| 12:00am | 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... | | |
| 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 park. 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 on... | | |
| 12:00am | The World Should Just Break (Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 02) | | | | These were almost famous last words uttered by our protagonist Onosawa Mirai before the big one hit Tokyo last episode. I’m interested in the statement itself, determining whether it is merely a strong and/or dramatic way to cue the earthquake, or something that shows a bit of character for... | | |
| 12:00am | The Unbearable Lightness of Bakemonogatari | | | | Visually confused, I go back to the familiar. When confused one searches for the most meaningful thing, no? This is the very thing that I’m holding on to these tales of monsters. The very first one, that is; is a tale of lightness and weight. I saw a rather striking image of a girl (Senjougahara)... | | |
| 12:00am | Tokyo Magnitude 8.0, the Set-up for Regret, and the Doomed Childhood | | | | I found myself very much taken by the first episode of Tokyo Magnitude 8.0. It got to me in a powerful way. At first, I was complaining to myself at how yet another story is set in middle school with a lot of cute girls. What I didn’t expect is a rather sober and nuanced portrayal of childhood... | | |
| 12:00am | Tomino Yoshiyuki: Laughing Out Loud (LOLTOMINO in Gundam) | | | | [Spoilers for Mobile Suit Gundam, Turn A Gundam, and other works directed by Tomino] When I first tried watching the Mobile Suit Gundam Movie Trilogy, something really disturbed me. I’ve said this before, but I think it merits repeating for the sake of my subject in this post: In Soldiers of... | | |
| 12:00am | Canaan Makes Me Wanna Be a Synesthesist | | | | SynesthesiaCorporate Glasses Dude: “Do you know about synesthesia?Vision, hearing, taste, touch, smell.A person who can use these independent five senses at the same time is called a Synesthesist.For examples, they can see colors from letters, and sound takes a definite shape to them.Well, it... | | |
| 12:00am | Remembering Love as Homage in Anime: Eureka SeveN x Mobile Suit Gundam | | | | [This post is infested with spoilers] Paying homage in the context of a media work is the recreation of one work of fiction in the context of another, with the referencing done as an ‘inside joke’ or an ‘easter egg’ for those familiar with the referenced work. Often this is... | | |
| 12:00am | Bishounen in the Mecha Genre Did NOT Begin with Mobile Suit Gundam Wing | | | | There are female viewers of mecha anime now, as evidenced by the success of shows like Code Geass and Mobile Suit Gundam 00. As far as I’m concerned this is a fantastic development. I imagine that the declining birth rate in Japan makes the people behind these works at least welcome the idea... | | |
| 12:00am | Making a Manga is a Man’s Love: Bakuman Teaches Me to Be a Man | | | | I find out about a manga from a review, shared via google reader shared items. I read all 42 scanlated volumes only pausing only to comment on the review and sleep. This has never happened to me before. Ever. Suffice to say, I recommend Bakuman. I’ll let the review I mentioned give you the lowdown.... | | |
| 12:00am | Baron Febdash is showing a bit of character… | | | | [spoilers for Crest of the Stars as well as the former portion of Banner of the Stars I (that's up to episode six)] At first glance Baron Febdash — or Atosryua Syun-Atos Lyuf Febdak Klowal — is a pretty simple villain. He’s got an inferiority complex, because his father wasn’t... |
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