| 4:12pm | Aria the Animation: Episode 3 | | | | Alice of the Orange Planet enters, and finally there’s an episode that doesn’t feel as if it’s filled with flaws. Explaining what Pair and Single mean fit perfectly into this episode. Better still, these are terms that have been used before (at least in the first episode), so there... | | |
| 4:06am | That’s one big book… | | | | My pre-order of Mao-chan Volume 1 arrived today, and it’s a lot bigger than I was expecting. I realize the Amazon description lists it as 400 pages, but I never took note of that. For a USD cover price of $15.00, I was not expecting 400 pages of the United Defense Forceer, rather, the Combined... |
| 5:43pm | Mythical Detective Loki Ragnarok Episode 5 Commentary | | | | I don’t know Norse mythology, but mention of Frey brought to mind the name Freya. So, the two are siblings, and there’s something with Loki and Freya, something Frey disapproves of. Could Loki have been a bad guy, Freya having fallen for him, and Frey wants to ensure they don’t get... |
| 6:54pm | Janggeum’s Dream: Episode 48 Commentary | | | | As I expected from the next episode preview from the end of the last episode, Hwan is one of the good guys. What I didn’t expect was the return of Haeya. Seeing the two side-by-side, they looked as if they could be siblings (or at the very least cousins), and I gather as much to be true by the... |
| 5:39pm | Mythical Detective Loki Ragnarok Episode 4 Commentary | | | | Why is Loki going around exterminating evil, anyway? Does he expect to come across answers as to why he was banished, or to find a way back home? Or could he have been banishes for doing something evil, and this is his way of atoning for his sins? Each episode so far has been very different from the... |
| 1:32am | NaNoWriMo ‘08 | | | | Much like Damien at Moe Check!, I’ll be participating in this year’s NaNoWriMo, National Novel Writing Month, as my first try (after considering it a few years ago). Looking at my logs of “where people come from to arrive here”, a majority of the people who happen to visit The... | | |
| 6:48pm | Janggeum’s Dream: Episode 47 Commentary | | | | The three who had left the group in the building and set it on fire look impressed to see they made it out alive. I’m not certain who their target is. If it’s any of the girls it would be Janggeum, or there’s Lady Han, but it probably isn’t one of the soldiers. Whichever they’re... |
| 5:28pm | Aria the Animation: Episode 2 | | | | Something I noticed when watching the first episode was how everyone has an A-name. Akari, Ai, Aika, Alicia, Akamatsu. This continues with Akira and Athena. The world-building of Aqua continues with the Acqua Alta, the yearly flood which is followed by the coming of summer. Add in a mention of the... | | |
| 6:42pm | Janggeum’s Dream: Episode 46 Commentary | | | | It must be nearing the end of the series, as a lot of new faces are being shown. I’m not sure if that exactly makes sense, but that’s what’s happening. Sato and a lot of the others seen in the intro hardly had an appearance, and now there are new characters appearing for at least... |
| 4:32am | On Aria’s Box Art Cover | | | | How well does cover art reflect the contents of a series? What happens when a cover shows a leisurely scene, but can be interpreted differently? lolikitsune writes about the back cover artwork for Aria the Animation, region one release: Unfortunately, the cover art is sexualized :( Author responds:... | | |
| 11:38am | Aria the Animation: Episode 1 | | | | DVD thinpack covers? Beautiful. DVD faces using same artworks as covers? Absolutely gorgeous. It’s nice to see DVDs that look so beautiful. And that’s before the DVD even reaches the DVD player. Once in the player, the DVD menu uses the same artwork. Wonderfully consistent. It’s... | | |
| 2:33am | Rant: Digital Rights Management | | | | I wasn’t expecting to have another rant up so soon after the first, but something happened actually the same day as I posted the prior one, and I decided to write about it. I call these rants because they aren’t meant to be commentary on something, or well-thought out thoughts and ideas.... | | |
| 6:37pm | Janggeum’s Dream: Episode 45 Commentary | | | | I’ve been under the impression Janggeum’s mother passed on. I don’t recall what the subtitles in the first series said about her mother, but I gather the joining rings Janggeum has belonged to her and her mother. I originally thought they belonged to Janggeum’s parents, but... |
| 4:15am | Aria Postcards and a Guidebook | | | | Who needs postcards with anime characters/scenes on them? People get by just fine without them, and those who do have them probably don’t do anything with them. And yet, it’s nice to get some free with a purchase. Guidebooks are always nice. Aria arrived in the mail today. Because I spent... | | |
| 6:35pm | Janggeum’s Dream: Episode 44 Commentary | | | | Another scene with the young queen’s father in an ill state is shown. Either I completely missed what happened to him, or I completely forgot about it. All I know is Lady Han recalled something about it, and now this. I take it the yellow paper slips with red paint are some kind of charms. ... |
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