still a fun little thing to watch. 

Basically the story is that a girl named Subaru likes to look up at the stars and one day witnesses an interesting event in the night sky.  When she returns to school she unlocks the door to the observatory room (with a Subaru car key) and enters into a magical garden with a boy and a butterfly.   After this magical encounter she leaves and trips over an unusual animal and chases it down to another room. 

That magically sealed room houses another group of school girls but they are no ordinary school girls.  They are magical girls who with the President of their club (the unusual animal) they chase after star particles called Engine fragments so that the President can return home.  Subaru wasn't supposed to be able to open the door and because she can the President allows her to join the club much to the dismay of Subaru's friend who doesn't think Subaru can hack being a part of the club. 

As a new member of the club she is given a unique magical staff (complete with rumbling flat 4 engine sounds and Subaru grill) and she sets off with the other girls to collect a special Engine fragment only to face another Alien looking to collect the same Engine Fragments.  A fight ensues of course and the girls end up beating the bad guy thanks to the power of friendship and other typical plot devices.  Nothing to new there really.  And of course all ends well. 

Now whether or not this was a great success by Gainax and Subaru to sell cars I don't know but it's a fun little series that I'm sure will find it's way to an Itasha'd Subaru near you in good time (I'd do it). But I do have to say it was a fun short little series that shouldn't be missed.

Here are the subbed episodes...

What a week. Really what a week. I'd like to say that this was a great week even a good week but honestly it's been far from that. But before we get into all that crap how about a lovely Race Queen. I've ran across a couple other great sites lately featuring the lovely Race Queens of not only Super GT but other Japanese race series as well. So I'll definitely keep up with the lovelies for your weekly enjoyment.

Now for that other stuff. Oh the week at work sucked... epic tons of damn freaking laundry to do. Still wondering about the sale of the hotel but it's looking like we don't need to worry about it but I did hear a rumor that the owner is now living in one of his other hotels and is thinking about going back to just managing one of them full time while this is all sorting it self out. Either case he hasn't been to our hotel in some time. So it's been rather peaceful there for a while minus the insane amounts of laundry and constantly filling the ever leaking pond.

As for the rest of the week I still haven't been able to sell the damn A/C unit and the day to day rain hasn't helped at all either. Yeah it's been raining almost the entire week. The weather we should have had in March and April we are now getting in May with even more on the way. So the weather has been a bit of downer of late. But who says you can't BBQ in the rain which is exactly what I did the other day thanks to my portable shade device that I use for autocross. Well I also used it to help cook up some Hamburgers the other day as well.

The RX8 is still getting parts taken off and the roommate is still scratching his head about just what to do with it all. We are getting closer to getting it all put back together in stock trim. Need to install the clutch plate and transmission onto the new to him motor so that the car and engine can be taken to the dealership and installed correctly in an expedient manner because.... Well he really needs another reliable vehicle at the moment thanks to a mishap in the rain the other day that knocked out the Subaru. First the Starter was acting up again and he went out to pick up a new one but before we could get it installed the Subaru had a bit of a rough day and is awaiting some TLC to put it back together again. So all the plans that were made are now entirely out the window again as he tries to figure out what to do with both cars. Also messes up the rest of the summer plans as well. Oh well life goes on and you just have to pick up the pieces and keep going forward with what ever you gotta do. I'm also strictly forbidden from ever mentioning that "curse" again and I definitely have to agree with that notion.

I did pick up a new shirt this week and I'm really happy with it. Found out that Enkei was selling a T-shirt for their pretty famous racing rims the RPF-01 and I wanted one so I waited until I got my latest paycheck to get one since it was only going to be $20 shipped. Should have waited long because this latest paycheck was damn low and has totally thrown me out budget which is why I really need to sell that damn A/C unit. Oh well life goes on for me as well and I'll figure something out. Just so long as nothing else happens before the next paycheck at least. Now I think I'll go enjoy some little bit of sunshine while it's out and BBQ up some more burgers.

I think I'll leave you with the following video that I found during the week. This is just a messed up crash and a reminder that no matter how much trouble we have with cars at least it's not this bad.

Hey look there it goes...yup that thing that just went by was another week. Lets see what happened last week. Well oddly enough after posting last weeks weekly review it decided to rain again and this time we all jumped into the Subaru Outback and went offroading in the mud. We forgot again to take the mudflaps off (you'd think we would have learned our lesson the first couple of times) so the car didn't get as muddy as it could have and I didn't want to take my camera equipment out in the rain so we didn't get any pictures until we got back home. In any case it was a lot of fun and we didn't get stuck thanks to me going..."NO! that's not a good idea!" anytime we came up to a too big of a mud puddle, sure it would have been fun but I really wasn't looking forward to any extra dirty pushing work for the afternoon.

So that was Sunday the rest of the week well yeah it pretty much sucked after that actually. It was pretty much just work, pack, sleep and repeat toss in just a bit of worrying about were I might live for 7 days in July when we have to move out the rental house and the 1st of the month until the roommate actually takes possession of his house on the 7th. Fun but we are still trying to work out a deal with the landlord the people who have rented the place after we move out and us. Thankfully we both of plans just in case but it's going to be really crazy for the first week in July and there's even a autocross event and car show in the middle of all that. Go figure.

So that just brings us full circle to today and today is Father's Day last year this time we were still working to replace the engine in the roommate's RX-8. So for any fathers reading this Happy Father's Day for any one with a dad don't forget to tell them Happy Father's Day. And of course that brings us to the end of the weekly review and the next couple weeks are just going to be insane so if I don't get around to posting anything for while you know why. Later.