| 2:45pm | The Royal Catchup Roundup for This Week |  | | | I had not one, but two papers due this week, so anime has generally not been on my mind as much as usual (my last post about Anno aside). So I spent yesterday afternoon and tonight catching up on a whole bunch of shows, including a number that I criticized–perhaps unfairly–a little while... | | |
| 10:27am | All Right! Claymore did pick up! EPS5 | | | | After anticipating something good for Claymore, I finally got rewarded.My friend Mike always says that he usually watches 6 eps of a show before he makes a decision whether to continue watching or not. I guess I have far less patience and even though it’s usually very difficult to drop a show... | | |
| 9:11am | My long-assed response to the previous post - sorry it’s not quite anime… | | | | Sorry, but my reply to the previous post got so long that I just have to make it into a post. Take it as a rant if you want, skipping it will probably relieve your boredom - unless you need a really good sleeping aid. (EDIT: I added a link to the prior post in question. –mh)Anno, like many old... | | |
| 1:55am | Hideaki Anno Interviewed by Atlantic Monthly–by way of Getreligion.org? | | | | Imagine, of all places, finding a huge picture of Ayanami Rei in a site I read that normally has nothing to do with anime–Getreligion.org, which comments on religious coverage in the media (from a conservative point of view mostly).And it gets even more interesting. The Getreligion writer is | | |
| 2:17pm | Lovely Complex 1 | | | | Ray likes to tease me about it sometimes, but despite my adoration of shows like Kare Kano and Honey and Clover, and the fact that one of the very first anime I ever watched was Marmalade Boy (which I have seen in its entirety!)I don’t really consider myself a huge fan of shoujo type | | |
| 8:58am | Hayate No Gotoku 4 - Is the Steam Starting to Run Out? | | | | Hmm. I think the humor train is starting to finally sputter at last, as this episode wasn’t as riproaringly funny as the last ones–considerably less so. And it seems to be mostly because of something that I feared might happen (see my first review)–the self-aware jokes are starting... | | |
| 11:34am | Why Azumanga Daioh is Funnier than Lucky Star | | | | After watching a whole batch of Azumanga episodes this weekend–and finding myself unable to stop–I think I finally figured out why, despite their structural similarities, it’s a whole lot funnier (to me) than Lucky Star. All the caveats that apply when analyzing humor of course are... | | |
| 7:11am | Anime Diet Radio Episode 2 - More Spring 2007! | | | | Well, here we are, with the second podcast of Anime Diet Radio (or Scattered Cels Podcast #12)! This time, Jeremy’s back, and he talks a lot about his favorite shows this new season, and Ray and I follow up with some shows we talked about last week. Prominent sections include Hayate no Gotoku,... | | |
| 2:49pm | 8 Bit Games as Art | | | | Botticelli probably didn’t have Seamus in mind when he was thinking of Venus. “Seamus Venus,” by Misha; $400.This isn’t exactly anime related, but it does have something to do–a lot to do–with another part of Japanese pop culture, a culture that most of you |
| 5:50am | Bokurano 1 | | | | Now here’s an interesting show–a mix of Ender’s Game, shades of Infinite Ryvius, and character-driven drama, with Evangelion-like robots and fight scenes. (The first fight’s conclusion is remarkably similar to Shinji’s first battle in Eva unit 01.) This show almost | | |
| 11:00pm | Hayate no Gotoku 2-3 | | | | To my relief, the postmodernity continues with no loss in teh funny. I think the narrator needs to stop soon, though, and eventually I think the censorship jokes (didn’t they promise to fight the network?!) will start getting repetitive.I said in my first post about Hayate that I was hoping | | |
| 7:35am | Anime Diet Radio Episode 1 - Spring 2007 Extravaganza! | | | | And here it isthe podcast once known as Scattered Cels Anime Podcast, resurrected as Anime Diet Radio! In this episode, Ray and I go through a whole bunch of shows that are new this season–some we’ve seen, some we haven’t. We talk about El Cazador de la Bruja, | | |
|
![[Valid RSS]](/images/valid-rss.png "Validate my RSS feed")
![[Valid Atom 1.0]](/images/valid-atom.png "Validate my Atom 1.0 feed")