Notes taken with a 0.7mm pencil.
Back when Haruhi did it, it was cool. But now the epidemic of the preview episodes and special openers is so widespread that animebloggers started adapting officially. Major Arcana runs a season-start summary on the basis of the second episodes (BTW, I find very little with which to disagree in it). Now, what do blog readers do about it? Have many people started habitually ignore the 1st episodes? Commentary suggests — not yet.
What I saw of Onegai Twins so far was surprisingly inoffensive. Animation reminded me of Kiminozo very much; it has a very pleasant 90s feel to it. Maik(u) seems entirely too cool a type, but it’s ok. I’m sure I would have been happy to lap it up back in the day.
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In other words, I do not understand why the bad rep. Perhaps the ending sucked?
In short, he liked it, which is good. My own love affair with ZKC did not work out at the time, and in the post-Nanoha era there is no chance for me to pick it up again, but it’s a series obviously deserving a good look by anyone and everyone who loves anime.
On the left, wearing glasses, is Aoi. She’s sensible, which you can tell because of the glasses.
LOL.
The reflection is long and spares not a word for poor Aiko.
It’s rare to find a story that, despite being fairly ordinary, hits every note with such eloquent accuracy. Rather than being a tear-jerker or a personal favourite for various subjective reasons, this is one of the first shows on my favourites list to earn its spot based on sheer competence.
Yeah, sure…
I basically suspended true tears at the end of ep.5, when the “deal” was struck between Jun and Shinichiro.
I wonder if this is a mistake of youth:
Take Sora no Oto for instance. Out of the 8 epsiodes that I saw, it came off as nothing but a formulaic moe-themed slice of life show. And not even a good one, like Keion! or Lucky Star. It was relentlessly boring, and the characters had no soul beyond their tried and true archetypes. Even the cast of Keion! had more pep in their execution than these girls.
So… doesn’t the “even” imply that K-ON was not very good? It’s either one or the other.
Zyl e-mailed with a reminder:
Sora no Woto wowed me with its compelling portrayal of small-unit/base-camp military life, one of the best I have ever seen, esp in the first half. Others who also have military experience, e.g. Crusader, heartily agree.
Well, I did not title this post “WAH on Sora no Woto”, did I? But yes, his credibility is suspect.
Stripey popped up on Hontou ni with a typical tale of woe in respect of the market of has-been and obsolete items. It was my experience too: if you want to find anything in particular, be prepared to walk a lot. He even combed through shops at Otome Road.
Internet solved this issue long ago, but again in my experience, the overwhelming majority of sellers refuse to ship outside Japan. This is where a post at Relentless about Tenso may prove useful (I haven’t had a chance to put it into action thanks to mostly shopping at Play-asia recently).
Wakaranai was returning empty documents to me since last Tuesday, which usually is a sign of .htaccess being screwed up. I e-mailed Maestro about it yesterday… and now the site is back, with a post on Covered in Cats 01. No explanation was given and Maestro did not reply. With the outages like that and the narrow selection (naturally, Durarara wastes a slot too), Washi is even below Hanners in the battle of episodics.
Metanorn is still down. Perfect timing.
Aww, one more:
I would have liked it better if it had Gainax kicks, or if the lead characters weren’t so despicable. I swear, Tsuchida could have learned a lot about ambition and guts from Love Hina’s Urashima Keitaro. Yamamoto was supposed to be a Belldandy-type perfect woman, but she’s dumb as all Hell.
I do not necesserily agree with the sum of his critique (because I sympathise with Tsucchi), but then I never liked Belldandy.
The ending of the original Futari wa Pretty Cure was a complete downer that probably didn’t traumatize many children but doubtlessly left many of them sad. Too bad, kids; life is real. The ending of Max Heart was a multi-episode fist fight between Zakenna dudes that didn’t fight fair and the outnumbered Cure Black and Cure White. (Shiny Luminous was on the bench with too many fouls at this point.) Then they basically had to fight Lilith from The End of Evangelion. It was awesome.
If he speaks the truth, it is awesome. Maybe even as awesome as Figure 17. I so want to see it, and I am so pissed at Crunchyroll and Toei for the 30-episode deal. It’s not that I regret the money spent on them per se, it’s just the mistreatment of customers that is unacceptable. Now I hope that Toei’s deal to peddle Sailor Moon flops on its face.