| 2:19pm | the crisis of fansubs and the tension of supporting the industry |  | | | Cameron’s post made me realize the absurdity with trying to maintain the “fansubs are bad, mmmkay” stance editorially while still trying to engage with anime fandom. Those reviews a blatantly egregious example of the kind of content that you totally shouldn’t be providing on... | | |
| 11:21pm | spring 2008: macross f | | | | First off, I need to preface this post by saying that my knowledge of Macross is limited to the original series and Do You Remember Love? Therefore, my concept of “good Macross series” is not “The original series remade frame-by-frame, but with the budget of Do You Remember Love?”.... |
| 11:05pm | what i was forced to watch this week #19: vandread | | | | Vandread is basically what Dragonaut could have been like, assuming that they wanted to make the show silly rather than it being unintentionally funny. In fact Vandread makes jokes about things like gattais that provided the frame of reference that makes aspects of Dragonaut unintentionally hilarious.... | | |
| 7:42pm | hulu: what i wish the anime industry could immitate | | | | After reading about Hulu in the latest issue of Multichannel News (a trade magazine for the TV industry), I went to the site to try it out. Hulu is a streaming video service run by a bunch of the major American media companies, namely NBC and Fox. Every time that I’d read about services like... |
| 3:03pm | how gundam seed destiny could’ve been the best gundam show | | | | I’ve had this post kicking around in my head for almost two years now, but I just couldn’t get it out until Gundam 00 and Legend of the Galactic Heroes gave me the right kind of comparison. More precisely, they showed me how a show can properly represent how a show can shift perspectives... | | |
| 3:21pm | i finally finished legend of the galactic heroes | | | | It’s taken me God knows how long, but I’ve finally finished watching Legend of the Galactic Heroes. I watched the first half dozen or so episodes about a year ago, but then I shelved the show for a while, mainly because I didn’t have 23 gigs of hard drive space with which to download the... | | |
| 12:32am | spring 2008: girly day | | | | As expected, I was forced to watch Special A and Vampire Knight. Special A was quite girly, albeit not as girly as Itazura na Kiss. It did not, after all, have a girl daydreaming about marrying (AND ONLY AFTER MARRYING) and kissing a bishie. Most of my enjoyment from that show came from tossing out... | | |
| 10:59pm | spring 2008 weekend #1: code geass, blassreiter, and friends | | | | 1) Kanokon was atrocious. It was even worse than To Love-Ru. I at least thought that To Love-Ru might’ve been funny if I were half my age. 2) Zettai Karen Children could’ve been awesome, but then Aya Hirano opened her mouth. 3) Code Geass was just what I expected. Now I want to know why... | | |
| 3:44pm | jason was totally right about how awful activeanime’s list was | | | | His list, however was spot-on. Other than Nico Nico and maybe A Fan’s View and MyAnimeList (removing Tokyopop, Gainax, and his joke entry of ESPN.com), just about all of the sites that he listed are ones that I would at the very least, actually visit. The activeanime list really bugged me because... |
| 12:32am | i liked tower of druaga better when it was called “MC” | | | | So I honestly have no idea where this show is going to go. The OP made the show seem like it was going to be about people that play an MMO. The ED made it seem like it was going to be about the MMO. Then the episode itself was basically a parody of MMOs. The parody part was hilarious, although I... | | |
| 11:02pm | what i was forced to watch this week #18: pretear | | | | I could’ve sworn that I’d heard Pretear used a few times as a baseline for bad magical girl shows. From that, I was expecting this show to be really bad and this post to be about what makes a magical girl show bad. When I tried Googling for phrases like “pretear bad review”,... | | |
| 10:56pm | this is why we can’t have nice things: rosario + vampire season 2 | | | | At around midnight yesterday, I saw a post pop up on Anime Nano on a second season of Erosario + Vampire. The link seemed broken, but based on the time I figured that it was just a late April Fool’s joke. That is, until I saw this: WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY (Also, from clicking on the link... | | |
| 3:31pm | gundam 00 was pretty damn good | | | | For a long time, I was really wary about Gundam 00. It would have some good ideas, but I was still haunted by the ghost of Gundam Seed Destiny. GSD had some good ideas, but then it realized that it was more lucrative to scrap those good ideas and just focus on the same old crap as the first season,... | | |
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