It may be just me, but Kuro appears to be excercising a false choice in his series-end post about Seitokai no Ichizon.
Seitokai is really one of those shows that people either love it or hate it to bits, depending on how much of the jokes they can get. Overall …read more
Steven reminded me about this point with the summary: "Reports are that [Kampfer] starts semi-serious but rapidly descends into farce and fan service, and ends with an incomprehensible trainwreck."
At first, I wanted to rise in disagreement, because I thought that he misunderstood how 11+1=12 scheme worked in …
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Reviewing my Kampfer stash, I felt that I miss the captions that made screenshots livelier. Certainly, I can try to compensate with the in-text explanations, but it's just not the same. Here's a couple of pictures to illustrate the thesis further, try to imagine …
read moreThe most surprising thing about Akazukin is how it overflows with creepy themes, for a decidely children's anime. A primary character who uses Uberman Schedule in order to have a better control over consequences of a childhood psychological trauma is even a mild example.
read moreNow let's turn away from the naive analysis that presumes the upstanding competition model towards the seedy underbelly of fansubbing and claims that Hatsuyuki used gg's scripts. Funny how the minion of gg forgets to mention that Hatsuyuki's Kampfer was obviously superior to their own speedsub (while also available officially …
read moreOnly yesterday Omo was talking about about Crunchyroll, Hulu, et al, and naturally he didn't mention ANN: they never were a player, even though they tried (the most interesting part of their video site was the trailers). Today, they opened streaming of Bamboo Blade. Omo's caution about doing streaming on …
read moreSteven compares translations line by line and comes to the following conclusion:
Obviously I prefer Chihiro's translation [over Ayako's]. Both translators seem technically competent, but Chihiro's translator is a better writer.
I used to turn in circles where discourses like "chihiro subs are gay they're too simple and isn't even …
read moreVia Don, comes yet another list of shows that the "we" would "absolutely love to see come over" (limited to the past decade for some reason).
The point worth remembering, there's no absolute rank. If I were to read the list:
5. Michiko to Hatchin - gangsta chic in 3rd world …
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