| 1:11am | Fantasy and Reality |  | | | I saw the following in SF Japantown parking on Saturday: Even has pop-up headlights! I am not sure if the model ever was for sale new in America and the pictured unit may be a gray-market import or a 25-year-old antique. Of course, I would not even notice it if I not watched the anime. A couple of... |
| 3:19pm | Otou-san on Gargantia | | | | Twittered: “Gargantia: even with no marketable skills, you may still find love with an underage exotic dancer”. I happen to know what he’s talking about, having seen some screncaps where Ledo laments difficulties of job-hunting with no marketable skills, and then the one at Rabujoi,... | | |
| 2:50am | Muromi-san 06 | | | | Blogging pickings for Muromi-san 06 were so slim, that I had to read Aroduc. Kuro tried to get off with just one sentence! Not that Aroduc’s griping became any more interesting, or extensive, in the years since I saw it last. But it seems like nobody finds Muromi blogworthy. Which is perhaps understandable,... | | |
| 4:39am | Yuyushiki begins | | | | Yuyushiki is a bit strange and I found it difficult to judge. The “cute girls doing cute things” area is well mined nowadays, but I did not see one like it before. Initial episodes of Lucky Star were somewhat vapid and boring. K-ON offered us the hated “retard moe”. Hidamari... | | |
| 1:23am | About done with Cinderella Girls | | | | I hit a peculiar problem with Cinderella Girls, which gave me just enough excuse to stop grinding. It appears that Mobage created me 2 game profiles in CG, attached to my user account. When I log in, I get one or the other depending on the device that I use. The problem is, every new device I try gets... |
| 1:07am | High-brow releases by Media Blasters | | | | Steven names Grenadier a high point of Media Blasters’ catalog history, but I know that he knows about their strategy to license a critically acclaimed anime once a year or so. IMHO their biggest scoop on that front was Figure 17. I also have a soft spot for Midori no Hibi. Steven himself was... | | |
| 5:15pm | Yama no Susume ends | | | | What, it’s over already? But of course. Watching 12 3-minute episodes takes about as much time as watching two normal episodes. Now I’m wondering if it’s just me or short-format shows became more prevalent? Back when Keitai Shoujo “aired”, its size had to do with the streaming... | | |
| 6:56am | Yama no Susume begins | | | | Very coincidentially with AIURA, the previous season offered another CGDCT in 3-minute format, which also was quite good. It only loses on not being purposefuly made to showcase artistic prowess, but content is just as fine. Yama no Susume is different there, by honestly centering the proceedings around... | | |
| 3:39am | Gurren-Lagann on Crunchyroll | | | | To celebrate the easy availability on legal streaming, I started following the Gurren-Lagann at Crunchy. Okay, it was available for a while on Hulu, nothing new here, but it was immensely irritating etc. etc. I just wanted an excuse to do it. Also, this is the sub release, which I did not touch in... | | |
| 4:45am | AIURA begins | | | | As always, the hidden gem of the season arrives unexpectedly. I thought it gotta be the mermaids, bro, to borrow from Nova. And mermaids are pretty good, no doubt, but AIURA is in a different class entirely. The only thing that lets it down is the 4-minute format. Not sure if this is the format, but... | | |
| 6:36am | Welp | | | | This was my first time applying a no-background vynil, and of course I did not know what I was doing. Behold: The problem is, the tiny letters came off the backing improperly: they tried to stay on the paper. Thus, in parts they had paper backing under them, and elsewhere they were deformed. So, two... |
| 5:35am | Car is a mecha | | | | I built the analogy of anime mecha with a fighter airplane before, but it may be taken further. It’s not like every mecha flies (for instance, more “real” Gundams do not). Also, power multiplier and the ace factor are not the only attributes that make mecha attractive as entertainment.... |
| 4:52am | Nobar on Muromi’s seiyuu | | | | And so: but Photokano and Muromi-san are already covering pretty much all bases when it comes to seiyuu ear porn. I thought some of voicework in Muromi-san was vaguely familiar Let’s see.Muromi: Yukari Tamura, also the voice of everything between Akazukin and Togame. Very, very accomplished.... | | |
| 3:31pm | Muromi-san begins | | | | When everything else fails, a simple, kind-hearted comedy comes to the rescue. And as a mark of a good one, the 2nd episode is more solid than the 1st, with what I presume is a brilliant parody of girls and their cellphones. So, I’m looking forward to the remainder of 12-minute shorts. Unfortunately,... | | |
| 3:29am | About Initial D Fourth Stage | | | | The Initial D franchize stitched from several seasons (and a movie) that form a fairly good continuity. But they are quite different in the animation techniques and even character design. The first season had a definite feeling of something old-fashioned, like Gundam almost, if not Ranma. It also introduced... |
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