Sweet Blue Flowers (Aoi Hana) – Episode 11 [END]

It’s the final episode of Sweet Blue Flowers, and will Fumi finally discover the answer to Yasuko’s question about who her first love was?

Cardcaptor Sakura – Episode 20

It’s Cardcaptor Sakura episode 20, and Meilin joins Sakura, Tomoyo, and Shaoran’s class as a new transfer student, and has a shocking pronouncement regarding Shaoran.

Phantom: Requiem for the Phantom – Episode 25

It’s Phantom episode 25, and Reiji is able to find Ellen and convince her to allow him to fight Cal in the final showdown.

Phantom: Requiem for the Phantom – Episode 24

It’s Phantom episode 24, and Cal finally sets up a confrontation with Ellen, but not before going berserk on Mio.

Phantom: Requiem for the Phantom – Episode 23

It’s Phantom episode 23, and Cal decides to go rouge and hold Mio hostage herself to force Reiji’s hand.

We Now Return to Our Regularly Scheduled Programming

Well, I had a nice adventure over the weekend with my blog being suspended by my host because it was apparently sucking up the server’s CPU cycles.  I did some reading and saw that WordPress was generally seen as a resource hog.  That at the fact that I couldn’t find any real evidence that my site had been tampered with made me wonder if my blog was just pulling too much processor time on my host’s server.

So, I went and implemented several things which will hopefully help this site out.  The first was implementing WP-Super Cache as well as a complementary caching plugin that caches my sidebar widgets (since they use quite a bit of php to cycle through things to create the dropdowns).  Next, as you might have seen, I cut down the number of posts per page from 10 to 5.  Maybe that will make the page more manageable too.

I also eliminated a few things on the administrative side such as a couple of plugins that were doing things like creating huge database tables (and that i wasn’t getting much use out of) and turn off post revisions, which I’ve used maybe twice ever.

I’ll probably get in touch with my host before the end of the week to see if these changes are making a noticeable difference.  If not, well, I guess I’ll have to find another resolution then, depending on how much information they can give me on what’s causing the problem.  I just put down a non-insignificant amount of money to extend my hosting for 2 more years only a couple months ago, so I don’t exactly want that to go to waste, and I don’t have the money to upgrade to any sort of semi-shared or dedicated server.

After all of this, hopefully the site will load faster, anyway, with the caching.  My YSlow score did improve from an E to a C after all the things I did (and most of the rest of the things it’s complaining about, I can’t do a heck of a lot about).

Anime Credits – School Days ED3

I posted the first ED way, way long ago, and I had kept this in reserve so long that I figured I just as well go ahead and post it eventually.  I think it’s probably my favorite of the many EDs for School Days.

Phantom: Requiem for the Phantom – Episode 22

It’s Phantom episode 22 and Cal and Ellen finally have their first confrontation. Also, with the increasing threat from Inferno, Ellen decides that it’s time top play their trump card.

Cardcaptor Sakura – Episode 19

It’s Cardcaptor Sakura episode 19, and Sakura has put off her summer homework to the last day of break. However, a book she’s trying to do a book report on appears to be hard to catch.

Blue Drop licensed by Sentai/Section23/The Company Formerly known as ADV (plus other shows)

I’m not sure how I missed this yesterday (probably because I was messing around with other stuff), but Blue Drop, a show which I thought might never get licensed, was picked up by, well, the remnants of ADV films (I think Sentai Filmworks did the actual licensing while the newly formed Section23 will do the distributing).

Sentai also announced licenses for Polyphonica, Special A, Tears to Tiara, and the second season to You’re Under Arrest.

Blue Drop is a 13 episode yuri/sci-fi series which aired between October and December 2007 (see my episode reviews).  Polyphonica is a 12 episode adventure/comedy series that aired between April and June 2007.  Special A is a 24 episode romance/comedy series that aired between April and August 2008 (see my episode reviews).  Tears of Tiara is a 26 episode fantasy/adventure series which started airing this past April and is still in progress.  Finally, You’re Under Arrest Season 2 continues the action/comedy series for an additional 26 episodes, which aired between April and August 2001.

You’re Under Arrest Season 2 Collection 1 has a street date of November 3rd, and includes the first 13 episodes.

Special A Collection 1 has a street date of November 10th, and includes the first 12 episodes.

The Blue Drop and Polyphonica box sets have a street date of November 17th, and contain the entire series.

Tears to Tiara Collection 1 has a street date of November 24th, and includes the first 13 episodes, a mere 5 to 7 months after they aired in Japan.

As is the case with all the new licenses from Sentai, these are all sub-only releases.