SyFy began airing Mobile Suit Gundam 00 Second Season this week, but there's a very important flaw in how they're presenting the series. As is usual with their AniMonday series, SyFy speeds through the ending credits & cuts out anything that would come after them. Normally this is only the next episode preview. But sometimes it can be more, as was the case with the Gundam 00 season one finale. For the first season at least, this was just a one-time problem. But in the Second Season, every episode has an epilogue scene after the ending credits. & if the first two episodes are any indication, SyFy doesn't plan to show any of them.

These aren't just random, unimportant scenes that are being edited out either. The first episode has Tieria talking to Saji about why he didn't shoot Setsuna, & then it shows Setsuna tracking down the second Lockon & telling him his deceased brother's connection to Celestial Being. It was pretty confusing in the beginning of episode two as to how Setsuna & Lockon II ran into each other without this scene. Then the epilogue of episode two was cut out, even though it shows the rest of the Ptolemaios crew being introduced to the second Lockon for the first time. Then we jump to Allelujah in prison, saying Marie's name to himself. Perhaps none of this is EXTREMELY important, but it's not like it's fluff material either. Hopefully SyFy & Manga Entertainment will be able to fix & rectify this mess.

Originally scheduled to come out in May, Bandai's English release of the Lucky Star manga finally hit American stores just last week. I got my hands on the first volume earlier this week, & have been greatly enjoying it. It's taller & larger than your average manga book, probably to be better present the 4-koma style that Lucky Star is. The down side to this is that it's a bit more expensive than your average manga as well, retailing at $10.99. There is a nice four page color section as well:

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