| 12:00am | The Afterlife in Dragon Ball Kai: an Introduction | | | | I’ve never finished watching Dragon Ball Z back in the 90s, so I relished the opportunity to follow the narrative through Dragon Ball Kai. I’ve never read much about the franchise the same way I’ve done for Macross and Gundam, so I’m pretty much viewing the show with somewhat... |
| 12:00am | My Good Old Boys of Gundam | | | | [This post is rife with spoilers] Alfredo Izuruha had it bad. But before this became apparent, he had led what is the Gundam equivalent of an idyllic suburban childhood. He spent his time playing with his friends, their interests in military-themed toys and games. Mobile suits were the height of awesomeness,... | | |
| 12:40am | Bankrupt (Sengoku) Basara: Can the Well of GAR Run Dry? | | | | When we consume media, a discourse occurs between the information we recieve and what we know/remember from what we’ve consumed in the past. We actively seek out patterns, checking it with instances where we’ve seen similar things. We make statements that are accusatory [->], and at... | | |
| 12:00am | Creativity and Laziness: Four Fags Who Run Anime Blogs | | | | [This post is a product of my own creative bankruptcy and laziness ->] I take anime blogging to be serious business. I don’t mean it in terms that anything I write is of lasting significance to the world, literatrue, or even the anime industry, not at all. It’s just that I put in very... | | |
| 12:00am | LISTEN TO MY SONG! VOL. 10: Wanna Be an Angel | | | | I don’t see a lot of discussion about this track, and speaking for myself I’ve overlooked this particular piece of the Macross Plus OSTs. This is a shame that I rectify for great justice. This song is awesome, and immediately told me that the anime I was watching wasn’t the Macross... |
| 12:00am | Some Axes to Grind with K-ON! | | | | I would sleep with my Les Paul too if I had one. I was primarily intrigued by Otou-san’s apprehensions about the show, noted here [->] and here [->]. The gist being him being a serious music connossiur and multi-instrument in his own right, he’d have problems getting past the perhaps... |
| 12:00am | Keeping it Real Robot | | | | While watching FLAG, something really impressed me. Immediately after a particular mission, the mecha pilots are given medical attention. A team of medical staff attend to the combat team, even when they didn’t sustain any injury — from enemy fire or otherwise. Given this lack of injury,... | | |
| 12:00am | “Why fire one missile when you launch a whole circus?” - Itano Ichiro | | | | No he didn’t really say that. There are conceits in mecha anime action, conceits because they defy logic and common sense [->]; a lot of them are virtuous conceits because they contribute to the aesthetics and excitement of the show. Since the anime by enlarge exists to entertain, or perhaps... | | |
| 12:00am | Mai Waifu, SHE IS GAR | | | | She agreed to watch Armored Trooper VOTOMS with me. I’ve been meaning to see this show for some time, given it’s reputation as a dark, gritty-as-hell, /m/anly plate of GAR. Yeah sybilant is a Ouran High School Host Club-loving girl who I marathon Aria with, but she saw all 110 episodes... | | |
| 12:00am | RideBack and Peak Synchronization: End of Evangelion minus the Tang | | | | The final battle, or I should say Rin’s performance in the finale of RideBack is a virtuous conceit. It’s a conceit because it had completely divorced itself from realism¹ in order to portray what would have been a brutal fight into an uplifting ballet. It is virtuous because it made... |
| 12:00am | Son Goku Got His Name Back, But Radish Got All of His Game | | | | This is not an episodic review. I really just need to get this post out of my system. I had finally seen the highly anticipated Dragon Ball Kai series, which is a remastered version of Dragon Ball Z trimmed of most of the filler. This is good news for fans of the franchise, or guys like me who suffered... |
| 12:00am | ROCKET PUNCH-drunk on Shin Mazinger Z | | | | Mai waifu gave me this Soul of Chogokin Mazinger Z die-cast toy robot last year. Life is very good yes? Mazinger Z (1974)was one of the first anime I ever saw. It was so long ago (maybe 1979-1980 thereabouts) that I hardly remember anything from it. What I recall about the original anime are from what... | | |
| 12:00am | LISTEN TO MY SONG VOL. 9: A Duet for my CHARGING HEART OF LOVE | | | | Gorgeous, delicious, fanservice. DECULTURE! The people behind this sure know what I want, and they give it to me. Never mind that May’n doesnt deliver a good vocal performance here. It’s the idea that matters, and that they actually went out and did it. In my mind, and in the minds of... | | |
| 12:00am | Honeymoon in Neo Venezia: Part 2 | | | | Read Part 1The Martian Run We’ve been to Hong Kong a few times, and let me tell you - even Douglas Adams/Dirk Gently will appreciate the Hong Kong International Airport. Inthernet in Venice the Origination, makes an interesting observation about ARIA the Animation episode 4: Ep04 is an anime-original... | | |
| 12:00am | Every time you make a typo, someone in Zeta Gundam gets smacked | | | | In Gundam, ‘war sucks,’ ¹ only we can’t have enough of watching more of it. Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam is the darkest of the shows in the franchise that I’ve seen so far. I’ve seen the compilation movies a year ago and I’m currently watching the TV series. In Zeta,... | | |
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