The idea of Crunchyroll simulcasting "Fight Ippatsu! Juden-chan," or as they're calling it "Charger Girl," seemed laughable when it was first announced. But then I heard that they were actually working with Avex to make the series a little more "family friendly." Now I'm flat out against censorship & probably wont be watching any more of the series on Crunchyroll because of it, but I guess this was the only way they could show it. So what's done had to be done.

So when I first heard that Juden-chan would be censored, I thought "there goes all the peeing scenes." But then I watched the first episode, which premiered today on Crunchyroll, all of the peeing scenes were left intact! There were other edits, mind you (basically mild nudity), but it seemed weird that the erotic peeing was untouched. So then I watched episode 2, which also went up at the same time on CR, & this time ALL of the peeing scenes were edited out. Granted, two of the urination scenes were accompanied by nudity, so those scenes probably had to edited because of that. But the third peeing scene had no visible nudity in the shot. This is really quite odd.

(EDIT: Just remembered that both Code Geass & Kigurumikku have uncensored nudity on Crunchyroll. Can someone explain this mess to me?)

Not only were all three peeing scenes left in episode 1, but there were very few other edits. Episode 2, however, is another story. Besides all three peeing scenes (will every episode have three peeing scenes?) being removed, there tons of other edits as well. I've taken screenshots of all the major changes. Check out the comparisons below. This is totally NSFW, by the way:

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For the past week or so, Anime News Network has had a little secret link on their site. If you hover your mouse cursor over the far-left side of any page, a mysterious silhouette appears with a big question mark. Click on the image, & it takes you to the address http://omgitscoming.com. Another mysterious silhouette appeared at the top of the page, which you can see in the image above (currently a different silhouette resides there). It has a clock that's been counting down to something, presumably when "it" comes. Only one week remains.

Today of course being Thursday, the official English Nagi-sama Fan Club Homepage updated its site once again. Though this update was even lighter than past weeks. All she wrote was "Nagi-sama commands you to return next Thursday with a special message from a special someone!" & then the following image was posted underneath:

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Japanese animation studio Production I.G. confirmed at Anime Expo its involvement with an anime project based on EA's video game Dante's Inferno. Yasuomi Umetsu (Kite), Shukou Murase (Ergo Proxy), & several others will take part in the six-part project. More information will be revealed at Comic-Con International in two weeks.

Source: http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2009-07-05/production-i.g-confirms-involvement-in-animated-dante-inferno-project

The English version of the popular AkibaBlog website recently took a trip to the real life Washinomiya shrine, which is an important setting in the Lucky Star series, in order to write a report so as to better educate American fans.

The four-part series writes about the shrine's history, how it became a tourist attraction, how it's adopted & accepted its Lucky Star connection, attractions near the site, & the Haji Festival that takes place there once a year. Blogger Greg even gathered up a few souvenirs to give away to readers (I got a t-shirt ^^). Lots of nice pictures are included to, so make sure to check out the report. Hit up the links below:

Part 1: http://en.akibablog.net/archives/2009/06/visit_report_on_holy_lucky_star_shrine.html
Part 2: http://en.akibablog.net/archives/2009/06/title_visit_report_on_holy_lucky_star_shrine_vol2.html
Part 3: http://en.akibablog.net/archives/2009/06/title_visit_report_on_holy_lucky_star_shrine_vol3.html
Part 4: http://en.akibablog.net/archives/2009/06/title_visit_report_on_holy_lucky_star_shrine_final.html

Wizard World announced that the brand new ACen Aftershock, a supplement anime convention to the usual annual Anime Central, will be a part of this year's Chicago Comic-Con. This is the first time ever that ACen will be expanding beyond its usual three-day convention event in May. It's not yet known how big a presence ACen Aftershock will be at CCC, but they do promise that there will be anime exhibitors, artists, showings, panel events, cosplay, contests, & more throughout the four days.

Chicago Comic-Con (which shouldn't be confused with the official New York Comic Con sanctioned Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo debuting next year) will run from August 6 to August 9, so only one month away.

Source: http://www.wizardworld.com/acen.html