Karen Iwata graduates from AKB48
A short announcement puts an end to my flirtation with the 3D(-PD) scene, at least for now.
It was an interesting short career. A dramatic early success and meteoritic rise, induction to the A-team, the anime role. Then the earthuake and tsunami happened, and a string of failures to …
read moreSNAFU ends
SNAFU stepped up its efforts in the 2nd season. Animation improved significantly. I know someone who's hot for Iroha, who was introduced very late, in apparent effort to enliven the show. Nonetheless, overall result was unpleasant, because of characters that were stupid, egocentric, inconsiderate, sadistic, or any number of other …
read moreCalaggie on Wakaba Girl
"My rate of keeping up with newly-debuted anime series has fallen in the past few years." Doesn't it sound familiar? And so:
The bulk of my current anime watching involves series with episodes lasting less than 15 minutes. [...] Those shorter runtimes mean smaller weekly time commitments for me as a …
Omo on Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos
I think the analogy of the rivalry between iM@S and LL as SpaceX versus BO is highly apt. I just wonder, how many anime fans are fans of space enough to feel its power.
And another thing: Look at the list of WUG, Aikatsu, etc.. I understand that Locodol …
read moreETOTAMA
ETOTAMA is a quirky and bouncy show that is let down by a very unfortunate ending. Although, on the second thought, perhaps the end was predetermined structurally. Throughout the whole series, the main character (Nya) makes a heavy use of the main character cheat: she cannot lose no matter what's …
read moreWakako-zake manga
I was puzzled by a scene in Wakako-zake a while back, enough to ask my Japanese coworkers what it could mean. What was different about the stately old gentleman eating yakitori? Fortunately, manga provides answers. Fist, Wakako takes upon the yakitori after excercise and gobbles them. The gentleman savours them …
read more#animeblogger on Trinity Seven
There's a link to #animeblogger on the sidebar, and it still works, in 2015. Anyhow, although the following was a while back, I wanted to preserve it.
<sage> hikago
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<sage> why didn't you tell me about trinity seven
<sage> it's the show I've enjoyed the most this season
<sage> cute …SNAFU begins
This is an exchange deal in which Hikago promises to watch Shirobako if I watch Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Come wa Machigatteiru, also known is "SNAFU" in English. To be sure, it has an official Japanese shorhand, Oregairu, but things happened. Anyhow, just how terrible is it?
Episode 01 …
read moreOmo on Yurina Hase nee Yurika Ochiai
For those not in the know, the recent passing of Miyu Matsuki prompted a bit of coming out when previously disappeared seyiuu opened up, with Omo summarizing it thus:
You can read ANN’s take on it (originals archived by Yaraon), but there’s more to that story than what …