| 4:59am | Those beautiful oil tanks |  | | | From the random TiVo catch comes an episode of Inuyasha where he, Sesshomaru, and their antourage visit their father’s grave. Things we watched in the VHS age! For some reason the ED fascinated me, especially the Ferris wheel sequence. It looked exotic. |
| 9:21pm | It’s Thursday | | | | It’s Thursday, and I feel a little emptiness. While I tried to fill it with Allison and Lillia, the result wasn’t wholly satisfactory. The biggest issue — and I would never think I come to saying this — Nopants Witches offer a much better story than Allison &! offers. To... | | |
| 2:30pm | Politics of cute | | | | Daniel continues to reflect upon politics in Manabi. Many Western viewers latch on analogies with the 1923 Beer Putsch and Hitler’s famous speech, even though they know that the swastika is reversed. Daniel uses the Great Leap forward instead: Regardless of whether or not that reference was intended,... | | |
| 4:59pm | New season already? | | | | Sasa is first out of the gate with a rather complete list. She’s not posting summaries like Hashi-hime, but she provided links to original websites. Some of them I can almost read Here’s one for Hyakko: いつも楽しく、元気に 盛り上がる、虎子たち のスクールライフ！... |
| 6:22am | Whirlwind | | | | I sure burn through them quickly. On the heels of the Shuffle disaster come Kirameki Project and Mokke. I really don’t want to say anything bad about Mokke, it’s just unsophisticated, primitive a bit. Kirameki though It’s one of those shows where creators think that anime watchers... | | |
| 2:47pm | Allison and Will | | | | I was intrigued by the promise of airplanes in Allison and Lillia, and so kept the series on the list. But before plunging head first into a 13-ep batch download, decided for a quick peek at one of the numerous flash sites. There were some issues, to be sure. The setup was as artificial as that of... | | |
| 4:42am | Shuffle, abandoned | | | | The series appears to be embarrasingly stupid. I could not even find a decent screenshot to show. Steven went a little deeper into it, and wrote more about it. I heard that Kaede was a canonical yandere, which would be curious to watch perhaps. But I cannot make myself to endure any more of Shuffle... | | |
| 7:16pm | Strike Witches 06 | | | | I’m done with Strike Witches and I’m going to celebrate. The episode 06 wasn’t anything special, but it was nice. The blog resolution does not give this eyecatch justice. And of course, frozen wastelands is the stereotype used here, only made cute. Sanya at night (episode prologue).... | | |
| 2:55am | Animanachronism on Figure 17 | | | | Daniel completed Figure 17 and has a few ideas on reflection. I still cannot remember what THE SCENE was, or perhaps again: I have a vague feeling that I e-mailed Jeff Lawson with a question, he replied, and I cannot find the e-mail now. DVDs are gone back to Netflix and I cannot rewatch the ep.10.... |
| 4:42pm | Omo on The Weaboo City Chronicles | | | | I swore to ignore the topic when I saw Hinano’s announcement, but who can ignore this endorsement: In all seriousness, in a small and tidy package Hinano and her crew has put together a very solid and thoughtful story that both paints a new look to the various things she ranted about on her blog.... |
| 4:34pm | MAL is acquired | | | | Via CalAggie comes news that MyAnimeList was purchased. I expect rapid degradation, because it is obvious that the buy-out was the endgame of the founders. They will move on to their next startup now, and leave a group of paycheck feeders to maintain the rotting carcass. It does not have to happen this... |
| 4:24pm | Zyl on Blassreiter | | | | Zyl opens Blassreiter thus: So, in addition to Mentar carefully anticipating and answering all my objections and worries (principally GONZO, then again Seto no Hanayome was enjoyable too - are they finally getting their act together?), there was also the invocation of the Shizuka Itou Doctrine for... | | |
| 4:24pm | Zyl on Blassreiter | | | | Zyl opens Blassreiter thus: So, in addition to Mentar carefully anticipating and answering all my objections and worries (principally GONZO, then again Seto no Hanayome was enjoyable too - are they finally getting their act together?), there was also the invocation of the Shizuka Itou Doctrine for... | | |
| 5:02am | Art of Gurren-Lagann | | | | UPDATE: Steven pointed out that this entry contains major spoilers. One would think it’s inconceivable for anyone not to know that Darth Vader is Luke’s father, but nonetheless it’s true. I mean, it’s true that spoilers follow. Back at the first pass, I observed that Gurren-Lagann... | | |
| 5:03am | Gurren-Lagann begins anew | | | | I watched 3 episodes on fansubs, but now it is for real. And what an amazing show. For the episodes I’ve seen, my impression is different from what it was. I’ve read much about it on blogs, and I’m prepared. Disregard for the consistency of setting does not faze me at all, I watch... | | |
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