Updates: Yeah, if you've been to my forums tonight, you'll have noticed the almost glaring fact that... there are no posts. Eradicated gone... expired... not there. I don't know what happened. Did I do something wrong? I'm looking into it. Until then, the forums are turned off. Thank you.

Commentary: This the day before New Years. What happened. I was just on them earlier and they looked fine. If anyone has any info, please contact me. ^_^;; You guys know how VERY LITTLE I know about this stuff.

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Updates: And now back to our regularly scheduled updates. Sort of. As always it will be a continuous battle between work and everything else that I have to do. I hope you enjoyed our 2005 Christmas Calendar! As a special treat, the same advent pieces have been added up to the forums where you can now use them as Avatar Images when you sign up to participate!

In other news: Dethl'sShadow has informed me that he will not be able to return to the staff for 2006. So, now, it looks like I'm back to being the only me. How disappointing. If you are interested in becoming a Staff Member, please check our our Join the Staff page and fill out the appropriate information.

Commentary: *Sigh* So much work to do...

Did anyone get to see what Google did to celebrate the holiday? I thought it was rather adorable with the mouse and the cat attempting to light up the Google logo. XD It was so CUTE! Wish I could be that creative during the holidays.

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Updates: And thus does the Advent Calendar of 2006 come to an end. Thanks everyone for your support! I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did. From the Staff of MCLoZ, we would like to wish you a Merry Christmas, or if you don't celebrate Christmas, Happy Holidays, then.

Commentary: I hope everyone gets what they wanted. Oh, and don't eat too much. And at least TRY to get some sleep tonight. <_< >_> Oh and ~_^ don't peak when Santa comes to visit. I did that one year o_o and for a moment I was afraid I wasn't going to get anything. Santa is mean...

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

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Updates: New Anime and Manga Review has been added up! This month I have reviewed Haibane Renmei. A beautiful gem of an anime that is unfortunately not as popular as it should be. I picked up this anime last week hoping to try to subdue my Saikano addiction. In the end, I only traded my Saikano addiction for a new addiction. I honestly never believed that Haibane Renmei would be anywhere near this good.

Commentary: So, how are you guys enjoying the Twilight Princess Advent Calendar? Stick around, there's still plenty more days to go and lots of fantastic advent pieces to reveal!

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Updates: It's nothing big or fancy but it definitely breaks MCLoZ's solid five year no-christmas-celebration strike. I hope you enjoy the Twilight Princess Advent Calendar! It really did take a lot of work to put it together. It was fun, though, I'm really not going to lie. Hehehe.

And to those that are confused, yes, I have magnified the Advent Pieces so you can better see what's on the back of them. Actually, they are original size, it's the advent calendar I had to shrink.

Commentary: So, I've been spending most of my time preparing this thing for you guys. However, in the back of my mind I couldn't shrug off the feeling that I was forgetting something. But forget it, in between watching the to-die-for Saikano anime and working on this advent calendar, I never paid much attention. It actually took till this morning when I was adding November into the archives to realize what it was that I forgot.

o_o I forgot the Anime and Manga review >_< doh! Since this month, however, is going to experience a serious lack of updates, just like November, I won't say "no review". It's going to be a little late, that's all. I've only got a few advent pieces to finish typing up and after watching Saikano and ripping up my tissue box I'm not in the mood to watch another anime for the moment. (After watching something like Saikano, attempting to watch a lesser anime seems so degrading.) So, I'll do a review, and you can probably expect the Saikano anime to be among them, but I'll do another review to ease things over.

And, yes, I was extremely impressed with the Saikano anime, though it could never hold a candle to the manga. Just... don't watch it if you are in a happy go lucky mood or you want an action flik. Saishu Heiki Kanojo is pure love story with one of the greatest endings I've ever had to watch, trumping even the ending to Evangelion the series. There are few stories that come along and just take your breathe away, or make you salivate every episode, and walks with you long after you've turned it off... Saikano was a ride I won't soon forget.

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