| 7:41pm | Little birds can remember | | | | Contention follows any Kyoto Animation production; adoration and scorn is heaped upon them as a studio as much as their output (or absence thereof). Hyouka is their next work after Nichijou (or the K-On! movie for chronology purists) and initially drew ire for its glacially sedate pace as well... | | |
| 5:26pm | Socrates Art Online | | | | Sword Art Online is the five million selling light novel series by Reki Kawahara (who also penned Accel World) which, having been dutifully animated, is the disputed front runner for most popular series this season. One of the final things female protagonist Asuna says in the latest (tenth) episode,... | | |
| 8:19pm | Yuru Yuri is a post-apocalyptic black comedy | | | | Yuru Yuri is one of the best post-apocalyptic black comedies of recent memory. It’s startling how such a bleak and unforgiving situation is afforded fleeting levity by a group of school girls who seem content to ignore such a bad situation. “aliens and androids have been spotted circling... |
| 10:25pm | Summer lovin’ | | | | The formula is all too familar: alien lands on earth, befriends local youth and romantic hijinks ensue. The opening episodes of Asobi ni iku yo! do nothing to tweak this formula beyond adding cat-ears and a tail to the buxom interplanetary interloper. The recent Ano Natsu de Materu at least kept things... |
| 9:15pm | Anime torpor | | | | I should know better really, I do it every year. The summer or autumn anime season rolls around and my interest in keeping up week-on-week ebbs as quickly as the long nights. It doesn’t so much break a habit as press pause on a lifestyle, leaving other hobbies and interests fill the vacuum. “I... | | |
| 4:05pm | I don’t have much to say about the new anime season | | | | So I made a quiz from the episodes I’ve seen. Despite not having seen it, there is a Who is Imouto (Kono Naka ni Hitori Imouto ga Iru) question in there but that one pretty much wrote itself.You can only take the quiz if you have JavaScript enabled |
| 9:53pm | Ladies of the infinite space | | | | It’s probable that Bodacious Space Pirates isn’t what you expect. Based off the imaginatively titled Miniskirt Space Pirates light novel, this is not cute girls drinking tea in space. Well, not all of the time. The series starts divisively enough by explaining the finer points of course... | | |
| 8:03pm | Chasing ghosts and fighting shadows | | | | Common stories are when one plus one is two, a great story (as Ken Burns puts it) is when one plus one equals three. At its heart the quote implies that it’s the absurd and the implausible that can change a decent story into a brilliant one. So too is it with Tasogare Otome x Amnesia (Dusk Maiden... | | |
| 8:15pm | Dead letter office: Does modern anime suck? | | | | Sometimes blog posts just don’t turn out the way you want them to. Whether due to the content or the implementation, they’ll often end up smashing through the central reservation of the Good Intention motorway, hurtle down the Mediocrity slipway and end up in Dumb Idea ditch, back wheels... | | |
| 9:58pm | Skirts and swords: hype for the Blood-C movie | | | | Blood-C received a lot of stick when it aired. Upon announcement of the sequel film Blood-C: The Last Dark, the series was labelled as a nothing more than a twelve episode trailer. It’s not entirely unjustified when taken on a plodding, twelve week schedule; in aggregate though the series’... | | |
| 10:16pm | Sunday matinée | | | | Sunday is all about putting your feet up, turning the volume up and queuing some music to get wholly lost in. During the week music always seems to accompany doing something: programming, walking, writing, pretending you can’t hear the other people in the office talking about you. It seems somewhat... | | |
| 8:16pm | 3 Episode Taste Test: Those halcyon school days | | | | Nostalgia for the carefree days of school is a staple of anime, the future was brighter when one didn’t have to worry about careers or significant others or the multitude other thralls of adulthood. If this spring season of anime is anything to go by, it’s also full of banal whinging.... | | |
| 2:59pm | Queen’s Blade Rebellion: An interpretation of Episode 01 | | | | [EXT. Idyllic port]Flying pirate ship: PEW PEW PEW!Hapless villagers: Why is she attacking us with potassium chloride?!Dandy pirate: *evil cackle*Hapless villagers: That outfit does not look conducive to piracy!Skeletons: RARGH!Animators: Who knew skeletons were so hard to animate?Please note: the remainder... |
| 6:40pm | Technology in an accelerated world | | | | Accel World owes a lot to Serial Experiments Lain. The script may not be penned by Chiaki J. Konaka and has yet to deal with digital deities but a great many of this new series’ ideas can be traced back to it. “there is a fundamental stumbling block to the kind of time-stoppage seen in Accel... | | |
| 6:01pm | 3 Episode Taste Test: Eureka Seven AO | | | | Of all the franchises that crave another series – Ghost in the Shell Standalone Complex, Stellvia of the Universe (well kind of), Moyashimon (wait) – Eureka Seven was not one of them. The hugely influential original series was Studio Bones firing on all cylinders. A tour de force of... | | |
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