| 3:53am | This Just In: Targetted Advertising Still Works | | | | I’m a fan of targetted advertising. Advertising in general I can easily skip over, but targetted advertising done right is great stuff. Right Stuf! has released their Spring 2009 Anime Catalog (available via their web site as a PDF, which is awesome). For some reason, I enjoy “Alice in... |
| 3:34pm | Aria the Natural: Episode 6 Commentary | | | | “Character episodes” have fallen out of favor with me unless they’re done right. At least, for a story-based series with a limited number of episodes. For Aria, the focus is on the characters, and there’s a high enough episode account. Things can still be done wrong, but this... | | |
| 3:04pm | Jewel in the Palace: Episode 6 and 7 Commentry | | | | Episode six is the first episode to present the cast at an older age. From Chang-Yee and Yeun-Seng being scolded at the beginning to Keum-Young and Young-ro. I’m going to miss the younger cast, and I’ll have to learn how to distinguish between the girls all over again. Yeun-Seng strongly... |
| 11:44pm | A Himeya Gondola? | | | | Getting this freebie with my Aria the Natural part 2 DVD set order made me realize something: I’ve taken a lot of notice to the outfits each company wears, and their logos and the like, but I haven’t looked one bit at their gondola designs. I know what I’ll be paying attention to... | | |
| 3:12am | Aria the Natural: Episode 5 Commentary | | | | For some series, the half-length episode works. Bottle Fairy and Ground Defense Force! Mao-chan are two good examples. For Aria, I’m not sure I care for it as much. The first half-episode felt overly forced to me. The fox-kid scouting out the inari to take for the wedding seemed a bit overdone.... | | |
| 2:27pm | Jewel in the Palace: Episode 5 Commentary | | | | Early on, Keum-Young acts as a friend to Jang-Geum, but after Jang-Geum refuses Keum-Young’s help, Keum-Young has a sly look on her face. Does she see Jang-Geum as a potential friend, or a potential rival? At this point, she doesn’t exist as a potential threat to Choi Keum-Young’s... |
| 10:37am | Jewel in the Palace: Episode 4 Commentary | | | | One of the criticisms I’ve read about the Korean animated movie Oseam is that the emotion the viewer should feel for the two children in the movie is forced. While I don’t feel the same, I do see where the sentiment comes from. This episode of Jewel in the Palace reminds me of this criticism,... |
| 9:29am | Aria the Natural: Episode 4 Commentary | | | | While waiting for someone, I took to looking at the DVD cover artwork. I looked over all the lines that went into drawing Akari and Alicia, something which always amazes me as I have no sense of length or proportion. I tried to determine the light source, as I have trouble comprehending the source... | | |
| 2:06pm | Jewel in the Palace: Episode 3 Commentary | | | | It looks like putting Jang-Geum at age eight, the same as her actress would have been at the time of filming, was right. Two years later, Jang-Geum is remarked to be a 10 year old child. And yet her teeth haven’t grown in any over the past two years. In one of the second series episodes of Janggeum’s... |
| 8:44am | Aria the Natural: Episode 3 Commentary | | | | I enjoyed the opening theme even more this time around. It has a good feel to it. To add to language used, Akari’s computer and her e-mails are all in English. I still say this series would have been perfect for an English dub. I’d be interesting in knowing the reason behind using English... | | |
| 2:27pm | Jewel in the Palace: Episode 2 Commentary | | | | Hour long episodes are difficult to write anything about because so many things happen. I can’t remember it all by the end of the episode! This episode was one full of surprises for me, both because of my knowledge of the animated series, and within Jewel in the Palace itself. First, I’ll... | | |
| 8:51am | Aria the Natural: Episode 2 Commentary | | | | As it turns out, it’s still winter on Aqua. Apparently things were warm enough for the festivities, which might explain why Akatsuki had to get back to work. I can fully see the Salamanders increasing the temperature for a holiday, but I’m not sure about for a festival which appears to... | | |
| 1:17pm | Jewel in the Palace: Episode 1 Commentary | | | | Back when I bought Janggeum’s Dream, I did so because I remembered being recommended the series at one time. The only thing I knew about it was that it featured “a young girl who wanted to be a cook in a castle” or something like that. When it comes to Jewel in the Palace, I was... | | |
| 11:24pm | Aria the Natural: Episode 1 Commentary | | | | In short, this episode pleases me. On top of that, I saw world-building and character-building in the most subtle way. I like the use of Carnaval, as well. I’m sure it’s easy to go in the wrong direction when switching in a new opening song, but I can’t think of a series yet where... | | |
| 10:53pm | ~con grazia~ | | | | A lot of series will have their “bring the whole cast together for an event” episode, but in this series actually it works well, due to the small cast of main characters. The only requirement is to get Akiko home, and she flies around so much it’s easy enough for her to make it somewhere... |
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