J1m0ne went into trouble of transcribing and translating (partially) interviews with the cast and staff of Kannagi. So, the director is a sadist? I hope they include these interviews on the DVD.
read moreNodame Paris 04
This was a difficult episode and I'm beginning to think that Zyl's method was more appropriate than my pig-headed obsession. In particular, I did not understand what the Chinese dude's intrusion was about at all.
The 3D continues to annoy me. Instruments in the original Nodame were ok, only hands …
read moreSlang for "groupies"
At about 2:58 into ep.10 of first Nodame, Mine yells what sounds like "mihadomo(ga)". It is translated as "groupies".
Sadly, I was unable to find it in any dictionary. It's either mispronounced/misheard, a compound word, or a slang that hasn't filtered down into dictionaries yet.
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read moreSports anime
As I mentioned in the season update, One Outs is being talked about, if not as a top drawer show. Now the apologists of sports anime made their point in Jen's comments (hat tip: saturnine). Impz summed it up thus:
read moreI cannot agree more. The issue with such shows is …
Yomiuri on Kannagi
I saved a few articles to post after I start watching. A couple of weeks ago, Daily Yomiuri Online took the usual creator-oriented angle (link may go bad eventually, because of Yomiuri's strange expiration policies):
read moreKannagi is drawing particular attention among the many anime shows that started broadcasting this month …
Anime Nano raises
Due to some circumstances I didn't have access to server logs and statistics for several months. Meanwhile, things changed. A year ago, Antenna and Nano produced about the same number of hits per day, and Google Reader barely registered. These days, Nano is 7 to 10 times bigger than Antenna …
read moreEvirus on Kannagi (to 04)
The capsule summary is "Kannagi is this season’s pleasant surprise."
BTW, the picture of a mall looks terribly familiar, but the documentation that I have from my TAF visit says that the only similar passage can be Oazo Building, and it uses a different color scheme for its columns …
read moreFunimation moves against bootlegs
According to ANN, Funi sues a group of affiliated retailers over bootlegs (via). The chief import of this action is how it gives them the moral authority to talk about the evils of downloads. The issue of bootleg DVDs was mentioned before on this blog, and Discount Anime DVD was …
read moreOwen on Itakiss
I finally got around to reading Owen's Itazura na Kiss round-up. He reminded me that it was noticeable in the reactions how feminist brainwashing pressed on minds of some (in particular Jen's screed had way more seething than what Owen quoted in the round-up). As for not taking anime seriously …
read moreThe season without a hidden gem
One of the best things about anime is finding something unexpectedly enjoyable. After the failure of Hyakko, I triggered a surprisingly robust discussion about it on #animeblogger yesterday. All sorts of suggestions were offered, including really weird stuff like One Outs. But in the end it's down to established leaders …
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