| 3:22pm | Full Metal Alchemist - Brotherhood - 32 | | | | Ah, thankfully the inconsistent animation of the previous episode was just a one-of-a-kind thing. This episode made up for it with pretty nice animation and a number of very creative shots and camera-angles (you especially have to love the Armstrong-scene in this episode). Anyway, there’s lots... |
| 2:35pm | Cross Game - 33 | | | | Now that Akane has been introduced, Kou and Aoba have started their usual bickering again. nevertheless, the addition of Akane really gave an extra dimension to it, especially since they’re also starting to bicker around her. This really was the episode in which Akane got to know the two of... |
| 12:01pm | Kemono no Souja Erin - 44 | | | | This episode really shows the power of long and slow-paced series. While Erin indeed lacks the excitement of series with an erratic pacing like the Armed Librarians, at the same time it’s got a story that’s so well built up that it can really take an in-depth look at it. The power of the... |
| 11:07pm | Letter Bee - 07 | | | | The thing I have with Letter Bee is that for every scene of cheese, it also has something nice to make up for it, like for example the Broccoli forest, a cute moment between the characters or a surprisingly genuine scene of Lag. That’s what’s keeping me going with this series. And yeah,... |
| 10:25pm | White Album - 20 | | | | Wait, he does it again? Holy crap, that bastard actually did it again! As if the situation he’s in isn’t bad enough already he decided to give the devil yet another one of his limbs. How much further is this going to escalate? But yeah: screw the flawed first season. The second season... |
| 6:37pm | Armed Librarians - The Book of Bantorra - 07 | | | | During the last episode, I saw people commenting on how the series lacked focus. Now guess what? Everything in the past arc is really starting to come together wonderfully. This episode connected all of the seemingly random stories with each other, and it’s not even got to the meat of this arc!... |
| 1:52pm | Kuchuu Buranko - 05 | | | | Definitely the best episode of Kuchuu Buranko yet. It’s the kind of episode that for me made up for all of the annoying and depth-less parts of this series. It’s one of those episodes that’s awesome to watch in the way that it played around with its lead characters. I’m not... |
| 11:02pm | Darker than Black - Ryuusei no Gemini - 06 | | | | It’s episodes like this that really show how good this series’ soundtrack is. The soundtrack of the first season was of course great, but this one is completely original and doesn’t try to rip it off in the slightest. This time we also have insert songs. Nice touch. Anyway, this... |
| 1:36pm | Rail of the Star Review - 77,5/100 | | | | Okay, to close off this mini-marathon I’ve been having the past week is Rail of the Star, a movie about the Japanese in Korea during and after WWII. It’s not just a movie about the horrors of war, but nationality is also a very huge theme. It again focuses on a young child as the lead... |
| 9:37am | Umineko no Naku Koro ni - 20 | | | | Whoa, the CG Shaders have found Umineko at last. I have to say, that now that the properly shaded characters actually look pretty good. That’s the thing with Studio Deen’s graphics: it either looks really good or really bad. There’s hardly any in between. Anyway, this episode rounds... |
| 10:35pm | Anne no Nikki - The Diary of Anne Frank Review - 90/100 | | | | Whoa. I might have found another entry in my top 10 of favourite movies with this one. First a bit of back-story though, because this movie made an huge personal impression on me. I’ll just say it right here: I’m biased. But even without my bias, this is one heck of an underrated movie.... |
| 3:18pm | Barefoot Gen 2 Review - 82,5/100 | | | | While not technically a WWII-movie, (but rather a movie about the aftermath of WWII) I still decided to include Barefoot Gen 2 in this mini-marathon I’m having, because I watched the original movie yesterday. At first I feared that this would be a cheap cash-in to the success of the first Barefoot... |
| 11:40am | Kimi ni Todoke - 06 | | | | Ah, the cheese. I know full well that romances are supposed to be annoying and irrational. Heck, I really liked Bokura ga Ita, and I’m currently even enjoying White Album which has more drama than Kimi ni Todoke could ever hope to achieve, but still this episode just felt off. Instead of going... |
| 2:59pm | Letter Bee - 06 | | | | In a true headdesk moment, I have forgotten to actually post this episode’s impression. Thanks dreamer for bringing it to my attention, and apologies to those who were waiting for it. Unfortunately, the text for this post is gone now and I don’t feel like rewriting it, but thankfully... |
| 12:49pm | Barefoot Gen Review - 77,5/100 | | | | In case you’re wondering: I recently discovered that there were quite a few WWII-movies that I have yet to see, so I’m going to be watching and reviewing them in a sort-of mini marathon for the next couple of days. Today I’m taking a look at Barefoot Gen, as it portrays the citizens... |
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