Yuuko-rin! Densetsu no Head ends this week, the first of many long running series that come to a close.
I've decided to not do translations for Zetsubou-sensei's titles. They're all a play on popular phrases in the Japanese culture and its meaning doesn't come across in a translation (or at least in the 5 seconds that I spend thinking about each one).
New series starts this week, Umisyo (ウミショー). It seems like a pleasant story and I like the character design.
Negima and Rose Hip Zero are off.
* Summaries abbreviated due to backlog.
Overdrive: 10 Jam tomorrow: Mikoto is still quite obsessed with this "Kurosuke," the one who says he can outride Yosuke. At school, he explains this to a friend of his, Yamato. Afterschool, he sees the silhouette of Kurosuke and it turns out to be Yamato.
Suzuka: #68喪失 (Loss): At Honoka's family's shrine, Suzuka has a flashback to two years ago when she had a crush on Kazuki and regrets that she never got to tell him before he died.
Tsubasa: 85戦いの姫様 (Fighting Lady of Honor): Kuro is out of the race. Sakura presses on under the waterfall to the finish line!
Hamanaka Ai: 094桃色将来 (Pink Future): The various girls tell what they want to become and surprise Masahiko with random and out-of-context statements he arrives.
Umisho: 1: Kaname (male) is a manager at his school's swim club, but doesn't swim himself because of a mermaid encounter he had as a child. On this day, a father and a daughter arrive on a raft all the way from Okinawa to be a transfer student at his school. The girl, Amuro, is a great swimmer. Kaname thinks the two of them have met before.
Full Spec: 6 Flat Out: Arata wins the race!
Changing Now: #59正義!! その御名の下 (Justice!! Under That Lord): Just when things seem most bleak, Dog Fighter gathers up strength from memories of his family and with Machina and Big Ben, defeat the General.
Student Council: #30ぬいぐるみ (Stuffed Animal): Hitsuji explains that she carries around a stuffed animal because it reminds her of a other child, Atsushi, who donated his heart so that she could live. It fuels her inner strength.
Zetsubou-sensei: 12まだあげ初めし前髪の: To celebrate the school's opening, Kafka brings in a mental patient who thinks he's Commander Perry to "open" things.
Toto: 29ラクガキと土産 (Graffiti and Gifts): Kakashi, who is now representing the Man-Chicken gang, joins forces with Alice and fights Clock to obtain his Rabbit Pierce artifact. Clock releases two hostages of Alice's group, but kills them in front of her eyes.