Coming in as only the second video game inductee (Atari being the first), the Nintendo Game Boy joins into the U.S. National Toy Hall of Fame with 44 other toys.  I think the Game Boy (including the GB color and all its other incarnations) are well deserving of this award as it pretty much launched the second most successful game franchise of all time, Pokemon.  I still have my grape Game Boy Color along with the link cable that was necessary to trade Pokemon between consoles.  Yeah that’s right youngins, we didn’t have wi-fi.  I should still have my original Game Boy at home somewhere, but I haven’t seen it in a couple of years.

And I thought it’d be neat to list some of the anime series that have had games in the Game Boy franchise (and no, the DS isn’t part of the Game Boy family):

 

 

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It’s kind of amazing to me that this blog is still truckin’ along, albeit with sparse posts lately.  I started Expo Expo on one of those bored whims where you feel like letting your thoughts out for the world to see, and expected it to go to the blogging graveyard along with my old LJ and Geocities accounts.  But I really enjoy this blog and it’s cool to see that more visitors are checking it out.  I hope to upgrade the look and subject matter of Expo Expo over time, and I hope you’ll continue to check in on posts that you find interesting!

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Man, I never expected there to be such a jump in my workload between my second and third year of college.  I’ve still been keeping up with a bunch of the fall season shows; I’ve just been too lazy tired to blog about it.  There aren’t too many shows that have wowed me (as expected) but the ones that did are worth watching.

Oh, I didn’t know hipsters had harems.  Well, maybe Dov Charney does, but his comparison would be more like:

Oh god, I’ve been letting Expo Expo dust over. D:  All the series that aren’t continuing on into the fall season are over now,  and I think Summer ‘09 was one of the better seasons for a large quantity of quality shows, which is in stark contrast with the “meh”-ness of the current fall shows.  Spoilers ahead obviously…

Should I assume this person’s car fails to start up unless you kick it for five minutes?

After six years, Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles is finally coming to an end.  The final chapter #232 will be published at the end of September with additional color pages. This sudden finale surprises me since there seems to be a lot of character storylines to wrap up.  Hopefully it won’t finish in a “LOL CLAMP” open-ended conclusion for FWR and the X vampires, but in the very least there should be a pretty concrete ending for Sakura, Syaoran, Fye and Kurogane.  I can’t say I’m terribly excited for the last chapter, because so much of the past couple chapters has been nothing but big swirly magic attacks, explosions and sound effects.  It seems a little cheap to hold off on FWR’s backstory since it’s the catalyst for this series AND xxxHolic.

If you would have bet me that xxxHolic would outlast TRC, I’d have never believed you.  It seemed like CLAMP was always giving xxxHolic the shaft with lengthy publication breaks and fewer anime episodes.  Now it’s slated for an extra OVA and a separate manga series titled xxxHolic: Cage is apparently in the works.

Oh snap, crackle and pop.  All this time I’ve been worried that Fumi would have a usual “Fumi-chan’s so quick to cry” moment and run back into Sugimoto’s arms the second she decided to come back.  Instead she gave Sugimoto an emotional ass-whooping that couldn’t have sliced deeper.  You could tell that Sugimoto never expected Fumi to reject her, since Fumi’s generally a passive person.  This almost made me feel sorry for Sugimoto, but that’s what happens when you take someone for granted.  I wouldn’t be against them getting back together as long as Sugimoto works her ass off to make it up to Fumi.

Oh man, if there’s one thing I’ll miss about living on campus it’s having reliable internet access.  Right now my housemates and I are trying to get it up and properly functioning, so I’ll make this quick before my wireless decides to cut out again.  This will also let me get in a couple words on some series that I don’t make constant posts about.