This post contains major spoilers if you have not watched episode 10 of Sekirei ~Pure Engagement~, even for manga readers, because it is a huge move away from the manga. So please read on only after you have finished watching episode 10. To avoid spoiling others through the title, I left it as such.

The rest of my summer impressions follow for the series I am currently watching – Seitokai Yakuindomo, Highschool of the Dead, and Sengoku Basara 2. Honestly I was not planning on watching any more than the three I mentioned in my summer anime watchlist, but there was hype about certain series that made me pick them up.

An early airing of Sekirei ~Pure Engagement~ is out and as expected, we are back to the harem acts of Minato and his, well, harem. What else did you expect? Of course, there is more to the story than that. Because most of this happened in a time even before the second round in the manga (we are actually at the third round and quite a bit into it some more, in the latest chapter), I forgot most of what happened beforehand. So some of this will be spoilers for those who do not read the manga. I will, wherever I can and remember, put the spoilers in tags, but essentially, if you are not following the manga, this post may be a little too…informative.

Considering that there are only 3 shows I am going to bother with this coming summer, it is quite surprising that I would even bother to do a post for the season’s anime series at all. But oh well, I suppose it could serve as an excuse to make yet another post, albeit a very short one compared to the other anime watchlists that I had done so far. I also no longer have any authors writing for me, so anything here is all my own opinion. Also included is something that was talked about on IRC two nights ago (my time) regarding the anime industry, at the end of the post, if you are interested.

And though I had hoped to be able to finish this series before the end of 2009, it appears that a few other things had my attention and that this will likely be reduced to a weekly thing. That might not be a bad idea considering that I also have the 2009 in Retrospect series to do and can thus devote just one part of my time per week to have something consistent for a while. Anyway, here are the ED theme songs that caught my attention in 2008 and also the best of them, completing a 2-part series on theme songs, the first being on OP theme songs.