| 11:55pm | The Koromo will show you a bit within her endless sea! | | | | MAHJONG IS FUNNNNN TENPAI SUKI RI WAI WAI ahem. As I was sayingwell, amidst the endless sea of Koromo monologues, she expresses that if she sticks with her gut, she’d win. Well, in ways, she did win even though she lost. Thus came all the KAZOKU stuff, but I think the creators were a bit more... |
| 12:00am | Is it Okay to Like Mirai Now? (Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 05) | | | | They’re close to home. The surroundings are familiar. The shelter they’re headed to is none other than Mirai’s middle school, The Rikka School for Girls. The buildings are low, and the area doesn’t seem as ruined as those they passed by. Nonetheless an 8.0 magnitude quake doesn’t... | | |
| 12:00am | Drawing a Triangle: Macross Fontier 02 (Hard Chase) | | | | I feel like the appropriate title for this episode is Chance Meetings. The conceit of the episode is how the protagonists serendipitously run into each other, setting up theri individual and collective narratives. Sheryl sets out to find Alto who she intends to ask about hear earring that she lost... | | |
| 12:00am | Feel Good Story FEELS SO GOOD (Onani Master Kurosawa) | | | | A post made out of fappery and whim. So here I am, obsessing about the concept of GAR, thinking on how exploratory and analytical posts on the subject matter (that I’ve done, at least) can be viewed as intellectual masturbation. Well, if it is, is it necessarily a terrible thing? Self-pleasure... | | |
| 12:00am | The Inauthenticity of Senjougahara Redux (Bakemonogatari 05) | | | | My fascination is decidedly for Senjougahara. If there’s anything I feel about the Mayoi Snail arc is that I can’t feel invested in Hachikuji’s monster story. I felt that more than anything, it was a device by which the narrative of Senjougahara and Hitagi would move forward. In... | | |
| 12:00am | The Inauthenticity of Senjougahara Redux (Bakemonogatari 05) | | | | My fascination is decidedly for Senjougahara. If there’s anything I feel about the Mayoi Snail arc is that I can’t feel invested in Hachikuji’s monster story. I felt that more than anything, it was a device by which the narrative of Senjougahara and Hitagi would move forward. In... | | |
| 6:37pm | Babies for sale! Babies for sale! Buy one, get another 50% off! | | | | Adoption in anime is always an interesting theme. From what I have seen, the theme is largely ignored, and is mostly a plot device of sorts. It receives no further treatment, exploring the minds of the adoptee and adopted. Ponti-dono speaks of Mari acting as a de facto mother for Mirai in TM8.0 and... | | |
| 12:00am | Is it okay to hate Mirai now? Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 04 | | | | Yes, really. I don’t want to justify how she was with Yuuki. I don’t want to make excuses for her citing the indignities she suffered throughout the day. I don’t want to make the same arguments about her being a kid in the beginnings of a most awkward adolescence. I don’t want... | | |
| 12:15am | Yakk! Deculture: A Close Encounter with Macross Frontier | | | | I discovered anime blogs only very recently. How recently? Spring 2008. I apparently missed out on the heyday of anime blogging where significant events and shows (that still have influence over current opinion) were written about and discussed. While I don’t deny this particular feeling of... | | |
| 12:00am | Sympathy for the Devil-child: Mirai’s showing a bit of character | | | | Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 (you know, the anime this blog is suddenly all about) seems to put a lot of value on realism. Research, realistic danger, microscopic detail on depiction of home life — it all serves to put us there so we can feel the experience of the Giant Quake. But without characters, the... | | |
| 12:00am | I Fail at Bakemonogatari (epiphanies after watching episode 4) | | | | I must be getting duller in my old age (32, which is like 8 in ghostlightning years). I was scratching my head a lot trying to keep up with the blistering pace of ideas bouncing around while watching Bakemonogatari, and one of these ideas relates to the concept and/or aesthetics of the ghosts (or... | | |
| 12:00am | Aftershocks Magnitude 5.0 (Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 03) | | | | I’m tempted to say that Mari is the star of today’s episode, showcasing her child management skills, her calm under pressure, and overall goodness of character. No, I think that would be unfair to the work put in this episode that really put me on edge. I got pretty raw watching the earthquake... | | |
| 12:00am | GAR in my Hospital Drama: Team Medical Dragon | | | | I have been a casual viewer of hospital dramas since the ’90s, from shows like ER, Chicago Hope, to watching the occasional episode of House; though I’ve seen all five seasons of Grey’s Anatomy. I can’t say I’m a big fan though, as much as I can enjoy these shows when... | | |
| 12:00am | The Inauthenticity of Senjougahara (Bakemonogatari 02) | | | | This post is less about episode 02 than the first part of the episode, where I was rather arrested by the whole sequence between Senjougahara and Araragi in the playground. A lot of other things happen (or get talked about), but I don’t feel I can discuss all of them here. Instead, I will focus... | | |
| 12:00am | Still Enjoying Endless Eight (Yeah I went there) | | | | This is not an endorsement of the second and currently airing season of Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuutsu. It doesn’t say here that this show is good, and that anyone is missing out. Rather, I agree with Pontifus when he says [->] All the weight/meaning in the world means nothing if you find the... | | |
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