Did you know that October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month? Since I'm a big fan of breasts I think it's absolutely imperative to make note of this besides what a great excuse to talk about breasts right. All joking aside Breast Cancer is serious business and an important thing for both men and women to be aware of and to help support the effort to get people in the know about breast cancer and how to check for it.

I'd joke around that I'm all for helping out and would be more than happy to lend a helping hand with some self checks to any well endowed hottie Asian ladies out there (I'm looking at you Aki Hoshino) but lets keep this post a bit more professional than that shall we, at least for the moment. While October is traditionally a black and orange month to support Breast Cancer Awareness it's also a Pink month as well and to do my part I've decided that the Hottie of the Day will feature hotties in pink for the entirety of October with a link to the Susan G Komen website or the National Breast Cancer Foundation website for those who would like to help out. I would also suggest that those who would like to show their support for Breast Cancer Awareness to pick up a pink ribbon and wear it through out the month. If you would like to know more about any of this please check out those websites.

Now to get all sorts of unprofessional how about an od to Anime breasts with this little Youtube clip all about those wonderful bouncing breasts.

Holy...Sugoi-sugoi. Ok I couldn't help it I had to toss out the Sugoi-sugoi. And now that I did we can move along with the rest of the review for what I believe to be the second best anime series of the Summer season. Canaan is one of those action series that grips you with the action and punishes you with a damn good story. Mixing gunfights with bonds of friendship and pure hatred and revenge with true friendship and unrequited love all due to a bio-engineered virus.

So I've been sitting here writing and re-writing this review several times now trying to get everything I can about the show into a nice little package that would tell you just how awesome this series was. However I can't seem to do that without wanting to write a really long post so I figured that I'd just let Wiki take care of that so that I could spend my time writing about the finer points that stood out to me and what I liked.

Canaan reminds me a lot of Ghost in the Shell where the action is great, well choreographed and paced out well. There isn't action just for action's sake or long drawn out fights with near impossible human feats. It's fast nasty and while the Canaan dodging bullets ability is just a bit out there it's still very real looking. Than there is the story well paced thought provoking and leaving you wanting more after each episode. I kind of laughed at the end when the yuri faction got screwed when both potential yuri love interest disappeared in a flash. The first is the love story between Ling and Alphard which was entirely one sided and ended when the one person that did love Ling, Cummings, had to kill her to end her suffering after her attempts to get Alphard interested in her failed. Her end was rather interesting and I sure didn't see that end coming. And a strange bit of fanservice as well.

The second and more likely yuri love scene is of course between Canaan and Maria but damn if we don't get trolled with a strong bonded friendship instead. That stong friendship bond is the reason why Canaan is able to defeat Alphard in the end. That's right lots of hand holding and innuendo straight out the window and to make matters even worse they end up going their seperate ways in order to protect each other.

But lets not forget the humor thankfully this splits the great action and wonderful story with a mix of humor from slapstick funny to the just bizarre. The bizarre is of course Cummings and lings airsoft S&M moments. That has to be the first time getting shot with airsoft pellets are used in a sexual manner. One of the better moments at the end is when Cummings, who is now a Buddhist monk, bends down to pick up what looks like an airsoft pellet but is actually a seedling and says something profound. Damn anime being profound and all that junk. Of course the slapstick funny comes in the form of a crazy taxi driver and the all important comedy relief of Yunyun who is great at providing us with the laughs that help to alleviate some of the seriousness of the story.

Last but not least of course is the smidge bit of fanservice tossed in which wasn't actually out of place. Or fanservice for fanservice sake. Well maybe Ling in her guns and lingerie last act was a bit of a stretch but the cosplay cafe that was an integral part to the story is acceptable. Yunyun's fanservice of course was once again just more comedy relief so that was OK as well.

So you see Canaan has it all and is well worth watching. I couldn't recommend it more and really hope that it gets picked up for a release in America as I would say that this is a definite must buy anime series. The good thing is that there is going to be three movies released. I believe they will be a retelling of the series and at the moment I'm not to sure how the movies will be done but it'll be interesting to see if there will be any changes or new animation added to the movies.

Here is the CM75 trailer:

Strange way to do a second season but than that isn't anything new for for the likes of Haruhi Suzumiya. So lets just get this part out of the way so we can move on...HAHA you guys got TROLLED! Love, the crew at Kyoto Animation. Talk about a huge facepalm.jpg moment in anime history. OK now that that is out of they way it's time to somewhat review just the new episodes of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya which is a handful of episodes before and after the dreaded endless 8 story arc which is much the bane of the Haruhi fans. These new episodes are of course mixed in with the episodes of the original series which makes the original series more linear and probably helps with making more since of the Haruhi universe. I'm just so glad I'm not a rabbed fan.

But I am a fan and I enjoyed the original season and like everyone else I was looking forward to the upcoming season but I wasn't going nuts about it I figured it would get here when it gets here but I wasn't exactly expecting it to be aired like it was. That was definitely something different but I think it probably helped out the fans to keep every thing organized and in line with the entire story without having to go back and watch the original season on DVD to remember what the hell is going on.

That is until you hit the endless 8 arc and you realized that you just got trolled by Kyoto Animation or at least that is what a lot of people are thinking. While even I got bored of trying to find all the different things in each episode (surprised there isn't more fanservice of all the different swimsuits) it does help to convey the feelings of the characters or something like that. I don't really know but I'm not to upset about the whole thing anyways and hey it's Haruhi did you really expect anything less from them.

That brings us to the last arc the story of how the Movie that started it all was filmed and the troubles that poor Kyon has to go through. At least he finally grows a pair and steps up to the plate to do battle with Haruhi straight on and tells her that what she's doing is wrong and that she needs to stop even if he has to knock that idea into her head. With that development I think The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya redeemed itself in the end with that. So I'll be renting this when it comes state side (hopefully sooner than later) to support it but I really gotta wonder about their marketing with the endless 8 arc but I guess it's selling well enough so meh it was good enough to keep me entertained but not worth purchasing at release time maybe when it's released as a complete collection and a good price point.

I couldn't find a trailer or preview for it so enjoy the opening sequence