1. SNAFU 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 …

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  2. Calaggie 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 …

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  3. ETOTAMA

    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 …

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  4. Wakako-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 …

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  5. #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
    <sage> why didn't you tell me about trinity seven
    <sage> it's the show I've enjoyed the most this season
    <sage> cute …
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  6. 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 …

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