I was quite satisfied with the triptych that I made for Marimite, but alas, it's difficult to hit the right tone every time.
This may be a bit too obscure. Nanoha is supposed to express my dissatisfaction with the outright magic and implausible combat that is completely railroaded by the …
read moreNot many enough shows for a thin slicing, but Ubu's report makes it up with wit. Sadly, he didn't like Kampher and Sora no Otoshimono. About Ichizon:
This strictly B-grade effort doesn’t seek to achieve much, and yet it is the season’s best, so far. This is not …read more
It started so well, but the bullshit was steadily growing in the final episodes until I only wanted it over with. Magic attacks and tactics, gravity in the axial passage to shuttle, convenient plotting, and... Truman? Seriously? I would not claim that Starship OPS reached the GONZO levels of ending …
read moreEven among political bloggers the issue apparently is still controversial. In fact, Althouse peddles the old canard that "it's harder to make gullible NYT readers buy [Krugman's interpretation of Weitzman] when the comments are ruthlessly poking holes in it." Instapundit gives her due, politely:
Well, I’d be the last …read more
Seen in Matsuzakaya in Ueno:
There's something Shinbo knows and I don't. And I'm pretty sure WAH doesn't either.
read moreThe weekly "what I was forced to watch" feature bore fruit this week with Princess Tutu. I would say, J.P. pretty much gives it the justice. It's too bad that I had to put it on the special list, it's a terrific anime. However, I don't think that he's …
read moreSixten does his utmost to convince everyone that Railgun is a superior show, mostly using the device of point-by-point contrast with Index. Sequels being better are not unknown (e.g. Nanoha), and if I didn't know that he would be using the same oratory for any show by J.C …
read moreIn comments at Chizumatic, Avatar approves of Taiga's victory in 2009 thus:
read moreThis is good. I'd have despaired for the world if Yui had won.
Taiga's a good refinement of the character concept - not quite a full-on Louise, and the violence (rarely directed at Ryuji, who is more than a …
Brawing the offensively annoying pop-out photothingie, I examined Don's screencap of Nano, then failed to understand what tickled his bone of elitist outrage. In the accompaining text he mentions QB (in its second season), which is only mentioned in the screencap two times.
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