School killings to school lunches

I finished watching the Mexican rally yesterday, just in time for the Argentinian rally this weekend.
It was heartbreaking to see Latvala fall back and lose to Loeb due to turbo problems after leading through the first day, a double win would've been absurdly awesome, but at least he walked away with a third place podium finish. I would've usually preferred to see him only come second to Hirvonen, but being pushed down to third by Atkinson is alright as the wacky Australian has got some serious skills, but always fails to hit the big points because of some stupid little mistake, so it's pretty cool to see him get some winning done.
In the end I would've just wanted Hirvonen to come first, but considering the amount of punctures he suffered he's lucky he managed to hold fourth place and walk away with the points that he did, securing him first place in the '08 rally overall, albeit by one point. As narrow a lead as he may have over the world champ, the Argentinian stages should be in the Finnish favour, so I'm really hoping to see some excellent driving to widen the gap before Loeb dominates all the tarmac stages.

I also finally got around to finishing off School Days yesterday, after not having sat down to it for quite a while I ended up watching the last six episodes over a couple of days. While I just about enjoyed it, I wouldn't call it pleasant viewing.
At first I was desperate to get to the drama, really looking forward to it, but when it finally came I was quite taken aback. As should've been expected from that sort of heartbreak it just ended up being really sad, and quite uncomfortably familiar at certain points. Then I just wanted Makoto dead, I honestly couldn't wait for his ass to get iced for all the bastardly thing he's done, but when he did get knifed up I just found myself thinking 'This isn't any better, this is just terrible!'
So it was a bit of a downer overall, still glad I watched it of course.

I then watched Blood: The Last Vampire, quite a short film at only 45 minutes long. Set on an American military base on Japan there was more spoken English than Japanese, but it really wasn't very enjoyable as they all speak very slowly and decisively, like they sourced the voice actors straight out of a language tape. A really stupid move on the producers part, they should either have Japanese subtitles or have them speak in Japanese, having them speak as they were could have arguably ruined the film, as the voice actors are of course one of the deciding factors in any animated media's quality.
The rest of the film was alright, despite my general dislike of these kind of fantasy films. The animation had a decent budget and looked pretty good, and they didn't try to go over the top with big crazy spells and all that stupid crap, which is so often the crux of the genre.
In all, interesting enough.

With all this death and despair I decided I really needed to get into some of the more upbeat titles on my list of things to watch.

First off was Gakuen Utopia Manabi Straight! The easy going, slice-of-life comedy is exactly what I was looking for, with cute characters, charming animation and all that heart warming razzmatazz, I'm sure it'll keep me amused for a good while.

I've also started watching Moyashimon, a series about a first year university student that can see and communicate with microbes. I'm watching this one because not only is it a lighthearted comedy, but it propagates the idea that agricultural students are all hot and sexy raging lesbians, so good times are sure to be had.
It's proving itself to be one of those anime titles that I'll actually learn something from too, with each of the bacteria and micro-organisms that are mentioned notes are provided giving brief information on them, much of which you wouldn't even understand the jokes that are being made without.
So this seems to be an alright series. It's not actually all that funny and I really don't like the main characters, but I'm gonna have to stick with it for the lesbian love triangles and crazy uni drama further down the line.