| 7:19pm | Ki-ba, ep. 8 | | | | Ki-ba Episode 8: Where the Betrayal Is (Uragiri no Yukue)Someone in Tempra will betray the kingdom to allow Jiimot’s soldiers to have a successful attack. Meanwhile, Robes has been assigned to protect Zed as “No-Face” has left a calling card saying he’ll steal Zed’s | | |
| 8:00pm | Kiba - episode 8 | | | | “Betrayer’s Whereabouts”Insanity is always a good reason to commit bad acts. So, too, is anger towards your parents. You can add to that list confusing story telling that obscures a characters’ allegiance even as it reveals it.Spoiler warning: No Face Impostor’s | | |
| 7:30pm | Kiba - episode 7 | | | | “Awakened thoughts”I could not bring myself to dislike this episode, despite the fact that it’s almost cemented Robés as a “No! My beautiful face!” character. Zedd must be okay after all.Zedd draws blood and loses to Robés, who celebrates by going out on the town and | | |
| 5:34am | Kiba - 7 - Hollow Defeat | | | | As insane as it may sound, the last two episodes of Kiba were actually quite good! If you then stop to consider that they also didn't feature its main character, there is something undoubtedly wrong.To keep me interested, a show has to have an interesting, involving and immersive story; Kiba | | |
| 7:23pm | Kiba 01 - First Look | | | | I downloaded KIBA back when the first episode came out, but with so many other new shows on the horizon and trying to get those watched, i overlooked KIBA and haven't seen it until now. As far as i was aware, KIBA was another Shounen Action Fantasy (TM) and it wasn't really something that... | | |
| 6:53pm | Anime Rave: The Gargoyle of the Yoshinaga Family: Deceptively Great Show | | | | I don’t get why there are multiple subbers for something as average as Kiba while a great show like Gargoyle takes so long to get picked up. From just watching the first episode alone, this show just shot up the rankings, powering into possibly fourth or fifth place. So what is so good about a... | | |
| 9:14pm | Dystopolypse now! | | | | In my Film and History tutorial today, the idea of dystopic societies came up in relation to Mon Oncle, Jacques Tati’s farce about the vapidity of high society. Now, I couldn’t really relate the idea of a scathing critique of consumerism to any real sort of dystopic ideals, because this | | |
| 8:14pm | Kiba - episode 6 | | | | “Premature Outcome”When your B story is so much more interesting than your A story, and when your B character is infinitely more interesting than your A character despite the fact that he’s only capable of being horrified about what’s going on around him, that’s when | | |
| 7:16am | Kiba - 6 - The price of freedom | | | | It's easy to take kids anime for granted, but compared with Western cartoons aimed at the same young viewers, the difference in conviction and themes is exceptional. Through out episode 6 of Kiba, several (old and young) characters die. It's not gory, but the intent to kill is clear from | | |
| 4:09am | My long winded countdown of the top 8 spring anime | | | | It's been a while since I've watched so much anime. This spring season is quite remarkable in that not only is there an unprecedented number of new series, but also because a lot of them are actually quite good. And I'm not a fan of harem, loli or whatever other genre is | | |
| 5:23pm | Kiba - episode 5 | | | | “Land of the Commandment”The focus is taken away from Zed and shifts to Noa. I’m not sure what to think of this story; it has an interesting take on dictatorships masquerading as utopias (although More’s original Utopia could be considered a dictatorship anyway), but it | | |
| 2:31pm | Kiba - 5 - Swings & Swords | | | | At a time when Kiba was in real danger of drowning in the true depths of unsalvageable mediocrity, an episode like this comes along and suggests that the story may well have some mileage after all.Tellingly this was an episode free of Zed; rather the story follows his bespecled old buddy Noa who | | |
| 7:30am | Kiba - 5 - Swings & Swords | | | | At a time when Kiba was in real danger of drowning in the true depths of unsalvageable mediocrity, an episode like this comes along and suggests that the story may well have some mileage after all.Tellingly this was an episode free of Zed; rather the story follows his bespecled old buddy Noa who | | |
| 4:08pm | Kiba Episode 4 - The Wind?s Choice | | | | AAAAAH TOURNAMENT EPISODE. There’s a tournament to determine the Champion or whatever, everyone enters (Zed cheats and takes on Mickey’s identity when he craps up), and things end up with Zed versus Robes. Who CARES, it’s so PREDICTABLE and the characters are so ANNOYING | | |
| 6:54pm | April Summary | | | | First of all: Woo! 200th post!! Second of all, this is another one of my end-of-the-month-summaries. I’m going to do this slightly different than last time, and hopefully a bit more organized. Where last time was just a list of lists with some occasional ranking lists, I’m going to turn | | |
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